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There are several things that scare me about McCain.
(1)His combination age and problems with cancer.
(2)He is so wealthy and out of touch, he doesn't know what most Americans are going through. How can anyone who doesn't know how many houses(7)or cars(13) he owns, and thinks our economy is basically strong, possibly resolve those problems?
(3)Since the primaries started, he's claimed to be both an insider and an outsider. He claimed his 26yrs in Washington made him the only candidate with the prerequisite experience to be president. Now he's claiming to be an outsider, a maverick and an agent of change, although his voting record with Bush is over 90%.
(4)He's so deep in bed with corp America, their lobbyist are running his campaign. When the gov't seized Fannie Mae, they discovered his campaign mgr's been receiving 15K a month from Fannie Mae since 2005 . Fannie Mae exec's admitted they kept him on the payroll because of his close association with John McCain. Do you think they would have continued paying him if he wasn't getting the results they wanted with McCain? Do we really want a wolf in the hen house.
(5)He selected a VP he's only met once, didn't spend a sec checking her out, and for reasons that doesn't put this country's welfare first.
(6)He's perfectly willing to use a women to get elected even though she's totally unqualified, has serious ethics issues(under investigation abuse of power)and has some radical religious views. I guess he got plenty of practice when he dumped his former wife Carol, who had become as invalid as a result of a serious car accident. He neglected and played around on her until he met Cindy, his wealthy cash cow current wife. With Cindy's money, and her wealthy fathers political influence, he launched his political career by running for congress. As wealthy as McCain is, his former wife's medical expenses and support is provided by Ross Parot, not McCain.
(6)With Palins radical religious views, I wonder what she would do if she suddenly became president and had to deal with the 2 wars and our current financial and energy crisis? After reaching the Peter Principle, would she just throw her hands up and declare that it's GODS WILL? While talking to a Muslim or Jewish leader, would she tell them their's nothing the US can do for them because the problems they're facing is GODS WILL? How can we put anyone in the White House who's idea of foreign policy experience is field dressing a moose in close proximity to Russia?

Why McBush is out of touch? >>>> Boomerang Effect" currently bedeviling John McCain's presidential bid: "First, McCain chastises Obama for committing a sin that he himself has committed. Then Obama points this out, distracting voters from his own foibles and refocusing the spotlight on McCain. For Obama, the impact of the attack is immediately negated. But for McCain it's doubled: he ends up looking both a) guilty of whatever he accused Obama of and b) totally hypocritical."
My major example was McCain's attacks on Obama for associating with former Fannie Mae CEO Jim Johnson. The problem? McCain's own campaign is swarming with 26 advisers or fundraisers who have lobbied or are currently lobbying for Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac--including campaign manager Rick Davis.

DB-your outburst shows you're trying so hard to be a republican, you've lost the ability to think rationally. Even though I'm against abortion, I know what one chooses to believe often has little to do with reality. My intelligence, common sense and cognizant reasoning ability allows me to realize that making abortion illegal won't stop women from having abortions. It just makes the act illegal rather than legal. Sarah Palins belief in abstinence and no sex education in the curriculum didn't stop her 17yr old unwed daughter from getting pregnant. Neither has any of those beliefs prevented Alaska from being one of the leading states, per capita, in STD's, teen pregnancy, illiteracy and birth defects.

Cocaine and marijuana are illigal, but both are abundant and people are using both on a very large scale, illegally. Making an item or an act illegal doesn't eliminate the item or the act. Common sense alone should make that clear. At least young girls are no longer bleeding to death or dying from infections caused by illegal abortions. The graphic scenes you described will still be repeated all over this country if Roe v Wade is reversed because women desperate pregnant women will resort to illegal abortions. The difference being, under Roe v Wade, women don't have to risk suffering post operative trauma, due to the use of crude techniques, or infections due to unsanitary conditions. Prior to Roe v wade, these problems were far too often the result of self induced abortions. Instead of being subjected to daily news accounts of fetus being found in dumsters, on high school and college campuses or buried in backyards etc, they are disposed of humanely.

There's and old saying: AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION IS WORTH A POUND OF CURE. The first step in bringing that old saying into fruition is SEX EDUCATION, especially in the schools. It won't eliminate the problem, but do any of you really think Alaska, or Palin's daughter, would be any worse off if it was taught in the schools. Maybe if Palins daughter had received sex education as a part of her schools curriculum, or at home instead of from her soccer playing boyfriend, maybe she wouldn't be 5 months pregnant.

