The Omen In My Mail Kathleen Parker. Washington Post.
Allow me to introduce myself. I am a traitor and an idiot. Also, my mother should have aborted me and left me in a dumpster, but since she didn't, I should "off" myself. Those are a few nuggets randomly selected from thousands of e-mails written in response to my column suggesting that Sarah Palin is out of her league and should step down.
Posted Wed 6:51 AM EST (408)
Alaskans cringe after month of listening to Palin Matt Volz. Boston Globe.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska—Alaskans' two-year honeymoon with Gov. Sarah Palin may have ended around the time the Republican vice presidential candidate started saying that she told Congress "thanks but no thanks" on the Bridge to Nowhere.
Posted Thu 8:32 AM EST (338)
Palin Was Fine, But This Debate Was No Contest JOE KLEIN. Time.
She did fine, I suppose. She was animated and confident. She displayed an ability, for the first time since her convention speech, to repeat with a fair amount of credibility, the formulations that her handlers had given her.
Posted Fri 7:03 AM EST (319)
Palin: It doesn’t matter what’s causing climate change Wendy Redal. Scholars and Rogues.
In yet another incredible interview with CBS News anchor Katie Couric Tuesday evening, Sarah Palin tackled a response to Couric’s question as to whether climate change is “man-made.” In a manner imitable only by Tina Fey, Palin gave this response after Couric pressed the question:
Posted Wed 6:58 AM EST (310)
Hockey Mom on Thin Ice E. J. Dionne Jr.. Washington Post.
Early in last night's vice-presidential debate, Sarah Palin said that she might not answer the questions as moderator Gwen Ifill posed them. This was the Alaska governor's way of saying she was going to stick to the talking points she had stuffed into her head, no matter what the subject.
Posted Fri 6:47 AM EST (304)
Everything You Heard Is Wrong STEVEN PINKER. New York Times.
Boston SINCE the vice presidential debate on Thursday night, two opposing myths have quickly taken hold about Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska. The first, advanced by her supporters, is that she made it through a gantlet of fire; the second, embraced by her detractors, is that her speaking style betrays her naïveté. Both are wrong.
Posted Sat 7:53 AM EST (301)
Sarah Palin, all-American cheerleader Tim Kingston,Lisa Moore. San Francisco Chronicle.
There was something jarring about GOP candidate Sarah Palin's appearance at the vice presidential debate, and it was not just her refusal to answer questions, or the mock Reagan-esque mannerisms of the "there you go again" kind. Nor was it the misrepresentations, like her campaign's mendacious insistence that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama would raise taxes on those earning $42,000 a year. It was that come hither wink. Twice. It was the lowered voice.
Posted Mon 7:05 AM EST (263)
Crisis Management JOE KLEIN. Time.
A few hours before the house of Representatives smacked down the financial-bailout package, I watched John McCain — eyes flashing, jaw clenched, oozing sarcasm and disdain — on the attack in Ohio: "Senator Obama took a very different approach to the crisis our country faced. At first he didn't want to get involved. Then he was 'monitoring the situation.' That's not leadership; that's watching from the sidelines." And I thought of Karl Rove. Back in 2003, at the height of Howard Dean mania, Rove was skeptical about Dean's staying power as a candidate: "When was the last time Americans elected an angry President?"
Posted Thu 6:16 AM EST (249)
The American Debate: HERE WE GO AGAIN Dick Polman. Philadelphia Inquirer.
The crux of the McCain-Palin election strategy can be found in these phrases, articulated during the vice presidential debate by the junior member of the Republican ticket: "Americans are going to say, enough is enough with [the Democrats] constantly looking backwards, and pointing fingers, and doing the blame game. . . . There's just too much finger-pointing backwards. . . . Say it ain't so, Joe, there you go again, pointing backwards again."
Posted Sun 8:05 AM EST (220)
Exclusive: Obama to preempt McCain assault MIKE ALLEN. Politico.
Branding his opponent as “erratic in a crisis,” Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is preempting plans by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to portray him as having sinister connections to controversial Chicagoans. Obama officials call it political jujitsu – turning the attacks back on the attacker.
