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September 5, 2008

Paging Joshua Micah Marshall

So. Whaddya think, Josh. Eagleton? *

Rasmussen: Palin now more popular than Obama

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

On Conservative Oprah-ssion

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.

variations on a theme: The “an ordinary clock glimpsed in its moment of brief Obamalot awakening” post (from the protein wisdom conceptual series)

tic tic tic tic “…Uh, so. You think, like, Hillary’s got anything or her plate just now? Because I think we got off on the wrong foot, the two of us…”** tic tic tic **** (thanks to sdferr)

“Trapped in a world they pretty much made”

And oh, ‘ow they danced, the li’l children of Stone ‘enge…: Having rejected the possibility of a woman VP candidate because of the animus between Obama and Hillary, they are reduced to screeching that the Republicans are playing identity politics by their choice of a woman for VP, because she’s not the right kind of authentic woman. Having dismissed Palin as Mayor of “Wasilly,” the Obama campaign now complains that

Cold water splash, Rethugs! [UPDATED]

Stephen Silver to Palin-drones: the bloom is off the rose, sheeple! […] legitimate questions have been raised about the candidate. Whether she was actually given more than minimal vetting by the McCain campaign. Whether she supported or opposed the controversial “Bridge to Nowhere” (it appears she did both at different times.) Whether she or her husband Todd ever belonged to a secessionist Alaskan political party (Todd, it appears, did; Sarah