McCain's VP choice irresponsible?

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McCain's VP choice irresponsible?
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Mon, 09-29-2008 - 10:30pm

What do you think aboutr Zakaria's comments on Palin?

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Registered: 09-15-2008
Tue, 09-30-2008 - 12:57am
i agree with him. sometimes i think
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Tue, 09-30-2008 - 2:41am

Well, naturally.

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Registered: 07-05-2006
Tue, 09-30-2008 - 7:41am

What else would you expect coming from CNN and

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Registered: 08-15-2008
Tue, 09-30-2008 - 12:05pm

Well, naturally.

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Registered: 01-31-2001
Tue, 09-30-2008 - 12:25pm

I won't speak to your point about her qualifications, I think she is very inexperienced as well, but Sarah Palin does not think the world is 6000 years old. The only quote I've seen from her regarding the age of fossils (not the earth, but fossils) was that her father (a science teacher) used to show them fossils at the dining room table and ask them how old they thought it was and they would debate amongst themselves and discuss all the theories (this was during her gubernatorial race here in Alaska, when she was talking about creationism in the science classroom). She is a smart individual, raised by two school teachers, and to call her "ignorant" is a baseless, personal attack without demonstrable merit.

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Tue, 09-30-2008 - 12:56pm

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Registered: 09-11-2007
Tue, 09-30-2008 - 1:01pm

I'm not sure it's entirely without merit.


Soon after Sarah Palin was elected mayor of the foothill town of Wasilla, Alaska, she startled a local music teacher by insisting in casual conversation that men and dinosaurs coexisted on an Earth created 6,000 years ago -- about 65 million years after scientists say most dinosaurs became extinct -- the teacher said.



After conducting a college band and watching Palin deliver a commencement address to a small group of home-schooled students in June 1997, Wasilla resident Philip Munger said, he asked the young mayor about her religious beliefs.


Palin told him that "dinosaurs and humans walked the Earth at the same time," Munger said. When he asked her about prehistoric fossils and tracks dating back millions of years, Palin said "she had seen pictures of human footprints inside the tracks," recalled Munger, who teaches music at the University of Alaska in Anchorage and has regularly criticized Palin in recent years on his liberal political blog, called Progressive Alaska.


The idea of a "young Earth" -- that God created the Earth about 6,000 years ago, and dinosaurs and humans coexisted early on -- is a popular strain of creationism.


http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-palinreligion28-2008sep28,0,3643718.story?track=rss


Granted it is from the LA times.and the teacher is a liberal. Just more food for thought.....not saying this is the absolute truth. Gave me something to think about.

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Registered: 03-30-2005
Tue, 09-30-2008 - 1:29pm

i don't think fareed was out of line, and i certainly do agree with him that sarah palin is NOT ready to be VP.

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Registered: 01-31-2001
Tue, 09-30-2008 - 1:43pm

Ah, but that "local music teacher" is also a Democratic political activist. The only people I've heard make this claim are people with an agenda, hence, why I question their "recollection" from over 10 years ago.

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Tue, 09-30-2008 - 1:51pm

"Smart" and "Ambitious" are two totally different things. I don't think Sarah Palin is very smart, politically speaking, but I do think she is VERY ambitious.


John McCain definitely messed up with this VP pick.


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