Quote Originally Posted by Crazy Asian
The thing is a Vice President job to me is to help the President during his term and fulfill his position just in case of an emergency. Um Palin who barely has any exp in politics is gonna run the country? Oh snaps, Im out.
The VP does a lot more than that, including preside over the Senate. Don't forget that the VP also gets the tie-breaking vote.

I see McCain picking Palin is partly meant to "shake things up" and back up his "Maverick" (b/s) image.

Obama picking Biden was probably an answer to the "experience" criticism. Joe Biden is almost as old as McCain