When He’s Facing a Tough Woman…Obama Goes on ‘SNL’

Well if Sarah Palin can bring comedy to the ABC Nightly News, Barack can bring a big dose reality to SNL.

Lest we forget, he just took his cause to Keith Olberman, MSBC and Bill O’Reilly, Faux… oops Fox News. Your snark is unworthy of him and you.

Obama knew exactly what he was doing in making the lipstick on a pig comment he is preoccupied with Palins fame and seems like his silly season comments are backfiring as well!

Barack Obama is a statesman. He can also have fun and SNL is a comedy show. It is not meant to be taken seriously but Jake it seems you have hard time distinguishing between media and news. Maybe that is the problem. I don’t have a hard time but many do. So don’t feel too bad.
The news at its best is supposed to tell the facts and only the facts without any slant at all. Those days seem to be gone.
The entertainment industry seems to have become muddled into the news department. You guys aren’t about informing us anymore. It is about your take on things. So we never get to truly judge a situation by ourselves. You do it for us and give us your slant. Then we judge through your glasses. That is not doing your job as a journalist. That is why we never discuss the issues. We discuss stupid things because that is what you feed us. It is all about the exclusive. The ratings. The numbers.
Here we are, trying to dig ourselves from too many problems to be discussed here and you want to talk about an SNL appearance. Who cares that he had a huge day of talking about service and remembering 9/11.
You can focus on what you think is important and can influence many. I can only hope to God that people are listening to the speeches and the issues, because that is what is important here. Focus. Its important.
Who is showing the judgement and stature of the President of The United States? I think that the level of respect, or lack thereof, for the American electorate speaks for itself.
Now put that in your pipe and smoke it.

Polderboy
you got it wrong by Obama thinking he is looking dignified and thoughtful the last couple of days have had him looking like a child…

“only one of two joint interviews the duo have done, period”
McCain & Palin have done zero interviews.
Someone needs to tell Palin that this country’s first two VPs had met with foreign heads of state, and that was before airplanes were invented! They were John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. I guess she hasn’t yet watched the HBO series “John Adams”.
And the question about our troops going over the border into Pakistan. Does she not know current events? U.S. troops crossed the border into Pakistan last week. And Pakistan is not happy about it. Just today, the Pakistan’s army chief said they will defend sovereignty “at all cost”.

staniam
More talking points. You know McCain also cried sexism for the fish reference. This is absurd. By your definition McCain is sexist because he called Hillary a pig. McCain is less qualified then Palin because she has “executive” experience. Palin didn’t know the Bush Doctrine which has cause the biggest military blunder in decades. Palin incompetence = Bush incompetence. In other words who can put lipstick on Bush its still Bush.

I almost threw up when I watched the clip of him with David Letterman.
I can’t believe what he said.
Act like immature person.

She clearly had no idea what she was talking about. The ten days of training did not seem to have helped.

SNL is still on? Time flies.

Yes, MM, and every one of those people want something diffrent from Obama. It’s a good thing he’s going to do all that stuff he has planned.

Jake, Palin is not tough, saw her interview, and the rest of the planet is laughing their heads off, she looked lost, the only thing missing was gum chewing….

Kitty
Charlie explain the Doctrine to her. The Bush Doctrine is the preemptive war, war on terrorist, no negotiations with dictator policy.

Why all the fuss America why don’t we just go ahead and vote McCain and continue the slip and slide of the economy. It will be fun for me to watch the faces of people when they behold in incompetense of this old man and his beautiful sidekick. Its fun for me to see and hear the Republicans defend George Bush and the economy. Heaven help us all and save us from the Republicans!

Its pretty sad that we’ll probably learn more about where Obama stands on the issues from his appearance on SNL than we will from the ‘news’ media.

Republican party=war=bad economy. The Republican party is for the rich and those who pretend to be rich and there are a lot of pretenders in this country and on this blog. All pretense..we pretend that we are the riches country in the world when in fact we owe China and Japan trillions of dollars..The credit card mentality is killing us. If you are rich or pretend to be rich then McCain’s your man. Heaven help us all and save us from the Republicans

Heaven help us all and save us from the Republicans! Please Lord,Please!

