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2008-10-22 09:48:28 10 Zen Monkeys
A lot of people have said "I don't know if it's fair to look at Sarah Palin's sexuality the way people are — I just don't know if it's sexist or appropriate. Why can't we just treat her like a human being?" Okay, I'm going to tell you why ...
2008-10-22 06:06:12 AFRICAN AMERICAN DAD
Things are still good in kindergarten. Great actually. The Dev is loving every minute of his new school and honestly I can't blame him. The kids seem to have the best time in that place. (I write that last sentence as a jealous nine-to-five worker with four hour daily commute.) I ask...
2008-10-15 12:38:59 NoahCoffey.com
Just a fun little example of how even the big guys can still screw things up royally. This morning, CNN posted a little widget that displayed various grades for both Biden and Palin from the Vice Presidential Debate last night. At the bottom of the widget was an area for ...
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2008-10-06 12:45:11 Eric Berlin
From the right From the left Update: On a similar note, having only watched the first few minutes of the debate last night, I turn this morning to the blogs to get the scoop. From the left-wing blogs, I learn that Biden won. From the right-wing blogs, I learn that Palin won. Yep, I gue...
2008-10-06 11:34:20 Rantings of a Sandmonkey
Okay, I just finished watching the debate, which meant that I had to stay up till 3 am my time just to see the damn thing start. But now that it's over, I figured I should have something posted up on it before I pass out. Now, before this thing started, ...
2008-10-06  MY RIGHT MIND!
What is the Alaskan Independence Party?"I'm an Alaskan, not an American. I've got no use for America or her damned institutions."- Joe Vogler, FounderDeveloping...
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Good article - one of the main points is Palin's coldness or detachment from emotion. You can see an example of this in her answer here - when she was asked on abortion and what if her teenage daughter was raped and become pregnant - it is interesting to see the difference between her ...
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2008-10-06  USAmérica Vota'08
Desempolven sus cascos y sus espadas, señores, porque los próximos 29 días van a ser duros. La campaña de John McCain ha decidido que ya va siendo hora de dejar de hablar de economía, que es un tema que no les beneficia nada, y trasladar el debate a otra materia más suculenta: el...
, Juego , John , Candidatos , Barack , Republicanos , Demócratas
2008-10-06  Joe. My. God.
So HE'S the guy Palin keeps talking about!(Via - Slog)Subscribe.
, silliness , Sarah
2008-10-06  FOXNews.com
Palin defends charge Obama is 'palling around with terrorists;' Obama fires back that GOP ticket is 'erratic and dishonest'• McCain Brother Calls N. Virginia 'Communist Country'• 'SNL' Slices and Dices Palin, Biden in Debate Send-Up• Biden Puts Campaign on Hold After ...
2008-10-06  Expressio Unius
One of my least favorite slogans this political season has been to contrast Obama with Palin, in saying that "Jesus Christ was a community organizer, and Pontius Pilate was a Governor."It started right around the time Palin made fun of Obama in her convention speech, and caught on like...
2008-10-06  Dr. Helen
My PJM column is up: When does political passion become obsessive and unhealthy? Read the column about the Palin hater and let me know what you think.
, PJM , palin , politics
2008-10-06  Liberal Conspiracy
I’m sure the readers here are all savvy enough to know that rapper/actor/entrepreneur/wannabe Alan Sugar Sean ‘P.Diddy’ Combs ain’t scared of shit. A veteran of the mid-nineties Rap Wars, the onetime Puff Daddy made millions from reminding us that he’s a Bad Boy For Life, and...
, Blog , Feminism , United
2008-10-06  Think Progress
Speaking at a San Francisco fundraiser on Sunday, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) “fumbled” while praising U.S. soldiers in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, referring to Afghanistan as a “neighboring country”: “They are also building schools for the Afghan childr...
, Think , Afghanistan , McCain , Palin
Not much lower, I would have thought. Sure, some pretty ugly things were said here in Oz during our 2007 election, but nothing up to, or down to, the standard of Palin's smear about Obama's "terrorist mate". Obama himself has given this the answer it merits. However, if you are curious...
2008-10-06  Jack Bog's Blog
Yesterday we posted our analysis of Sarah and Todd Palin's 2006 and 2007 tax returns. We concluded that the travel payments the Palins received for their children's travel were definitely taxable income, and that since the Palins did not report the kids' payments, they owe substantial...
, Law , National , Taxes
2008-10-06  The Morning News
If we’re going to play the guilt by association game, let’s not forget that Palin has birthed five children from the seeds of a secessionist. A few more kids and we’re looking at a full-blown militia. The benefit of having a vice presidential candidate that doesn&#...
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OK Gov. Sarah Palin has finally appeared in vice-presidential debate, so why won’t Kathleen Parker take those and other words back?   Other things she has said is Gov. Palin should drop out of the race “for the good of the country.”   Gov. Palin is a lightweight who wasn't “p...
Fareed Zakaria: Palin Is Ready? Please. | Newsweek Voices - Fareed Zakaria | Newsweek.com - this is the primary reason I’ve lost respect for McCain. In these times, for John McCain to have chosen this person to be his running mate is fundamentally irresponsible. McCain says that...
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2008-10-06  Stop The ACLU
-By Warner Todd Huston So, instead of merely reporting the news, now reporters are the news? Apparently Charlie Gibson thinks he is, anyway. He gave an interview to the Toledo Blade on October 5 as if his opinions of the race for the White House are somehow more important than the news...
, Elections , Liberal , News , Sarah
2008-10-06  Amused Cynic
At one point, noting that Palin had remarked ruefully almost a week ago that her son Track had been, since his recent deployment to Iraq, in touch with his girlfriend but not his mother, I asked whether she had subsequently heard from him. Palin told me she had. “He called the day of...
