Month: September 2008

Obama tries to hit McCain for being out of touch. I really think he doesn’t need to go there. The McCain campaign is imploding. Do nothing but stay calm and focused on the issues:

"If it doesn’t make sense, it isn’t true," – Judge Judy Sheindlin.

In Sarah Palin, we have the apotheosis of the Judge Judy Republicans.

A tough critic tips his hat.

I really don’t think what is happening now and will happen soon can be better described than this. Yes, Wile E. Coyote is McCain and Palin is that bow and arrow he thought would bring down Obama:

But still not a word about Palin. If I know him, I know what he thinks. Surely he isn’t too cowed to say it? Good Hadron Collider joke, though.

Hilzoy delves into Palin’s answer on the Bush doctrine:

When, as Palin said, "there is legitimate and enough intelligence that tells us that a strike is imminent against American people", the claim that we have the right to preempt that strike does not require the Bush Doctrine; it just requires the old, and much more widely accepted, doctrine of preemption. That is: in what Palin says here, she’s not actually supporting the Bush Doctrine at all. She’s just saying what generations of American Presidents and candidates have said: that when a country is actually about to attack us, we don’t have to wait for them to actually land a blow before we can strike back.

Palin opposes the Bush Doctrine and opposed the surge! The absurdity of her candidacy is beginning to become clearer and clearer.

A poignant post.

Fallows watches the interview:

What Sarah Palin revealed is that she has not been interested enough in world affairs to become minimally conversant with the issues. Many people in our great land might have difficulty defining the "Bush Doctrine" exactly. But not to recognize the name, as obviously was the case for Palin, indicates not a failure of last-minute cramming but a lack of attention to any foreign-policy discussion whatsoever in the last seven years.

We knew this already from this interview which I seem to be the only person to have noticed.

But yes. I’m thinking what you’re thinking. It’s over.

Good. He also includes his wife’s, Jill’s, unlike John McCain. Now where are his medical records?

Jake Tapper dismembers Palin.