http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-palinreligion28-2008sep28,0,3643718.story "Soon after Sarah Palin was elected mayor of the foothill town of Wasilla, Alaska, she startled a local music teacher by insisting in casual conversation that men and dinosaurs coexisted on an Earth created 6,000 years ago"
and for those of you who feel like pointing out McCain is the presidential candidate I would point you to
http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/STATS/table4c6.html#fn1 and
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr56/nvsr56_09.pdf if you take the time to do some math there is roughly a 45% chance that a white male in his age range would die before leaving office at 76.5 years of age.
hope this clarifies why she scares me. I don't want her in charge of a cardboard box, much less the country.
I don't want palin having veto powers over science funding and educational programs....