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2008-10-06  Right From Left
Whether you believe the hype or not, whether or not you believe the polls, McCain-Palin begin October behind.I'm skeptical about the polls, but Obama did get a bit of a bounce from debate #1 and the electoral map has shifted. It will continue to shift around. With a good debate perfor...
2008-10-06  SocraticGadfly
Guess that state judge affirming the council’s legal authority may have wised them up.But, Gov. Palin and First Dumbass Todd haven’t said yet whether they’ll offer their own, unsubpoenaed testimony or not.I guess it also shows McCain’s campaign doesn’t have deep enough pocket...
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2008-10-06  EYE ON MIAMI
It is a strange entry on the Sunday opinion page of The Miami Herald: "Palin news is balanced; opinion line up isn't". Apparently the right wing spin machine is hard at work on the mainstream media: ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos writes of Palin's supporters, that they are wrong ab...
, Miami , McClatchy , Gimleteye
You know what, icarus? I think I'm picking ze nits because 1) I enjoy the conversation here and want to keep a hand in and 2) I am sooooo tired of thinking about Sarah Palin. I don't really give a shit anymore what McCain/Palin does. They is finished, I tell ya, FINISHED. Two word...
2008-10-06  Asthma Mom
Cold-Induced Wheezing = High Asthma Risk in Kids Almost 90% of young children who wheezed with a cold before they turned three developed asthma by age six, according to a new study. Why is that significant? Here’s why: [m]uch attention has been focused on another common infectiou...
, Asthma , Asthma , Asthma , Children's , Children's , FDA , Friday , Holidays , House , aids , aids , caramel , carved , colds , fda , halloween , kids , mccain-palin , obesity , pumpkin , rhinovirus , rsv , steroids , strimple , turn , u.s. , usda
2008-10-06  Soccer Dad
In his column yesterday, the NYT's public editor, Clark Hoyt asserted: By my count, The Times has published more tough articles on Obama, 20, than on McCain, 13, since the beginning of last year. I have posted links to the stories on my blog, The Public Editor's Journal, and you can de...
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Alaska Governor, Sarah Palin, listens to questions during an interview in her office, Dec. 13, 2007. (AP Photo/Chris Miller, File) Tax lawyers are feasting on Sarah Palin’s tax returns. On Friday, the Alaska Governor and Republican vice presidential nominee released her return...
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Thanks for the info, Peggy! I am DEFINITELY not going vote for Madeleine Albright this election!
2008-10-06  CJR
Sometimes it’s hard to know when Tom Brokaw is actually gauche or playing gauche; actually ironic or ironizing his own irony. On Meet the Press, Brokaw played a clip of McCain’s interview last week with the editorial board of the Des Moines Register, featuring a woman off-camera wh...
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2008-10-06  Media Nation
All right, I am assuming far more coherence and meaning in Sarah Palin's ramblingly incoherent interview with Fox's Carl Cameron than is warranted. But I do want to call your attention to this amazing passage, flagged by Jake Tapper of ABC News:As we send our young men and women overse...
, Sarah , First , Free , politics
Sarah Palin's jab at Barack Obama on Sunday attempting to tie him to terrorism (!) is another in a long line of gaffes that will hurt her ticket tremendously. You always suspected that McCain, if he got in trouble with the electorate, really would stoop to calling his rival a terroris...
My previous article, “2008 Elections: Marriage-Absence, America’s Most Urgent Problem, Goes Ignored”, points out what is wrong with Sarah Palin: she is a card-carrying big-government socialist feminist. McCain is no better for a variety of reasons discussed in previous articles [...
, 2008 , Activism , Analysis , Conservatism , Current , Family , Fatherhood , Feminism , Law , Mating, , OP/ED , Politics , Vox
2008-10-06  TMZ.com
Filed under: Wacky & Weird, Prez Election 2008 Porn star Lisa Ann -- who is playing the role of Sarah Palin in Hustler's upcoming "Nailin' Palin" -- is conducting extensive research so she can nail the role. Unlike Palin, she's more forthcoming and direct in answering a slew of questio...
, Lisa , LisaAnn , Nailin , NailinPaylin , Sunny , SunnyLane
2008-10-06  Politics
With a month to go and the poll numbers down, the McCain campaign is playing the guilt by association card, and that’s leaving some conservatives uneasy. On Saturday, the recently unsequestered and newly empowered Sarah Palin went on the offensive, toting the “gloves are of...
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You know Jim Cramer. He's the host of CNBC's "Mad Money". Basically he screams at you about the stock markets and investment. Big guru. I'm not good with screamers, so I can't watch him for more than a minute without having to change the channel. Besides, I don't have any money anyway....
The American Spectator: Five weeks and one vice-presidential debate after joining the Republican ticket, Sarah Palin is not going away. As she proved Thursday night in St. Louis, for those who hoped to make her Dan Quayle, she is not obliging. Already she is rewriting the conventional ...
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2008-10-06  Alex King
Around the web: Fareed Zakaria: Palin Is Ready? Please. | Newsweek Voices - Fareed Zakaria | Newsweek.com - this is the primary reason I’ve lost respect for McCain.In these times, for John McCain to have…
2008-10-06  BizzyBlog
…. But I Don’t Have Any Time For: Of course, now the hue and cry is that the blackmail-driven, pork-infested bailout passed last Friday wasn’t enough. Charles Gibson, on Sarah Palin (HT Warner Todd Huston at NewsBusters) — “….. it’s important ...
