I promise I'll respond, but first I must pursue my main SALON.COM quest of being the first person to respond to your blog just once in my life...

ok, ....wow.- first things fi-

um. yea, so this is a dr- i feel like i'm dreaming. i'm suppose to shout someth-

"Hi Mom; I'm going to DISNEY LAND"

i was the first one to respond...pinch me...i should go back and check before i cancel my clients for this week...hold on.

Then Palin should be looking forward to plenty of time in the fiery abyss, no? She makes her living by not helping women.

What really surprises me is that she's not originally from Hell. That we know of, doncha know.

Palin is a woman. Did you mention that in your blog, Joan? I don't think you did. Palin is a woman who supports and HELPS other women. Is that so hard to understand? As a woman, Palin is willing to reach across party lines to do whatever it takes to support every other women on earth.

Has there ever been a female politician who has made the kind of bold gesture that you are ridiculing so despicably, Joan? I just looked up that quote on google and I see no mention of ANY other female politician taking the unblinkable stance that we find Gov. Palin taking in quoteing the former Secretary of State, who, by the way, is a woman as well, which I don't think you were willing to mention explicitly, Joan Walsh.

To sum up: So far Palin is proving to be the Michael Jordon of feminism! I can't believe that McCain's bold and unblinkered pick of Palin has forced me to vote republican, but it did. How could I do otherwise? Please keep us informed of Palin's next quote. I hope she quotes Chomsky on the issue of state power.

I realize that my claim that Palin is dedicated to helping every other woman on earth is a bit ambiguous; it could be taken to mean that Palin is committed to only helping half of the women currently alive. No, I mean that she is obviously dedicated to ALL LIVING women, not every other one.

Don't play gottcha politics with me, folks. I'm not in the mood. I'm in the mood for more Palin quotes!!!!!

Joan...why the obsession with Sarah Palin? You paint her as being so inconsequential, yet you obviously spend a large part of your day (and nights?) poring over everything she says and then ripping her. Why is this? Don't you have something better to do? I mean...why not say something positive about Obama and Biden, rather than constantly trying to hack away at Palin?

I think you're very jealous of her.

*MoodyRiver*

1. "As for that VP talk all the time, I'll tell you, I still can't answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day?" --Sarah Palin, interview with CNBC's "Kudlow & Co", July 2008 (Watch video clip)

2. "As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where– where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border." --Sarah Palin, explaining why Alaska's proximity to Russia gives her foreign policy experience, interview with CBS's Katie Couric, Sept. 24, 2008 (Watch video clip)

3. "Well, let's see. There's -- of course -- in the great history of America rulings there have been rulings." --Sarah Palin, unable to name a Supreme Court decision other than Roe vs. Wade, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008 (Watch video clip)

4. "All of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of me over all these years." --Sarah Palin, unable to name a single newspaper or magazine she reads, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008 (Watch video clip)

5. "I told the Congress, 'Thanks, but no thanks,' on that Bridge to Nowhere." –Sarah Palin, who was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it, multiple

6. "Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending soldiers out on a task that is from God. That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan." –Sarah Pailn, on the Iraq war, speaking to students at the Wasilla Assembly of God, June 2008 (Watch video clip)

7. "I'll try to find you some and I'll bring them to you." --Sarah Palin, asked by Katie Couric to cite specific examples of how John McCain has pushed for more regulation in his 26 years in the Senate, CBS interview, Sept. 24, 2008 (Watch video clip)

8. "That's exactly what we're going to do in a Palin and McCain administration." --Sarah Palin, elevating herself to the top of the ticket, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Sept. 18, 2008 (Watch video clip)

9. "Perhaps so." --Sarah Palin, when asked if we may need to go to war with Russia because of the Georgia crisis, ABC News interview, Sept. 11, 2008

10. "I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't.'" --Sarah Palin, as quoted by former City Council Member Nick Carney, after he raised objections about the $50,000 she spent renovating the mayor's office without approval of the city council

The only woman Sarah Palin is interested in helping is herself.

Madeline Albright is a grown-up. These are sobering times. That's why I found the VP Debate so disturbing. I asked myself Is Palin manic on meth? -- I finally figured out the bizarre buzz, the breakneck speed, & the glittering eyes. It's meth. Apparently Wasilla Alaska is the meth capital of the USofA.

This was my first reaction to the Biden/Palin Debate -- speed thrills before it kills. Sarah Louise does her go-go pills.

I watched the debate thinking What the heck is going on? Whence this uber-confidence, this inappropriate hyper-perkiness, this darting, pinballing lack of logic, the careening freight train of runaway energy? 'Winking' on the day after the economy lost a trillion dollars? The offensively feral feistiness. Weird cubed. Sursurreal.

An hour after the debate the light bulb went off. I remembered friends back-in-the-day forty years ago who did speed. I called one and asked, "How did it feel when you did speed?" He said, "Exactly what you saw in Sarah Palin tonight. You don't have a shred of doubt. You have a giddy, mega-exaggerated confidence in your expression and mental abilities. You feel brilliant, witty, and hyperhappy. In those days, you'd hitchhike with a truck driver who was on speed. The upside was that you'd be grateful he'd give you a ride for 500 miles. The downside was that he wouldn't stop talking for five hours."

To 'How do you feel doing speed,' another friend also a guy, younger, said, "You go into great detail. You have tremendous verbiage and excess energy. I felt like vacuuming. Every breath is a good breath, clear and sharp like eating horseradish. It makes perfect sense to me that Palin was on speed. She was all amped up. She exuded a manufactured confidence. Like if there were no two-minute limit, she would have just kept talking & talking. Because your mind is racing, you tend to overexplain, to blurt out whatever occurs to you -- like the snippy & flip "I'm not going to answer what you people want' bit."