It's sometimes said "if you can't be a great example, you can at least be a terrible warning". In Palin's case I suspect she will be both.

I doubt either party will ever grant her the nomination again, but that's not to say Pat Robertson or one of his senior ideologues with deep pockets won't be crushin' on her and willing to lavish what would be alot of dough for ordinary folks on the her high maintenance and poor performance. Does anyone really believe that in the next 4 to 8 years she'll do anything except become more deeply entrenched in armor plating her naive perspectives and creating a foundation of crack-pots?

That human created CO2 is not the cause for concern with climate change is one thing, and might add, the ONLY thing I agree with Palin on and that doesn't alter my vehement distaster for all the rest of her perspectives. She's a tool of the oil companies that throught the auspices of governors and ah-hem "executives" and commissioners like her, keep the global markets unbalanced which in turn leads to price gouging...and that unstability is a huge threat, indeed possibly the greatest threat to the environment. When economies collapse the people retreat to their local resources for which the demand still exists (firewood, toilet paper and bush menat,if nothing else) and down go even more forest, coastlines, and watersources. The spiral continues downward at an accelerating pace and we're screwed long before rising sea levels make our ankles wet.

But really, can you imagine the president doing what she did in Alaska? Tax big oil and send the money to the citizens of the states? She talks out of ignorance and contradiction, from a position of fear-mongering and suspicion and creates an escheresque landscape of ever ascending stairways on which she and her accomplicies have a toll booth.

I look forward to many years of ludicrous BS as that cavalcade of comedy (were too worn out to cry) is the only show worth watching these days.

Always appreciate these perspectives, and politics being as complex and therefore essentially unpedictable when it comes to specifics, this was particularly enlightening and wryly amusing.

But politics aside, which canditate will be most conducive towards efforts to more fully integrate the emerging technology?

Considering the fact that she sees a conspiracy there are two or more apparent"non-believers" unless they're in jail, of course she's going to see every group larger than the number she can confortably deal with as a "riot". She's so delusional and frightened one would suspect she'll have to have her home "exorcised" tomorrow after halloween, what with all those demons and devils lurking around her doorway. Nice costume, Michelle. Witch or Inquisitor? The Abu Ghraib costume is scarey and in extremely poor taste too. Boo!

Bigotry is one of those words that's so filled with inferrence that it overwhelms the reason. It's defined in the immediate sense by the users themselves.

We can be sure that racists will be voting for Obama because some non-european Americans will be voting and they may have un-enlightened and politically weighted views on race too. Naturalized voters from Japan, India, Mexico, Nigeria...we are all inclined to have a cultural resonse to racial identities; our own and others.

I do get what you mean in this article, however, and I find it most interesting that Obama has resisted the expected fawning towards the black identity movement, doing a far better job of it than Al Gore ("the guy who picked Lieberman" as I like to call him), who managed to loose fair and square on his own terms last time he ran.

I wholeheartedly support Obama in this race for many reasons but I expect I will keep a critical eye on his administration just as I have in the previous ones and will assiduously avoid the easy explanation without insight, or the consensus of experts which I expect a leader to be able to see beyond.

He has my attention, if not my vote, because I live now in a state where every vote counts and Obama will be getting mine. But I listen very carefully to Nader and his assesment of the situation is refreshingly free of the input from corrupt sources. I know the die-hards love to blame him for Bush...funny,I thought sure they'd wake up and realize who it was that actually selected Lieberman, who still having a Senate job had no desire to see anything but reconcilliation and a return to his comfy seat on the aisle. Good judgement there, Al.

And thanks Ralph...without Bush we wouldn't have Obama.