What Sarah Palin proved last night:

1) She can keep her composure in front of a national audience.

2) She can deliver an attack speech with gusto and some humor.

3) She is less obnoxious than Rudy Giuliani.

4) She is willing to shake things up.

5) She has an interesting family.

What Sarah Palin did not prove:

1) That she know anything about national or international issues other than energy.

2) That she truly understands that we cannot drill our way out of our energy problems.

3) That she is honest. This is the second time she told the bridge-to-nowhere story in front of a national audience without mentioning that she supported the bridge and accepted the funds for it before she turned against it.

4) That she has any inkling of the hypocrisy contained in the standard Republican rhetoric she mouthed. She promised parent's of special needs children that she will be their advocate in a McCain administration and later went on to decry taxation, big government and government spending. What is she planning to do for special needs children that doesn't involve increased government spending or increased government mandates? If all she intends to do for such children is to pray for them, she should have been forthright enough to say so.

5) That she is free from the personality distortions caused by the egocentricity necessary to reach a national ticket. Obama sometimes preens, McCain is known as a prima donna in the Senate, Biden can be a windbag, and Palin is excruciatingly smug.

Oh, what's that that I hear? The Obama supporters want more specifics?

How do you like dem apples?

Earlier this year I was somewhat relieved that Mccain was going to be the republican nominee. I am a democrat, but Mccain seemed to be one of the more moderate Republicans. I thought I hope Obama wins, but if he doesn't at least will be rid of Bush and Mccain is not so bad. Now, as I was in 2000 and 2004, I am emphatically for the Democratic ticket. Mccain threw his moderate stance in the garbage with his VP pick.

She's a good speaker with crazy ideas and has no respect for the separation of church and state nor the constitution. She wants you to stay out of her private life, but she will be all over yours if she ever gets the chance---which she will if Mccain's cancer comes back. The cancer that he has already had three bouts of. This truly is a scary situation.

I am not usually politically active but I am thinking of getting involved in the campaign for the Obama/Biden. Anything to keep the nightmare of "President Palin" from becoming a reality.

and your views are supported by what?

she stopped supporting the bridge project because the budget for it DOUBLED, and so became an unworthwhile project.

Even if your facts are right, which I doubt, my basic point is still correct that Palin was dishonest about the bridge project. The money she accepted from Washington for the bridge was not returned to Washington, it was kept by Alaska. So the idea she is trying to sell the American people, that she turned down significant federal money for her state, is false.