A Visit to Palin’s Church

First of all, I do not want the Vice President to be "a regular person" just like me. I want him/her to be a heck of a lot more knowledgeable, responsible, and mature.. Secondly, only in a piece of fiction would a presidential candidate have the opportunity to select a VP candidate from the brightest, most experienced, most responsible people in the country, and make the rash decision to select a 44 year old mother of 5 with no record of ever having made an important international decision in her life. Should the Republican nominee go on to win the election, I can only hope that his decision making in the Oval Office will show considerably more maturity of thought.

What really stuns me is that these so called people of high moral values are so against abortion but it is perfectly OKAY with them for Bush to unjustly invade Iraq on false pretenses and KILL TENS OF THOUSANDS OF IRAQIES (many civilians) ALONG WITH 4200 OF OUR OWN not to mention the tens of thousands maimed.

I do not understand this logic of condemn everyone who is not like you.

Sarah Palin can definetly shake things up. I think she's a political firecracker with many (maybe not all) of the right ideas. In respect to some other comments made, i think they are a family, and anyone can relate to the difficulties within a family structure. It doesn't mean that she isn't a good canidate for the VP. It's not a weakness when you can relate to a politcal party.

I see that OBAMA was brought up. Does anyone know off hand what his veiws surrounding firearms would be?

So I have been working with a crummy keyboard (all the typos)

The thing that I don't agree with was Govenor Palin's descion to pursue legal action against a ruling concerning the endangered Polar Bear. There was a lengthy amount of time before that descion was made. There was a lot of information provided to support that descion. It was not an easy one. It is an embaressment to have an agency, a group fighting for the future of wildlife and then the Govenor turning around and trying to stop it because it may have interference with oil and gas development in the state. That was definelty a wrong move. It appears that the oil and gas have more value because of the potential for profit. Poor choice

No more ''discomfiting''than Black Liberation Theology.[which is a good reason why NEWSWEAKs Obamaites went North To Alaska to see if they could find any ranters on the scale of a Wright,and came away disappointed. We have had Assemblies of God in our neighborhoods for decades and none of them have pulled the crap we are now seeing coming out of St.Paul,with police seeking protesters who dropped heavy sandbags on buses from an overpass which is attempted murder]. Then too,the onus of public opinion regarding the pregnancy of Bristol is turning against the liberal MSM and the leftwingers. KOS was nailed for a particularly vile lie that they spread on the youngest child of Sarah Palin. Under a firestorm of criticism,Markos,the head Kossack,moved to delete the posting of a conspiricy theory hatched that this child,[ named Trig I believe],was actually a hidden child of Bristols. Todays DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND,has a lead blog in which one of its most ardent defenders is resigning out of ''disgust''with what his ideology is doing with this issue,and how it was handled by DU,
CNNs newest poll released today shows a dead heat,at 45 Obama and 44 McCain. The ''Palin sympathy vote''may be a factor. The revelations that the MSM [including NEWSWEAK] deliberately sat for months on the Edwards affair while leaping upon the Palin pregnancy are possibly another,causing even political satirist Jon Stewart ,no Friend of Republicans,to rip into the MSM ['' I actually thought that they were going to ask Obama if they could have sex together'']. Then too,the MSM is not even glancing at the relationship between lobbyist son Hunter Biden and his father,which would make for more interesting reading.[As would Operation BOARD GAMES,which is not seeing the outside-of Chicago sunlight,which is precisely where the MSM Obamaites,including NEWSWEAK,want it].
The real hypocrisy here is that the liberals who pattern themselves as the least ''evangelical,judgemental,strict and closed-minded'' are being the most evangelical,judgemental,strict,and closed-minded. This focus on these pregnancies will backfire with painful results. The RNC convention is barely off the ground,let alone completed,and Obamas numbers are already beginning to shrink.

I do want McCain and Palin elected...but I can assure you that Osama bin laden and Vladimir Putin do! Osama wants to kill more Americans so when McCain starts more wars he can do that...thousands more! and Putin would just love to butt heads with this little cheerleader from Alasks!

McCain has only energized his base - Palin's pick has done nothing to reassure the country that McCain has the judgment and temperament to lead. In fact - by Palin's pick, he has done just the opposite with those NOT in his party.

Palin is no HIllary Clinton and exactly stands on the complete opposite side of the fence of what Hillary stood and fought for. Hillary is not going to let Palin get away with calls to "shatter the glass ceiling" with women, and women are not going to vote for another woman simply because she is a woman. Women are much smarter, again than republicans are giving them credit for! Sexism is playing itself out in the McCain campaign. On almost every issue important to women - Palin (unbelievably) is against them or has voted no on them just like McCain! Everybody needs to remember that she is far more conservative than McCain and embraces Bush's policies as well!! Her being a woman has nothing to do with this ticket. We need to take a closer look at a policy positions. You will instantly see that she loves and embraces Bush. Palin is more of the same - McBush!

Uh, o.k., uh how can I twist this story into making people think Mrs. Palin speaks in tongues, lol. High school journalism. Nice try, though.

The pregnancy matters because we need to have a public debate over how children should be prepared for adult living. If we really put children first then we wouldn???t force them to have babies by accident. Teenagers put more time and thought into what kind of cell phone to get than they do about premarital sex and the consequences of unplanned pregnancies. If the political agenda only allows the choices of abstinence or carrying every zygote to full term then the parents need to be held accountable for these unplanned babies. Children having babies is not something to be celebrated or encouraged, and I question the morality of any adult that forces children to become parents before they are ready for the responsibility. Too many lives have been needlessly ruined. Child abuse, child neglect, wife beating, disertion, abandonement. How much worse do these terrible conditions have to get before we handle family planning with intelligence instead of ignorance masquerading as religion?

From the article, it sounds like the Palin Family has a very supportive community which speaks loudly to the types of people they associate with. It was completely within their right to ask for pastoral discretion and I applaud the pastors at the church for honoring that request. Sounds like a great test of character and the Palins are weathering the storm just fine. I'll bet she is the best VPOTUS we'll see in our live time.