A N - and I would say to you that Palin was brought on board the Republican ticket to deflect the attention from John McCain’s inability to lead or to understand even the basics of the economy. Her experience is limited to one mayorship of a tiny town and a recent governship of a sparsely populate state and is flawed, contradictory, and filled with cronyism and possible corruption, (although she is trying hard to stall that investigation). On the other hand, Senator Obama (State Senator, U.S. Senator, Harvard Law School graduate, economic expert) gets it. When last weeks financial crisis peaked and panic started to set in on Wall Street, Senator Obama didn’t fly off the handle calling for the firing of anyone, he didn’t say “the economy is fundamentally strong”, he didn’t wrongly name the agencies. Barack Obama acted Presidential and surrounded himself with the right people for an open discussion about the crisis and the appropriate next steps. McCain and Palin went blah, blah, blah and made no sense. As usual. McCain is losing it. What are his qualifications? Oh, yes, he was one of the biggest backers of de-regulation!!! And, in his own words, McCain “doesn’t know much about the economy.” Palin is ambitious to the point of making Freudian slips (Palin/McCain ticket????), and as a writer in one of the Anchorage, Alaska newspapers discribed her as “all bluff and fluff.” Who needs that in the Vice Presidency? OBAMA/BIDEN -08!

Here’s a segment from Maurine Dowd’s column today: OBAMA The problem is we can’t appear angry. Bush called us the angry left. Did you see anyone in Denver who was angry? BARTLET Well … let me think. …We went to war against the wrong country, Osama bin Laden just celebrated his seventh anniversary of not being caught either dead or alive, my family’s less safe than it was eight years ago, we’ve lost trillions of dollars, millions of jobs, thousands of lives and we lost an entire city due to bad weather. So, you know … I’m a little angry. OBAMA What would you do? BARTLET GET ANGRIER! Call them liars, because that’s what they are. Sarah Palin didn’t say “thanks but no thanks” to the Bridge to Nowhere. She just said “Thanks.” You were raised by a single mother on food stamps — where does a guy with eight houses who was legacied into Annapolis get off calling you an elitist? And by the way, if you do nothing else, take that word back. Elite is a good word, it means well above average. I’d ask them what their problem is with excellence. While you’re at it, I want the word “patriot” back. McCain can say that the transcendent issue of our time is the spread of Islamic fanaticism or he can choose a running mate who doesn’t know the Bush doctrine from the Monroe Doctrine, but he can’t do both at the same time and call it patriotic. They have to lie — the truth isn’t their friend right now. Get angry. Mock them mercilessly; they’ve earned it. McCain decried agents of intolerance, then chose a running mate who had to ask if she was allowed to ban books from a public library. It’s not bad enough she thinks the planet Earth was created in six days 6,000 years ago complete with a man, a woman and a talking snake, she wants schools to teach the rest of our kids to deny geology, anthropology, archaeology and common sense too? It’s not bad enough she’s forcing her own daughter into a loveless marriage to a teenage hood, she wants the rest of us to guide our daughters in that direction too? It’s not enough that a woman shouldn’t have the right to choose, it should be the law of the land that she has to carry and deliver her rapist’s baby too? I don’t know whether or not Governor Palin has the tenacity of a pit bull, but I know for sure she’s got the qualifications of one. And you’re worried about seeming angry? You could eat their lunch, make them cry and tell their mamas about it and God himself would call it restrained. There are times when you are simply required to be impolite. There are times when condescension is called for!

Yeah, well. I’m thinking Palin is already aware of McCain’s own gender-bias and notorious sexism. It’ll be interesting to see how long she can take it before she cries “foul”.

Jill- “Is your intent to label all Christians as extremists” obviously she’s referring to the extremist wing-nuts….but am rather sick of hearing about religion & politics. We have a Constitutional, secular society….separation of church and state….and Palin is a whack-jon churchie. Good term. Real nut job stuff. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG1vPYbRB7k

No, just the whack-job churchies.