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  • Posted By: Anticrisis @ 09/27/2008 10:10:17 PM

    I haven't heard from those defending Palin - what is your argument? Do we just not understand the ~words that she is communicating in the few interviews she's had?

    Please defend her - she needs more help and there isn't one comment on here that does that - just redirection. If you think she's qualified, make your case.

  • Posted By: mtatom @ 09/27/2008 9:31:37 PM

    Ms. Palin reminds me of Dan Quaile--remember that idiot? Sure, she's enthusiastic and exciting to watch, but that's just not going to cut it--there are more people in L.A. County than Alaska for goodness sake. I don't know what the Republicans are thinking, but this girl is no more ready to take on the second highest office in the land than Madona.

    • Posted By: rfhirsch @ 09/27/2008 9:39:00 PM

      I would encourage at least writing Mr Quayle's name correctly if you must call him an idiot.

      • Posted By: Bix Dugan @ 09/27/2008 10:09:30 PM

        Good point, the correct spelling of the idiot VP candidate's name is "Biden."

  • Posted By: johannes_locke @ 09/27/2008 9:22:25 PM

    Obviously you have something against conservative women. Probably all conservatives. Perhaps you should move to Venezuela or China

    • Posted By: liberalwithagun @ 09/27/2008 10:09:04 PM

      maybe it would be better for you to move to those countries since their they tell you who the leader will be. Here in the US you are supposed to pick the person that will run the country the best. But you only seem to want to vote for who they tell you to whether they are qualified or not.

    • Posted By: Cazador1972 @ 09/27/2008 9:42:37 PM


      No, only the dangerously unqualified ones who could be president.

  • Posted By: voterone @ 09/27/2008 10:07:55 PM

    Why exactly is Back Obama more qualified Sarah Palin? His Russia-Georgia gaffes ought to have been a red flag- and those gaffes came after the world was made aware of his '300 foreign policy experts.' Was Jimmy Carter more qualified to president? He was surprised to learn that the Soviet leadership were evil and duplicitous. What makes Palin less qualified than Obama or Carter?

  • Posted By: quatzecoutl @ 09/27/2008 9:43:26 PM

    Comparisons to Truman is valid I think. The man had all the advisors of FDR but still ended up using all the nukes in our arsenol, the only President of ANY country to ever do so! Would Palin follow Truman and nuke Russia and get us nuked? We know she "won't blink".

    • Posted By: Cazador1972 @ 09/27/2008 10:06:52 PM


      He only used two, we had three at the time. You make an excellent point, but I had to add that. : )

  • Posted By: Peanutfarmer @ 09/27/2008 9:19:35 PM

    Fareed Zakaria?? Where did you get that Islamic name? Could it be the same place B. Hussein Obama got his. Go back to your hole that you crawl out of. You should get a job that you're qualified for. Newsweek has really gone down the toilet.

    • Posted By: Palinlover @ 09/27/2008 10:06:49 PM

      At least he knows not to end a sentence with a preposition.

    • Posted By: FlinchMan @ 09/27/2008 9:32:10 PM

      Peanutfarmer is a poor little frightened Newsweek reader. I hope he makes it through the night. Look! A monster!!! Run away, run away!

    • Posted By: neos @ 09/27/2008 9:26:14 PM

      My name is John MCCain and I approved of this bigoted hate-filled message.

  • Posted By: Peanutfarmer @ 09/27/2008 9:43:24 PM

    nowaysarah: More voters will vote for a Christian Alaskan governor than a Mass governor that's a elite Mormon.

    • Posted By: Cazador1972 @ 09/27/2008 10:06:00 PM


      This doesn't even make sense.

  • Posted By: researchok @ 09/27/2008 10:04:52 PM

    Why exactly is Back Obama more qualified Sarah Palin? His Russia-Georgia gaffes ought to have been a red flag- and those gaffes came after the world was made aware of his '300 foreign policy experts.' Was Jimmy Carter more qualified to president? He was surprised to learn that the Soviet leadership were evil and duplicitous. What makes Palin less qualified than Obama or Carter?

  • Posted By: keeptryingrbo @ 09/27/2008 10:03:53 PM

    If John McCain is going to be president, is he going to take a timeout if there are two crisis happening at the same time? Or is he going to hand over one of them to his VP, the second--most powerful person in office, to handle it?

    Either choice is pretty discouraging.

  • Posted By: dead journalism @ 09/27/2008 9:41:51 PM

    Journalism is dead!! you are supposed to report the news not give your liberal biased opinion! you are obviously a liberal like most of the media! Why isnt anyone asking Barney Frank how he made 90 million dollars off of Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac?? Noone wants to ask the democrats the hard questions!!

    • Posted By: Palinlover @ 09/27/2008 10:02:16 PM

      Barney Frank isn't running for President. Barney Frank is not managing the campaign of a man who is running for President.

  • Posted By: FlinchMan @ 09/27/2008 10:01:37 PM

    @neos has the right idea. Neocons: You're backing Palin because she's more wholesome, American, and smarter than you. She's the best you got. Her politics, wit and comprehension are light-years beyond yours. Still, I'd appreciate it if you could attempt translate what Palin said into English. /I'm Repub.

