Sarah Palin: The Most Unqualified Candidate Of The 2008 Election

It just keeps pouring in [via NYTimes]:

A growing number of voters have concluded that Senator John McCain’s running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, is not qualified to be vice president, weighing down the Republican ticket in the last days of the campaign, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.

All told, 59 percent of voters surveyed said Ms. Palin was not prepared for the job, up nine percentage points since the beginning of the month. Nearly a third of voters polled said the vice-presidential selection would be a major factor influencing their vote for president, and those voters broadly favor Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee.

And in a possible indication that the choice of Ms. Palin has hurt Mr. McCain’s image, voters said they had much more confidence in Mr. Obama to pick qualified people for his administration than they did in Mr. McCain…

The increase in the number of voters who said Ms. Palin was not prepared was driven almost entirely by Republicans and independents.. Over all, views of Ms. Palin were apparently shaped more by ideology and party than by gender. Ms. Palin was viewed as unprepared for the job by about 6 in 10 men and women alike. But 8 in 10 Democrats viewed her as unprepared, as well as more than 6 in 10 independents and 3 in 10 Republicans.

And she’s supposed to be the new vision of the Republican Party? Are they trying to pick up on the Democratic tradition of losing all major national elections? Regardless, the national ticket for the Republican party is a sinking like a stone.

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See Also: The Palin Poison, George Will gets it, New Poll: Palin Pick a Disaster for McCain, Path to the White House, Keep This In Mind, Is Palin Here to Stay?, Palin Not Ready, She’s still my homegirl, With friends like this, and Who Will Run The GOP?

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Preacher

From Geek Tyrant comes the news that Sam Mendes (of American Beauty fame) will be directing a new movie based on Preacher, which is one of the most twisted and awesome comic book series I have ever read. This has got me all fluttered and twitterpated, are you ladies as wet as I am?

5 Year Old Secret Communists

“Because he knows that his economic theories don’t work, he’s been spending these last few days calling me every name in the book. Lately, he’s called me a socialist for wanting to rollback the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, so we can finally give tax relief to the middle class. I don’t know what’s next. By the end of the week he’ll be accusing me of being a secret communist because I shared my toys in kindergarten.”

— Barack Obama, Campaigning in Raleigh, North Carolina

See Also: The Economist Endorses Obama, Trashes McCain, The Real McCain, Election Day 2008 Whine and Sheesh Party, A Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches for Everyone, Krauthammer: Obama + Pelosi + Reid + Frank =ECONOMIC DANGER FOR AMERICA, Obama’s American Socialism: Decades In The Making, Video: Barack Obama ridicules John McCain on Socialism charges, Communist Barack Hussein Obama indoctrinates underage Aryan children with hypnotic black liberation terrorist fist jabs of Socialism, Socialism at Work…Obama style, Proof of Obama’s Socialism, What’s wrong with redistributing the wealth?, Socialism watch: How progressive do we have to get?, and Socialism is the New Black.

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Jihad on Christians!

Jihad on Christians! You are all bumbling malcontents that should find other outlets for your lack of education and discontent with modern capitalist excess! Blaming homosexuals for your problems is no way to go through life! Take some responsibility in life and realize that you are a product of economic misfortune and ignorance!

Jihad on your backwards beliefs! Jihad on believing in some 2000 year old Jew zombie who suffered from mental delusion! Jihad on believing in ancient fairy tales because you are too weak and stupid to grapple with reality!

[Inspiration: 70,000 Christians To Gather In San Diego To Pray Away Gay Rights and Christian Fanatics Pray Before Bull On Wall Street For Better Economic Times]

That’s What She Said

I was a step ahead (though I had actually written the post about 2 weeks ago) in writing that the United States, NATO, and Afghani government should pursue diplomatic talks with the Taliban. And lo and behold, in today’s New York Times, Afghanistan Tests Waters for Overture to Taliban:

The Afghan government and its allies in the region have begun approaching the Taliban and other insurgent groups with new intensity to test the possibilities for eventual peace talks, Western diplomats and Afghan officials here say.

The diplomatic approaches have been stepped up over the last several months by the Afghan government, as well as by Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, the officials said. They are part of a broad political effort to stem the downward spiral of violence in Afghanistan and the steep decline of public support for the government during a year that has proved to be the bloodiest of the past seven.

Security has deteriorated to the point that a growing chorus of Western diplomats, NATO commanders and Afghans has begun to argue that the insurgency cannot be defeated solely by military means. Some officials in Kabul contend that the war against the insurgents cannot be won and are calling for negotiations.

It should be noted, however, that negotiations will not solve Afghanistan’s problems on the whole — I see the continued allegiance to the Taliban as symptomatic, rather than the cause of, the failed Afghani state and the lack of serious development and infrastructural progress. And I personally think that the long-term solution towards eradicating groups like the Taliban is in the form of short-term stability, long-term development.

See Also: Journalist embeds with the Taliban, Bing West can’t handle the truth, Some Background on the Karzai-Taliban Talks, Will More US Troops Really Help in Afghanistan?, IRAN: No Afghan peace without Tehran, Return of the Talib (& Why Neither McCain, nor Obama, “Get it”), Defense Transformation in the Post-Rumsfeld Era, and Afghanistan: Security Continues to Decline in Kabul.

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