Is Sarah Palin Ready to be President?

With the current set of challenges that the United States faces on the domestic and international front, the obvious question in the minds of the voters would be "Is the next president ready to tackle these challenges?".

With John McCain selecting Sarah Palin, the 20 month governor of Alaska and a former mayor of a town of 6000 people, as his running mate, the question becomes does she have the enough grasp of the domestic and international issues to be able to take over for John McCain if "God Forbid" something were to happen to him were he elected president.

Based on her first major interview with a nationally recognized journalist Charles Gibson it does not seem like she is ready.

The NY Times blasts John McCain in its most recent editorial by saying and I quote "If he seriously thought this first-term governor — with less than two years in office — was qualified to be president, if necessary, at such a dangerous time, it raises profound questions about his judgment. If the choice was, as we suspect, a tactical move, then it was shockingly irresponsible."

In an op-ed column for the NY times, columnist Bob Herbert also thinks She is Not Ready to be Commander in Chief of the United States