Zogby poll puts McCain-Palin in lead

Great choice, McCain. Experience does count. Judgement does count. Principles do count. Honesty and Integrity Count. Simple, down-to-earth, honest, and in touch with ordinary people, this candidate is as different from Obama as Day is from Night. What town was Obama mayor of? What party did Obama go up against? What corruption did Obama root out? What pork did Obama cut? What National Guard did Obama command? To say nothing of the empty bloat,self-agrandizing,dishonesty, cover-up of his Islamic background, his Indonesian citizenship, his corrupt ties to crooks and terrorists, and all the rest. Obama doesn't even qualify to run for VICE-President.

Although I don't agree with Gov. Palin's stance on pro life, I note the key word in her decision to have her son is choice. she made a brave decision and I respect her for it as I have a daughter with autism and know the life long strength it takes to raise a special needs child. I'm a Clinton 4 McCain voter so I look forward to hearing where Gov. Palin stands on the other issues so important to us in the election in 08.

"God"? I thought you lefties were athieists. I know Obama is. His mother was, and his father was. He changed to that anti-American, Marxist church for political purposes, but that doesn't fool anybody. Obama believes he is God and that we should all bend over and worship him. Not me, thanks.

Catch Zogby's poll today, SDindependent? Obama-Palin are in the lead, That means they are ahead, they are beating Biden-Obama, they are out in front, even though B.O. did his bloated, hot air, self-agrandizing Hindenberg- Reichstag harang in front of that fake Julius Caesar set. I know you were busy doing your "sig heil!" to him but the puffed-up narcissism thing doesn't seem to go down too well. People see this Indonesian-citizen phony for what he is---out to take away our Constitutional rights and install a personality cult on the nation---giant Mao-like pictures of himself on every building. Yuk!

And, SDindependent---you should stop calling him McBush because no one buys it. Everyone knows that McCain is his own man, he is the Maverick, so it's an exercise in futility on your part.

The Zogby stuff, on scientific grounds, is very questionable, Online, Internet, opt-in polling, where people volunteer to be respondents, doesn’t have a basis in scientific validity. There are two kinds of samples in the world. There are probability samples, and there are non-probability samples. The Zogby interactive polls clearly fall into the latter camp. With probability samples, when everybody has a known chance of being selected, you can make pretty valid inferences about the population from which it is drawn. You can’t do that at all with self-selected surveys. That’s a problem. Zogby is a useless and highly unreliable pooling service.

In your "probability samples" not everybody has a "known chance of being selected" since not everybody has a PHONE. And in Zogby's samples, while it has a margin of error, it is a comparable margin of error.

Joe Biden sat on his backside for 36 years in the Senate while repeatedly running for President. This time Biden got 8,000 votes in the primaries. He is a "good old boy" who has been on the wrong side of almost every foreign policy issue. Examples of Biden's worthless experience. Biden voted against military action to remove Saddam Hussain from Kuwait before the first Gulf War. Biden voted for the invasion of Iraq at the start of the Second Gulf War. Biden proposed spitting up Iraq into three pigmy states that would be vulnerable to Iranian and Syrian mischief in 2006. Biden has experience and has learned all the wrong lessons. There is a saying in coaching that "practice makes permanent". If you do things wrong over and over again then you just learn to do thing WRONG. You get BAD habits. Biden has that perfected.

Joe Biden wrote a long position paper on defense strategy and nuclear weapons control in 1998. Joe figured expanded nuclear test ban treaties would save the day. Here is his argument. http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/congress/1998_cr/h980225h.htm “….Second, we should ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. CTBT will inhibit nuclear powers from developing new classes of nuclear weapons and make it extremely difficult for non-nuclear countries to develop sophisticated nuclear weapons at all. Limiting other countries' nuclear efforts will enhance our deterrent posture,…..” The treaty was agreed on in 1999 with Biden’s strong support. LOOK at what Biden’s rosy position has done in controlling the North Koreans. They performed their nuclear test in 2006. Biden doesn’t know that treaties are worth the paper they are written on. A man with this kind of record is dangerous because he appears to have knowledge but is a dumb as a rock. He is blinded by his biases and refuses to see reality.

Keep up the good work JimFlaherty Pendamon oceanpines People need to counter the Obamaniacs with facts and logical arguments. I love to hear from you guys.

As governor, Palin stays well informed. Alaska is the first line of defense for missiles coming over the Pole. Russian planes violating Alaskan airspace is not uncommon. Alaska has missile defense systems. This should give the uninformed of you more confidence in Governor Palin I would hope.