When Atheists Attack

Sam Harris is 100% correct. Sarah Palin is in no way qualified to lead the world's most powerful nation. This is not merely a Republican or Democratic concern, it is huge problem for all Americans, and in fact all citizens of the world. The Obama/Biden ticket offers experience and intelligence. Let us hope that the American people realize this. There is nothing wrong with expecting your leaders to be intelligent and qualified. Calling Obama an "elitist" just because he is more intelligent than McCain is ridiculous. If anyone is from the elite stratum of America, it is surely McCain, the son of a Navy Admiral who owns seven houses. America, this is not a beauty/popularity contest. This is an election the will shape all of our futures. We MUST make the right decision this time.

OBAMA/BIDEN '08

GUARANTEED TO MAKE YOU SMILE

ON JULY 20, 1969, AS COMMANDER OF THE APOLLO 11
LUNAR MODULE, NEIL ARMSTRONG WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO SET
FOOT ON THE MOON.

HIS FIRST WORDS AFTER STEPPING ON THE MOON,
THAT'S ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR
MANKIND, WERE TELEVISED TO EARTH AND HEARD BY
MILLIONS.

BUT JUST BEFORE HE REENTERED THE LANDER, HE MADE THE
ENIGMATIC REMARK GOOD LUCK, MR. GORSKY.

MANY PEOPLE AT NASA THOUGH IT WAS A CASUAL REMARK
CONCERNING SOME RIVAL SOVIET COSMONAUT.

HOWEVER, UPON CHECKING, THERE WAS NO GORSKY IN
EITHER THE RUSSIAN OR AMERICAN SPACE PROGRAMS.

OVER THE YEARS MANY PEOPLE QUESTIONED ARMSTRONG AS
TO WHAT THE GOOD LUCK, MR. GORSKY... STATEMENT MEANT,
BUT ARMSTRONG ALWAYS JUST SMILED.

ON JULY 5, 1995, IN TAMPA BAY , FLORIDA , WHILE
ANSWERING QUESTIONS FOLLOWING A SPEECH, A REPORTER BROUGHT
UP THE 26-YEAR-OLD QUESTION TO ARMSTRONG. TH IS TIME HE
FINALLY RESPONDED.

MR. GORSKY HAD DIED, SO NEIL ARMSTRONG FELT HE COULD
ANSWER THE QUESTION.

IN 1938 WHEN HE WAS A KID IN A SMALL MID-WEST TOWN
HE WAS PLAYING BASEBALL WITH A FRIEND IN THE BACKYARD.

HIS FRIEND HIT THE BALL, WHICH LANDED IN HIS
NEIGHBOR'S YARD BY THE BEDROOM WINDOWS.

HIS NEIGHBORS WERE MR. AND MRS. GORSKY.

AS HE LEANED DOWN TO PICK UP THE BALL, YOUNG
ARMSTRONG HEARD MRS. GORSKY SHOUTING AT MR. GORSKY.

SEX! YOU WANT SEX?! YOU'LL GET SEX WHEN THE
KID NEXT DOOR WALKS ON THE MOON!'

TRUE STORY

A different place and a different time when we all could see ourselves as one nation, a better time, a better place with a fair deal A New Deal for all Americans. Demand Change Do Not just ask for it!

President Obama met today with Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid. It was his first trip to Capitol Hill since becoming President.

I could not have said it better myself. This article sums up everything that I find so terrifying, not only in possibility of a VP Palin, but in the mindset of her supporters.
I'm sure she's a nice person, and it seems that she has been a fairly good Govenor, but to suggest that she is ready to be VP or, heaven forbid, President of the most powerful country on Earth is not only laughable, it's dangerous. This election honestly scares me. What has happened to my country? Since when did Separation of Church and state become optional? This is not the America that the founding Fathers had in mind...who, by the way, were for the most part NOT Christian.

For the died in the wool pro lifers, nothing else matters and I MEAN NOTHING!!!!!

