I would so love to see Obama vs. Palin in a debate, but you know darn well that it would be seen by the Repub faithful, and those who just like the woman, as another elitist intellectual snob lording it over the fiesty hockey mom. That's why I want to see Biden take her on, so Obama doesn't get saddled with the "beating up on poor little Sarah" meme.

Apropos of Cashmere's Venn diagram link way upthread, here's another one just made of awesome.

The Examiner is not only conservative to paleoconservative, but since its official collapse, death, and resurrection as a free tabloid it's become a horrid little rag bulging with glaring factual errors and pathetically unedited press releases from any asshole who'll send them one (I assume they just desperately need the column inches) and really no redeeming value at all aside from Patricia Unterman's occasional restaurant reviews and, um, two sudoku puzzles a day. That's about it.

At one time, way back in the day, it had a marginally better journalistic reputation than the Chronicle, but that was long ago, before it died and came back wrong.

I might have to go back to Dave. That was awesome, yesterday(And made my fake boyfriend LOL, which is cool)

Your fake boyfriend was looking totally cute as a bug's ear.

I can't bear the thought of looking at this for four years.

Do you really think he's going to last another four years on this mortal coil? Most of the doctors I work for here think that's mildly optimistic.

dude. didn't know that.

Third generation, baybee. We've been known to joke in my family that any day now they'll come up with some kind of test for a genetic marker.

And, yep, every time some horribly embarrassing bit of historical tanking comes up, we've always been right up there, along with the Mets and the Cubs. The Mets, at least, have only half a century of such records to live down, but they'll catch up.

Could the Buffista News Channel fund the creation of Buffista Island? Tune in at 11 to find out!

Will Buffista Academy be opening its doors soon? The world waits for answers.

Hub bought me a piece of 'Princess Cake' at Publix. It is made of Teh Awesomeness! Dark, Moise, chocolate cake with a layer of chocolate mousse and chocolate icing with touches of white chocolate on top. (Oh, how I love that man!)

NomNomNomNomNomNom

Do you really think he's going to last another four years on this mortal coil? Most of the doctors I work for here think that's mildly optimistic.

What happens if he kicks it between now and the election? I can't imagine the Republicans putting Palin up as the nominee (of course, I wouldn't have imagined them picking her as the VP nominee, if I'd ever heard of her before this year). Do they tag Romney?

What happens if he kicks it between now and the election? I can't imagine the Republicans putting Palin up as the nominee (of course, I wouldn't have imagined them picking her as the VP nominee, if I'd ever heard of her before this year). Do they tag Romney?

Didn't Huckabee come second in the primaries? Maybe we'd get Huckabee-Palin. Or Huckabee-Norris.

I'd imagine the timeframe is important here. The Repubs would need enough time to make another selection. If McCain kicked off only a couple of weeks before the big day, they might not have time to change. I believe in 2000, when John Ashcroft lost to a corpse, they treated it as if he died in office. (The dead Dem, not Ashcroft.) If the same principle applied here, that would effectively mean that the Repubs are stuck with McCain's name on the ballot, and Palin as the effective (I use the term advisedly) candidate. And they would lose in the biggest landslide since 1984. Or bigger, as there are more people in Minnesota than in Alaska.

I'm sorry, billytea, but I must quibble with your analysis: [link]

Heh. They'd be happy to have lunch with her but they don't want her anywhere near the White House. I share half of that opinion.

Whoah. The government just seized WaMu and sold it to J.P. Morgan. They usually wait until Friday evening to do that sort of thing.