Is anyone else finding it difficult to reconcile the guy who was in Vietnam with the guy who stands slightly behind and to the side of his running mate while she speaks to the crowd?

Is Clinton running?

It's female shorthand for light on the CV and heavy on the ideology. Sorry dudes - you're not going to understand some of this.

I can't tell you how happy I am that someone else has noticed that Phil Gramm is back.

And, yes, I do care.

I don't know what part of the Midwest you're from, but I heard the lipstick on a pig line in Kansas years ago. And, more to the point, EVERYONE in politics has heard it.

And, it's very obvious that Obama was talking about McCain's policies NOT Mrs. Palin when he made the remark.

I hope you're wearing long pants because you don't want to know what you dragged through the mashed potatoes reaching for that one.

That's from Kansas, too...

Please?

Thanks for the link to the NY Times article. This is the kind of story that needs to be highlighted.

Wow - she sure has told some whoppers, hasn't she?

When he began to support torture was the moment I absolutely stopped trusting him at all. He's reversed himself on so many issues, I have no idea who he is. I'm more and more convinced that he doesn't know, either.

Thanks for providing a link to the Michigan story on the Republican plan for voter suppression. I hope you've been posting this in a lot of other places. This is exactly the kind of thing that needs to be highlighted so it can be averted.

I heard the account of her lying to her husband so she could sneak off to see Ivana Trump on NPR, I think. It was sometime between the VP announcement and her convention speech. Initially, it struck me as kind of funny and made me think about my own small hometown in Kansas and how smart the publisher was to send Ivana on a book tour to places that rarely see a celebrity.

Subsequently, just about every claim she has made regarding her accomplishments has been refuted. Not just a little resume inflation with which we're all familiar - especially in the realm of politics - but everything.

I also vacillated between my own ideas and perimeters of feminism and a broader construct that would include this conservative woman who would take away rights that so many women, including my mother and my grandmother, had struggled to attain. My grandmother was a life-long Republican even though she hated Nixon with a white hot passion, and my mother is still a registered Republican even though the last time she voted for one in a presidential race was Bob Dole in 1996. (That illustrates how far that party has drifted to the right.)

Then I learned that Alaska has some of the most liberal abortion laws in the country and I wondered how that squared with the religious right. But as I began to think it through, it seemed less of a contradiction. And when I finally abandon the feminist conceit altogether, the pieces fit.

Sarah is in it for Sarah. It has nothing to do with feminism or even being a Republican. Sarah Palin is a very self-absorbed person. Maintaining her image is job number one, and she has learned who to play and how to play them. There is always an element of that present in politics, but she's as much of a facade as the columns she's so fond of making fun of.

Unfortunately, that doesn't carry much weight on the world stage. She doesn't have the juice or the chops to be president, and if something goes terribly wrong, that's where she'll be.

This should be a headline everywhere, or at least above the fold.

I've changed my mind - I want all Sarah all the time on cable news. We have less than two months for people to realize President Sarah Palin could be a reality.

Start getting those interviews NOW.

I wish I could agree that her viewpoint on crossing the border into Pakistan to go after terrorists was in line with Obama's, but it's painfully obvious she doesn't know what she's talking about.

She can barely repeat the answers she's been given by her foreign affairs coaches, let alone understand the players and complexity she would be facing should she, through some dark twist of fate, become president.

Since McCain announced that he selected Sarah Palin to be his running mate, I'm seeing some white men moving to Obama. I don't sense that it has anything to do with sexism, ageism, racism, or white guilt. I think it has everything to do with Mrs. Palin's credentials.

I don't know if this is unique to me and the people I know. I should also point out that I live in Arizona, which makes it more unexpected since McCain has never faced any serious competition being re-elected to the Senate.