after doing some reading and watching this morning, i think we need to stop focussing on sarah's attitude. it doesnt matter if she is phony, deluded, or condescending.

it DOES matter that she lied about darfur (she was AGAINST alaskan divestment).

tbat she left the tiny town of wasilla 20 million in debt (can that possibly be true? can someone respond to that for me?).

she knows the obama-ayers tie is bullsh*t, but americans eat it up - democratic pubdit's opinions aside.

i guess we could just start there, really.

"Neither can his mind be thought to be in tune, whose words do jar; nor his reason in frame, whose sentence is preposterous."

ok, i just found a transcript of th debate.

i couldnt find ANYWHERE that gwen called sarah dear, and when i watched it i didnt hear dear, and my friend i watched it with, doesnt remember dear.

so. was that a total republican fabrication? my god. it is all too effed up.

last night, for the first time, i saw the "pickens plan" ad. asked the bf (a republican in libertarian clothing), who t boone pickens is. he said he didnt know. i said "you cant guess? because i can." i said i bet he is some guy with rights to offshore drilling. and we broke out the computer.

t boone is the head of BP Capital and tho he, on one side of his mouth, is all about alternative energy....

on july 22 of this year he told wolf b to "take the west coast, take the east coast, take anwr, take it all."

and on october 3, he and sarah palin met to "get to work."

i dont care anymore about her winking! i care about why are these things NOT being talked about??

please discuss!

So, why didn't Gwen ask Sarah Palin about her views on the age of the earth and creationism? Why is it that in America, someone being interviewed for a job as a bus driver gets tougher questions than a Vice Presidential candidate? Where's their urine test? Why aren't they given a real exam, like in university, on their general knowledge -- and the results published? It's astounding the Presidency could conceivably be handed to someone like Palin, who, in defiance (or utter ignorance more likely) of the most basic principles and discoveries of science, somehow believes that the earth is 6500 years old and that evolution is just a "theory"?

Here's one question Gwen should have asked, "Governor Palin, how do you spell the word potato?".

Answer, "However I like Gwin, we're maveracks!". (sic)

wink, wink, kiss, kiss...

Great post. It's largely about economics and education, which have been both gutted by those who call themselves Republicans nowadays.

Regarding the rapture, most alleged Christians don't believe in God and Jesus. You can see it when they get sick: they run to the doctor. If they believed that there's a better life awaiting them and all you need are their magic words to guarantee that, they'd run to the other way. They'd run to the grave. And they'd certainly run from the grave, for Jesus didn't just assert that he was the word, but the way and his way was poverty and service.

Feminazies-- Salonistas will never be able to understand why conservatives are not disgusted at Palin anymore than conservatives can understand why Salonistas are not disgusted about abortion. Sanity and insanity cannot agree. One cannot reason with the mad.

For one who claims to preach the politics of reality, you have surprisingly few realistic arguments and a lot of ad homonym attacks. Just because you saw a John McCain ad accusing Obama of thinking he's the Messiah doesn't mean he does or that most of his supporters do. I could agree with you that our education system and culture has been dumbed down somewhat, but I'm afraid that as far as education is concerned it started before the events you're talking about with the death of rote, which is still used in most European countries.

If you are a realist, the facts are that there is more social mobility, less poverty, and more education in democracies that are center-left rather than center-right (or pure right-wing as America is threatening to become if the Republicans win again), that socialized health care is cheaper, more equitable, and more efficient than private insurance, and that historically Democrats are better for the economy, for our civil liberties, and for our credibility and credit.

It was Ronald Reagan who created the national debt and George Bush I and II who have allowed it to expand. It is conservatives who are trying to take funding away from education and liberals and moderates who are trying to preserve it. It is Republicans who are always the last to accept scientific truth, whether that be evolution or climate change, and it is the Republicans who blindly follow the leadership of a conglomerate of special interests and theocrats.

Obama is a politician of reality. He knows what needs to be done and if you read his policies instead of watching Fox News you would understand that. He does what he thinks best for the country rather than for his own prospects.

John McCain is a politician of politics, who will do what it takes to get elected, and he has proven this by choosing an unqualified and incompetent VP candidate, putting the country at risk. More than 1 in 5 of our Presidents has died in office, and none have been as old as John McCain. By making this choice he has proven that he would rather risk President Sarah Palin, a woman who denies that the causes of climate change are important and thinks we can drill our way out of the energy crisis, and win the election than preserve our country and our planet if it means he has to lose. The only reality McCain sees is that this is his last chance to be President.

There is no teleological argument for plutocracy, nor for false populism. The purpose of power is not aggrandizing itself but to further the common good and to protect the rights of all. If humanity has a purpose, it is not to fight amongst ourselves until we establish an unbreakable hierarchy but to move forward in our knowledge, our culture, our acceptance of each other, and our willingness to help those who cannot help themselves. Please change your name next time. Your arguments are as teleological as they are relevant.

I'm afraid I'm not a hippie child and you, sir, are an utterly ridiculous ideologue.