Maggie's Farm

AIG was too big to fail, but Jonah Goldberg wonders.

WSJ: The resilience of American finance

Conservatism=racism and sexism

From The Hill, with my comments in parentheses:

Pelosi (D-Calif.) ripped President Bush’s “mismanagement” of the economy and a lack of regulation that led to the current situation.

(How does a President manage a free-market economy?)

“I think the American people have had it with this situation where the middle-income people in our country are not protected from the ramifications of the risk-taking and the greed of these financial institutions,” Pelosi told MSNBC.

(Multi-millionaire Pelosi means people hate to lose money in the markets)

When asked whether the Democrats “deserve some responsibility” regarding the economic crisis, Pelosi responded: “No.”

(Bush does, Congress doesn't. Right.)

Afghanistan is getting bumpy, and the Petraeus approach doesn't work there.

Bitch Magazine wants your help. How about a government rescue?

Hayward at Weekly Standard thinks Palin could be a Truman. A quote:

The establishment is affronted by the idea that an ordinary hockey mom--a mere citizen--might be just as capable of running the country as a long-time member of the Council on Foreign Relations. This closed-shop attitude is exactly what both Jefferson and Adams set themselves against; they wanted a republic where talent and public spirit would find easy access to the establishment.

VDH on Obamamania - the insane kind

Moonbattery on Sarah Palin:

...she is the Anti-Obama: not some slick package disguising a bogus ideology, but a real person. The reason establishment journalists in their condescending phoniness hate her with such sputtering ferocity is that she is us, miraculously poised to dethrone the elite. So much for the Democrat pose of representing the people.

Related, Powerline has a good summary of how the NYT has abused its authority in its coverage of the candidates Related, from an Insty reader:

Even here on the UWS you find people who are wavering or are going with McCain. Not the therapists or the ones who read The Nation, and hardly a majority, but plenty of level-headed professionals and so forth. Now extrapolate that phenomenon to the white ethnic (and Oriental) 'hoods in the outer boroughs, then further out to the construction worker, cop, and fireman types on Long Island, Rockland County, etc. Then look at the historical voting patterns of upstate. In play? Closer than anyone thinks, that's for sure.

If Obama loses the election, will it be blamed on racism or on the stupidity of the voters? Of course, it could be something else:

Might it not also be true that Barack Obama’s brand of effete, "Democratic" and "elitist" politics just doesn’t sell with the same intensity on America’s first Western frontier as it seems to do on the two coasts and among those in less independent states who look government first for an answer to their hardships? Al Gore’s sure didn’t and John Kerry’s didn’t either. Organization and lectures from self-righteous and indignant Ohio politicians notwithstanding, perhaps Ohioans just don’t like politicians who are taken with the idea that they are better suited than the people to decide what the people ought to do.

Related: Jules discusses the old Beer Factor

McCain responds to the reports of Obama's secret undermining our policy in Iraq. We will see whether this is true.

Obama abandons his hope and change, decides on a partisan attack approach. Kaus: Outrage at McCain is a loser's game

Biden: Vote for Obama because he's black! Does that mean we should vote for Biden because he's white?

Obama second largest beneficiary of Fannie and Freddie funds

Mark Steyn refers back to his June post. A quote from it:

"'Heal the planet'? Is this guy nuts?" To be honest I prefer a republic whose citizenry can muster no greater enthusiasm for their candidate than "stilted cheers" to one in which the crowd wants to hoist the nominee onto their shoulders for promising to lower ocean levels within his first term. As for coming together "to remake this great nation," if it's so great, why do we have to remake it? A few months back, just after the New Hampshire primary, a Canadian reader of mine – John Gross of Quebec – sent me an all-purpose stump speech for the 2008 campaign:

"My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it."

Finish your peas? Who ever made up the idea that vegetables are "healthy," anyway? There's no medical evidence for that at all. Now, too many vegetables shrink your brain. Soup, wine, meat, potatoes and bread is what people need. And pie. OK, maybe an occasional apple, or veggie sauteed in olive oil and garlic - but only for the taste.

Will Obama be scrutinized next? Don't hold your breath.

Big-taxer Charlie Rangel in more tax ethics messes. Typical Lib: wants you to pay the taxes, not him.

Other WS firms getting the jitters.

Ike uncovers Civil War ship in Alabama

The War on Poverty is won, and it's over.

How UC rigs its admissions process. Their last plan gave them too many Vietnamese.

How to master Photoshop in one week. h/t, Insty

Brits agree to Sharia law courts. They are insane, suicidal, and pathetically weak.