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2008-10-06  BlondeSense
Palin: "I'm reading on my Starbucks mocha cup, the quote of the day, you'll never believe what the quote was. It was Madeleine Albright.... (crowd boos) "She said it. "There's a place in hell reserved for women who don't support other women." (crowd cheers and boos) Thank you so much...
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2008-10-06  Political Radar
ABC News' Rick Klein reports in Monday's Note: Four weeks out, what does it say that . . . Team McCain is hoping that Bill Ayers has one last bomb in him -- just enough to blow up the presidential...
, Biden, , McCain, , Obama, , Palin, , Vote , Vote , White
2008-10-06  TMZ.com
Filed under: Let's Get This Party Started Think Sarah Palin wants a chance to get back at Tina Fey for her amazing "SNL" takedowns? You betcha.Palin is more than winking at the possibility of appearing on "Saturday Night LIve" to skewer the comedienne. The Chicago Sun-Times hears a "tw...
The American Spectator:Five weeks and one vice-presidential debate after joining the Republican ticket, Sarah Palin is not going away. As she proved Thursday night in St. Louis, for those who hoped to make her Dan Quayle, she is not obliging. Already she is rewriting the conventional w...
I drove down from Burlingame to my town half the length of El Camino Real, today, and felt very odd as I passed various WaMu and Wachovia & other bank buildings. What will happen? Are we ending up with two or three huge U.S. banks? Why the heck is Palin in Burlingame today? Fundraisi...
Reconciling the attitudes of the wise Few and the uneducated Masses -- the elites and common folk -- has been a point of contention throughout American political history. In the early days, John Adams was famously wary of an overly democratic democracy, whereas Thomas Paine championed ...
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2008-10-05  Gordon's Notes
The timing of McCain/Peron'sPalin's "Ayers attack" is good news ...Palin, on Offensive, Attacks Obama’s Ties to ’60s Radical - NYTimes.com.... The article to which she referred, in The New York Times on Saturday, traced Mr. Obama’s sporadic interactions with Bill Ayers, a founder...
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2008-10-05  NYT Week in Review
A tie-breaking funeral attender, or the fourth branch of government.
, Vice , Presidential , Cheney, , United , Biden, , Palin, , Debating
Below: Isn't it time the McCain campaign stuffed a sock in that fat mouth, before someone gets really angry? Photo: Nati Harnik/APLipsticked pitbull Palin is on the loose again. Hope Animal Control gets here soon, before she hurts herself, or another animal.During her stop in Californi...
, The , Existential , WH08 , Denial , Down , Free , The , White , Hatin' , Republicans
2008-10-05  Wise Law Blog
An annoyed Ifill tells Meet the Press: "The understanding was that we were going to have a debate..."(h/t: Think Progress)- Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net EMPLOYMENT LAW • CIVIL LITIGATION • WILLS AND ESTATES • FAMILY LAW & DIVORCEORIGI...
, 2008 , Sarah
2008-10-05  Inside-Out China
Saturday Night Live's latest, 7-minute parody is an excellent and uproarious summary of Thursday's Vice Presidential debate. The best performer is Tina Fey, who looks totally like the real Palin, to the turn of her hair, or lip. CNN has a good comment on this – "It's starting to fee...
, China , America , arts
2008-10-05  slabbed
Typical State Farm lawyering files motions with points they want to call to the attention of the Court and the public - a strategy similar to Palin’s, described somewhere as producing a convincing but not coherent performance.  (wink not included) The most recent example is the ...
, Ex , FEMA , False , Flood , Qui , Rigsby , State
2008-10-05  20 Out Of 10
Warning: Political (mostly non-partisan) rant ahead with only a token tie-in to the ER theme.  Proceed at your own peril:I have found myself beyond frustrated over the past few weeks as the credit crisis has remained the number one news item of the day.  Not because of the credit cri...
Gwen Ifill joined Tom Brokaw and others on Meet the Press this morning as part of a panel discussing the VP debate. She describes how she was put in a tough position as moderator because of both candidates' styles. "Joe Biden decided that he was going to debate John McCain, and she dec...
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I used to think that CNN could be trusted.  Ha.  Have you watched the video crazybengal posted? Soledad O'Brien asks a small group of voters to tell which candidate won the VP debate.  She first asks about Biden, comments that the vote looks "overwhelming" then asks about Palin.  ...
2008-10-05  Smiles & Trials
My husband and I are following the election very closely. Despite our busy life with our awesome kids, we manage to keep our lines of communication open and flowing freely. Politics is often a source of discussion with us outside of an election so you better believe with a new pres...
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Updates: Troy Davis Update Dr. Alan Berkman: Fighting Cancer Alan Berkman on Marion Control Unit European Center For Constitutional Rights: Nora Marx Case DHS Spy Satellite Violates Posse Comitatus Bailout Bill Loops In Green Tech, IRS Snooping Taxes Could Get Sky High With Aeri...
, Civil , Death , Guantanamo , Human , Truth
2008-10-05  Terry Cowgill
Who says Palin is smearing Obama? This is a smear.
, Oddball , Race
2008-10-05  NYC Educator
You can finally buy a Toyota Camry or Corolla with 0% financing, if you still have a job, or money or credit. And home prices have come down to a more reasonable $1.75.More seriously, blogger Sapient Sutler (who also found the picture on the left) points to this great piece in Salon a...
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2008-10-05  Reveling, in India
Palin, McCain, Bailout, AIG, Oil, Dow … Each day presents another stunning event, which then jump starts the process of grappling with these issues. This has laid waste to my productivity, which is only compounded by the asynchronous, anti-melodic orchestra that begins playing in...
