Thank you for allowing that the metaphor has been around for years. Now will you allow that McCain is being awfully thin skinned to take such ombrage, and to be personally offended on Palin's bahalf? Of course McCain is not offended; he's playing mean/nasty. But come on, where's his honor?

Help us out. If it's possible, show us the honorable McCain we USED to know. (And even supported.)

Personally, as someone who cheered on Hillary even as I cheered on Obama all last year, I love that Biden could say this. What a rare man!

I won't vote for her because she shares the Republican platform (pro war, anti national health care, anti balance-the-budget), and I don't think she's nearly ready to be either VP or President of this country, but having watched the videos of Parts 2 and 3 of Gibson's interview, I find myself pleasantly surprised by two things:

1) I think Palin's point about the gender of the parent who's running for political office being irrelevant was a good one. We should indeed hold both fathers and mothers of young children to the same standard when they choose to be leaders of this country.

2) I was astonished that she's not going to participate in the Dobson gay-bashing agenda. Who knows how she'll flip in the future on that, but I find it incredibly refreshing that she could in at least one interview say she is not going to pass judgment on peoples' sexual preferences.

In part 2 or 3 of her interview with Gibson, when asked about "homosexuality," Palin said she would not pass judgment on people's sexual preferences. It was astonishing to me! How could a Dobson pick (a Dobson Delight, you could say) actually not openly proclaim gay sexual activity to be sinful?

Is it possible that the Obama team could raise the issue of support for gay rights as their own dividing issue now? Since Palin says openly--to the nation--that she will not pass judgment on gays, can the Obama campaign/Democrats not directly ask why so many of her avid supporters do? Of course, there's a lot more to Palin's appeal to her supporters than gay rights, and, of course, Palin is, I think quite obviously, not really a supporter of gay rights... She'll flip when it's politically expedient. But if/when she flips, the Obama team has more evidence of her lies...