Thought this article on elitism might interest this group.

http://current.com/items/89244272_hard_wired_for_the_ups_and_downs

As far back as Eisenhower's time, the media has always portrayed Democrats as geniuses with IQ in the 500's, while their Republican counterparts are all dumbers and dumbests with IQ in the 10's. Witness the geniusness of Kennedy, Mondale, Dukakis, Clinton, Gore, Kerry, and now Obama. Versus the dumbnesses of Eisenhower (brute soldier), Nixon, (crook), Ford (cant walk and chew at the same time), Reagan (B-actor for B-western movies), Bush 41 (boring bureaucrat), Bush 43 (retarded cowboy), McCain (old senile), and now Palin (no passport?). What else's news with Newsweek? And the poor American people have a dumb habit of electing the Republicans (6 out of the last 10 presidents).
HL

>>"above all, upon the "liberal elites" with their highfalutin assumption that, in the 21st century, only a reasonably well-educated person should be given command of our nuclear arsenal."

There are a bunch of presidents who got crappy little degrees from crappy little colleges. Big deal. You don't have to have a Georgetown degree and a Rhodes Scholarship to be a good president; in fact there exists evidence of the opposite.

Ronald Reagan, coming to be considered one of our very best presidents ever, was quite adept at commanding our nuclear arsenal - he won the freakin' Cold War just by playing poker with that arsenal with the Russians. He went to...woo woo...Eureka College.

Harry Truman, considered to be one of our better Presidents, knows a thing or two about our nuclear arsenal. He didn't go to any college. (Neither did Washington or Lincoln - you know, half of Mount Rushmore - both of whom commanded fairly significant non-nuclear arsenals).


>>We have all now witnessed apparently sentient human beings, once provoked by a reporter's microphone, saying things like, "I'm voting for Sarah because she's a mom. She knows what it's like to be a mom."

Vapid, to be sure. It's right up there with saying things like, "I'm voting for Obama because he's for "hope" and "change".

Thank you Mr. Harris. This is an extremely well-written, informative, and cogent article. It???s disappointing that Newsweek would choose to title this ???When Atheists Attack??????, but I believe that it???s important for as many voters as possible to read this article before the election and I will forward it to friends, family, and colleagues.

Thank you Mr. Harris. This is an extremely well-written, informative, and cogent article. It???s disappointing that Newsweek would choose to title this ???When Atheists Attack??????, but I believe that it???s important for as many voters as possible to read this article before the election and I will forward it to friends, family, and colleagues.

Even the Republican bloggers here have been persistent and belligerent in offering meaningless and deceptive garbage trying to distract and persuade without any accountability for pertinence or truth. One arrogantly and adamantly, as if an authority, even presented a super long list of philosophies for open markets, deregulation, etc. as to why the Republicans offer better economics, neglecting to admit everything he offered was slanted and full of errors. He was angry and aggressively challenging, looking for a fight but didn???t identify that he was so emotional because he was in the top income category and upset when thinking Obama may increase his taxes. He erroneously said small business would be hurt when Obama actually has promised to reduce their taxes along with large corporations who create jobs here (Obama has said 95% will receive a tax decrease and only those individuals earning over $250k and corporations exporting jobs and using loopholes to escape paying fair taxes would get increases). The blogger also offered that tax cuts for the wealthy create jobs and stimulate the economy, when common sense tells you different. The wealthy who already spend whatever they want don???t spend more when they get tax cuts, the poor and middle class do and get the money right back into the economy, stimulating it and even producing profits for companies and the wealthy. The trickle-down theory is a fraud as what we really have is a bubble-up economy. Tax cuts for the wealthy only make the wealthy wealthier and stimulate contributions for political campaigns and later kickbacks. Point by point answers could be provided but I really don???t want to go back and forth as neither of us will ever change our mind. The final proof is that the last eight years should convince anyone that there is a lot wrong with the Republican philosophies (especially noting that the only thing trickling down is the costs) and then history clearly shows that the best economic periods have always been under a Democratic government. Hard to factually or truthfully argue with that and again that is my real point. How can anyone put any faith in or vote for those that practice gross dishonesty?

careerdaytrader- Wah Wah Wah... Get the hell out because you're the one who's crazy! Thanks for bragging about your weath at a time when the government is bailing out our finanical institutions $700 Billion dollars when we are already $400 Billion in the red. Guess who foots the bill for that??? It's not just rich people who pay taxes you ass!!! By the way, I'm sure you're tax return included a slew of write-offs. I don't think you really are a rich guy... I just think you wanted to come on here pretending to be one so you could feel good about yourself.