The problem with your posts is that they are coming from a distinctly partisan point of view. I'm describing the NON-partisan appeal of Palin.

Not only do you put a partisan spin (putting it politely) on the facts of "Troopergate", you miss the central point:

#### You mean a non-partisan person wouldn't find anything wrong with Troopergate?

Even if the Governor HAD pushed for the trooper to be fired (she didn't -- the fired department head testified that she never once raised the issue)

#### That's not how I recall the accounts. (If she didn't press for the trooper's firing, then what was the Troopergate probe about?)

, to most NON-partisan voters, that would be LAUDATORY conduct.

#### Non-partisans would think her (and Todd's) behaviour was cool? It's laudatory, I suppose, for a private citizen to complain about an ex in-law they have problems with, but it's not kosher to use your position as governor to do so - and fire the official who wouldn't comply.

Not so laudatory to non-partisan voters would be Obama's alliances with people like Ayers and Dohrn (would you think it was relevant if McCain had personal friendships and professional associations with abortion clinic bombers?),

#### He didn't have "alliances", whatever you mean by that. He worked with him on some educational board thing (along with other people)....this hanging around with Ayers thing seems to imply there was some kind of vacuum, with just Obama and Ayers, and nobody else in the world. Ayers' bombing thing was many years previous and he lived a useful life since then. Entirely possible (tho not clear) that Obama didn't even know Ayers' past. (Groan, why do I bother... And why do you?)

Wright, Rezko, and Blagosevich.

#### Doesn't seem to be any smoking gun with Rezko - and Obama did say the real estate thing ( which doesn't seem otherwise to have any problems) was bone-headed. As for Blag, he was the governor, but according to accounts thus far they were distant, not in cahoots. As for Wright, see below.

Remember, think non-partisan and you'll see Sarah's appeal to disaffected voters.

#### Nope, can't see it. Disaffected voters should be interested in articulate intelligent people to vote for.

(And no, making inquiries after receiving constituent complaints about books doesn't count.

#### Yes it does. You get an inquiry from a constituent, you tell them it's not government policy to ban books. You don't "make inquiries" of the librarian and fire her.

And if you want to compare crazy churches, Sarah's looks positively tame compared with Barack's, doesn't it?)

#### Actually no. Rev. Wright preached in a way that looks quite demented to people who don't go to Pentecostal and such-like churches (black and white). His subject matter, on the tapes, God-damn America and all that (which I remember reading was a quote, not his own words) has some justification, given the long history of suffering on the part of African-Americans. OTOH, what on earth could possibly be the justification for the batshit-crazy exorcism of all witchcraft influence by an African witch-finder. And it's not just harmless fun - witchfinders in Africa, just as the same kind of people in Europe of some centuries ago, cause the persecution and death of innocent people (being as there ain't no witches)(well, except maybe...no, cheap shot, forget it).

The Feds are framing Blago, because he has the birth certificate

That's what all the bleeps are covering up, you see.

Don't worry, they'll catch Obama anyway. His hand will start smoking once he touches the Bible at the inauguration. Then Palin will appear in a chorus of all-white angels in tasteful gowns, and they will bust into "The Star-Spangled Banner" while she gives birth to the Messiah. Without even mussing her makeup. She's a pro.

-- metasailor

Excellent observation! Having had interaction with some bi-polars, this does ring true. P.S. - I suspect there's a lot of bp's in public life, many of them tending to mostly mania (at least, when we can see them).

Might explain the letter column. (Joan, don't ever distribute lithium to your readers...)

(Don't mean to offend and bi's out there - it's in my immediate family and I figure I've earned the right to laugh now & then.)

said - OJ is off the hook. He can call off his search. Clearly, we are getting close to the real murderer of Nicole and her lover.

#### Search is called off - the real murderer is in prison.

Ahem

Them

Aim to annoy

By eating Illinois

(not yet medicated this morning...)

Good grief. Won't get into trying to respond to THIS. (Time for YOUR meds.)

"Bush dark" - cute.

I am reading elsewhere (prob. Huff) that there is a second minister-type lined up to speak - Warren for the invocation and the other guy for the benediction (whatever in hell invocations and benedictions are). And the other guy is pro-gay-rights. If so, he should get talked up (and the right wingers to squawk).

Regardless, I consider the Warren thing a sop to the rightist "Christianists" (another good term). I think Obama is going to be a very different prez from the Bush model and also from the hoped-for standard progressive agenda.

If i were Obama, i wouldn't have met with McCain and on being invited by Bush to tour the White House would have thrown my shoe at him.

I'm thinking Obama is not just a politician, but an exceptional one, not acting on his own outrage let alone that of others, but keeping the goal in mind ... the goal to be to (as dictated by circumstances) to save all our skins, regardless of color or orientation of said skins.