They can’t risk her opening her mouth. I don’t know what they are going to pull to stop the Veep debate. They can’t let her open her mouth on camera again.

What’s the linkage between McCain appearing on Snuffy’s show Sunday and ABC not interviewing Biden when Palin was a no-show after the debate? Quid pro quo?

Palin is busy cramming for the test this week.

I have a feeling Boobs Palin, because she’s the most powerful feminest of our time, will have a bad case of menstrual cramps and won’t be able to do the debate with Biden.

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It is amazingly entertaining to watch the McCain campaign hide Caribou Barbie. The justifications they give are transparently false and hilarious. McCain needs to be a man and face up to the fact that he made a major mistake with Palin. There’s more to selecting a VP than gender and prayer styles.

The sour underbelly of Bush elections was media caving to pressure not to publish/report something because “it could affect the election.” When, of course, the failure to report facts and/or events would have a more profound effect on an election.

The go-along-to-get-along incestuous culture in the Village needs to be kicked down the road.

Sarah was in a bar!

Perhaps it was coincidence that the song “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” was playing as Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin worked the crowd at the Irish Pub last night.
But her amorous fans were definitely ready to let the moose-hunting Alaska governor rule.

“I expect her to be president of the United States one day,” said Suzanne Haney, the Republican leader for the 2nd Ward in South Philadelphia, who gave Palin a $2 bill for luck.

Palin appeared at the bar on 20th and Walnut streets last night to shake hands with her fans for about an hour before the first presidential debate. While the crowd inside was friendly, hundreds of people lined the street outside in protest with signs that read things like “Palin is Santorum With Lipstick.”

Palin did not take questions from reporters nor did she talk policy. She posed for pictures and chatted with supporters, many of whom were from outside the city limits, and made an approximately minute-long statement.

“We have an opportunity to put government back on the side of the people and shake things up in D.C.,” said Palin, who was garbed in a Phillies jersey, a white T-shirt and jeans with a leopard-print belt buckle.

Sarah had to rush back to AK for a “National Emergency” … Putin doesn’t like her curtains.

Palin’s trying to memorize a few key lines and key words. She will then try to bluff her way through the debate by being especially strident.

…Palin, who was garbed in a Phillies jersey, a white T-shirt and jeans with a leopard-print belt buckle.

I said it a while back: Palin reminds me of a character on the TV show “Earl” – Earl’s ex-wife.

Think McCain. Think! There’s got to be a reason to dump her that not everyone will laugh at. You can find it, John-boy. You were a POW.

You need to work on the POW bit, John. You tried there at the end, but you really didn’t get it into the debate.

“Strident.” In what respect, Badwater?

“Ceiling Putin is watching you, Sarah!”

Obama camp *raising* the bar for Ms. Sarah:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..29907.html

heh. Settin’ up another kick before she even gets the chance to go down.

I haven’t had this much fun making jokes about Republicans since Cheney shot a guy in the face…

Remember? We thought NOTHING would ever top that!

bom dia pups

Interesting that she (Palin) left the bar before the debate even began. Perhaps because after the debates, the reporters would have had a few questions for her.

Palin, who was garbed in a Phillies jersey, a white T-shirt and jeans with a leopard-print belt buckle.

“Bible Spice” (h/t TBogg)

Palin’s gifts from a mining lobbyist might just do the trick…..

About a quarter of the 41 gifts that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has received since taking office in December 2006 have a link to one of the state’s most influential mining lobbyists. That’s one of the findings in a report today by The Post’s James V. Grimaldi and Robert O’Harrow Jr.

Among the items on the list are:

* A $2,200 ivory puffin mask from an Alaska Native Corporation called Calista, which has mining interests in southwestern part of the state.

* A $1,200 gold-nugget pin from the city of Nome and which Palin said she would keep for “personal use.”

* More than $1,000 in gifts from the Alaska Native Heritage Center.

* A note apparently hand-written by Palin on an ethics form saying that the mining lobbyist, Wendy Chamberlain, had taken one of Palin’s daughters on a trip.

Chamberlain has been hired by Calista and Nome as a lobbyist; several representatives of Chamberlain’s clients are on the heritage center’s board, including Calista, which promoted a ceremony with the governor in its newsletter.

