Candidates as Cabbage Patch kids

Something tells me the John McCain Cabbage Patch kid will be heavily discounted after tonight, but Palin will be hot for a while longer.
Obama, of course, will be on every kid’s Christmas list this year.

Slate V Campaign Recap

Everything you might have missed (or want to relive) between the first and last debates:

Hey Sarah Palin

Fun music video (of sorts) that’s been going around:

SNL: VP debate

Last night’s Saturday Night Live open, about the VP debate:

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Line of the Week

Maureen Dowd, introducing her latest column on Palin:
“Darn right. And that, doggone it, brings us to a shout-out for the latest virtuoso of Frontier Baroque, bless her heart, the governor of the Last Frontier. Her reward’s in heaven.”

Slate V: From the Conventions to the First Debate in 3 minutes

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Palin debate flow chart

From DailyKos, your guide to what’s going through her head during those long pauses:

Women on Palin’s performance

Amy Sullivan reports on an all-female focus group’s reaction in Colorado:
“I’d like to have lunch with Sarah,” said one married woman, “but have Joe running my country.” Another agreed: “I think Sarah Palin is cute as a button and is good in sound bytes, but she just is not ready.” Before the debate, only 10 [...]

The tyranny of healthier seniors

Krugman digs up the source of that closing Palin quote about the ongoing need to defend our liberties.  It’s from a Ronald Reagan ad against Medicare–a program most Americans today would rather expand than end in the name of “freedom.”

The Daily Show imagines the future

What might the world be like with a woman in charge?  (Any woman. They’re all the same.)
The Daily Show does it again.

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