<p align="left"><img src="http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedImages/PeterHeck.jpg" border="0" alt="Peter Heck" title="Peter Heck" hspace="3" vspace="3" width="78" height="127" align="left" style="float: left; border: 0; margin: 3px;" />To say I was dumbfounded would be an understatement.  About a week before the 2008 presidential election, I was talking to a friend who had just informed me he had decided to vote for Barack Obama.  "Why, given the most serious state of national and international affairs we were facing, would you be so willing to roll the dice on a political novice like Obama?" I asked.  His incredible response: "Sarah Palin."<br /> <br />It was his concern that she was unprepared to be just a heartbeat away from the presidency, and if something were to happen to John McCain, she might be thrust into a role where inexperience can be deadly.  So his solution was to vote into that very office a man who had far less experience than even Palin.  Amazing.</p>
