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Attention Ron Fournier
Rising Hegemon — When is your AP Analysis coming out describing how this pick demonstrates McCain's awesome confidence? (pic via Mystieus at D.U.) Update: Apparently the emails stuck in Fournier's craw...it's almost fair & balanced.

Leave No Self-Parody Behind
Talking Points Memo — Fournier's take on Palin: "Analysis: Palin's age, inexperience rival Obama's"

Just an observation, but
Silent Running — ... , a hamster, some duct tape, and lots of either leather or latex, and oodles of stomach churningly graphic video Having his buddy Fournier have to report it would just be bonus. Update: to answer the obvious question, no, I don’t really hate hamsters.

Hillary Clinton on the Palin Pick
Swampland — ... Thankfully, Fournier's AP is one the case, with an article titled: "Analysis: Palin's age, inexperience rival Obama's" (h/t josh marshall) http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080829/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_veepstakes_analysis John Cole says: "It seems so transparently cynical, so deeply poll-driven and focus-grouped, and so manifestly just a bone to the wingnut pro-life base and the 8 PUMA holdouts, that I really can't treat this pick seriously." ...

Bounce
Belmont Club — ... reveals a hesitation by McCain’s opponents to criticize Palin’s relative youth and inexperience, lest they fall into the Trap. A classic AP head says it all: Analysis: Palin’s age, inexperience rival Obama’s. But the other piece of combat experience McCain endured, separate from his pilot training, one which every jailbird will appreciate was his experience as a POW.  Resistance in prison is one of the hardest forms of combat there is. As a prisoner you are always in the slower plane; the guard is always, by definition in the ME-262. A prisoner has only two friends: his mind ...

CARNIVAL OF THE INSANITIES - August 31
Dr. Sanity — ... After which, the opposition sues for peace! 3. We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him. The Sermon in the Temple.... Oh, gee; maybe God is on their side? Amusing. 4. She's really proud of America. Really she is. 5. Oh, goody! Mandatory volunteerism is just what we slackers need. 6. Hope, Change, and just a pinch of pathological, subliterate hatred to keep it spicy. I wonder why?? And the media begins its assault. Inexperienced? You compare and decide-- in ...

Omid Memarian: Will Palin Cover McCain's Age Problem?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... One might think that McCain's extensive experience gives him the security to choose a younger, relatively inexperienced running mate. But this is not the issue. The fact of the matter is, if something happens to McCain's health (and that is a definite possibility), does Palin have the experience to lead the country? ...