Rumor and unknown sources seems to become an accptable way to be a journalist - and establish credibility.

Frankly we don't believe everything we read or hear, and in particular don't put much stock in the stories we have heard from unnamed sources about a major unidentified columnist regularly meeting the school bus with sacks of candy.

But he hasn't denied it.

Maybe we'll hear more news later.

In the many hours I spent online doing background research on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin before I wrote my first post about her on June 8, 2008, I read many dozens of newspaper stories about her, dating back to her time as mayor of Wasilla in the late 199...

Explain to us then how Governor Palin can act as a delegate to PNWER (here is a document from the Alberta Government Department of International, Intergovermental and Aboriginal Relations which lists her participation, along with other Pacific Northwest Governors,) and how she could participate in a forum that address NAFTA issues and yet be unaware of NAFTA and the signatory countries:

– As Alaska’s Governor, Palin is a delegate to PNWER (Pacific NorthWest Economic Region). PNWER is a public-private partnership including elected officials and private sector representatives from Alaska, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Montana, and Canada (Alberta, Yukon, British Columbia) “PNWER is an international collaboration on economic structures” (AK Rep. Coghill). Among it’s many areas of focus, PNWER works to “advance CANAMEX” — a “seamless” continental intermodal trade and transportation corridor (a main artery in what has been referred to in the past as the NAFTA Superhighway system).

As for the issue of the VP's role in relation to the Senate, the Washington Post reports today:

It should be noted that no jobs will be listed in the book for the office of the vice president. A spokesman for the Committee on Homeland Security and Government Reform explained that the vice president's office is technically neither part of the executive or legislative branch.

So how's that fabled Canadian education system working again? I hear they're turning out graduates who are tops are imbibing propaganda.

Continue about what? You didn't respond to what I wrote. You were to one who felt like the Hitler analogy had some validity, and I attempted to explain, at least in part, why that wasn't the case.

At a minimum, one cannot, and should not, simply reduce Hitler and the rise of Nazism in Germany as simply a function of a charismatic speaker.

And, for wholly different reasons, one oughtn't reduce Obama to simply a guy who gives good
speeches as a means of explanation.

It is not only tiresome, but intellectually lazy.

Somehow I don't think that case will be forthcoming.

Well, how about this: Hitler was never elected the President of Germany

I don't recall that being the claim. The inferrence I took from the statement was that the ability to mass adoring corwds may not be the best measure of someone's worth in government.

But, whatever. Pray, continue.

Policy wonk? Maybe not. Basic citizenship? I think you're letting your own logic slip away now. When that moron carved her own face with a "B," you were appropriately doubtful (and proved correct); yet, when the media proffers that a governor doesn't know that Africa is a continent, you buy it hook, line, and sinker.

I will continue to not use shifting BS detectors myself, and applying the same one as I applied to Ms. Backwards-B-Face, I call BS. Perhaps the blue-bloods want to believe this story because it doesn't comport with their elitist vision of the Republican party

You don't think the governor of Alaska ever reads a newspaper?

Sir, you are making a fool of yourself, soon to rival Andrew Sullivan in your dementia on this topic. It makes me genuinely sad.

Anjin's right, though. The fact that Bitsy even seriously suggested by his reply the Hitler analogy was even appropriate is proof positive that the nutties just don't get it. They see a Hitler under every rock, no matter how big or small.

Are you really going to try to use actual history on the "facts is confusing" crowd?

Well, how about this: Hitler was never elected the President of Germany.

Thanx Steve.

Now back to a more intelligent discussion of the topic at hand... (yeah, right...)

That Sarah Palin did not know Africa was a continent? Gag!... Choke... I ain't buying that.

That she did not know who the parties to NAFTA are? I'll bet she didn't know what NAFTA was!

That said, do not sell her short. 4 yrs are a long time. She is obviously intelligent, and also ambitous. Ignorance can be overcome. She wiil start to read all those publications she could not name... now.