Maybe it won't happen again....

Wow, isn't it amazing that when serious matters, like say the stock market falling nearly 1000 points in two days, how issues like lipstick become, shall we say, banal. I've been thinking that what we Obama supporters needed was a way to get McCain on the defensive, and, by golly, he does it for us himself :-). In a week of some very bad news, McCain and Palin seem to be thrashing around, looking for something to say, and keep ending up just looking foolish. I know there's much time to go, and four debates to come, but, perhaps the moral to the old Aesop fable might be true - slow and steady wins the race.

This can't happen again....

Please tell me that this isn't going to happen again. How is it possible that a dimwit like Sarah Palin can become an instant icon that moves huge numbers of women to McCain's side? And how is it possible that the Republicans can keep throwing out more and more egregious lies, and people keep believing them? Obama's tax plan will cut taxes for most "ordinary" Americans, but somehow the Republicans have convinced many people that Obama will raise them.

The best skill the Republicans have is changing the subject. What to do about the war? Discuss who was right about the surge. Problems with McCain's tax plans? Accuse Obama of being sexist. Palin doesn't know what the Bush Doctrine is? Charles Gibson was unfair to her. People, this has GOT TO STOP!!!!