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• Saturday, August 30, 2008 08:42 AM

  @dennisvillasana, Obama does have regognizable experience

  NOBODY is ever qualified to be president when they are elected. Some also fail to attain that qualification afterwards - see the current occupant as reference.

  Obama's campaign has organized people from all over the USA to work for his election. It has been run with military precision. His 21st century management skills are very apparent.

  Millions of people have already voted for him in primaries. He has also, for the most part, deftly brought together a party that had the potential to be split by negative campaigning.

  Palin, however, in her entire career, has received less than 115,000 votes.

  I am not happy with a number of Obama's positions (FISA comes immediately to mind) but as someone else said, he's the best we have.

  I will vote for him, because the alternative is too destructive. I am certain that he will bring transparency, expertise and integrity to the presidency.

  As I noted in comments on Joan Walsh's statement regarding "what Sarah Palin means", McCain made a cynical, pandering attempt to pull votes from women who supported Hillary Clinton.

  McCain is pimping Palin for the woman's vote, and the fact that she is naive enough to let him do it shows that neither of them are qualified for executive office.

  Do you really believe that if Obama had chosen Hillary Clinton as his running mate, McCain would have chosen Palin? McCain's choice is all about political poker, nothing more.

  Voting against Hillary wasn't sexist by default; voting against Palin isn't a vote for misogyny.

  There are very valid reasons not to vote for Palin that have nothing to do with her being female.

  We are about to find out just how intelligent the American electorate really is. If the red-state rednecks and fundamentalists manage to put McCain in the White House, the shaky wall between church and state will come crashing down and the ensuing "Christian Republic" will make Iran look like Disney World.

  —vaporland Read vaporland's other letters
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