Is Obama an effete pencil-necked weakling? Classical. Or, as John Brummett puts it: Barack Obama has turned into Michael Dukakis, John Kerry and Al Gore. Sarah Palin has turned into Ronald Reagan.

C of E apologizes to... Darwin! I'm sure Chuck is grateful.

Save the New York Sun!

The NYT is deeply concerned about Todd Palin's influence on Sarah. That's funny, they endorsed Hillary. Is the NYT fooling anybody?

Why feminists hate Sarah Palin. WSJ. Right. Modern feminism isn't about women's freedom, it's about advancing Socialism. The movement was hijacked.

What do Community Organizers do? Tiger. It's not a real job, that's for sure.

The Obama story you aren't hearing on the news. The MSM has his back.

Related: Obama tried to slow exit of troops from Iraq.

Jill Greenberg: Sick or sociopathic? Or both? Seems to have neither integrity nor conscience.

From Insty:

ERIC S. RAYMOND: Timing the Entitlements Crash. "The fundamental problem is that income-transfer programs (and the interest service on the debt purchased to keep them running) are spending wealth in higher volumes than the economy can actually generate, and demand for that spending is rising faster than the economy is growing. Thus, raising tax rates is no longer a way out, if it ever was." Remember, if something can't go on forever, then it won't.

Mainstream? This is truly ugly, and desperate.

Sarah is bad for your mental health.

How to cover a Palin rally.

McCain's campaign and the OODA loop

Paglia and David Thompson on Palin.

If you like Michigan's economy, you'll love Obama's.

Obama's big blunder.

Does the idea of American exceptionalism sum up this election?

The economy pessimists are driven by politics, not facts

What's the oldest item in this campaign? Obama's ideas

Mankiw: How come so many libs don't give to charity

Sowell begins his The Vision of the Left thus:

Conservatives, as well as liberals, would undoubtedly be happier living in the kind of world envisioned by the left.

Read the whole thing.

“Wine, sex and baths ruin our bodies, but they are the stuff of life - wine, sex and baths.”

The whole piece is here. h/t, Flares

The Pope: "The presence of Christian values is fundamental for the survival of our nations"

Sipp: My favorite tools.

ABC edited the Palin interview to make her look bad. It didn't work. The press is so nuts about Obama it's weird. They are blinded, and failing at their job.

Insty found a report of the WaPo's covert re-write.

Related: Palin was right. There are 3 Bush Doctrines, and none of them clearly defined. But, may I ask again, why is this election about Palin instead of the goofy Joe Biden, who they have hidden in a closet?

Well, back to the charming Palin. Besides banning books, killing defenseless animals, wanting to bomb Russia, loving God too much, and having two heads, she also sleeps with teenage boys. People do ignore how sexist the attacks on her have been, from the photo-shopped junk to the "How can you have a job when you have kids?" Most Americans have figured out how to do that, for better or worse. Real Americans love the gal, partly because she's not a condescending elite who imagines that she is better than you.

As we said yesterday, making fun of McCain's POW injuries is a lousy stragegy. Show me your wounds first.

How fast things change. Dems are now scared. It could all change again, though.

What Clinton might have told Barack: "It's not about you," and other things. Such as "I am very busy this fall."

How autistic kids do not communicate. Classical

Why can't McCain use a keyboard? Because the Viet Cong broke his arms so many times in so many places. Can't tie his shoes or comb his hair either, for the same reason.

Two supposed Constitutional prof candidates, with supporters who don't like the Constitution. What gives?

Schoolkid caught with exposed blade! 30-life, in my opinion.

Help! Call Dr. Bliss. Or the UN. It's the global crisis of Post-Vacation Syndrome.

Classic liberal: Biden gives $369/year to charity. That sums it all up. I give far more than that, with far less income and no perks.

Is Congress competitive this year?

Soul deadness at Columbia

When journalistic malpractice becomes precedent. Yesterday's WaPo example is unbelievable.

EU Referendum takes a closer look at those "world wants Obama" polls

Obama is the hedge fund candidate

"Having overthrown feudalism and slavery and then outgrown its own personal and familial form, capitalism has evolved a new political ideology, welfare liberalism, which absolves individuals of moral responsibility and treats them as victims of social circumstance. .. new modes of social control, which deal with the deviant as a patient and substitute medical rehabilitation for punishment. It has given rise to a new culture, the narcissistic culture of our time, which has translated the predatory individualism of the American Adam into a therapeutic jargon that celebrates not so much individualism as solipsism, justifying self-absorption as "authenticity" and awareness."

Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism

Snobbery. But Palin does good with Charlie Gibson. Was it a press quiz?

Socialism and laziness

A media darling.

Is Palin a female?

Mugabe is a hero!

What's the matter with Michigan?

Backgrounds of those in Congress. Too many lawyers, not enough businesspeople, and too many professional politicians making a living off "public service," aka a free ride on the taxpayer.

Rove is right!

I prefer the prom dress. RWNH

How the other half (the MA half) sees the world. Seems a bit hysterical to me.

A Dem nightmare?

Asked if her son Track who is headed to Iraq was on a mission from God, she said she didn't know about that.

"I don't know if the task is from God, Charlie," Palin said. "What I know is that my son has made a decision. I am so proud of his independent and strong decision he has made, what he decided to do and serving for the right reasons and serving something greater than himself and not choosing a real easy path where he could be more comfortable and certainly safer."

Link here

They probably faked that proton thingy. Who could tell if they're fooling us, cuz them proton thingys are so teensy-weensy that you can hardly see the dang thing to break it with a 21 oz. hammer.

The growing consensus on global cooling. Yeah, I was for global cooling before I was for global warming...or is it the other way around?

OMG. Canadians afraid Palin's example might reduce the number of abortions. God forbid!

Palin takes a couple of days off to send off her son to serve the USA. This is real. No styrofoam.

Repubs were hopeless two months ago. Now the Dems are fearful.

The NYT busts its delivery unions. Nice greedy liberals.

Freddie and Fannie had multiple personality disorder

Vanishing American barns. Sad. Same thing in New England. h/t, Flares

USA Today says Palin busts feminist template. Indeed she does.

Foreigners do not understand the real America. And here's Melissa on Sexy Conservative Women

From Stop the ACLU:

Did you know:

Senator John McCain routinely physically abuses his wife, Sarah Palin is a devil-worshiping satanist, Governor Palin wants to secede from the Union, Baby Trig was actually stolen from another couple in a complex scam at the hospital, Governor Palin slashed funding for special needs kids, and (as everyone on this site already knows), banned every book ever written.

Where did I learn these things? The Daily Kos? Andrew Sullivan? MSNBC?

No, I learned these things from the Barack Obama campaign website.

UK Update: Don't litter, but please kill the old folks

Roger Kimball goes after the NYT, and other easy targets. A quote:

One lesson–hardly a new lesson, but still worth mentioning–is that Democratic candidates get one sort of treatment from the Times, Republicans get quite another sort of treatment. Sarah Palin supposedly lacks the experience to be Vice-President; but what experience does Obama have to be President? What has he done? What legislation has he sponsored? What executive experience has he had? What does he stand for–beyond, I mean, the calculated political expediency that will advance his career? Where, for example, does he stand on the war in Iraq and the Surge: adamantly opposed–until it became too expensive politically, at which point he declared that the Surge succeeded beyond his “wildest dreams.” Where does he stand on offshore drilling? On taxes? On Russia’s invasion of Georgia? On an nuclear Iran? On Israel?

Roger Stone: Obama hurt himself badly. Americans are not stupid. We may not all study Sartre and Marx, but we know how to clean a carburetor or a deer or a gun, and how to drink beer. We are quite unsophisticated.

Obama rattled. Or On his heels. Or flailing. Gotta feel badly for the guy. He's never had a contested election, and he's not ready for this. How's that executive experience going, Obama?

The NYT discovers the Annenberg Challenge. One of the few things Obama has done, and it was a failure and waste of $150 million of money another person earned by creating real jobs and real products that people wanted.

Dems are smarter than Repubs, right? Further, Bainbridge considers the sophisticated Dems. Me? I am a redneck country bumpkin, moved to NYC and growing more sophisticated and conservative by the day.

Gender gaps around the world. A quote:

A husband and a stay-at-home wife in a patriarchal Botswanan clan seem to be more alike than a working couple in Denmark or France. The more Venus and Mars have equal rights and similar jobs, the more their personalities seem to diverge.

What is "the war on terror"?  We have saved Iraq, and are chipping away at the sick craziness in Afghanistan - but what is it? In my opinion, it's only a "war" in the sense that there is a "war against cancer." It's a cultural cancer: If it stays where it is, who cares? But if it invades us, we do care.

Photo: Company A, 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment remove concertina wire to clean up Baghdad. It's not needed any more.

