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...that she may as well be a mullah in a dress. Her utter lack of political nous and international knowledge is shameful. This country will be the world's laughing stock if this sort of Republican ticket makes it to the Oval Office. McCain picking Palin is a big insult to the electorate and to intelligent women everywhere. The first criterion to gauge a candidate's readiness for the presidency is his judgment. And McCain has failed this test pretty badly. No matter how the GOP spinmeisters pad Palin's alarmingly thin record of public service, the majority...
...want to thank Klein for his endorsement of John McCain. In writing that McCain's choice of Palin shows what kind of President McCain will be, Klein meant to insult McCain. But the country has now seen for itself what a brilliant, forward-looking choice McCain made. Klein and many others in the angry-left media have once again hurt their friends by trying too hard to help them. Steve Hefter, Highland Park, Illinois...
...plunged to its lowest point since late 2006, and even the Japanese developer of the Shanghai World Financial Center admits that a real-estate slide has affected tenancy, with just 45% of the tower currently occupied. The hosting of the Olympics by Shanghai's northern rival only added insult to injury, even if local papers hastened to note that Shanghai's athletes broke more world records than those from any other Chinese city...
...example, Palin’s boiling down tax policy to “How can you possibly be better off if you’re paying more taxes?” is not only an inaccurate and irresponsible portrayal of the issue, but also an insult to the intelligence of the voting populace. Furthermore, to frame all those who supported the war in Iraq as “pro-victory” and those opposing the war as “pro-forfeit” is exactly the type of polarizing and impossibly simplistic dichotomy that allowed President Bush...
When the media or a candidate's political allies--or sometimes even the candidate--suggest that a child's death or half a decade as a prisoner of war will make the candidate better able to feel the pain of American voters, this is really an insult to the candidate and to whatever inner strength got him or her through the challenges he or she faced...