, Failure , Government , US , Elections , Palin , McCain , Intelligence
2008-10-05  Gawker: jerks
We haven't heard from moleman, former New York City Mayor, and all around horrible creature Rudy Giuliani in a while. With his Presidential ambitions turning out to be a colossal joke, and the right wing GOP base sure to find offense with his gay-friendly, cousin-marrying, adulterating...
, it's , jerks , media , ohio , politics , rudy , sarah
(CNN Washington)- In an attempt to shore up the McCain-Palin run to the presidency and in a final effort to sway uncommitted swing state voters  Republican V.P. candidate Sarah Palin  her new new “CMDR Initiative”.  She stated that CMDR would change the way the averag...
, humor , politics , Dallas , debates , economic , john , sarah , satire , wasilla
2008-10-05  Too Dark To Read
Watching the above video sent a chill down my spine. The energy of the crowd and the fanatical waving of the signs as Gov. Sarah Palin linked Sen. Barack Obama to terrorism felt like something out of a bad movie - the wicked demagouge gaining widespread support by preying on the collec...
2008-10-05  BAGnewsNotes
Liddy has acknowledged preparing to kill someone during the Ellsberg break-in "if necessary"; plotting to murder journalist Jack Anderson; plotting with a "gangland figure" to murder Howard Hunt to stop him from cooperating with investigators; plotting to firebomb the Brookings I...
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2008-10-05  Alas, a blog
It’s pretty funny - and not just the parts with Palin, they also did a good job making fun of Biden. (There’s a bit I liked making fun of Biden’s faux-equality position for same-sex couples.) Considering how unfunny SNL’s McCain/Obama debate sketch was, comp...
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2008-10-05  From Scratch
I’ve been so busy the past two weeks I had to schedule time to catch up on my reading. I’m still behind, but these are some good things I’ve read. All links will open in a new tab or window. Politics: Probably the best take on Palin’s performance in the debate a...
, fun , misc. , politics
2008-10-05  Akma
If I were John McCain, I might not try to steer the campaign discourse toward questions of character and temperament. Sticking with “experience” and Palin-appeal seems safer to me.
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2008-10-05  Webutante
He's left the plantation and ripped the shackles off his brain is the short answer. Just doesn't get any better. What moxie. If he were running, he'd have my vote. He. Gets. It. I love you, man.H/T The Anchoress
2008-10-05  scanners
I can't get enough of Tina Fey's Sarah Palin. I feel about her the way I felt about Dr. Evil in the first "Austin Powers" movie. My eyes light up whenever she's on camera. And then, of course, there are those little starbursts she sends through the screen that go ricocheting around...
, Comedy , Politics , TV
2008-10-05  Clotted Cognition
I first saw this on Cocktail Party Physics, then went looking for the original. Mama like.Brilliant. Unlike Sarah Palin.Speaking of Cocktail Party Physics, she had this to say, which I also find remarkably insightful and brilliant:Despite the Palin-centric focus, this is not meant to b...
Gov. Sarah Palin was very forceful and personable on the stage for the vice presidential debate. However, she was the same old Palin who avoided questions she could not answer.
Mark Steyn is easily my favorite writer alive today, and has been on hiatus since June working on his forth-coming, soon-to-be-a-bestseller book. Here is the master's take on how Gov. Sarah Palin performed at last Thursday's debate. As always he is honest in his appraisal and insightfu...
Welcome to Law School Roundup #141, the promise-not-to-talk-about-Sarah-Palin edition....Promise.Here's this week's collection of interesting posts from law students current, impending and recovering:Drag Queens: Chalk it up on the "things that are more fun than outlining" list. (No 63...
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2008-10-05  IMproPRieTies
Since Sarah Palin has discovered reading, it would be small to not make recommendations that might broaden her outlook, liberate just a bit her tundraic mind, with its too-short days.Here's something she might warm to:William of Ockham: A Short Discourse on Tyrannical Government Bill ...
, Ockham , Sarah , john , papal , literacy
This evening, it's safe to conclude that Barack Obama (D) isn't going to let John McCain (R) -- or his unqualified sidekick, Sarah Palin (R) -- get away with their desperate and scummy efforts to dishonestly smear him. There will be no swift boating this year. This isn't 2004. Followi...
Polymeme, my favorite source for news that’s not all Palin, all the time, led me to a fascinating set of photos this morning. They’re from Ilakaka, Madagascar, a town that’s grown from little more than a truck stop into a wild west mining town in about a decade. Ilaka...
, Africa , Blogs , Global , Media
2008-10-05  The Swamp
by John McCormick, updated ASHEVILLE, N.C. - In the days before and after Tuesday's presidential debate, Barack Obama will spend all of his time in states where Democratic presidential candidates rarely go, especially this close to an election. This weekend and through the middle o...
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2008-10-05  NYT Magazine
How the vice-presidential nomination put our own work-family choices on the table.
, Palin, , Women , Families , Child , Babies , Children , Presidential
2008-10-05  Taylor Marsh
BY TAYLOR MARSH Republicans are smearing the Democratic nominee? So what else is new? Well, the McCain team warned us they were going to start hitting. Bill Kristol backed them on it. So let the smearing begin. Sa...
The folks who said that Sarah Palin’s performance at last Thursday’s vice presidential debate didn’t leave Tina Fey any material were wrong — she killed in the opening skit, turning Palin’s perky but content-free non-answers into pure comedy gold. If you...
, In , America , Politics , Sarah , Video
2008-10-05  Gay Species
CHOP IT OFF!John Avarosis must worship the "cut dick." Today on AmericaBlog, he writes:Joe [Sudbay] and I [John Avarosis] both got goosebumps [and woodies]. And after you check that out, make sure you read my post from yesterday about McCain and Palin and their rather troubling connect...