Paglia:

The witch-trial hysteria of the past two incendiary weeks unfortunately reveals a disturbing trend in the Democratic Party, which has worsened over the past decade. Democrats are quick to attack the religiosity of Republicans, but Democratic ideology itself seems to have become a secular substitute religion. Since when did Democrats become so judgmental and intolerant?

Mrs. Palin is mobilizing women of all sorts. Good on her. We are all sick of the unattractive feminazi academic lesbians.

Takes 3-4 hrs of activity/day to fight your fat genes. Chop some wood. Clean the house. Peel some potatoes. Carry that load. Mow the lawn. Turn off the TV. Turn off the internet (except for Maggie's Farm). Weed the garden. Carry some rocks. Go to Costco. Tip some cows. Shoot a caribou.

Carbon is a lost cause. Sure is.

The coming global cooling crisis.

Lehman is screwed. I feel badly for the long-time Lehman guys who thought they were wealthy. A great American company which, I assume, did not listen to their risk managers.

Obama dies on O'Reilly. He really cannot give a straight answer, only lawyerly evasions. But his people can do the dozens (that's a ghetto expression).

Steyn on the world wanting Obama. Funny. Certainly PM Brown's endorsement will not carry much water in the US. We do not want to be like today's UK. Europe is in a death-spiral.

What about all those "green jobs"? People in government couldn't run a profitable candy store.

Obama's big contribution to education? Sex ed for kindergartners. That is perverted, sick. It's the big education debate. I happen to want the feds entirely out of education.

"Oh, I wish I'd looked after me tits."

Bush revealed as Lincoln and Grant. Someday the nation will appreciate Bush.

Obama unplugged. Herald

A pig and an old fish? At Insty.

This is good: Meeting Chloe

It's just this simple! Now go vote!

Independents moving to McCain. Duh.

Even Jules now alarmed about global cooling.

T. Boone Pickens cares only about one thing.

Jeremiah Wright has a new scandal. Skirt-chasing. I thought he was offensive enough before this.

Africans pay the price for greenie moonbattery

Gaffe Central: My Muslim Faith. Sheesh. It's sad.

Obama now is for Charter schools. With a wink to the unions? I do not believe this.

Sarah on the basketball court. Shoots and scores. Now they say Obama is running against Palin. Weird. Two on one, since Biden is a joke (somebody forgot to tell Obama).

Sipp on politics: All politics is the prayer for a deus ex machina. Yes, always. Do not look to those jokers for your life's salvation. Mankind will never be ready for democracy, or dictatorship either.

Dems have no respect for regular Americans. That is true. I am a regular American, neither elite nor a victim, and not interested in being either. I guess that makes me a Repub.

Michelle's boot camp for radical propaganda. Shades of Stalin and Mao.

Rejecting Obama for the right reasons. That's me. I'd vote for a black Conservative without any hesitation.

Poll: Lefties against the Constitution. Horrifying...but somehow not surprising either.

It's OK, Oprah. No, really! It's OK! Got to add that site to our blogroll.

US mulls Google lawsuit

Command and control? From Outside the Beltway:

In watching/listening to the two acceptance speeches by both candidates one thing struck me. Both appear to believe, or at least promulgate, this notion that the President of the United States can control and/or has great and precise influence over the economy.

DC's crusading school chancellor takes on teacher pay - and the union

The Palin smear job is moving so fast you need somebody to keep track

The search for ancient Ithaca. Smithsonian

Should I manage my adult daughter's money?

Palin is from the wrong side of the tracks?

Dino wonders whether Obama believes his new age  claptrap

The Feds should have privatized Fanny and Freddie, not taken them over. Running the mortgage market is not part of the government's job according to the Constitution. One day later, now the auto biz asks for Fed support. It's a slippery slope if failing businesses can run to the Feds (eg our wallets).

Scientists get death threats re Hadron Collider

VW Microbus to return? Flower decals and peace symbols optional.

Biden: Life begins at conception

Missouri picks winners.

What's up with Andrew Sullivan and Obama?

Kristol: "McCain didn’t just pick a politician who could appeal to Wal-Mart Moms. He picked a Wal-Mart Mom." It's refreshing. I tire of these elites who always are certain that they know what's best for me.

Related: Tammy on Palin (via Insty), a quote:

The party has moved from taking the female vote for granted to outright contempt for women. That's why Palin represents the most serious conservative threat ever to the modern liberal claim on issues of cultural and social superiority. Why? Because men and women who never before would have considered voting for a Republican have either decided, or are seriously considering, doing so.

