Palin

I've been trying to reserve my judgment of Palin until I had more information. I really disliked her first speech, where she riled up the emotions of her listeners, guiding them into disliking and distrusting Obama without giving any actual solid information about him, or any solid reasons to vote for her.

The first thing to truly disturb me was an article in the NY Times that quoted the email she sent to announce the birth of her very oddly named child Trig (isn't that a horse's name?). She composed and signed the email as if it had been written by God. That's just creepy, bordering much too close to a psychosis. Her insistence that she has no doubts about her ability to be president is also unsettling. Is she arrogant or just naive?

The latest worrying thing is her statement that she would be willing to go to war with Russia over Georgia. What a stupid and extremely dangerous thing to say! If you go about declaring that you're willing to get into a fight with a particular person, the odds are good that they will want to fight you.