When Atheists Attack

Wonderful opinion that made some good points to ponder despite a horrible title...although I am more scared of this woman now than ever before...she keeps company with some very bizarre bedfellows, will say anything to lend herself the facade of credibility and thinks God has ordained her to save the human race from...wait for it...abortion. As if we don't have more pressing issues at hand affecting retirement/education/cost of living/environment! I fear for my world and all its inhabitants if Mccain/Palin win, it will be 4 more bumbling years of corporate de-regulation, rising health-care, lowered education standards with higher prices and rich getting richer while we, the bread and butter, the salt of the earth, take the longest fall in history! My children will not have the quality of life I had, and that is the sad truth. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! Bring on the change!

Newsweek - Keep up the good work for exposing this ARSONIST and DESTROYER of our Constitution!

You're right, presidents get elected for all kinds of weird reasons.

Let's see. Clinton got elected because people felt comfortable with the idea of having a beer with him.
Bush got elected because he convinced people that he would act based on his Christian faith (which we've seen was just a pandering statement to get votes).
People are willing to vote for Obama because he isn't Bush.
People are willing to vote for McCain because he isn't Obama.

But we also have to face that Fiorina was right. None of our four leading candidates are qualified to be a president. McCain and Biden have been around the longest -- but they've only got experience in committee, not any administrative background. Obama has only a fraction of their experience, and most of his experience has been that he learned how to vote "Present" instead of making a decision. Palin's woefully limited experience is actually the most extensive of the four candidates -- that's what we should really be scared of.

Finally, an intelligent analysis of what Palin's philosophy (or lack of one) represents. But I can attest to how her beliefs conflict with her actions on a practical level. One would hope that a professed Christian of any stripe would not consider lying, naked ambition, and lawlessness to be virtues. Yet, in Alaska, we are watching her true values at work on the national scene with an appalled fascination. There's no guessing at what kind of leader she is anymore--she's laid it out clearly.

She promised us transparent government and accountability. Yet she has refused to cooperate with a legislative inquiry into alleged abuse of power--despite her assurances that she welcomed the inquiry and would cooperate. She is allowing her husband to ignore a lawful subpoena on the most laughable pretexts. She has allowed McCain's campaign to install itself as a de facto governor of Alaska, meaning that anyone who has questions for or business with the governor's office is automatically referred to the McCain campaign. She has allowed McCain's opratives to politicize this Troopergate inquiry into a standstill and then to laughably complain that it's those dang Democrats who have "tainted" the investigation. She either exaggerates her accomplishments here or flat out lies about them with such assurance that it's breathtaking.

She is such a calculating pragmatist that she knew better than to allow her fundamentalist views to decide her political actions here, and yet the second she accepted McCain's offer, she willingly allowed herself to use those tenets for political gain.

If she returns to Alaska (and for the sake of the country, she should, regrettably), I can almost guarantee she'll face a recall election. She is not the governor we elected (and fewer than half of the voters in that election did choose her). She is McCain's vain, cynical, and manipulative creation--but now we can see it more clearly. And thousands of Alaskans hope the rest of you will, too.

Biden promises to send Israel humanitarian aid if it is attacked by Iran "Assuming that there is anybody left alive, we will send all the help approved by the United Nations." said Mr. Biden who has been complaining of severe headaches recently.

The difference is not just WHAT the candidate knows, but HOW they approach situations and make decisions. McCain also has no experience with making military decisions that will affect millions, and he too, will be learning on the job. But considering out current state of international affairs, I would personally prefer a President and a Vice President that weigh options and make decisions without religion clouding their judgment. Twenty percent of our VPs have become President by either death or resignation (9 total), so it is clearly important to vet Palin and Biden for their potential ability to run our country.

Being a simple patriot will not help anyone when faced with life-or-death situations involving our military and civilians. Being an educated and thoughtful patriot who will objectively approach decisions with the utmost care for our country, will.

I get the feeling it is the elites that should own America and keep our women folk as premevial human beings. As be it, I don't have a Harvard Degree, I guess I don't qulaify to make a statement as that, let alone I am an Alaska Native with only a BIA High School Diplolma. It's about time that we see and hear a high office candidate as American as can be. Let alone live off the land as did the ancestors of Anglo-Saxon when they were free country in my native land of whom they had no choice to accept food and place to stay as if they did not they would have perished.

Politically I don't agree with most of Governor Palin's policies, but isn't about time that our Government Serve us equally and not someone's goal, as the "No child left behind" law and leave the teaching and upbringing to parents and teachers not Federal Government ditation. I can see the possibility of Governor Palin getting in as VP of US may be rocking the boat of "Good ole Boys" in our Government.

Candidates like her we need and get them into high office as our own government have gotten away from working for our Country and it's true American People. Many Anglo-Saxon ancesters did not work for their own, but work as community, common people, loving people and God fearing people. We need to re-educate ourselves that first elected officials who create the free government today years ago, were religous renegades who took a chance of finding a place to exercise their belief in God freely and with out persecution. America needs to get back to that freedom to worship without being accused of not being Muislum or Islam. The other thing "the elite" in our government needs to be shaken up because that what our Country have as free as a bird, we elect them and then we elect them out, the only ones that are still in the government are the appointment ones by the administration and administration and they get trenched into their permanent Jobs and get to thinking that they are in those position as long as they can and think they own the Government. Golly, the "Good Ole Boy System in Washington D.C" must be shaken up with the possibility of Gov Palin getting in the high office. Isn't that what this free County all about?

Thanks for this moment of sanity ! I am an ordinary citizen with a BA in geography, a one-time hockey mom, a one-time PTA president , and now a school trustee. I relate to Palin because she is a woman but not for a moment do I think I am VP material. NOR IS SHE !

Why is it that some people are praising this article? The article does nothing but draw more sympathy towards Palin. It is insulting to democrats. We can do better than making personal insults of Palin. Let's see hwo she does in interviews and debates. Let her prove or disprove her case.

I thought it was the tactics of the Republican party to "scare the masses" into conformity? Does Sarah Palin have the Democratic Intelligensia so scared that they have to resort to open speculation, supposition, and outright "fearmongering." Why is the govenor of Alaska so unprepared to become the the Vice President, when the Governor of Arkansas (Clinton) and the Governor of Georgia (Carter) had similar if not less foreign policy experience than Sarah Palin. At least her state borders a foreign power.

And what has Obama done??????????? With all of his intelligence and his vision for America, what has he done in his 3 years in Washington? What are his accomplishments? Why aren't you asking the same type of questions of Obama?

Sarah Palin, and many of those who so support her, are being played for fools by the McCain campaign and the strategists that engineered her VP pick. They know they can play to their emotions and that they will fall for it. It's sad to see such a large segment of this country so easily get the wool pulled over their eyes so quickly. It would be one thing if she were vetted in the national public square for a few years, but these folks immediately and without hesitation put their trust in her and the wolves in sheep clothing manipulating the scene.

Pathetic. I expected better of Hitchins, somehow.