Such a loss...my first reaction was, "oh no!!!"

My second was, "What a well-lived and classy life he had."

My third was, "Crap, one fewer vote for Obama."

Maybe I'm a little obsessed?

P.S. fbair, it's "stutters," honey.

I thought this would be good for a laugh, but it's just too accurate to be funny.

I am somewhere Beyond Beyond that anyone with four aligning brain cells could consider this person capable of running our country.

Or that the chucklehead who put her on his ticket is worthy of a vote.

but there's one aspect you probably wouldn't think of because you're not a woman...

And it goes like this. Of all of the incredibly capable, thinking, intelligent, informed potential female candidates out there...THIS is the woman who has a shot at the White House?

As a woman, I am pissed blue, not only because Hilary was so thoroughly shat upon while this knucklehead gets a free pass but also because Palin, to our infinite horror, is representing Women in the Big Leagues. And she couldn't be less qualified. So our chance at history is being destroyed.

I couldn't give a crap less what she looks like. I couldn't be less "jealous," which is the snarky little criticism all thinking women get when they look at this moron and scream "WTF????"

But after thirty years of knowing what kind of effort is involved to be taken seriously in a man's world, the constant, sustained, exhausting effort to be that much smarter, that much more prepared, that much more eloquent, that much ballsier...to have this woman fail to meet that standard in any way...

Yes. It's utterly and completely enraging.

THIS

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/cashing-in-on-a-gop-star/

is a things of beauty and I only wish I had thought of it myself!

Okay, so wasn't it McCain who rode his white horse into DC last week and "suspended" his campaign to make sure a bailout would happen?

So now it's OBAMA'S fault????

The campaign wasn't suspended, but reality surely has been.

so she filibustered away, in that "adorable" way she has. Bless Katie, just about the time I was yelling, "don't let her get away with that," she interrupted the blathering and said, in a tone that clearly indicates that the days of Patient Katie are over, "Can you think of ANY??"

As someone very astute here just pointed out, the Exxon case SHOULD have been at the top of her mind. It just hasn't been that long and it would have been a big issue right about the time that she was vying for the governor's chair.

She's a shallow, incurious talking head. I can only beseech the god that she doesn't manage to look like anything else during the debate tonight.

What I'm really curious about is how the far right is going to react to what she said about Roe vs. Wade. If I interpreted that stream of bullshit correctly, she was saying that she wants it to be up to the states to decide. If you're an anti-choicer, wouldn't that really fry your mind? So you can't get an abortion in Nebraska, so just hop a plane to New York?

Thoughts?

I truly have never understood it. It's like listening to the end stages of a truly gothic drunk, like some Willy Loman-esque guy in the motel lounge weaving around in front of you weeping and spilling bourbon down his shirt while he slurs about how he never gets a break...

Same syndrome. I blame right-wing talk radio and their "commentators," who have learned that their success relies on their ability to feed this idiot throng and their victim addiction, in a truly dazzling display of codependence. No fact is too large to be overlooked, no reality too stark not to be spun...these guys are a blight on thinking people everywhere, not to mention the unthinking.

It's...amazing.

I know it's my own fault, but I CAN'T ACTUALLY WATCH THIS, lest it become dangerous to my health.

Ergo, I'm counting on the sane people here and on my husband, who is sequestered in the family room, because he has a stronger stomach than I have. I can hear him muttering in outrage, but not the words...not yet, anyway...

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I'm really, really disappointed with Salon's "Live Blog" of this debate.

According to the byline, this is supposed to be "Salon Staff" not just one individual with other commitments.

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donaquixote, I noticed her weird handling of the baby, too...and thought it was just me. She treats that baby like a prop. Maybe I've just missed it, but I've never once seen her face light up when she beckons for him (photo op time!) or stare into his face the way I've seen most moms do with their infants.

I'm not a parent, but what a five month-old infant is doing at a public event at midnight defies any real parenting logic...oh unless of course you're using your baby as a proof point for your political ambitions.

God and I talked and she is way pissed!

and through some utter catastrophic failure of all that is good and decent I become president on November 4, my first presidential appointee would be a food taster.

Little Miss Wasilla could feed him ground glass with an antifreeze chaser and still smile while she did it...after all, she's doing GOD'S WORK.

"But to what extent is it the euphoria of watching a man with real command of facts, details and history? The gratification of agreeing with the person at the microphone when you feel as though you have been robbed of a voice? The satisfaction of watching Biden knock Palin down -- not like an animal, but like a gentleman and a scholar?"

All of the above.

I had the same reaction, especially when he refused to let Her Winkiness get under his skin in any way.

Elegant. Really elegant.

Glad to hear it wasn't just me!