This commentary for the Miami Herald is most interesting. It appears that Sarah Palin positions are unknown or of a concern. She is so new on the political stage that her positions are not known or so thin that they cause concern. This is the other side of the fresh image.

Interesting Op-ed about how McCain could be losing a lot of Jewish voters to Obama or Nader because of Palin's very controversial views on religion. The writer brings up many examples of why the Jewish voter and other non-christian's are or should be scared to vote for the McCain/Palin ticket. Well written, but there are many more examples that the writer neglected to mention.

Ms. Reinhard begins her essay with its most important claim, but offers zero evidence in support of it. She then spends the rest of her time worrying over mixed evidence concerning Palin's attitude toward the Jews, claiming Palin could prevent McCain from siphoning Democratic votes of Floridian Jews. Ms. Reinhard shows no awareness of the theology of Palin's religious ilk, which holds all Jews are spiritually lost and are bound to eternal hell if they don't convert to Christianity and become Jews for Jesus. Same goes for Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and some among think the same of Catholics.

Addresses some legitimate issues but in a rather superficial way. Agree with a previous reviewer that it would have been helpful if writer had educated readers about the beliefs of her denomination (although to what extent she subscribe to them is unclear). There is also a lot of variation among Jews in how they respond to Palin and Israel. Article doesn't convey this adequately and uses a few interview quotes that give a rather distorted picture of the range of attitudes. Hate to tell reviewer Hirsch but Obama's denomination is liberal and mainline, not true of Palin's church. He has apparently bought the right-wing propaganda/

This opinion piece has minimal journalistic merit. The author should have been criticizing Obama, who after all continuing his membership in a really extremist, hateful church until this year. Palin and her family left the church in question six years ago because it was too extreme. And that church is much more mainstream than Obama's, having 5 times the membership nationally. The fact that Gov Palin has the flag of Israel in her office is denigrated, which demonstrates the bias of this author.