When Atheists Attack

Sam Harris, I am a practicing Catholic, and I want to say THANK YOU for expressing what I have been feeling for the last month in the PERFECT pitch I haven't been able to articulate. Did I mention THANK YOU?

I think what is most aggravating to me is that McCain has dishonored himself and this country by having Palin as one step away from the Presidency. He is 72 as am I and we all know what that means. I have lost any respect I might have had for him for doing this irresponsible thing. We do not need a 72 year old Maverick in the white house but we do need a thoughtful and intelligent person who has good judgement.
J. Gilbert

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hELjmWfVBU

She makes Dan Quayle look like a genius.

I tire of those who disparage the education of Christian right politicians. I remember this being done with Ronald Reagan. The left was aghast that an actor who had starred with a monkey would possibly control nuclear weapons. I have twenty years of college education including Harvard and a medical doctorate and it has never caused certain groups to respect my belief in the God of the Bible. They would not like a Christian neurosurgeon either.

Furthermore, I haven't needed a passport until three years ago and I have never met a world leader, but I am sure that I could easily out debate you on the issues.

Worst Article I have read in Newsweek in years. In fact I just told my wife we are cancelling our subscription. Will there be a similar article regarding Joe Biden and his gaffe about FDR being president at the time of the stock market crash in 1929 and going on television immediately after to explain the problem to the public. Never mind that he wouldn't be president for 3 years, he did his fireside chats on the RADIo and TV wasn't invented until 1939. Admit it you are a narcissistic, sexist, ELITIST (and I mean it in a negative way) jerk.

In a few weeks we will make a choice that will decide our future. I follow a economist named bob proctor who has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly. He perfectly predicted the current real estate market meltdown ,and the picture he paints about what will happen in the next couple years Is terrifying. He thinks it will be worse then the great depression. Banks in the US are going under one after the other. Country wide the largest morgage bank in the world Bear Stearns and Lehman brothers , and Merrill Lynch which are 3 out of the top 5 wall street firms. And now Fanny and Freddy which hold 50 percent of the home loans in the United States. The goverment took them over because they are essentially bankrupt. If they didn't the entire financially system would virtually shut down, the stock market would crash And we would suffer beyond what any of us have seen before The future of these companies will fall into the hands of our next president
Bush just like Mcain doesn't understand the economy.

That not just my opinion its his own words. Not only does he not understand how to fix it
He does not understand exactly what is broken. Its no surprise that he doesnt. The people that make up these
securities use complex math models very few people understand.
Bush and mccain both can take the credit for this mess since they helped deregulate the laws that were protecting us.


Bush's economic advisor Phil Graham wrote the deregulation bill that allowed banks take risks with all of our future.
Now Phil Graham is the head of mccains economic policy ,and mccain wants to make him the next secretary of the treasury.
No one in this country can afford for that to happen. The last time bush met with his economic advisors was in march. He either didnt realize or didnt care that anything was wrong. Phil Graham had the guts to say we are in a mental recession after he helped create the worst economy in our lifetime.
It will take the best and brightest minds in the world to get us out of this nightmare. As bad as bush has done mccain would be
incredibly worse because things are in much worse shape. The next president will not inherit a surplus like bush did but a tanking economy and a 11,600,000,000,000 deficit. Most of Bush created and it will take decades to pay it back.
If you do what you have always done then you will do get what you have always __________

When it comes to policy bush and mccain are the same 90 percent of the time.
So why are the polls even close then ?

The chairman of mcains campaign recently said that people don't vote on issues

they vote on a personality composite which means. He is trying to sell you personality instead of results.
He believes people will vote against there own self interests.

Lets teach him we are smarter then that .
Hold them accountable now while it will still help
Elect Obama Biden 2008

Harris's article is the unvarnished truth about ???he danger to our country posed by the possible election of McCain-Palin. Congratulations for having the guts to print it, knowing how much hate mail you will rec from those who do not believe in free speech, are racist against African-Americans and/or receive all their knowledge directly from their particular religious faith despite the realities before their eyes. As a citizen appalled by what has happened to our country in the past seven years, I long for someone in the White House who is smarter and better educated than I am and wholly committed to the Constitution of the United States, protection of our fragile planet, and "liberty and justice for all" as stated in our Pledge of Allegiance. Obama meets all of these criteria and exemplifies American family values besides. Are the media pronouncements and polls that show a close race simply a reflection of our national inability to overcome racism ? There seems to be no other likely explanation.

It is not as though this writer, Harris, does not have his own elitist agenda at work here. He seems not to be aware that ALL politics is the mere issue of "who writes the rules." If I were to adopt Harris' post, I would aver that only non-believers should assume that mantle (or those whose religious "convictions" are merely only opinions). Palin knows that she is not omniscient. Harris has yet to grasp that fact.

Can people be objective? Do you think an article is good because it bashes someone you don't want to vote for? What happened to being above the fray?
I have been a democrat for 25 years, but this article is nothing more than an angry, subjective, malicious, divisive, partisan, thoughtless personal attack. It seems like it was written by a McCain operative, because all it does is draw undeserving sympathy to Palin.

I just read your article in Newsweek about Sarah Palin and frankly I thought you were reading my mind! I share the same concerns that a highly ambitious, obviously "street-wise" but untrained, untested, and unreflecting prson would have access to "the button." Much like you, I believe that politics is a profession and it requires a certain level of exposure, experience and training. Politicians must have the ability to ask the "whys" and the "hows" without any part of the answer involving God, the Church, the stars, or tea leaves.