On Oct 10, 10:16*pm, Lazarus Cooke
wrote:

Persily believes Palin is "immature, inexperienced, and has poor
judgment", but acknowledges that she could still become president. "And
that," he says, "should scare the hell out of everybody."

Marginally interesting, but the conclusions are fogged, subjective,
and give no especial insight. Really successful modern American
politicians have always been snake oil salesmen, it is a prerequisite.

Much the same as a number of the people here who are "discussing" it.
Dishonest, doubtful morals, no integrity, very little character, and
the ready willingness to use anything they can to discredit others,
even lies if necessary, and without a thought for the consequences..

These American political campaigns are invariably a cascade of
negatives, ( also accurately reflected here). The main aim being to
discredit the opponent. Anybody with no knowledge of the matter,
easily impressed, and more or less dispassionately reading all this,
would have to conclude that none of the candidates are suitable for
anything at all other than cleaning stables under supervision.

It wont be long now before we know who wins anyway, and whoever it is,
( although I strongly assume that Obama will take it), will face an
incredibly difficult struggle to get some things in order, assuming
they can be put in order at all under the circumstances obtaining.

One thing is certain, calling people names, denigrating and defaming
them, and wailing about previous politics or incumbents, or the
parties involved, will not solve any problems at all.

Tempting to say "**** ´em! It´s no skin off my nose", but
unfortunately it is. The economic collapse of the American system is
already causing massive damage to other people, and causing other
systems to fail as well.

The presidential election as such is merely a minor consideration in
the face of that. It really doesn´t make a lot of difference who is
driving when the car hits a brick wall head on.