2008-10-05  Hak Pak Sak
Like half of the population United States (i.e. the half that opposes the Republicans) I had intended to write about Republican vice-presidential candidate Palin’s misuse of language and deformation of facts and logic during the televised debate with Democrat Joe Biden last Thurs...
, Commentary , Language , Politics
2008-10-05  isen.blog
Here's the sentence: "I know that John McCain will do that and I, as his vice president, families we are blessed with that vote of the American people and are elected to serve and are sworn in on January 20, that will be our top priority is to defend the American people."[source]UPDATE...
Over the past few weeks we have seen the McCain campaign flailing, as the economic crisis has forced its way into the political dialogue, forcing McCain and the Republicans to talk about an issue with which they have absolutely no credibility. We've seen the outcomes expressed in a few...
, 2008 , Barack , John , millennials , negative , Nixonland , presidential , sarah
2008-10-05  Bright Hall
Filed under: US Elections, Politics, Boston University, MediaWhenever I meet pretentious New England liberals up here in Boston, and they ask me what I read, I always try to impress them. The New York Times. The New Yorker. The Economist.Wait, The Economist? Do I read that overly-intel...
2008-10-05  First Read
From NBC/NJ's Athena JonesASHEVILLE, N.C. -- With just 30 days to go until Election Day, Obama told a crowd of some 28,000 people at a high school football stadium here that his rival was attacking him with smears because he had no ideas and was “running out of time.” The senator ...
2008-10-05  Muddy Thoughts
The Straight Talk Express, as much as a misnomer that can ever be in what is shaping up to be the worst Presidential election since, well, 2004, ran off the road and into the election ditch over this Ripoff and Rape America Bill.(UPDATE: It appears that Hairball Reid & Co. are going to...
, "Reid" , "Pelosi" , "Biden" , "Tina , "bailout" , "Straight , "McCain" , "Palin" , "Ron , "Bill
2008-10-05  Most Recent Posts
Author: Mike Edison Posted to Jewcy: October 05, 2008 7:24 pm===== It's not like my mother and I are ever going to see eye to eye on anything. For instance, she read about one paragraph of my book and it nearly put her in the hospital.There are a lot of drugs in my book, although it i...
, Featured , jewish , Mike , Obama , palin , Politics
2008-10-05  Laughing Squid
guest post by mikl-em In case you’ve missed it, Tina Fey has been appearing each week on Saturday Night Live as Sarah Palin. The first installment imagined a press conference with Hilary Clinton, the second parodied her funny-to-start-with interview with Katie Couric (including...
, Comedy , Politics , Television , Video
2008-10-05  Black Sun Journal
What makes you angry? Seriously. What does it take to get you riled up these days? Yes, I’m talking to you. Does the Darfur genocide quicken your pulse? Does a $700 billion robbery of the US treasury do it? (With no direct help for consumers, and no punishment for the culprits...
, Current , Religion
I watched the Palin-Biden debate and whenever Palin talked I kept forgetting what the question was because it was so much work trying to figure out what she was saying. It bugs me. I am a seriously over-educated woman. I can explain passages of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. I just ...
2008-10-05  Jurisdynamics
You've seen the real thing. Now watch the parody:
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In this week’s edition of “Left, Right & Center,” co-commentators Matt Miller, Robert Scheer and Tony Blankley (Arianna Huffington is still at large) give their expert analyses of Thursday’s vice presidential debate, inspecting Sarah Palin’s and Joe Biden...
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2008-10-05  Crooks and Liars
But no one sees the great and powerful Palin! No way, no how! Open Thread below....
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2008-10-05  Scholars and Rogues
Link of the Week (as opposed to the Weakest Link): From American Raj, a new book by Eric Margolis: Abdullah Azzam “ran a dingy little rooming house next to his office for Muslim mujahedin headed for Afghanistan that came to be known as ‘the base’ or ‘the centre,...
, Congress , House , Republicans , health , national , sports , Add , bailout , Barack , Democrats , financial , Iraq , John , NFL , Sarah , Terrell
2008-10-05  chron.com National
Sarah Palin defended her claim that Barack Obama "pals around with terrorists," continuing to question the Democratic presidential nominee's association with a 1960s radical.
2008-10-05  The Daily Blague
¶ Matins: Sam Harris’s Newsweek piece, “When Atheists Attack“ gets to the heart of the Palin phenomenon — and why I call her “The Infernal Machine.” For a Democrat or a Progressive to notice her is to contribute to her magnetism. (more…)
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2008-10-05  The Blog
About a year ago, I had a memorable chat with a high-ranking Republican operative. The presidential primaries were revving up, and he asked me which Republican candidate I feared the most. Without hesitating, I answered McCain. My rationale was simple. While he was increasingly o...
2008-10-05  Gay Species
A Video EssayTwo weeks, fourteen days, and the most radically revolutionary events in U.S. history since the the 1930s. I went under anesthesia at 11 a.m. and came out 24 hours later to discover:Washington Mutual foldedFilm star and humanitarian Paul Newman deadCongress called into ses...
2008-10-05  Q Daily News
I know that this is going to shock everyone, but it turns out that when Palin talked about her record of divesting Alaska's investment fund of assets linked to Sudan, she was totally lying. This woman is totally, completely pathological.
, Government
2008-10-05  The Sundries Shack
An Unnamed MSM Reporter in Its Natural Habitat Are the media completely in the tank for Barack Obama at this point? I feel pretty silly for even asking this question given the complete lack of curiosity shown toward the Obamessiah’s long association with people who not only show ...
