It seems to me that she demonstrated her one true talent and that is having majore cajones. Other than that she also showed her ability to read her lines with conviction like we've already seen. Granted, there was not much time to give her much more than a bit part in her own skewering, but they did give her a couple of expected comeback lines. Other than that I thought Alec Baldwin was funny, underscoring her knee-jerk sex appeal, by pivoting from his criticism to fawning over her in 2 seconds flat. And I dont know but I didn't think that she looked like she was really enjoying herself all that much during the rap. She smiled gamely enough, but it had that slightly frozen "I'm not sure about this" look about it. Perhaps she was acting? I think it was a little of both.

As excititng as the Red Sox made the ALCS, I was rooting for the Rays the whole time , mainly because I've gotten so sick of seeing the same big payroll teams compete year in and year out (okay that's not really true, I'm just sick of the Yankees and the Red Socks and their ongoing rivalry). I think it's great to watch young upstart teams like the Rays compete against more experienced teams like Boston because they don't know when to quit. Of course their enthusiasm often outmatches their ability but that is also their charm. Plus being from Minnesota I was more than a little peeved that the Twins gave up Matt Garza and hung onto Boof Bonser, so it's nice to see him (Garza)have some success and the Twins get to continue their hobby of developing players for the rest of the league.

I don't know how the Rays match up against the Phillies but I'm sure you'll have a thing or two to say about it. Looking forward to reading it. Obviously you called the outcome of this one right. Hey, these things happen some time!

one senses that what's really on the line here is Lieberman's future period. And he knows it.

I don't know if I'm any different from anyone else, but I am more personally invested in this election than in any other in recent years. I feel that I've got a personal stake in seeing the country turn the corner. But I also feel that because of the visceral nature of the issues at hand we are feeling vulnerable and thus our attachment to our candidates is a personal one. We listen to them and judge their character and we need to feel that their responses are genuine. This is different than previous elections in a profound way. We may have believed in John Kerry, but he was basically a vote against Bush. I really think that there is a reawakening of the desire to be a part of something new here. So attacks on our candidates' "unAmericanism" is an attack on us. It rings as patently false and well,... unAmerican.

I feel for once that the McCain campaign's hamfisted attempts to gin up class resentment and phony patriotism looks pointedly and desperately divisive. Add to that his running mate's tin ear for what constitutes populism and Mccain's own temperament and people start recoiling in horror.

What has emerged over the months is a portrait of Obama as a thoughtful, intelligent and dare I say, ethical man as opposed to Mccain who seems venal, small and more a series of tactics and cheap maneuvers rather than any kind of portrait at all.

If you want to see a "real" populist uprising, check out what's happening to Michelle Bachman. In a republican district no less.

What I find disturbing is that tinny little smile that accompanies all of McCain's phony indignation. He's got all the emotional bearing of a schoolboy pulling a "fast one". Watch him whenever he feels like he's gotta particularly good one. It's delivered with a snarky little grin which is odd because he's pretending to be SO outraged.

While it's nice to be lectured about what feminists think by a couple of male right-wing hacks, it's interesting to note that the implication of his statement is that feminists by nature are unattractive, unhappy and incompetent. I'd really like them to address why millions of heterosexual males also can't stand her. Care to focus that rapier-like intellect on dissecting THAT one, Mr. Bennett?

nuthin' more to say. She is an ignoramus who makes Governor Palin look smart. I don't know from Elwyn Tinklenburg (great Dickonsonian name!), but nothing can be worse than this gay-baiting, ultra-Christian Stepford harpy.

What's so disturbing to me is not that a rather lonely, desperate young woman created this story nor is it the crass dishonesty and race-baiting environment of the McCain campaign that helped generate it, but the fact that everyone on the right was just gleefully salivating at exploiting this horror and that McCain's peeps were more than likely busy drawing up new screeching points to be delivered with the mock outrage that we've come to expect from the onetime "Maverick" and his sidekick.