Rick Brookhiser: Liberals love Obama because he is a Numinous Negro. Conservatives love Palin because she has a Downs baby and an M-16. For both sides, that is all on earth ye know and all ye need to know. You might call it mystical and childish. May I be so wrong that a hundred harpies will pluck my eyeballs. Wrong? You? Surely that was merely a rhetorical flourish — an

Time to keep a running list of Sarah Palin’s sins — lovingly gathered, mostly in crazed speculative form, by members of the Church of Diversity and Otherness Coddling, and reprinted here, with my gloss, for your delectation. 1) Alan Colmes: Poor prenatal care (waiting too long after her water broke to get to a hospital) on Palin’s part created a Downs baby. Reached for comment, Science suggested Colmes shut his

It strikes me that, for many Obama supporters, the motive in adopting the slight Ivy League candidate was a desire to appear de rigeur. Obama, that is, reflected back liberal fashion. But if this race is all about fashion, and the new Zogby poll has any merit, it seems suddenly that Palin has become the new black. — Which means, should the McCain ticket prevail, we can look forward to

Could beoptical communications. The FBI is investigating. DNA test results could be back “any day now.” (h/t Dan Collins)

I’m a Zogby skeptic, but for what it’s worth, have at it. Or, as Billy Hoyle might say, “THE MUSTARD IS OFF THE HOTDOG!”

— To someone like self-styled “feminist” Amanda Marcotte, John Edwards, being on the right side of the political divide, can’t be wrong. His intentions are admirable, his heart in the right place (though his penis, not so much at times). Sarah Palin, conversely, being on the wrong side, can’t be right. Her deeds are meaningless. She is not of the elect. Amanda, it turns out, is a Calvinist. (for Aldo)

for Sartre Once upon a time, a man with a stitched up finger decided he’d had enough of his finger being all stitchy, and that it was time to get the stitches removed. Unfortunately, the man was also hungry. So instead of driving to the urgent care facility to have the stitches removed, the man made himself a turkey and avocado wrap with provolone and wasabi mustard, then took himself

Allah and Charles at LGF have already debunked the early-out-of-the-gate attempts to cast VP candidate Sarah Palin as a “creationist” and an “enemy of science”* — Al Gore and his band of hokem-peddling Greenbots being the current champions of forcing junk-science into public school curricula — so the left liberal establishment and the mainstream press have now moved on to Palin’s alleged “ethics violations,” known by the shorthand, “Trooper Gate”

See, this is why journos in the bag for Obama should await the royal talking points before opening their dullard yaps. CNN’s John Roberts: Palin Too Young and Inexperienced: During the 9 a.m. EDT hour of “CNN Newsroom,” “American Morning” co-anchor John Roberts gave an analysis of Governor Sarah Palin during discussion of Senator John McCain’s vice presidential choice. Roberts focused on Palin’s lack of experience, saying that a prerequisite