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by Richard Laermer, Guest Author It’s no secret that I lean left. I think the world of FDR and JFK, and I don’t know if I can stand to hear one more misguided ditto-head, all glassy-eyed and empty-headed, deify Reagan. (Really, people, my gag reflex can only take so much.) ...
, Uncategorized , 2011: , election , electorate , Laermer.com , McCain , Palin , Reagan
(updated below) There are few things that make political coverage more unbearable -- and more distorting -- than The David Brooks Syndrome: the extremely patronizing and ill-informed pretense, shared by media and right-wing elites alike, that they can study the Little Common People lik...
2008-10-04  Listen and Hear
I watched the VP debates and I wanted to write about it before I forgot my favorite parts.... but that didn't happen. Between not sleeping, nursing, and oh, not sleeping my brain is functioning at about 25%. I should leave all of my typos as proof, but my OCD nature prohibits that.I li...
What did people really think about the VP debates? Just moments ago, I listened to Dan Hill, CEO of Sensory Logic, being interviewed on CNN. He described a focus group in Minnesota whose facial responses were analyzed as they watched Palin & Biden on TV. Why facial responses? Accordi...
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Sarah Palin is now saying the Katie Couric was unfair to the poor little girl from Alaska. In a post-debate interview with Faux News, she actually complains that Katie didn't ask the questions that she wanted to talk about. Which in Palin-speak means that Katie didn't ask the questio...
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2008-10-04  Gay Kansas
As CMF said in her most recent edition of The Mad Voter "Palin really hasn’t had much to do on our issues." That makes it hard to know for sure where she stands (although we have a good guess).While Palin implied during the Vice Presidential debate that a McCain White House would be...
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2008-10-04  BAGnewsNotes
Three days out, this looks to be shaping up as the defining visual take-away from the Veep debate.  (And that will especially be true if SNL, the media's "Palin check," puts a magnifying glass on it tonight.) Shooting From the Hip, With a Smile to Boot (Libby Copeland/WAPO) ...
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Sen. Barack Obama and Gov. Sarah Palin are both winners when it comes to spam. Does her name inspire you to download spyware? (Credit: State of Alaska) The amount of spam that mentioned Obama beat out that of his rival, Sen. John McCain, by a ratio of 6 to 1 ...
2008-10-04  The XX Factor
Dahlia , you've put your finger on the reason my initial enthusiasm for Sarah Palin evaporated the minute she opened her mouth; it isn't her conservatism that rankles, but her bile. (Today, for example, she accused Obama of "palling around with terrorists...(read more)
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2008-10-04  Gay Kansas
(Originally published in the Liberty Press in October 2008)Actions speak louder than words. That’s the old adage. A presidential candidate can promise no new taxes or an open government, but why should we believe them? The only way to believe they’ll do what they say is to see w...
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2008-10-04  GamePolitics News
Second Life users can now follow what Twitter users are saying about the presidential tickets.Steve Nelson of SL's Capitol Hill area writes:I've installed a new display at Capitol Hill in Second Life that streams Twitter tweets about candidates. The tweets float above columns, and are...
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2008-10-04  Top of the Ticket
[UPDATE BELOW] With exactly one month until election day, will Bill Ayers, the anti-Vietnam war radical who helped found a bomb-planting protest group, morph into what some observers earllier had predicted -- the Willie Horton of the 2008 presidential campaign? Horton, for those to...
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The Tina Fey Effect McCain could win some of these “suburban sprawlers” back--because they are easily swayed by events. Many will switch back and forth until Election Day. But the question is what will have more impact: news about Palin’s performance tonight or Fey’s next roun...
2008-10-04  Salon: War Room
"This is not a man who sees America as you see it and how I see America. We see America as the greatest force for good in this world....Our opponent though, is someone who sees America it seems as being so imperfect that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target t...
2008-10-04  The Blog Herald
It’s been about four weeks since we first covered U.S. Republican vice-presidential nominee  Sarah Palin, the Alaska governor who vaulted from relative obscurity into international prominence overnight when her nomination took America by surprise a little more than two months be...
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It's down to the wire. Who is going to be the next president of the United States of America? Have you made your final decision? Who do you think is most qualified? Who are you voting for? Are you registered to vote? Questions and more questions about your choice for the next presi...
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2008-10-04  Workbench
Rich Lowry, the editor of National Review for the past 11 years, posted this comment on The Corner about Sarah Palin's performance in the vice presidential debate:I'm sure I'm not the only male in America who, when Palin dropped her first wink, sat up a little straighter on the couch a...
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2008-10-04  Queen of Spain Blog
There’s an article in Time, written by Belinda Luscombe, that has had me swearing for a few hours now. In her piece “Why Some Women Hate Sarah Palin” she comes to the conclusion Palin is disliked because we’re all catty bitches who act like it’s high schoo...
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2008-10-04  eric135
I thought it was a clear win for Biden, and so far the polls would agree. I must admit, we watched the debate (24 hours later on Tivo) with the same anticipation some folks watch those "When Animals Attack" video's, wondering if I'd have to turn my head when the bloody part c...
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2008-10-04  Geonexus
Stephen Pinker dispels two of the myths about Sarah Palin’s vice-presidential debate performance in today’s New York Times (Everything You Heard Is Wrong). He persuasively argues that she didn’t successfully survive a trial by fire, as her supporters suggest. Nor do...
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2008-10-04  On The Media
It was billed as nothing less than an epic battle - Palin v. Biden. Expectations were raised and lowered, gaffes and non-answers were played and replayed, moderators were accused of bias. But according to Mark Jurkowitz, associate director of the Pew Center’s Project for Excellenc...
