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  Oh my God, are you serious??  I think Tina Fey is more qualified to be vice president than Sarah Palin.  Sarah Palin is the biggest joke ever.  Really is John McCain playing a joke on America???  O.K. John really, we give up, enough of the joke, who is you REAL running mate??

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It's a good thing McCain's move is dominating the news
Jonathan Martin's Blog — Sarah Palin's interview with Katie Couric, the first portion of which airs tonight, won't give Republicans any reassurance that she's ready for prime time. It will, however, reassure McCain aides that their following the right course of action by keeping her shielded. Not only did Palin say the country could be facing another Great Depression without a bailout, but she offered a painful silence when pressed about campaign manager's Rick Davis's ties to Freddie Mac. And, at the end, she had no good answer when asked by Couric for examples of what McCain has done to regulate Wall Street. First, ...

McCain's Cowardice
Booman Tribune — And here I thought the one thing you couldn't criticize John McCain for is a lack of courage. Boy, was I wrong. He's a flat-out tail-tucking coward. He's a yellow-belly. Look at this complete lack of manliness: (CNN) — McCain supporter Sen. Lindsey Graham tells CNN the McCain campaign is proposing to the Presidential Debate Commission and the Obama camp that if there's no bailout deal by Friday, the first presidential debate should take the place of the VP debate, currently scheduled for next Thursday, October 2 in St. Louis. In this scenario, the vice presidential debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin would be rescheduled for a date ...

My Head Is Spinning
pandagon.net - we are the public option — by Jesse Taylor Sarah Palin is Suzanne Stone Moretto from To Die For. That is all.

Oh My God, Palin Might Be ... Normal?? Gasp!
Riehl World View — Saw this YouTube at Politico - which is sounding more and more like Obama Central everyday. Sarah Palin's interview with Katie Couric, the first portion of which airs tonight, won't give Republicans any reassurance that she's ready for prime time. It will, however, reassure McCain aides that they're ollowing(sic) ...

Was McCain's Stunt an Attempt at Palin Damage Control?
The Anonymous Liberal — I'm serious.  The more I look at what happened today, the more I think it was all an elaborate attempt to stem the fallout from the truly disastrous interview Sarah Palin taped this morning with Katie Couric.  In that interview, Palin did two things that hurt the McCain campaign and, but for McCain's late afternoon shenanigans, would have garnered much more attention.  First, buying into the premise of one of Couric's questions, she all but stated ...

Couric interviews Palin, again.
Greatscat! — 9-24-08: Pathetic. Most of the 'interview' Palin regurgitates obviously trained responses, and then at then end when she needs to give a response that wasn't in her training manual...as I said, pathetic. -Diane Stumble Upon Toolbar ...

Oh! My God.
I Am TRex — She’s really THAT BAD. I had to back up the tape to verify it, but watch how on the Rick Davis question she trots out a by-rote answer, but when Couric rephrases and sharpens the question, SHE SAYS THE EXACT SAME WORDS.  But tries to make herself sound smarter by placing the em-PHA-sis on different syl-LA-bles. The McCain campaign is an even bigger shitpile than the mortgage industry. Train-wrecks everywhere are feeling suddenly inadequate.  George Michael just put down the crack pipe and passed out (much to the annoyance of all the drivers behind him) and when he ...

The real reason McCain suspended his campaign
culturekitchen - fresh dissent served daily — Chris Cillizza over at the Washington Post spends a kabillion words explaining why McCain suspended his campaign. Booman goes to the point : "He is afraid to debate and he is doubly afraid to have Sarah Palin debate. I mean look at Sarah Palin. Look at her."

The only thing funnier than Letterman on TV today...
Blah3 Feed — ...was the Republican VP candidate. Unfortunately, that ain't funny. "I'll try to find ya some an' bring 'em to ya!" My fucking head hurts.

Trainwreck
Daily Kos — She makes Bush look good. Amazing, but she does.

What McCain was trying to bury
The Reality-Based Community — [image] What McCain was trying to bury The Anonymous Liberal suspects that McCain's dramatic move today was designed to bump Sarah Palin's interview with Katie Couric from the CBS Evening News. Seems extreme, but in all conscience, the interview is pretty damned bad. Palin says she was told Rick Davis had "recused himself" from business with Freddie, but makes it clear she has no idea what she's talking about. Palin calls for non-partisanship while slagging Obama. Palin asserts without evidence that people are waiting to hear what McCain, but not Obama, has to say. When Couric points out that the polls indicate otherwise, ...

