edit: “Your” use of camp (And I disagree with Sontag)

More I write, less I check out.

About your joke, “conejo” is in Spain also a nickname for the female sexual organ.

I would like to add that I have been turned off by all negativtiy surrounding her lately. I dont think she’s an idiot. I dont agree w/ any of her policies and as for the bad interviews i think her “handlers” are more to blame, because they kept her soo dang sequestered.

She is a smart women who has done a remarkable job in Alaska. However, it doesnt translate to the rest of the country because she is soo suprising uneducated on Foreign policy and doesnt have any experience with it to replace her lack of knowledge.

She also has allowed John McCain to prop her up as a symbol of progression on the women’s rights front when he has opposed and stood with people that oppose women’s right to equal pay for equal work. I would have liked Biden to note that if she is elected VP she will make roughly 14% less than he would just because she is a women.

showed a lower emotional IQ than Obama. That was clear in their debates. Obama is very smooth, where Clinton wasn’t. Additionally, clinton is a divisive figure. Obama did not carry the same baggage. Finally, clinton is more liberal that Obama with what she wants. Obama is more of a pragmatist.

I understand the generalizations you make about liberals, but keep in mind that along those same lines I could then bash you for denying science and lacking the basic knowledge as to what science is.

As for Palin, she’s not educated. She does not have experience and a few years as Governor and Mayor, before that, do not have her qualified in the experience. She has not shown curiosity about the world and have a VERY extreme religious view point on things.

I find the education worrisome, but that does not equate wisdom. I acknowledge that.

I find the lack of experience worrisome, but great people can certainly rise to the challenge when given the opportunity.

I find her extreme religious views and desire of creation to be a science to be incredibly bothersome and a large indication on how badly her education is lacking. I recognize that these views are differences of opinion, although the creation stance is ignorance. (The catholic church has stated that creation and evolution are not mutually exclusive, and frankly a lot of science helps support the concept of god.)

Mostly, I find her lack of curiosity incredibly worrisome. People may point to Abe Lincoln as a man without education, but he educated himself. He was curious about the world and asked questions. Palin does not. She works the crowds. THIS is what I find most concerning. Any democrat who was so poorly fit for office would be shot down or laughed at.

Those are my stances. Yes I’ve made up my mind because I’ve been paying attention to this for a while. I don’t think McCain would have done well with the economy, but I didn’t mind him either as I think he could have done some good. The acceptance of Palin, however, drove a dagger through McCAin and my likely hood to be okay accepting him as president. There is no way I’d vote for Palin for president and McCain will be the oldest president voted into office in history… a vote for him IS a vote for her.

BA in political science

Attended Harvard law

12 some years of teaching of constitutional Law. That right there is impressive, but it does lack real experience.

8 years as a state legislator… experience there

3 years in the senate… a bit short, but plenty of political and constitutional law background.

Compared to Palin:

BA in communication/journalism

6 years as mayor of a small town

2 years as governor

How does Palin have more experience or education than Obama?

I watched the debate at work. On the drive home, I was listenting to one of the many liberal talk-show hosts here in the Bay Area discuss the debate. He made a point with which I agreed, that both Palin and Biden would have been suicidal to come to the debate pretending to be someone they are not. I actually ended up liking both of them and thought they both did a great job, much better than either of their running mates did in the first presidential debate.

Typical of Palin bashers, callers to the show to which I was listening bashed Palin on her lipstick, the way she talked, and other superficial nonsense. They would have howled with rage if such criticisms had been directed against Hillary.

Yeah, Clinton was so brilliant that he expanded the Community Reinvestment Act that created the current subprime mortgage mess.

I wouldn’t have disagreed with you, jscot, if only you had accepted my request to be your mini-me.

on the experience issue is too funny to be believed.

the experience debate does not hit Obama. go look at his record vs Palin.

She has barely any experience as Governor, she was the Gov of the least populated state in the union and she has ZERO foreign policy experience. So little that most experienced GOP operatives are extremely mad about trying to even defend it.

Obama has been running a hugely successful, well run campaign for literally as long as she has been Governor. Before that she was a shady small town mayor.

To say that she has more experience of any kind than the other three candidates is foolish and completely disconnected from reality in every meaningful way.

It’s very hard for a senator or representative to get into the white house. It has partially to do with star power, and part to do with the nature of legislation (long, slow, boring arguments rather than the big, bold directives governors get to make). I don’t think Palin honestly has much of anything going for her other than her ability to get people already voting for McCain excited, which is pretty important, I’ll grant you. But in the reality of the situation, I kinda see a disaster looming behind her.

Being the governor of Alaska is like being the Prince of Saudia Arabia. Over 80% of the states’ revenue comes from oil. A single industry state with a population close to the size of Portland Metro.

I am qualified to be the coach of the Blazers due to my executive experience being the coach of a 7th grade basketball team.

… is there an issue more important to the long term economic health and security of this nation than energy?

Well, just outside it (Wheaton). But I went to school in DC, which was way inside the Beltway.

Even sat in the Speaker of the House’s chair (when I participated in DC’s Boys State). How I ever got elected for that remains on of my life’s great mysteries.

got it.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081002/ap_on_el_pr/palins_finances

He was an enginering officer on a nuclear powered Naval vessel.

when did she state , specifically how John McCain’s policies will differ from George Bush?

Sophia