They are deciding women's rights must be more than a slogan and actually belong to every woman, not just the sort approved of by left-wing special interest groups.

Palin's candidacy brings both figurative and literal feminist change. The simple act of thinking outside the liberal box, which has insisted for generations that only liberals and Democrats can be trusted on issues of import to women, is the political equivalent of a nuclear explosion.

The latest McCain video ad. Not bad.

The Palin book-banning lies. Lies of all sorts are swirling around her. Throw enough sh-t at the wall and hope some sticks. That's the approach.

Grasso's compensation and the courts. Prof B

Palin rises above the shrill media

What does a "community organizer" do?

Why Ayers matters. Neoneo

Raul, Cuba, and the internet

What's all this about speeches? Althouse

All the gals now want the Palin look

Two small(?)-town Dems wonder whether local Repubs care about small towns

The UN wants me to have meatless Fridays? I guess it's a new religion. I have plenty of meatless days, but not to be good - just because I like other stuff too.

Good news on the free speech front. Coyote

Death from above in Afghanistan

Are we watching the end of boomer wierdness?

Are all of the photo-shopped Palin photos ethical? Probably not, unless identified as such.

The Dems' hidden Soros slush fund

A visit to Palin's church. The Pastor is from NJ.

Extremist claims Palin is an extremist. Compared to Boxer, probably so.

Roger Simon with general thoughts about the election and the culture of narcissism

How McCain is running as the candidate of an unpopular president's party. Barone

Palin did it. Surber. She's the one we've been waiting for! Krauthammer disagrees, but everybody's allowed to be wrong once in a while. Meanwhile, Palinomania is spreading overseas! Good for them.

What is McCain all about? Samiz

How Obama lost the election. Spengler

Insty:

JUST TALKED TO MICHAEL YON on the satphone from Afghanistan. He reports that the big picture remains poor, but reports some big tactical successes, including a successful turbine delivery of to the Kajaki Dam hydroelectric facility. He's posted a big report on the operation, which was the biggest of the war.

He's with British troops now, and his comment is: "These guys are studs. All they do is work out and fight." He says troop morale generally in Afghanistan is really good, partly because there's more public support for that war, but that the overall situation is "not great" and "clearly deteriorating." He adds that "we're not losing," but that we're not making progress either. "I'll tell you Glenn, we really need more troops here." With what he describes as a "meltdown" going on in Pakistan, he says that Afghanistan needs a lot more troops -- like 50,000 or more. Part of the problem, he adds, is that many of the Coalition troops, like the Germans, aren't really allowed to fight, making the effective number of available troops lower than it seems.

Meanwhile, remember that Michael is supported by reader donations. With people focused on the election it's worth remembering that he's still out there covering this stuff. I've donated.

Photo stolen from Theo

Funny. h/t, Vanderleun

This must be a bug. It can't be intentional.

Thanks, MSM: Kristol. Also, Why They Hate Her. Related: Hey, Oprah - you're missing some killer ratings.

The Palin smears: all lies, but they are putting them out there anyway

Economists like McCain's health policies. (Don't you love that "health" euphemism." What is meant is sickness.)

Pelosi endorses Palin. Sort-of.

Climate change reveals climate change. Hmmm.

Little Brother? Brits reward kids for snooping on adults. They have gone insane.

Abortion cultists target Palin

A plea for calm in the immigration debate

A glimpse of the new Repubs. David Brooks

Fighting fire with fire: Obama is a Muslim

From Obama's crisis at Pajamas:

In his selection of Gov. Palin, McCain has exposed what was perhaps Obama’s greatest weakness, namely how the Obama project has really been a last-ditch attempt by Democrats to extend the miserable life of the New Deal/Great Society Democratic Party — the very bloated big government model they have pushed with the past three candidates: Al Gore, John Kerry, and now Barack Obama. Can anyone really tell the difference between these political triplets?

Make no mistake; Democrats are frantic now that the man behind the curtain has been revealed. Despite their shameless attempt to mask their plans behind identity politics, the Obama campaign has always been about big government liberalism, labor union dinosaurs, and K Street fat-cat lobbyists — Washington politics as usual. America saw this with his vice-presidential pick, Joe Biden.

Image: People Magazine cover has caption added by an unhappy Hillary supporter, via My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

Fight with me. Jules

Is your computer a zombie?

Hey, Prof. Change my grade. This reminds me of the old one: "I don't have my homework because my dog ate my brain."

Time to re-deploy out of Chicago? Higher death count than the Middle East.