McCain Rushes Campaign to Nowhere
Informed Comment — Mao Zedong announced the adage by which John McCain is clearly living now: "The enemy advances, we retreat. / The enemy camps, we harass. / The enemy tires, we attack." Mao was describing not a conventional but a guerrilla war, and McCain is now unexpectedly playing the Filipino insurgents of 1899 to Obama's America. Guerrilla wars are waged by the weak but wily. McCain has all but announced that his conventional campaign has crashed and burned. We do not know if the prepping for the debate was a disaster, or it turns out you really can't let Palin be interviewed freely by normal people, or terror that a second great depression will turn the ...

Debate Drama: How About if Nader & McKinney Stand in for McCain?
Tennessee Guerilla Women — So McCain says the debate is off. Obama says the debate is on. Ole Miss says they’ve already spent millions and really don’t think they can postpone it. The pundits are going wild with the idea of an empty chair debate. Obama would show up, debate the empty chair and win! That doesn’t seem fair. How about if Ralph Nader and Cynthia McKinney stand in for John McCain? Do you think Obama could handle it? We could have a debate about some real issues for a change. Single payer, for starters. And now the McCain camp is talking about postponing the VP ...

Early Morning Swim
Firedoglake — Special scared little scaredy cats edition. McSame wimps out. And so does Palin. But Bush comes to their rescue! Of course, no one cares what Bush says. And only 10% of Americans think the debate should be ...

Dissecting Leftism — Oh My God, Sarah Palin Might Be ... Normal?? Gasp! Saw this YouTube at Politico - which is sounding more and more like Obama Central everyday. Sarah Palin's interview with Katie Couric, the first portion of which airs tonight, won't give Republicans any reassurance that she's ready for prime time. It will, however, reassure McCain aides that they're following the right course of action by keeping her shielded. I honestly think the media just continues to parade its elitism as regards Palin and doesn't understand her grassroots appeal at all. Jonathan Martin: She is what she is -- not ...

Still not ready for primetime
Political Animal — STILL NOT READY FOR PRIMETIME.... At first blush, the notion that the McCain campaign would go to extraordinary lengths just to draw attention away from Sarah Palin's interview with Katic Couric sounds pretty farfetched. But actually watching the five-and-a-half minute clip from CBS, it's actually fairly reasonable to think campaign aides saw the interview, panicked, and thought, "We need to do something drastic." Hilzoy tackled the highlights ...

Painful Palin: Not to belabor the point, but...
The Reaction — By Michael J.W. Stickings So now the McCain campaign wants to postpone the vice presidential debate, too? There's a shock. The excuse is the supposed financial crisis, of course, the one McCain is using to score political points by sort of but not really suspending his campaign. I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that Palin clearly isn't even close to being ready for anything even resembling a debate. (She met with foreign leaders again on Wednesday, but she isn't being allowed to answer questions from the ...

You Almost Want To Look Away
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — This is more painful than even the Gibson interview. What must the rest of the world be thinking? America is in a profound crisis economically and in two grueling wars. And John McCain thinks that if anything were to happen to him, this person is qualified to run the world. One word: terrifying: Hilzoy pounces. ...

Sarah Palin will be answering questions later.
Althouse — Here she is, on the spot, not responding to Katie Couric: "I'll try to find you some [examples], and I'll bring them to you." And that, the night before we hear that the McCain campaign is trying to rearrange the debates so that Palin would not be up next Friday. Painful. Terrible. ...

Couric Interview with Palin
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts — Here’s the video: In all honesty after watching her in two different interviews, it seems that she does not have any thoughts of her own on the major issues of the day and is simply pumped full of talking points from her coaches in the campaign. The ...

Uh-Oh
Rantings of a Sandmonkey — Ok, now we know why they have been hiding her from the press all this time. She doesn't have her own solution to the crisis and doesn't even know the record of her running mate.  People, if McCain wins, it will be a good idea to keep him frozen and preserved every time he goes to sleep and pray very hard that nothing happens to him through his term. Maybe the McCain people should call the Mubarak people: Those fuckers know how to preserve a really old President. Get her someone who knows economics, quick. I know that Biden is an idiot, but he ain't ignorant, and that's her problem right now! 