I can’t believe what a difference editing makes! I saw the two versions of the Gibson interview that aired at both ABC Nightly News and then the full version on Nightline. What a difference! I thought she looked OK on ABC, but I wished her answers were more in depth. Well, on Nightline, they showed the longer version of her answers. What a difference.
She did fantastic when you see the full version. Charlie asked tough questions but she held her own. I like her even more now.

staniam
We are better then the last 8 years. Obama will be a better president then both McCain and Bush. That’s the point of running for President.

She’ll have achmadinnerjacket for dinner. He’ll be so busy wiping his drool, he won’t be thinking about anything but her. I’d rather watch her on SNL than Obama. I have Obama fatigue.

staniam
Don’t try to lecture me on the constitution after what the Republican administration has done to the constitution.

staniam, john
You guys fail to realize what “Kick the Bucket means” Let me spell it out for you. If McCain dies in office, VP Palin becomes President, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosie becomes Vice President. That clause is in the constitution. Therefore the Palin/Pelosie administration.

Did you know you can actually see Russia from Alaska?
Phew.
I can see her on that island in the Bering Street, yelling at Putin: “Yooohoooo, I can SEEEEEE you”

john “I think sarah thins Russia is just another Iraq .”
More like a Moose-hunt.

MM
actually if you recall when FDR died Truman became president and he picked his VP… succession only has to do with the president… in the old days when there was just the electoral college nbot popular vote the candidate who was second became VP… so you are wrong in that point…

Polderboy. No, I didn’t know you could actually see Russia from Alaska. I am already learnig from the future VP. I mean, I knew Alaska was way up there, but I didn’t know we were close enough to see.

Kitty
True but that pick has to be approved by a Congressional vote therefor the vacancy will be pass to the Speaker of the House to act as acting Vice President until the VP Pick is approved.

MM:
Are you kidding me? Check out the U.S. Constitution (Article 2, Section 1) and the 25th Amendment. Both are pretty clear.
Any succession where the Speaker of the House would assume the Presidency (she can not assume the Vice Presidency unless appointed) would only arise if BOTH the President and Vice President “kicked the bucket.”

Well it”s blatantly obvious that Palin does not have the tools for VP. I have nothing against her at all. But the fact is she reminds me of my next door neighbor.
Decent person, but nothing exceptional about her. She is in WAY over her head. This isn”t a position for the average person. And it”s clear the Palin is quite average.
Anyone who votes for that ticket now, is simply voting because of their own ignorance.

John
25th Ammendment Section 4

staniam
I sort of hard to get out a war when the president promises to continue a war without funding. The Majority was 51 majority meaning that Congress is essentially in a stalemate. Also the republicans hold the record this congress for most filibusters. Filibuster prevents votes and slows down Congress – - The do nothing congress.

MM:
25th Amendment, Section 4 in entirety:
“Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.”
I am VERY interested to see how you interpret that as meaning that the Speaker of the House can somehow become “acting” Vice President.

stanaim
I wasn’t even talking about Pelosie becoming the president so the succession is mute. The issue is the vacancy of the Vice Presidential. The new President does appoint the new President but until Congress approves the new Pick the VP slot goes to the speaker as (acting).

MM
nope you just wrong I wasnt saying you said that Pelosi would become president I said that the person that bnecomes president gets to pick the vp and the senate confirmation is largely perfuctory… you just need to come back to earth like Obama has been made to do and make rational realistic decisions in this election… Obamas constituiency… Younger people and african americans will not dictate to the rest oft he electorate who becomes president or how they do it… you have to follow FEC rules period! thats why Axelrod cant do anythign about palin so far… he cant manipulate the system as usual!

Well then I apologize and concede the point. The Speaker can only succeed and act as President rather then VP.

McCain’s campaign has jumped the barracuda.
It is no more.
It is deceased.
It is a dead campaign.
It is pushing up daisies.
SAY GOODNIGHT, JOHN!
Buh-bye.

John
MM is wrong… your are technicallly acting VP until you are approved by the senate but in a time of national crisis the congressional leaders would not oppose a new presidents pick!
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NO I am completely wrong. Speaker cannot be VP, and congress will oppose a stupid Pick.

staniam
I have a nutcracker of a question. Barr was the first to apply to be put on the Texas ballot. Obama did his after the Convention the day before the deadline. If McCain excepts the nomination a week latter how is he still on the Texas Ballot?

MM
I have a question for you…if the3re are 4 recognizeable candidates well 5 if you count the nut cynthia mckinney… how do you expect Obama to win in a landslide and even for him to get a plurality… at this point the winner of the election will get much less than 50 percent…. Bill Clinton got 42 percent to Bushes 38 in 92 so your in deep trouble!

