It seems that now the Republican party have their own celebrity and savior as she makes her mark (how ironic). I have observed something that no one has mentioned. Doesn''t its strike anyone as odd that the VP is suppose to be able to step into the President role on day one and answer and make the tough decisions, but she hasn''t been allowed to step into the VP role and take tough questions from the media on day one after her acceptance?

It almost felt like I was watching an episode of Jerry Springer last week,
with all the disclosures surrounding Sarah Palin. Imagine the Republican
party under Bush only allowing the very rich as his posse, while John
McCain is going for America's underbelly. Amazing!!!!

It is absolutely disturbing how biased this article is. And people wonder why PBS has a reputation for a left-leaning bias. The headline "PBS Convention Ratings: Obama Tops Palin" clearly illustrates the lack of any journalitic integrity by this PBS hack writer.

Why did the headline not compare apples to apples? Why no mention of Joe Biden's ratings? For those interested in the full picture, Joe Biden's night drew 24 million. Significantly less than Palin did. What does it say when the GOP Vice President drew almost as many viewers Obama? Why did networks like BET broadcast Obama's speech, but nothing from the Republican convention?

Also, where is the data on rating for each night on both sides and each speaker? PBS is weak and biased, and for those liberal journalists who think they can inject your bias into the conversation -- it will backfire. Republicans are pushing the "celebrity factor" and "liberal media bias" themes which is highly motivational to their base.

Sarah Palin has hit the scene like a combination debutant and Debbie
Reynolds-style “Annie Get
Your Gun” NRA gal from the 1950s. She’s cute, personable, confident
and accomplished. I
relate to her coming out of nowhere in Alaska politics and making a
splash with more youth
and success than I did in my bid for U.S. Senate in the Democratic
primaries. She has guts
and grist. But that still does not qualify her to become vice president
and a heartbeat away
from the presidency. The second highest office is not one in which
Americans train our
world leaders.
Palin cannot claim any commonality with Hillary Clinton, a woman who
forged a path for many
years under great criticism and difficulty and who actually is fit to be
president. It is
insulting to claim that the 18 million cracks painstakingly put into the
glass ceiling by Hillary
Clinton’s blood and guts can be equaled with one more whack and a
smile.
It is not legally required in this country that we be patriotic. It is nice
but not law. It is even
more important that we care about our neighbors and their well-being.
It is important that
our decisions not be self-serving and reckless and do not endanger
others. I found McCain’s
vice presidential pick actually to be unpatriotic. He showed a
remarkable lack of concern
about providing Americans with the most qualified candidate. He took
a gamble and, in
doing so, gambled with the very future of his nation. If McCain were
elected and died, he
would not even be around to suffer the aftermath of his “toss-the-
dice” decision.
I wish I were amused, or even just insulted. I’m actually hurt that
McCain is so opportunistic
and ambitious that he would select his running mate with the same
care one might put into
fishing the name of the winner of a ham raffled at a company picnic. A
brief chat, a quick
decision, and he’s good to go. If McCain, a man who has had several
bouts with cancer and
just celebrated his 72nd birthday, gets elected and dies in office, his
careless decision will
long haunt me like his smile of the Cheshire Cat.
McCain’s selection for vice president, and his method of selecting her,
makes me seriously
question his ability to make fundamentally sound and selfless decisions
that reach beyond his
personal short term benefit. As president, McCain would be in a
position to make decisions
that affect every American — and perhaps the very future of the world.
McCain’s choice of
Palin has generated much fuss, frivolity and amusement, but his hair-
trigger decision-making
is cause for great concern. Or, as McCain puts it, "Often my haste is a
mistake, but I live
with the consequences without complaint."
Oh, that John McCain’s haste only affected him.

Very funny you made no comment in this story about the FACT that Palin's speech was broadcast in 6 networks and Obama's in 10 networks - according to the Nielsen. Read more at AmericasNewsToday-com