When Atheists Attack

Amazing....

Sam, allow me to answer your question for you about why Americans are so leary of elitists. (Although if you were anywhere near as intelligent as you believe yourself to be, you wouldn't need me to explain this to you.)

Being extremely knowledgable does not translate into being a great leader. In fact, it can often hinder it. When someone thinks they know it all, and becomes dismissive, or worse, insulting, of the opinions of others, their ability to lead and inspire goes out the window.

Your analogy of looking for elite neurosurgeons does not hold water. Neurosurgeons are paid to do one thing only. Elected office is another matter entirely. People are voting for someone to REPRESENT THEM. And guess what genius...a condescending, amoral, self-centered, know-it-all like yourself DOES NOT REPRESENT THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC. That is why elites have nearly always been shunned on the national politcal stage.

See, for a smart guy you're really quite dumb to need a simpleton like me to explain it to you.

If you were as intelligent as you claim to be, you would look at history and see that elites have very often been dead wrong (Karl Marx immediately springs to mind). You would also see that common men have been thrust into leadership and performed brilliantly. Harry Truman was a prime example of that.

Thank you for writing this article. People both Democratic and Republican; Atheists and the religious, all need to pay more attention to Ms. Palin's politics and not be swept up the fact that before a month ago no one outside of Alaska had ever heard her name. She is simply not ready to be President, Vice President or anywhere near such an office and this article shows why.

Senator Obama looking forward to battling worlds problems. "I will rid the world of Yankee Imperialism, hirsutism, capitalism, botulism, sexism, hypogonadism, militarism, priapism, racism, stoicism, jingoism, and the Detroit Red Wings." said the candidate outside of Columbus Ohio today.

What real job has Obamba had professor? and for how long? All the other time living off the govt. dole. What about Biden try 35 years. But obamba is the out sider yeah right

It's funny how diversity and respect for people's beliefs seems to stop when it comes to Christianity. The left is very happy with the Obama/Biden ticket. They know Obama was merely using Reverand Wright for political gain not as a spiritual advisor. Although Biden claims to be a devout Catholic, he is 180 on key tenets. His tax returns shows either he is a no show at Sunday mass or just stiffing the church when the collection plate is passed.

Ronnie: A Marxist is already running the country. His name is George Walker Bush. He just used my tax dollars to bail out private corporations that I???ve never owned. I now own an insurance company, a giant mortgage company and soon I'll own a lot of bad unregulated capitalistic (yes innovative) debt. This is the friggin ???Animal Farm??? if I eve saw it (Google it since you apparently don't recognize socialism when you see it). And if Barack Obama were named Joseph Palin (rhymes with Stalin), you'd be first in line at his inauguration. So now tell us your REAL problem with Barack Obama now that we KNOW Marxism is not your problem???

This person has taken the most inane view of an interview that was intended to be a got you to portray Governor Palin as unaware. In the language of some inarticulate reporters who themselves don't understand their business there are questions that are not answerable on their face. Without some specific meaning I can ask what do you think of the moon. That is not a question. All this demonstrates is the ignorance of the reporter. There are very brilliant people who have different values who can learn quickly I admire for character, say Lincoln.

One of the most important freedoms we have in this country is freedom of religion???not just for one religion but for all religions???.or belief in none. Freedom to speak of a religion and freedom not to listen to those speaking of religion is guaranteed to all. The spread of any religious beliefs should be done outside of politics - separation of church and state. It seems to be that the only substantial amount of experience Ms. Palin has is that of faith. She may have a buffet of other experiences but each one seems to be superficial in content needed for the level of vice-president and possibly president. As a former Miss Congeniality & sportscaster, Ms. Palin has learned how to work a crowd. However, it seems that it is rare that she can actually answer the question posed to her (if a question is allowed at all). It scares me to death that she actually believes that she is prepared to handle one of the top two positions in our country. Reality obviously is one of her weaknesses. If she is so prepared, then why are the Republicans keeping her on such a short chain? It seems that her congenial appearance is the ploy to get people to show up for McCain appearances. We saw from the last eight years what incompetance leads to. Since we as a country are already at a low level, do we need to add more depth to the hole with her shallowness?

I agree with most of the what Harris says in this article (as I do with most things he writes), but yet again, he fails to see the danger in the alternative. And the alternative is not a "third party" who has no shot whatsoever at becoming POTUS or VP. It'd be wonderful to be able to live in the perfect society that has no religion, no party politics, and no infringement upon the greatest government document ever written... but we don't live in that world.

It's an abomination of American politics to have to choose the lesser of two evils every four years, but it's necessary when selecting those positions.

Based on the big four's political records, we have a much better shot at restoring state rights under McCain-Palin than we would Obama-Biden - however slim that may be.

Your vote doesn't matter in the POTUS election anyway. The reason we should all be voting in November is for our local politicians who can send a message to Washington that it is NOT OK to have these sub-par people in our political machine, and that a two-party system is detrimental to our country.

I don't agree with Sarah Palin on any issues I can think of, but please, give the lady a break! Are you saying being an evangelical Christian disqualifies a person from being president?

Did Bush or Cheney know all the answers when they took office? I don't think so, what about Bush Senior? Or Jimmy Carter? Bill Clinton? Come on give her a break. No one knows all the answers besides isn't that why we have such a huge government with all the different committees? So that we have experts that brief everyone else?

I believe that the term "elitism" or even worse "eastern elites" , has become Republican code. I think that at the Republican convention, the repudiation of "elites and eastern elites" was a way of saying "JEWS". The fact that Mitt Romney got up and said the same thing, and he was Gov of an eastern state, was chilling as they repeatedly beat up on the Elites. It was almost anti-semetic, Down with the Elites, Down the the Jews.
Its is code.....