You’re kidding, right? Even Republicans are cringing at her ignorance. How can you think someone that can’t even tell you where she gets her news is qualified to be VP?

I’d be scared if I weren’t so certain that your guy is gonna get crushed.

She also showed that she has a plan to get things done. Palin reminded us that she’s fought corruption and greed, and she will do it again. What we shoudn’t do is look backwards. We should look forwards and not blink.”

I guess I’m not so easily impressed. Anyone can get up there and show enthusiasm, say they’re on a mission, and speak into the camera with a familiarity and informality (a folksiness, if you will).

Why is this enough for some of my fellow Americans? If I was hiring someone to run a company I owned, the one selected for the job would be the most impressive candidate, would not just shine in one quality but would bring forth a multifaceted competency.

What accounts for this low-standards phenomenon? Is the medium the message (since it is on TV it must be entertainment)? Is it that in the age of television we have a fundamental need to be entertained?

Is it our belief that “anything is possible”, so we want to see a nobody become somebody overnight, a six year old become a Harvard doctor by the second grade?

Is it an American optimism taken too far? Optimism to the point of stupidity. Everything will be OK. It doesn’t matter who is president, any mistakes are fixable. It isn’t as if Palin could tell off Putin during talks and trigger war and a nuclear holocaust. That’s not possible.

And how is her “no blinking” motto is not frightening to everyone? Don’t blink? Don’t give serious matters grave thought? Just react right away and damn the consequences? Is this not the main quality separating immaturity from maturity, stupidity from wisdom? Did you know that a famous insane and immoral warmonger’s motto was to “never hesitate”(Napoleon)?

It’s time to grow up Americans!

911 made you serious for a few months.

What is going to take to make you a more serious people permanently?

Will it really take the downfall of America as we know it to accomplish that?

She also showed that she has a plan to get things done. Palin reminded us that she’s fought corruption and greed, and she will do it again. What we shoudn’t do is look backwards. We should look forwards and not blink.

THANK YOU JACK!!!! For stating the obvious. I don’t understand how sooo many people scrutinize this woman for her lack of experience but no one will dare make such a statement of democrat presidential nominee Obama. It is inappropriate to say anything along the lines of Obama NOT being fit/ready/prepared/adequate for the presidential office in our mainstream media. Yet Somehow McCain is the laughing stock because of his DECADES of work for the American people (its all just a “ha ha ha” that man is old). For McCain his age should reflect his years of military service, his years in public office, and wisdom along with his LIFE experience & knowledge of all the “inner workings” of Washington.
On a side note: yes I am democrat and yes I will vote REPUBLICAN because of the candidates policies, their past legislation, their experience and their stance on important issues such as abortion and so forth. And no I am not the typical republican white, middle class, protestant, conservative voter. I am a liberal 20 year old Californian first generation Latin immigrant citizen and a catholic who is yearning to see McCain WIN the war (not forfeit) and who would be proud to see Palin as VP.
I will not come back to this website again (just because I don’t care to see what trash people might post concerning this) so I will say in my defense:
*My brother is in the military (for over a year he was stationed in Baghdad/Sadar City) is currently stop-loss and is serving an extra year and eight months as I type in Afghanistan (he too will vote for the best candidate: McCain).
And
*I am a college student who is tired of being chastised for my support of McCain. Last time I checked this is the USA and there are some basic rights given to its citizens and I have the freedom to choose a candidate as I see fit & you do to. (let me add that the most recent time my father voted there was a number of people at the voting location who insulted (in more than one way), condemned, disparaged, criticized, mocked and belittled him for being Republican ~when did this become acceptable in such a modern world?)
All that there is left to say is that when all is said and done it will a majority of American people who will decide… and majority rules.

I find it hypocritical that the Palin camp expects the media and her opponent to treat her with respect (or kid gloves better said) and certainly they should not be condescending and then she goes and pulls the gender drenched “take the naught man to task” (with a smug “I can get you but can’t get me” smile) card a number of times last night. YUCK!

If she does not have the strength(s) to just be a candidate taking the goods and the bads coming at her then as they say, “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.”

Of course this is not even getting into her qualifications to be VP and perhaps even the President; now that I think of it this won’t take long because they are scant at best. It blows my mind that Palin was even put before us a viable choice – it is insulting. All I can think of is she would be a VP with training wheels. Can we afford, at this very tenuous time in our history, to have a possible President who is so unprepared. Think about the doctor analogy – would you want a first (even third) year med student doing delicate brain surgery on a member of your family. Not me!

The debate was unfair. Ifill threw it to Biden. The liberal media is out to get Palin.

Palin is a barracuda. She is a barracuda AND a bulldog. Or rather pitbull.

When she’s a fish, she wears doesn’t wear lipstick. When she’s a canine, she does.