2008-10-04  techPresident
This is an absolute first and frankly it's f---ing brilliant. The California Democratic Party has a giant electronic billboard up somewhere near a Los Angeles-area rally that Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin is doing today that is displaying live text-message questions people are se...
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2008-10-04  Who is John Galt?
So on Thursday we watched all of the American VP debate, and once it was over, we managed to catch the tail end of the Canadian Leaders Debate. And I have to say...you Yanks really blew me away!!! I'm not really even sure what to say about what I saw. I am still trying to get my jaw...
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2008-10-04  1-800-MAGIC
The $700B bill has been approved. The stock market is down 800 in a week. The real estate market goes up in flames. Palin debated Biden yesterday.But check out the breaking news...This is from NY Times 10/4/2008 6:50 GMT.
2008-10-04  Violent Acres
I’ve listened to the political pundits talk and I’ve watched the news casts. I’ve read your blogs and I’ve looked at your bar graphs. I watched the debates and I researched the issues. But I still haven’t heard a single reputable source state the obvious: Sarah Palin is an ev...
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Struggling in polls, McCain regroups in Arizona. With poll numbers slipping, Republican John McCain on Saturday struggled to inject fresh energy into his White House campaign a little over four weeks before the US presidential elections. ...And with more bad news on the economic front,...
2008-10-04  Matthew Yglesias
I’ve seen focus group data indicating that the — entirely accurate — charge that John McCain is proposing a gigantic tax increase on employer-provided health care benefits is extremely effective. Consequently, it’s no surprise that the McCain campaign is furious...
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2008-10-04  Think Youth
[cross posted at Michigan Youth Political Alliance] Just several hours before the vice presidential debate, McCain withdraws his campaign troops from Michigan to redeploy them in other battleground states such as Ohio, Florida, Virginia and Pennsylvania. Clever decision? This campaign ...
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2008-10-03  Delicious/platte
"Don’t worry Palin, you stick to your guns. They said the same things about me after Antietam, goddamn sunken road. You’ve got a good future ahead of you. "
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2008-10-03  The Flack
Apparently the name of this blog caused a little kerfuffle among a few members of the PR Counselor's Academy.In a string of comments, one Beltway-based "counselor" took umbrage with the idea that PRSA would have the audacity to invite a PR pro who pens a blog with this particular name...
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2008-10-03  Pop + Politics
One of the bleaker moments during last night’s vice-presidential debate was when both Palin and Biden refused to support same-sex marriage. Biden tried to tiptoe around the issue by arguing that gay couples are entitled to the same constitutional benefits that hetero couples enj...
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Palin, in interview with Katie Couric: "I'm not going to solely blame all of man's activities on changes in climate."So she's not going to blame everything that people throughout history have done on climate changes- although granted, weather has affected crucial events in history. Do ...
2008-10-03  Total Drek
Like many of you I spent some time last night watching the debate between Joe Biden and Gwen Ifill Sarah Palin. Also like many of you, I have been seeing a variety of punditry on it this morning, most of which remarks on how Palin managed to exceed expectations while Biden still did a ...
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Ok, so what is the goddamn deal with bouncy houses taking over the universe? Seriously? I get that they're fun. But they're not always necessary are they? It seems like every roadside attraction now has to have one. Our local farmer's market has one, and what's worse...every pum...
Okay, I suppose its about time I weigh in on the big election race, since that is one of the biggest stories around the nation and around the world.  I am sure there is considerable buzz and excitement within the disability/special education community concerning Sarah Palin’s ca...
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2008-10-03  ClickZ News Blog
Our pals over at Media Trust Co were working overtime last night post Palin/(O')Biden. It looks as though the John McCain camp launched a couple of brand-spanking-new display ads to commemorate the debate. Here they are, 'cause the American People deserve it, doggone it. Ad ...
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2008-10-03  Sandwalk
 Same-sex marriage is the law of the land in Canada and in many (most?) other Western industrialized nations. It's against the law in most states in the USA. I was aware of the fact that John McCain and Sarah Palin were opposed to legalization of same-sex marriage. Last night I was s...
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I missed the veep debate last night, spending the evening at Christopher Wheeldon's Morphoses (check out Oberon's Grove for a superb writeup of the evening's program--I'll relay my own impressions later), but it appears Sarah Palin bewitched the men folk in the punditry with her fetchi...
2008-10-03  DarrenBarefoot.com
I’m no economist. In fact, I don’t deserve to live in the same town as the guy who hands out the ‘economist’ name tags. With that in mind, I have two ill-informed reactions to today’s signing of the US $700 million billion (whoops, wishing thinking) bailou...
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The info we got on the whole Palin e-mail thing is just the tip...
2008-10-03  Political Lunch
Last night Sarah Palin exceeded expectations, according to today's pundits. But is that really a compliment? It all depends on how low the bar's been set. ALSO: What do the candidates say about today's job market woes?
, Politics , politics , political_lunch , obama , mccain , palin , biden , economy , debate , gay_marriage , energy , global_warming
One of the blogs I read is Michael Krigsman's blog on Technology Project Failures. The Palin Debate Flow Chart, from one of his posts, totally cracked me up.
2008-10-03  Jeremayakovka
If she'd been preparing for this debate for the past 18 months like the other three competitors, I'm sure Palin would have been not just passable, but formidable. Biden looks ready for the job on Day One without worries, she...
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After the debate ended last night, I got a couple emails and texts from friends and family who wanted to know what I thought about the show. Here are some of my musings on last nights debate. Gov. Palin went into the debate with a pretty easy task - she couldn’t fall, she couldn...
