1. Ask her why she was demeaning about the Community Service Work Obama did with CHURCHES in Chicago -- does she think it is better to be a politician than to work with poor people with churches?

2. Ask her how many time zones away from Alaska Moscow is (according to Susan Eisenhower -- the answer is 10 time zones. Between Alaska and Moscow -- it is mostly frozen land)

3. Ask her what magazines she reads regularly -- The Economist? Newsweek? Time? Field & Stream?

4. Ask her if she believes Jews are persecuted because they will not convert to Christianity

5. Ask her what priority narco-terrorism should currently have in our international foreign policy

6. Ask her the difference between a Sunni and a Shiite Muslim.

7. Ask her "who rules/owns Kashmir?" (This is a trick question!)

8. Ask her what a Druze is

9. Ask her what a Sikh is

10. Ask her to tell you the title of the leader of the world's Orthodox Greeks and title of the leader of the Lebanese Maronites

11. Ask her to tell you who her favorite "Founding Father"

12. Ask her to tell you what she thinks about the 1964 Civil Rights act -- and to describe it

13. Ask her whether we should have invaded Iraq

14. Ask her what we should do about the "two Chinas"

15. Ask her her opinion of the upcoming nuclear pact with India

16. Ask her who the new Pakistani President is and whether she thinks he was the best choice

17. Ask her who the Secretary General of the UN is and whether she thinks he is better than the previous one -- hmmm, what was his name?

18. Ask her whether the UN Security Council should be expanded -- and to tell you which new countries she would add

19. Ask her why she does not consider the Obama/Lugar Bill about loose nukes in Russia to be a major bi-partisan piece of legislation

20. Ask her whether she wrote ANY part of the speech she gave at the RNC -- and if she did -- what part

21 Ask her if she thinks Reconstruction was successful in helping heal the wounds of the country after the Civil War or not

22. Ask her if she thinks Woodrow Wilson was correct to put so much emphasis on getting the US to support the League of Nations

23. Ask her which New Deal Program she liked the most and which New Deal Program she thinks we could have done without

24. Ask her why the US is so behind the rest of the world in our broadband developement.

I have NO idea how in the heck Sarah Palin can even THINK about being Vice-President of the United States with a 4 month old special needs baby, a pregnant teen who is about to marry a teen-age boy and 3 other children.

I am sorry, but that is my opinion.

And I am SICK of everyone -- feminists and hypocritical right wing women telling me it is sexist of me to say so.

Mothering is HARD. Under all circumstances. Even if you have Mary Poppins and her "spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down" and even if Mr. Rogers is the Daddy to make sure you always have a "beautiful day in the neighborhood!"

The requirements of corporate American are surreal and ridiculous. The demands of helping to run the most powerful country in the world are insane. I didn't make these rules; they were here long before I came along. And, DC is known for having a family-killing life-style.

Can Palin do it? Of course. Will she and her children have to make compromises? YES, they will. How will it turn out -- in the horrifying chance the country is crazy enough to elect McCain/Palin? Who knows? But it is not sexist for some of us who have been through it, in much less pressured circumstances, to give our honest opinions.

PS: I would feel the same way about a Democratic woman. But I GUARANTEE you, if a Democratic woman in these same circumstances were running for Vice President, the right wing would be calling Social Services!

Did you notice that I mentioned a "Daddy" in what I wrote? Jeez.

I was speaking as a mother. Not as a father. And giving my opinion. So, SUE ME -- I think mothers are special to newborns and to teen-age daughters about to give birth and about to get married -- no matter how vital Dads can be.

In any case, if Obama had 5 kids, one of which was a newborn special needs child and one of which was a teen in crisis (I'm sorry, as the mother of a 17 year old, I consider an unwanted pregnancy and an early marriage between teens a crisis), I would consider it odd for HIM to be running for one of the highest offices in the US.

Finally, if you bothered to read what wrote, I said that DC is a "family-killing" town. Todd will have incredible duties of his own as the husband of the Vice-President. All of this also assumes that McCain doesn't die and Palin doesn't become President...