Comments on: Friday Poll: Which tech gadget is Palin?

Vote in our weekly poll: If Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin were a tech gadget, which would she be?

[KCFalcon59]

How stupid.

[GPBraaten]

This is a SEXIST topic for cnet news. Hmmm....

[skillingssucks]

You mean how stupid is Palin? Very.

[SebDavies]

lighten up

[electronista]

Hello Kitty assault rifle: looks cute and like a toy but ultimately far too dangerous to be trusted with the average person!

[sythara]

its a .223 rifle, not really all that dangerous.

And an average person is smart enough to be trusted with a weapon. Our military met and women are mostly average people doing extra ordinary job, and they are all trusted with weapons.

[Galaxy5]

"its a .223 rifle, not really all that dangerous. "

That must be why we hand them out to soldiers.

.223 is pretty dangerous once it starts tumbling around inside your body or head...and that big, fat section behind the bullet? That's a lot of powder, and hence power.

Claiming that any caliber of rife is "not that dangerous" is ridiculous. You can kill someone with a .22 air rifle if you try hard enough.

Let me guess - you own a gun. Oh, joy.

[sythara]

You can clobber someone to death with sunday new york times, whats your point? Anything is dangerous in the wrong hands, and you just have to be smart enough to realize it.

And yes, I do own a gun, many guns actually.

[Kev_Orng]

A rifle that's not dangerous?
Isn't that kind of like having a phone that won't make calls?

[sythara]

I quote my own words: "its a .223 rifle, not really all that dangerous"

Never said anything about not being dangerous at all. Come to think of it, driving a car is dangerous too. So it riding a motorcycle. In fact, anything you do has some level of danger. But a comment by electronista saying "ultimately far too dangerous to be trusted with the average person! " is uncalled for. That is what I was refering to in the first place. I'm sorry, but I think all of you should be insulted (unless you're not an average person and a genius). Handling a gun is not difficult. They can teach uneducated farmers from 3rd world countries to fire a gun safely, but I guess people in the US are not to be trusted with them.

Please...

[dogboi]

Hello Kitty assault rifle: it's the most analog of the bunch, and thus the one as outdated as her views.

[Galaxy5]

She's a talking picture frame with no batteries.

[zoso418]

She's a talking picture frame with a known to be corrupted hard drive and her inability to address the bugs detected in her software makes her about as appealing as a broken record.

[Hammerhand]

Sarah Palin is a Virtual Boy... Yeah - the thing that gives you a headache after half an hour; was hot while it was new, but quickly faded into the ranks of New Coke, Pepsi Clear, Windows ME, and hundreds of other abandoned and forgotten products.

[giyad]

just because i can't think of useless invention right now.... http://www.brandish.tv/2006/10/top_5_useless_i.html one of these would be right

[Pete Bardo]

She's more like an iPhone--way overpriced and does little, but sure looks cute!

Maybe she's like a talking Hallmark card--she's able to repeat everything she's been told.

No, no. I've got it. She's Sabrina--Barbie's dark haired friend. But there's nothing tech about that gadget is there?

I chose the Speak & Spell, although she's provided no evidence she can do the latter. I think I chose the gadget she' s most likely able to use rather than the one she most resembles.

[Dalkorian]

"I chose the Speak & Spell, although she's provided no evidence she can do the latter. I think I chose the gadget she' s most likely able to use rather than the one she most resembles."

Thanks, I was in need of a good laugh.

[firi]

Maybe Commodore 64...

[razorbuzz]

I'm thinking the Apple Newton - Gone before it was ever really here.

[sythara]

So many Palin haters here.

Then Obama would be Microsoft Windows (or a PC running windows)? Promises all these great features but has absolutely no means of delivering them?

[catch23]

Well, Windows does deliver for about 90% of us.
OK

[GPBraaten]

That is what this exercise was a bout, but you must admit her popularity is going up. Even Palin haters were waiting expectantly for her side of the story.

I don't see any BIDEN gadget questionaires going up.

[inouyde]

I'm an Obama fan, but THAT was funny...

[bjames]

How True you are!.... apparently that's not important for who's running for president.... where does all this hate come from?....

[martalli]

The Speak and Spell - you just type in some words and she speaks! Look at that keyboard, it's no wonder she says such gobledygook sometimes! I would assert that a Speak and Spell would make a bad president, too.

[sythara]

Then its a good thing shes not running for president.

[ItsMidnite]

Shame on you.......
This is the type of indoctinating brainwashing that our children get from the NEA.

[bjames]

INDEED!!

[AgincourtWinner]

The .223 round not that dangerous? That is really odd, from what I saw it looked pretty dangerous to me. I am glad I was on the dull end of the projectile. Perhaps you might venture out to see the damage it does.

Personally, I like her...she is not some slick, Washington elitist. Why aren?t more people welcoming non-Lawyers into office? Have we all not had enough of Lawyers serving Lawyers?

[catch23]

Personally, I have no problem with her being a non-Lawyer. I also think it is absolutely hypocritical of the Obama fans to state that his lack of experience is OK for being the President but her lack of experience is unacceptable as Vice President. She is smart, tenacious, and a reasonable candidate.
She is just WAY too right wing for me. The implied promise to the ultra-conservative Christian right her nomination makes is just too much for me.

[skillingssucks]

I'm thinkin' Microsoft Zune.

[jedicharles]

This poll is childish, asinine and disrespectful.

[Moozle]

If Sarah can't stand the heat, she should get out of the kitchen.

[bjames]

INDEED!!

[luddite11111]

I think she's the Speak & Spell because she sure and hell speaks slow and retarded. During the debate even last night I was going wild as to how she sounds pronouncing the word NUCLEAR! It's not NOOCEELAR. The last thing we need right now is another person in the White House who can't say the damn word like Bush.

[BObama]

Now I think that is just being mean....have you ever seen me speak without a teleprompter..........aaahhh.........ummm, ahhhhh what I am trying to say aahhh ummmmmm................CHANGE!

[dianesleft]

totally agree with luddite11111! not another one who can1t pronounce that word!

[muchtoomuch]

I think maybe a crockpot. All about mushy vegetables except for the meat and bones of endanger wildlife. I know its not high tech, but neither is she.
If not, I vote for the kitty assault rifle. That's kinda what she'll do to the country, don-cha-know?

[planblove]

I'll go with the Speak and Spell. Its simple, its from the old school and it'll blurt out whatever sentences you want it to say. I think that about sums her up.

[Moozle]

It's quite obvious to me she's a Decepticon.