Palin should quit?

[AMax 0]

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

Oh no .... I really hope she stays. I anticipate that her presence will impact the debates and the final outcome of this race in a very positive way!

[MegaGoliath11 0]

quitting right now would not be a politically viable option.

but yeah she needs some work on her interview skills and needs to stop sounding like a talking point post-it gone out of control.

[Andy9o8 2]

Oh, I hope not. Her and Biden's debate will be a hoot: she doing her best Dan Quayle dumbass imitation, and Biden saying stuff like, "Even some broad like you can be a governor." Oughta be classic.

[AMax 0]

I think she is doing a great job :))

[MegaGoliath11 0]

yeah well most folks think she has some interview issues and has difficulty speaking outside of highly choreographed events. but to each his own..

[downwardspiral 0]

I agree. It seems as if she's being told to say stuff she doesn't believe so stammers through it.

www.FourWheelerHB.com

[kallend 2,146]

"Conservatives turn on Palin":
blogs.telegraph.co.uk/tim_shipman/blog/2008/09/26/conservatives_turn_on_sarah_palin

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[SpeedRacer 1]

This all might actually work for her.

Just remember: Bush Sr won with Dan Quayle.

Unfortunately many people don't like a candidate who is "too smart." One of the criticisms thrown around by sneering commentators on FOX news about Al Gore was: "he's like the smartest kid in the class!"

Elitist = Smart.

Sadly there is a strong current of anti-intellectualism in the voting public.

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[Amazon 7]

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Elitist = Smart.

Sadly there is a strong current of anti-intellectualism in the voting public.

Yes.. and look where it got us with GW

[billvon 3,111]

>Is Palin emboldening the creationists?

This looks like it will be a mess:

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Brunswick school board to consider creationism teaching

By Ana Ribeiro
Staff Writer

Published: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at 10:40 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at 10:40 p.m.

The Brunswick County school board is looking for a way for creationism to be taught in classrooms.

"It's really a disgrace for the state school board to impose evolution on our students without teaching creationism," county school board member Jimmy Hobbs said at Tuesday's meeting. "The law says we can't have Bibles in schools, but we can have evolution, of the atheists."

When asked by a reporter, his fellow board members all said they were in favor of creationism being taught in the classroom.

The topic came up after county resident Joel Fanti told the board he thought it was unfair for evolution to be taught as fact, saying it should be taught as a theory because there's no tangible proof it's true.

"I wasn't here 2 million years ago," Fanti said. "If evolution is so slow, why don't we see anything evolving now?"

The board allowed Fanti to speak longer than he was allowed, and at the end of his speech he volunteered to teach creationism and received applause from the audience. When he walked away, school board Chairwoman Shirley Babson took the podium and said another state had tried to teach evolution and creationism together and failed, and that the school system must teach by the law.

"Evolution is taught because that's what the General Assembly tells us to teach," Babson said, adding that she doesn't agree with it, but that students must learn it to graduate.

In 1997, proponents in the N.C. General Assembly tried to amend the law to say that evolution must be taught as a theory and not as a fact in public schools, but that did not pass. Then at the national level in 2005, a federal judge barred the school system in Dover, Pa., from teaching "intelligent design" - which claims organisms must have been created by a higher power and that it's compatible with evolution - as a violation of the constitutional separation of church and state.

Board attorney Joseph Causey said it might be possible for the board to add creationism to the curriculum if it doesn't replace the teaching of evolution.
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Causey actually had the best solution here - teach it separately as part of a religious history class. As long as the class does not focus on one religion, it should not run afoul of any separation issues.