I know you have the video, but that isn't good enough. Not everyone will watch it. What about radio jocks who are browsing the internet and report this on-air? I am not an american or a supporter of either McCain or Obama... I am just offended as a fellow journalist.

Andrea, Calgary, Canada

David,

You missed the reason why Gov. Palin indicated a preference for Alec Baldwin's brother: Stephen is a conservative Christian who attended the 2004 Republican Nat'l Convention, lol!

Just one more Yank family with widespread political views.

sak, Rockville, MD, , USA

U.S. politics is a large part show business, isn't it?

Douglas Cornish, Ottawa, Canada

Has anyone else noticed that those non Americans cheering for an Obama victory are the same left wing crowd who were chanting 'death to America' a few months before his candidacy?

I think America is about to get a big mouthful of Socialism European style mixed with a little spice of appeasment.

Zen, London,

"Pretend that you are GOD. Who would you want in the president's position..." MARK SMYTH, TORONTO, CANADA

Hmm... would God want the mayor, or the community organiser? The side that's for big business, or for little people? The side that wants to plunder the earth, or conserve it? WWJD?

Sister Conscientia, Kirkton,

Sarah Palin was in her element at the SNL show. She took the jokes (at her expense) very well. The joke was clearly on her. Or is it simply that the joke is her!
Back to Reality, there is nothing Sarah Palin offers that will take America out of its Economic quandry. Colin Powell was right about her

Jimmy C, Letchworth Garden City, UK

So American men still call women 'hot', and this is meant to be a complement? Or a put down?
Will it ever change?

hanja, Rome,

If Mr. Showbiz Obama is elected to be your big boss next month, get ready NOW for the deluge of taxes and colossal loss of liberties. The "Land of the Free" will have become "Land of the Lost" as Americans feel what socialism is all about.

Dr. Michael Chilton, Beverley, England

I don't think this is an intelligent medium of portraying canditates. It is completely cringeworthy and I fear to think why people embrace such idiotic forms of education.

My question to all the candidates: Name 5 books they read recently, pre 1900, concerning political and social philosophy.

Alex, London,

Most of you have forgotten the GOD factor. Sarah Palin has done what she feels GOD wants her to do by not aborting her son. Pretend that you are GOD. Who would you want in the president's position, Obama the most pro late term abortion promoter in the senate or GOD fearing McCain-Palin? No contest

MARK SMYTH, TORONTO, CANADA

OOOOhhhhh. Poor little Sarah Palin faced the big bad Tina Fey, her "chief tormentor." Do you guys have a clue? This is a woman who shot, killed, and skinned a moose with her own hands.

fran, san diego, usa

Sarah Palin is real. Unlike Mr. Biden who is an old blowheart who is an anchor around the heads of good government.
Sarah Palin threatens people who are sex deviants, crack heads, cocaine addicts, abortionists, the wealthy left, the lazy and anyone who has just a little moral fiber.

David, Payson, Arizona, USA

Brave to appear on SNL? Really? Why can't she find the same courage to "Meet the Press"

November 4th: The jokes over and goes home to Alaska

ellie, San Francisco, USA

Kissinger hasn't endorsed Obama - for what it's worth, and I can't see why it would be worth much to Democrats, he endorsed McCain.

lynne, Los Gatos, USA

Alec Baldwin can't act

louise Beard, Brighton, UK

A "brave appearance"?

She is bidding to become the vice-president of the most powerful country in the free world, she needs to get used to tough appearances and ridicule.

John, Brighton,

The Clintons learned the same lesson as George Bush woke up to today. Reminds me of the old joke The Lone Ranger and Tonto surrounded by Hundreds of Indians Ranger says to Tonto Looks like we have had it this time old friend. Tonto sas What do you mean we white man ?

mike, Nampa, Idaho

"Senator McCain is right. I would not recommend the next President of the United States engage in talks with Iran at the Presidential level. My views on this issue are entirely compatible with the views of my friend Senator John McCain. .."

Guess who?

Jon, London, UK

"she has polarised many of the swinging voters the party needs to capture" HAHAHA! The 'swinging voters'? Shouldn't that be 'the swing voters'?

Richard, Dublin, Ireland

It would have been more acceptable for her to go on SNL if she had in fact been funny at all. Rather, she just sat there while Amy Poehler sang a song about her, and acted like that proved what a wonderful sense of humor she possesses. I think not.

Stephanie, Beverly Hills, USA

The republican calculation backfired as Pallin was completely ridiculed. Agree - the moose rap skit was completely hilarious! Its too late, Mr. McCain.

W. Smith, London, United Kingdom

The best part of the show was the composure, confidence and good spirited humor of the guest Sarah Palin. She was very brave to appear on a show that ridicules the Republicans far more than the Democrats. The political satire is the funniest part of SNL.

T. O'Brien, Fairbanks Alaska, USA

Tacky, tacky, tacky. Sarah's palin' by comparison moment by moment. Thank all lucky stars and stripes Colin Powell proves someone in that godless country is still in possession of decorum, gravitas, and grace. Good grief! This was anything but comic relief; it's embarrassing beyond belief!

Dr. Jonathan Joyce, Toronto, Canada

She resembles McCain: brave but dim. How sad that a great nation like the US considers this sad couple as possible candidated for the presidency.

McCain is the dim son of a smart father, like Bush.

Even super-conservatives like Powell, Buckley, Kissinger have endorsed Obama.

Giorgio, London, UK

I laughed out loud when the moose went down. Great comedy.

Nigel Nicholson, Havre de Grace, Maryland, USA