The Winkest Link

“Guiding Light” is ending after 70 years of radio and television shows. This is an astonishing feat. I don’t care though, ‘cuz I don’t watch soaps. But there is a new soap that has caught my attention. I call it “As the Palin’s Turn.” On the Pulitzer-winning newsmagazine “Tyra,” Governor Palin’s former-future son in law [...]

Community organizer. Sarah Palin ridiculed this position during the campaign. She said being mayor of small-town Wasilla was just like being a community organizer, “only with real responsibilities.” Big laughs all around. You know what this nation needs more of? Community organizers. President Obama has been calling for more people to step up and make [...]

During the election process, Newsweek Magazine had a lengthy article about Sarah Palin. It concluded by saying that, while she does appeal to a lot of people, “mindless populism is just that, mindless.” We were so pleased with that phrase that we burned it into our collective brains. Those of us who actually study politics [...]

When writers for a television show begin to run out of plot lines, they sometimes become desperate for ideas that will hold the attention of viewers. This happens to almost every show eventually. When the writers use some of these weird or contrived ideas, the show is said to have ‘jumped the shark’. The phrase [...]

Recently Senator John McCain and Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin have been referring to their voters – and their voters alone – as “real” Americans. I’d like to say it’s hard to think that they would say something like this, but truthfully I’m not shocked to have heard them say this. Apparently Senator McCain is [...]

The McCain campaign keeps touting Sarah Palin’s “executive experience” trying to pawn it off as more beneficial than “experience.”  While executive experience is probably a little beneficial, the type of executive office really makes a difference.  I think the only “experience” that Palin can really claim is her 21 months as Governor. The Mayor thing [...]

Eight years ago then-candidate Bush promised to be a hands-across-the-aisle, bring-us-all-together sort of candidate & president. Of course he was just the opposite, running the dirtiest campaign (and presidency) in decades. (When Nixon looks good by comparison, you have besmirched the office…) Early in the 2000 primaries John McCain was gaining some momentum. Bush “push-polled” [...]

Recently I saw a political cartoon by Gary Brookins of the Richmond Times. It essentially illustrates that Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin was the only one being relentlessly attacked by the media. I am a little shocked that the media is so rude as to call her inexperienced. I am appalled that they would [...]

“McCain’s character, as we have seen with his selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate, is heavy on decisiveness and weak on judgment.”

- Harold Meyerson of The American Prospect