Joe has a personality and is a geniune human. Palin is a zombie, letting her coaches brainwash her, ridding her of her personality. Is it because: a) they are afraid her stupidity will show, they are afraid she won't have an answer to the question being asked (it's hard to come up with a publication you read on the spur of the moment), or c) they are embarrased at who she is, so they are trying to change her. Well i could easily complete the alphabet with these questions, but since Sarah can't even answer a question with a straight answer, we get the point. Biden is highly intelligent and well educated on all the topics this world, and our country in particular, are facing. Your statement is pure crap, wink, wink. edit: b comes up as not my fault,

Moonlight Mile...The Rolling Stones

Oh sorry, like the article suggests, you too must be ailed by the same symptoms as MCAttention Deficit Disorder John McCain. I know, too many words hurt your little brain. Something you have so much in common with George and Sarah Stupid. edit for typo

We know, you thought Sarah was winking at you. Your little boy crush must be full blown now. Get over it!

That joke was darn tooting funny, wink. Biden won of course. He didn't need a cram all week session so while Palin spent most of her time being someone else, Joe was himself (okay to be fair, he was very well reserved, lucky for Palin). To be fair, if you are to win a debate, you have to answer the questions that are being "asked". Palin is a master at evasion. Make sure you read the last line where the "Fox" poll results are noted. Hilarious, what kind of drugs are these people on? http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story...EWEN20080067541 Palin-Biden faceoff: Who won the debate? NDTV Correspondent Friday, October 03, 2008, (Washington)During the Vice presidential debate between US Prez poll nominees, one commentator remarked Joe Biden was on TV but Sarah Palin was on trial. So, just who won that contest? Some major opinion polls in America decided to do a reality check. According to MSNBC's online poll, the honours were entirely with Joe Biden as 81 per cent thought he won while just 17 percent thought Palin trumped him. The CBS poll put Palin and Biden, a little closer but even here Biden gets the nod. Blogosphere debates over VP candidates More than the US Presidential candidates, the blogosphere was abuzz with the Vice Presidential debate between Republican Sarah Palin and Democrat Joe Biden. Commenting on Palin's conduct during the debate, a blogger wrote, "Palin mostly gives approximate policy positions, disputed versions of Obama's record and anecdotes from Alaska." Similarly, another blogger was somewhat impressed with the manner Palin stood in front of Biden. "She wasn't brilliant but went toe-to-toe with a guy who's run for president twice, and even pushed him around," said the blog. Whereas some of the blogs quaintly declared Palin as winner by saying, "Palin won, since she had no 'deer in headlight' moments. That's easy when you won't answer questions you don't like," others seem to be miffed when they wrote, "The Republicans offered a diligent understudy, eager to perfectly recite the lines on a page." Posted By Vijay-Friday, October 03, 2008 I watched the debate yday and clearly Palin did not seem to know answers to many of the questions. She did not answer many of the questions directed at her and instaed kept on harping about the trump speech lines she seemed to have been fed the past week by her handlers. She exceeded expectations because she could put to gether words in a sentence coherently though with out much meaning. For Eg, she said she and McCain are for more government oversight and regulation in refernce to the bailout plana nd in teh same breath the very next minute said the government should get out of the way?? Biden was not only knowledgeable but also very convincing and certainly very presidential. I just do not seem to understand how such an unintelligent underprepared candidate such as Palin could have support here? Are people of America sleeping?? Posted By Coventina-Friday, October 03, 2008 Biden won this debate. Palin is just a celebrity of sorts, not someone who should be VP, and very possibly President! What is America coming to? No intelligence at all!!! Posted By NObama-Friday, October 03, 2008 How about reporting the Fox News poll result, instead of only networks like MSNBC that are obviously in the tank for Obama. Fox poll: 86% say Palin won, 12% Biden.

Probably all got Palin/McCain signs on their lawns...