Your all right on!...I mean who could possibly support someone who is against a womans (if that what you all call them today)right to have their Dr. pull their little babys out of the womb, legs first, with the head still inside and then stab the skull with a knife and place a vaccum into the head and suck the brains out. You little Liberal Democratic Obama's -- Go Get Palin!(she's not a real woman)...and get her kids too!

Sarah Palin is a religious zealot and doesn't belong in the White House. She claims to be against government interference in the lives of citizens. Yet, Palin wants the government to reverse Roe v Wade and impose her prolife views on everyone by taking away a womans right to choose. She, and religious zealots like her, want the government to force educational institutions to teach creatism because her religious views won't allow her to accept evolution.

George Bush's blatant lies have caused enough social, political and economic problems in this country. Sarah Palin has proven to be Bush's equal when it comes to lying.

(1)She's lying about her original position on the bridge to nowhere.

(2)She's lying about her original position on mans involvement in the cause of global warming.

(3)She's lying about her opposition to accepting earmark money. This yr alone as governor, her earmark requests are 10 times greater than that requested by Obama's home state of Illinois. And Illinois' population is more than 12 times greater than the population of Alaska.

(4)She's lying about being against government waste and spending. She took over as mayor of a town with a population of 9000 and a zero budget deficit. When she left office, she left the community with a 22 million dollar buget eficit.

She's not qualified emotionally, psychologically, professionally, experience wise or ethically to hold the VP position. She does, however, seem to have the perfect qualifications to be a republican.

smbenchi is 100% right, I would be still unemplyed if I would have Sarah's attitude on my job interviews. Ultimately she in an arrogant way is refusing to take her job interview seriously with her future employer - us the peaople

Food for thought. During the RNC, Palin, before she went into political hiding, McCain and the republican party made fun of Obama's work as a community organizer and tried to turn it into something embarrassing.

She was chosen in part because she's suppose to be such a religious person, and gives McCain a shot at securing the evangelical vote. The republican party has gone to great lengths to align itself with religious leaders and groups.

Wouldn't you think that at least one of these so called religious minded individuals or groups would have appreciated, and made known to the Sarah, McCain and the republican party, that JESUS CHRIST WAS ALSO A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER AND ACTIVIST, AND PONTIUS PILATE WAS A GOVERNOR.

Exactly what does that say about how far they will go to get votes?

Man, some excellent responses and ideas have been expressed so far. Palin is a radical individual with some radical and conflicting ideas. There is one thing that she tries to hide that stands out to me. When it comes to CREATIONISM VS EVOLUTION, she tries to hide her true self by pretending to be openminded and supportive of open dialogue on the two subjects. Yet, the same Sarah Palin, as mayor, organizes a book burning party in order to distroy books with content she and her followers didn't agree with. She even fired the librarian when she refused to go along with her efforts. The librarian was eventually reinstated after the towns people started a recall petition to have Palin removed as mayor.

This is the two faced, vindictive, radical minded Sarah Palin the republicans are trying to hide from voter and media acrutity, at least until after the election.

WHY CAN'T SHE JUST EAT HER WAFFLE?

This is all very backwards to me. Anyone running for public office is supposed be a servant of the people. She, McCain, Obama, & Biden are essentially asking the American people for jobs. So I think she's the one who needs to show deference - and she needs to show deference to the American people.

This is all very backwards to me. Anyone running for public office is supposed be a servant of the people. She, McCain, Obama, & Biden are essentially asking the American people for jobs. So I think she's the one who needs to show deference - and she needs to show deference to the American people.

This is all very backwards to me. Anyone running for public office is supposed be a servant of the people. She, McCain, Obama, & Biden are essentially asking the American people for jobs. So I think she's the one who needs to show deference - and she needs to show deference to the American people.

Talk about being elitist.

Squall - great point! They really are trying to take away everyone's rights!
Freedom of speech,
Women's right to choose, freedom of religion and lifestyle...
I'm wondering how many people will be forced to register for the draft and be sent off to fight in a pointless war because mccain "would rather lose an election than lose a war"????
More men will die for McCain's ego.