  • Posted By: nowaysarah @ 09/27/2008 10:01:15 PM

    I would love to ask McCain if this women would make a better President then Mitt Romney. What ever you think of his politics you have to admit that the guy has a basic knowledge of government. I think this womans youngest daughter would do a better job at President. The little girls decision making wouldn't be as scary. As far as McCain goes, why replace Dopey with Grumpy ?????

  • Posted By: dead journalism @ 09/27/2008 9:37:09 PM

    journalism is dead!! You are not supposed to be partisan!! your obviously democratic! you are supposed to report the news ,not give your liberal viewpoints!!

    • Posted By: liberalwithagun @ 09/27/2008 10:00:49 PM

      Yeah like Fox news doesn't give their opinion. The damned so called liberal media.

    • Posted By: FlinchMan @ 09/27/2008 9:42:27 PM

      Here's the news, mister no-reading-comprehension: the news is Palin is a 15 watt bulb when we need a halogen searchlight. /I'm Republican.

  • Posted By: Ragtime99 @ 09/27/2008 9:59:38 PM

    Let me begin on a philosophical note that has nothing to do directly with the discussion, but truly relates to the nature of the many comments posted here:

    America's problems; social, economic, political, and so on, and so on, ...are not her greatest problem.




  • Posted By: peterstein @ 09/27/2008 9:56:11 PM

    I guess Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter should also have been disqualified. Maybe the Democrats should dump Obama and get Hilary back. or did she have too much experience? I forgot Obama has been campaiging and that gives him foreign policy experience. How about we bring George Bush for a third term? He's got the most experience. Whoops, forgot to mention that John McCain has 20 years more experience than Obama. I wish the media would stop spouting candidates talking points and do some real reporting. This article was nonsense.

    • Posted By: kb8j47ur @ 09/27/2008 9:59:19 PM

      LOL OBAMA got 18 millon votes. Palin has an under age kid with a baby and you love her. Go back to the trailer Park and throw beer bottles at the car on cement bricks in you yard.

  • Posted By: mojo15 @ 09/27/2008 9:50:09 PM

    You Demoncraps are so afraid of Palin it's really hilarious. If you weren't so afraid of her, you would disregard her completely. Down deep inside you know she is capable and as long as you bash her, it only shows she is an outstanding candidate.

    • Posted By: Palinlover @ 09/27/2008 9:59:11 PM

      Actually smart Republicans are afraid of her too. why because too many underemployed, uneducated, people might vote for her because she talks like them and they can relate to her. I want someone who is smart, who can think on her feet or at least be smart enough to keep her moith shut when she clearly has no idea what the answer is, what a politic answer is, or what a McCain answer might be.

    • Posted By: neos @ 09/27/2008 9:52:30 PM

      We are not scared of her, we are terrified that she is one 72 year-old heartbeat away from the presidency of the USA. Voting for her is treason.

  • Posted By: subprimeaficianado @ 09/27/2008 9:58:55 PM

    it doesn't matter whether or not republicans are owned by corporations or whether people believe that jesus is gonna come back and send muslims to hell. what's important is that we follow our leaders, no matter what, into whatever situation they feel necessary to send us into. we are simply tools for the rulers to play with and i'm willing to die or languish in a pow camp forever if john mccain and sarah palin send me. praise the lord, pass the ammunition.

  • Posted By: alfredENeuman @ 09/27/2008 9:57:16 PM

    Palin is a ???Post Turtle.??? What???s a Post Turtle you ask? Well I???ll tell ya.

    When you drive down country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that???s a post turtle.

    * You know she didn???t get up there by herself,
    * she doesn???t belong up there,
    * she doesn???t know what to do while she is up there,
    * and you just wonder what kind of dumb ass put her up there to begin with.

  • Posted By: neos @ 09/27/2008 9:56:44 PM

    From the Couric interview.

    COURIC: Why isn't it better, Governor Palin, to spend $700 billion helping middle-class families struggling with health care, housing, gas and groceries? Allow them to spend more and put more money into the economy? Instead of helping these big financial institutions that played a role in creating this mess?

    PALIN: That's why I say, I like ever American I'm speaking with were ill about this position that we have been put in where it is the tax payers looking to bailout. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up the economy. Helping the ... Oh, it's got to be about job creation too. Shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americas. And trade we've got to see trade as opportunity, not as a competitive scary thing. But 1 in 5 jobs being created in the trade sector today. We've got to look at that as more opportunity. All those things under the umbrella of job creation. This bailout is a part of that.

    Somewhere Senator McCain is beating his head against a wall......

  • Posted By: alfredENeuman @ 09/27/2008 9:56:34 PM

    Palin is a ???Post Turtle.??? What???s a Post Turtle you ask? Well I???ll tell ya.

    When you drive down country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that???s a post turtle.

    * You know she didn???t get up there by herself,
    * she doesn???t belong up there,
    * she doesn???t know what to do while she is up there,
    * and you just wonder what kind of dumb *** put her up there to begin with.

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