Age discrimination, if she qualified for the loan, may be illegal. Anyway, i bet if you reach that age you will feel differently if rights/privleges are taken away from you. Just like with any loan, if she can't pay it off, the bank will take the property (or maybe her family will inherit the debt). This is not the reason for the current state of horror Bush got our country into. Now i do beleive stringent re-evaluations of driving ability needs to be made into law everywhere at a certain age.

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Pretty funny since IGAH isn't running for VP, therefore not under the kind of scrutiny Palin needs to be (and has avoided it to great extents). Pathetic is anyone voting for more stupid liars to run our country. EIGHT YEARS WAS ENOUGH!!! Wait, i mean: EIGHT YEARS WAS TOO MUCH!

LOL... I am a proud atheist and agree that religion in Amercia and the rest of the world is the root of much evil. I love Bill Maher but doubt i will get a chance to see this movie before it hits pay per view. Off topic slightly, i really want to see the new movie "W",

Mind Games...John Lennon

Is there some reason why you couldn't understand the article? Oh yeah, nevermind, i already know why.

I Saw The Light...Todd Rundgren

Drive All Night...Bruce Springsteen

Out of Time...The Rolling Stones

Eyes without a Face...Billy Idol

In Your Eyes...Peter Gabriel

That's the Way...Led Zeppelin

Walk Away Renee...The Left Banke

I don't know how Katie had the stomach to speak with her, lol. This is interesting. I think this ticket should be the behavioral problem team Thanks to a friend for telling me about this article. http://www.readthehook.com/stories/2008/10...ain-ADHD-C.aspx ESSAY- White Tornado: Could John McCain have ADHD? by J. Anderson Thomson, Jr., M.D., published October 2, 2008 Cindy and John McCain at a campaign stop in Chesterfield, Missouri. PHOTO BY CHRIS DUNNImpulsive. Easily distracted. Hot tempered. Gets into fights. Despite intellectual potential, does poorly at school. Sound familiar? If this were your child or older brother, you would wonder if he had unrecognized and untreated Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, ADHD. Yet, when the individual in question is a United States senator running for the presidency, that possibility seems not to have been considered. Last week, in a fit of fretting about the economy, Senator McCain suspended his campaign and attempted to cancel the first debate. On Wednesday, September 17, he cancelled an appearance on David Letterman's CBS show Late Night and lied to Letterman about an immediate need to catch a plane to Washington. He then trots off to be interviewed by Katie Couric. (Letterman later launched a devastating salvo which certainly negated anything the Couric interview might have gained.) How sudden and thought-out were the senator's decisions? Some say ADHD is just another over-diagnosed non-malady. Others celebrate it because along with impulsiveness come passion, creativity, and an ability to "think outside the box." Four to 12 out of every 100 school children have it, and most carry it into adulthood. The greatest Olympic athlete of all time, Michael Phelps, has it. Scientists such as Albert Einstein and Sir Isaac Newton, along with myriad famous actors, including the beloved Jimmy Stewart and Whoppi Goldberg, turned any alleged ADHD into careers of greatness. But there's that impulsivity. "Mr. McCain is known to sign off on big campaign decisions and then to march off his own reservation," according to an August 10 New York Times article. "Out of his hearing, Mr. McCain is called the White Tornado by some people who have worked for him over the years." Hectic campaign or residual childhood malady? "McCain frequently forgets key elements of policies, gets countries' names wrong, forgets things he's said only hours or days before, and is frequently just confused," writes Frank Rich August 17, in which he explains why the McCain campaign has stopped the press's previously unimpeded access to Senator McCain on the formerly free-wheeling "Straight Talk Express" campaign bus. Rich also quotes Rita Hauser, who served on the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board in the Bush administration's first term. "If John says ‘I'm going with so and so,' you can't count on that the next morning." Such stories may be typical of the rough-and-tumble dialogue of the political year, but they also raise the question of undiagnosed and untreated disorder. The handbook of the mental health profession, The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, notes the main symptoms: difficulty sustaining attention and failure to listen, to follow through, and to organize tasks. Hyperactivity symptoms include fidgeting, excessive talking, and a personality often "on the go" as if "driven by motor." And the symptoms of impulsivity include interrupting and