Crispin Sartwell fleshes out in a bit more detail a number of the arguments I’ve been hinting at here: you’ve got to understand that “class” is not income-level. class is a semiotic system. it’s affect, diction, alma mater, what you drink. it’s how your house is decorated, no matter how big it is. it’s hair style, musical preferences. those are the ways that sarah palin is wrong and barack obama

Darleen on Skewz.com.

From Counterterrorism Blog: In a first, senior U.S. officials acknowledged that U.S. ground forces entered Pakistan to pursue high-value Al Qaeda targets, and the hunt for Osama bin Laden is moving at full speed before President Bush leaves office. “(A) small team of commandos crossed the border from Afghanistan into Pakistan to go after an al Qaida cell operating out of a village less than a mile from the border.

From the WSJ’s Political Diary: According to Rasmussen, fully 68% of voters believe that “most reporters try to help the candidate they want to win.” And — no surprise — 49% of those surveyed believe reporters are backing Barack Obama, while just 14% think the media is in the tank for Sen. McCain. Meanwhile, 51% of those surveyed thought the press was “trying to hurt” Mrs. Palin with its coverage.

discussing politics, beyond the bitter partisan rivalries in the martial arts world wearing a kilt putting ketchup on a hot dog — in fact, were I to put ketchup on a hot dog, and the response of one of the other attendees was to beat me over the head with a plank of fencing, I’d harbor no ill feelings toward that person or persons because ketchup on a hot dog

— Well, not in those exact words, but it’s the thought that counts. Audio here, courtesy Hot Air. Writes Allah: [Howard Gutman’s] M.O. reminds me of Greenwald trying to rewrite the definition of “chickenhawk” so that it applies to the right but not the left: Start with the smear you want to use, then refine the parameters just enough to protect your own side from the tu quoque. In this

So. Whaddya think, Josh. Eagleton? *

Guess we should now refer to the One as, like, the Two then, yes? From Rasmussen: […] following a Vice Presidential acceptance speech viewed live by more than 40 million people, Palin is viewed favorably by 58% of American voters. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 37% hold an unfavorable view of the self-described hockey mom. The figures include 40% with a Very Favorable opinion of Palin

Jonah Goldberg: Oprah’s a private citizen, albeit a very public one. She’s not the host of Meet the Press or even the host of Hardball. She’s the queen of daytime TV or some other cliché. She’s under no obligation to have anyone on her show she doesn’t want to. I think it might be good for Winfrey, Palin and/or the country. Or it might not be. I agree that Gov.