In all, Palin’s 41 gifts from mining industry executives, visiting dignitaries, municipalities and the nonprofit cultural center were worth $25,000, records show.

“She never told me about these gifts, and as a maverick and reformer I can’t allow her to remain on the ticket while these questions are outstanding. Oh, and new Veep Mitt Romney won’t be ready for Thursday’s debate, so we won’t have a VP debate at all this year. Okay, media?”

Damn that TBogg is teh funny.

Perhaps because after the debates, the reporters would have had a few questions for her.

Perhaps she was hammered?

dugg.

Palin appeared at the bar on 20th and Walnut streets last night to shake hands with her fans for about an hour before the first presidential debate.

Palin’s populist appeal is huge. If she had a brain she’d be very dangerous. If she is even able to learn enough to get through the debate without a major gaff she’ll win the debate.

So is that the plan? Good cop/bad cop?

OT: Barney Frank fans are gonna love this little article in today’s WaPo; here’s a snippet:

In addition to negotiating with Republicans and the White House and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Frank, who is chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, has been all over the airwaves this week. On MSNBC, he said the White House’s original proposal read like “a Dick Cheney wish list: ‘I’m in charge and I’ll do whatever I want.’ ” On NPR, he said that when he suggested the bill should limit executive compensation, the White House acted as if “I told the chief rabbi in Jerusalem to eat bacon on Yom Kippur.” He told interviewers that the Republican Party was in a “complete shambles” and accused McCain ally Lindsey Graham of telling “a lie,” which he said he understood, because Graham was just trying to be McCain’s “faithful little jerk,” jerk being one of McCain’s deepest expressions of endearment.

If she is even able to learn enough to get through the debate without a major gaff she’ll win the debate.

Well, I guess she can’t repeat a single word that she’s said so far then….

There was a Tucker B. sighting on the tee vee. Is he suspended or is he a hologram?

I thought for sure I heard him say Obama has gotten $800 billion in earmarks. He probably meant $800 million. There is the issue of Pakistan being a failed state, that is failed before Musharaff, Al Qaeda and the Taliban got power. Tucker said it had been a “failed state” because the Council on Foreign Relations said so.

Parents, if you love your children, do not name them Tucker.

Hysterical:

http://www.dailykos.com/commen…..8/257#c257

Parents, if you love your children, do not name them Tucker.

But it’s still ok to call ‘em that if they’ve done something incredibly stupid, right?

“Get over here, you silly little Tucker” (?)

“Palin is Santorum With Lipstick.”

707!!!

You guys probably won’t believe me, but I’ve had nightmares about Sarah. And, I’m not prone to bad dreams, at night anyway. There’s something about her that scares me at a very deep, subconscious level.

I wonder if they were able to say this without giggling hysterically afterward?

Obama national press secretary Bill Burton added: “What’s missing is knowing where she stands on a lot of the important issues that will come up at the debate. Preparing to debate against someone who is really largely unknown, who’s spent so much time preparing for the debate, will be a real challenge.

“She’s not out there on the stump that much. She’s not doing a whole lot of interviews. So she’s spending a whole lot of time — hours and hours a day, apparently — preparing for this debate. And we suspect that she’ll come in fighting form.”

Flailin’ Palin’s railin’ is failin’.

How embarrassing! According to the LA times, Palin wore Alaskan-shaped gold earrings when she met the president of Columbia:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.co…..uribe.html

*shaking head & patting laugh tears from my eyes*

Vice Presidential Debate Expectations: Obama Camp Calls Palin “Terrific Debater”

If she does actually debate, Republic expectations are so low that they will declare victory if she does not drool on herself.

I believe you. I’m sure the McCain senior staffers are suffering from the same condition.

I don’t know if this means anything, but Sarah Palin hasn’t been pictured on Meghan McCain’s blog since the Sept 7th entry covering the convention. Meghan’s blog which used to cover the day-by-day campaign events is now filled with pictures of her jumping on hotel beds, pensively looking at her reflection in car windows, and getting her hair done for her celebrity appearances promoting her new book children’s book about her dad John McCain. Timely, eh?

