Sarah Palin please disappear

Just when you thought she was gone, she pulls you back in:

In the interview, Palin criticized the news media's coverage of her and her family, telling Ziegler that CBS News anchor Katie Couric and comic actress Tina Fey had been "exploiting" her. Palin gave Couric a rare interview at the beginning of her campaign for vice president, and Fey frequently impersonated Palin on "Saturday Night Live."

Palin singled out the Couric interview as condescending, particularly a question about what she reads and, according to the governor, "What do you guys do up there?" In fact, Couric never asked that question but did press, unsuccessfully, for the governor to state specific newspapers she read, which Palin never answered fully.

Oh please. Watch the videos again. Sarah Palin got tough questions, for sure. But they were no tougher than the ones Joe Biden got in his interview with Katie Couric. Palin was just too stupid to answer them with any sort of intelligence.

The Best Political Comedy of 2008

Daily Beast is featuring the best political comedy of 2008. If you were a 2008 election addict like myself, it's worth a look.

My personal favorite? Tina Fey as Sarah Palin of course.

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Keith Olbermann on Sarah Palin Turkey Slaughter

I know I already brought this up, but I caught Keith Olbermann last night, and it showed him seeing the video for the Sarah Palin turkey slaughter video for the first time. Hilarious.

Just when you thought Sarah Palin couldn't sink any lower...

There comes this. Just watch her answering questions at the end, and the turkey the guy is holding:

Ted Stevens loses Senate Seat to Mark Begich

Good bye Uncle Ted, thanks for the memories:

Mr. Stevens, a Republican and a 40-year incumbent, was trailing his Democratic challenger, Mayor Mark Begich of Anchorage, by 3,724 votes out of more than 315,000 cast after state election officials on Tuesday counted more than 35,000 absentee and other outstanding ballots.

Only an estimated 2,500 ballots remain to be counted next week, according to Gail Fenumiai, the state elections director...

Mr. Stevens, whose 85th birthday was Tuesday, was convicted last month in federal court in Washington of seven felony counts of failing to disclose more than $250,000 in gifts and home renovations he received. He is the longest serving Republican in Senate history.

Mr. Stevens is a revered figure in Alaska, known for bringing billions of dollars in federal spending to the state. He took office just nine years after Alaska entered the union. Mr. Begich ran a cautious campaign, rarely criticizing Mr. Stevens directly, largely leaving that work to the coverage of Mr. Stevens’s trial and to aggressive advertisements paid for by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

Mr. Begich would be the first Democrat to represent Alaska in Congress in three decades. He says he will steer a different course from other Democrats in Washington on many issues including favoring drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

In all seriousness, out of just pure empathy, I hope Uncle Ted doesn't spend the last remaining years of his life in prison. But I'm glad he's out. If he would have won, Sarah Palin very well could have made herself the Senator from Alaska. I know, scary.

Anyway, that makes 58 for the Democrats in the Senate with 2 seats still up for grabs...

Dennis Miller Claims Women Hate Sarah Palin Because "She Has A Great Sex Life"

When did Dennis Miller become such a douche? He claims women on the left hate Sarah Palin because she has a great sex life? I know he's joking, but it's a pretty weak punchline.

Most of us don't hate Sarah Palin. We just thought she was dangerously unqualified to be VP and president of the United States. Oh wait, and then there was this:

Palin told a group of donors at a private airport, "Our opponent ... is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country." She also said, "This is not a man who sees America as you see America and as I see America."

OK, maybe I do hate her.

Sarah Palin's first press conference

Gosh darnit, how entertaining:

The source of the Sarah Palin link comes out

As you know, someone in the McCain campaign last week leaked that Sarah Palin could not name the countries in NAFTA and did not know if South Africa was a continent or a country. I thought it was pretty mean-spirited myself, and it seemed like most of what was said was either really exaggerated or an outright lie.

The leak revealed himself today. It's Martin Eisenstadt, a foreign policy adviser for the McCain campaign. Here's what he had to say:

So yes, to be clear, last week I was the one who leaked those things to a producer at Fox News who works with Cameron. Carl and his producers are good guys, and I don’t want them to have to worry about protecting their sources (and going through the wringer ala Judith Miller or Matt Cooper) on something like this.

