My favorite example from where my parents now live: Obama might just be a "gay Muslim racist who refuses to recite the Pledge of Allegiance."

What exactly is it that she's going to do?(**) Nuke Russia?

To them, politics is pure sports: they simply want their team to beat the other guys

This is the most hilarious Freudian slip in the history of hilarious Freudian slips.

Folks who agree, ideologically, with Obama think he has experience and Palin doesn't. Those that disagree on philosopy think it is the other way around. It's just a quicker weapon to access than a detailed policy discussion.

But I know a lazy drifter when I see one.

Basically, the jury is still out on her, as far as I'm concerned. That means the cheerleaders at National Review who claim she passed last night's test are wrong -- but it also means that the people on the left who already decided that she can't hang are wrong too.

The ultimate nightmare scenario remains the same: a nuclear bomb goes off in Washington DC and no one claims responsibility for it.

It's an arguable point, I suppose. I don't think who is president really affects when that day will come. Neither of these guys is going to let the terrorists do any damn thing they want and neither will so overwhelm the terrorists with love that they give up the fight.

How can someone with 480 posts possibly have enough experience to assign blame for thread closure.

It may be arguable, but I agree. I have a lot of reasons for voting against McCain, but that ain't among them.

Bears can wear plaid pants?

ABC News’ Charles Gibson, who is being credited with stumping Sarah Palin on the definition of the “Bush Doctrine,” has himself defined the nebulous phrase in a variety of ways, including one that mirrored Palin’s disputed explanation.

Gibson and his colleagues have been all over the map in defining the Bush Doctrine over the last seven years. In 2001, Gibson himself defined it as “a promise that all terrorists organizations with global reach will be found, stopped and defeated.”

But when Palin tried to give a similar definition on Thursday, Gibson corrected her.

“I believe that what President Bush has attempted to do is rid this world of Islamic extremism, terrorists who are hell bent on destroying our nation,” Palin said in her first interview since being nominated as the GOP’s vice presidential candidate.

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The term “Bush Doctrine” was first coined by columnist Charles Krauthammer three months before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 and has undergone profound changes as the war against terror has evolved.

“There is no single meaning of the Bush Doctrine,” Krauthammer noted in a forthcoming column. “In fact, there have been four distinct meanings, each one succeeding another over the eight years of this administration — and the one Charlie Gibson cited is not the one in common usage today. It is utterly different.”

Can anyone explain how a candidate who polls poorly with elderly voters and is running in a tight race in Florida possibly release the ad the Obama campaign released today?

New excerpts from the interview, including her discussion of the Bridge to Nowhere.

Did he do steroids

I don't get the two part reference to # 3 here.

Republican efforts to delay the probe until after the Nov. 4 election were thwarted when GOP State Sen. Charlie Huggins, who represents Palin's hometown of Wasilla, sided with Democrats. "Let's just get the facts on the table," said Huggins, who appeared in camouflage pants to vote during a break from moose hunting.

At least that is what your mom keeps saying. (By the way, I had a look at your zinger in the other thread. I'm deeply sorry I missed that in real time. What a shot!)

Is it always moose season up there or what?

The ultimate nightmare scenario remains the same: a nuclear bomb goes off in Washington DC and no one claims responsibility for it.

Dan and Jim and friends: I'm not sure if that's appropriate, so please edit it or email me if it's not.

Palin praised Clinton's "determination, and grit and even grace" during the Democratic primaries, sounding an altogether different note than when she suggested earlier this year that the New York senator was whining about negative press coverage and campaigning in a way that was not advancing the cause of women in politics.

"I think he's regretting not picking her now," Palin told ABC News.

Of all the things that appear here, you're worried if that's inappropriate.

I only urged you not to subject us to embarrassing throwaway "your mom" references that put your luminous peak to shame

bunyon suggested that we change it to "So's the Palin Family" IIRC. Maybe to keep it bipartisan, we could go with that and "So's Obama's Grandma."

Stuff like that is what keeps me coming back.

The cortex is the last part of the brain that we develop, and that's what we suppose to be "intelligent." We are scientists, you know -- numbers and stuff like that. Now, what is interesting is the cortex, we [are] kind of aware of that. We try to be intelligent, but the reptilian [part] we are not very much aware of it, and the limbic is more or less completely unconscious.

These levels are very different from one culture to another. Some cultures are very reptilian, which means very basic instinct. American culture is a very basic instinct: I want to be reached now; let's do it. [There's a] bias for action. Just now, [America is] very adolescent when other cultures are more cortex, very control, control, control. The German, the French are very controlled. They want the government to control everything, the state, the bureaucracy, the administration. The ideal life for a German person is when they just have to obey; the administration is in charge of everything and controls everything, and you don't have to worry about anything. We don't like that. We Americans, we like to have choices: My own life, I want to become whatever I am; whatever it is doesn't matter, but I want to become myself -- not something else, not what people tell me.

That figure is not how much Biden gave to charity, but how much charitable giving he used to dodge taxes.

It isn't "dodging" taxes, and I don't know anybody who gives money to charity and doesn't deduct it; that would be stupid.

I think she comes off a little better here. I

I think she was MUCH better. I found her to be fine.

Well, not if you don't have total deductibles greater than the standard deduction. I'm sure most charitable donations come from people who itemize, but surely not all.

...you're right...

Put me down as stupid too, I guess, because we donate all sorts of clothes and toys to Goodwill without bothering to get a receipt (or attempting to define the value).