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Here's a comment I found posted at Anderson Cooper's website. I included the intro for background and snipped parts. Follow the link to read the entire post:

Gov Palin should not compare herself to Sen. Clinton because of this inside scoop…This is an email I received from a good friend in New York City. She is a Bryn Mawr graduate, and is a physician currently engaged in cancer research at Columbia University. This is an email she received from a Bryn Mawr classmate of hers who lives in Alaska.

Begin forwarded message: Dear classmates - As an Alaskan, I am writing to give all of you some information on Sarah Palin, Senator McCain’s choice for VP. As an Alaska voter, I know more than most of you about her and, frankly, I am horrified that he picked her. The most accurate description of her is red neck. Her husband works in the oil fields of Prudhoe Bay and races snow mobiles. She is a life time member of the NRA and has worked tirelessly to allow indiscriminate hunting of wildlife in Alaska, particularly wolves and bears.

Not all of you may think aerial predator hunting is so bad, but how anyone (other than Alaska wolf-haters, of which there are many, most without teeth), could think this use of funds is appropriate is beyond me.

She has been a strong supporter of increased use of fossil fuels, yet the McCain campaign has the nerve to say she has “green” policies. The only thing green about Sarah Palin is her lack of experience.

Prior to her one year as governor of Alaska, she was mayor of Wasilla, a small red neck town outside Anchorage. The average maximum education level of parents of junior high school kids in Wasilla is 10th grade. Unfortunately, I have to go to Wasilla every week to get groceries and other supplies, so I have continual contact with the people who put Palin in office in the first place. I know what I’m talking about.

These people don’t have a concept of the world around them or of the serious issues facing the US. Furthermore, they don’t care. So long as they can go out and hunt their moose every fall, kill wolves and bears and drive their snow mobiles and ATVs through every corner of the wilderness, they’re happy. I wish I were exaggerating.

When you line Palin up with Biden, the comparison would be laughable if it weren’t so serious.

Should something happen to him such that the vice president had to step in, it would destroy our country and possibly the world to have someone as inexperienced and inappropriate as Sarah Palin. The choice of Palin is a cheap shot by McCain to try to get Hillary supporters to vote for him. When McCain introduced her today, Palin had the nerve to compare herself with Hillary and Geraldine Ferraro. Sarah Palin, you are no Hillary Clinton.

But please try to see how the poor choice of Palin tells us a great deal about McCain’s judgment. While the political posturing inherent in the choice of Palin is obvious, the more serious issue is the fact that the VP is, literally, a heartbeat away from the presidency. Sarah Palin is totally and unequivocally unqualified to be vice president, let alone president.

Buwahahaaha! You know, these "progressives" remind me of Victorian gentlemen in their clubs talking about the rabble and 'those type of people'. They're closed-minded, bigoted and unbelievably self-righteous. They also are incapable of self-reflection.

I forget her name, but FOX's new Democrat talking head seems to have a little more sense than many others. She is not so blind or stupid as to try to call black white like many of them do. Last night, she made the comment that most of the small towns in America are just like Sarah's small town, and that, if the Democrats ridicule her small town upbringing, they do so at their peril. Reading this condescending, supercilious email from this clueless Bryn Mawr graduate reminded me of her statement.

I did not graduate from an Ivy League University, but I am a well-educated woman with a Masters degree and 25 years of teaching experience. I am very offended by this woman's portrayal of Sarah Palin. Imagine what a small town girl who dropped out of HS to have her first child and now is proud (and rightly so) to have completed her GED feels when she reads garbage like this! She is not likely to run out and get an Obama sign, that's for sure!