Posted Sun 7:36 AM EST (211)
Allow me to introduce myself. I am a traitor and an idiot. Also, my mother should have aborted me and left me in a dumpster, but since she didn't, I should "off" myself. Those are a few nuggets randomly selected from thousands of e-mails written in response to my column suggesting that Sarah Palin is out of her league and should step down.
Posted Wed 6:51 AM EST (408)
Alaskans cringe after month of listening to Palin Matt Volz. Boston Globe.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska—Alaskans' two-year honeymoon with Gov. Sarah Palin may have ended around the time the Republican vice presidential candidate started saying that she told Congress "thanks but no thanks" on the Bridge to Nowhere.
Posted Thu 8:32 AM EST (338)
Palin Was Fine, But This Debate Was No Contest JOE KLEIN. Time.
She did fine, I suppose. She was animated and confident. She displayed an ability, for the first time since her convention speech, to repeat with a fair amount of credibility, the formulations that her handlers had given her.
Posted Fri 7:03 AM EST (319)
Palin: It doesn’t matter what’s causing climate change Wendy Redal. Scholars and Rogues.
In yet another incredible interview with CBS News anchor Katie Couric Tuesday evening, Sarah Palin tackled a response to Couric’s question as to whether climate change is “man-made.” In a manner imitable only by Tina Fey, Palin gave this response after Couric pressed the question:
Posted Wed 6:58 AM EST (310)
Hockey Mom on Thin Ice E. J. Dionne Jr.. Washington Post.
Early in last night's vice-presidential debate, Sarah Palin said that she might not answer the questions as moderator Gwen Ifill posed them. This was the Alaska governor's way of saying she was going to stick to the talking points she had stuffed into her head, no matter what the subject.
Posted Fri 6:47 AM EST (304)
Everything You Heard Is Wrong STEVEN PINKER. New York Times.
Boston SINCE the vice presidential debate on Thursday night, two opposing myths have quickly taken hold about Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska. The first, advanced by her supporters, is that she made it through a gantlet of fire; the second, embraced by her detractors, is that her speaking style betrays her naïveté. Both are wrong.
Posted Sat 7:53 AM EST (301)
Sarah Palin, all-American cheerleader Tim Kingston,Lisa Moore. San Francisco Chronicle.
There was something jarring about GOP candidate Sarah Palin's appearance at the vice presidential debate, and it was not just her refusal to answer questions, or the mock Reagan-esque mannerisms of the "there you go again" kind. Nor was it the misrepresentations, like her campaign's mendacious insistence that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama would raise taxes on those earning $42,000 a year. It was that come hither wink. Twice. It was the lowered voice.
Posted Mon 7:05 AM EST (263)
Crisis Management JOE KLEIN. Time.
A few hours before the house of Representatives smacked down the financial-bailout package, I watched John McCain — eyes flashing, jaw clenched, oozing sarcasm and disdain — on the attack in Ohio: "Senator Obama took a very different approach to the crisis our country faced. At first he didn't want to get involved. Then he was 'monitoring the situation.' That's not leadership; that's watching from the sidelines." And I thought of Karl Rove. Back in 2003, at the height of Howard Dean mania, Rove was skeptical about Dean's staying power as a candidate: "When was the last time Americans elected an angry President?"
Posted Thu 6:16 AM EST (249)
The American Debate: HERE WE GO AGAIN Dick Polman. Philadelphia Inquirer.
The crux of the McCain-Palin election strategy can be found in these phrases, articulated during the vice presidential debate by the junior member of the Republican ticket: "Americans are going to say, enough is enough with [the Democrats] constantly looking backwards, and pointing fingers, and doing the blame game. . . . There's just too much finger-pointing backwards. . . . Say it ain't so, Joe, there you go again, pointing backwards again."
Posted Sun 8:05 AM EST (220)
Exclusive: Obama to preempt McCain assault MIKE ALLEN. Politico.
Branding his opponent as “erratic in a crisis,” Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is preempting plans by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to portray him as having sinister connections to controversial Chicagoans. Obama officials call it political jujitsu – turning the attacks back on the attacker.
Posted Sun 7:36 AM EST (211)
Thank you, Katie Couric KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL. The Nation.
