She’s weak on foreign policy, like most any Governor. Fortunately, she has time to learn. She DOES know energy policy, but the MSM doesn’t ask her about THAT! She’s a solid conservative, but has successfully governed from the middle as an exec. She has MANY other skills. If she seems less knowledgable on national affairs, it’s because she’s been learning all kinds of other things. She’s no dummy!

Thus, she and McCain balance each other very well. He can lean on her for executive guidance, and she can learn foreign policy from him and others. Hope that helps.

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You are correct in that Biden has done numerous interview while Palin has not. The inference you take from the disparity however is incorrect. I do not believe the issue is that McCain is afraid of what she’ll say, but rather what the media will SAY that she said. You can largely thank Charles Gibson for that. His pre-interview “Palin Will Declare War on Russia!” headline along with his judicious editing (mid-sentence!) made it clear that she wasn’t going to get a fair shake in that format. On the other hand, in spite of his numerous interviews you would have no idea what Biden had actually said if you did not follow it in non-traditional media. So, she is adapting different formats – such as tonight’s debate.

I do think there is a thirst for knowledge about her, and that she does have questions to answer. I’d love to see an unmoderated call-in type interview format for her, to see if she can answer the questions the public wants to know.

Please quit being a party shill just for a minute. Doesn’t the idea of these institutions, that are supposed to be neutral and about openness, being so clearly biased bother you even a little bit? It’s your freedom, too.

Should a teacher be giving such a clearly partisan assignment? Why wasn’t the assignment 3 things you like and 3 things you don’t like about Gov. Palin? Or even, 3 things you like or don’t like about Gov. Palin?

mbi: Your cartoon views of Republicans are hilarious. Obviously, you know nothing of professors’ salaries; they aren’t exactly living in poverty, chum. And they’re paying for their latte’s on the taxpayer’s dime.

I dated a marxist in college; upon graduation he was amazed to discover that he could actually be hired for his talents and make quite a good living. Marxist no more. Plus, a major reason few conservatives are on campus is that the Left chases them out at every possible opportunity. It’s called ‘fascism’. Go back to your intellectual basket weaving at your humble garret at Starbuck’s and leave us alone.

One has to wonder why are they not pressing Obama for some substantive answers to some real questions. Instead, they’re practically laying palm leaves before him as he’s pressing toward the presidential election. The liberal media is in the tank for Obama. Anyone who doesn’t see that is a bald-faced liar. And I’d call’em that to their face. It’s time to stand up and let the liberal media know that we’re tired of their ongoing trashing of America and its people. People like Katie Couric, Charlie Gibson, the CBS Morning News crew, Bob Scheiffer, and virtually every assignment reporter to every major network news program, most newspapers, and most radio stations are spewing vitriole like so much treasonous poison hour after hour after hour.

Most major universities are hotbeds of Socialism, Marxism, Leninism, Stalinism, and Communism. Tenured professors, for the most part, are nothing more than extensions of their Communist heroes. That makes them traitors in my book.

Our school system has been tasked with the formation of young minds in the Socialistic/Communist mold.

Seeing how Governor Palin is being unfairly attacked and the Commie loving Obama goes scot free should enrage every Conservative. Our Founding Fathers would gauge the likes of Obama, Biden, Dodd, Rangel, Reid, Pelosi, Byrd, Frank, Kennedy, and the rest of the Democratic garbage heap and declare them unfit to clean the Congressional restrooms. I honestly believe that they’d also judge every one of them guilty of high treason and sentence them to the gallows.

Wake up, Conservatives. Wake up. We’re fighting for our lives. And we thought it was bad before during the Bush elections.