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A good mayor of Wasilla? Dunno, but sure had a penchant for firing folks. (Apparently also ran up a $22 million debt.) Is Palin qualified? Watch the McCain campaign struggling to say "yes." The Palins held a 40 percent stake in a failed car wash business. The best part is when the business received a warning letter from the state with "Sarah Palin,...

Not exactly learning from the Pros.

What a meltdown. What a mess. - Director of the (indicted) Sen. Ted Stevens 527 group - In favor of the "Bridge to Nowhere" until the funding was cut; her first national pronouncement on the subject appears to be, um, erroneous. - Possibly a member of the Alaskan Independence Party Further background on the small town affairs of Palin from a Wasillian....

Bristol Palin's pregnancy was no secret in Wasilla, but apparently took a number of McCain staffers by surprise. So far as it goes, I'm with Obama on this: Leave the kids and the families out of the politics. That said, however, it is not unreasonable or unwarranted to discuss the events of Sarah Paline's last pregnancy. (I'm assuming it was hers not a...

The Sarah Palin selection seems reckless given the process. The veep pick alone now seems like reason enough not to vote for McCain.

Good grief, finding dirt took the national media no time at all. This sordid story will be a huge mess for the GOP. She should decline the nomination as soon as possible.

Though I'm temperamentally more of an old school Republican (small government = more freedom = better for everybody), the fascist neo-cons have driven me out of the party. Why am I now a registered Democrat? In part so I can vote in Oregon's closed primaries, in part because of sections like this from the Democratic Party platform: We will not ship away...

Most of us, myself included, have no idea how we might react in a crisis where someone threatening is armed with a gun or knife, and we're armed with bupkis. What I've long said--and this is why post-9/11 there will never be another hijacked commercial airline in the United States--is that if a mass of people counterattack, the bad guy will be defeated....

...don't talk endlessly about their heroism. They rarely mention it at all in fact. Thus John McCain's recent run of comments about his prisoner of war days (a status which, by the way, doesn't in and of itself make one a hero) is off-putting at best. Worse, his recent emphasis the affair (one wag says you can tell McCain's talking because his sentences...