The Palin Problem

bigdadred: Fox news is one of the only t.v. stations that tell the truth! Fox news is located in Chicago where Obama lives, they should be telling the truth about him! It's the other media that are bias, they won't tell the truth about Obama no mater what! Obama is the most inexperienced presidential candidate ever! Obama has the worst type of friends! Obama is not what this country needs as president not ever!

Vote McCain/Palin 2008

Here is the one thing I know and know for sure, when the media, (any media) don't like some one, I am voting for them... their just like the movie critic who said a movie is bad, usually thats the movie that wins an oscar! You guys and gals are so so bias

I do not see how she won the debate. That she did not fall apart is one thing, then again her expectations were set so low, and the mere fact that she was not as horrendous as she was during the Katie Couric interview was quite an improvement. Yet, she did not answer any questions, Palin was in another world separate from the one both the Biden and Gwen Ifill were. Had she answered any of the questions presented, i could see how she may have won the debate, but the fact remains that she answered nothing. How do you win a debate when you do not answer the questions presented?

On top of that, it was not a joe six pack put the relativity theory together, it was Einstein. So Einstein has a btter brain than most of us, he is an Elite and if you like Einstein you are an elistist.

American people thinking like that should re-check their sanity.

I still do not see why everyone is saying Sarah is not ready to be VP and Obama is ready to be president? Obama is the least qualified presidential candidate in history. It is only because of media bias and white guilt that he is even the nominee.
Why does the media report on the 6% who say they won't vote for him because he is black (these of his own party) and not report that something like 98% of blacks voted for him in the primaries. That is racism, just like the 6% is racism. But the media is so enamored with Obama and this chance to make history that they are stealing this election from either Hillary or John. When we let the media take over our political system we are in dire straights indeed.

I really do not understand Americans because how come they would want a joe six-pack managing the government? I would rather a person have much more knowledge and wise than me be in that seat otherwise, why we do not elect a football player as president and another one for the vice-president. (they are much more popular than these folks and can be much more populist)

Newsweek - I'm ashamed of you. You're printing an article with an obvious democratic leaning and trying to pass it off as hard news. This is an opinion piece and should be listed as such.

As far as the arguement that Sarah Palin isn't as experienced as John McCain and will take a few years to be good at being president, I think that point is much more seriously applied to the lack of experience of the democratic PRESIDENTIAL candidate.

Damn Straight, Dam from Alabam.
How could a former Senator from Illinois who became a one time senator in Washington, ever be Qualified to be a President of these here United States.
Except of course Abraham Lincoln>>> Who kicked your lilly white redneck ass some short while ago. Whats a fine white boy like you gonna do if one of them unqualified, (only because he's Black). Fellas becomes president? I suppose the south might rise again, or you could go to Alaska with the other good folk that are chosen by God and make a Redneck paradise while you wait for the rapture. Or you can stay in Alabama with a banjo on your rascist little knee.

Ye,Ye,Ye !!!
Sarah is right ! You are wrong, dead wrong ! Because your journalist are Obama's puppets and your paper is good only as a toilette paper !

Meacham makes the same mistake all 'intellectuals' make (right and left)--they dismiss Gov. Palin because they believe she is not as ???smart??? as they see themselves to be. News flash--if pundits and journalists like Meacham and Katie Couric are so smart, why aren't they governor of Alaska or running for Vice President? It is so easy these people to condemn leaders as ???not informed??? or ???not smart enough???, but much harder for them to understand that there are multiple kinds of intelligence. These ???other intelligences??? have been defty explained by Daniel Goleman in his book ???Emotional Intelligence??? and by Stephen Covey in his book ???The 8th Habit.??? In his rebuttal to Meacham, Karl Rove pointed out that these other areas are often more important than ???smarts.??? And, as Rove explained, Palin has many of them in truckloads.

danfromAlabam, Educate yourself before you post nionsense. African-americans always vote over 90% for the Democratic candidate This just might have something to do with the racist turn the Republican party took in the 70's. Didn't you sea that great sea of white faces during the republican convention. The African-American voting pattern is anti-racist; they vote sensibly against the party that took the wrong side on civil rights..

Palin is making us the laughingstock of the world. Check out the following article from the U.K. (The Guardian)....

It's about imagination -- moral imagination, which is the ability to put yourself in someone else's shoes. Palin says she can be an advocate for special needs children and their families, now that she has one of her own and can undertand the problems. My senator, Gordon Smith (R-OR), says he can understand the problem of depression now that his son committed suicide. That's good as far as it goes, but I want someone who can understand the other person's point fof view before they have a personal experience. Jon Meacham puts it this way: "Do we want leaders who are everyday folks, or leaders who understand everyday folks?" We want leaders who understand, who have moral imagination, and that is Barack Obama.