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• Tuesday, September 2, 2008 08:09 PM

  Despite what the McCain campaign insists

  this election is about issues, not personalities. Democrats who waste time on Palin are doing the bidding of the Republicans.

  It is fatuously self-indulgent to spill ink over Palin. McCain would be dangerous in office. Roe v. Wade is history if he is elected. The economy is heading into a recession that will last 12 to 18 months. The real unemployment rate is around 14%. The consumer is shopped out, debt laden and uninsured, all so that a few rich people can get richer.

  McCain would increase the likelihood of a terminal nuclear war by following the Bush administration's steadfast determination to antagonize Russia, install destabilizing missile systems in Russia's backyard and reverse decades of arms limitation talks in favor of a new arms race.

  Add to that the Republican contempt for science, which includes hostility to stem cell research, evolution (not a matter of scientific debate at the level of molecular biology), and climate research.

  I have omitted the assault on civil liberties such as the freedom of assembly.

  No one has offered a convincing argument that Palin-tology deserves more than a fraction of the attention it currently receives.

  —Xlp Thlplylp Read Xlp Thlplylp's other letters
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