blurting out answers before questions have been completed. This is a difficult diagnosis to establish in an older adult, and one cannot make the diagnosis without examining the individual and if possible talking to his family. We know that McCain showed remarkable fortitude in surviving the repeated tortures inflicted by his North Vietnamese captors. But we also know he had a low class rank (894 of 899) at the Naval Academy, and he reportedly excelled in only those classes that interested him. In his acceptance speech at the Republican national convention, McCain said he liked to "pick a few fights for the fun of it." Michael Leahy's August 31 profile of Senator McCain's formative years in The Washington Post opens with an account of a McCain fight in a park near Georgetown. Leahy notes that McCain's grandfather, John Sidney "Slew" McCain, had struggled during his own Naval Academy years, as had McCain's father, John Sidney "Jack" McCain, Jr.: "He had been plagued by the same poor academy standing, made worse because of his prodigious appetite for rakish rule-breaking, a risk compounded in Jack's case because he was partying and drinking during Prohibition. Few fathers and sons could have been more alike as adolescents than Jack McCain and John Sidney III. Youthful rebellion seemed encoded in their DNA." With a large genetic component, ADHD is found primarily in males. Perhaps frustrated by not being able to select friend Joe Lieberman as his running mate, McCain made the seemingly impulsive decision to choose Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. He'd met Palin once. No McCain staff checked with anyone in the Alaska State Legislature or business community. There was no FBI background check. Now the Couric interviews of Governor Palin reveal what many suspected. This hockey mom vice presidential candidate might actually believe she has foreign policy qualifications because her state borders on two foreign countries and she can see Russia from her coastline. What about the current economic hurricane? On September 15, Senator McCain said, "The fundamentals of the economy are strong." Yet, that day the Dow nosedived 500 points. In Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Sunday the 21st, his proposed fix was to announce that if he were president, he would axe the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commisstion. There is a small problem. The president does not have that power. The next day, September 22, he claimed he had laid out his plan to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and had been "looking at the plan that the administration has put forth." On Wednesday the 24th he conceded, "I have not had a chance to see it [the administration's three-pager] in writing." And, then he suspended his campaign. "The more one sees of his impulsive, intensely personal reactions to people and events, the less confidence one has that he would select judges by calm reflection and clear principles, having neither patience nor aptitude for either." That came from conservative columnist George Will on September 23. Yet no one connects the dots. The next president must immediately confront enduring wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, covert wars in Pakistan, Georgia, Africa and elsewhere, radical Islam on innumerable fronts, Putin's belligerence, dangerous epidemics, global warming, a crippled United Nations, and on the home front a health care crisis with forty million uninsured, the deterioration of public schools, failures of energy policy, and a decaying infrastructure. That is the short list. There will be more on the next president's plate come January. Some might celebrate an ADHD president. He might pursue new ideas-- perhaps novel solutions to the financial crisis or creative ways of dealing with an ascendant China. On the other hand, America has already received international scorn for unilateral military action. Is impulsiveness a good trait for someone with his hands on nuclear launch codes? In his 2002 memoir Senator McCain said, "Often my haste is a mistake, but I live with the consequences without complaint." Can we? The author is a psychiatrist and an Obama/Biden supporter. # And Obama is a compulsive liar. his grandfather freed aushwitz? He never heard Rev Wright say anything racist? The list goes on and on. Maybe the reason you like Obama is because when he gets universal health care you will get to bill the taxpayer for all the whining you have to listen to from spolied americans who think they are owed everything. Personally I want a man in the white house that isn't afriad to stand up to somebody. Maybe next week we can get a chiropracter to write an essay linking bad posture and military brilliance. posted by freud at 10/2/2008 10:07:43 AM As a former Coordinator for a large chapter of CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) I appreciate the balanced