Remember Obama ran UNOPPOSED for the US Senate. Repeat--UNOPPOSED!!!!

Palin ran against incumbents in ALL her races,and won.

Whose devoid of qualifications now Joe? Who?

She got under Bidens skin more then once in the debate and I think Biden was caught w/ 16 inaccuracies to Palins 1 or 2. I was a huge Biden supporter but asked for my money back when he endorsed the rookie Obama.

I'm a 58 year old independent who has never voted GOP in my life and when the knuckleheads in Iowa voted for this rookie Obama I said this will be the year I test my independence and vote for the most qualified candidate and it will be McCain/Palin.

At that time I began asking for anyone to tell me, for my education, what this Obama had done to qualify to be the President. Well I get Inspirational, 80% of the peole think we're on the wrong track, he'll talk to people, racist and confetti, but NOBODY can give me signicant accomplishments. So tell me why they/you are so queer for this guy who hasn't anything in his quiver but a history of super radical and crooked acquaintances. You all know he doesn't run his own campaign, correct?

I noticed last week Bill Richardson & Lanny Davis were both asked what Obamas accomplishments are and NEITHER could answer this SIMPLE question, because there are no accomplishments.

Palin in more qualified then Obama by 10 (TEN) years and that's a fact JOE.

Bill Clinton said, on camera-No right wing bullshit-3 weeks ago. 'If you have 2 candidates & one you agree w/ 100% but he can't get anything approved & the 2nd you agree w/ 50% of what he says but he CAN get them accomplished then you really have to think hard about who'll you vote for." Bill Clinton, 9/08.

I'm voting for McCain because he does have a history of getting things done, reaching across the isle, budget cutting, no matter what lies Obama and company are saying.

I ask you this. Did you hate McCain 2 years ago? Is it just you really, really want to put this neophyte into the White House, and at this time, that has you all so hateful towards these people with real accomplishments? Write down a list for yourself about what qualifications Obama has to make you all so hateful towards truly accomplished people. See if you can get even ONE significant accomplishment for Obama, then start to examine what your true motives are. Go ahead, there are no accomplishments so it won't take long.

I continue to be astounded by two things:

-The continued pounding on Sarah Palin. She obviously represents some sort of threat that has you folks worried.

-The total absence of anything substantive that actually promotes Obama for President. This is true, not only on Salon, but even in his own speeches. Can anyone provide information that qualifies Obama to be President? Can anyone layout a description of his proposals to deal with the financial insolvency of the US government or the invasion of the country by illegal aliens? What are the specifics of his energy program? Please no generalities about solar and wind. They simply don`t generate the BTU`s to do the job.

Salon is read by people of obvious intelligence and education. How about employing some of that to go beyond condescension to Ms Palin and unquestioning fealty to BO?

...they want an old political hack like Joe Biden who lied 15 times during the debate. Maybe Joe Conason could write about each individual lie. We caught him on Roosevelt's debut on tv in 1929.

Conason doesn't really answer the question why the Republicans have been nominating for vice president such obviously unqualified candidates. Spiro Agnew was another. I think it has to do with their view of government--they don't believe in it. Since they expect so little, the only quality in a candidate they care about is electability. Palin is fine, if she attacts votes. Whether she is qualified to lead the nation is irrelevant.

In the last two elections they put foward (and won with) a person, Bush, who I believe was really quite unqualified to be a serious presidential leader--but a great front man.

Ironically, the vice president, Cheney, is quite qualified, and has a good grasp of the issues--although not in the policy direction most of us agree with. But he has been effective, one must say.

I am not a Republican but I come from a long line of them. Just yesterday I was complaining loudly to friends about exactly this -- the pushing forward of unqualified candidates because of some sense of "popular" appeal. I am angry -- and not just because, as a woman, Sarah Palin embarrasses me. She does not further the cause of women, she furthers the cause of dumb people. I know that's wrong to say, but there it is. The woman is inarticulate, socially incurious, stubborn and weak. All the qualities a woman could bring to the national dialog -- wisdom, compassion, empathic insight -- are absent from this woman. (Yes, I am particularly sensitive to the shooting wolves from helicopters approval.) But more than any of this, I am angry that I have been left out of "Main Street USA" -- the notion that the voters who matter, those who must be pandered to, are some subset of dumb-ass yokel living far from either coast is insulting to me, and frankly, should be to those very DAYs. I am a 46 year old working woman, single, shuckin' and jivin' for the man like the rest of us, paying my bills. And I don't count. Apparently due to high SAT scores, a Boston-based education, and work that doesn't require totin' and liftin'. But enough about me. We are becoming a nation of straw people, all bluster and no content. After 8 years of the quintessential "no content" leader, we are asked to swallow the same empty calories, in a bright pink package. Enough. I want leaders who are strong, articulate, thoughtful, curious and capable. Not someone who is "just like me." If I wanted to be president, I would run. I don't need pals in the White House, I need leaders.