You Say Tomato Sarah Palin Says Tomato

You can't make this stuff up. Politico, is featuring an article entirely devoted to none other then Governor Sarah Palin's accent:

Not since John F. Kennedy’s Boston brogue took the stage at the 1960 presidential debates has a national politician’s tongue stood out in such a way.....

Palin, who was born in Idaho and whisked away to Alaska in her infancy, somehow developed a voice well-suited for a character on “The Prairie Home Companion.”

“It’s very Fargo,” said former McCain campaign strategist Mark McKinnon. “Ton of personality."

At a time of economic uncertainty, a dual war aboard and perhaps the most important presidential election in 40 years....these character driven articles continue to take center stage. This narrative further fuels the shoddy election coverage based on personality and quirks that has been dominating the political atmosphere.

The article goes on to talk about who likes are accent and who doesn't and why. Ahh the media doing what it does best, educating the voters on the issues.

Google Controversy

Do not know if this makes me laugh makes me nauseous but when I googled "controversy" the first 'related search' term that came up was "Lipstick Controversy."

Try It.

Controversy v. Falsehood

Exceptional Article from the Atlantic's James Fallows from nearly a week ago, catching on to the obvious before the Mainstream Media:

"Twice in the last six months we've had the spectacle of a candidate clinging to a provably false personal narrative........
One, of course, was Hillary Clinton's "hail of bullets" account of her arrival at the airport in Bosnia. The other is Sarah Palin's "thanks but no thanks" claim to have opposed funding for the "bridge to nowhere." In Senator Clinton's case, the more often she repeated the story, the more relentlessly the press said the story was not true. All parts of the press did this: right, left, middle. They didn't say that there was a "controversy" about her story. They said it was false. And eventually she bowed to the inevitable and stopped telling the story any more. In Governor Palin's case, the more often she has repeated the story, the more abashed the press has seemed about pointing out its falsity."

McCain at Columbia Forum

This McCain line truly irked me the other night while I was watching the Presidential National Forum at Columbia University at Columbia University on Sept. 11th (see bold):

MCCAIN: I think a small-town mayor has very great responsibilities. They have a responsibility for the budget. They have hiring and firing of people. They have great responsibilities. They have to stand for election. I admire mayors.

I'm -- listen, mayors have the toughest job, I think, in America. It's easy for me to go to Washington and, frankly, be somewhat divorced from the day-to-day challenges people have.

Understandably, McCain is sticking up for his VP choice Sarah Palin. However what struck me about this line, is it almost McCain admitting he is detached from his constituiency and wrapped up in his Washington bubble--presumably the same Washington he is running a campaign -in vain- to distance himself from. This line lends itself more to video, when he was saying it I was struck by the shear truth of it.

Here is the Link to Part 1 of McCain at the Forum

Wasilla Resident Speaks Out

Interesting letter being circulated by Anne Kilkenny, a Wasilla, Alaska resident

Interesting that Palin ran for Mayor of Wasilla and Governor of Alaska as a'fiscal conservative.' And boy did she ever, she fit the model perfectly: wasting and spending money under the cloak of cutting taxes and saving the common people money!

The Following Quotes are from a letter being circulated by Anne Kilkenny, a Wasilla, Alaska resident who has claims to have known Palin since 1992:
http://www.andrys.com/palin-kilkenny.html

"The huge increases in tax revenues during her mayoral administrationweren’t enough to fund everything on her wish list though, borrowedmoney was needed, too. She inherited a city with zero debt, but left itwith indebtedness of over $22 million. What did Mayor Palin encouragethe voters to borrow money for? Was it the infrastructure that she saidshe supported? The sewage treatment plant that the city lacked? or anew library? No. $1m for a park. $15m-plus for construction of amulti-use sports complex which she rushed through to build on a pieceof property that the City didn’t even have clear title to. "

And in case you were wondering....

"While Mayor, City Hall was extensively remodeled and her officeredecorated more than once."

According to TheNation:
She is, as well, someone who has clashed with Palin. More than a decade ago, when Palin was campaigning to ban books, Kilkenny says, "I was one of the 100 or so people who rallied to support the City Librarian against Sarah's attempt at censorship."
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters/354444/the_word_from_wasilla

What a Tease

"The campaigns are going hogwhile lets get inside the bellies of these political beasts," Wolf Blitzer teasing a story on Palin, lipstick and pitbulls on CNN.
Really, Wolf?
Enough already.