that the U.S. isn't the only place with laughable politicians - this from the Huffpost -

BANGKOK, Thailand — Thailand's prime minister was forced out of office Tuesday along with his Cabinet after a court ruled that he had broken a conflict-of-interest law by hosting TV cooking shows.

How else to get to grips with the Republican ticket?

I have some Pents doing a big carpentry (car-PENT-ry, haha) job for me at the moment. Very sweet, thoughtful, conscientious, cheerful people, on the look-out for extras they can do for me, checking in to make sure the work is progressing to my satisfaction, thanking me profusely for a cup of water...needed to "witness" briefly but not pressing me at all. Raising up and giving life to some people who would otherwise be living wasted lives Just lovely people. In hunting season they go out and kill God's little creatures.

I spent my very early years in a Pent church - lots of throwing away of crutches, getting baptized in a bathtub on stage, rolling around and, yes, talking in tongues. Imported black ministers from the Southern U.S. for big tent rallies. (Sang dirge-like hymns like white mainline Christians tho.) It spoiled me for any other Christian services (like, BORRRRRRRRIIIINNNNNNGGGGGGGG. Who could sit in a pew and listen to some mumblin' minister after that).

But all this wonderfulness (see first paragraph, minus last sentence), and, well, fun (see second paragraph), plus all this anticipating (and maybe helping out) the end times is not something I want to see holding the most powerful office in the world. (Or being an old man's heartbeat away from doing so.) I think what we (you, being that I'm Canadian) (and we, too, as the rest of the world) need is a humorous, cool, thoughtful, INTELLIGENT person like Obama.

P.S. - Pent being far behind me these days, I now follow the pentagram. Crazy too, but I don't aim to make any decisions for anybody but me...

I saw a bit of the interview on CNN and their Republican commentator (a woman named Babe, I believe - !!) thought Palin did good. And she articulated it in a fashion that seemed to indicate a brain. Of sorts. Gibson looked like he was sucking on a pickle. (Ohmygod what am I doing here)

Saw the whole of the McCain and Obama interviews. McCain didn't sound as much of an idiot as he's been portraying himself recently (though blaming Obama for the nastiness of the Republican campaign because he wouldn't do the town-hall travelling show), but he was just sort of Not Too Awful. Obama, of course, was clearly such an all-around superior person. How could anyone not want him as prez? (Well, those who don't like superior persons - esp. non-totally-white superior persons...)

Just to contemplate the Palin prattling next to Obama's thoughtful, intelligent, experienced mentally at least - as someone said on one of these threads today, there's a disturbance in the force (and angels weep).

said - "This repeated derogatory reference to her Mayoralty could be taken as an insult to those who actually live in small towns. "

Not necessarily. I live in a very small municipality, and it makes me visualize our local mayor as a possible VP... Yikes.

Good for you! I wish I could follow suit, but I live in Canada, so can only watch, shivering, from the sidelines.

But the one not-negative thing you mentioned in your first post - that Palin said she wasn't standing in judgment re homosexuals. I don't think that's what she said. She did a clever sidestep, as with the plane on E-Bay thing, that let people fill in the blank wrongly. Gibson asked if she thought homosexuality was genetic or a (so ridiculous!) a furshlugginer choice, and THAT was what she said she wasn't going to "judge". Unfortunately, he didn't ask directly what she thought about homosexual (haha) "activity". And this, I think, is an instance where the dumb republicans are clever enough to fill in the blank properly! While we liberal-thinking people take people at their word and say, but she SAID... That's why we get tied up in knots when these people lie...it doesn't matter what they say, cuz they know what they mean...