When Atheists Attack

Excellent article. Fundamentalism is the most serious threat to the human race (and the world) in our time. Any person or "faith" that ignores the work that must be done in the present and instead focuses on future apocalptic fantasies such as the "end time" or "the rapture" can not be relied upon to make rational decisions and exercise good judgment. Anyone who believes that God has chosen him (or his party or his country) to lead doesn't have enough humility to be trused in a position of leadership. And anyone who still believes that dualism rules the univierse--that the struggle of "Good" and "Evil" is a ongoing cosmic game being played out with humans as the pawns--cannot be given the power of an army or a nuclear arsenal. Having a Fundamentalist of any stripe in the White House would be absolutely terrifying.

Isn't it sad how so much of this is character assassination now... Obama is an elitish arrogant outsider who doesn't care about anyone but himself. Palin is an idiotic trumped-up PTA staffer with an inferiority complex, McCain is a selfish old git who is out of touch with everyone but himself.
Its pretty sad stuff... I have to say I will vote Obama for his character and his ideas. Thats my opinion. But it doesn't make sense to make Palin into the anti-christ just because I think her ideas are wrong.

Obama's ignorance puts this country at risk. "You can learn something about someone from the company she keeps"? How about the company Obama kept in CHicago? The hypocrisy of liberals astounds me. Seriously, I'm not sure what has happened to Newsweek. They have followed suit with the rest of the media and decided to back Obama. It is truly sad.

Us Europeans have had nearly a millenium to rue the Crusades. Religeous dogma in the UK sparked off the Pilgrim Fathers in a quest for freedom, which us Brits still envy, it's what made the USA wonderful and powerful, but this Palin woman's doctrine is more scary to us than any mad mullah from Iran. The difference between Bin Ladin and Palin really is just lipstick. Well that's how it seems to us in Europe, but we don't count.

I like that phrae the author used..."You can learn something about someone from the company she keeps" I guess if that's true, we should ask ourselves if we should be more concerned with a vice president keeping company with conservative christians or a president who keeps company with the likes of Rezko, Ayers, and Williams

I like that phrase..."you can learn something about someone from the company she keeps" If that is true, then what do we learn about Obama keeping company with the likes of Rezko, Ayers, and Williams?

Every condescending half-baked idea so arrogantly expressed in this grotesquely smug diatribe by Sam Harris tells you much more about its author than anything said about Sarah Palin. Most of this disgraceful and hate-filled rant so dripping with contempt, could easily have been applied to an untested Harry Truman as easily as Palin. The point that our reality-challenged and truly pathetic would-be columnist Sammy "Aluminum Foil Hat" Harris misses (over and over) is that a great leader does not need an ivy league education to possess incredibly impressive leadership instincts and superior capabilities.

I'd trust Sarah Palin to make much better decisions than the "well educated" Barack Obama with regard to nuclear proliferation, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the economy, climate change, Russian belligerence, the rise of China, emerging epidemics, Islamism, the United Nations, American schools, energy, infrastructure and Internet security as Sammy's simplistic empty-headed article itemizes.

In fact, it's not even a close choice. And just a reminder for Sammy "If I Only Had A Brain" Harris; Palin is actually #2 on the Republican ticket. When it comes down to who's #1 on the ticket -- McCain versus Obama -- on every last one of those listed concerns, it literally becomes laughable for those of us with fully active cognitive function as to how superior John McCain is to your highly conceited, self-important and excessively pompous lord and savior, the empty O.

For the record, I am not a particularly religious person, but the intolerance and ugly cartoon depiction of Sarah Palin simply because she has a God-based belief system that Sammy "God Is For Lunatics" Harris doesn't agree with makes him the ultimate "Ugly American."

Message to Sammy "Simpleton" Harris, maybe you shouldn't think in such black-and-white terms when it comes to people of faith, and gain a little nuance when it comes to those you don't understand and publicly belittle. The funny thing is, they happen to be smarter than you.