I don’t know if she wears bracelets. Maybe.

I’m glad you enjoy it too. I was just telling my wife last night how much fun it is making you look like a dunce.

Her response was that I might also like shooting fish in a barrel.

I don’t think that these people are necessarily out of touch. I think that most of these folks realize how the majority may succumb again to certain appearances and rely on their personal preferences to pick their candidates–which criteria need not capture the essential qualities of a good president. But just because such criteria have determined the winner time and time again does not mean that this is the norm or the only “reality.” We need to distinguish between what’s empirically the case and a reality that is being missed. Yes, it is very likely that the majority may be wrong again in this election. But just because some people resent that doesn’t mean that they are out of touch.

Gwen Ifill was biased against Palin. You might as well of had Jeremiah Wright moderating the debate.
Posted by Archie B

Your kidding right?
Why is it that some people on the right play this game of “the media got me”, “poor me”… because after 8 years of the worse presidency since Caligula the only thing people like yourself can do is play the victim card.

Pathetic, just so sad and pathetic.

Gwen Ifill was biased against Palin. You might as well of had Jeremiah Wright moderating the debate.
Posted by Archie B

Your kidding right?
Why us it that some people on the right play this game of “the media got me”, “poor me”… because after 8 years of the worse presidency since Caligula the only thing people like yourself can do is play the victim card.

Pathetic, just so sad and pathetic.

But that’s just anecdotal. There is no getting around the fact, as I mentioned above, that places like Massachusetts are politically and culturally very different from the rest of the country. The fact that Alabama has pockets of professors or Massachusetts has pockets of right-wingers doesn’t change that.

And, as I said earlier, the fact that many people in the liberal, politically-coddled NPR audience ARE out-of-touch with the rest of the country is clearly evidenced by all the postings we’ve seen in this an other threads by people saying that they are amazed or dumbfounded by people who support candidates on the basis of who they want to have a beer with, or who is most similar to them culturally or because of their religion, etc. All you have to do is read the comments in this and other threads and you’ll see dozens of such postings.

My comments that have gotten Michael so apoplectic (it’s fun and easy to get Michael apoplectic ) are really directed at the liberals here who have no clue how the rest of the US thinks so they’re astounded that Sarah Palin is so popular. In reality there is nothing astounding about it.

Biden has done nothing but sit in Washington for the last 30+ years. He has no clue about what goes on outside the Beltway.

Gwen Ifill was biased against Palin. You might as well of had Jeremiah Wright moderating the debate.

Biden sounded presidential and he won because at least he answered the questions.

Palin said some scary things such as she wanted to make the Vice President’s position stronger. Stronger than Dick Cheney’s tenure? Is she kidding me?

Watch out this woman is dangerous and she is not dumb or stupid. She has no intellectual curiosity and her ideas on Iran, which are McCain’s should scare every person in this country. Why? Because you can’t bomb Iran, they would light up the entire middle east in a matter of days. They can muster a million men into their military.
Iran is emerging as the new super power in the Middle East.

Mr. Nelson I live in Boston and I’m not a professor.
Most of my friends are artist or . My neighbors are policemen, city workers, electrician’s, plumbers, in short middle class people. I suspect a few are professor’s as well.

There is a guy up the block from me who has a McCain/Palin bumper sticker on his car.
I’m an independent who is fiscally conservative and liberal on social issues. It’s not so black and white.

Michael Brown is right you do come across as acting like your smarter than everyone else or just very insecure.
I always find it interesting how many times you have to remind people that your an ‘engineer’, as if that mattered in the context of this forum.

I don’t believe this. This guy is a right wing troll trying to discourage real debate here.

If you’re really interested in what the trends are, go to http://www.realclearpolitics.com/polls/

Then go and look at the battleground states and do your own map here
http://www.270towin.com/

McCain has a huge uphill battle.

Again Peter, you’re full of it.

Nice try at right wing BS, but the point is that you said that Boston and the east coast elite – and by association you – are smarter than the rest of us. To quote “They do not realize how very different the US is from the liberal, academic, educated confines of places like Boston where the show originates.”

I took objection to the “academic, educated confines of places like Boston where the show originates,” and you can’t defend that. Those of us that have spent our lives outside of Boston, and are very educated and academic, know you’re full of it, so your best course is to admit you’re being arrogant and move on.

I never disagreed that most of the country was “culturally different” from Boston. What I said was that the intellectual horsepower of this country is not constrained to Boston and the Northeast and you’re arrogant for suggesting otherwise. And I posted facts to substantiate it. These things are indisputable.

And do you remember how I DESTROYED you in the debates over cellulose based ethanol and Wall Street culpability in the mortgage meltdown? Well, here we go again. You start telling everyone on this board what they should be doing differently WHEN YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT!!

Have you ever considered shutting up and listening for awhile?