Sarah may not be qualified for VP...CHECK.

She seems to exhibit a classic Repub ability to tell tall tales and stretch and distort the truth...CHECK.

Yet for the life of me I do not get the endless obsession the left have with this woman...obsessing about her appearance, her every word, her marriage, her children, her every move...what is it that causes this deep and mindless fascination? As was the case with Hillary, when she was demonized, anaylzed, demeaned and despised, the left seems to have an unsavory interest in trashing women, if they have the nerve to question the liberal orthodoxy in any way...it is especially ironic in the case of Hillary, for she IS a firm member of the liberal orthodoxy, and that is not a criticism of her by me at all...the left seem also annoyed that Hillary has not been more forceful in criticizing Palin...maybe because all the trash talk that Palin is getting Hillary was subject to also...this irony is missed by those who are ready with the cheap and vulgar name calling they have hurled at Palin. Can you imagine if Obama was subjected to the nasty, vicious comments we have heard about Palin? That he is falsely called a Muslim or hangs with has-been unrepentant terrorists is child's play in comparison.

What I also find curious is that there is this surprise that she would be the dispenser of attack dog tactics against Obama....HELLO...Spiro Agnew ring a bell?

I usually enjoy your posts, but stooping to childish name calling is a little beyond the pale...maybe the reason Wall Street would not be displeased with Obama is that he has managed to rake in quite a bit of cash from the downtown set, a fact you ignore conveniently. However, there was little if any correlation with the rise in the markets and Obama's poll numbers...to imagine there is is way dumber than anything Jonah Goldberg is theorizing. If the eoonomy was sailing along, Obama's uptick would never have happened...granted, if McCain hadn't claimed the economy was sound when it wasn't, then his numbers certainly wouldn't have tanked...the race was close before that...I have no doubt in my mind that it will tighten up again, as it has seesawed back and forth for months...Obama may win, but it will not be a landslide...I would say 52-48 at best.

Stay away from analysis of the markets, Glenn...your over your head...bigtime.

It isn't the smears of Obama that have mattered, but the way McCain handled the credit crisis...his numbers tanked the day he said the economy was sound and then tried to backtrack...we may very well attribute that fateful day as the time when McCain lost this election. The smears are secondary if not tertiary in his decline.

Americans, in their classic ability to have extraordinarily short attention spans, are now ignoring the most serious drama the country is facing...far worse than the credit crisis, which shows the world's innate greed and selfish concern for one's own pocketbook...

It wasn't long ago that racism reared its repellent head in North Carolina...that the pundits now imagine the state among others has become the bastion of tolerance, open mindedness and racial harmony is not only dangerously short sighted but patently foolish. Race will not suddenly become a non-issue because of Obama...to think that this would be so is the height of idiocy and short-sightedness...it's still there...I hear even in solidly blue New Jersey otherwise perfectly rational professionals say they would never vote for Obama because of his skin color...these are not frothing at the mouth, scary militiamen, neo-Nazis or Klansmen. If this is true in the polyglot that is New Jersey, then what would it be in the back country of Appalachian North Carolina? Let's step back and take a reality check here...

You can't be serious, Shapiro...you CAN'T be...is the punditry that out of touch with the rest of the country?

Namely thus:

Moreover, it's far from clear which version of Barack Obama will end up governing -- the cautious and principle-free centrist who sought out Joe Lieberman's mentorship and then endorsed him over an anti-war Democratic insurgent; the high-minded and establishment-challenging change agent of the Democratic primary; or the bland establishment figure of the general election seeking to minimize, even erase, every difference he has with Republicans. I doubt he even knows, but there are some possibilities that are quite bad (though, if he wins, he's certainly entitled to actually do things before being assessed one way or the other).

The "cautious" and "bland establishment" character is what scares me about Obama, and the "share the wealth" comment to the now

Somehow this didn't get added in:

...share the wealth comment to the now infamous Joe The Plumber freaks out a lot of Americans...

...was Obama's remark to Joe The Plumber about "sharing the wealth"...if anything may cost him the election, this classically boneheaded remark just plays into the Republican playbook about how they view Democrats as socialists...it is so antithetical to how we think in America, so wrongheaded to provide welfare to those who don't deserve it, to give money to people who don't even pay taxes...what WAS he thinking?

Already, three polls have shown Obama's supposed bump in polls has been all but obliterated...and this would be why.

Boring...move along.

Don't be so naive, Glenn...I mean, come on...!

Fox has people e-mail incidents of voter fraud they spot...and they are not going to be in favor of Obama!