08AMA Funny (and not so funny) bits from the campaign trail.

Cute.

From The Wasilla Project:

What do the people of Wasilla really believe about Sarah Palin? Who is she? How was she as an executive in Wasilla? Is she a religious fanatic? A competent administrator? A compassionate conservative or a dangerous kook?

By taking a credible, authentic look at the real Wasilla, and the real Sarah Palin, in the first person voices of the people who really know her, we hope to counter the mythical “narrative” with something a lot more nuanced and valuable.

Here are all the videos to date, though I suggest downloading the HD versions available on the project website:

Sarah Palin: The rape kit controversy

Sarah Palin: Religion in Politics

Sarah Palin: Fiscal Conservative?

Sarah Palin: The email scandal

I will give her props for seeming to be a good sport about it until the aid grabbed the phone away.

In what must be the best demonstration of Sarah Palin’s ignorance regarding the Constitution to date, Palin said in an interview today:

“If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations,” Palin told host Chris Plante, “then I don’t know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media.”

Okay, Sarah, here’s what the First Amendment says:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

That’s right, “abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.” In other words, dumb hicks like you can say whatever you want, and “liberal elitists” can say whatever they want as well. People calling you a negative campaigner has nothing to do with your freedom “to call Barack Obama out on his associations.” Besides, if memory serves me, aren’t you the one who inquired about banning books?

So, in the spirit free press, here are a few of my personal favorite names for Sarah Palin:

The Princess of Podunk
The Ruler of Rubes
The Grande Dame of Dimwits
The Matriarch of the Mindless
The Birdbrained Baroness
The Cretinous Countess
The Dense Duchess
The Empress of Ignorance
The Shallow Sultana
The Overlord of the Obtuse
The Self-Righteous Shah
The Uncultured Contessa
The Czarina of Zealots
And last, but certainly not least, The World’s Largest Moose Knuckle

Seriously. I have no idea why it took Obama so long to bring up this McCain quote: “The issue of economics is not something I’ve understood as well as I should.”

From day one, I would have been all over that like ham on rye.

From Margaret and Helen:

It was either a few years ago or a few months ago… at my age it all blends together. But I remember it was all over the news and on the cover of all the magazines. One of those new ”starlets”… Paris or Brittney or Lindsey or Chutney or something like that - one of those starlets got caught getting out of a car without her under garments. That’s right. Photographers all around and her hoo-ha was out there for everyone and God to see because she forgot to put on a pair of panties.

I know you all know what I am talking about. It was all over the news. Scandalous they said. Out of control. She needs help. What is the world coming to? EVERYONE was shocked and EVERYONE was talking about it. How could she? What kind of a role model is she for young girls? I know you all remember it. If my scattered brain can remember it, I know you can. People didn’t have to be told how the cow ate the cabbage on that one. We all knew it instinctively.

Well imagine my shock and surprise today when I came across this little item. The latest polls show that only 55% of Americans think that Sarah Palin is not qualified to be President. 55%! FIFTY FIVE PERCENT! This about the woman whose best qualification for the job to date is that she can see Russia from her house. So what exactly does Sarah Palin have to do before the other 45% of this country is shocked enough to realize that she is a “whack job”? Please Lord don’t tell me she has to show her hoo-ha in public.

You tell ‘em, Grandma!

The New Yorker provides the best counter to the “socialist” argument.

Danny Elfman, composer of The Simpsons theme and the scores of just about every Tim Burton movie, produced this spot.

From Think Progress:

***In convo with Playbook, a top McCain adviser one-ups the priceless “diva” description, calling her “a whack job.”

The point of the whole $150,000 wardrobe scandal isn’t that Palin isn’t actually a down-home, frugal dresser. I never doubted that for a moment. Nor is it even unusual for a campaign to spend quite a bit on hair and makeup. The problem is that the RNC spending that kind of money for Palin’s wardrobe is disingenuous. It simply confirmed the suspicion that Palin is, more or less, a doll that the RNC thought would be fun to dress up and pretend that she was actually one of them.