Sarah is AWOL on the blog lately- save for some viewer emails.
And, uh, Meghan has the blog in a “holding” pattern at the moment out of respect for her daddy’s cranky hissy fit over the importance of him taking his naps in DC instead of Sedona this weekend. I am sure she is grateful that her Daddy didn’t get worked up over the impending financial doom until after her celebrity tour was over. That would’ve been so disappointing if she missed a chance to see herself on TV.

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You can find them all here.

I’m thinking it’s a 50/50 shot that Palin will appear in the debate with her hair down and her skirt high in order to disguise the earpiece she’ll be wearing.

Severe electronic feedback during the debate would be a beautiful thing.

Another major Gaffe that McCain made last night…he tried to deflate Obama’s criticism of the Musharaff Pakistani regimes mollycoddling of the Taliban by saying that Musharraff came to power in 1999 because Pakistan was a failed state.

Except it wasn’t. In fact it had a functioning, though contentious, democracy with a working Judiciary and multi-party system. In fact it was an ally during the Gulf War, sending 6000 troops to Saudi Arabia to assist. That was under PM Benazir Bhutto, then in the late 1990’s Nawaz Sharifwon an election with 80% of the vote. At that time Pakistan developed nukes, and sanctions were imposed. A few years later, in 1998, McCain supported the lifting of sanctions for the sale of F-15 fighter jets to Pakistan.

Strange that he would support doing this if he really considered Pakistan a nuclear-armed “failed state”.

As well, McCain has, by shooting off this nonsense, simultaneously insulted both major parties in Pakistan involved in the ruling coalition today! Both Sharif, as well as the husband of the late Benazir Bhutto are attempting to erase the legacy of Musharraf.

Hawt.

Ooooooo, forgot about the ole republican trick of using an earpiece on their specimens. She’s so stupid though, she’ll put her finger up to Biden to say “hold on a second” and then will say, “Karl, what was that last line you just said to me? I couldn’t hear you. Joe was talking”. Or something embarrassing like that.

teddy – did you listen to wednesday’s hearing?

I hope she reports that $2, or she could be in some legal troubles.

Sarah Palin is the reason for the quote, “You can’t make this stuff up”. There is no way anyone, even the greatest short story writers, could have made up the infusion of Sarah Palin into this presidential campaign.

I guarantee, that after this is long over, resulting of course in McCain being laughed out of his presidential bid, there will be a movie made about this absurdly comical chapter of American presidential campaign history.

I think that $2 bill are customarily given to gals in strip clubs as “tips”.

I fear if that happened then Joe Biden would become undone.

I hope you are correct and also hope that Oliver Stone is working on a treatment.

Done by Mel Brooks, of course. I agree with you – it’s tragic and hilarious at the same time.

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My experience has been that the links never work in preview, but have always worked once the comment is in place. Just FYI.

Maybe Mom’s not too happy about the way Dad drools over Palin?

Good catch.

McCain’s drooling may be age related at this point.

How would you know? *g*

the f16 story still has me wondering wtf. especially the whole barlow aspect.

interesting observations – thanks

Over at Kos

Sarah Palin To Be On Tonight’s SNL???

I’m afraid Mel’s best work is behind him. I can imagine the Coen Brothers doing something with it.

Very impressive. At least to me it is. Do you think that Obama could say what you are saying in only, like, 15 words or less? You know? So people who have to go to the kitchen to make a sandwich will have enough time to hear it and maybe even understand it? No? Dang.

wow. I missed this earlier today – WaPo Page 1 – lotsa details on the White House Photo Op

Senator Obama called him out.

One Republican in the room said it was clear that the Democrats came into the meeting with a “game plan” aimed at forcing McCain to choose between the administration and House Republicans. “They had taken McCain’s request for a meeting and trumped it,” said this source.

DKos

sorry, have been out all day, my apologies if prev posted

I hope not, the ridicule will be dialed down if she is actually present.

This is a Republic attempt to kidnap Tina Fey and force her to appear as Palin for the remainder of the election. They’ve gotta do something big.

Odd. In light of long-standing beliefs twos are _bad_ luck.