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2008-10-03  The Flack
Apparently the name of this blog caused a little kerfuffle among a few members of the PR Counselor's Academy.In a string of comments, one Beltway-based "counselor" took umbrage with the idea that PRSA would have the audacity to invite a PR pro who pens a blog with this particular name...
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Getty Images Last night’s vice presidential debate had a number of memorable moments, from Sen. Joe Biden’s statements about Dick Cheney, to Gov. Sarah Palin’s carefully crafted zingers. But perhaps one of the most arresting was Sen. Biden’s account of his struggles with si...
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Gov. Sarah Palin, VP Debate, 10/2/08: "Say it ain't so, Joe, there you go again pointing backward,'' Palin said at one point. "Now, doggone it, let's look ahead and tell Americans what we have to plan to do for them in the future.'' Let's do that - what a great idea. And novel, too, ...
2008-10-03  Mediavorous
Kathi and I watched the Veep debate late last night on TiVo and by the end of it — and after watching the post-game show on PBS and Nightline — we were so revved up it was hard to sleep, so we watched a mediocre episode of Entourage and then read until we could finally drif...
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Yesterday, I had a lovely lunch in Hollywood with my friend DivaJood of Journeys With Jood (and the previous mea culpa post). I met the Diva several years ago through an SCTV newsgroup, and we found out that we had many more things in common. The beauty of the Interwebs is that I got t...
“Are you friggin’ kidding me?!” came the e-mails last night… But, they werent’ about the candidates, they were about the panel of everyday listeners and pundits. During last night’s VP debate, CNN aired a real time scorecard that showed how it’...
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2008-10-03  Julian Sanchez
No, no, no.  This is really sort of insane.  What we saw tonight was a tolerably effective Palin as a function of being well-prepped—a Palin who did well, at least relative to expectations, by sticking to her prefab talking points instead of getting lured into attempting to respond...
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2008-10-03  Surrender, Dorothy
The squirrels in my backyard have been arguing over political strategy. I placed a hidden microphone on my deck and was startled to realize the two top squirrels leading this contingency are named Squirrel Biden and Squirrel Palin. Here's the transcript from their conversation yester...
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2008-10-03  Cartago Delenda Est
Some predictions:McCain/Palin is going to lose, and lose big. This will be for the simple reason that voters have simply not yet had the education in reality that they're going to receive during the term(s) of the next administration. The mere fact that the Democrats are a viable party...
2008-10-03  Featured Stories
A lot has already been said about Sarah Palin and Joe Biden's debate performances last night. But how about their fashion decisions? "I should have guessed Palin would wear a skirt of some sort--she clearly loves her legs!" writes The Ladies' Paradise. "They were showcased last night...
2008-10-03  duncanriley.com
On September 8 I wrote a post observing a noticeable difference in Australian politics of late: that voters were sick and tired of negative politics, are were looking for positives, and this showed in recent election results. I put the question to the American test, noting that Obama w...
, General , biden , election , mccain , obama , palin
2008-10-03  NPR Topics: Media
Pundits largely scored Thursday's VP debate a good night for Sarah Palin, because she beat their low expectations for her. Previous questions surrounding Palin's very fitness for office made Joe Biden almost an afterthought. E-Mail This Add to Del.icio.us
2008-10-03  In The Pink Texas
…in which the nominee pulls stuff out of her ass and makes us eat it. Oh she’s good. She is good. Or did we expect her to be so bad that even flirty mediocrity and folksy charm passed for good? I was at a friend’s house watching the debate over manicotti and wine (del...
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2008-10-03  In Your Face
Photos: Sen. Joe Biden at vice presidential debate. (AP photos) FIGHTING HAIR LOSS AND WRINKLES Cosmetic doctors helped mold Sen. Joe Biden’s appearance in last night’s vice presidential debate. Botox injections apparently both eased the 65-year-old’s wrinkles and constr...
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My oldest daughter has always been petite -- one of the smallest kids in her class. As recently as last month, a woman in our congregation asked her whether she'd begun sixth grade this year (she's a sophomore). My daughter takes it in stride -- except if someone makes the mistake of d...
And Various Political Commentary...Within a 24 hour period, I had a contract on my house, and then I lost it. The prospective buyer couldn't get a loan. I was not surprised, but I did have fantasies of getting rid of this black cloud and actually being able to afford trauma therapy a...
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…Joe Palin! Not a typo, it was a draw…in other words it is doubtful many people’s minds were changed. Synopsis follows as it was just pre-empted by the biggest positive news to hit the financial markets in more than three months.   Just in: Wells Fargo and Wachovia have agreed ...
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2008-10-03  blurbomat.com
I kind of feel like last night was like one of the Christmases you have as a kid where you didn’t get what you wanted, but you got some really good stuff that over time, you’ll be glad you got. Both Palin and Biden had some gaffes, some mispronunciations and it was clear at...
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2008-10-03  ShrinkWrapped
Last night's debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden offered an interesting opportunity to watch the process by which people learn and change. Partisans will find a multitude of reasons to believe their candidate won the debate. For the partisan, gaffes will not matter (as long ...
With the dust finally settling after the debate, it is becoming more and more clear that Sarah scored a resounding victory last night. The conservative media is ecstatic, and most of the mainstream media are declaring it a draw but noting that Sarah did exactly what she needed to do. T...
2008-10-03  DICTUM
Palin did well against old Washington establishment. I did catch her in a remark that Biden didn't catch most likely because he believes it is true. Palin may have heard one of McC's debate-preparers say it. While talking about our right to buy decent priced health insurance ...
Did y’all watch the presidential debates last night? If you didn’t, you missed one of the most historic thingies of all times. Seriously, I usually try to watch the presidential debates every year, but I’ve never been as excited about someone’s runnin’ for...
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