Confessions of a Secret Sarah Admirer

Please. Yes, Sarah might be a nice person to drive to the soccer game with, but that isn't how we should be voting. And to show that this is not a sexist remark, I will say that look at what has happened the last eight years that people felt they would rather drink a beer with Bush and Gore or Kerry. As a result of those actions, we have endured eight years of the worst, autocratic, incompetent President that has destroyed any respect from other countries. Please, let us vote on issues, not on coziness.

Why all the debate about Sarah Palin what about debating the experience of Barak Obama? Or is that off the table because he has Biden?

Sandra31708- It's clear that you believe everything Obama is dishing out. I'm sorry when something goes wrong it isn't always the fault of McCain/Palin. Maybe that's what I don't like about Obama. He is always trying to blame someone else, get someone else to bail us out - What happened to working hard taking the punches and coming out stronger what happened to that idea?

Well I too am a Hillary Clinton supporter and i am really starting to get annoyed at the people who are telling me I can't vote for Sarah Palin- I say wait and see. I want a woman in office now not in 12 years but besides that I don't like Obama or trust his judgment after all if his judgment was so good He would have chosen Hillary Clinton as his running mate and We wouldn't be having this conversation.would we?

After watching Palin's painful failure to know what the "Bush Doctrine" is during her interview with Charlie Gibson, I can say yes without equivocation. Yes, you *are* a sucker.

If Sarah Palin were a man, would McCain even have considered her for the Vice Presidency?
It feels as though Americans have lost their common sense completely.

NOW THAT YOU HAVE CONFESSED, I SUGGEST THAT YOU GO AND KNEEL DOWN ON THE CLOSEST CORNER OF YOU ROOM AND PRAY THAT IF SARA LIPSTICK AND McSAMENESS WIN IN NOVEMBER, THEY WON'T WALK US RIGHT INTO WWIII DUE TOT THEIR PREMATURE AND RECKLESS DECISON- MAKING. PRAY THAT NOTHING HAPPENS TO McCAIN WHILE IN OFFICE. THIS IMATURE, UNPREPARED, INEXPERIENCED, RASH, AND HASTY WOMAN WILL THEM BECOME PRESIDENT: THIS IS MY OPINION AND I APPROVE THIS MESSAGEK! HELL NO, SARA NO!

I just found this page on the Newsweek site; it took me a while to figure this out. I have never written an online comment on a story, and am surprised at the incredibly long list of comments, too long to read everything. So my comments may be repetitive, but I will keep them short.
I have lost a lot of respect for Newsweek, for taking an entire page of the magazine for Deveny's gushing. To say that she likes Palin simply because she is a woman is so ridiculous. I may just as well choose my dentist because he has a nice smile, regardless of whether he even has a dental degree.

I am disgusted that the author of this article is from my home state of Minnesota, which, like the nation, has fallen into disrepair(literally, note the 35W bridge collapse) under the Republican rule we've endured. To think a woman...just 'any old woman', will satisfy is classic "Good Old Boys' thinking. The woman to hold the second highest office in the land should be there because she is QUALIFIED to be there, not just to fulfill mmore political pandering. How can so many Americans be so dumb? Actually that waxs the headline of a European paper 4 years ago when Bush was re-elected. Learn from history, or be condemned to repeat it. Wake Up.

I am disgusted to think the writer of this nonsense is from my home state Minnesota, which, like the nation, is falling in disrepair (literally, note the 35W bridge collapse) under the Republican Administration (Pawlenty/Molnau) we've been enduring. Palin - "All show & no substance"....will most Americans fall for anything? A woman who wanted rape victims to PAY for the test to prove the crime is MILES...LIGHT years away from a woman of substance, such as Hillary Clinton. Wake up America. The day a woman gets elected to the second highest office in the land, just because she is a woman, will not be a great gain for the women in this country. It'll be just more pandering..like I said "all show & no substance". Get real
Barbara W
Minneapolis, MN

I think that, sadly, you represent what's happened to American politics -- people are more interested in whether the candidate's carefully crafted media image makes him/her a "guy/gal like me" than whether, if elected to office, the candidate will govern with ethics and transparency, respect the US constitution, or follow the policies that will best serve the American people. As is coming out in more and more articles reported from Alaska, Palin's tenure in office showed her to be a vindictive and partisan politician who used her power to appoint unqualified high school and junior-high friends to high-paying government jobs. She fired opponents for ideological reasons or simply because of personal grudges. She ran both Wasilla and, later, the state of Washington almost purely on federal pork (in addition to the windfall profits that Alaskans are sharing from Big Oil, while the rest of the country suffers from high gas prices).
Please drink beer with your friends -- and vote sober!

