"As to the discussion of teen-age pregnacy, I also feel it is a family decision, not a public nor political one."

As far as I'm concerned it's a public debate when the mother is running as the VP & she raises her daughter the same way she'd raise the children of the state of Alaska which would carry over the the way she'd sway the nation if she gets into office.
She doesn't see the need for sex education within her family fine but education for the rest of the race helps to bring the numbers of unwanted pregnacies down. It is a problem & refusing to push education weither it be on reproductive sciences, climate & earth sciences, eviormental sciences is what we've been sorely lacking for the last 8 yrs, abstaining is not education, that's no more than an absurd request. She failed awfully as a Mayor to push education why would she do any better with the future of our nation's children?

She wants to push creationism, let her do it in the faith based schools where each faith can deceid on which theory to teach based on their different beliefs in the different theories, (would they teach it if it was their own money & not ours they were spending?). Who's gonna teach the theories believed by the those of the 1st nations, they recieve federal funds for education don't they? A bit of a catch 22 there, when religions aren't taught in public schools if the recieve federal, state or other public funding.

The issue of feuding with the Fed's over Bears may not loom largely over many heads but the fedreal protection of a spiecies, IMHO, is sacred these days, one of the few things they could be doing better but it is also one of the fews things they are doing right & one should have a pretty air-tight cause & reason to turnaround that policy. I haven't heard her reasoning but I sure hope it's better than the NRA wants it's hunters to have more targets to shoot & mostly I hope it's not a ploy to open up the ranges for the drilling of ANWR. Maybe by Nov will have an answer. Our is it only the polor bears she wants to eradicate?

I do pray & hope she stays on the ticket though. McCain couldn't have made a poorer choice & had he picked better, even Rice would've been better thought the thought of her getting in rattles my bones, he'd have had a better shot & I'd rather see him go down in flames,,,,,again.

Barry