The Next Vice-President?

[Shapley]

Well, with so many moderates leaving the (Republican) party she can have it all to herself

That's interesting. For twenty years now I've heard that the Republican Party was nothing but right-wing zealots. Where did these moderates come from who are now leaving?

[Haggis@wk]

Sarah Palin should form the core of a new Republican Party.

I surely hope so!

Well, with so many moderates leaving the (Republican) party she can have it all to herself

Yes, thank you.

[piqaboo]

I'm disgusted with the Republican blame-throwing at Mrs Palin.
Blech.

My sister, who voted McCain, made a nasty comment about Mrs Obama's dress making her look like a black widow spider. Now I feel compelled to look for a video of the speech and re-view the dress.

[jamiebk]

I'm disgusted with the Republican blame-throwing at Mrs Palin.
Blech.

My sister, who voted McCain, made a nasty comment about Mrs Obama's dress making her look like a black widow spider. Now I feel compelled to look for a video of the speech and re-view the dress.

Actually, it was pretty awful. Uncharacteristic for such a tasteful (and attractive) lady.

[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

Well, with so many moderates leaving the (Republican) party she can have it all to herself

Yes, thank you.

I actually like Palin a lot better than I liked McCain - I honestly think I should be able to walk into Wally World and buy a gun and the appropriate ammunition and then call up the NRA or local gun club for my range time without a whole truckload of attached paperwork. A simple ID check and felony screening ought to be enough.

And Moose makes fine, fine spaghetti sauce. I don't really get the hockey mom thing, I was a band/baseball mom.

I'd count myself one of those moderates who happen to be Republicans. I'm comfortable with other people doing their own family planning and wedding planning and all that. I'm not even real insistent about the number of people in a marriage, I've been considering polyandry.

[Shapley]

MSNBC Retracts False Palin Story

They were duped. Glad they are willing to admit it, unlike some news anchors that I'd Rather not mention.....

[Haggis@wk]

I honestly think I should be able to walk into Wally World and buy a gun and the appropriate ammunition and then call up the NRA or local gun club for my range time without a whole truckload of attached paperwork. A simple ID check and felony screening ought to be enough.

Consider moving to Texas. I go to the range twice a month after stopping by Wally's to pick up a coupla boxes of ammo. They have an indoor rifle range but I only use the pistol range but I have been looking at getting a new rifle, .223. I don't know about California but here Wally's still sell rifles and shotguns.

I have to say that we are disappointed that SAM'S doesn't yet sell bulk ammo yet. Those thousand rounds crates are SUCH a savings!!!

When I was a kid the NRA sponsored rifle training for kids and the U.S. Army paid for the .22 ammo. The best summers I can remember were spent on my uncle's farm hunting squirrels. My aunt made squirrel sausage for breakfast; my uncle was happy my cousins and I kept the "damn tree rats" out of the pecans.

[barfle]

I still use...a sliderule.

I keep one handy, although I admit to being rusty on its use for trig functions. OK, I'm rusty on trig functions. But one thing about a slipstick - the batteries never go dead.

[OperaTenor]

I'm disgusted with the Republican blame-throwing at Mrs Palin.
Blech.

My sister, who voted McCain, made a nasty comment about Mrs Obama's dress making her look like a black widow spider. Now I feel compelled to look for a video of the speech and re-view the dress.

Here's the dress:



I have to say, I find it eerie it is now impossible to find using a Google image search. I even used "narcisco rodriguez obama" as search terms(he's the designer).

[Serenity]

Cindy McCain said she is just like any other female human.

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/c ... she_s_just

[Shapley]

The colour, and the hour-glass shape across the chest do call to mind a male-devouring arachnid....

[analog]

I'm glad Mrs Obama's version was not as skimpy as the one on that skinny model.

In all honesty it looks to me like a red flame motif which makes me think of latent anger, which was definitely the left's mood going into election season..

Let us pray we've moved on now.

a.

[jamiebk]

Well, the girls are adorable and I suppose in some respect she was trying to coordinate with them or vice versa. In any event, the dress didn't "work" for me. Incidently, black widows have a red X on their bellies. The dress is the reverse of that so, was she actually saying that she wasn't a vicious male/mate-killer? ( OK...I think I am reading too much into a dress at this point. I compare it to wine. You can get all technical about flavors, mouth feel, aroma etc, but in the end you either like it or you don't)

[Shapley]

To be perfectly honest, I didn't pay that much attention. I was sleepy when he made his speech, and I remember seeing part of it, and her on the stage, but I didn't give it a thought. The next day, there were several news comments on it on the online news.

I am reminded that President Kennedy once reportedly remarked to one of his aides something to the effect of: "What are the papers saying about my wife's hair today?"

[Haggis@wk]

I thought it was weird that when they went to the White House to visit with the Bushes they traveled in two separate planes....

[piqaboo]

Two planes, to save fuel, dont you know....

Maybe they came from two different places?

I like Michelle Obama's version of the dress better than that on the runway model.
The cardigan has been panned, but it doesnt do harm to the dress that I can see.

Michelle seems to have chosen red as her color. For women, its considered a power color.
I suspect she chose her dress before the kids chose theirs. I bet at least one girlchild wanted pink and was nudged away so as not to become invisible in the bright lights.

My fav was Mrs Biden's color. She realllllly showed up!

[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

I like Mrs. Obama's version of the outfit much better than the model's presentation. It looks like there is an opaque underdress of some sort, with a round neckline, as well as the cardigan - it's a more dignified outfit for a grown woman with a couple of kids and a prominent place on a public stage.

The two planes sound like a sensible precaution for highly visible targets with an unknown but inevitable bunch of wackos who consider them an offense to all right-thinking wingnuts. (I don't know who the wingnuts are but I strongly suspect that they exist.) This way, should evil prevail, the girls are more likely to have a surviving parent.

[Haggis@wk]

The two planes sound like a sensible precaution for highly visible targets

They both flew from Chicago in separate chartered aircraft. She was already in the limo when his plane landed. No one realized that until they both got out of the limo at the White House. Afterwards she went and looked at some private schools and he flew back in an MD-80 he rented for the flight that had more crew than passengers.

I also thought it odd that she wasn't with him during his victory speech, isn't that typically done with the family around?

[Shapley]

I also thought it odd that she wasn't with him during his victory speech, isn't that typically done with the family around?

I believe it is typically done on a crowded stage, surrounded by all those who made the victory possible. I gather that Mr. Obama does not like to share the limelight. As I said, this is a man who has written, to date, two books about himself. He seems to be his favourite subject.....

[OperaTenor]

Always nice to see you're showing me how to be properly respectful, Shap.

As for the dress, the word is that Michelle Obama has tried to use relatively unknown American designers for her clothing, and she apparently gets essentially all of her clothing from US makers(not bad for a terrorist's wife).

Haggis, I don't get the point you're trying to make about them flying separately. If they did for security reasons, so what?

As far as the victory speech is concerned, are these nits we need to pick? Is this going to determine the man's worth as POTUS?

Or should I be thankful this is the worst we have to worry about?