am still in amazement as I sit here typing this letter to you.
Confessions of a Secret Sarah Admirer
This whole new Palin movement is absolutely unbelievable! Really People? Are we that easy of suckers? And women who cannot see the truth here need to wake up! This is nothing more than a strategic political marketing concept. And this is exactly the marketing concept that McCain's team new would work and boy did it! I have a hard time reading Kathleen Devenys essay about how she feels about Sarah. She should be embarrassed. As a women growing up in Wisconsin, hunting is not something new or extraordinary, nor is fishing or hanging with the boys on weekend sporting events. But this is not what has me amazed in this whole political nightmere. As a former young teenage mother, and now a successful business owner, I can appreciate and admire the achievement, hardworking, discipline and glass ceiling stairs that Sarah Palin has had to climb to get to where she is today. But again she is nor more extrodinary than any of the other millions of women who have been doing the same for many years. But the biggest problem with Sarah and this whole marketing scheme is this; (And Why the Obama/Biden campaign is not running with this...I do not understand)
if she is such a "pro" women advocate and pro-life supporter why did she fail to provide birth control to her young teenage daughter? And this has nothing to do with her daughter! As a former young teenage mother I know first hand the oppression, frustration, set-backs, financial disappointments and college hardships this situation is going to her daughter. And now they are going to make it right with a marriage that may or may not even last a decade. For a career driven, glass ceiling breaker, hang with the wildlife boys life-timer, she should have taken all precautions ( are there not condoms or the shot in Alaska) to prevent this misfortune event to have happened to her daughter. I believe that being a pro-lifer means protecting and wanting the best for all lives no matter how young or old. As a Governor, what kind of example did she just display for all the other Alaskan families who are struggling to keep their young teenagers on the path of least resistance through life. I too have young beautiful daughters and this has been a priority for many years. I just am really amazed and proud of how far women have come today and the roads that have been paved for future women governors, senators, business owners, and vice presidents. I hope that women who can vote in the future don't get thrown a campaign line this because for some it will be hook line and sink again!

truly disappointed in any women who are torn and vote for McCain/Palin just because she is a glass ceiling women!
Christina Wiersgalla
1902 Hoover Avenue
Eau Claire, WI 54701 715-271-7670


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am still in amazement as I sit here typing this letter to you.
Confessions of a Secret Sarah Admirer
This whole new Palin movement is absolutely unbelievable! Really People? Are we that easy of suckers? And women who cannot see the truth here need to wake up! This is nothing more than a strategic political marketing concept. And this is exactly the marketing concept that McCain's team new would work and boy did it! I have a hard time reading Kathleen Devenys essay about how she feels about Sarah. She should be embarrassed. As a women growing up in Wisconsin, hunting is not something new or extraordinary, nor is fishing or hanging with the boys on weekend sporting events. But this is not what has me amazed in this whole political nightmere. As a former young teenage mother, and now a successful business owner, I can appreciate and admire the achievement, hardworking, discipline and glass ceiling stairs that Sarah Palin has had to climb to get to where she is today. But again she is nor more extrodinary than any of the other millions of women who have been doing the same for many years. But the biggest problem with Sarah and this whole marketing scheme is this; (And Why the Obama/Biden campaign is not running with this...I do not understand)
if she is such a "pro" women advocate and pro-life supporter why did she fail to provide birth control to her young teenage daughter? And this has nothing to do with her daughter! As a former young teenage mother I know first hand the oppression, frustration, set-backs, financial disappointments and college hardships this situation is going to her daughter. And now they are going to make it right with a marriage that may or may not even last a decade. For a career driven, glass ceiling breaker, hang with the wildlife boys life-timer, she should have taken all precautions ( are there not condoms or the shot in Alaska) to prevent this misfortune event to have happened to her daughter. I believe that being a pro-lifer means protecting and wanting the best for all lives no matter how young or old. As a Governor, what kind of example did she just display for all the other Alaskan families who are struggling to keep their young teenagers on the path of least resistance through life. I too have young beautiful daughters and this has been a priority for many years. I just am really amazed and proud of how far women have come today and the roads that have been paved for future women governors, senators, business owners, and vice presidents. I hope that women who can vote in the future don't get thrown a campaign line this because for some it will be hook line and sink again!

truly disappointed in any women who are torn and vote for McCain/Palin just because she is a glass ceiling women!
Christina Wiersgalla
1902 Hoover Avenue
Eau Claire, WI 54701 715-271-7670


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rock.com

i'd like to suggest people look beyond sarah palin's perceived personality when choosing qualifications for the president of the united states (yes, president). we made a big mistake voting twice for a "nice guy" you'd like to have a beer with.