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...TIME's great photo of governor Palin on this week's cover should scare the Democrats. You see a strong, intelligent, attractive and determined mien, a reminder of the women pioneers who helped make the Western U.S. great. She's an ideal partner for McCain, one who will help bring this country back to the position of strength and idealism it has occupied in the world. Joe Chernicoff, Las Vegas...
...Palin would not acknowledge a need for education prior to ascending to the second highest office in the land. Her smirking, contemptuous dismissal of community service at the Republican Convention; a litany of falsehoods, including the claim to have said "no thanks" to the Ketchikan "bridge to nowhere" and a host of discrepancies in her assertions about the investigation into abuses of power during her tenure as governor; her campaign's unprecedented demand for "deference" from a free press before answering questions - all paint a portrait of a woman who believes she has it all figured out. Scott Kenyon, Vienna...
...Your "Back & Forth" column quotes CNN President Jon Klein as saying of the press coverage of Palin, "I don't think anybody expected the news media to just sit there and accept the Norman Rockwell painting. That's not our job." The news media did exactly that for Barack Obama. Richard Laxton, Bowraville, New South Wales...
...choice of Palin as a vice-presidential running mate must be the worst political appointment since the Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a Consul. Christopher K. Sumner, London...
...Underreported and underestimated in the glow that followed Palin's address to the Republican Convention was Rudy Giuliani's equally brilliant speech, which contained the key line: "Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy." That skewered Obama as neatly as anything else said at the convention. Bruce Morley, Auckland...