Palin Dragging McCain Down?
A NYT/CBS poll shows that a strong majority of voters believe Sarah Palin is unqualified for the vice presidency and a third saying this would affect their vote: [caption id="attachment_26742" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Gov. Sarah Palin, campaigning Thursday in Cape Girardeau, Mo., as poll numbers flagged. (Whitney Curtis/Getty Images)"][/caption] All told, 59 percent of voters surveyed said Ms. Palin was not prepared ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on October 31, 2008 08:11
Palin Most Qualified Recent VP Nominee
John McCain is getting some guff for his assertion on the Don Imus show that Sarah Palin is "the most qualified of anyone recently who has run for vice president to tell you the truth." And, no, not for the syntax but the point itself. Steve Benen is incredulous: Dick Cheney, Joe Lieberman, Al Gore, Lloyd Bentsen, and George H.W. Bush? No, ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on October 22, 2008 15:54
Palins Mistakes Fans for Protestors
John McCain might be old but it's his young running mate who apparently needs a hearing aid: [caption id="attachment_26150" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Republican vice presidential candidate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks to supporters during a rally at the Richmond International Raceway Monday, Oct. 13, 2008, in Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/Lisa Billings)"][/caption] Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin mistook some of her own fans ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on October 13, 2008 22:03
Sarah Palin, Ignoramus
Several commentators have objected to my characterization of Sarah Palin as an"ignoramus" in the post below. I'm simply using the term in its precise meaning as "an extremely ignorant person." The dictionary definition of ignorant: 1. lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man. 2. lacking knowledge or information as to a particular subject or fact: ignorant of quantum physics. 3. uninformed; ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on October 11, 2008 09:23
SNL Parodies VP Debates (Video)
"Saturday Night Live" parodied the debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin, getting in good zingers against both. It's starting to feel like Tina Fey is running for vice president. Fey again returned to "Saturday Night Live" to play Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin as the sketch comedy show continued to pull out all the stops in its election ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on October 5, 2008 07:26
Biden’s Son Headed to Iraq
We've known for some time that CPT Beau Biden, son of VP nominee Joe, is headed off to Iraq. Dad sent them off with a farewell address today: Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden told his son and other Delaware National Guard troops on Friday that his heart was "full of love and pride" as they prepared to leave ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on October 3, 2008 14:54
VP Debate: Afghanistan Surge?
One of the interesting points of contention in last night's vice presidential debate between Delaware Senator Joe Biden and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was on the topic of whether an Iraq-style surge would work in Afghanistan. Earlier in the day, Army General David McKiernan (or, as he's sometimes known in Alaska, "McClellan"), commander of NATO's International Security and Assistance Force ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on October 3, 2008 14:07
Palin’s Debate ‘Gaffes’
Matt Yglesias snarks, A lot of people are wondering who the “McClellan” character was that Sarah Palin was referring to, with many guessing that she’s been consulting long-dead failed Civil War General George McClellan for advice on Afghanistan. But another colleague suggested that she’s mentally combined General McKiernan, the commanding officer in Afghanistan, and David Kilcullen into a single ten-foot tall ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on October 3, 2008 09:38
Abolish the Vice Presidency?
Bruce Ackerman thinks the vice presidency is an anachronism from the political era of the Framers and ought be abolished. For two centuries, presidential nominees have used the office to balance the ticket by naming a running mate from a different region, or one who speaks with a different ideological accent to a specific constituency. This means that a president's death ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on October 2, 2008 14:36
Palin Lies About Hearing Biden!
Andrew Sullivan is seeing mendacity in the most innocent places, such as Sarah Palin's line yesterday that she was looking forward to finally meeting Joe Biden because, "I've been hearing about his Senate speeches since I was in, like, second grade." Two things: when Palin was in Second Grade, Biden hadn't been elected to the Senate. And when she was in ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on October 1, 2008 16:02
