Ha ha.

A recent poll shows that Obama leads Palin…on the question of who lacks the experience to be president!

Oh well.

Looks like the Palin interview was subjected to some selective editing.

h/t – Jennifer Rubin

More on the community organizer nonsense.

What would Pontius Pilate do?

What orthodoxy?

According to modern feminists, Plain’s “greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman.”

Nope. No snobbery here.

Bob Herbert writes:

While watching the Sarah Palin interview with Charlie Gibson Thursday night, and the coverage of the Palin phenomenon in general, I’ve gotten the scary feeling, for the first time in my life, that dimwittedness is not just on the march in the U.S., but that it might actually prevail.

In the same piece, he claims that Palin doesn’t even understand the Bush Doctrine because she asked Charlie Gibson to explain which part of the Bush Doctrine he was talking about. A-ha! Well, not quite.

Herbert also expresses shock that Palin was proud of her son for going to Iraq to fight “the enemies who planned and carried out and rejoiced in the death of thousands of Americans.” Herbert asks, “Was she deliberately falsifying history, or does she still not know that Iraq and Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with the Sept. 11 attacks?” Turns out, she accurately described the facts.

And he’s questioning Palin’s readiness?

 

George Bush’s Fault

A Frenchman criticizes the “irritable patriotism” of Americans:

There is nothing more annoying in the habits of life than this irritable patriotism of the Americans. A foreigner would indeed consent to praise much in their country; but he would want to be permitted to blame something, and this he is absolutely refused.

America is therefore a country of freedom where, in order not to wound anyone, the foreigner must not speak freely either of particular persons, or of the state, or of the governed, or of those who govern, or of public undertakings; or, finally, of anything one encounters except perhaps the climate and the soil; and still, one finds Americans ready to defend both as if they had helped to form them.

Dominic de Villepin? Jacque Chirac? John Kerry?

None of the above. This passage is from Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, published in 1835 (Volume II in 1840). (I quote the Harvey Mansfield and Delba Winthrop edition.)

It appears that the image of the self-assured, cocky American began just a little bit before George W. Bush became president.

What’s not to like?

“Thoroughly” Vetted?

E.J. Dionne complains that McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin is “breathtakingly reckless.” He writes, “Conservatives have complained that we barely know Obama. This is nonsense. Obama has been thoroughly vetted over the four years since he entered the public spotlight.”

Thoroughly? Really?

Then how does one explain why the records of his chairmanship of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge – an organization co-founded by unrepentant terrorist William Ayers – were released to the public just a few days ago?

UPDATE: Similar thoughts from Cliff May.

Priorities

Hopefully, Gustav will turn out to be just a little rain, and life will proceed as usual. But this report says that it might not be that easy: “FEMA officials said the surge from Hurricane Gustav will likely overtop New New Orleans’ levees, even though the now-weakened Category 2 storm was expected to skirt west of the city.”

Now, before everyone starts screaming from the mountain tops that we need more taxes and we need to get our priorities in line, check out Edward Morrisey’s blog post from a year ago, which describes what our government spent money on after the St. Anthony Bridge in Minneapolis collapsed. Hint – it wasn’t on infrastructure.

Silly

The Washington Post reported on the reaction of Sarah Palin’s hometown to the news that she had been picked by John McCain to be his running mate. The sub-heading read, “Some Locals Critical of Governor’s Ability.” You mean she didn’t become Alaska’s governor with 100% of the vote like certain former dictators did? Obviously, McCain needs to reconsider.

And, by the way, the babygate “scandal” is over. What will the “post-partisans” bring us next?

UPDATE (sort of): Palin’s daughter is pregnant…