John Cleese discusses Palin, no not Michael:

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=jMyNk8J1c8g&eurl

Human interest,

Palin's stance on abortion rights prompted one women's activist to describe her as a post-feminist. She kept her bra but burned her brain.

Churchill - "wouldn't allow my daughter.." Under 18 is she or are you as arrogant/ignorant as the rest of your comments indicate?
Doug9372 - "IQ of 158 = sound choice of McC & Palin"? Interesting how intelligence does not always correlate with rationality.
Plerdsus - 14th amendment may allow immigrants to vote but NOT become Prez. Unlike Arnie.
Sharkfin - that's "KOWtowing" as in banging one's forehead on the floor in obeisance, sorta like born-to-rule types expect from the lower orders, aka workers.

Examinator- “Next time you are sick remember it was one of these intellectuals who discovered the cure”

Yes, they did do marvellous things to aid humanity, and I thought of that when writing the article and that’s why I changed what I wrote from saying ALL left wing intellectuals to “ a LOT of the left wing intellectuals, because it is their political idealism that I am questioning here, to go down the road of discussing their wonderful scientific achievements was another issue. I did think about mentioning it though so as to balance the equation in fairness, but sometimes I choose to omit things because I am focused on a different aspect and trying to limit the number of words, and because I do that it makes it seem as though I am being more unfair than what I am thinking.

A big thank you intellectuals for all your wonderful inventions and achievements but I disagree strongly with your soft-hearted idealist world views and I think they are a recipe for disaster for the Western world.

“the U.S. involvement/manipulation in the middle east”

The U.S undoubtedly has played manipulative games in the middle east, just as the wealthy Arabs especially the Wealthy oil Shieks have played manipulative games with the west for their share of the almighty dollar. Just as the Arabs and muslims play secret territorial games with Europe and the West by flooding their countries with immigration. Just as the Arabs plotted with Hitler to help in his quest to asassinate the jews. That is why the Jewish refugees were allowed to flood into Israel after world war 2 when they had no homeland. The British who occupied the middle east after the war allowed it as punishmnt for the Arabs collaboration with Hitler.

America doesnt hold the copywrite on maniputlaiton , it is the nature of the human beast world wide.

Human Interest - "it's not the anti-intellectualism that bothers me it's the extreme fundy, right wing lunatic religious zealotry that makes Sara Palin appear stupid,"

Whatever happened to secular western government; the laws governing this are too weak and need to be extended to anyone with extreme realous beliefs and not just those who are ordained. I said above I agreed with Sara Palin's down home American loyalty but I knew nothing of her religious fundamentalism. George Bush is another one who's religious views should disallow him from being president.

"...I thought of that when I wrote the article...". Wait. "Sharkfin" is Brendon O'Connor?...Wot the??