It took a woman to expose Palin. CBS News' Katie Couric's empathetic interviewing style and smart (but not tough) questioning fully and finally exposed that vice-presidential nominee Governor Sarah Palin is not qualified to be vice-president.
Posted Tue 6:55 AM EST (404)
I've Debated Sarah Palin More Than 20 Times -- Here's What It's Like Andrew Halcro. AlterNet.
Anchorage, Alaska - When he faces off against Sarah Palin Thursday night, Joe Biden will have his hands full. I should know. I've debated Governor Palin more than two dozen times. And she's a master, not of facts, figures, or insightful policy recommendations, but at the fine art of the nonanswer, the glittering generality. Against such charms there is little Senator Biden, or anyone, can do. On paper, of course, the debate appears to be a mismatch.
Posted Wed 6:58 AM EST (326)
The Sarah Palin pity party Rebecca Traister. Salon.
Is this the week that Democrats and Republicans join hands -- to heap pity on poor Sarah Palin? At the moment, all signs point to yes, as some strange bedfellows reveal that they have been feeling sorry for the vice-presidential candidate ever since she stopped speaking without the help of a teleprompter.
Posted Tue 7:20 AM EST (312)
Sarah Palin's political gibberish Maura Kelly. Guardian.
In recent weeks, liberals and conservatives alike have been warning the Republic party - and Sarah Palin herself - that their vice-presidential candidate is woefully incapable of serving in the White House.
Posted Thu 8:33 AM EST (306)
The New Issue of Rolling Stone: The Real John McCain Rolling Stone.
With one debate in the can and the election a mere five weeks away, the new issue of Rolling Stone focuses on John McCain. When Rolling Stone’s Tim Dickinson took a closer look at the self-proclaimed “maverick,” he found a disturbing career’s worth of recklessness, dishonesty and reversals.
Posted Wed 3:34 PM EST (302)
'NYT' Sunday Preview: Top Republican Quits Congress, Compares Party To 'Dog Food,' Wonders About Palin Greg Mitchell. Editor & Publisher.
NEW YORK Coming in this Sunday's New York Times Magazine: A profile of a former "star in the Republican party," Rep. Tom Davis of Virginia. As the heading has it: "Now, like dozens of his GOP colleagues, he's quitting Congress, fed up with his party, his president and the process."
Posted Thu 6:12 PM EST (283)
McCain Rewrites Palin's History Rep. Les Gara. Huffington Post.
Over the past few weeks we Alaskans have been scratching our heads over the interesting claims the McCain campaign has made about our Governor. A lot of them have been news to us. Governor Palin's nomination to the McCain ticket has created unusual common ground for Alaskans. Whether we support her or not, we've been furrowing our eyebrows a lot lately as we watch the McCain campaign re-write Alaska history.
Posted Wed 6:59 AM EST (250)
Sarah’s Pompom Palaver MAUREEN DOWD. New York Times.
WASHINGTON I had hoped I was finally done with acting as an interpreter for politicians whose relationship with the English language was tumultuous.
Posted Sun 7:12 AM EST (248)
A Second of Drama on the Senate Floor JEFF ZELENY and MICHAEL COOPER. New York Times.
WASHINGTON — It was Senator Barack Obama who crossed the aisle. On Wednesday evening, as the senators gathered to vote on the $700 billion financial rescue package, Mr. Obama, Democrat of Illinois, walked over to the Republican side of the chamber to extend a greeting to Senator John McCain of Arizona.
Posted Thu 5:59 AM EST (219)
McCain vs. Palin Ruth Marcus. Washington Post.
Forget Joe Biden. I'd like to see John McCain debate Sarah Palin. McCain's scorn for Barack Obama was on unrestrained display in Friday night's debate. How dare this impudent whippersnapper imagine he can be president, you could almost see McCain thinking. I'm the one who's racked up the frequent-flier miles to Waziristan! Henry Kissinger and I were BFFs when Obama was glued to "The Brady Bunch"! Listening to McCain debate was like a stroll down foreign policy memory lane: Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko. George Shultz, "our great secretary of state." Perestroika. SDI. Those were the days, my friend. We thought the Cold War would never end.