MM
the Bush Doctrine was so named by the media that felt guilty for aiding and abetting the president after Iraq was such a disaster.. to protect themselves its silly even to bring that up… you are just scared that Obamas convention was pretty much muted the day after it was over till now

MM
I think the lates polls have Obama leading in OHio and I was talkign about popular vote and if Obama wins by less of a margin in popular vote and less than 50 percent he will be just liek Bush under attack even before he takes office

MM, what is the Bush doctrine in one sentence?

staniam
Ohio – Bush voter caged in Ohio. I think most polls underestimate Obama’s numbers because they don’t include newly registered voters. Obama has proven to get out the vote and hopefully the Diebolds will not mysteriously malfunction again. And what ever happen to McCain 10 pt lead. It plummeted to 5 pts in less then a week.

MM
the reason we left afganistan was that Bush convened National security meetings the first week of his administration to find ways to attack Iraq…. and 9/11 served his purpose but he had to go to afganistan first..Obama never acted on anything about Iraq he made a speech in 2002 and since then in the senate has voted for final passage of all the presidents bills

staniam
Those bills included funding and body armor for the troops. And Obama did propose the timetables for withdrawal.

MM but he voted for final passage to say you included a provision in a bill that may or may not be voted down b efore final passage does not mean you authored the bill

Kitty
What was your point? That I know the Bush doctrine and Palin doesn’t..

MM, DEMS need to register lots more voters. Believe it or not, there are many people who don’t vet the candidates until around now. Hillary tried to get people to do the research, but she wasn’t able to get them to do it. As more people see the inexusable way Obama behaved, they will either go for Mccain or stay home.

Kitty
Hillary did the vetting. Palin needs 18 months of vetting in 60 days. Of course it is going to be harsh.

Kitty
absoutely… people like the smarmy Donna Brazille trumpetted Obama in the primaries and like Babe Ruth for the yankees she said what she was goign to do in the rules comittee in June and did it… she alone is responsible for Bush winning in 2000 so thats a little arrogance at work

MM
my point is he was at 340 something before the convention… the closer you get to the election the electoral numbers should go up so you have a problem… he may win but its not certain liek you thought… kindof Obamas magic wand comment to Oreilly… hes not superhuman after all just a poltician

MM
but bush didnt actually sign anything to law and congress didnt vett him on the Iraq war… he did it by executive order… those other things became law

clarity
Obama saying he can give a tax break is not necessarily doing it since hes a politician modeled after GW bush hich is indesputable… hes more conservative than Bush is… and going to the center to get elected

stanaim
I never thought I see the day when your only argument left is that Obama is Bush. ha Ha HA.

Kitty
I was wrong on the Speaker Vp thing I admitted it. But your wrong to say that I think I’m smart. Well since you have the internet go to that link about the Bush Doctrine. The bottom of the page list other Doctrine by other Presidents as well.

Kitty
That is incomparable. Obama was popular when first ran but no one gave him a chance against Hillary. Palin just got thrown in at the last minute 60 days before the election.

What this is your report for tonight Jake?
You guys just had a Candidate for the VP who did not know what the bush doctrine was, and said we m,ave have to go to war with Russia, over Georgia, after we get them into NATO over the objections of the rest of NATO.
Are you nuts? Every politician goes on SNL this isn’t news, Even McCain been there.
God you guys wonder why the press gets it but kicked now and again?

Kitty
I read this from you. Just because there are facts doesn’t mean it is true. Most modern President have a Doctrine. Bush Doctrine is a fact not an opinion.
You can go down that road if you want.

staniam
No bubble for me. I like republicans, they make good friends. That doesn’t mean I can’t disagree with them.

Kitty
When you sign up to register. There are boxes for party affiliation. Obama people just don’t go and checking registration form Democrat that is against the law.

MM, this is the real world. if someone touting BO comes to the door and convinces you to register, most people will probably register as democrat while to Obama person is standing right there. What I am saying is those very people will then vet the candidate and many will not vote for him.

lol MM yes, like the obama people would NEVER break the law. lol lol that’s funny

MM
all that stuff is inaccurate he was on foodstamps but not very long… Gore went to Yale CLintons went to Yale… Bush went to Harvard Business school… that is a fact .. you have to look at and footnote information that is not just included in links from Obamas website… its too transparent if you dont!

