So the Enquirer gets the Edwards story right and now Salon is indirectly citing them as a credible source?

What's next ? The "Bat Boy" endorses Obama ?

Will you cite "The Rude Pundit" ?

If Palin bonked somebody, it belongs in the Enquirer, not on Salon

sort of odd to hear it coming from a woman since they tend to be tossed out in a denigrating fashion. Some fool on another thread thought she had come up with the line herself -- amusing.

This was a red meat speech with a rather nasty tone to it. I'm looking forward to the continuing cries of sexism (Cindy McCain was on her high horse today about it) in the context of Gov Palin's delivery. She's (and her surrogates) are going to find out that she can't have it both ways. I am looking forward to someone calling her on this bridge to nowhere falsehood.

And the dig at Obama's community organizing may backfire --- way too broad a brush there.

As a long time independent I still find this choice for VP to be terribly cynical and frankly, selfish. McCain could have done better than this and should have.

Now:
Barack Dukakis is Finished The community organizer isn't tough enough to be president. He's over.

Then:
[...] He said they have bought into a narrative that Obama is strictly a reformer. The truth, Kass says, is that he is a bare-knuckled politician. And using the rules to win his first office is part of who Obama is.

permalink: http://letters.salon.com/news/feature/2008/05/30/dnc_meeting/permalink/81ad63de2e68b9ed105bdc6eba0add1e.html

Will Obama bring a knife to a gunfight? Stay tuned.

John Podhertz at Commentary/Contentions actually had the gall to compare this speech to Obama's 2004 convention speech. Crazy. This speech was dark, angry, hostile, and confrontational. Obama's uplifting and inspiring.

The good news is that Palin graciously took the gloves off and invited all kinds of opprobrium in return. Obama will characteristically rise above it (as he should; she's not worth any oxygen), but it's time to take it back to them. May each lie be debunked and called out, may all the negativity be emphasized, may the undecideds see a clear picture of four years with this kind of nastiness, and may we all just hammer away on the following: nasty, negative, dark, angry, hostile. The new Republican brand.

I am totally blaming Salon and Joan Walsh and the other concern trolls, although this article is a step in the right direction. Where were the facts during the primaries? Anyway, does anyone now buy the idea that there is no difference between Obama/Biden and McCain/Palin? Am I the only one that lived through 2000 and got fooled into voting for Nader?

Rudy Giuliani was the perfect person to introduce Sarah Palin. They are both cut from the same mean-spirited, nasty, high-school bully cloth.

Naturally we can say this about Giuliani but it's sexist when we say it about Sarah Palin.

Unless of course you're not intimidated by mean-spirited, nasty, high-school bullies.

I was actually delighted by her speech. I was concerned that she might do well. I don't support McCain and Palin delivery was awful. I was reminded of my 5th grade teacher reading "Black Beauty" to our homeroom. Her head moved from her left to her right as if she was a "Hall of Presidents" animatron. Her cadence was difficult to follow. The 'read them their rights" business was weird. Was ther a Miranda Rights issue during the democratic primaries I missed? The end didn't build at all. Just a terrible performance.

While I want to consider myself above the standard distinction of republican or democrat, after tonight I know in my heart it would be impossible for me to vote for the GOP.

The awful thing was thinknng that McCain could win. Seeing some of the analysis that followed on CNN tht praised Palin's efforts, I worried that McCain;s recent attacks on the media may actually have an influence.

Did some idiot with the Obama campaign say that it was "shrill." There was a great deal of discussion about the word on CNN and I wondered.

We are so underserved by the MSM.

I'm guessing little Trig was at least as drugged as dragged. And did I imagine it, or did Hubby Palin seem really, really awkward holding him? See, Sarah? We all can snark!

Personally I'm sick of people whining about sexism every time Hillary Clinton or Sarah Palin are criticized for something.

If the best that the Democrats and Republicans can do is a couple of thin skinned princesses then maybe it's best for American woman to wait for a candidate that won't hide behind a fragile gender shield.

American woman deserve better than to be represented by a precious prima donna.

Of course we've heard the joke before, only the line went: what's the difference between a woman with PMS and a pitbull? Another version compares women lawyers to pitbulls.

and it's a nasty, mean, angry shade of blood red.

The community organizer isn't tough enough to be president. He's over.

by this point that McCain is a twit, and Palin is merely past tense. So much for abstinence education.

For her introduction to America, I believe she has over-played her hand. She came off as smug, sarcastic, nasty and mean-spirited. I don't think she will get very many votes for McCain. When people come to learn what she believes and how far she is away from what they believe, they will question. But, super-impose this ugly and nasty image she presented tonight, and people will be turned off.

Pain's speech was disgraceful, mean spirited and angry. It did nothing to convince me that the horrible eight years of Bush rule will be over if McCain took office. Her speech to nowhere will take us nowhere. Go Obama and Biden...

When Sarah Palin said:

"winning is survival, and defeat means death."

did she mean she'd kill herself?

This all or nothing approach epitomizes the Republican way. No hint of bi-partisanship.

Enough already. This is NOT country first, its party first.