Palin Is Ready? Please.

Add to this the fact that McCain is old, the oldest ever if elected. Putting country first should mean in his case an extra burden of responsibility to choose someone who is ready to be president. He failed and thereby added yet another huge error in judgement.

Terrificworld you are ignorant! Clearly, Palin doesn't know what she is doing. Senator Barrack Obama will win and prove your racist #$% wrong.

Without being disrespectful, how did she become the Governor of an American state? I listened to her response, as to why being a neighbor to Russia helps to boost her foreign policy credentials and I was completely embarssed by her response. I hope Mr. Putin and the Russian president didn't watch this interview. I would advice Senetor McCain's campaign team to find any reason why she should not take part in the V.P. debate come Friday. Can a presidential candidate change his/her running mate? Please answer me.

I understand that Governer Palin is nervous, perhaps scared to death in these interviews and it shows. Will she improve in 37 days? Not a chance. Will she improve in 37 months ? Probably, but how much is the question. I am sure she is a fast learner, but while I believe that under NORMAL ROLES of ther VP of the UNITED STATES she is qualified to be VICE President She is NOT qualified to be President in case something God forbid were to happen to John McCain. Nobody wants that off course, but all things considered it should have been the #1 consideration in choosing her. It wasn't. She is a woman, she is the darling of the extreme religious right which McCain is not and I believe she was chosen for him to bring them around, he had little choice. If he DID CHOOSE HER OVER OTHERS it shows bad judgement on his part. I see her as "unqualified" ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I also see a rather blatant opportunist, many times and there is a suggestion that she would turn on McCain in a heartbeat if the opportunity presented itself. NOT GOOD. But then, look what we have had in the Whirte House for the last 8 years, A totally clueless individual with totally opportunistic advisors and staff in far too many instances.

So when you do the math, you do get FOUR MORE YEARS of GEORGE W: BUSH in reverse.

I agree, she should step aside. maybe in 4-8 years with a little OJT "(On the job training")somewhere else then we'll see..

An excellent article that puts Palin in the social context that supports her is "Mad Dog Palin" by Matt Taibbi, currently on AlterNet. And to JungleJim: be fair; Palin is a bunch of talking points looking for a mind. Do you know what CONSERVATIVE columnist Kathleen Parker said about her? "If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street by herself".

Thank you, Fareed! We had a public embarrassment years ago with Dan Quayle, who, in retrospect was eminently more qualified for the VP (and by extension the Presidency) than is Sarah Palin. We are fortunate enough to live in a Great Nation, harboring a powerful economic system, a powerful workforce, a powerful military, a powerful collection of entrepreneurs AND (when properly regulated) powerful large corporations. We were a superpower in a world of two superpowers during the cold war, and we have the obligation to be a superpower in the far more complex world of the 21st Century. And in this light, we have the obligation as citizens to choose leaders (in all elected offices) who at least UNDERSTAND the world and nation in which we live. I will give John McCain credit for understanding these things based on his experience. But I will criticize him for being wrong in his ideas about how to govern our Nation at this time, and I will criticize him as irresponsible for selecting a running mate so underqualified either to assist or replace him as President.

A McCain-Palin administration would be unsafe for America, unwise in the presidency, and an insult to all Americans. If you support them now because of your agreement with their positions on several issues, you should consider on election day the risks to yourself, your family, and your fellow Americans in selecting a president who does not need to blink...his eyes and his running mate's eyes are already closed!

Newsweek- in the tank for Obam from the beginning !!!! Its not even worth reading your magazine anymore - it has become another OBAMA RAG much like the NY Times !!!

Holding an objective view I couldn't agree more, these are trying times and given the age of John McCain it is all to important to have placed such a wonderful woman in such bad position. He should be ashamed of himself. This is not "country first" this is "McCain first".

would you trust sarah pail to manage the local wal-mart with over 100 employees ?? obviously not she has no business skills she is a spokes model. she had to hire a city manager for wasilla she was in over her head there.
alaska already had dept managers so she mainly was a state cheerleader.
a state like california where arnold just had a protracted budget battle is so far out of her league its ridiculas. arnold has a degree in business fianance.
populisim only goes so far the founding fathers were right the presidency is to important to trust the people to a direct vote thats why we have the electoral college.
unfortunately many will view the author of this piece as some sort of undercover operative by his skin and name, this thinking is primitive and tribal.
yet when half the american people actually think the bible is true and not a collection of myths mixed with historic conflicts wriiten in somatic metaphor, they simply do NOT have the mental capacity to understand the world as it actually is.

the thing that sucks about criticizing journalists is that whatever you say, they turn to their own advantage. if i say zakaria is great, he gets a lump in his throat and his eyes get misty. if i say he is a terrorist-sympathizing, muslim-dominated, foreiginer who is taking advantage of american's kind freedoms, he gets a lump in his throat and his eyes get misty. just for the reocrd, i think he's the second

The saddest thing about McCain's choice to pick Plain was that, much like Wall Street. he choose to opt for a quick quarterly return over a long term investment. By pandering to GOP stockholders he has irrevocably damaged American politics - the voters deserved to be presented with a better choice. Chame.

McCain learned well from W: say whatever you can ("swiftboat" a decorated war veteran), do whatever it takes (push-polls in S.C.) to win the election. After you're in office, nobody cares how you got there. Palin isn't going to bow out - she's doing exactly what she was designed to do: cover McCain's right wing. Of course she's not qualified. That had nothing to do with McCain's choice.

As long as she talk better.....what do you think why Republican asked for two minutes for debate questions... she cant handle an interview that are fundamental basics ..... Sara talks .... comedian have more fun...
I'm really sorry for her.... now she will loose her reputation in Alaska also.... I don't think Alaskan would like to have her after all that happened.... so sometimes you have to BLINK.