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25 Nov 2010, 8:14 pm

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I would hate to have a President that was not smarter than me or the average 12 year old. She would be the start rapid implosion of America.

So let me get this straight toddlers are smarter than you?

Seriously, she did Graduate from College with a degree in Journalism. How she speaks is a result of the local accent. You know how people from one part of the country speak differently from people in another part of the country.

Or, perhaps she's not the sharpest crayon in the box.

Sarah Palin: 'We Gotta Stand With Our North Korean Allies'

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26 Nov 2010, 3:31 am

I'm not american and in the last months I barely read newspapers, but I would feel like I was in a science fiction if Palin could beat Obama.
I think that his health services reform is an improvement of civilization.
Maybe he isn't strong enough to reform financial markets, but I don't want to make pathetic comparisons with my country... feel proud of Obama, please...

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26 Nov 2010, 3:45 am

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Trust me claudia, I truly am. And I'm proud of my country to have been able to put aside a history of troubled race relations in order to elect a Black man.

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26 Nov 2010, 5:16 am

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claudia wrote:

Trust me claudia, I truly am. And I'm proud of my country to have been able to put aside a history of troubled race relations in order to elect a Black man.

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Now that Obama's race has been addressed (and dismissed) we can get directly to his incompetence as an executive. Palin had more executive experience than the Senator from Illinois prior to the 2008 election.

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26 Nov 2010, 5:46 am

ruveyn wrote:

Kraichgauer wrote:

claudia wrote:

Trust me claudia, I truly am. And I'm proud of my country to have been able to put aside a history of troubled race relations in order to elect a Black man.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Now that Obama's races has been addressed (and dismissed) we can get directly to his incompetence as an executive. Palin had more executive experience than the Senator from Illinois prior to the 2008 election.

ruveyn

She had been the governor of a cultural and geographic backwater, which would quickly collapse without government aid, regardless of all that Alaskan talk about rugged individualism. Regardless of her experience in Alaska, we have it straight from McCain's people that Palin lacked sufficient intellect to be a heart beat away from the presidency, and that she had no real interest in learning anything about foreign or domestic policy. And her hated rival in Alaska, Senator Murkowski, had said Palin's lack of intellectual curiosity makes her unfit to be president. All she ever did was bark jingoistic rhetoric about restoring America's greatness that was popular with the rightist populist crowd.
Another plug for Obama: no one can argue that he doesn't have a gigantic brain inside his cranium. That alone will make be choose him over that Wassila hillbilly every time.

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26 Nov 2010, 1:16 pm

number5 wrote:

Inuyasha wrote:

Todesking wrote:

I would hate to have a President that was not smarter than me or the average 12 year old. She would be the start rapid implosion of America.

Or, perhaps she's not the sharpest crayon in the box.

Sarah Palin: 'We Gotta Stand With Our North Korean Allies'

Don't you ever say something stupid that you correct yourself over? That isn't a sign that she's stupid that's just a sign she had a gaffe and said the wrong thing.

@ Kraichgauer

Were these the same staff people that came up with the phony story about McCain having an affair with a lobbyist?

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27 Nov 2010, 8:41 pm

First of all, the chances that Sarah Palin could win the Republican nomination for president is slim to none. the republican party may be stupid, but they're not that stupid.

Second of all, her approval rating among most Americans is fairly low, and in the polls I've seen, in a potential matchup against obama, has obama winning. the only reason people have this illusion that she's so popular is because of the media attention and the fact that she's a publicity hound.

Finally, at the risk of sounding like an "elitist," she does strike me as a bit of an idiot and intellectually unfit to be president. I mean, I'm not the brightest tool in the shed either, but I expect more from a president than from myself.

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27 Nov 2010, 9:10 pm

Obama and his team have done some good things, but it is next to impossible to overcome the inertia of the way things are done in Washington. Hopefully some of the good things he's done will bear fruit before the 2012 elections. I'm still glad I voted for him. What made my vote essential was when McCain picked Palin as his running mate. I used to like McCain, but that decided me against him for sure. I wasn't inclined to vote Republican. In my adult voting life since the early 1980s the Republicans have usually been against my moral principles, being the party that repeatedly demonstrated more short-sighted greed, ignorance, and religious fanaticism than the Democrats. However, I had great respect for McCain, and if any Republican were to ever get my vote it might have been him except for Palin.

