The issue here is not about Obama as Mark is pointing out. What is wrong with a black man being at the White House? As much as you call Obama a Muslim or whatever other name you can come up with, the fact reamins that He is by far the better candidate for the Job!! The school of thought that Mark is advocating for belongs to the old ideologies that this world is trying to get rid of.

For Palin not to support Alaska's Energy Independence just puts alot of questions on their agenda in the white house. As we are looking fdor alternative energy source to curb the ever increasing Oil prices, someone or some people seem more than eager to continue yorking the ever vulnerable people to the slavery of Oil

The Saudi Royal family are members of the Islamic Faith

President Bush is a close friend to the Saudi Royal family.

What then (in your little mind) does that make President Bush?

… a "Muslim sympathizer" perhaps?

If McCain/Palin win the election, do you not think they won't become close friends of the Saudi's as well?

Its labels like "Muslim sympathizer" from the fear-mongering right that will cause

independent and swing voters to turn away from the same old BS from the GOP.

It’s true that there is a lot of trash in the media and that you cannot believe everything you see and hear in print and on TV. However, we must get our news from somewhere and we must get it from a variety of places to avoid biased reports. Palin can’t name a single place she gets her news from. When asked which publications she reads, she responded “all of them.” When Couric pressed her for specifics, she said “whatever is put in front of me.”

At least I can specify that I read Paul Krugman, Andrew Sullivan, Noam Chompsky, Bob Woodward, Fareed Zakaria, and that I watch MSNBC and CNN regularly. Anderson Cooper, Larry King, Keith Olberman, Tim Russert – rest in piece – and sadly, I also watch Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity – I like getting pissed off and throwing things at my TV, haha. I also watch Bill Maaher who has a littany of Democratic and Rublican guests, and I also read MANY MANY websites like this one. I listen to the words and opinions of many congressmen and congresswomen in both print and on the broadcast news. I don’t believe that you can tell me that I am ill informed, believe everything that I read and see, and that I have been fooled into disliking Palin as a candidate by a media that is out to get her.

I believe that I have made an informed choice. A choice on which I based research and countless hours watching her work her mojo on the political scene. I think that she is a good person but I believe that she is incredibly misguided. I agree with the person who said that all candidates are scary. Change is scary, etc. However, Palin is scary and unqualified. I rather vote for someone who is scary and qualified. In addition, Obama is not a muslim. And so what if he was? Not every Muslim is a bomber. Muslim does not equal bad. Mormon = bad. Haha, just kidding, Mormons. But seriously, as long as the president believes in separating church and state, I don’t care what religion he/she is. I’d just like to see a president that puts his/her religion aside and does not incorporate it into a system that is supposed to guarantee separation of church and state (Palin wants creationism to be taught in schools).

If you are scared of all the candidates, then at least vote for the ones that are scary AND intelligent. We can’t have another 8 years of Bush-onomics. Really, we can’t. We’ll be a third world nation by the time that’s over.

Now then, this article does not criticize Palin for not sending the LNG to the Baja facility. It criticizes her for having never considered it and for never once suggesting it as an option to explore. It would be one thing if she had explored the issue, and made an informed decision against it, but she didn’t (according to the report). Not even looking at the Baja coast facility and becoming informed about the option shows her ignorance of, or at least her reluctance to address, the national need for energy independence about which she is proclaiming to be so concerned.

I agree that as the Governor of Alaska, her main concern is not that of the lower 48 states. Her main concern is for Alaska. However, the bare minimum requirement for most jobs is simply filling the job description (concerning oneself with fulfilling oneself’s core duties) and one cannot be faulted for fulfilling one’s job description. However, a candidate for promotion generally goes beyond his/her core duties and shows a real concern and understanding for the needs of all those he/she, works with, interacts with, cooperates with, and lives with (as we, more so now than ever, practically live at our jobs).

It would be encouraging if a vice presidential candidate were to have some record of involvement with national issues on the national scene, not mention a few more years of experience. We cannot fault Palin for only fulfilling her job description but I believe we can find a candidate who does better than just filling their job description.

Palin professes that she is ready to make tough decisions, but she has no record whatsoever of making tough decisions. I’d like to see just one. Just one. I could interview for a job and claim uphill and down that I’m prepared for the job, but would I get hired ahead of someone else if I had a blank resume? Of course not. I need a record that exhibits the skills of which I am professing orally. Of course, Palin really does believe she is prepared despite her lackluster resume. She believes she is prepared because she has God on her side. God wouldn’t have brought her here if she wasn’t prepared for it. Speaking of which, where is God now that Palin is being embarrassed on a regular basis by by Katie Couric and Tina Fey? He’s really left Palin hanging. Yikes!! He’s a wiley one, that God. He’s just presenting her with challenges, I guess. God is always presenting challenges.

This is why Palin is scary. She’s as bad as Islamic Fundamentalists. When you invoke the name of God for everything you do or don’t do, it gives you no sense of personal responsibility for the decisions you make. No matter what you do, you believe you are doing God’s will, so you can therefore do no wrong. Well, unfortunately for the rest of us, you CAN do wrong. You can do VERY VERY WRONG. I don’t have a problem with faith or with God, I really don’t. I think that religion is a wonderful thing. But I also feel that decisions must be made with brains and the personal strength to use your brain properly should come from….well….whatever -God, Buddha, Allah, Jesus, the stars, the Earth, your bong, your family and friends, your f-ing self.

By the way, here is a website that shares all the Sarah Palin dirt to support Barack Obama!