As far as I'm concerned, from what I read in this article, If McCain-Palin get into office, I have a feeling they will attempt to restrict the freedom of the press and freedom of speech. Seems to me they are afraid of the media, afraid of people speaking out against them. I also hope when Charlie Gibson does interview Palin, he confronts her on this very issue because it seems to me she is afraid of the media.

It is extremely co-dependent to make it seem like it is OUR fault that she cannot interview or talk to the media. This is an excellent way to shift blame and buy time while they try to get her up to speed on things because they know that if they let her out now she'll crash and burn from ignorance.

Is this the type of government the American people will elect to power? People who hide, shift blame, lie and avoid confrontation? Are there people that stupid to buy that crap?? If so, we are doomed.

Palin is a political prostitute. She is being exploited by McCain as political arm candy and she’s standing there with that plastic smile AND she is allowing it!!!

How sexist is it that a group of men are dictating when and where she CAN speak!??!?! They are about to put a woman in the driver's seat of power but then coddling her and hiding her as if she isn't strong enough to handle media because they are not being "fair." Nuh-no...she's a pitbull, remember? You wouldn't do THAT to a man running for office, would you? And the media are the misogynists, really? McCain's campaign is perpetuating the idea that women should be seen and not heard. Why can’t she speak for herself? Well probably because she hasn’t been given that script yet. As soon as she rehearses the speech a MAN has prepared for her, we’ll see her on the news. She is regurgitating things THOSE MEN have told her to say! How is that empowering for her or other women?? ANY woman who believes she stands for "girl power" or women's empowerment is clearly still suffering from the same Stepford Wife syndrome Palin is.

If she cannot handle the press attention of a high profile occupation or a TV interview then she cannot handle the leaders of Korea, the Middle East, or Russia. One must conclude she is NOT prepared to be responsible for running the country, either.

Ask her about the alleged blatant RACIAL SLUR comment she made about Obama beating Clinton.

Dear Charles Gibson and ABC news,

Please ask Sarah Palin some of these questions.

1) You have been skeptical that global warming is caused by humans.
On what basis do you reject the scientific consensus that fossil fuels
and human activity have contributed to climate change ?

2) You asked the librarian in your town about the policy for banning books.
Are there books you think should be kept from the public?

3) You have claimed credit for killing the "bridge to nowhere" the 398 million
link between Ketchikan and Gravina Island. Didn't you first support it until
it was clear Congress was not willing to pay for it and then you changed your
mind and to be against it?

4) You have said students should be allowed to "debate both sides" of evolution.
Should creationism be taught alongside evolution in public schools?
Do you believe in evolution?

5) What would you do differently than the Bush administration in fighting terrorists
in Afghanistan and Pakistan?

6) Your opponents claim you and John McCain would just extend the Bush
administration for another four years. Cite Three instances in which you have
differed with President Bush.

7) When you began as mayor of Wasilla was a town with zero debt. When you left
the office of mayor of Wasilla did you leave the town in debt of over $22 million
dollars? Was that $22 million of indebtedness for infrastructure or for a sports
complex?

8) Did you charge the state of Alaska per diem charges for 312 nights spent in your
own home while you were governor of Alaska and these per diem allowances were
intended to cover expenses while traveling on state business?

9) Did your husband and daughter charge the state of Alaska over $43,000.00
dollars in travel expenses in the 19 months you were governor?

10) While you were under investigation for abuse of power, you admitted that more
than two dozen contacts were made between your staff and family to a person that
you later fired, pressuring him to fire your ex-brother-in-law.
Why did you apply so much pressure to fire your ex-brother in law?
Why did you fire your ex-brother-in-law's boss?

11) Did you ever support Alaska succeeding from the United States ? If so how long
ago did you support it?

12) Did you refer to the Iraq war as "God's Plan" while speaking
at your Pentecostal church in Wasallia?

13) Choose from the inaccurate facts she said in her VP nomination acceptance speech
from your own ABC website at ...
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Conventions/story?id=5726571&page=1

"Are you, or have you at any time ever been, a member of the Alaskan Independence Party?"

The first reporter to ask her that question will end up flipping hamburgers for the rest of his life.

If Republicans can only take the pressure when treated with 'deference', how do they expect to stand up to someone like Nikita Kruschev?