MM
I personally called and registered several thousand people in NC in 2006 and in the primaries … IM not going to do a thing for the GE no money sent or anything… there are lots more like me… we will not do it because of Obama period!

NO, MM Obama can add up all teh newly registered people. I’m not disputing he has had a massive new registered voter tally. I’m saying as more time goes by and those people find out who he is, they will not pull the lever for him.

Kitty at the very least it wont be a landslide for Obama like they say and prob more towards a squeaker for Mccain they are scared they wouldnt be on here if they werent

staniam
So you are not voting for Obama because it is not going to be a landslide victory.

MM
Bush graduated from Harvard … wikipedia is frequently wrong because anyone can edit it

staniam
We’re both right he graduated from Yale and Harvard.

MM. I’m not afraid. I wear my Mccain tshirt and I’m proud. I would get a yard sign but I have to figure out where to put it so it won’t get stolen. People don’t want to be bothered with defending themselves. They’ll just go vote.

Bonnie
yep he made that lipstick comment because he is weary of not havign everything handed to him … the clintons are sincerely trying to help out but even they cabnt save him now

MM, I would agree with you but I have no idea waht you are referring to. what did you not mean that i thought you meant? lol it’s late i need to go to sleep

MM
but to say thats not what you meant when you actually did mean it that way is un american…this election will not be decided by shrill leftist professors and younger people thats all his pig comment played to

staniam
You know what Obama meant, and it had nothing to do with sexism.

Kitty
The worse apart it is that none of this is close to the issues. During this debate Banks got taken over by the government, and 4200 people lost their jobs.

staniam
I guess you haven’t seen the clip. He was referring to Bush policy. Even crazy O’Reilly said that it wasn’t aimed at Palin.

staniam
He also talked about fish right after. Did he call Palin a smelly fish also.

MM
I have seen it but he was using inuendo so the crowd would react and even editorials are saying Obama tried to turn the Pitbull in lipstick coment on its head.. the point is he is incredibly smart to be doign a dumb thing by taking Palin on directly

No MM, as Obama stated on letterman, he would have been calling Palin the lipstick and Mccain is the smelly fish.

Kitty, watch that video “Republicans and military men on John McCain” I mentioned and see if you still are comfortable waging McCain’s magic wand.
Know what you vote for when you vote for McCain.
Listen carefully to what Scott Ritter has to say. VERY very carefully.

Bottom line is he blew the joke. It wasn’t funny the way he said it. Then again, he’s never been known to have a sense of humor.

Kitty
Listen to the Letterman interview again. He was saying using McCain’s logic Palin was the lipstick and McCain was the fish.

yes…. Obama doesnt have a sense of humor! that is typical of college professor types…this campaign cant be about issues because Obama himself is preventing it from being that way!

When Fix news says “wait a minute, this is not true” to Republicans. You know it is a fake controversy.

Kitty, staniam
Obama has been talking about the issues. The news just stop covering them. Obama has been talking about the issues 45 minutes every stop. McCain and Palin only talk about the issues 10 to 15 minutes each. Who’s campaign is really about the issues?
I have follow Obama since the Beginning of the campaign and I am proud to say he has run a camp I would like to be proud of. It may not be perfect but it is better then the alternative. I would rather lose the election with Obama then win with McCain character assassinations.

Then you can send your kids to the wars McCain is itching to start.
And in the words of Scott Ritter: “Pick your city, tell me which one you want gone: Seattle? LA? Boston? New York? Miami? Pick one! Because at least one’s going!”

Scott Ritter is THE Republican and Military man who has an in depth knowledge of the Muslim world.
He was one of several authorities who have predicted EVERYTHING that was going to happen and NOT going to happen when the US would invade Iraq.
He was part of the Weapons Inspections Teams in the 90s and has been dealing with Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran from the late 80s.

Jake, I am confident that you would know that People Magazine is in the same genre as Access Hollywood, Entertainment Tonight, Inside Edition, ect., and these media sources are for entertainment. Therefore, he is not complaining about them.
He is really complaining about press and news sources like ABC, CBS, NBC, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, CNN, FOX, MSNBC, etc, that prefer their nothingness type of fake journalism, erroring on the side of journalistic ethics by airing irrevelant **** like lipstick on the pig fake controversies.
Let People do the tabloid stuff, and ABC and the rest do report on news adhering to ethical journalism standards, like they are suppose to. He is just saying “do your job!”

