Couric and VP Candidate Interviews

Yes, Palin didn't exactly shine sitting down with Couric. Delivery and content were weak. Analysts pointing this out were right in pointing it out. A few analysts though might have gone over the top wondering on the basis of this interview that she might be replaced on the ticket.

Less press and analysis went towards the Couric interview with Biden. Particularly when he had his own Dan Qualyle moment.

"When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'"

Hoover was President in 1929 at the time of the market collapse and TV was in the experimental stage and there were no commercial stations.

And yet there is not much press and analysis of this 'oops'. The only big story is Palin's halting delivery.

Lobbyists and The Road to the WhiteHouse

Glad to see Obama taking the moral high ground and denouncing the McCain campaign's association with lobbyists. Of course there is that pesky problem of saying you are taking the moral highground without actually doing so.

Biden's son is a lobbyist. http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/13/1393483.aspx Yeah I know he quit but just like the folks who work McCain's campaign did as well. So if the McCain staffers are still lobbyists, seems Biden's kid must be, too.

David Axelod, Obama's campaign head was the next best thing to a lobbyist. http://www.newsweek.com/id/138519 But, since he never registered, he must be okay.

Oh, and Obama's fundraising campaign staff? Looks like they are the lobbyist dream team. http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-04-15-obama_n.htm

Reminds me of the old adage "How can you tell when a politician is lying? His lips are moving".

And Under the Fairness Doctrine

If the FCC re-enacts the long disbanded fairness doctrine, as some in the Democratic Party have insisted should happen (including Joe Biden), would Palin's email be the only one hacked?

Shouldn't Obama and Nader be hacked, too? See the Palin story here:

http://tech.msn.com/news/articlepcw.aspx?cp-documentid=10415573&gt1=40000

You've Got to Be Kidding Me

From the ABC news website:

Former Clinton campaign communications director Howard Wolfson characterized her foreign policy answers as "formulaic and unimpressive."
"She didn't say anything disqualifying, but it is unlikely that anyone watching would have come away sanguine about her ability to step in as president on day one if necessary," Wolfson wrote in his New Republic blog "The Flack."
"Don't expect to see her do many more ... the McCain campaign knows they will pay a price for keeping Gov. Palin from the national press -- but they also know that price is worth paying if it buys them insurance against her giving a disqualifying answer to a legitimate question." ABC news website:

This is news? A Clinton supporter giving Palin a less than rosy review? Wow, we are talking newsflash here folks: "Stop The Presses, Extra, Extra Read All About It!!!!!!"

Next thing you know, in unbiased reporting, the Green Bay press will start to suggest the "Bears Still Suck".

The Race to DC

You know they're right. The pundits, the politicos. On the whole trying to raise a family while running the country.

Tough task, nearly impossible task actually. I can't even begin to fathom how difficult it would be to do it with little kids regardless of your spouse.

So, they're right. And Senator Obama should renounce his party's nomination for the presidency in order to take care of his family. After all, he has two small daughters and his wife is an attorney. She has a job; a career which she has a right to have, correct? Can't hold her career back.

Someone has to take care of the kids, right?