Isaiah upstairs on another Conservative whine

BTW my most recent Palin file

1. Troopergate/ currently ducking a deposition under oath / at her direction 7 of her aides cancelled their depositions, her husband Todd has refused to obey a subpoena to testify, the state GOP is now trying to torpedo the investigation it helped start. The story now is that Palin did not fire Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan for refusing to fire state trooper Mike Wooten who was involved in a messy divorce with Palin’s sister but that Monegan had sought to go to Washington to seek funds to address Alaska’s severe problems with sexual violence and rape. Why Palin would be against this is unclear. However, state records show that Monegan’s trip had, in fact, been approved by the governor’s office
2. Replaced the guy she fired in troopergate with someone with a sexual harassment complaint who lasted 10 days
3. Todd’s Alaska Independence Party connections, and her own participation
4. Used a state site to promote mining interests over clean water; and accepted several thousand dollars worth of gifts from mining lobbyists
5. Bridge to nowhere: being for it before she was against it
6. For earmarks before she was against them
7. Pumping money into a bankrupt Alaska dairy and then selling it off to cronies
8. Firing employees as mayor over loyalty issues
9. Asserting the right to ban books from the library and attempts to fire the librarian
10. Involved in the 527 for Ted Stevens
11. Her daughter’s pregnancy
12. Her own still dubious pregnancy/flying 3000 miles after her water broke
13. Her expensive ($25 million) screwup with building a rec center in Wasilla as mayor on land the city did not have clear title to
14. Anti-choice even for rape and incest
15. Anti-gay marriage
16. Pro-abstinence only (Tell that one to Bristol)
17. Pro-gun
18. Anti-environment: Spent $400,000 in 2007 to promote the aerial hunting of wolves and bears. Has fought designating polar bears as endangered due to diminishing sea ice from which they hunt.
19. Pro-drilling
20. Global warming denier
21. Creationist/wants it taught in schools
22. Thought the Pledge of Allegiance dates to the founding of the country (it was penned in 1892 and “under God” was added in 1954)
23. Thinks the End Times will occur in her lifetime
24. Attends a church with an anti-Semitic, anti-Islamic pastor which is also into exorcisms and other rites to protect from witches and “python spirits”
25. Charged the state nearly $17,000 in per diem travel expenses when she was living at home
26. Implied she sold the state plane on ebay but it, in fact, failed to sell there, and later elsewhere was sold at a loss
27. Charged the state to fly her daughter Willow to Juneau to tour the church where they worshipped when they were in town; charged the state for a $707 hotel room in New York for 3 days for daughter Bristol; charged the state for the family to watch the beginning of the Iditarod dog sled race and the Iron Dog snowmobile race which husband Todd won; in all her husband racked up $19,000 in state paid travel expenses, and her children Piper, 7, nearly $11,000, Willow, 14, around $6,000 and Bristol, 17, about $3,400
28. While mayor, Wasilla was the only city in Alaska which billed ($300-$1,200) rape victims and their insurance companies for rape kits and forensic examinations
29. Named Deborah Richter her campaign manager for governor to head a division which distributes dividends of Alaska’s oil royalties to its citizens. Richter had only one year of college and was a business partner of Palin in a land investment. Palin fired one of her aides John Bitney for having an affair with Richter during her (Richter’s) divorce
30. Thinks that Saddam Hussein worked with al Qaeda to attack America on 9/11
31. Favors Georgia’s admittance to NATO and military action against Russia if it crosses Georgia’s frontiers again
32. Appointed Franci Havemeister as Alaska’s Director of Agriculture whose primary qualifications were that she was a high school classmate of Palin’s and had had a childhood love of cows
33. Used a state database for political purposes by emailing 23,000 Alaskan business owners to lobby the Alaskan legislature in favor of reducing business license fees
34. Used a private Yahoo account to conduct state business; the account was subsequently hacked
35. Used the governor’s office to try to block a Workman’s Comp claim by her ex-brother-in-law Wooten by pressuring the company Harbor Adjustments which administers the program. Then awarded a continuation of the contract with Harbor Adjustments even though its bid was $1.5 million, $300,000 more than another competitor
36. Supports the Ledbetter decision which makes it extremely difficult for women to sue over pay discrimination
37. Boasted of McCain’s credentials as a reformer in an interview with Katie Couric but could not name a single example of a McCain reform when asked
38. In addition to the claim that she is Commander in Chief material because she is the titular head of the Alaska National Guard she also claimed foreign policy experience because Alaska as a sea border with Russia (more than 500 miles away from Wasilla)

Isaiah Poole has a brand new post upstairs entitled: Conservative Clarion Call: Lending To Minorities Is A “Disaster”

If there is anything that, to me, explains McCain’s demeanor and rudeness during the debate, it is this story. McCain got caught by Obama…and everyone in that room, GOP and Democrats alike, saw it. McCain does not like someone to play ‘gotcha’ with him. You notice also that it says that Obama asked him about the insurance plant ‘repeatedly’ – and McCain would not answer…McCain did not want to have to talk to Obama in that meeting and he did not want to have to talk or address him in the debate. And I think we all know why.