As you know, I was one of the foreign policy advisers on the McCain campaign who worked with Randy Scheunemann to help prep Sarah on her debate with Joe Biden. Did we outright give her a geography quiz when we started the prep? No, of course not. But yes, in the context of the prep, it slowly became apparent that her grasp of basic geo-political knowledge had major gaps. Could she have passed a multiple choice test about South Africa or NAFTA.

Probably. But it was clear that she simply didn’t have the ease of knowledge that we come to expect from a major party political candidate. Other slights came up, too: Not knowing the difference between Hezbollah and Hamas. Or the difference between the Shiites and Suni. Or when it came to international terrorist organizations, knowing that the IRA was in Northern Ireland, and ETA in Spain.
The real thing we had to constantly remind her was to never, ever compare herself in any way to Hillary Clinton, as she had at her announcement speech. We had it on good authority that Biden was prepping to unleash the inevitable line, “I know Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton is a friend of mine. And Sarah, you’re no Hillary Clinton.” Alas, Biden would have been right.

Well, I guess this confirms what we already know. Sarah Palin was severely underqualified for the VP job. Thank God McCain did not win. I could not imagine being smarter than a president or VP candidate. Oh wait, I forgot about the last 8 years...

Bill Kristol writes a good column?!?!

Is it me or does Bill Kristol consistently write some of the worst columns you'll ever read in your life? Honestly this has nothing to do with liberal and conservative. Despite disagreeing with them on so much, I love reading Peggy Noonan, David Brooks, George Will and some writers on the National Review. They're mostly smart, intellectually honest and put up coherent, well-thought arguments.

Not Mr. Kristol. From his unyielding support for G.W. and Sarah Palin to his stupid naivety about the Iraq War all while admitting no wrong has been truly dishonest and vile. So imagine my shock when I read this today:

Obama commented wryly that the canine question had “generated more interest on our Web site than just about anything.”

He continued: “We have two criteria that have to be reconciled. One is that Malia is allergic, so it has to be hypoallergenic. There are a number of breeds that are hypoallergenic. On the other hand, our preference would be to get a shelter dog, but, obviously, a lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me. So — so whether we’re going to be able to balance those two things, I think, is a pressing issue on the Obama
household.”

Here, in a few sentences, Obama did the following: He deepened his bond with every dog lover in America. He identified with every household that’s tried to figure out what kind of dog to get. He touched every parent with a kid allergic to pets. He showed compassion by preferring a dog from a shelter. And he demonstrated a dry and slightly politically incorrect wit by commenting that “a lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.”

Not bad. It could be a tough four or eight years for conservatives. It will be tougher yet if they underestimate Obama. His selection of Rahm Emanuel as chief of staff suggests that Obama’s not going to be mindlessly leftist, and that he’s going to shape a legislative strategy that is attentive to Congressional realities while not deferring to a Congressional leadership whose interests may not be his own. Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton were both tripped up in their first two years by their Democratic Congresses. Obama intends for Emanuel to ensure that that doesn’t happen.

And Obama has the further advantage of inheriting a recession that will give him a very tough first year or two (for which he won’t be blamed), but that should be followed by a recovery well timed for his re-election bid.

So Obama will be formidable. But conservatives should welcome the challenge. It’s good for conservatism that conservatives will have to develop refreshed ideas and regenerated political skills to succeed in the age of Obama.

Amazing. He actually credited Obama for something positive. Maybe he doesn't want to be on the wrong side of history? Or maybe for once, Mr Kristol is showing a little bit of humility and understands that the Republican brand has failed the country the last 8 years and needs a bump start to bring it back. Either way, I'm glad for once that not a whole lot of B.S. is coming out of Bill Kristol's mouth. Except this:

And it wouldn’t hurt for Governors Sarah Palin, Mitch Daniels, Bobby Jindal and the other possible 2012 G.O.P. nominees to begin bringing some puppies home for their kids.

Bill, it's time to let Sarah Palin go, man...