Andrew Jackson: a real-estate lawyer who was laughed at by the Eastern elites.

HACNS1 is an interesting gene

Cute as heck: Piper fixes baby brother's hair

Can you taste anything with your eyes closed?

The Brits don't get Palin. Their loss. They need a Palin, or another Maggie. American men love Palin.

A moving speech. Classical

USC censors Koran, removes Jew-killing hadiths.

Obama sending the gals out to protect him. That's what metros do. Obama worried? Plays race card again. But he already played that card. Can you play the same card twice?

Right Wing Prof wants you to see this short video: Palin on Omama and the surge.

McCain's viewership topped Obama's - without styrofoam pillars! Hmmm.

Typical lefty: Charlie Rangel forgot to pay his taxes for 20 years. Just like Ted Kennedy, with his wealth offshore. Or Soros, for that matter. It's amazing how much Lefties love their $.

Obama today:

“And I know that the temptation is to say, ‘You know what? …The guy hasn’t been there that long in Washington.,’ You know, ‘he’s got funny name,’ You know, ‘we’re not sure about him,’” Obama continued. “And that’s what the Republicans, when they say, ‘This isn’t about issues, it’s about personalities,’ what they’re really saying is, ‘We’re going to try to scare people about Barack. So we’re going to say that you know, maybe he’s got Muslim connections or we’re going to say that, you know, he hangs out with radicals or he’s not patriotic.’

Well said, Barack. Now you are running against yourself.

From Roger today, about the Boston phone book, a quote:

The liberal consensus has tenure. I mean, it is thoroughly institutionalized, and not only in academia. It has metastasized throughout elite culture. It’s what you are likely to uphold if you were graduated from an Ivy League college, went to law school, or work for The New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, etc. It explains the little frisson Chris Matthews felt travelling up his leg as Obama spoke last winter. It also explains the incredulous, spluttering rage that Sarah Palin has provoked in purlieus of liberal self-satisfaction. I call it “Palin Hysteria Syndrome.” Just this morning, for example, I received this email from an acquaintance (I preserve the original orthography and diction: he is a careful writer as a rule, but clearly his emotion got the better of him here):

i read you blog posting on Sarah Palin. Quite a suprise. Never would I have thought you suceptible to trailer trash. More suprising were the comments about Palin’s “executive experience” and being governor of the country’s “largest state.” Once upon a time, those were the sort of sphistries against which you waged glorious battle. The strange bedfellows induced by politics are not integrity and compromise.

“Trailer trash,” eh? Clearly, as Victor Davis Hanson put it yesterday, “Team Obama, the mainstream media, and the entire American intelligentsia” are acting “as if they were collectively hit by a cruise missile aimed from Middle America.” “Cruise missile” is good: it suggests the unexpectedness and deadly accuracy of the blow. But I like to think that Boston phone book–or maybe it’s the Juneau phone book–is finally getting some of its own back. Bill Buckley would be pleased.

Michelle has McCain's speech. Yes, he promises change. Rich Lowry's advice for McCain. I heard that many were moved by what he had to say.

McCain is obviously no flashy orator, but how did he do in getting his message across?

Neilsen: Obama's speech 38 million viewers. Palin's speech 37 million. Wow.

The right side of the internets sure is enthused about Sarah. More at Dirty Harry's.

Polls show people believe reporters want to damage her. People aren't stupid.

She shoots...she scores! John Fund

Gloria Steinem hates her feminist sister Palin. Is the only correct way to be a "liberated woman" to be a screeching angry victimized lesbian abortion-loving man-hating bitch? Or is it a wonderful thing that women can chose to be and do what they want?

Repub ticket is a lawyer-free zone. That's refreshing. VDH discusses

Quote from Henninger:

I asked a number of women this week to account for Sarah Palin's sudden appeal. Here are the common threads.

The angry woman-as-victim drives them nuts. They hate victimology. As one woman said, "The point is that across the ages women have been doing pretty much what Sarah Palin has been doing: bearing children, feeding families, bringing in an income, working to improve their communities."

Another woman said, "Her story reflects a more normal reality" of active women; "the harder you work, the luckier you get." Hillary Clinton still plays the victim card. Sarah Palin gives off no victim vibes. These women mentioned her grit, determination and character.

They also said the Roe v. Wade litmus test has become too knee-jerk. Simply writing off Sarah Palin as "pro-life" caricatures pregnancy and motherhood.

Off-topic: Sad news about The NY Sun. I love that paper.