Not blinking is also an attribute that could be given to a deer in the headlights, or perhaps a moose in the sights of Ms. Palin’s gun. Neither of these would make a good candidate a few of John McBush’s heartbeats away from the presidency, nor would this misguided and crazed idiot from Frostbite Falls that has been put on the national scene.
Jerry w

Obama should do well – he’s always good with a script (cue cards, teleprompters). Just hope his writers give hime something funny.
They should avoid down-home sayings, he always comes off badly… like the lipstick thing. He was trying to be cleaver and over-reached. If it’s comedy, he should stick to dry, straight-man stuff. He’s awfulwith zingers so he needs to avoid it.
Maybe a sequence where he talks about lipstick with Miss Piggy!

She has 30 Rock do it if you must but I think we will be seeing the last of Sarah on the 4th of Nov.

Al from N
Q: Let ‘s move on to what you say is the number one issue facing the United States in our time. And that is the challenge of addressing Islamist extremism. What credentials does Gov. Palin have — in national security, diplomacy, foreign policy — that qualify her to be your partner in that, on that issue: the fight against Islamic extremism?
McCain: Well, obviously the economy is also a major challenge facing America.
Q: No, I’m using your words, Senator McCain, you have said, this summer…
McCain: No, I said…
Q: That the number one challenge of our time is Islamic extremism…
McCain: No, I said the greatest challenge of our time is national security threats. I’ve also said that jobs and the economy are the number one issue facing America.
McCain: So, ah, but the point is Governor Palin was right on the issues. She understands energy, which is one of the fundamental issues of our national security. She was responsible for a $40 billion pipeline that’s gonna bring natural gas to the lower 48.
*But as the New York Times reported yesterday, “the pipeline exists only on paper.” And though Palin has thus far proved adept at “attracting developers to a project that has eluded Alaska governors for three decades … Ms. Palin has overstated both the progress that has been made and the certainty of success.”*
McCain: She knows more about energy than probably anybody else in the Unites States. She is governor of a state [pause] that 20 percent of America’s energy supply comes from there.
*Leave aside the wildly overstated assertion that Palin is America’s top expert on energy. McCain also claimed that the state produces “20 percent of America’s energy supply,” which is just wrong.
In 2005, Alaska produced 3.5 percent of America’s energy supply.*
Individually, these were perhaps all minor flubs. But taken in total, they suggested a patten of lies or untruths.

PALIN TALKS ABOUT INVADING RUSSIA
US-RUSSIA WAR OVER GEORGIA MAY BE NECESSARY…
DOESN’T KNOW WHAT BUSH DOCTRINE IS…
ABC’s Gibson: What Are Your National Security Credentials…?
My National Security Credentials Have To Do With Energy…
VOTE MCCAIN/PALIN IF YOU OWN A BOMB SHELTER!
BOMB IRAN BOMB RUSSIA!! RUSSIA CAN BOMB BACK !!!

Quote from Deb:
FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska, Sept. 11 — Gov. Sarah Palin linked the war in Iraq with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, telling an Iraq-bound brigade of soldiers that included her son that they would “defend the innocent from the enemies who planned and carried out and rejoiced in the death of thousands of Americans.”
The idea that the Iraqi government under Saddam Hussein helped al-Qaeda plan the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, a view once promoted by Bush administration officials, has since been rejected by every one, even by the president Bush himself.
Your comment was taken from Washington Post which already been corrected, so check your facts. It was rejected that Saddam Hussein was not involved in 9/11, but we not fighting Saddam Hussein right now, we are fighting with Al Qaida in Iraq, who were involved in 9/11.

