Sam Harris on Sarah Palin at Newsweek.com:

“You can learn something about a person by the company she keeps. In the churches where Palin has worshiped for decades, parishioners enjoy ‘baptism in the Holy Spirit,’ ‘miraculous healings’ and ‘the gift of tongues.’ Invariably, they offer astonishingly irrational accounts of this behavior and of its significance for the entire cosmos. Palin’s spiritual colleagues describe themselves as part of ‘the final generation,’ engaged in ’spiritual warfare’ to purge the earth of ‘demonic strongholds.’ Palin has spent her entire adult life immersed in this apocalyptic hysteria. Ask yourself: Is it a good idea to place the most powerful military on earth at her disposal? Do we actually want our leaders thinking about the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy when it comes time to say to the Iranians, or to the North Koreans, or to the Pakistanis, or to the Russians or to the Chinese: ‘All options remain on the table’?”

(Via Andrew Sullivan at The Atlantic and NewsJunk.)

I seriously have to wonder about a country where people can seriously think this woman is a good candidate for small town mayor let alone Vice President of the US. Any remaining goodwill and respect I had for John McCain went out the window with this decision. What a complete joke…

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