Gov. Palin, as you know while you've instantly become one of the most popular people in America, the other side seems to be tethered to a tired horse, slipping in support by the day, and starting to sound like old news, tedious, flip-flopping, without principles, clueless on some issues even as he is never at a loss for contorted convoluted explanations (see "surge"). Is there any advice you can give on how to get the American (not the European) people to like oneself?

Governor, did you ever consider joining the military? If you just answer "yes", I can guarantee you there are people out there who'll take you at your word, despite your failure to ever say it before (to continue the joke, Obama doesn't mention it in his memoirs). Yes, people, even the super-smarty pants liberals, are that dumb.

By "distancing" himself from his party, he loses not a single GOP vote, because Republicans watched the convention and fell in love with Gov. Palin. How many independents he picks up cannot be known now, but it's a good move. Can Obama distance himself from the less popular wings of the Democratic Party? I thought so.

The LW can get rid of the hurt, but she'll have to convince herself that being liberal does not make her superior to conservatives as people. If LW cannot lose her snobbishness, her hate will always consume her.

...was forced on MSNBC by the Right, get it?

..."rictus". Fits Giulinani and The Joker, not so much the great Widmark who's grin was more nuanced and yet as threatening. I really miss that guy.

As the article elaborates what I thought the moment I laid eyes on Gov. Palin -- she's hot and can get votes thereby -- I see the article as insightful, up to a point. The rest about the dominatrix and turn-offs is wishful thinking. You want to be turned off? Listen to Obama's stumbling stair-tripping cadences these days. Think of an independent deciding if he wants to listen to that for four years. Obama punched Palin yesterday -- he's running for president, or vice-president? Biden, a decent man, seems so last century. This is less a race for office than an American Idol face-off.

....they only matter if your guy is ahead!

bmcavanagaugh said:

"All I have to say is that is if Obama loses then I officially will never be able to look another republican in the eye again without wanting to beat them senseless with a baseball bat."

Would it not make more sense to beat up Democrats who scoured their fine party and chose the one, I say the only one, who could possibly lose this race?

Sounds pretty stupid, doesn't it?

An interesting suggestion by a poster, but really, that would be all McCain needs to put the final nail in Obama's not ready to govern coffin. Obama people have been bragging about his first presidential decision being a home run. To reverse it...and the "health" excuse would be laughed out of court.

Why is Canada the dullest major country in the world?

My wife and I are super smart, highly educated, and completely up and current events and contemporary history, and know the Bush Doctrine, but did not know it by that label. And what exactly was wrong with what Palin said about Iran? Joan, forget the intellectual snobbery...not gonna work in this election, au contraire.

...explain it when you referred to it, Joan? See, being a wise-ass can backfire.

...of harpies ganging up on a gentlemen. You think this got Obie votes? Dream on...

On this Monday morning, where some say our country teeters between another Great Depression and the End of Civilization as We know It, the quote from the "low information" voter who thought Palin was from Canada was welcome. Then I thought, this woman is not that dumb; isn't the governor of Michigan from Canada? My point is, let's stop calling people stupid, or they'll want to act that way, and I don't blame them.

Where do you get off saying McCain "sold his soul" by picking Palin? Almost everybody thinks she's helped his chances of being elected enormously. And trying to win is selling your soul to the devil? Look, Obama's a nice guy so far as I can tell, but bussing in out-of-staters to the Iowa caucus is not exactly moral, so leave the god-like judgments out of this. McCain may win because of Palin, and what do you think history books will say about that -- "he sold his soul"? Ha!

Yes, Obama, the man of experience and unblemished background, performs his promise to us all (including wavering Hillary supporters) to bring a new kind of politics, one that rises above the usual partisan divisiveness, and blah blah blah....

Me thinks the undecideds might say "why vote for a feeble attacker when you can get the real thing?"

@Klytus:

gotcha! why respond if you're not greatful in some sense? Have a nice day.

All the endless journalism schmoozing about ethics, sources, reliability, etc., etc. Very very important to the people who make their living from this, maybe. Supposedly ultimately very important to that part of the public that actually reads media. What we never hear from the endless complainers like Greenwald and that guy at the Nation (Alterman, I think) is what could change things to a state that they like. Without an idea of how to break out of the journalism club with their complaints, they're talking to themselves (polite way of putting it). More trials and fewer tribulations.

Seven weeks to Election Day, not six, Genius. And get over it, but fast....50-50 McCain-Palin win.

I still find Obama's speeches overly intellectualized, not the old time Democratic religion that actually could sway voters. Admittedly I'm going by the clips on TV; I wasn't there. But then again, neither was 99.999% of the country's voters.