Maybe Vice President of the Wasilla Lake Christian School PTA. No sooner had McCain announced his “bold” and mavericky choice for VP did the resume of Sarah Palin hit–or perhaps more appropriate is lightly touched–the media. Except for the wingnuts like Ralph Reed and other conservative evangelical blowhards who are “ecstatic” (probably literally ecstatic) by this choice, [...]

I now want all pundits and McCainites to shut up about Barack Obama’s supposed unspecificity of policies and unreadiness to serve as President. His acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention last night was a model of presidential leadership, vision, and fresh thinking:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZCrIeRkMhA

Yes, it also recycled predictable platitudes, but even those were done convincingly. After watching [...]