Your diary, and incendiary positions like it, is the reason McCain/Palin are rising in the polls.

Palin should just be left alone. First, by focusing on her your giving McCain less emphasis and second, by attacking her in this manner your just galvanizing Republicans in general and Independent women in support of her.

Yeah, well, that's all well and good I guess. Unless your Check or Georgian.

I agree although I would caution that even the state polls tell a very conflicted pictures.

The little poll watcher widget in the top right of the MyDD home page tells us McCain is winning, RCP tells us their pretty much tied, and electoral vote has Obama in the lead (because of Florida, otherwise they'd be the same as RCP).

I think it will go down to the wire like all the other elections.

So you want to let it be, 'peace in our time and all that', is that what your saying?

I am sure that will sell well in Ohio.

I think it's a bad idea diplomatically.

I think it's a smart position politically. No one in the Obama camp will argue against this and it will make Palin seem tough.

Yes, and anyone who makes that position has no home of ever becoming president (or vice president).

A sovereign nation with a democratically elected government wishes to join NATO.

Your suggesting that a candidate for president should argue against that for rear of antagonizing Russia?

Although that may be the diplomatic stance to take, Obama and Biden will agree with Palin. The alternative is have McCain brand them as cowards (on the eve of the 9/11 anniversary of all times).

I mean, honestly, do you really think you can explain nuanced diplomatic policy to the bulk of the electorate?

It's a Republican bounce poll though. Those numbers won't hold.

More then likely well be at 48/48 in a week or two.

I don't know about that. My wife and I are 'independent' (although we've mostly supported Democrats in the past). She sure impressed us.

I am really looking forward to the Biden/Palin debate :-)

Pity there won't be a Obama/Palin debate, that would be cool.

The vast majority of presidents were governors with no experience with 'federal government'.

Obama has never actually ran anything. So sure, Palin was mayor of a tiny town and a governor of a tiny state but that's more management experience than Obama has had by far.

Wow. Great Comment!

You are denigrating a woman who is the most popular governor in the US. She's had 5 kids, took on her own party and still became a governor of a US state.

In fact, she much more a reformer and a maverick then McCain.

She also happens to have more executive level experience than Obama, McCain and Biden put together.

I don't think so ...

"We should all be proud of Governor Sarah Palin's historic nomination, and I congratulate her and Senator McCain," Clinton, the first woman to win a presidential primary, said in the statement. "While their policies would take America in the wrong direction, Governor Palin will add an important new voice to the debate."

I bet the first sentence is a sound bite in a McCain add inside of a two weeks.

Anyway, Clinton can't hit Palin because she needs Republican women in 2012.

Seriouslly though, you need to drink less Kool-aid.

I like Obama for many of his qualities. Experience is not, however, one of them.

1) He worked on the 'national level' as US senator for 2 years where he did not lead anything of any significance.

2) Obama's IL district has 200k people. Suggesting that this prepares you to be president is as absurd as suggesting being a mayor of a town of 9k makes you  prepared to be president.

Now being a governor does make you prepared but Palin has only done it for 2 years so she is still pretty green - but Obama has nothing on her.