When Atheists Attack

I suppose Obama's "community organizer" experience makes him so much more knowledgeable regarding world events? He sputters when he's without carefully crafted speech. Typical media hypocrite. You all brag about his intelligence and ability to rise above HIS lack of experience, but for some reason Palin would be incapable of doing the same (even though she's had an executive role.) At least you had the decency to put "OPINION" in the title - unlike your other openly biased coworkers.

I'd like to respond to Sarah1234 (and people who say the arguments against Palin also apply to Obama): neither Palin nor Obama have much experience, but intelligence is a completely different matter. Black people sometimes suffer from the racist stereotype that they are less intelligent, but few people would say that of Obama. It's not just about good speech. You are comparing someone who took six years from five small mushroom colleges to compete a bachelor in communication, to someone who has a Columbia degree on International Relations, and a Harvard law degree. In terms of speech content, you are comparing someone who has no particular views about the world apart from the fact that she lives "near" Russia, to someone who has a comprehensive and coherent Wilsonian view about International Relations (read Obama's book or his earlier not-so-dumbed-down campaign speeches). I can go on and on about Obama's superior reasoning skills when he flushed out his thinking on several occasions. (Trained as a theoretical physicist, I pay more attention to such things than most people do.)

Epidemic source discovered. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta announced today that the epidemic of Clinging to Bibles and Guns Syndrome (CBGS) had been traced to Gideon Bibles left in motel rooms throughout the Midwest. The Obama campaign has called for Gideon Bibles to be removed and replaced with copies of Of Mice and Men.

Sarah Palin went to 5 different schools to get her Bachelor of Science Degree. A degree in journalism is hardly enough education to be Vice. However, John McCain was 895th out of a class of 899th so he's not exactly a brain child.

Our country was built upon the principal of freedom of religion, less government intervention in our personal lives, and other guiding principals. The article simply demonstrates that Palin would not adhere to the principals our country was built on. Additionally when it comes to foreign policy, God does not dictate what man should do - our President does after weighing all of the facts. We need someone who is willing to objectively weigh all the facts prior to making a decision. Can Palin do this?

Although I sympathize with this author's concerns, the difference of qualifications for Mrs. Palin are highly biased though well-fleshed out. I do not see the author appealing to the other side of the aisle - the one's, who like-minded with Sarah Palin, observe her disqualifications.

Furthermore, "dogmatic" beliefs differ from worldview and doctrine. The use of dogma inappropriately continues the misinterpretation of this word to be universally applied to negative religious beliefs. In essence, dogma is a codified principle that is essential to religion-not person. Dogma, furthermore, is essential in the Roman Catholic faith on very few beliefs (papal infallibility on Mary as a Virgin, etc). Therefore, Dogma is a classification by a profession of laity or clergy or a collection by which membership is subscribed.

This exceptionally well-written peice offers much to those of similar belief, but this continues to be the same argument of who is better elected to run the country? The critical thinking is supurb; however, the attack is far more personal and such artistic leway blurs the line between religion and state. Why not examine her principles blind of her religious and spiritual background? This article is clearly not authored by someone who can draw the distinction, truly intoning an elitist view that ultimately submerses his own argument by prejudice.

How can we get people looking to talk when their worldviews are constantly attacked? Yes, voting on values can limit the scope of the picture, but maybe America needs a wake-up call to understand how those values are limited in scope rather than ostrasize for having any values. We cannot cloud the argument behind veiled "education" because both sides come out smelling elitist.

-A Well-Educated Social Worker who Makes Less Than This Author But Spends Her Time Working with People at the Front Lines in Hospice and Emergency Medicine

So Mr. Day trader, if you are among those who would look at the attacks and ambushes on Palin as "media gimmicks," then would you also agree that the claims you bring up were also "media gimmicks," an unfair, unwarranted attack from the opposing side that picks an irrelevant fact and twists it in to something extreme.
I also find it humorous that you would think that Barack is a racist, and that you would bring up these points in an article about SARAH PALIN that mentions nothing about the Democratic Candidate.

People! This is NOT about the "company" someone keeps. This is about what one actually believes to be true and the influence those irrational beliefs have in making decisions of the greatest import.

If you weigh the magical thinking, imaginary friends, the infallibility of certain "holy" books, she's closer to Ahmadinejad than Obama. Grow a brain! Then use it!

Yes, this is an intelligent, reasoned, accurate assessment of Palin and her meager qualifcations for any politcal position, let alone that of Vice-President of the United States, but Harris is, after all, only doing his job when he points out that the emperor has no clothes. The presence of someone like Palin on the political scene is frightening enough, but more terrifying still is the absence of responsible journalists, brave enough & intelligent enough to flush out quacks and charlatans. Harris may be a noted provocateur, but in this
instance, he speaks the unvarnished truth.

Well Put! I especially like the comparison between Jamie Lyn and Bristol, the idea that it is so wrong for one teenager to become pregnant and then get married, as oppose to one who some in the Christian world is making it seem as if it is ok for her to get pregnant and commending her on keeping the child...such double standard and hypocrisy.

Now as far as I am concern America will be a scary place and it would be a sad day for the world if Palin/McCain "as she puts it recently" should become leaders of the free world. Elitism/or being well educated is not such a bad thing, well as far as I am concern anyway. I would not want my neighbour who has no idea of what he is doing or no real training to operate on me, the same way I would not want a beauty queen to be one heart beat away from becoming the president of America.

Also it is beyond me how women who supported Hillary can now say they support Palin...what are you all thinking or not? How can you look at her as a substitue for Hillary? They are as opposite as night and day. It is sad that you would vote for someone because she is just a woman, because I cannot see any other reason. Sure she is a working hockey mom, but why do you believe your concerns or needs will be her concern when she gets into the big house? Yes it would be good to have a woman as president (and at the rate at which this campaign is running she seems to be the one running for president and not McCain) but how can you just throw your vote behind someone who knows very little about what is going on in the world, are you all that blind?

Wake up and be real, put all emotions aside, and think for one min. what does she really bring to the table apart from being a working mother! If she needs so much prepping before she can face the media, shouldn't we all be concern! Her using God to justify the war in Iraq is also another cause for concern no matter how much she tries to down play it or rephrase her statement!

WAKE UP AMERICA.......IF NOT FOR YOURSELF......FOR YOUR CHILDREN AND THE WORLD WHO CANNOT DO ANYTHING ABOUT THIS ELECTION BUT WATCH.................

I wish there was a more powerful way to say "Completely agree." Very few people understand the need for intelligence in politics. And amazingly, I'm afraid that very few will attribute the failures of the last eight years as having anything to do with intelligence. Americans seem to want to have "someone like them" in the White House. An unbelievably scary pattern.

Culture wars aside voting Republican is too expensive. Democrats may be tax and spend but Republicans are spendtrhifts. Whatever Obama plans to to cannot be more expensive than the wars in Iraq and Afghanastan and the bailout of Freddie and Fannie and AIG. Republicans used to be fiscal conservatives who championed the free market. More than ironic that Republicans accuse Obama of socialism, when it is the Republicans who have forced me and other tax payers to pay for banking and insurance excesses. If Obama is socialist, at least he honest about it.