I fear for our country and for humanity if Palin becomes President. She is a proven idiot who quit before her term was over. It would be a step towards America becoming a theocracy or idiocracy. On the other hand, De Maistre and many others have said each nation gets the government it deserves. According to some polls nearly half the adults in this country question whether or not humans share common ancestry with other living things. That's just as stupid and just as wrong as if half the adults were to insist the earth is flat in spite of all evidence to the contrary, so maybe we deserve Palin.

Granted, most people who deny the fact of evolution do so because they have been lied to about it. What they deny is a strawman caricature, not the fact. I hope that some of those who were lied to would be open to the truth if the multiple lines of evidence for evolution were clearly explained to them. Certain religious denominations are chiefly responsible for the lies being spread, which is especially ironic because one of the Commandments they hold so dear says to not bear false witness. Hypocrites! Those dang humans!

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27 Nov 2010, 9:56 pm

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Obama and his team have done some good things, but it is next to impossible to overcome the inertia of the way things are done in Washington. Hopefully some of the good things he's done will bear fruit before the 2012 elections. I'm still glad I voted for him,. What made my vote essential was when McCain picked Palin as his running mate. I used to like McCain, but that decided me against him for sure. I wasn't inclined to vote Republican. In my adult voting life since the early 1980s the Republicans have usually been against my moral principles, being the party that repeatedly demonstrated more short-sighted greed, ignorance, and religious fanaticism than the Democrats. However, I had great respect for McCain, and if any Republican were to ever get my vote it might have been him except for Palin.

I fear for our country and for humanity if Palin becomes President. She is a proven idiot who quit before her term was over. It would be a step towards America becoming a theocracy or idiocracy. On the other hand, De Maistre and many others have said each nation gets the government it deserves. According to some polls nearly half the adults in this country question whether or not humans share common ancestry with other living things. That's just as stupid and just as wrong as if half the adults were to insist the earth is flat in spite of all evidence to the contrary, so maybe we deserve Palin.

Granted, most people who deny the fact of evolution do so because they have been lied to about it. What they deny is a strawman caricature, not the fact. I hope that some of those who were lied to would be open to the truth if the multiple lines of evidence for evolution were clearly explained to them. Certain religious denominations are chiefly responsible for the lies being spread, which is especially ironic because one of the Commandments they hold so dear says to not bear false witness. Hypocrites! Those dang humans!

My daughter's God Father used to be a McCain Republican, till this last election. When McCain chose Palin for his running mate was my friend's turning point, and for the first time in his life voted Democrat. He now feels McCain has betrayed everything he used to represent.

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28 Nov 2010, 1:12 am

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That woman is out of her mind! Barbara Bush was right to scathe her. Sarah Palin hasn't been in government for very long and she's considering a run for president in 2012. That's creepy!

She's buying her own press from the tea baggers.

or drinking her own koolaid.

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28 Nov 2010, 1:22 am

auntblabby wrote:

Kraichgauer wrote:

DeVoTeE wrote:

That woman is out of her mind! Barbara Bush was right to scathe her. Sarah Palin hasn't been in government for very long and she's considering a run for president in 2012. That's creepy!

She's buying her own press from the tea baggers.

or drinking her own koolaid.

Or maybe you are the one drinking the kool aid. Last I checked Palin's ideas have been completely reasonable.

Secure our borders, get spending under control, stop alienating our allies, and stop trying to appease lunatics like Chavez. I fail to see how any of those are stupid.

Obama on the other hand has tried to encourage even more illegal migration into the US.

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28 Nov 2010, 3:21 am

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Or maybe you are the one drinking the kool aid.

pissing contest pot calling the kettle black topic.

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28 Nov 2010, 5:44 am

Well realisticly, she quit in the middle of her 1st term as govenor in alaska to "reload" and run for president.
That was political suicide. Remember Ross Perot, who ran twice, gained more ground than any independant in recent history, and then quit in the middle of his campain. When he ran again, the press jumped all over him for being a quitter and how a quitter is not fit for president.

She has demonstrated that she does not have strategic thinking while having poor impulse control...a very bad combination for the one calling the shots. If she does win, we will likely plummet into a depression because she does not have the strategic skills needed to control her own life, let alone controling a faltering economy.

I am not saying that she cant win...nothing would surprise me nowdays, but it is unlikely. If however, by some act of insanity, that folks vote her in, it will be to our demise. Too much is at stake right now to vote in someone who is that unpredictable. I dont think she is totally stupid, I just think she is not president material.

