CHOCK LOCK! CHOCK LOCK!

"Think about it. When you last visited a physician’s practice or stayed in a hospital, did you see people other than patients there? Do you realize that these people call their work 'jobs,' which yield a livelihood that supports a family and raises the next generation of Earthlings? Did it occur to you that their care for you has economic value, especially as you can walk again as you could not before they cared for you? Did you consider that they postponed your death by many years, perhaps even decades?"

"If Sarah Palin is John McCain’s secret weapon, let her go, whoever is holding her back. And, frankly, if it turns out that the 'authentic' Palin of rallies and the Republican convention is just good speech delivery in a woman with some good spirit, I want to know that sooner rather than later. (Mitt’s still available. Someone in Washington who can actually run a business and knows something about the economy will come in handy once the federal government owns the U.S. banking system.) But if the Palin we know and love and have projected our hopes for sanity in American politics is the real Sarah Palin — then come out from the shadows, woman. You’re the one who is going to win this election. Be yourself. Otherwise, what’s the point?" FREE SARAH PALIN!

<p>The NYT <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/us/politics/26ads.html?ex=1380168000&amp;en=ee77cec5c6225e9d&amp;ei=5124&amp;partner=permalink&amp;exprod=permalink">slams</a> Obama for his dishonest ads: </p><blockquote><p>In all, Mr. Obama has released at least five commercials that have been criticized as misleading or untruthful against Mr. McCain’s positions in the past two weeks. Mr. Obama drew complaints from many of the independent fact-checking groups and editorial writers who just two weeks ago were criticizing Mr. McCain for producing a large share of this year’s untruthful spots (“Pants on Fire,” the fact-checking Web site PolitiFact.com wrote of Mr. Obama’s advertisement invoking Mr. Limbaugh; “False!” FactCheck.org said of his commercial on Social Security.)</p></blockquote><p>Obama doesn't need to engage in this sort of mud-slinging. It's good to see the NYT calling him on it.
</p> I agree.

"And Mr. McCain has a special advantage to bring to any such investigation — many of the relevant witnesses are friends or colleagues of his. In fact, he can probably get to the bottom of the whole mess just by cross-examining the people riding on his campaign bus. So the candidate should take a deep breath, remind himself that the country comes first, pull the Straight Talk Express over at a rest stop, whistle up his media pals, and begin." Absolute evisceration on the WSJ.

OH. DEER. LOWERED.

"Yes, she recently met and turned several heads of state as the United Nations General Assembly convened in New York. She was gracious, charming and disarming. Men swooned. Pakistan’s president wanted to hug her. (Perhaps Osama bin Laden is dying to meet her?)" That's it! We get Sarah into a really short skirt and a blouse with a plunging neckline, and then OBL will come out of his bunker to decry her moral failings for dressing like a slut and not waring a hijab, and BAM! Down goes OBL.

Heh.

"… and I genuinely feel sorry for Palin. This really is pathetic. Again it's not a mass/elite matter. Anyone who has been to high school immediately recognizes the terror of facing a pop quiz or an oral exam when you just have no idea what you're talking about."