The more you dig, the goofier it gets…
Some background…
In June, Andrée McLeod, a self-described independent government watchdog in Alaska, sent an open records act request to the office of Governor Sarah Palin. She requested copies of all the emails that had been sent and received by Ivy Frye and Frank Bailey, two top aides [...]

In particular, play Part Three and note at the 1:10 mark how a lifelong Democrat and a Hillary supporters praises Palin as a “breath of fresh air” and suggests that she could be a problem for the Dems if she’s on McCain’s ticket.
Part One

Part Two

Part Three

More as it develops…

C-SPAN has it.
I’m only about 20 minutes into the 1.5 hr debate, but she seems like a very normal politician so far. However, the questions haven’t really been hard hitting, so we’ll see if anything challenging pops up.
Anybody want to place bets now that she’ll probably do a decent job in her debate with [...]

Yes, either way it’ll be history.
But what will history write in its book?

There seems to be a lot of “there” there. No wonder she hired a lawyer.

Tell me what you think.
UPDATE:
Looks like the subpoenas are being issued now and the investigation is expected to conclude by early October instead of October 31st.
Stay tuned…

Video provided by MSNBC.

What impressed me so much about this speech is Obama essentially reframed the American Dream tonight as something we can all share if we believe in the liberal traditions of fairness and equality.
So call him a fake and a phony all you want. But tonight he called upon the middle class to [...]

This is it folks…
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To Chairman Dean and my great friend Dick Durbin; and to all my fellow citizens of this great nation;
With profound gratitude and great humility, I accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States.
Let me express my thanks to the historic slate of candidates who accompanied me on this journey, and [...]

45 years ago…

How’s the dream holding up today?

I have obtained a partial transcript of the Barack Obama acceptance speech to be delivered at Invesco Field on Thursday and I can report tht it is truly great.

“People around the world have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power.”
- Bill Clinton in an incredibly well received speech.
I was impressed as well. This is a man I’ve lost a lot of respect for over the past 8 months, but last night’s speech was [...]

It’s official!
And Hillary did the honors…
DENVER - Barack Obama, a 47-year-old first-term senator from Illinois, became the first African-American ever nominated for president by a major political party after delegates to the Democratic National Convention chose him as their standard-bearer Wednesday.
The nomination process, a subject of debate and speculation right up until the voting [...]

REALLY?????
Okay, so apparently the media characterized Obama’s stage setting at Invesco field as a “greek temple”, so this gives McCain a chance to continue to push his pathetic “Obama as God” meme.
Here’s the stage…

That’s right. Now multiple columns equals a “Greek temple” and that means Obama is suggesting he’s God.
Well, does God live in this [...]

As I’ve said frequently in the past year, Clinton and her team was not up to the task of running the country. Disagree with me if you like, but as numerous behind-the-scenes exposes come out that show just how dysfunctional the campaign was, Democrats everywhere should breathe a sigh of relief that they secured Obama [...]

Listen to McCain’s answer to Couric’s question about forgetting how many homes he owns…

Frankly, I don’t think McCain does himself any favors by continuing this POW talk. Because it makes it sounds like it was one of his life’s greatest achievements and that he hasn’t moved on since then.
And he is right when he says [...]

MSNBC provides the Cliff Notes version of the Senator’s life and times…

Mark my words…as much as McCain and his campaign talk about his time as a POW, Biden and the Obama campa will talk about him riding that train home every night.

He’s been talking about unity since WAY back…
Part One

Part Two

Part Three

If you still think Obama is a phony after listening to him here, I don’t know what else to tell you.
(h/t: Old Man McCain)

Doug Mataconis runs the numbers and comes up with an extremely plausible map…

Colorado is incredibly tight, as is Ohio, Florida and Virginia. If McCain is able to keep all of those in the Republican column, then it’s 1824 all over again.
Thoughts?

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After watching the Saddleback Forum this weekend, did you find it a bit disingenuous that McCain said he wouldn’t vote to confirm Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, David Souter or John Paul Stevens to the court?
Because as many of us are already know, he voted to confirm Ginsburg, Breyer and Souter. He wasn’t able [...]

That’s what Matthew Yglesias proposes, but I think it’s a bad idea.
I’ll explain why I’m against it after he explains why he’s for it…
At the end of the day, after all, the Vice President’s core job function is simply to take over the government in case the President dies. But it would be easy [...]