Palin Is Ready? Please.

The REAL reason for "Sarah Palin" be of the current significance is that WHOMEVER were in her place would only be a FART-beat away from becoming president, due to McCain's age/health condition. Of course it does intensify for the particulars of Sarah Palin being conspicuously unqualified and even a RISK for the positions contended.

Palin is a terminator who is programmed to gibberish and licensed to kill. Her decision to give birth to a Down-syndrome child trapped a human soul in a lifelong jail and set up a child for failure. Her daughter's free sex with wild boys violated the Bible. McCain's decision to nominate Palin shows that this old man can no longer tell the difference between black and white.

McCain's choice was reckless from the start. How it took the country this long to realize it is remarkable. Makes one wonder if we can really maintain a democracy when so many are fooled by the superficial. Palin and McCain should be removed from the ballot.

Trust me Europe, JIm Johnson does not speak for America. Neither do I. No one does. That's what so cool about this country. Guys like Jim get to say whatever they want, no matter how stupid it is. That is what scares me the most about people him. They swallow the McShame/Failin' campaign lie upon lie, and never see what's happening to them. P.T. Barnum was right, and McLIar is depending on it: "There's a sucker born every minute."

Don Rickles' Ms. Hockey Puck will destroy Putin, just you wait and see.

I LOVE the Sarah Palin interviews! She is freakin' hilarious! That "deer-caught-in-the-headlights" look? Priceless! I think she has missed her calling, though. She should get a job at SNL playing Tina Fey.

Until now I respected your work as a journalist. Your critique of Palin was acceptable. In strongly suggesting she step down or that McCain replace her you went over the line into partisan politics and became a mouthpiece for strongly partisan views.

I have only one thing to say about Fareed Zakaria's article - he is right on the money!! Of all the choices for VP that McCain could have chosen - he picked the person with the least experience, who comes across as an unintelligible, unqualified individual. Are we, as a nation, ready for the vapidity of Palin?

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I'm sorry that Obama represents a 21st century way of looking at things instead of a 19th century view - wanting to get ahead of the energy curve by investing in renewable, sustainable, domestic sources of energy instead of just yelling drill, drill, drill - because that's what the short-sighted want to hear. (This Democratic congress just let the Federal ban on off-shore drilling lapse last week, I believe, thus allowing states to make the determination. The oil is just pouring in, isn't it? No instant gratification today boys and girls - maybe in seven - ten years.) Guess what? All of the world's oil will probably be gone in the next 50 years. Should we start looking at and investing in alternatives now and beat the rest of the world to the answers or wait 49 1/2 years? Should our military be the first club out of the bag every time we have a problem with some other government? Talking to people instead of shooting them only seems like a weakness to the weak-minded. McCain is living in the past and Palin is living in her own world. If you want to join her, head for Alaska on November 5 - or go now and beat the rush. Maybe the Obama government will spring for enough short busses to get all of her true believers there - certainly a worthwhile social program.

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I'm sorry that Obama didn't take some six figure job at a prestigious law firm immediately upon leaving Harvard and opted instead to go to Chicago to work with and help the under-represented and needy. I'm sorry that Obama has proven a command of domestic and international issues in dozens of interviews and several debates (including those in the Democratic primaries) - look folks, no teleprompters. Palin seems to have virtually no understanding of anything outside of Alaska. Obama has been on the national stage for several years as a senator. He knows what is going on in our country and the world. He has actually spoken with world leaders about important issues, not just children's names. He is third in the number of votes missed in this session of the senate - McCain is first. Palin's executive experience is whatever you want to make of it. I, for one, think very little of it as I see her in the same light as our current president. If telling your hand-picked cronies what you want, but not having any concept of what is involved in getting there qualifies as executive experience then I guess that she and GW have it in spades. She fired most of the staff she inherited shortly after becoming mayor - most of them qualified, non-partisan civil servants. She was then left scrambling to fill the vacuum she created by appointing her unqualified friends and acquaintances - although she was forced by her Republican mentors to hire a city manager to actually do her work. She didn't make sure that the land for the sports complex in Wasilla could actually be used for this before erecting it. This remains in the courts. She has a similar problem with the giant natural gas pipeline deal she recently pushed through in Alaska. It looks great on paper until you realize that the tribes in Canada, who own much of the land the pipeline will cross, were never consulted as to their approval or compensation. She shoots from the hip, just like McCain. Gambling on both is twice as much fun!