bodhi tree swaying

Sitting here in these chairs that I’m going to be proposing but in working with these governors who again on the front lines are forced to and it’s our privileged obligation to find solutions to the challenges facing our own states every day being held accountable, not being just one of many just casting votes or voting present every once in a while, we don’t get away with that.

Pretty distinctive cadences, eh?

The whole article is worth reading.

I guess it’s no surprise if two mavericks don’t get along.

A second McCain source says she appears to be looking out for herself more than the McCain campaign.

“She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone,” said this McCain adviser. “She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else.

“Also, she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember: Divas trust only unto themselves, as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom.”

“Her lack of fundamental understanding of some key issues was dramatic,” said another McCain source with direct knowledge of the process to prepare Palin after she was picked. The source said it was probably the “hardest” to get her “up to speed than any candidate in history.”

Palin’s ‘going rogue,’ McCain aide says – CNN.com

In Something About Sarah, Kathleen Parker has some interesting things to say about men’s (and McCain’s) propensity to become distracted by pretty ladies:

…there can be no denying that McCain’s selection of [Palin] over others far more qualified — and his mind-boggling lack of attention to details that matter — suggests other factors at work. His judgment may have been clouded by . . . what?

Science provides clues.

At least her column seemed interesting to me, but maybe that’s just because she’s kinda hot.

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Terence at Republic of T posted this earlier today with the comment “Pitiful: that’s the only word I can think of to describe this.” Vile was the word that came to my mind.

The “outraged” individual is Republican strategist Brad Blakeman, commenting on why it’s more outrageous for Obama to take a campaign plane to go visit his possibly dying grandmother than for the McCain campaing to spend $150,000 on clothes and accessories for Sarah Palin (that’s in, what, two months? Which is about $2,500 a day?).

As Terence points out, the idea of a presidential candidate, in this day and age, taking a commercial flight is just ludicrous. Not to mention the callous insensitivity of criticizing a man visiting his seriously ill grandmother. Every word that comes from these people’s mouths just digs them into a deeper hole with …