Palin Is Ready? Please.

Um, cholm014, check your facts - Roosevelt was indeed president for several years of the Great Depression. Timeline was Black Thursday in 1929, Roosevelt took office 1933, Great Depression lasted roughly until WWII.

For those who are posting responses defending Palin's interview, It shocks me that you compare Obama to Palin. I know you have your obvious bias and I have mine, but seriously. You have to ask yourself this: Why did John Mccain pick Sarah Palin. All bias aside. Why did he pick her? Because of her Foreign Policy experience? Because of her knowledge of economics? You can quote the record of Obama all day long, but at the end of the day - he has something that Sarah Palin does not have, nor will she have if she by the time some stroke of misfortune promotes her to the position of President of the United States. For Mccain to ignore this IS reckless and obviously has a motive other than the best interest of our country.

This article so spot on. Sarah Palin's incompetence is terrifying. When mental options are few, violence as a 'solution' comes easily. Given the US arsenal, this is a prospect that leaves one shivering. Sarah, if you are who you say you are, step down and do all a favor. ( Australia )

Whenever someone criticizes an article about Sarah Palin and her lack of qualifications to be president, he/she always sidesteps the issue with talk of Democratic failures in government. Both Republicans and Democrats have failed in local and national government. The point that is being made is that Sarah Palin doesn't even have the basic qualifications to be considered for the role that has continued to fail Americans. I'm actually shocked that a governor is so ignorant about domestic and foreign issues. With such broad ignorance, she would likely never be a good presidential or vice presidential candidate. When people talk of Sarah Palin and her lack of knowledge about world affairs, it has nothing to do with Democratic or Republican failures in government. It's about the danger of putting an uneducated and uninformed person in the most powerful position in government. Politics aside, it would be a disaster for the whole country.

This is a new low for the liars at Newsweak. This is a disgustng rag. Newsweak lies are "un-patriotic", NOT Palin or McCain.

There will be a reckoning coming for lying, slimeing rags like Newsweak.

As a person who avoids media and who only glanced at www.newsweek.com after the good rejection of a bailout on 29 September, I was amazed at the comments on the article "Palin is Ready? Please." by Fareed Zakaria.
First, if Mr. Zakaria (who I am confident never hears these comments) believes that John McCain was "fundamentally irresponsible" for selecting Sarah Palin who is "utterly unqualified to be Vice-President", then he should be very happy Sarah Palin was selected and Barack Obama will have a far higher chance of winning the election. (Here, I am assuming that Mr. Zakaria either truly believes that Obama is qualified to be President or that Mr. Zakaria is receiving financial rewards from Newsweek and/or Obama for the words he shares.)
Second, I will agree that Obama does have more experience than Paliln in one area We can thank Obama for helping to cause the recent collapse of our economy as, in 2005, he joined Chris Dodd and John Kerry in accepting large political contributions from the two mortgage bankers in exchange for keeping regulators off of their backs which, in turn, led people to continue hearing "No money down" when looking for a house and led people to continue taking out loans which they would never be paying back.
Third, I will admit that the regulation of the two banks was requested of the Congress by President George W. Bush only about fifteen times between 2002 and 2008 (always being declined by Congress). President Bush should have clearly informed all Americans who do not watch the Federal Government constantly how Dodd, Kerry, Obama and the majority in the Congress was against this regulation of the two mortgage bankers and was simply bowing down to these bankers and their personal desires.
Fourth, some comments implied that Christians cannot think. A person who selects a nominee based on only one item (e.g., abortion) is not selecting wisely. A person who selects Obama because his words excite them even though they are often counter to his record is not selecting wisely. And pastors are not allowed to tell members of the congregation who or what to vote for and continue avoiding some taxes that are offered to non-profit orgainizations and churches. Like myself, many who are truly Christian (and not just cliaiming this) are Independent and vote for a person (or two-person ticket) and not for a political party. A large percentage of us are conservative and not "liberal" (using the most common definition of the term today) and this leads most votes that we cast to those who are Republican.
Finally, some Americans believe that it is better for the government to be larger and to have more control over the citizens of the United States. Others believe, like those who wrote and signed the Constitution, that it is better for the government to be smaller and to have less control over the citizens of the United States.

Thank you Fareed Zakaria for having the courage to speak up and state the obvious. Any other election year it would have been easy to gloss over her glaring ignorance-- but now with the sad state of affairs in our country we need as many intelligent people as we can get. Sadly, Sarah Palin is not one of the intelligent ones.

I was surprised when she made it to the end of the Republican National Convention! Now that the "surge" over her candidacy is over, she is just an embarassment. I would not be surprised if she pulled out before the election.

The selection of Palin makes me ill. Where in the hell is the wisdom, insight and intelligence for this kind of pick? Well, why be surprised. We put the terminator and a wrestler in high office, so why not some chatty cathy doll who's incapable of an independent thought. Journalism degree??????????? And there's no shame in advertising that? It's like the college football players who have their major flashed on the screen: Recreational management. Same thing. We don't express outrage anymore in this country for anything. And if you support Palin as a potential VP you are so sheltered, so ignorant of what's happening around you. This is not some game or popularity contest. It's our future, our very survival could depend on her judgement. And don't forget, she did not know what the Bush Doctrine was. Isn't that horrifying? I have not spent one day as a politician in any kind of office but I know what the Bush Dpctrine is. Is it too much to ask that a potential VP would know this also? Does she know what the Marshall plan was. The Magna Carta? The treaty of Versailles? The 38th parallel? The Cuban Missile crisis? This woman is a farce. A charlatan. We've become a nation of quick fix, sexy smiles, popularity and sound bites. My mother is a better pick than Palin. And she's 85 yeasr old.

Sir, your clarity and your analytical ability are genius! Thank you!

Posted By: cholm014 @ 09/29/2008 9:33:16 PM
Comment: Victory in Iraq involves a secure country where democracy grows, in this enviroment oil production will triple putting more oil on the market, that means less cost at the pump and everywhere else for Americans.

What?
Americans and the rest of the world are badly addicted to oil. If a crack addict was complaining about the cost of drugs at the dealer, would you also recommend liberating a country, say afghanistan, to gain control of poppy fields so we could triple production and get some cost relief for those addicts that are hurting at home?

guess what? oil price relates to supply and demand, and since american can't do squat with 3% of the worlds supply, how about working on the 25% u.s. global demand side of the equation?

bite the bullet and end the dependancy, then price at the pump will become irrelevant one day.

Please, please let Owen Bennett Jones of the BBC interview Sarah....

Palin is the nightmare scenario. A totally uninformed, low educated, icon of hockey moms ( oh she is so cute, I wish I was her!). And that's who could very well be our president under the current situation. For that reason alone, McCain cannot be allowed to win this election. For if he does win , and she would someday be the president, then the position of president becomes nothing more than a figurehead. Liek the queen of England. No relevance, no influence.

Thank you Fareed Zakaria, for clearly stating what I've been thinking for weeks!!!