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Russia trying to appease the west over Georgia. Interesting. I bet the falling ruble and falling stock market had more influence than any posturing by the west. I think they also feel a chill, as well they should. We shouldn't fall for any appeasement that gives Russia a more powerful position in Georgia. We should still put them on probation in the G8 until they withdraw to pre-invasion positions and levels.

Bill Maher says the media coverage of Obama was so glowing that it looked like Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews wanted to have sex with him.

Let's put this experience thing to bed once and for all. Obama was elected to Illinois state senate in 1996 and started serving in 1997. He has 11 years experience in elected office. Obama has spent 144 days in the Senate. Sarah Palin started serving Wasilla city council in 1992. She started in elective office 18 years ago and has served about 13 years total, 8 of it as a chief executive. She has also served 2 years as Ethics Commissioner of the Alaska Oil and Gas Commission. She has been governor of Alaska for 20 months. The facts show Obama is far less experienced than Palin. Moreover, Obama is running for president, who must be prepared on day 1. Palin is only running for vice-president, who doesn't have to be prepared unless something happens to the president. So while it's safe to say Palin is less qualified than most VP's, she's still more qualified than Obama, who is easily the least qualified of the 4 candidates, and who is running for the highest office, not the secondary office. For Obama's campaign, his press allies, and his supporters to question Palin's experience is a foolish. All it does is expose how woefully unprepared Obama is. Some Obama journalist should put this experience argument to bed before Obama makes a bigger fool of himself than he already did with his campaign's initial attack on Palin.

It sounds like the Obama camp is getting itself together. Attacking McCain on women's issues is far smarter than attacking Palin. What's new in this article is that apparently McCain's camp didn't thoroughly vet Palin, which shows questionable judgment. McCain should have been very seriously considering Palin and Kay Bailey Hutchinson, but I find it really hard to believe that anybody will turn against McCain because of Palin's support for guns or pro-life position. McCain already held those positions.

New Orleans has mandatory evacuation for hurricane Gustav. I hope the levies hold this time. If this hurricane ruins the Republican convention, this could cost Republicans the election.

Thomas Sowell compares Barack Obama's successful rhetoric and dangerous policies that were tried and failed in the '30s and '70s to those of FDR. And this brings up the question again, given the disasterous record of failure of FDR's policies, keeping us mired in the Depression for nearly a decade, why is he lionized by liberals? This gets back to the grasp of reality of liberals. Twice this century, the policies championed by Obama have been implemented in the US with disasterous results, but just as America fell for FDR's hype and endured abysmal failure, death and destitution because of it, liberals are repeating that same process with Barack Obama.