Palin's Rocky Turn With Couric
The Stump — It hasn't gotten anything like the attention of her Charlie Gibson interview, but I think Sarah Palin was a lot shakier in this chat with Katie Couric (which the Obama campaign is eagerly sending around this morning). She looks nervous and sounds unsteady, her syntax is an awkward and tangled mess of passive constructive and misused words (she says she's been "rallying" against lobbyist influence when she seems to mean "railing", and she has nothing but bromides to offer. And her answer at the end about McCain's record is... cringe-inducing. If Palin is supposed to be bringing regular-American Katie Couric fans to the ticket, ...

Taylor Marsh: McCain's Mannequin
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — by Taylor Marsh Meet John McCain's mannequin. Her name is Sarah Palin. She is to be seen, but never heard. The AP reporter shouted a question at Gov. Palin ("Governor, what have you learned from your meetings?") but McCain aide Brooke Buchanan intervened and shepherded everybody out of the room. Palin looked surprised, leaned over to McCain and asked him a question, to which your pooler thinks he shook his head as if to say "No." McCain's stunt to suspend his campaign, it turns out, may be ...

The Anonymous Liberal Is Smart
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — Anonymous Liberal writes: The Anonymous Liberal: Was McCain's Stunt an Attempt at Palin Damage Control?: The more I look at what happened today, the more I think it was all an elaborate attempt to stem the fallout from the truly disastrous interview Sarah Palin taped this morning with Katie Couric.... Palin did two ...

9/25: McCain Calls Time-Out
Blogometer — September 25, 2008 9/25: McCain Calls Time-Out Predictably, most conservative bloggers loved John McCain 's decision to suspend his campaign and return to Washington to work on the proposed $700 billion bailout plan. Righty bloggers are praising McCain's unconventional move as "politically sagacious" and "shrewd" . Hugh Hewitt declares: "The contrast between McCain as a leader and [Barack] Obama as a schemer has never been more clear than today." Just as predictably, liberal bloggers panned McCain's move, deriding it as a "cheap stunt" that demonstrates that McCain is "temperamentally unfit to be ...

Sure, You Betcha
The Great Plains Observer — I watched Sarah Palin butcher her interview with Katie Couric yesterday and today: And Marge Gunderson from Fargo kept coming to mind. I guess I’m not the only one that sees the similarity. Related Posts

I'll Try to Find Ya Some and I'll Bring 'Em To Ya
Political Punch — Oh, That Joe! (No. 20 in a Series) -- Biden Discusses 'His Kind of Politician' | Main I'll Try to Find Ya Some and I'll Bring 'Em To Ya September 26, 2008 6:45 AM Watching the CBS interview of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin did not exactly fill conservative columnist Kathleen Parker with confidence."Palin's recent interviews with Charles Gibson , Sean Hannity and now Katie Couric have all revealed an attractive, earnest, confident candidate. Who Is Clearly Out Of Her League. "No one hates saying that more than I do. Like so many women, I've been pulling for Palin, wishing her the best, hoping she will perform brilliantly. I've ...

Sarah Palin’s Fur Elise
The Agitator — Sarah Palin’s interviews thus far remind me of a young girl not quite prepared her first piano recital. She crammed enough to know a few of the right notes, so she just keeps hitting them over and over again, hoping it’ll be enough to gloss over what she doesn’t know. She knows her parents (in this case, the GOP base) will praise her no matter how poorly she does, so she’s just doing her best to get through the thing without complete and utter embarrassment. I’m not sure she pulled it off.

Nice Debate Guys-- Now Back To Palin, The Real Issue
DownWithTyranny! — The Republican vice presidential candidate is the real issue? Absolutely, though only tangentially. She is more widely viewed as incapable of being president every time she pops her head up and utters something banal or even bizarre. And as all the craziness leaks out about her strange personal life... well, voters are starting to wonder about John McCain's judgment. And that's the issue-- his judgment, his cynicism, his patriotism, his willing to do anything he thinks will catapult him into the Oval Office, even saddle the country with someone that he knows as well as the rest of us, shouldn't be allowed anywhere near the ...

