Palin is Not Qualified to be President of the United States

The last 48 hours have made it abundantly clear that a Palin presidency would be a disaster for the United States.

In response a question on why the bailout is needed, she rambles,

"Ultimately what the bailout does is helps those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help sure up our economy."

Just to be clear, the bailout has absolutely nothing to do with health care reform. If anything, spending $700 billion on a bailout is going to make funding health care reform near impossible in the short term.

She is asked by Couric, When President Bush ran for office, he opposed nation-building. But he has spent, as you know, much of his presidency promoting democracy around the world. What lessons have you learned from Iraq? And how specifically will you try to spread democracy throughout the world?

What are good lessons from Iraq? My thoughts: 1- Our intelligence was severely flawed; in the future, steps should be taken to ensure that intelligence gathering is not influenced by political pressure. 2- If we are going to engage in regime change, we should have the planning and resources in place to prevent a country from descending into chaos and civil war. 3- We need enough troops to secure Afghanistan and deter potential adversaries. But leaving the bulk of our military resources in one country for over five years has led to our security being weakened in places like Afghanistan, Russia, North Korea, and Iran.

Palin's thoughts?

Specifically, we will make every effort possible to help spread democracy for those who desire freedom, independence, tolerance, respect for equality. That is the whole goal here in fighting terrorism also. It's not just to keep the people safe, but to be able to usher in democratic values and ideals around this, around the world.

Thanks for the specifics. Please don't be president.

In other news, Palin thinks that a blessing for her to be free from witchcraft helped her become Governor.

-Law Dude