Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Oh Well

Uncle Sam: $407 billion in the hole

I'm sure this is good news for John McCain

Alaskan Independence Now: Let My People Go!

Most of the press coverage of Sarah and husband Palin's association with a weird Alaskan secessionist group, the Alaskan Independence Party (AIP), has been to note that, no, Sarah didn't formally belong to the group, but the husband did. No story. Nothing to see here. Please disperse.

This seems pretty weird to me (among many, many other things this cycle). If Jill Biden belonged to a Delaware Independence Party that had in recent years attempted to get a vote for secession on the ballot, whose meetings husband and VP candidate Joe attended in recent years along with Jill, wouldn't this be a pretty big deal? If Jill Biden belonged to a Delaware Independence Party, which backed Delaware seceeding from the U.S., and if husband and VP candidate Joe Biden attended such meetings while nonetheless lacking formal membership credentials, don't you think we'd be subjected to a wave of breathless flag-waving on Faux news and throughout the media along with breathless questions as to whether Jill was anti-American and whether the Bidens, and Obama as well because he picked Joe to be his VP, were sufficiently patriotic?

But I guess since Sarah and husband Palin are evangelical Christians, all this must be OK.

Monday, September 08, 2008

It's Very UnAmerican to want to Ban Books

Like Sarah Palin does, and so apparently does John McCain, since he chose her.

The Obama-Biden campaign, if it is still in operation, I can't tell for sure, wants to use this line, I won't charge them.