Stunned by the Palin pick, the Obama-Biden ticket has seemed lifeless this week.

Doesn't John McCain seem lifeless every week?

I have been waiting for someone to point how ridiculous it is for the GOP to suddenly heap praise on Hillary Clinton. Until Obama won the nominations, Republicans saw Hillary Clinton as the liberal anti-Christ, with a touch of Eva Braun thrown in for good measure. Now that is politically expedient, they pretend to admire her.

If her supporters fall for this act, they deserve the country they will get.

Whatever you think about Palin and her Republican allies, the truth is they are doing far more to defend her from vicious, irrelevant, demeaning, chauvanistic, and bigoted attacks than the democrats ever did for Hillary Clinton.

Of course they are going to go around pleading sexism whenever they can, because they are trying to get their chosen candidate elected.

Clinton was in a tough, fair fight and lost. If she had won the nomination, then Democrats would be circling the wagons around her.

P.S. A lot of those attacks you complain about came from Republicans. Is that a reason to vote GOP?

The Democrats like to blame President Reagan for all the deregulation. However, most of it was done by President Clinton.

Don't you know that a Clinton can do no wrong? :)

Everyone who honestly thinks they can get this right raise your hand.

No, seriously. In both debates, the CNN commentators basically called a tie but the poll said the Democrat won. The funny thing is they usually credit the Republican with the "common touch", or something to that effect. CNN needs to re-evaluate what the common folk out in Yahooville really like. Maybe voters actually like intellect and competence!

On another topic, remember all that nonsense about how Obama was an elitist for first-naming McCain? Do conservatives have any memory whatsoever?

It makes no sense to say that Palin won the debate from a TV perspective. The polls said she lost, and the people were answering were no doubt watching on ... TV.

Does Paglia really have a Yale PhD?

Anyone else notice that after every debate the media proclaims that there was "no clear winner"? Then when the polls come out, the Democrat is the clear winner.

My theory is that the media thinks that you can only really "win" a debate by giving off some nasty, memorable zinger. In fact, Obama and Biden won simply by being consistently more impressive than their opponent.

If Powell's endorsement doesn't count because he is the same race as Obama, then McCain doesn't get to brag about any endorsements from white people.

I had exactly the same thought -- if Obama is a Socialist, then Ike was a hard-core Communist.

1. What will Obama's popular vote margin be? 10

2. How many Electoral College votes will Obama win? 350

3. How many seats will the Democrats gain (net) in the House? 35

4. How many seats will the Democrats gain (net) in the Senate? 9

Pick the winner in the following races:

5. Pa.-12 -- Rep. Jack Murtha (D) vs. William Russell (R)

MURTHA

6. Minn.-6 -- Rep. Michele Bachmann (R) vs. Elwyn Tinklenberg (D)

TINKLENBERG

7. Ga. Sen. -- Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R) vs. Jim Martin (D)

MARTIN

8. Minn. Sen. -- Sen. Norm Coleman (R) vs. Al Franken (D)

FRANKEN

9. N.C. Sen. -- Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R) vs. Kay Hagan (D)

HAGAN

Tiebreaker: 10 pm EST

How can a man who ran as a Reagan conservative be passing all of this socialist legislation?! (e.g., 39% tax bracket)

Colin Powell adopted Obama based on race. Oprah Winfrey bankrolled the early Obama ascendancy based on race.

I said it before and I'll say it again: If you want to attribute a racial motive whenever a black person supports Obama, you have to do the same when a white person supports McCain or any other white candidate.

Joe Lieberman is not a Democrat. Let a real one have his chairmanship.

She uses language with the jumps, breaks and rippling momentum of a be-bop saxophonist.

I'm speechless.

It's as if Democrats have a so-called friend who keeps punching them in the mouth. It's time to tell Joe we don't want to hang out with him anymore. That's a far cry from revenge, it's just having a backbone.

And asking him to apologize is just lame. He's not a five-year-old, he knew what he was doing.

The Constitution gives the President the power to pardon whomever he wants, except in cases of impeachment. Holder could have objected more, but there's no reason that Bill Clinton had to take his advice.

As a long-time Obama supporter, I find myself unmoved by the whole drama.

You could fill a book with the things that Obama didn't use against Hillary Clinton. Clinton tried everything but the kitchen sink and lost. Get over it.

I understand a lot of folks are not in a position to spend much, but I am thinking of buying my first house (for my own reasons, not to boost the economy). Since I live in an area where a house is realistically going to cost at least $250,000 at a bare minimum, that would make up for a lot of people on tight budgets.

Stiff Upper Lip.

Not sure what I'm saying here, but it sounds kinda sexy.

So NOW you want answers?!

And like so many Obama supporters, I'm appalled at the selection of Saddleback Rev. Rick Warren to give the inaugural invocation Jan. 20. Once again, it smacks a little bit of the arrogance I worried I saw in Obama, the sense that his personal appeal can heal deep political divisions -- and that if he does something, it must be right.

It's funny how someone is only "arrogant" when they do something you disagree with... The fact is that Obama invited someone whose values are pretty different than his own. An evangelical Christian might call that humility.