She expressed a reaction to a Republican's responses! (Or lack thereof.)

BIAS! BIAS! BIAS!

That said, like most of these things, Gov Palin's non-responses weren't notable as such, but for how far she's willing to push that tactic. Obama & Biden aren't saints by any means. They just look a little saintly in comparison.

Team McCain was practicing a political jujitsu that kept the Republican close in polls when the Democratic standard-bearer, given George Bush's unpopularity, should have had a significant lead.

Mr. Schaller, I've practiced jujitsu ... actual jujitsu, not the political kind. What the McCain campaign is doing isn't jujitsu. It's more comparable to the fighting style of someone who learned how to fight by watching lame action films.

What the Obama campaign does is political jujitsu, and I've been admiring it since before I was a supporter.

All things considered, I won't be surprised if the McCain campaign simply makes something up and pumps it out there at the last minute via some of their plausible-deniability surrogates and/or push-polling. After all, McCain knows how well that works from being a target of it in 2000, and he hired the guy who did it.

(What kind of person hires the scum who not only used that kind of slimy attack, not only used it against him, but used it against his family. How fuckin' cynical is that?)

I like to think that most of the people who'd fall for it are already committed to McCain, but it might work on a few remaining undecideds. All the more reason for Obama supporters to keep pushing, no matter what the polls say. We need a lead that's way too big to steal.

... I'm sure the group some Obama acquaintance hung out with 40 years ago must have had something to do with the economic crisis.

After all, it's not like it could have anything whatsoever to do with deregulation policies pushed by people like President Bush and Senator McCain. Suggesting something like that is simply hateful muslem terrist libral socialest talk.

Go John McCain! He's a mavericky POW!

McCain joined the group's board at the behest of General John Singlaub, a friend of his father.

Uh-huh. Don't that just say a lot. Someone bail Jerome Corsi out of jail and tell him it might be a whole lot easier to dig up shit on Presidential-candidate family connections right here in the US of A.

Of course, it might not be any safer ...

September wants it's "Don't Underestimate Sarah Palin" meme back.

This is October. The meme is "Will Even Fox News Hire Sarah Palin After This?"

Obama got it right early in the evening when he flickered away a McCain critique by saying to an audience member, "You're not interested in hearing politicians pointing fingers."

Maybe not, but I sure as hell think that an important part of trying to fix things is trying to understand what broke ... and why. When names come up in the process of that, I'm not going to pretend that I don't see them.

Obama essentially agreed with Ronald Reagan's assessment that the Soviet Union was an Evil Empire, when he said of Russia "I think they've engaged in an evil behavior".

There's an important distinction between condemning specific behavior and issuing a blanket judgment of an entire country. That's why I can recognize that the behavior of the US in Iraq is fucked up without "hating America", though that distinction is oh-so-conveniently lost on wingers.

Think of it as something like the geo-political equivalent of "hating the sin and loving the sinner." (Though to forestall the predictably lame rejoinder, no, that doesn't mean I loooooove Russia.)

Now imagine what that small business is going to do when it is saddled with obama's tax increases.

That's nothing. What are small business owners going to do when Obama sends his commie muslemites around to kill and eat their babies?

It's my understanding that McCain often moves awkwardly, due to injuries received when he was a POW. Campaign fatigue may be making the effect worse. Gods know that I can be pretty clumsy when I'm tired and stressed, and I'm a lot younger and haven't been through the shit he has.

Yeah, call-in polls are as stupid as web polls -- maybe even more so.

Fox News call-in polls are beyond stupid. A silly exercise in self-validation.

I'd believe Drudge before I'd trust the left-wing, radical mainstream media abortion afficianados.

Well, of course you would.

I have a great financial deal for you on a bridge in Alaska. Interested?

"Eliminat[ing] income taxes for seniors making less than $50,000" is still referred to on the Obama campaign web site. (Click on my name below for a direct link.)

He just didn't happen to mention it last night.

Really, there'd be no point to dropping that from his official agenda at this point, even if he's not sure we'll be able to afford it by the time we get to 2009.

Given that I'm thinking that Biden would be a bit old to run via the VP boost in 2016, I wonder if he may make a graceful exit via the 2012 election (or by retiring a couple of years later) in order to give someone else the setup.

Hillary may eventually end up being Obama's VP after all. (Though for various reasons I strongly suspect it'd be someone else.)

The National Journal is the Most Fascist Magazine in the US. I know that because I read it in the October 2008 issue of the Bearpaw Journal. QED.

(Not that being liberal is really comparable to being fascistic, of course. Quite the opposite.)

Did any of those intrepid reporters ask the Governor about her not-so-tenuous connection to a secessionist party?

Obama works on education reform with a former radical? Scary!

Palin gives a public thumbs-up to a current radical group? "Um, what do you think of Tina Fey?"

Q: "Why does Salon pay Camille Paglia for her writing?"

A: Page hits. (See the "Active Letters" list.)

You're just feeding the beast, folks.