I find it intriquing how conservative, religious zealots can make determinations for other people. You can not dictate morality! It is ridiculous for anyone, no matter how enlightened, to force their beliefs on other people. Example, IRAQ! Stop trying to run everybody's life and just be content to run your own.
LETTERS
Are Voters Feeling Alienated by Palin?
Published Sep 20, 2008
From the magazine issue dated Sep 29, 2008
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' An Apostle of Alaska ' : Most women said thanks but no thanks to John McCain's running mate. "Sarah Palin's lack of substance is deafening and her looseness with the truth unsettling," one said. Many noted that she's diverting attention from McCain's "miserable" record on women's rights. "He opposes equal pay, insuring birth control and a woman's right to reproductive choice. He's an opportunist, and we are being played." Several scolded us for using a six-year-old cover photo of Palin with a gun. "If she's elected, let's hope her aim is better than Cheney's."
On 'We Fought Cancer…and Cancer Won': "As someone living with cancer, not dying of it, news of any new treatment is an occasion for hope. I know Tarceva might not work for me forever, but this is better than the 'three to six months' I had seven months ago!"
Barbara Levere, Pocasset, Mass.
Plucked From the Alaskan Frontier
Reading that Sarah Palin is being tutored on crucial national and world issues by cramming at a "boot camp on McCain world" was frightening ("An Apostle of Alaska," Sept. 15). When all she knows about international problems, health care and the economy are McCain talking points that can fit on index cards, how will she be able to contribute an independent viewpoint to policy discussions? If John McCain had truly put "country first" instead of his ambition, he would have chosen a different running mate.
Lee Hoffman
West Hartford, Conn.
Before reading your cover story, I had major doubts about Sarah Palin. She came across as refreshing and astonishingly polished, but also as too sweet and polite to be an effective politician. Would she be tough enough to handle the people who might try to push her around if she gets elected? Your article erased every doubt. She appears to be as tough as they come. A shrewd and gifted mayor and governor, she scores higher on my list than the rest of the crowd on both tickets.
Hany Hanna
Sioux Falls, S.D.
I noticed that the caption accompanying one of your photos of Sarah Palin refers to her as a "former mayor of tiny Wasilla." I believe she is the sitting governor of Alaska. As such, her title is Governor Palin. I have yet to see a photo caption of Sen. Barack Obama referring to him as "a former community organizer."
Matt Lanker
Marysville, Ohio
With his eye toward capturing disgruntled Hillary Clinton supporters, John McCain picked Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska to help headline his presidential ticket. She has become his weapon of mass distraction, enabling him to divert attention from the very issues causing so much pain and hopelessness for millions of Americans: mortgage crisis, high unemployment rate, sluggish economy, failing education system, high gas prices, soldiers fighting in two wars, spiraling health-care costs and especially the devastating failures of the Bush administration.
Cherie Rosenstein
Dayton, Ohio
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