The Palin smirk

While the traditional news media is reporting that the “stakes” are “sky-high” for John McCain’s running mate Sarah Palin in Thursday night’s debate with falling poll numbers and growing voter skepticism, the stakes are also high for Obama’s running mate Joe Biden — not to mention the future of the country.

The Republican governor of Alaska prepares to face off against the Democratic senator from Delaware in the most-anticipated vice-presidential debate ever as surveys showed Barack Obama and Biden in a strengthening position for the Nov. 4 election.

AP: Stakes Are Sky-High for Palin-Biden Debate

Feel free to join the discussion on the debate below…

Maybe we should take a short break and revisit this. It’s Black Monday on Wall Street and in D.C.

by Glynn Wilson

Senator John McCain accepted the Republican nomination for president Thursday night in a speech that was riddled with double-speak.

Surprisingly, he introduced a new theme of “fighting” for an “enduring peace,” while we know what he offers really is “perpetual war.”

McCain tries to woo he American people to vote Republican Nov. 4

His speech contained the message that he would resurrect the Cold War with Russia, for starters, and he called upon the typical Republican lies about reducing the size of ‘big government’ and reducing taxes (on business of course) that propelled George W. Bush into the White House in 2000 (with a little help from the Supreme Court).

Of course everyone who is keeping up knows what happened. The biggest new government program in history, the new bureaucracy of the Homeland Security Department, was created, where your tax dollars have been funneled to private contractors at an alarming rate. And that spending under Bush has created the largest budget deficit in American history, by far.

As the camera panned to McCain’s pick for Vice President at one point, when McCain promised to solve our energy crisis with more offshore oil drilling, the gun-toting redneck woman and small town hockey mom, Sarah Palin, gave the thumbs up to the oil company lobbyists in the hall, wearing hard hats sporting the slogan, “drill, drill, drill…”

A quick check of our redneck women focus group confirms, however, that at least for now, Palin has energized some redneck women to vote for McCain instead of Obama, although the polls show not many supporters of Hillary Clinton are identifying with her and switching their votes.

We suspect as the scandal stories keep coming out about Palin’s family problems, she may not even survive on the ticket for more than a couple of weeks.

If that sort of an implosion occurs, the GOP can hang up the election of 2008.

All indications point to a fairly sizable increase in the majority in both houses of Congress by Democrats anyway. The Bush Republicans have worn out their welcome in Washington. And after the debates, if things go as suspected, this race is going to be a route.

But let the pundits have their objective moment for now. Let the white Christian Republican base believe they have a chance. That’s the role of the “liberal media” on TV, after all…

Senator John McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin to be his running mate on the Republican ticket has launched a firestorm of bad press not quite blown out by all the news coverage of Hurricane Gustav. We figure this election is all but over anyway, but what the heck. Let’s play the conspiracy game.

Maybe Palin, in addition to being a redneck, anti-abortion nut with nice legs, who was for the bridge to nowhere before she was against it, is really Opus Dei?

I’m just now getting around to watching The Da Vinci Code film.

Wiki - The Da Vinci Code

While I don’t put much stock into these religious myths, the masses seem to. So I wonder if it was a conspiracy that I was bumped from the BBC once to talk about New Orleans by none other than Tom Hanks?

And, while we’re at it, I was lured to New Orleans in the first place at the turn of the century by the Jesuits at Loyola University, surely the protectors of the Catholic Church, where they proceeded to try and destroy my academic career.

Maybe I’m from the royal blood line myself, eh, one of the last of the true descendants of Mary Magdalene? Maybe that’s why they’re trying to kill me : )

Sorry, but even though it’s Tuesday, I’m in a Monday kind of mood.

Sarah Palin as Veep. What a freaking joke. Wonder how long it will take for Karl Rove to convince McCain to drop her?

Stay tuned…