Just got around to watching Sarah Palin’s interview with Katie Couric. Wow! There’s obviously a reason why the McCain campaign doesn’t want Palin giving interviews. You almost feel bad for her. She’s literally being asked to defend the indefensible. But then you remember the reason why so many aspects of the McCain campaign are indefensible: [...]

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Reports are surfacing that the same group of hackers who broke into Sarah Palin’s personal e-mail account may also have gotten to Barack Obama’s.  This screenshot of his account was sent to the media as proof and is already raising eyebrows.  More on this as it develops.

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After a rough two weeks behind John McCain, all the major polling trackers seem to have shifted back in Barack Obama’s direction.  He’s up 4 in Gallup, and up 2 in Real Clear Politics and Pollster.  But despite all the good news, this is no time for Democrats to start breathing easy. Here’s three good reasons [...]

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Maybe the crudest instance of sexism in the race thus far took place live on Fox News this morning, as conservative writer Caroline Baum used a pretty vulgar term– vulgar enough to literally clear the room– regarding the female anatomy to explain why Sarah Palin may or may not appeal to Hillary Clinton voters. So [...]

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Rich Lowry is the latest among many to wave Sarah Palin’s approval rating in Alaska around as proof of competence, despite all evidence to the contrary: The first days after her announcement brought gross misreporting and personal smears … followed by front-page Washington Post and New York Times reports on her tenure in Alaska that were so hostile they [...]

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Yesterday, Carly Fiorina– former CEO of Hewlitt-Packard and top McCain campaign aide– accused Tina Fey and Amy Poehler of sexism for their hilarious Saturday Night Live skit roasting Sarah Palin. “The portrait was very dismissive of the substance of Sarah Palin, and so in that sense, they were defining Hillary Clinton as very substantive, and Sarah Palin [...]

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In case you missed it, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler opened the new season of Saturday Night Live with a hilarious parody of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin– the two queens of train wreck politics– in what is instantly one of the best SNL political sketches ever. You knew it was coming, you just didn’t [...]

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There’s a lively discussion going on over at The Daily Dish about whether questions about Sarah Palin’s family are sexist.  Andrew Sullivan asks his readers: It seems to me that if you are on record saying that your life is an open book, and you have a state-run web-page about your infant son, and your [...]

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Sarah Palin is indeed an impressive person, but former New York mayor Ed Koch hit the nail on the head today on CNN: She’s “plucky, perky, and scares the hell out of me.” As I said in the previous post: I realize that most of her support comes from people who care nothing about policy [...]

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A lot of people are passing around this clip today of Sarah Palin’s deer-in-the-headlights, fishing-for-a-hint, can-I-phone-a-friend response to Charlie Gibson’s inquiry on the Bush Doctrine: Seeing as how the Bush Doctrine is inarguably the greatest fundamental shift in American foreign policy since World War II, it’s simply impossible to defend her lack of knowledge on [...]

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Count me among the many who just don’t see ABC’s Charlie Gibson asking Sarah Palin any truly hard-hitting questions or holding her to account on the many contradictions in her record (most notably her repeated claim on the trail that she opposed the Bridge to Nowhere, when in fact she did just the opposite).  For one [...]

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Some hilarious commentary by Matt Damon, who is dumbfounded by America’s political crush on Good Jill Hunting (sorry, I had to), comparing Sarah Palin’s hockey-mom-turned-President story to “a bad Disney movie.” Which bad Disney movie Damon is referring to is unclear from the video, but I’m guessing Beverly Hills Chihuahua. We’ve seen the trailer, which [...]

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I’m sure the Obama campaign has been swamped with advice since the conventions closed and McCain/Palin began surging in the polls.  But what elevates my advice above the advice of others is that mine will work.  This isn’t a long manifesto of political strategy, it’s simple bullet points that Barack Obama can post on his refrigerator and read every morning [...]

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