When Atheists Attack

Newsweek is trash. It's insulting and offensive - and it DOES NOT represent the majority of this country, but the minority of liberal leftists who continue to attack what is good, and elevate to high standards what is evil.

you are a pig

Thank you for this erudite article. You echo many of my sentiments and fears regarding this woman and the power position that may befall her.

Harris reported people who say,"I'm voting for her because she's a mom" How is that different than "I'm voting for Obama because he is black"?
Harris reported "things Palin thinks she knows but doesn't, like her conviction that the Biblical God consciously directs world events". At least he acknowledges that many hold to a belief in a personal and almighty God but on what does he base the statement (what she doesn't know... about God) and how does he know about God's involvement in the world. Sounds more like an opinion based on his presuppositions.
Harris reported "Bush...consulted a 'higher Father'...signs of incompetence". Is that his (Harris') test for incompetence or perhaps Harris is incapable of hearing God speak through the order of the universe, the Bible, or others with faith.
Seems that Harris only has an ax to grind and is so anxious to criticize that he forgets the inconsistencies and inexperience of Obama to be even partly objective.

Oops, double post and doubley in error, that's:

They (Pentecostals) are as fringe as the Phelpsians

Thank you Sam Harris! When I see a Pentecostal running for any office I have to shiver. They are as fringe and the Phelpsians. This country and the globe for that matter are doomed to self destruct as long as the religious are allowed to wield power in our political and social discourse and as long as "faith" is not evaluated as a neurosis but instead given carte blanche as truth (no matter whose book you're using at the time) with no burden of proof. The sun is green I say, the sun is green and so you must obey me!

If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.

Obama looking forward to his role as Commander in Chief. "I look forward to being Commander in Chief," said the candidate today.

This rant is sadly a comment on the degree to which "journalism" at Newsweek has fallen.

I would have expected something like this to be printed in Rolling Stone or some other light-weight, far left rag that doesn't really require the writers to adhere to any kind of journalistic standards...like sticking to facts instead of spending 90%of the article discussing what the writer thinks Mrs. Palin beliefs are.

Without rehashing this long diatribe, better to encourage anyone reading it to apply the same standards of necessary experience to the top of the Democrat ticket--Barrack Obama. Remember, he--not Palin--thought there were 57 states in the union.

Why worry about a Republican VP candidate's experience at geopolitics if the Democrat presidential nominee hasn't even acquainted himself with the geography of the United States yet.

B. Wilson

The last paragraph of this article is so compelling, I must post it . A moment of wisdom in a tumultous time.

"I believe that with the nomination of Sarah Palin for the vice presidency, the silliness of our politics has finally put our nation at risk. The world is growing more complex???and dangerous???with each passing hour, and our position within it growing more precarious. Should she become president, Palin seems capable of enacting policies so detached from the common interests of humanity, and from empirical reality, as to unite the entire world against us. When asked why she is qualified to shoulder more responsibility than any person has held in human history, Palin cites her refusal to hesitate. "You can't blink," she told Gibson repeatedly, as though this were a primordial truth of wise governance. Let us hope that a President Palin would blink, again and again, while more thoughtful people decide the fate of civilization."

Please pray that America wakes up and smells the coffee. Country first and once again? Vote Obama-Biden 2008.

The last paragraph of this article is so compelling, I must post it . A moment of wisdom in a tumultous time.

"I believe that with the nomination of Sarah Palin for the vice presidency, the silliness of our politics has finally put our nation at risk. The world is growing more complex???and dangerous???with each passing hour, and our position within it growing more precarious. Should she become president, Palin seems capable of enacting policies so detached from the common interests of humanity, and from empirical reality, as to unite the entire world against us. When asked why she is qualified to shoulder more responsibility than any person has held in human history, Palin cites her refusal to hesitate. "You can't blink," she told Gibson repeatedly, as though this were a primordial truth of wise governance. Let us hope that a President Palin would blink, again and again, while more thoughtful people decide the fate of civilization."

The author should have done more research on Palin. She had left the Assemblies of God for a non-denominational church a few years ago.
The elite politicians have brought the hatred down on themselves by pandering to special interests groups and outright dishonesty.