It's a move to save bandwidth during these event-packed, glitch-filled times.
To quote a classic Seinfeld episode: "We ask you to please bear with us."

Posted at September 5, 2008 6:58 PM in response to Good luck, Senator McCain. After your speech, I really think you're gonna need it.

Is a vice-presidential candidate's extramarital affair fair game?
In the case of John Edwards, most of the media concluded it was.
I would like to accord candidates some degree of privacy, but let's not apply double standards.
Since Scott Richter's bid to seal his divorce papers apparently failed, the Enquirer will soon let us know if Sarah Palin's name appears in them.
Till then, no-one should jump to conclusions.
Once speculation started swirling, Richter was quite right to try to seal them -- regardless of any possible Palin connection.
Divorce court proceedings are often far from flattering to the participants.

Posted at September 5, 2008 6:24 PM in response to Palin Affair? "First Dude" ex Partner Tries to Seal Divorce Docs

It's not one specific story. Many examples have been exposed and discussed at this site.
Under new Washington bureau chief Ron Fournier, the AP's election coverage has been skewed to an incredible degree. Posters here, at Daily Kos and at Huffington Post have denounced it.
AP even had to circulate an internal memo giving managers "talking points" to fend off the criticism.
I would add Charles Babington to the list of GOP shills, along with Fournier, Sidoti and Pickler.
Here's an example of the subtle bias I'm talking about:
http://phoenixwoman.wordpress.com/2008/07/19/charles-babington-coverup-artist/

Posted at September 5, 2008 5:41 PM in response to Hey AP idiots, it's Democrat-bashing!

Chris:
You do realize that you yourself are now approaching the multiple-post record, which was 11 the last time I looked?
When you hit that mark, will you denounce yourself? The irony!
I've written Josh a couple of times, urging a big, bold-lettered "WARNING: WE'RE HAVING SERVER PROBLEMS. DO NOT RESUBMIT. EVER. YOUR POST OR COMMENT WILL EVENTUALLY APPEAR" atop the Blog Now form. No action yet.

Posted at September 5, 2008 5:11 PM in response to Multiple Posts - 9

Welcome back, nice tan.
Agree with you and Giordano: the convention as a whole felt improvised (thank you, Gustav).
I was a bit worried about Palin's speech -- until she gave it. Then it turned out nasty, self-inflating and ordinary, though well written and skilfully delivered. No game-changer.
She's obviously a square peg the campaign is forcing into a round hole. They have to; they can't really let her loose to undermine McCain's message anymore than she already has.
I didn't even bother to watch all of McCain tonight; his speeches are almost uniformly drab.
Just speculation: this one may have been worse than usual because they were so worried about Palin's debut they devoted their A-team of writers to rework a speech written in advance for someone else (Sarah Pawlenty, perhaps?).
Anyway tonight, McCain's delivery and a B-grade script sucked any Palin momentum out of the convention.
All in all, a good day for the good guys.

Posted at September 5, 2008 3:10 AM in response to Good luck, Senator McCain. After your speech, I really think you're gonna need it.

Lovely.

Posted at September 4, 2008 4:22 AM in response to Obama Campaign On Palin: Divisive And Partisan

Roland rocks,

Posted at September 4, 2008 4:14 AM in response to Obama Campaign On Palin: Divisive And Partisan

Hey, Billy.
I dug all the way down into this instant archive to see what you had to say. Hope you appreciate such loyalty.
I'm not disappointed. Disagree with you or not, you give good thread.
And as Mick would say, mid-concert, Quinn is good tonight, ain't he?
I'll point out that I for one never dismissed Palin as an electoral threat, just as vice-presidential -- or, horror of horrors, presidential -- material.
Yes, that was a great speech (she didn't write it) and she delivered it flawlessly.
I was actually kinda relieved. She'd been touted as the Republican Obama, but she fell short of that mark.
Of course, she was debuting before her first national audience, and had been very tightly scripted.
But she's obviously sharp as a tack and a quick study. She's truly dangerous.
I just wonder how McCain is going to deal with this monster he's created. She's more charismatic than he is, younger and better-looking, and a far better teleprompter-reader.
McCain's ego will not easily reconcile with the fact that she's the big draw, the applause-getter, when they campaign together.
How many days before he publicly calls her a cunt?
Well, I guess a man aiming for the White House can take another two months of abuse after 5-plus years as a Pow. (Did you know he once was a PoW? Interesting story.)
Anyway, Palin took a few shots tonight. She hit "community organizer" twice and "always proud of America" once.
I suspect Obama sees the trap they are setting, and his instructions tonight were, "OK, Joe, let 'er rip."
As per the usual rules, the presidential candidates fight it out, and so do the VPs.
Obama can beat McCain head to head, and Biden can at least hold his own with Palin (certainly where foreign policy is the issue).
And now that she's shown a bit of the nasty, Biden can take off the kid gloves.
Obama will not make the mistake of fighting Palin directly, even if she is the more dynamic part of the Republican ticket.
And do you think Biden is reluctant to beat her up in the alley before the debate, during the debate, and as he's escorting her back to her limo?
No, Joe's the "happy warrior." He's been in training for this his entire life.
He and Palin are -- to use McCain's infelicitous phrasing -- soulmates.
The VP battle will be almost erotic, like female mud-wrestling. Except that one of the competitors will not be female, and the mud will be mostly metaphoric.
Where was I? (I got distracted by my own imagery.)
Right. Palin has indeed energized the right-wing base. Can she expand her appeal beyond that to Joe (and I do mean Joe) Six-Pack?
Possibly.
I think it's time Obama played the fear card:
Are these two people the ones you want holding the new-clear football?
I sure as hell know I don't. But unlike the rest of you, I don't have much say in it, do I?
Think long and hard, folks.

Posted at September 4, 2008 3:07 AM in response to Want To Vet Her Some More?

I like your "pro-choice, pro-life" formulation.
The vast majority of "pro-choice" people probably would as well.
There are a lot of questions Sarah Palin needs to answer, which she is trying her damndest not to answer.
But I think anything about her reproduction decisions -- repeat, ANYTHING -- should be off limits.
If you believe in a woman's right to choose, that's it. She gets to choose, and nobody has a right to second-guess her.
End of controversy. End of story.

Posted at September 3, 2008 9:20 PM in response to A Question I'm Evidently Not Allowed To Ask

The pix that purport to be of Sarah Palin are Photoshopped.
And the ones that purport to be of Bristol are mostly of her boyfriend's sister.
Garbage.

Posted at September 3, 2008 9:00 PM in response to Bristol Palin MySpace photos