treatment given to ADHD and the speculation regarding John McCain. However, while I'm not a physician or other professional with the ability to diagnose ADHD, I have to respectfully disagree with the analysis and conclusion that McCain might have ADHD. I'll leave it to neurologists (or additional psychiatrists) to better match McCain's behavior with possible diseases or conditions. However, let's consider whether it's ADHD. Impulsivity? Yes, that can be a symptom. Many people with ADHD are weak in the "executive functioning" component. Easily distracted? Yes, particularly for the inattentive variant of ADHD. Not so much for the hyperactive variant of ADHD. Gets into fights? Yes, but. People with ADHD get into fights not because they're pugnatious or combative. Rather, they have difficulty picking up cues, especially non-verbal cues, from others. Very often, they're picked on; they sometimes come aross as clueless. They have more difficulty telling when people are getting frustrated with them. And that's where the problems arise with the McCain-ADHD linkage. McCain is hot-tempered. He doesn't have difficulty picking up social cues. So, in this case, I don't think his anger supports the diagnosis of ADHD. Thomson writes: "he cancelled an appearance on David Letterman's CBS show Late Night and lied to Letterman about an immediate need to catch a plane to Washington. He then trots off to be interviewed by Katie Couric." People with ADHD aren't any less truthful than others. And if McCain lied, that indicates planning, not impulsivity. Not an ADHD trait. The article continues: ""McCain frequently forgets key elements of policies, gets countries' names wrong, forgets things he's said only hours or days before, and is frequently just confused," writes Frank Rich August 17, in which he explains why the McCain campaign has stopped the press's previously unimpeded access to Senator McCain on the formerly free-wheeling "Straight Talk Express" campaign bus." Umm... It's not an ADHD trait to be "just confused" or "forgets things he's said only hours...before." Let's just say that a nerologist might have a more accurate diagnosis of these symptoms. But they're not typical of ADHD. The article notes: "In his acceptance speech at the Republican national convention, McCain said he liked to "pick a few fights for the fun of it." Michael Leahy's August 31 profile of Senator McCain's formative years in The Washington Post opens with an account of a McCain fight in a park near Georgetown." People with ADHD aren't particularly likely to be bullies. In fact, they're far more likely to be victims of bullies. Actually, McCain's behavior may come closer to ODD-Oppositional Defiant Disorder. From the Mayo Clinic's Web site ( http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/oppositio...ECTION=symptoms ), people with ODD might show these symptoms: Frequent temper tantrums Argumentativeness with adults Refusal to comply with adult requests or rules Deliberate annoyance of other people Blaming others for mistakes or misbehavior Acting touchy and easily annoyed Anger and resentment Spiteful or vindictive behavior Aggressiveness toward peers Difficulty maintaining friendships Academic problems That fits McCain at least as well as a diagnosis of ADHD. Nevertheless, congratulations again on a well-thought out and presented article posted by Don Tepper at 10/2/2008 5:19:02 PM I have been diagnosed with DCWTDCUWNTMTABOM. a/k/a Don't Care What Term Doctors Come Up With Next To Make Themselves A Boatload Of Money.

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You Are So Beautiful...Joe Cocker

You're catching on! Well not to sound condescending, but that has been one of the major issues all along. McCain is old and has had Melanoma (a very aggressive, quick spreading skin cancer). Did he beat the odds? Maybe, but even if he did, he is still 72 and that means his risk for every health problem is much greater because of age alone. So his chances of having health issues or worse are fairly good, and her abilities to run anything are fairly horrifying. She is not competent for this role and we should ALL be frightened, Repubs included. But you know, people will stick to their guns no matter how dangerous or stupid, just because they consider themselves to be a certain party OR they think Roe V. Wade being overturned is a priority in the time we are living in. Mind boggling really. I think i could understand Rocket Science easier than understand the group who think McCain/Palin are a good choice. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/us/politics/09mccain.html

I know this is old news, but this had to be repeated. Katie did a good job, it's not her fault she couldn't believe how stupid Palin turned out to be. Can't name a magazine, don't they sell Time or Newsweek in Alaska? Can't name any Supreme Court cases? lol, she is too much.

Over My Head...Fleetwood Mac