Starbucks Does Not Equal Savvy

I know, I know...it's downright un-American to vote for someone who might be more intelligent or better-educated than me. I want to have someone running the free world that I might bump into in Walmart with my own knocked-up teenager and and who I could chat with about abstinence-only education and laundry detergent. Frankly, I hate people who went to a better school than me and and are accomplished ad use words I don't understand and don't like to shoot moose and comply with stupid things like subpeonas. Go Palin!

great juggling ...until the end.
while a 'can-do' attitude is admirable, naievete is a liability any way you slice it.,
(no one's saying 'she can't do it'....geta' lil prep, and come on back...jeez!)
come on people! wake up!

I don't see how any family who earns less than $250,000 per year would vote Republican? They do not help the middle class.

This article is a bit of a stretch. Please. Do you equal elitism to being well educated also? Can people of the US somehow relate to Palin because she is far less educated than most Washington polititions? Don't we want someone very educated to run our country? I don't get it, sorry.

"Americans who support Palin are not fools, peasants or theocrats." This statement is in part true: Americans who support Palin are not peasants, because we have no peasant class. They are, however, either fools or theocrats or both. Palin's speech at her church shows a scary notion of morality: she said we should "pray that we are doing God's work" in the Iraq war. Reasonable morality is to think about the consequences beforehand and do what's most likely to produce good results, not just do rash and belligerent things and then pray for God to support you in your stupidity. Many Nazi soldiers had "Gott mit uns" (God with us) embroidered on their belts. Were they doing God's work too?

Everybody who has read this article, please be sure to read Sam Harris's article on Palin as well, one that wasn't written by a partisan political advisor.

So because I am from Pennsylvania (on the East Coast), I am automatically "elite"? Hey, everyone! A 19 year old is now among the elites of our society!! Who'd've guessed?
All right, in all seriousness, the difference between Bryan and Palin is that Bryan's policies actually had substance to help the poor in rural areas. Palin's policies contain none of that. It's faux populism, nothing more.

"No Fools: Americans who support Palin can't just be dismissed"

Yes, ignorance is dangerous. Putting an ignorant liar (Palin) in a position of authority will be disastrous. Education is not an element of elitism, it is absolutely necessary in leadership positions. McCain graduated at the bottom of his class and Palin doesn't have enough education to see she is making an idiot of herself repeating the same bull since the convention.

I support Barack Obama with all my heart and I am definitely not a so-called elite. I grew up in a small town, worked hard while I raised two children with my husband. I spent the afternoon changing my granddaughters diapers and I say my prayers every day. I guess the only strike against my standing as a real American is that I graduated from college. I am against war, for universal health care, for civil rights for all. I have ancestors who fought in the American Revolution, but in the eyes of the Republicans I am not a REAL American. I am sick and tired of being endlessly told that I'm not a real American because I'm not a Republican. Mad as hell and not going to take it meekly anymore!

This is stupid. So what she's one of "us." There's 100 million "us." It's ridiculous. I hunt, fish and live in a small town in Kansas. So what! I want leadership. Smart leadership that doesn't use their stupid "gut" to make decisions. I don't want one of "us" as the only criteria. That's what got us to this point. Wake up! Calling someone "elite" because they live in city and worked hard so they could go the best colleges is stupid and condesending at the same time. We used to respect people who worked hard to achive.Now we look down are noses at them and call them elite. Well folks keep electing people only because they are one of "us" and WE won't have much left. The only people to blame for it will be "us."