The republicans are wanting the American people to buy into the idea that Palin somehow is more experienced than even mccain, Obama AND Biden.

Not just experience, but executive experience.

This game that the republicans are playing is  an insult to the intelligence of every American.  It is cynical at best - disrespectful at worst.

 We are not having a game of poker. We are having a presidential election at a time in our history where we need to have leadership in place making sound judgements for the sake of the country.

 McCain now cofirms for me his lack of judgement. The president of the United States should not be placing people in important and critical postions in his cabinet based on an ambition.

We have to be able to trust these people and have confidence in their abilities. We have to know where they stand and where they come from. We don't have time to play games of politics - the stakes are too high and those days are long past. It's time to focus on the issues and what will work for this country - and who will be the best candidate to get us there.

At the time I threw my support behind Senator Obama - it was not because of a speech, it was because of his plans and his commitment to policy. It's because I have always felt that he is a progressive leader and yet tempered in reality. Senator Obama is our best chance building the environment where things can actually get passed that WE all have in common.

 Time out for pandering and using traps to make an election soley about social issues - wedge issues. We don't need a poster girl for the RNC to make us "feel" better about mccain - we need a leader that is not a wildly bucking maverick.

We need a leader - who has always stood for this:

 "Yet even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters and negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes. Well, I say to them tonight, there's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America. There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America. The pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States; Red States for Republicans, Blue States for Democrats. But I've got news for them, too. We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States. There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and patriots who supported it. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America."