I suspect that you wouldn’t be any happier with Sarah Palin had she answered the question about what she reads, saying she regularly reads the Alaska papers, National Review, The Weekly Standard, Commentary, The Wall Street Journal, Spectator and the Washington Times.
The papers you chose to “smear” her non reading with are all LIBERAL in context, and why would she suggest to anyone that she takes her cues from any of those papers….they are the very ones that have attempted to divest her of her dignity, her decency and her down to earth values. Values, I might add that are taboo with the eastern journalists and their ilk.
Ruth Karraker

I did vote for Clinton. It is easy to make a case that serving as governor can be good training to be president.

But serving as governor doesn’t bestow one with magical powers or anything that means you will be a good president or vice president for that matter.

And the reality is that she serves as the governor of a state whose population is smaller than many of our biggest cities. It is not that impressive.

I am sure that Palin knows more than she gets credit for, but that doesn’t change anything.She is not ready for a larger role.

I have a problem with her values. She had a pregnant teenage daughter and a child with special needs at home. I think that her family needs her more than we do.

She is not the reformer she claims to be. She abused the system with the use of her per diem and her questionable billing of the state for her children’s airfare.

She has a history of turning on those who helped her and savaging those who oppose her. Now those are probably things that are endemic to many politicians, but I find them problematic.

Her appointments to office are questionable. How does her friend Francie have the experience to run agriculture. She doesn’t.

When I factor those things in and see a woman who until recently has shown little to no interest to things outside her little world I am concerned.

When someone asks you to name some of the newspapers and magazines you read and you don’t come up with a single name, I am troubled.

Newsweek, Time, NY Times, Wapo. She could have named any of them, all of them. How hard is it to come up with a name.

Bottom line for me is that there are too many issues.

You are simply showing off your own ignorance, people, by insisting that Sarah Palin is that stupid. I would strongly advise you to click that link before commenting further on how dumb you think she is.

She has been subjected not to raucous and tough political opposition, but to vicious attacks that in some ways go beyond the stuff hurled at Bush, attacks that go far beyond the rough-and-tumble that a candidate has to expect in an open society.

I can’t put my finger on specifically what it about her that has provoked this frenzied hatred but I’m hoping someone will be able to before long.

A certain amount of the opprobrium slung at her is because of her religion. Such slingers would never think to say such things about, say, the Nation of Islam.

I like her, I thought she handled a difficult situation with class, and I will be watching with interest her future activities.

I am not saying that she was a Rhodes Scholar like Bill Clinton (say what you want about Bill, but he was smart, and there’s no arguing that). What I am saying is that there is no effing way she’s as stupid as that report makes her out to be, and that to believe that, you have to be a little stupid yourself.

I’m sorry. But that’s the way I feel about people who buy into crap like that. It’s like the suckers who pay for things like the psychic hotline. You have to be an idiot to think that you can call an 800 number and have someone read your future. And yet, people did believe that, to the tune of millions of dollars in fraudulent profits.

You can argue to me that Sarah Palin is not an intellectual. You can tell me that she isn’t a genius. But you cannot tell me that you think it’s true that she doesn’t know Africa is a continent, and not make me think you’re an idiot for believing that.

That is the point of my post. Sarah Palin is not an idiot. Anyone who thinks she is—well, now we’re getting into the place where I offend my readers, so I’ll stop.

I think you have mentioned that you graduated from Montclair State. Two of my degrees are from places you’ve never heard of and the law degree is from a place you’ve heard of, the University of Michigan, but U of M is, admittedly, a public college. So how well educated could either of us be?

During the vice-presidential debate in a mere ninety minutes Biden recited a history of Lebanon that bears no relationship to events, at least in this reality, mixed up the West Bank and Gaza, and misstated by a factor of seventeen our relative spending on Iraq and Afghanistan. To top it off, this constitutional authority couldn’t recall which article of the constitution established the vice-presidency and was wrong on what the office’s powers are.

If Palin had made any, let alone all, of these mistakes we’d still be hearing about it, just like we still hear about her wardrobe but not the $5.3 million temple set up for Obama’s acceptance speech.

As to elections, Jeff, I have been voting for president since 1972 and this was the first time I have not voted for a Democrat, although admittedly I was young in 1972 and among the sins I confess on Yom Kippur are two votes for Carter.

Michael, I’d say the Lugar-Obama Initiative was pretty important. But, you’ll probably say that it was all Lugar, and Obama did nothing and learned nothing from the experience.

Meryl, my apologies, it wasn’t that she didn’t know Africa was a continent. It’s that she was trying to get a little clarification on the difference between Africa the continent, and Africa the country.

“So, no, I think that if there are allegations based on questions or comments that I made in debate prep about Nafta, and about the continent versus the country when we talk about Africa there, then those were taken out of context,” Ms. Palin said.