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28 Nov 2010, 9:44 am

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Obama and his team have done some good things, but it is next to impossible to overcome the inertia of the way things are done in Washington. Hopefully some of the good things he's done will bear fruit before the 2012 elections. I'm still glad I voted for him,. What made my vote essential was when McCain picked Palin as his running mate. I used to like McCain, but that decided me against him for sure. I wasn't inclined to vote Republican. In my adult voting life since the early 1980s the Republicans have usually been against my moral principles, being the party that repeatedly demonstrated more short-sighted greed, ignorance, and religious fanaticism than the Democrats. However, I had great respect for McCain, and if any Republican were to ever get my vote it might have been him except for Palin.

I fear for our country and for humanity if Palin becomes President. She is a proven idiot who quit before her term was over. It would be a step towards America becoming a theocracy or idiocracy. On the other hand, De Maistre and many others have said each nation gets the government it deserves. According to some polls nearly half the adults in this country question whether or not humans share common ancestry with other living things. That's just as stupid and just as wrong as if half the adults were to insist the earth is flat in spite of all evidence to the contrary, so maybe we deserve Palin.

Granted, most people who deny the fact of evolution do so because they have been lied to about it. What they deny is a strawman caricature, not the fact. I hope that some of those who were lied to would be open to the truth if the multiple lines of evidence for evolution were clearly explained to them. Certain religious denominations are chiefly responsible for the lies being spread, which is especially ironic because one of the Commandments they hold so dear says to not bear false witness. Hypocrites! Those dang humans!

It really is sad, what's become of McCain. I didn't always agree with him, but I respected him and could see some common ground. He could have possibly gotten my vote back in the day, but now there's no way. I find his flip-flopping on gays in the military to be particularly annoying. His wife even did a PSA on teens and acceptance of homosexuality, while standing by her man on blocking the repeal of DADT. Sad, very sad.

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28 Nov 2010, 11:19 am

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Kraichgauer wrote:

TheBicyclingGuitarist wrote:

Obama and his team have done some good things, but it is next to impossible to overcome the inertia of the way things are done in Washington. Hopefully some of the good things he's done will bear fruit before the 2012 elections. I'm still glad I voted for him,. What made my vote essential was when McCain picked Palin as his running mate. I used to like McCain, but that decided me against him for sure. I wasn't inclined to vote Republican. In my adult voting life since the early 1980s the Republicans have usually been against my moral principles, being the party that repeatedly demonstrated more short-sighted greed, ignorance, and religious fanaticism than the Democrats. However, I had great respect for McCain, and if any Republican were to ever get my vote it might have been him except for Palin.

I fear for our country and for humanity if Palin becomes President. She is a proven idiot who quit before her term was over. It would be a step towards America becoming a theocracy or idiocracy. On the other hand, De Maistre and many others have said each nation gets the government it deserves. According to some polls nearly half the adults in this country question whether or not humans share common ancestry with other living things. That's just as stupid and just as wrong as if half the adults were to insist the earth is flat in spite of all evidence to the contrary, so maybe we deserve Palin.

Granted, most people who deny the fact of evolution do so because they have been lied to about it. What they deny is a strawman caricature, not the fact. I hope that some of those who were lied to would be open to the truth if the multiple lines of evidence for evolution were clearly explained to them. Certain religious denominations are chiefly responsible for the lies being spread, which is especially ironic because one of the Commandments they hold so dear says to not bear false witness. Hypocrites! Those dang humans!

The homosexual service in the military is another matter which has soured my friend to him. And a major reason why he has finally left the Republican party.

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28 Nov 2010, 12:13 pm

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She resigned due to all the junk lawsuits, which left her a half a million dollars in debt and in addition to that she resigned so a new law could go into effect that would prevent the lawsuit harassment from being able to be used again. She had to resign so that this could be put in place without appearing to be corrupt.

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She has demonstrated that she does not have strategic thinking while having poor impulse control...a very bad combination for the one calling the shots. If she does win, we will likely plummet into a depression because she does not have the strategic skills needed to control her own life, let alone controling a faltering economy.

If it were any other politician I would agree, but someone with her track record I wouldn't count her out. She also couldn't do any worse that the "annointed one."

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I am not saying that she cant win...nothing would surprise me nowdays, but it is unlikely. If however, by some act of insanity, that folks vote her in, it will be to our demise. Too much is at stake right now to vote in someone who is that unpredictable. I dont think she is totally stupid, I just think she is not president material.

They thought the same thing about Reagan and that Carter would easily win re-election. Didn't Reagan beat Carter so badly he pretty much took every state but Carter's home state.

Edit: Adding additional comments.

Furthermore we keep seeing attacks on her kids, and people will continue to be more and more sympathetic to her and angry at the left.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-shepp ... behar-show

Calling her daughter a hooker for instance.

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