DU this poll - 55% say Sarah Palin is qualified to serve as Vice President?

[SlipperySlope]

You know what to do:

http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html

[MrSlayer]

1. Hell, I'm just as qualified.

You could do worse than making me VP. Palin is one example of such.

[OmahaBlueDog]

2. Done

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. The legal qualifications are met. Maybe those poll takers are

looking at it as a test.

[AndyTiedye]

4. It's Being Freeped Big Time

[silverojo]

5. Either that, or more than half the country's gone completely insane

I voted in the poll, and hope others will, too.

[ingac70]

17. You can vote in that poll twice...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087325/posts

[APPLE_PIE]

6. DONE - STILL AT 55% N/T

[Slippery_Hammer]

7. Done

Total Votes: 42128822

[cliffordu]

8. Why do we care?? Really??

[backscatter712]

9. The PBS poll again?

:eyes:

We've seen it a million times. The web site doesn't even bother to check if you've already voted. I'll bet the freepers have bots pumping up their numbers.

But hey, knock yourselves out. Vote early, vote often!

[Bobbieo]

11. I did - early and often!!!

[d_b]

10. this one again?

[VOX]

12. 54% say Yes -- major freeping going on. n/t

[radfringe]

13. heh, she's qualified to serve as VP, but

inexperienced as a debator? lol

[orleans]

14. who are these morons saying "yes!" (ugh. kickin) n/t

[backscatter712]

16. Bots, most likely.

PBS's site doesn't even bother to check if you've already voted. Writing a bot to vote thousands of times in that poll would be trivial.

[ingac70]

19. ....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087325/posts

[orleans]

23. (sorry--i can't bring myself to click on your link. i don't wanna puke) n/t

[snake in the grass]

15. This poll is a waste of time.

It is not scientific and means nothing. Yes, it is being "freeped" as this link shows:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086394/posts

Hell, let them freep all they want. I mean, they need something to do in the refractory period down in mommy's basement between porn clips.

In November we will have a real poll.

[MattSh]

18. Guess I'm going to go with Chris Floyd on this one...

But I must say that I strongly disagree with the argument that Sarah Palin is not qualified to be president of the United States. Such a stance betrays a lamentable misperception of the true function of the office in these modern times. It also ignores the craven nature of our political and media establishments, which has been on such brazen display for lo these many years.

First of all, what do you think would happen in the not-unlikely-event that an aged, ailing President McCain either died or became incapacitated? The very instant that Palin assumed the presidency, the aforesaid establishments would surround her with an aura of substance, seriousness, and respect. She would become..."The President"...her title invoked with the same frisson of pleasurable self-abnegation that accompanied every utterance of the holy phrase on "The West Wing." The media would find hidden reservoirs of charisma and command suddenly coming to light. We would hear stories of her folksy charm, her steely resolve, her self-deprecating wit, her surprising grasp of complex issues.

It doesn't matter what kind of poltroon parks his or her butt in the Oval Office, or how they get in there; they will be presented to the people as a figure of moral authority and gravitas -- and be accepted as such by large swathes of the public. How can anyone have lived through the presidency of an utter non-entity like George W. Bush -- not to mention the presidencies of the fourth-rate aristo George H.W. Bush or the literally brain-corroded Ronald Reagan -- and not know this? As Shakespeare told us long ago in King Lear: "Behold the great image of authority; a dog's obeyed in office."

And haven't the past eight years been a painfully glaring demonstration of the undeniable fact that the office of the presidency is -- or certainly can be -- the emptiest of empty shams, a front behind which powerful elite factions shelter as they push their self-serving and undemocratic agendas? Yes, yes, yes, there are tussles and disagreements, even blood feuds, among the elite, there are narrow areas in which marginal differences in policy approaches might come into play. But no one -- no one -- becomes president or vice-president who has not already bought into the basic package: militarism, empire and continual state intervention in the economy on behalf of the rich and powerful.

http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1594/1/

[ingac70]

20. Been freeped for a long time now...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085174/posts

plus you can vote more than once.

[snappyturtle]

21. Yes 53% No 45% Not sure 0%! n/t

[greeneyedboy]

22. still freeped--54% yes. n/t

http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html

[vanderBeth]

24. done-again

[lonestarnot]

25. I voted 100 times and it didn't count!

:P

[lonestarnot]

26. 51 YES 47 NO. Still fixed.

[SlipperySlope]

27. Well, thanks for trying...

I guess the fix was in.

[wildbilln864]

28. done! 51%-48% say yes.

:banghead: why am I suspicious of that number?