Devastating Katie Couric Interview with Sarah Palin
The Washington Note — I've been watching it over and over and over again. Words fail me in this case. What can one say when it's so clear that Sarah Palin is not prepared for the office she is seeking. Conservative columnist Kathleen Parker has perhaps said it all -- and kudos to Parker for taking the risks she obviously has with this commentary. -- Steve Clemons

Palin Pygmalion
The Republic of T. — After reading some of the comments at this Politico article, saying that Republicans are getting increasingly nervous about Palin after her media performances, there something that needs pointing out. The questions she was asked, and failed utterly to answer, are not “gotcha” questions. They are questions that any serious candidate should be able to answer coherently and without hesitation, or sense that they are leading questions and avoid answering them. It follows that the level of intelligence expected of any serious candidate would enable her or him to know a leading question when they hear one. Problem ...

Shannyn Moore: PALIN'S DARFUR LIE. ALASKANS KNOW BETTER.
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — I watched the Palin-Biden Debate with over a thousand Alaskans at the Bear Tooth Theatre in Anchorage. Our collective response was filtered through years of the Palin experience combined with the recent disillusionment courtesy of intense national media scrutiny. The debate hit a nerve when the Darfur Genocide was brought up. Palin said she led the charge to divest the Alaska Permanent Fund of Sudanese investments. The Alaska Permanent Fund was created in 1976 in order to set aside a share of oil revenues to benefit current and future Alaskans. Many Alaskans have been encouraging the Permanent Fund Corporation's Board to ...

Palin's a Brilliant Feminist, I Swear!
Shakesville — by Shaker JMonkey, a dad and a feminist who lives with his partner in Oregon. Maybe you've heard of Elaine Lafferty. She was editor-in-chief at Ms. Magazine, considers herself a Democrat and a feminist activist. These days, she's advising the McCain campaign and writing for Sarah Palin and, today, posted an article at Tina Brown's "The Daily Beast" that explains how Palin is "very smart" and that Palin "supports women's rights, deeply and passionately." No, really. Go take a gander. Just in case you may be wondering what, exactly, Lafferty is doing for Palin, it appears she's been writing a ...

Why We Dislike Palin
Balloon Juice — It isn’t this: She’s a great dame. People are fascinated by her because the Left hate her. I think the Left hate her — mostly women on the Left hate her — because to me from outside in it appears that she has a great sex life, all right? I think she has non-neurotic sex with that Todd Palin guy. … I think that snow mobile looks like mechanized foreplay to me and that’s why people are fascinated. And it isn’t this: Speaking before a roomful of academics in Chicago yesterday, U.S. News and World Report’s Michael Barone ...

Joan E. Dowlin: Where is the Outrage by Feminists on Letterman's Sexist Remarks About Palin?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — Today while watching The View, I agreed with the panel of women that David Letterman's comments about Governor Sarah Palin's daughter being "knocked up" by Alex Rodriguez were over the top and that politicians' kids of any age should be off limits. However, I was disappointed that they didn't address the other issue of his joke about her "slutty flight attendant" look. Truthfully, is this not a sexist comment? How could this have gone unnoticed by the five intelligent feminist leaning panelists? It is demeaning and an insult to Ms. Palin's intelligence. Is it because she is a Republican who happens to be religious and socially ...

Casual Suggestion
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A Fake Consultant Exclusive: Political Robots Fail In Operational Service
Washblog - Diaries — It has been quite some time, Gentle Reader, since we addressed the issue of political robot design, but recent events have forced us to return to the subject once again. As you undoubtedly are aware, three high profile ‘bots from Robotican™ Labs have recently experienced major failures. It was originally thought that the problems were isolated to the Robotican™.1 Congressional Series of Devices...but it is now known that the failures also extend to the .2 Gubernatorial Series as well. In today’s story we will examine what is known about these failures, how they may impact other devices in Political Service, and what solutions might be available to ...

Sarah Palin Goes Rogue On The Facts
Below The Beltway — It hasn’t even been officially released yet, and it’s already clear that Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue is playing fast and loose with the truth: WASHINGTON (AP) — Sarah Palin’s new book reprises familiar claims from the 2008 presidential campaign that haven’t become any truer over time. Ignoring substantial parts of her record if not the facts, she depicts herself as a frugal traveler on the taxpayer’s dime, a reformer without ties to powerful interests and a politician roguishly indifferent to high ambition. Some expamples: PALIN: Boasts ...