[Via Talking Points Memo]
One of the most intellectually dishonest displays you’ll ever see: John McCain spending eight minutes making ad hominem attacks under the guise of saying that there are serious, substantive questions about Barack Obama. You’d think if those questions exist, he’d actually manage to raise them at some point. That he never gets around to stating the questions allows the listener to reach his or her own conclusions about what those might be, and based on the audience reaction I think it’s safe to say that those conclusions were much more vile than John McCain would ever dare speak publicly himself. Which is of course the whole point.
Conversely Sarah Palin does say these things in her appearances, in the basest and most direct way imaginable. She must assume that she won’t get another shot in 2012 or 2016. I guess that’s the price one pays in credibility for a 12.8% chance of being vice president.
In which I make a poop joke
Yes, I know this is about Ayers and not Osama. But funny she doesn’t mention the name, isn’t it? This is where the shards that are left of McCain’s integrity are now headed.Hey Andrew, you misspelled “sharts.”
[Andrew Sullivan]
Platitudes
Government is the problem, but your administration will increase regulations?
We need to (a) cut spending but (b) build infrastructure while (c) cutting taxes? All three? In the same answer?
You’re running for vice president but don’t even have a passing familiarity with Dick Cheney’s legislative branch argument?
Please tell me people will see through the winking and cliches and think about the content of what she said.
Dear Marie Osmond, should you do another Nutrisystem commercial please feel free to use this joke I just wrote upon the occasion of having seen your Nutrisystem commercial
“I used to be a little bit country, now I’m a little bit rock and” [half beat pause] “small.” [Hand to hip, head cock, wink, show the logo chyron]
[…]
In these times, for John McCain to have chosen this person to be his running mate is fundamentally irresponsible. McCain says that he always puts country first. In this important case, it is simply not true.
