Sadly the terrible interview moments we've all been laughing about for the past 2 weeks helped her tonight, in a sick and twisted way.

"We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further." - Richard Dawkins

Or maybe: "Who are you to question Barack Obama's patriotism, or his love for our troops?  He's visited the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. He's been to Walter Reed.  He worked to pass the new G.I. Bill, which by the way John McCain opposed.  Go ahead and discuss our policy issues, if you even know them beyond these memorized talking points, but don't question the character of my friend and running mate."

These would have been the true equivalent of "You're no Jack Kennedy."  But I understand why Biden didn't put the smack down in such a direct manner. It all comes down to Sarah Palin being a woman, and the Obama campaign not wanting to risk any criticism of being patronizing or mean.

Personally, the way Palin was attacking Obama, I would have encouraged Biden to put the smack down. But I figure he didn't want to to give the Republicans an excuse to cry foul.  Still, it would have been wonderful to see.

Meanwhile, Mooseburger held her own, in her bullshitting way, despite not making any fucking sense whatsoever, and manifestly being some chess pieces short of a set.

Biden should have destroyed her from a rhetorical as well as a rational point of view. He managed the latter, but so do most Democratic contenders. Rational dialectic isn't generally decisive in US elections, no?

The world's northernmost desert wind.

freedom loving patriotic americans won tonight. liberals who want to destroy america and our freedoms lost. thank god for sarah palin.

doesn't get any simpler than that, does it?

but despite the bluster, a very spooked and desperate wingnuttia drew an audible sigh of relief tonight.

mccain just wasted another big scheduled opportunity to move his campaign forward in order to once again shore up the base, not that he really had any other choice. he's down to two big chances at getting the not-so-straight-talk express out of the ditch it's in, unless outside events turn in his favor.

i'm glad you asked

Hurria, you flashed in my mind when I heard that bit.


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I'm beginning to wonder if we might end up getting a kind of reverse Bradley Effect, where hard-core Republicans finally face the reality they've kept suppressed, and decide they can't bring themselves to enable this sorry moron to take control of the nation's future, no matter how "cute" and folksy and wingnutty she is.

FDR's response to progressive demands: "I agree. Now go out and make me do it."