To the Editor:

I'm trying to figure out whether or not Frannie Boyle, an intelligent Vanderbilt student, is keeping her eyes closed on purpose in this presidential election. If the biggest fault she can see with either of the presidential candidates and their running mates is some earmark issues, I have to conclude she either isn't paying attention or she is playing devil's advocate and fanning the flames of doom for her own entertainment.

John McCain scares me as a potential POTUS because of his choice of vice president. The oldest ever candidate, running in the probably most important presidential election ever, has chosen one of the most incompetent of the possible vice president options during a time in which the American economy is in the midst of a seriously humorless crisis, and we are waging a dangerous trillion-dollar pair of wars. I can't actually believe Sarah Palin has come this close to becoming the president of the United States, and if in fact this joke of a world leader gets elected, I can't say the American public does not deserve whatever economic and military disasters it has coming its way. China just took its first space walk, and the treasury secretary of the United States is on his knees. Wake up.

Sait Mboob
Graduate Program of Economic Development
College of Arts and Science