Americans agree: 59% say Palin couldn't be president

Any 2012 presidential bid is looking that little bit less viable today for Sarah Palin, the Governor of Alaska and high-profile vice-presidential candidate for the 2008 election. A new poll, released today, reveals that 59% of people who responded believe that she lacks the skills necessary for the job.

In the survey, conducted as a joint venture by 60 Minutes and Vanity Fair, conducted Aug. 3-5 by CBS News among 847 adult respondents, 59% told pollsters that they thought Palin could not be an effective president compared to only 26% who said that she could be.

Eighty percent of liberals reportedly said that Palin couldn't be an effective president, while still under half - 47% - of Republicans believed that she could be.

The latest pollster.com ratings put her in a position where she is '52.7% unfavorable'.

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Sarah Palin isn't so happy about the Dr Laura resignation

Although a number of people were happy to hear that a fast-talking radio pundit known as Dr Laura Schlessinger will resign from her long-running syndicated talk show, one woman wasn't quite so pleased. Former vice presidential candidate and Alaskan glam-girl Sarah Palin, for one.

Using the social networking site Twitter, she shot back at any notion that the conservative favorite would step back out of the limelight. She tweeted:

 The controversy surrounding Laura came after she verbally exploded in an on-air rant in which she used the 'n-word' eleven times. "b thankful 4 her voice, America!" Sarah Palin continued in internet shorthand. 


Dr. Laura is said to be one of the most listened to radio hosts in the country.

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Rush Limbaugh: Barack Obama is the first 'anti-American president'

Rush Limbaugh, the conservative pundit known for his subtle humor with regard to political commentary - where he is balanced and always open to hearing the other side - has opened up another can of 'whipa**' on the current administration by saying that Barack Obama is the first president who is 'Anti-America'.

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Glenn Beck says gay marriage is NOT a threat to America

In perhaps the biggest surprise to be peddled out of Fox News, the conservative noise channel owned by media baron Rupert Murdoch, Glenn Beck, a political commentator on the channel, said that he does not believe gay marriage is a threat to America.

This should come as great surprise to some who have even watched five minutes of the network, where banter denouncing gay rights is a common part of the overall tone the evil overlords enjoy peddling daily over the airwaves.

"Honestly, I think we have bigger fish to fry," Beck told fellow Fox personality Bill O'Reilly. "You can argue about abortion or gay marriage or whatever all you want. The country is burning down...I don't think marriage, that the government actually has anything to do with...that is a religious right."


To cement his point, he used a quote from Thomas Jefferson. "If it neither breaks my leg nor picks my pocket, what difference is it to me?"

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Conservative Party plans anti-mosque TV campaign

New York's Conservative Party is reportedly planning to add a television advertising campaign to the already heavy firepower it is throwing at plans to build a mosque near New York's 'Ground Zero'. This site is where where the World Trade Centre collapsed in September of 2001 after attacks related to terrorism.

The ad, of which the Associated Press has obtained a copy, states rather clearly that "real Americans" want real answers about any proposed Islamic Centre.

It also calls on viewers to contact the partial owners of the land on which the mosque is said to stand in the future, in an effort to have people pressure the company into halting the plans.

This is, however, unable to happen under current agreements. The utility which owns the land has already signed a legally binding document which allows the mosque to be built on the site.

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McCain gets personal; won't work with Democrats should he be re-elected

John McCain, a the 2008 presidential hopeful who lost to Barack Obama and a senator from Arizona, has announced publicly that he would not consider working with Democrats on issues such as immigration should he be re-elected in this year's mid-term elections.

As Think Progress reports, the senator has attached himself to various far-right policies in order to garner support from a number of influential Republican voter groups. His position on border security, according to the website, is just one example of such policies.

Today however, McCain has caused further controversy when he responded to a caller on an Arizona radio show - saying he would never work with Democrats on immigration reform.

CALLER: I would like to ask Sen. McCain if he will make a promise on the air now that if we reelect him, he will not reach across the aisle, especially with Lindsey Graham, for comprehensive immigration reform. Will you not do that for the time you’re in office.

MCCAIN: Yes ma’am. … I am promising that I will try to address the issue of immigration in a way that is best for the United States of America.

Read the full report at Think Progress

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Did Supreme Court nominee, Kagan, compare the NRA with the Ku Klux Klan?

Elena Kagan, the latest nominee to the Supreme Court by President Obama has come under fire from a conservative website, known as the National Review, which questions the possibility of the nominee comparing the National Rifle Association with the Ku Klux Klan.

"It has become clear", writes the website's Robert VerBruggen, "that Elena Kagan is no friend of gun rights, to say the least". Yes sir, and you're a nut job...to say the least.

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