I really wish that the supposedly liberal media would quit writing about Sarah Palin, or at least keep the coverage in perspective. Not a day goes by that there isn't some new "major" story about her, mostly of the fluffiest, most non-newsworthy type. Tomorrow's New York Times has an article deconstructing the hugs she exchanges with her running mate. Pals of Palin and your coverage of Pals of Palin are other perfect examples of Palin non-news.

Every little detail of SP's biography has been picked and chewed over like the turkey carcass after Thanksgiving. Perhaps unwittingly, perhaps in search of readership, the MSM is turning her into a superhuman, all-powerful, invincible force---like the title character in the old sci-fi movie Attack of the Fifty-Foot Woman. It's worth remembering that she puts on her pantyhose one leg at a time.

The only things about Sarah Palin that should matter are: 1. her qualifications (dangerously inadequate) and 2. her temperament (by all accounts, intolerant of divergent views and quick to fire those who don't unquestioningly support her). The media is right to focus on those issues, since the McCain campaign apparently didn't before she was selected. Anything else is just free political advertising.

Spenmore wrote: "The only things about Sarah Palin that should matter are: 1. her qualifications (dangerously inadequate) and 2. her temperament (by all accounts, intolerant of divergent views and quick to fire those who don't unquestioningly support her). The media is right to focus on those issues, since the McCain campaign apparently didn't before she was selected. Anything else is just free political advertising."

Don't forget the whiff of corruption. By all accounts, she just hasn't had the time to get in too deep, but there is certainly things she has done to help those in the small, incestuous, quasi monopoly, Alaskan business sector. One hand washes the other and there is lots of oil money to spend on such things.

People in oil rich jurisdictions only worry about this when the gravy train ends. Then the graft that has occurred seems obscene, but its too late. They suffer for years while the crooks enjoy a sunny retirement. Then when the oil sector finally starts up again, they prove to have short memories.

You're right, it's time for Biden to learn to shoot tequila and dance the macarena with Willie Nelson in public! In this case negative publicity is working in the republicans favor.

I wonder if Spenmore posted the same sentiment when Obama's church was front page news....

No, but I probably should have. It's another example of real issues being overshadowed by trivia and the media playing right along. The Jeremiah Wright comments were a non-issue, pure guilt by association.

I also agree with a previous poster that any charges of corruption are fair game. They are relevant to her qualifications for the office she seeks.

I opened my local newspaper this morning---for the 11th day in a row, the editorial page had commentary pieces on Sarah Palin. I'm sure someone, somewhere, will do an analysis of the column inches she's received---surely far more than any VP candidate in history. Every story makes her bigger and the other candidates (including her own running mate) smaller. Her running mate is eagerly taking advantage of her celebrity: "Isn't this the most marvelous running mate in history?" he gushed the other day. (Take that, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt!)

Don't get me wrong, I want to know the FACTS about this woman. All Americans have the right to know. But the parade of soft, lifestyle stories and endless analysis of the few facts we do know are creating the illusion that SP is all-powerful--and she isn't.

And to think, a week ago I'd never even heard of Levi Johnston!

Well, if you want to debate REAL issues, you must admit that it doesn't matter much who sits in the VP chair (okay, ignoring Dick Cheney). Seriously it just doesn't matter. Even the Pres. Did YOUR life change hugely in the transition from from Clinton to Bush? Be honest it didn't.

I lived through the greatest ideological shift in the Oval Office when Carter was replaced by Reagan. And what happened? I had to pay more for college. That's it. I didn't travel abroad. My life turned out about the same as if Carter had a second term and Mondale had 8 years after that.

It will matter a lot if McCain dies in office and Palin takes over. She is simply not ready to assume the most powerful office in the world.

And how do you know what your life would have been like under other Presidents? You don't.

Since my life barely changed with a Carter to Reagan switch I can safely assume it wouldn't have changed much at all with a Carter to Mondale switch.

And what devastation do you really think President Palin would incur? Stock market crash? Nuclear war? Last I knew, Alaska is doing okay. We would too. We survived GW Bush afterall.