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Glenn Beck has some lines McCain can use in tonight's speech to articulate his vision for change



NEW YORK (CNN) -- Campaigns are ugly. Watching the way politicians act makes you long for the respect and self-control of the Sopranos. Throughout, there are legitimate attacks and outright lies.



Every once in a while, I get a call on my radio show from someone telling me that Barack Obama is secretly a Muslim, who admitted it in an interview with George Stephanopoulos, and has a fake birth certificate. No, no, and no. As I tell them, there are legitimate reasons not to vote for Barack Obama, no need to make them up.



But the newest target is Sarah Palin. Let's take a quick look at just a fraction of what she has faced in her first few days as John McCain's choice for vice president. iReport.com: Do you think Palin is being treated unfairly?



"Sarah Palin believes God told her to go to war with Iraq!"



There has been some hard-core journalistic malpractice on this one. The Associated Press ran this headline about a speech she gave at her church: "Palin: Iraq war 'a task that is from God'"



In the story, they omit the first part of the sentence they're quoting along with the entire previous sentence for good measure.



Here are her actual words: "Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending them out on a task that is from God. That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan."



Palin is clearly praying that we're doing the right thing in Iraq, something sensible for an introspective woman of faith concerned about the lives of our troops to do. She's not saying that she just received a text message from heaven's BlackBerry ordering her to launch missiles. Sorry to disappoint you.



And for those of you who think politicians asking God for guidance is offensive, might I remind you of this famous politician's prayer:



"Give me the wisdom to do what is right and just. And make me an instrument of your will." --Barack Obama



"She has no experience!"



It's fair to assume that Barack Obama believed he was qualified to be in the White House when he announced he was running for president. At that point, he had been a U.S. Senator for 767 days. When Sarah Palin was announced as a vice presidential candidate, she had been the governor of Alaska for 634 days.



While I'm sure those extra 133 days were filled with personal discovery, I can't imagine anyone seriously trying to make the case that Obama is experienced and Palin isn't.



Unless, of course, you're Matt Damon, who said a Palin presidency would be a really "scary thing" because she has been "governor of Alaska for...for less than two years!" (Damon originally expressed his presidential preference for Obama in December 2006, when he had been a senator for less than two years.)



More importantly, Palin's career has been filled with executive experience. She's the only one of the four in this race who has run a business, town, and/or state (a state that gives her crucial energy experience in the middle of an energy crisis).



When Obama's campaign complains that Palin would be one heartbeat away from the presidency, they should consider that their candidate would be zero heartbeats away.



"But Obama is running a huge campaign -- Palin was just a small town mayor!"



Believe it or not, this one was actually trotted out by Obama himself.



"My understanding is, is that Gov. Palin's town of Wasilla has, I think, 50 employees.
What did Sarah Palin say? What jobs did she get the experience from?
God told her to go to war with Iraq!" has run a business, town, and/or state
question: What did Sarah Palin say?, answer: God told her to go to war with Iraq!" | question: What jobs did she get the experience from?, answer: has run a business, town, and/or state