Where's the InTrade betting on the number of "glass ceiling" and "Hillary Clinton" mentions used tonight by Palin?

1. I don't like Obama going on O'Reilly but if it's going to air tomorrow, I think it'll offer a nice counter to McCain's acceptance speech.

2. When the fuck are they going to let Palin off the leash and let her actually take questions from reporters?

Politico says McCain is buying airtime to run an ad saying Palin has more experience than Obama. Greg - do you have anything on this?

Perhaps Governor Palin can elaborate her position about whether married couples should be allowed to use birth control, and just which books she wanted banned from her hometown library.

Harry Reid's spokesman told CNN that Reid is "very disappointed" with Joe Lieberman's speech last night at the Republican Convention

I'm sure Lieberman's shaking in his shoes.

I WANT MY AVATAR BACK, TPM!

And I'm incredibly disappointed that Harry Reid continues to kiss Lieberman's ass.

"Reid "Disappointed" With Lieberman"

I guess ol' Harry's gonna scratch the "Joe 'n' Harry BFF" off the back of his spiral bound notebook. That'll show 'im!

In other news, Obama makes a really bad decision by going on OReilly.

Don't think for a moment he'll kick O'Reilly's ass. Have you ever seen the show? The guy's clever as shit, like a shrewd high power defense lawyer. He knows all the dirty rhetorical tricks, and his moment of glory would be to make Obama look like a fool.

Why to Democrats fucking go on FOX? All it does is validate the network. It's ill advised, accomplishes nothing, convinces nobody, and just sets themselves up.

What a bad bad bad move.

1. I think it's great Obama is going on O'Really. He has to reach out everyone, even knuckle draggers, and this is a great chance to do so. And I predict Brillo will treat him with respect.

2. Harry Reid is LAME! Liebermouse should have been banished long ago. And for those who say "but, but, but he votes with us 99% of the time!" I say the harm Ol' Joe is doing to the Dems by looking like he can push us around without recourse outwieghs any of his votes. Has there been one vote where Joe was the tie breaker? We could have dumped him long ago while still retaining our chairs until January.

3. I hope McPants does run ads comparing Palin to Obama. It just makes him look more like a delusional, out of touch fool. Meanwhile people like Leher on PBS (conventional wisdom central) has been busy asking his pundits to compare Palin to Eagleton.

Hey Liebs, F you traitor!

Speaking of effective, non-wimpy responses to the GOP convention from hell... I hope Hillary issues a devastating comment tonight dressing-down Sarah Palin about 60 minutes before she hits the stage. Totally rattle her and take away her "I'm your Hillary Clinton" line of bull$hit. Hopefully they'll do a hasty re-write and she'll get confused.

Wade: Good idea. Do you really expect the D's to be that strategic?

LIEberman WILL be out of the Dem Senate caucus come November whether Obama wins or not. He knows it and everybody knows it.

Loserman: the only thing the Repubs nailed.

ABC News is reporting that the Wasilla police chief she fired is speaking out about it. Seems he stepped on the toes of the NRA and some of her contributors:

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5713866&page=1

This is briar patch stuff. McCain and Lieberman WANT Holy Joe tossed, so they can point to Dems as intolerant of dissent, while the McCain GOP is about "Country First." It would be complete bullshit, but it's what they want.

Liberman will continue to be ignored for now, then kicked out of the caucus on the Wednesday morning after the election.

Palin made the cover of US Weekly. But not in a good way.

Palin made the cover of US Weekly. But not in a good way.

I'm not worried about Obama being bested by O'Liely. But I do question the purpose of the interview: Do the Obama people think that more than a tiny fraction of Fux News viewers would actually vote for him? Come on, these are the most Neanderthal of the knuckle-dragging, dead-end Bushies. So then what else can the interview accomplish?

Figuring out the mechanics of the selection of Palin reminds me of watching the OJ trial. We will never know for sure exactly what the timeline minute by minute was that night, but it was fascinating trying to plot it out. Similar thing here with Palin. How in the world did the process actually happen?

It seems like they did make the decision before Obama’s speech, which surprised me in a way since this did come off initially as a panicked reaction to Obama’s fantastic delivery. So sometime in the last week McCain was convinced by his advisors that Lieberman wouldn’t fly and that Pawlenty was not going to change a losing dynamic and that’s when roll the dice McCraps bet the farm on Palin.

I imagine Culvahouse dutifully going through the list even including Palin, but I wonder if in his mind she was just so clearly unfit that his team didn’t put the effort into it like for Lieb, Paw, Jindal, Ridge. Then when McCain moved Palin to the head of the list they had to cross their fingers. I would love to see a TPM timeline list of which things they knew before and when they found out about them.

AIP
Bridge to nowhere
Librarian…

I wonder if Palin puts FL in play because of her close ties to Pat Buchanan. Jewish voters tend to think of Buchanan as Hitler's first cousin.

Off topic, but does anyone know what happened to our avatars? They just vanished without a word, like purged party bosses from a photo with Stalin.

But I'm assuming its not a coincidence that comments are posting, one time and one time only, without generating an "Internal Server Error" since they left.

Two important new posts:

1. Fellow POW Philip Butler's video warning against McCain: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/01/fellow-pow-questions-n

2. This is supposedly the 63-pg. memo of the Obama camp's criticisms/discoveries about Palin:
http://www.politico.com/static/PPM106_palin_doc.html

I'm wondering why we haven't seen anything about the RNC's ratings. During the DNC we were given daily updates on the ratings of both cable and network coverage. Understandably, the ratings would have been low for the Repubs but what about yesterday? How are they faring compared to Colorado?

What the hell is Obama campaign thinking??? Going on the O'Reilley factor merely helps to legitimize this clown as somehow important to political discourse. It will end up being detrimental...I mean what do they expect because only repukes of the lowest caliber watch that show and O'Reilley himself certainly isn't bright enough to do anything but yell and demean Obama. Did he learn nothing from Saddleback? This from driftglass:

"...After all, if the last 30 years of GOP politics has proven anything, it’s that Conservative horse-shit has a "strong influence on the weak-minded".

…1. Never trust these motherfuckers. Ever. They will never leave the business of winning and losing to anything that smells of "free and fair", because they know if they do they'll lose every time. Every game they run is crooked, every piety they utter is a lie, and every deck they deal from is stacked, marked and frozen.
So...

2. Never, ever fight them on ground of their choosing.

Don't be fooled by the bigmouth braggarts of the right wing...we have the numbers and Obama will win in a landslide...but these McCain people need to be exposed to the point that they are thrown out of government service altogether. This election is the most important of American History for we are at the point of no return. Once we cross that line of another 4yrs of repub rule our democracy and our environment are doomed permanently. The rich will build their shelters and the poor will die. McCain's insane and will get us all killed. Don't let him steal this election.

Quite honestly, I don't buy the "GOP is desperate" line. McCain may be desperate, but I see what is going on as exactly what the hard-core republicans wanted. I mean, now they can go on and on on the "liberal media." In an election where they are "fact challenged" being able to attack the media like that is a plus for them.

Think about it: for all their alleged "rage" over how Palin is being treated, the only thing that prompted them to actually cancel interview was the only legitimate question asked of them all weekend. It seems to me that they knew, and now keep inviting, attacks on Palin's personal life so they can try and counter any serious assertions with "liberal media" chants. Why else would they cancel an interview over Campbell's questions, but keep interviews with anyone who actually attacked them on Palin's personal life? Why would they drag Palin's baby's father to the national spotlight if they weren't relishing the attention?

In a year where every fact seems to go against them, this seems carefully planned: invite an overreach on an irrelevant issue so you can claim bias on the relevant ones.