Yeah, demi, I get it, doesn’t surprise me at all; she gets way below the skin.

She’s one scary wench.

She will resign “to spend time with her special needs infant”. The Mormon will then be brought in as the VP.

Obama MUST pound on the Keating 5 in the next debate. It IS of a piece with the current Wall Street debacle. It also makes a nice part of a narrative where McInsane enabled corruption in the Savings and Loan scandal because of his push for more and more targeted deregulation of his cronies. His answer to the current scandal is…more of the same: deregulate MORE and he wants to bring that tasty goodness to health insurance!”.

Obama went WAY too light on McInsane, and I guarantee you that if the Keating 5 thing is pounded on by Obama, McInsane will blow his stack.

I’m not sure about the “Bible Spice” thing. I mean, I love it, but it’s rather insulting to the real Spice Girls, who can actually remember entire songs…putting words together, singing on pitch, stuff like that.

I like to think of her as “My Little McPony.”

[H]e “specifically mocks McSame’s lame claim”? Hmmm; it reminds me of a round…

McSame hath a lame-brained claim;
McSame hath a claim that is lame;
Pray, gentle Jane, let McCain’s lame-brained claim
Soon be debunked again.

- SB the YDD

I like the Bible Spice thing. It’s kind of naughty and nugauty. My Little Pony is good, too. But Princess Sparkle Pony hits it right on the wood. Check it out at

sparklepony.blogspot.com

(sorry, can’t make the linky thingy work right tonight)

I am afraid it is way too late to replace Palin on the Republican Ticket. Remember all these elections are STATE elections, with matters such as ballot access and all a matter of state laws. The last state deadlines were the day after Labor Day unless there was a later primary — and the last ones were September 9th. In many states absentee ballots have already been sent out, and early voting has begun, or about to begin. Some states (such as Minnesota,) have election laws that provide a process for last minute replacements — see how it was done in 2002, when Wellstone’s plane crashed. In contrast, in 2000 in Missouri, they could not take the dead man off the ballot, so he defeated Ashcroft even though he was clearly still dead. I seem to remember that half the states do not have provisions for last minute replacements.

The only thing the Republicans could do would be to get Palin to resign, and should McCain win in November (Heaven Forbid) on his own, then there would be a vacancy in the VP position, which would be dealt with after January by the constitutional process. He would nominate, and the House and Senate would independently hold a hearing on the fitness of the nominee, and then vote and a majority would be required in each house.

By the way, the Musical Comedy about a clearly unprepared young floozy being nominated for Vice President has already been done — in about 1928. The Music is by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira. “Of Thee I Sing” has just wonderful music, and the individual songs can still be heard in many venues, though the work is rarely performed as a whole. There is a black and white version from the 30’s — and in the 70’s they remade it for Television, and issued an LP. Critics all thought the plot was just silly (it resolves with the VP getting off the ticket because she falls in love with the Presidential Candidate, Wintergreen. The Musical’s last major song before the reprise is “I’m about to be a Mother”,), but the TV critics were delighted with the revival of the music. Those who did the TV version dug around in long forgotten archives and found material that had been dropped in the original Broadway production, and added it back in — just wonderful Gershwin music long forgotten out of his composer’s trunk.

TV could do a great service, and find the video of that production of “Of Thee I Sing” and do a revival in the next week or so.

In the TV Video version, Carroll O’Connor (Archie Bunker) plays the lead, the Presidential Nominee Wintergreen, and Cloris Leachman plays Miss Devereaux, (the VP pick).

By the way, the Broadway version won the Pulitizer in 1932 — given three ways, to both Gershwin’s and to George S. Kaufman, who wrote the book and produced the Musical on Broadway.