More bias from the MSM left...and a response

According to Newsweek (part of the 'elitists' of the Left), Sarah Palin is too 'common' and too stupid (like the rest of us?!) to be Vice President. Oh, and she's 'dangerous' to boot.

Well, them's fighting words. So I sent a response to Newsweek:

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To: Letters@newsweek.com

Sent: Monday, October 6, 2008 11:59:37 AM

Subject: Response to Jon Meacham's Oct. 4 cover article on Sarah Palin

Wow. Mr. Meacham's elitist viewpoint and lack of both respect, and facts, in your cover story on Sarah Palin is so obviously biased, it stunned me. Mr. Meacham needs to do a bit more fact-checking before he writes. And he obviously does not put any faith whatsoever into our Constitution, because if he had bothered to check, he would have found that the qualifications for president of the United States stated in the U.S. Constitution, Article 2, Section 1 are these: "No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."

THAT'S IT. Ms. Palin meets all of these qualifications, plus she has the experience of both a mayor and governor of our nation's largest state. Mr. Mecham may also want to check into the backgrounds of the following and their own lack of experience: Bill Clinton spent 3 terms as governor of Arkansas, but had no federal or foreign policy credentials. If the Dems are so committed to foreign policy experience, why could they not find a more qualified opponent to take on George H.W. Bush? Even the New York Times's (Tom Friedman 10/4/92) said about Bill Clinton: "Under the pressure of a Presidential campaign, Gov. Bill Clinton has been trying to outline his own unique foreign policy, while at the same time fending off criticism from the Bush White House that he is a closet dove masquerading as a hawk and that his experience in world affairs is limited to breakfast at the International House of Pancakes." Also, Jimmy Carter, Spiro Agnew, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson all had little, if any, foreign policy experience before entering office.

You state in your article: "Do we want leaders who are everyday folks, or do we want leaders who understand everyday folks?"

Be careful, Mr. Meacham. The American public are not some kind of brainless drones, we actually think for ourselves, and we are looking for someone like us. Sarah Palin fultills both of those points, and is precisely the reason why she is revered by middle America!

Mr. Meacham also states: "Jackson, Lincoln, Truman, Eisenhower, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan and Clinton were born to ordinary families, but they spent their lives doing extraordinary things, demonstrating an interest in, and a curiosity about, the world around them. This is much less evident in Palin's case."

Really?!? How so? By whose standards, Mr. Mecham – surely not YOURS? The fact that she's lived her entire life as an achiever--basketball, college, journalist, beauty contests, a MOTHER OF FIVE, a Mayor and a Governor?—by those standards, what on earth could you then possibly call "extraordinary?" Personally I do call that extraordinary, if not downright amazing. Bill Clinton ran to Europe to escape the draft. I call that cowardice.

Mr. Meacham, your article is one of the most blatant illustrations of contempt, foolishness, partiality and snobbery that I have ever come across. You should be ashamed to call yourself a "journalist," because impartial you are not. It's painfully obvious that you're nothing more than just another shill for the liberal left. And those of us "Joe/Jane Six-Packs" and middle Americans are sick and tired of it. We're watching you very closely, and yes, we're "mad as hell and we're not taking it any more!"