Kahuna, I firmly believe most of what people have seen of Sarah Palin to this point has been the snippets and sound bites of the perception much of the Pro-Obama media has fed to the American people and, as you pointed out, construed by inept campaign managers. On the other side of the coin, we have Joe Biden, and he is not managed by anyone since he is the old timer in politics. His statements and sentiments are far more frightening and uninformed than anything I heard Sarah Palin say. Joe isn't even on the same page as Obama in some of the interviews... perhaps he's the one that should be managed. We all need to vote our politically educated minds in this election and not our egos. If we do that, we will have done the best we can. I totally agree with you, this is the way we should see the candidates.