Barack O'Bama is a Harvard trained, head of the law review and University of Chicago professor of constituional law with an academic economics and political science background from the top university in the land. He understands the complex convergence of the law,economics and policy from both a national and global perspective. Further, Barack is a global person, who is part of the foreign relations committee of the senate and worked with people like Senators Chuck Hagel and Lugar to deal with critical issues like loose nukes. Since his days in the Illinois Senate, O'Bama has dealt with issues of campaign reform in the most fundamental way; which is reducing the influence of lobbyists (No pay to play) that includes in the US Senate where he helped frame this successful legislation in his first year in the senate. Because he is not paid by the oil lobbyists, he can think clearly about energy policy; which must be informed by science. O'Bama understands that drilling now and everywhere is sophistry. Why? Because the beneficiary of drilling will be the oil companies and their global market distribution networks that they sell oil to at the highest price. How does that help US security? These oil companies own 50% of the US natural gas reserves. Why aren't they bringing those to market? Because their profit margin on oil is much higher and oil companies don't make decisions based on US National security. The investment for national security and energy has more to do with the Pickens plan; (natrual gas bridging strategy) which Barack supports because as T. Boone says, we can't drill our way out of this situation. As for abortion, Barack believes that this will be curtailed not by laws that drive women into back allies (we are too young to remember that) but by America creating pro-life social policies that fund early child education and care as well as affordable health care, and a balanced trade policy that is supported by a tax policy that cuts off incentives for companies that ship jobs overseas. If women have good paying jobs, with health care, public funded child care/education then the choice for abortion will be reduced.

Now for our girl Palin, she is in the far out wing of the flat earth party. She does not believe in global warming, she believes in smaller government; which means no health care and child care solutions and thinks education needs to be about teaching creationism which goes hand in hand with her pro-polluting anti-scince view of the world. Her experience is a degree with modest grades in Journalism from a less than top 300 rated university and a career as a sports caster and local news person who did uncover corruption in her party related to payoffs to Republican public officials from the oil industry. Being a part time mayor of a town of less than 10 thousand and Governor of a state with 700,000 people where 1/3 of the people are Native Americans with their own tribal government services and a national guard of a couple of thousand people does not speak to executive experience. Further, where is her global thinking that will lead America in the globally integrated world of today? Ask her questions related to economic policy or specific questions about the major contradictions in places like Iraq where one has to know the history of the Kurds and their role in destablizing, Turkey, Russia and China and the other groups like the Sunnis and how they are played in the Iraq and Iran contradicitions, etc. and she will not know what you are talkning about. Unfortunately, she is simply a savant of the oil industry, gun lobby and old school Christian right and that does not qualify her to be VP. Note: a job 30 days ago she stated "I have no idea what the Vice President does."

Help me understand how this qualifies her to be President since John McCain is 72 years old and has had four bouts with cancer?

And have you seen the cover of People Magazine, most women that I've spoken to thinks that she is exploiting the fact that she has a baby with downsyndrome to get the sympathetic women vote. I think this will back fire on her because we mothers who do work hard from the home see this an insult to our intelligence.