Good luck in this broken-server echo chamber

hahahah...no one in your campaign leaked this senator obama...it was being talked about all over alaska even before liberal bloggers caught wind of it...i would caution that obama shut up and i pray that any and everyone involved with the campaign shut up too... just continue hammering mccain on the issues that mccain has been ducking all along...

mccain and his disaster of a vp is a train wreck all of its own making....it is crashing at every stop and we havent even suffered a full week of the assault yet...

i feel sorry bristol, but no pity what so ever for mccain and sarah palin...if the tables were turned, no one would be as gracious towards obama, not even his so-called supporters...

I'm with you fellers.

There is something exceptionally poignant about the server being so completely broken today.

I think the reaction to Palin from the left blogs has been hysterical, stupid and damaging.

Instead of focusing on why this election is important and pushing the message from Obama's speech in Denver, this was turned into demonizing Palin.

She is dismissed as a nobody, and yet the entire blogosphere is in convulsions over her.

The stupid "was she vetted?" meme that Josh Marshall pushes is nothing but double-speak for "is she qualified". Who did we expect him to pick, John Kerry?

No, we expected Romney and Pawlenty, so we were caught with our pants down.

But NONE of the points raised against Palin so far rises to an Eagleton.

The truth is simple: if we weren't scared shitless of her, we wouldn't waste all this time furiously digging dirt for oppo research.

We're trying to turn her into Dan Quayle only to forget that Bush/Quayle won the election because the backlash was bigger than the smears.

I think the reaction to Palin from the left blogs has been hysterical, stupid and damaging.

Stupid, yes. Damaging, possibly. But I don't think it has much to do with being scared. It's just a stupid feeding frenzy.

She is dismissed as a nobody, and yet the entire blogosphere is in convulsions over her.

She's being "dismissed" as being a very poor choice for a running mate. Which she certainly seems to be. I think the whole thing is hilarious, and I look forward to it blowing up in McCain's face.

The stupid "was she vetted?" meme that Josh Marshall pushes is nothing but double-speak for "is she qualified".

No, actually the "was she vetted?" meme is about whether or not she was vetted. Because the way revelations about her are coming out minute by minute, either she wasn't vetted and McCain is stupid for not vetting her first, or she was vetted and McCain is even stupider for picking her.

No, we expected Romney and Pawlenty, so we were caught with our pants down.

In a pleasant way, yes. Romney or Pawlenty would have helped McCain. Palin may torpedo is candidacy.

But NONE of the points raised against Palin so far rises to an Eagleton.

An Eagleton? The media circus over Eagleton was based on things that shouldn't, in any rational world, have mattered.

She's way above an Eagleton. She's way above a Quayle, who was in over his head and unfairly potatoe-ized in the media. She's a Harriet Miers, mostly. But the feeding frenzy is similar in all three cases.

The truth is simple: if we weren't scared shitless of her, we wouldn't waste all this time furiously digging dirt for oppo research.

Speak for yourself. People slow down to look at an accident on the side of the road. That's not because they're afraid the cars are going to blow up or something. It's morbid curiosity. Palin is self-destructing before our eyes, and McCain's rash, hotheaded mode of decision making is coming out into the open. That's good stuff.

We're trying to turn her into Dan Quayle only to forget that Bush/Quayle won the election because the backlash was bigger than the smears.

You may be right. He may win. But I'd rather have McCain running with a Palin than with a Romney.

You misread the post.
Barack Obama said this, not John McCain.

Lalo,
Although I agree that there were attacks that crossed way over the line over this weekend I think that you are way off base on the "Vetting" question. See, this isn't really about Palin as much as it's about McCain and his so called "experience" & "judgment". It is generally recognized that your choice as VP is the first "presidential" decision that a candidate really has to make in public and while Obama picked a man that yes does help in politically is generally thought to be someone who would be a very capable and able leader if needed. While on the other hand McCain decided to roll the dice by gambling on a VP choice whom he barely new and hadn't even been vetted by his team with only a political goal in mind. She is on the ticket to help him win, not to help him govern and so this all does come back to hit McCain exactly where Obama hit him on Thursday night - "temperament & judgment".

BTW, you do not have to be scared of someone to do oppo-research. Any responsible politician would do oppo-research even if the opponent is decidedly weak. Additionally, the people who support a candidate should be able to flex their muscles by aiding in the research.

Barack Obama asked us to believe in our own ability to bring about change. He asked us to take a stake in his campaign. His supporters are now doing so. Maybe some efforts are misguided from time to time, but I believe that we generally do more good than harm. Also, when he asks us to back off certain lines of attack, I have found that those I am in contact with, particularly on blogs, are more than willing to do so.

Yet one more example of how classy Obama is. And what really thrills me? The press covered it (ie, his being classy)!

Obama's comments were straight on: simple; forceful; quickly composed---clearly what he honestly believes. I was stirred by what he said (yes, shaken and stirred), and I believe that he has never appeared to such advantage---more the poised executive---than when he defended his rival's children. If the McCain camp wants to know what appeals to women, this is it: this attitude of old-fashioned chivalry deriving from a true moral code.

I do believe that the Bristol Palin pregnancy is a story. It would be a story even if it were downplayed (as it has been) in the mainstream media.

Women who are ambitious for their children find Sarah Palin quite interesting, I think. It would surprise me if many outside the Religious Right view her as an outstanding, dedicated mother. Does she have to be an especially good mother? Yes, since she chose to have five children, she does.

She wasn't vetted, she isn't qualified, and we aren't scared shitless of her.

Barack is showing that he's a leader, as more Americans have seen. His quote is on the money. No one can control or is responsible to control, their wingnuts.

I really hope she stays on the ticket. She turns a 1.5-2 point win into a 6 point win. The only "echo chamber" function fulfilled in the discussion of Palin is the fantasists who thought Obama was dead in March, dead in May, behind Friday, etc. She seems to be a nice person, and amen to the backlash against personal discussions of her, but she has no business on a national ticket.