Palin is just plain cartoonish. “Say it ain’t so, Joe.” What a line. I heard so many 1920’s colloquilisms from Palin, I thought I would have invite my 95 year old grandma over to interpret for me. And the way she just dismissed questions. What is this lady like in the real world? I can see it now…

Palin: “I’m not going to answer that question.”

Department of Motor Vehicles Employee: “Ma’am, please, we just need to know if you want to be an organ donor or not.”

Palin: “Oh, yeah, right, so the mainstream ‘gotcha’ media can tell you what you just heard!”

DMV Employee: “Ma’am, I have no idea what you’re talking about. Do you want to be an organ donor or not?”

Palin: “I talk taxes want about.”

DMV Employee: sigh… “Ma’am, do you know what an ‘organ donor’ is?”

Palin: “Could you repeat the question?”

DMV Employee: “DO YOU KNOW WHAT AN OOORGAN DOOONOR IS?”

Palin: “I believe organ donor is to rid this world of terrorism.”

But I digress…

Obama’s resume is a little light for a would-be president. I’ll grant that. But at least he comes off like he’s intelligent, wise, patient, scolarly, witty, and statesmanly. At least that’s a good place to start. Palin’s resume on the other hand, is distubingly light. It is so light, gravity does not affect it. It is so thin, it is translucent. It is two dimensional. It’s a joke.

Carole, If you think Obama is dangerous, my advise to you would be to wear a helmet.

JMJ

Obama’s resume is thin at best and Hillary’s was practically non-existent, but that doesn’t meant they would not make good Presidents (there are other reasons I feel that way about them). Joe Biden has difficulty putting two truthful accurate sentences back to back. This is a man who was driven from his first Presidential run by PLAGIARIZING when talking about his own life. So don’t talk about what a wonderful candidate he is. Sarah Palin is not a complete moron as she has been caricatured. I find it especially amusing that many of these celebrities and reporters who denigrate her intelligence probably have less of an education than she does. It doesn’t take a college degree to become a news reporter or even an anchor and many don’t have one.

“Sometimes a duck is just….a duck.

I have two points:

The Palin interviews were designed to show her in a bad light. First, she received extreme treatment from both Gibson and Couric. I wouldn’t even have noticed, if not for having seen so many interviews done by the MSM where they ask a politician a question, the answer would not even relate to the question but be a pontification on something else important to the pol….and then my jaw would drop when the interviewer would….let it slide! Never ever have I seen any of them insist THREE TIMES that the pol answer more than they did. This was quite a stunning tell of the lack of respect they held for her- along with the scowling looks they gave her - compared to the pass they give others. Second, the editing that was done, according to many reports of what was left out, clearly skewed one’s impressions of her answers. As someone in the communication media, I am surprised you would fall for that. REGARDLESS of her true coherency, or knowledge, on all subjects, their obvious agenda driven manipulation in both cases negates any possiblility of accurate impressions on both counts.

And then, I wonder why you used the term ‘manipulator’ about her ‘charm’? There are people in this world who just are charming and gifted communicators by nature. Why do you have to shade that with something sinister? Maybe a duck is just a duck here.

In total, I resist the attempts by everyone who is the slightest bit uncomfortable by who she is, to put her in some ‘box’, so they can write her off as insignificant. Why is it that there is not room at the table for every kind of personality? Why must people vilify those of us who are not in lock step defined by society’s artificial parameters of what a person must be?

I find Ms. Palin delightful in her difference, and even more delightful in her comfort WITH said differences. That is not that I worship at her feet, and feel she is the saviour of world! I do find it telling that, the same characteristics in Obama are lauded, while in Palin, they are excoriated.”

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Oddly, j, l totally agree with something you just said…paraphrased .”.. I honestly believe his supporters are suffering severe cognitive dissonance and are truly and deeply fooling only themselves … You can believe this man is qualified to be president of the Uinted States if you like, and you can also believe in the Spaghetti Monster.”

To believe Obama is in ANY WAY qualified to be POTUS is JUST as wrong headed as you claim anyone supporting Palin is, with one difference; It is more DANGEROUS to put a man of his OBVIOUS socialist beliefs with his UTTERLY naive and inexplicable take on foreign policy in the seat of SO MUCH POWER, than it is to put Palin a heart beat away.

Please. This whole line of argument is totally beneath you, j. You are more intelligent than that. I can’t imagine why anyone with your intelligence would vote for such a man.

And before you ‘partisan up’ on me, know this….I look at all the nominated candidates in stunned disbelief and say ‘Is this the BEST America has to offer for our executive branch?.

Frankly, if I didn’t believe in God, I’d be putting pencils in my eyes at this point….

And I honestly believe her supporters are suffering severe cognitive dissonance and are truly and deeply fooling only themselves - this includes our good host. You can believe this woman is qualified to be president of the Uinted States - and that qualification is the only qualification for a vice-president - if you like, and you can also believe in the Spaghetti Monster. If you don’t believe me, ask George Will, Kathleen Parker, David Brooks, Charles Krauthammer… see what they say.

JMJ

JMJ