Dear Charles Gibson: Some questions to ask Sarah Palin

• You have said that building a pipeline in Alaska is "God's will." How do you know this? Did God speak to you directly and tell you what His will is, or did you learn this by some other means?
• It is well documented that you changed the local political climate when you ran for mayor by bringing national issues into a small local race. When elected, you traveled to Washington D.C. and successfully lobbied for federal money (sometimes called "earmarks"), to a degree also new to your small town's politics. You replaced an existing small town political model with an established national one. How do you justify embracing small town political values when you changed them so radically?
• If you raised the possibility of book banning with the city librarian "as a rhetorical issue" as you claim, why did you pursue it so relentlessly in different times and contexts after the librarian had told you the law and her position on the issue? Why did you try to fire her until popular support forced you to reverse this decision?
• When you talk about being against the bridge to nowhere, why don't you admit that you first were for it? Isn't it misleading to tell only half the story? Doesn't this make the real issue why you changed your mind, which you don't address?
• When you learned you were being considered to be the VP candidate, you said you wanted to know what the job entailed and how the VP spent the day. Were you told this before you accepted McCain's offer?
  
• The President does not always live out his term. Do you believe you are ready to become President of the United States?
• Do you believe it's God's will that you become President of the United States?
• Thank you for your time.