Anyone reading these comments have a wife, daughter, sister or mother? You might want to know something else about Sarah Palin. When she was Mayor, she fought a bitter fight against all comers (finally losing to the state government). About what, you ask?
Sarah Palin insisted that any woman who was raped had to pay $1200 for the rape kit to prosecute her rapist.
Yes, you heard that right, not only does Palin believe that a rapist's baby is sacred, she also believes any woman who is raped and doesn't want the rapist on the street should pay $1200 for the priveledge!

Well, your smugness certainly matches that of Charlie Gibson. You guys are in lock step with each other. Way to go!

To you, anyone with religious convictions is an extremist. And ironically, while you shun traditional religion, you have a religious furvor for YOUR savior, Barack Obama. You see, EVERYONE needs religion don't they? And yours prevents you from seeing the truth about a man who has chosen to associate with America-hating radicals for political expediency. (And you have the Audacity of Hope to question her associations?) A man who has contempt for the citizens of this country and thinks a government of elitists like you should control their lives. A man who probably thinks of me as a "typical white person". A man who will wax professorial about what evil is and thinks that talking and compromise and appeasement are ends in themselves. A man who has a fundamental misunderstanding of why this country is great already, not why it would be great simply because he would be elected.

Sarah Palin has at least two qualifications that you, people like you, and Barack Obama lack. Demonstrated good judgement and genuine love of country, And she doesn't need to be propped up like the charlatan that Obama is. She's real, people like her, and you hate that.

Well, your smugness certainly matches that of Charlie Gibson. You guys are in lock step with each other. Way to go!

To you, anyone with religious convictions is an extremist. And ironically, while you shun traditional religion, you have a religious furvor for YOUR savior, Barack Obama. You see, EVERYONE needs religion don't they? And yours prevents you from seeing the truth about a man who has chosen to associate with America-hating radicals for political expediency. (And you have the Audacity of Hope to question her associations?) A man who has contempt for the citizens of this country and thinks a government of elitists like you should control their lives. A man who probably thinks of me as a "typical white person". A man who will wax professorial about what evil is and thinks that talking and compromise and appeasement are ends in themselves. A man who has a fundamental misunderstanding of why this country is great already, not why it would be great simply because he would be elected.

Sarah Palin has at least two qualifications that you, people like you, and Barack Obama lack. Demonstrated good judgement and genuine love of country, And she doesn't need to be propped up like the charlatan that Obama is. She's real, people like her, and you hate that.

What if Sarah Palin had gone to Yale? Would you question her intelligence then? Would she still be a beauty queen led around by the McCain campaign like a pet?

Sam... let me be nice. You're an idiot.
I'd like someone with the finger on the trigger to have some understanding of the dynamics of world politics, not a knowledge of what brand of cereal to buy my kids. This is not a beauty pageant.
Good work, cheers.

Sam... let me be nice. You're an idiot.
I'd like someone with the finger on the trigger to have some understanding of the dynamics of world politics, not a knowledge of what brand of cereal to buy my kids. This is not a beauty pageant.
Good work, cheers.

Sam... let me be nice. You're an idiot.
I'd like someone with the finger on the trigger to have some understanding of the dynamics of world politics, not a knowledge of what brand of cereal to buy my kids. This is not a beauty pageant.
Good work, cheers.

Harley, ease up on the caffeine...where's the love, man?

Thank you for this article. Quite frankly I am not afraid of terrorists........but Palin and McCain scare the bejeezers out of me. It is as if the Republicans cannot dredge up the level of fear they want in us talking about terrorists so they give us instead flip flopping dumb and dumber and put their finger on the button that ends everything. This is not a popularity contest! As one Mom to another Palin does not impress me at all, her qualifications are nada and running on your looks should only work in hollywoood. It is scarey to think that this great country has gone to the idiots. Democrats must win or all will be lost. We may never recover from what the Republicans have brought down on us. My conconscious is clear, I never vote Republican......it wouldn't matter if daffy duck were running on the democratic ticket it would be better tnhan anything the Republicans put up.

loriw: if your post about approval ratings was a response to my post, i think you missed the point. i wasn't saying bush's approval is low and mccain agrees w/this low-approval person and is therefore bad. let me make it clearer: Bush and the Republicans -- regardless of anyone's approval rating -- have been an unmitigated disaster for this country, and McCain has supported their disastrous policies 89% of the time and would continue along a similar ruinous path if elected.