Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, September 25, 2008

Even though I never had kids myself (I'm 52), I did raise a 3-year-old girl by myself for a year (she is now almost 6).

You wrote: "The kids are all right. Let's talk about the future of the country." So true.

The one thing that bothers me about Palin (and others, but to me it's more pronounced in Republicans) is the lying.

To paraphrase Palin: I sold the plane on eBay. (Not true; you listed it on eBay, but it was never sold on eBay). I was against the "bridge to nowhere" (actually, you were for the bridge long before you were against it).

It's really easy for me to believe that she'll lie to me while in office when she's telling me (easily discovered) lies during the campaign. In the age of YouTube and the Internet, someone's got to tell these politicians that lying in public is much more difficult than it was just a few short years ago.
Geoff Emerson, via the Internet

McCains/Palins are just tabloid fodder: Sarah Palin paraded her 17-year-old pregnant, unmarried daughter, Bristol, around the stage at the Republican National Convention. In fact, Sarah Palin's first child was born when she had been married about seven months. Sarah Palin's admitted marijuana smoking and [was accused of] abuse of office.

All of the above happened while Palin professed to be a Christian.

John McCain, fifth from the bottom of his Naval Academy class of 899 members and [an accused] adulterer, married Cindy one month after he divorced his first family. Cindy [was accused of] drug addiction and drug theft.

These two families in the White House would provide fodder for the tabloids for years to come. Such a terrible example for our young people.
Jewel Mathias, via the Internet