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09/18/2008: "Sarah Palin looks forward to witnessing the "End of Days"."

"I pushed her on the earth's creation, whether it was really less than 7,000 years old and whether dinosaurs and humans walked the earth at the same time. And she said yes, she'd seen images somewhere of dinosaur fossils with human footprints in them."

Munger also asked Palin if she truly believed in the End of Days, the doomsday scenario when the Messiah will return. "She looked in my eyes and said, 'Yes, I think I will see Jesus come back to earth in my lifetime.'"

Bess is unnerved by the prospect of Palin - a woman whose mind is given to dogmatic certitude - standing one step away from the Oval Office. "It's truly frightening that someone like Sarah has risen to the national level," Bess said. "Like all religious fundamentalists - Christian, Jewish, Muslim - she is a dualist. They view life as an ongoing struggle to the finish between good and evil. Their mind-set is that you do not do business with evil - you destroy it. Talking with the enemy is not part of their plan. That puts someone like Obama on the side of evil.

[ Isn't it a bit disconcerting that someone who wants armageddon in her lifetime may be in the right position to bring it about? And isn't it almost unbelievable that someone like that is the electoral choice of millions of Americans? ]

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/15/bess/index1.html