Posted Tue 7:01 AM EST (209)
It took a woman to expose Palin. CBS News' Katie Couric's empathetic interviewing style and smart (but not tough) questioning fully and finally exposed that vice-presidential nominee Governor Sarah Palin is not qualified to be vice-president.
Posted Tue 6:55 AM EST (404)
I've Debated Sarah Palin More Than 20 Times -- Here's What It's Like Andrew Halcro. AlterNet.
Anchorage, Alaska - When he faces off against Sarah Palin Thursday night, Joe Biden will have his hands full. I should know. I've debated Governor Palin more than two dozen times. And she's a master, not of facts, figures, or insightful policy recommendations, but at the fine art of the nonanswer, the glittering generality. Against such charms there is little Senator Biden, or anyone, can do. On paper, of course, the debate appears to be a mismatch.
Posted Wed 6:58 AM EST (326)
The Sarah Palin pity party Rebecca Traister. Salon.
Is this the week that Democrats and Republicans join hands -- to heap pity on poor Sarah Palin? At the moment, all signs point to yes, as some strange bedfellows reveal that they have been feeling sorry for the vice-presidential candidate ever since she stopped speaking without the help of a teleprompter.
Posted Tue 7:20 AM EST (312)
Sarah Palin's political gibberish Maura Kelly. Guardian.
In recent weeks, liberals and conservatives alike have been warning the Republic party - and Sarah Palin herself - that their vice-presidential candidate is woefully incapable of serving in the White House.
Posted Thu 8:33 AM EST (306)
The New Issue of Rolling Stone: The Real John McCain Rolling Stone.
With one debate in the can and the election a mere five weeks away, the new issue of Rolling Stone focuses on John McCain. When Rolling Stone’s Tim Dickinson took a closer look at the self-proclaimed “maverick,” he found a disturbing career’s worth of recklessness, dishonesty and reversals.
Posted Wed 3:34 PM EST (302)
'NYT' Sunday Preview: Top Republican Quits Congress, Compares Party To 'Dog Food,' Wonders About Palin Greg Mitchell. Editor & Publisher.
NEW YORK Coming in this Sunday's New York Times Magazine: A profile of a former "star in the Republican party," Rep. Tom Davis of Virginia. As the heading has it: "Now, like dozens of his GOP colleagues, he's quitting Congress, fed up with his party, his president and the process."
Posted Thu 6:12 PM EST (283)
McCain Rewrites Palin's History Rep. Les Gara. Huffington Post.
Over the past few weeks we Alaskans have been scratching our heads over the interesting claims the McCain campaign has made about our Governor. A lot of them have been news to us. Governor Palin's nomination to the McCain ticket has created unusual common ground for Alaskans. Whether we support her or not, we've been furrowing our eyebrows a lot lately as we watch the McCain campaign re-write Alaska history.
Posted Wed 6:59 AM EST (250)
Sarah’s Pompom Palaver MAUREEN DOWD. New York Times.
WASHINGTON I had hoped I was finally done with acting as an interpreter for politicians whose relationship with the English language was tumultuous.
Posted Sun 7:12 AM EST (248)
A Second of Drama on the Senate Floor JEFF ZELENY and MICHAEL COOPER. New York Times.
WASHINGTON — It was Senator Barack Obama who crossed the aisle. On Wednesday evening, as the senators gathered to vote on the $700 billion financial rescue package, Mr. Obama, Democrat of Illinois, walked over to the Republican side of the chamber to extend a greeting to Senator John McCain of Arizona.
Posted Thu 5:59 AM EST (219)
McCain vs. Palin Ruth Marcus. Washington Post.
Forget Joe Biden. I'd like to see John McCain debate Sarah Palin. McCain's scorn for Barack Obama was on unrestrained display in Friday night's debate. How dare this impudent whippersnapper imagine he can be president, you could almost see McCain thinking. I'm the one who's racked up the frequent-flier miles to Waziristan! Henry Kissinger and I were BFFs when Obama was glued to "The Brady Bunch"! Listening to McCain debate was like a stroll down foreign policy memory lane: Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko. George Shultz, "our great secretary of state." Perestroika. SDI. Those were the days, my friend. We thought the Cold War would never end.
Posted Tue 7:01 AM EST (209)