Phillip
Sadam had nothing to do with 911 Bush told us he did McCain told us he did!
FOX news told us 27000 times it did it was a lie.
Al Qaida in Iraq has no links or ties to Al Qaida fact!
Al Qaida in Iraq is a term created by the Bush government to try to trick the American public into believing there is a link!
Department of defence information on : Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) is a group playing an active role in the Iraqi insurgency.
SO IT IS REALLY THE IRAQ FREEDOM FIGHTERS! JUST AS I WOULD FIGHT ANY NATION THE INVADE OUR NATION!
AQI is one of Iraq’s most feared militant organisations and many experts regard it as the United States’ most formidable enemy in the country.
The UN say’s that the threat posed by AQI is exaggerated that a “heavy focus on al-Qaeda obscures a much more complicated situation on the ground.
AQI is in reality the Mujahideen Shura Council (MSC), in an attempt to unify Sunni insurgents in Iraq. However, its efforts to recruit Iraqi Sunni nationalists and secular groups were undermined by its violent tactics against civilians and its extreme Islamic fundamentalist doctrine. Because of these impediments, the attempt was largely unsuccessful.
According to both the July 2007 National Intelligence Estimate and the Defense Intelligence Agency reports AQI accounted for 15 percent of attacks in Iraq. However, the Congressional Research Service noted in its September 2007 report that attacks from al-Qaeda are less than two percent of the violence in Iraq and criticized the Bush administration’s statistics, noting that its false reporting of insurgency attacks as AQI attacks has increased since the “surge” operations began.
Al Qaida is not Al Qaida in Iraq.
Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaida was named “al-Qaida” in an executive order issued by President Bill Clinton in 1998. Al Qaida was realy a group called Maktab al-Khadamat.
ITs BS
We named all the Iraqi freedom fighters Al Qaida in Iraq. When the truth is these two groups have no ties!

MAK maintained a close liaison with Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency through which the CIA funneled money and training to Osama bin Laden’s MAK for the Afghan war with the Russians.

Phillip
So Palin gave correct answer ?
Georgia is NOT a NATO member!And thus Article five means nothing.
“PALIN TALKS ABOUT INVADING RUSSIA
US-RUSSIA WAR OVER GEORGIA MAY BE NECESSARY”

Deb.
Question was asked if Sarah Palin will support Georgia NATO membership. She said Yes. Then Charle asked if after Georgia becomes NATO member will US will go to war with Russia, if Russia attack Georgia.
She said “Perhaps”, and she is right. that doesn’t mean use of military force.
Again from Article 5:
The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognised by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.
And also we all know that US supported “freedom fighters”, but it was when USSR invaded Afghanistan. It has nothing to do with Osama Bin Laden. He wasn’t in any commanding position at that time. I should know, I am from former Soviet Union and I did my 2 years of service in Soviet Army in Afghanistan 1983-1985.

Phillip
You wrote:
“And also we all know that US supported “freedom fighters”, but it was when USSR invaded Afghanistan. It has nothing to do with Osama Bin Laden.”
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Osama Bin Laden was its leader your statment is 100% lacking in facts.. Maybe thats why you lost the war when you fought for russia!

and McCain’s going to be on “RACHEL RAY” and “THE VIEW” today… but that’s different, Jake? McCain’s allowed to be on these shows, but not Obama.
I see your point.

Yeah, Obama is falling back on his strengths: pop-media. He is/was the pop-cultured candidate after all, the first one ever. It’s why so much of his support resides in those who live and breath pop culture. Solutions to problems are always easier in the movies, on TV, in blogs, in text message ALERTS, on day time talky shows. Many Americans gets their values from such things. As the McCain/Palin phenom is showing, many don’t. It’s looking like a majority don’t.

Did you know:

Washinton Monthly: Rape Exams

As Steve noted earlier, when Sarah Palin was mayor, Wasilla used to charge rape victims for their forensic exams. It’s abhorrent, especially when you note that as mayor of Wasilla, Sarah Palin had no problem raising money to build a sports center, but drew the line at paying for rape exams.

But there are two points that are worth underscoring… Not collecting this evidence means significantly lowering your chances of convicting the man who did it. …Not collecting the evidence that would put rapists behind bars means more rape victims in the future. You’d think that $5,000 to $14,000 a year would be a small price to pay for putting violent sex offenders behind bars. Apparently, Sarah Palin disagrees.

Second, Alaska had to ban this practice in order to qualify for funding under the Violence Against Women Act, which was, of course, sponsored by Joe Biden.

“Actress, reality tv star and PETA activist Pamela Anderson is no fan of Sarah Palin.”
Yes,stars across the globe are banding together to sign a petition saying Palin is bad for their business.
Why?
Men like her. Women like her. There goes the neighborhood.

When is Palin going to make an appearance on SNL?
After her performance last night, she’d fit right in with the Not Ready for Prime Time Players.

And where else to get a better perspective than SNL when the Republican candidates are SNL?

mara: If you watch the Jay Leno show, when he is asking questions to college student’s, none of them have been able to answer one question. They are a big joke. They couldn’t even answer who the first president was. Get a life. How dumb can they be?