Palin Is Ready? Please.

This is not about Sarah Palin and never has been. It is this: Is John McCain ready? Please.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8__aXxXPVc

beauty queen - what's the next answer 'world peace' ?

Judging by what I have heard her say herself and what the vetting process has turned up.
I think McCain has shown extremely poor judgment and did a disservice to everyone involved. She is not qualified.

I just have to add an additional comment. I am so surprised that some of the respondents think that the column is unfair to Sarah Palin. These quotes are direct quotes. The sentences do not make sense. I am a retired teacher and have corrected many essays like her responses. She has tried to memorize answers to potential questions and gotten every thing confused because she does not really understand the material. Fareed Zakaria was not hateful, he asked a perfectly valid question. Simply put, is Sarah Palin ready to be Vice President or if need be President of the United States? Is she ready to give the view point of the United States on the world stage? If she is just memorizing facts and has no understanding how will she be able to coherently interact with other heads of state? Your emotional response to this article causes me to wonder how you make your decision on who to vote for. Our world standing has been much reduced since Presidnet Bush got into office. We need to consider that and put in the best qualified President and Vice President.. It is the job of every reporter to try with their questioning of the candidates to let us decide how well that they will handle difficult situations. As some of you point out there is no Presidential degree from any institution but there should be the ability to think on your feet and handle difficult questions using your own knowledge and understanding of the problem being discussed. Try not hating differing points of view. I have visited the web site of Wasilla Alaska and read reports etc that the present Mayor has on file. It seems like Sarah Palin was a good Mayor but did actually ask people to resign who did not agree with her. I think that was her right. But I will point out that when Obama took over the Harvard Review he asked kept members of all groups, on the staff to get a balanced point of view. Sarah Palin is doing okay as Governor, I think anyway. From her responses and point of view I just question her readiness to be President should the need occur. Holy Molly just isn't the way I would like my Vice President to start a sentence on National Television. This is what I heard with my own ears. It may be okay for PTA or a non-formal occasions. If I do comment on it, I am not doing it out of hatefulness but out of concern.

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......

Las night, I was surprised to see McCain cowering. He was utterly unable to look Obama in the eye. Oddly, he somehow managed to look both angry and ashamed. (No wonder he doesn???t want to go face to face with with an enemy. They would walk all over him, behaving as he does like a scared and embittered child.) Only one person displayed Presidential Dignity and Authority: Obama.

Hey, you, who signs yourself "Dead Journalism: Duh! Journalism isn't dead -- this is an EDITORIAL piece, an OPINION piece, you nincompoop! Apparently you don't know the difference between reporting and opinion writing. It is is REPORTING that journalists don't show preference or bias, and reflect all sides of an issue equally. But in editorializing, the very POINT is to give an opinion from one side or another. "Newsweek is HARDLY" some bastion of left-wing opinion; they give equal air time to both sides -- in editorials (aka, opinion pieces). Your ignorance is showing, silly. (Ohhhh... now I get it! You are a McCain/Palin voter -- for whom ignorance, a pathetic lack of knowledge, is something to be PROUD OF.)

Does anyone else laugh every time McCain calls OBAMA "not ready"?

If McCain truly believed that "experience" was an important quality for elected office, and if he truly put country before politics, he would not have chosen Palin for his running mate.

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".

Katie Couric didn???t ask particullarly difficult questions. It has been painful to watch Ms. Palin???s self-destruction, but this is serious business. Finally, someone who has the courage to state the obvious. However, I would take the point one step further. It is not just that Sarah Palin has apparently never thought deeply about anything outside of Wasilla, Alaska. I have reached the conclusion that her mental acuity is substantially limited. Frankly, she may be incapable of learning. The Palin choice alone, discredits John McCain???s candidacy.

Palin is under so-much pressure to be something that she is not, she is cracking. You can't cram a university degree and several years experience in Washington into anyone's head in a month. Nobody can do what Sarah Palin is attempting. Who cares if she's a quick study? A quick study would take about 4 years to catch up with anyone else on the ticket.

I would like to ask John McCain one question. Would Sarah Palin make a better President then Mitt Romney ???? No matter what you think of his politics, you have to admit the guy is smooth and you get an idea that he has the basics down. I would rather have this womens youngest daughter as President because I think she would be able to make better decisions. As far as McCain goes, don't replace Dopey with Grumpy !!!!!

Prejudice, prejudice, prejudice...not racial prejudice; just individual personal prejudice. This is why so many people suffer from self-inflicted blindness to sound reason. Very often, It is not because the truth of a matter is so complex. It's just that our own personal prejudices will not allow us to acknowledge many simple and obvious truths. For example: If I am fat and fully aware of that fact and I ask you do you think I am fat, why am I offendedwhen you sayyes? Sarah Palin is clearly not qualified to be vice president. I am not racist, sexist, elitist,or anyof the other labels you would hang on me. I simply speak the truth as I see it.