“Rope a Dope”

Andrew Sullivan discusses why “Barack Obama’s strategy of calm is provoking his rival into fatal errors.”
McCain never seemed to learn from the Clintons’ misjudgment of their rival. A key element of Obama’s strategy is classic rope-a-dope. He gets his opponents to splutter with irritation as “that one”, as McCain contemptuously described Obama in last Tuesday’s [...]

Why is Palin getting away with it?

E.J. Dionne asks the question.
Since we’re talking about travel here, let’s stay focused on the Clinton comparison: Is there one standard for Hillary Clinton — a tough one — and another, permissive standard for Sarah Palin? I’ll be curious about this and so, I suspect, will Hillary Clinton’s supporters.

SNL Opener: Palin & Clinton

Thank god Tina Fey and Saturday Night Live made our dreams a reality.

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CBS Takes Down McCain WebAd, Suggests It’s ‘Misleading’

From politico.com
YouTube has removed a webad that casts Sarah Palin as the victim of sexism on the request of CBS, whose anchor Katie Couric was featured in the ad.
“One of the great lessons of that campaign is the continued and accepted role of sexism in American life,” Couric is quoted in the ad.
In the original clip, which aired [...]

“A controlled experiment: Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin”

 An article by James Fallows from thealtantic.com

Momentary Lapse of Concentration

Sometimes, you just need a break from all of this hoopla.