the first ArcXIX post on "babygate" (written the day before) had 491 recommendations and 1904 comments.

and asked people to lay off, reminding them that his own mother gave birth to him at 18. He's reiterated his stance that going after people's children is off limits. http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/9/1/131521/5527

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/article... -- "... The McCain campaign plans on making an assault on Barack Obama’s strength as a change agent. And challenge, what the McCain campaign will describe as, Obama’s weak or non-existent attacks on corruption within the Democratic party and other institutions throughout his career.

Like the Swiftboat attacks of 2004 on Senator John Kerry, a decorated Viet Nam Veteran — this assault will be on what is now a strength of Barack Obama’s — his focus on changing a broken system in Washington.

To make this assault McCain picked in Palin someone who has taken on the corruption in the GOP in Alaska, turned against her own party’s establishment, and fought for reform.

The McCain/Palin duo will challenge Barack Obama’s claim of “a new kind of politics” and chastise Obama and Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee, Joe Biden, for their “silence” in taking on corruption in their own party in Illinois, Delaware and Washington, DC.

The McCain campaign intends to claim that “more of the same” in Washington means Barack Obama and Joe Biden, and will make the argument that if you want to “shake things up” then McCain and his reform minded running mate from Alaska will get the job done.

My initial reaction was that in picking Palin, McCain had taken away the argument that Barack Obama wasn’t ready to be President. I now think my initial assessment on that score was wrong. Over time the McCain team will insinuate that if you think a first term Governor isn’t ready for the number 2 slot, are your really sure that a first term Senator is ready for the number 1 spot? ..."

I put a roundup of orange-ade into diary my blog since it was not showing up as a comment (operator error?), but if you want more orang-anity regarding babygate and flying-baby-gate and daughter-babygate I have a few links.

By the way, I love how a women's medical decisions once were between a doctor and a patient, but everyone is allowed to armchair quarterback Ms. Wasilla's decisions about her childbirthing.

Someone please tell me seriously, why I care about her flying while pregnant, or in labor, or whatever? Is this seriously a litmus test now?

work?

Also -- please, just 'cause TMCB is my house -- call a blog a blog, a post a post, and a comment a comment here, please?
We don't write / read "diaries" in The Mighty Corrente Building. We're not about snooping through each others' private thoughts, here. We're about sharing ideas and information openly, on as many subjects as we can, with good writing foremost. 'K? Thanks.

I'm doing a lot of stuff in RL, and I didn't want the DK pileon without the links, so I de-front-paged and Sarah got my back and refrontpaged. I think.

And +100 on killing "diary" as a locution. When in Rome, and so on.

[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

play one on the radio, I figure information deserves to be free.

Which is probably one of the reasons I love my work but can't stay out of trouble at my job.

I used to be able to juggle a couple hundred details in my head. I used to be able to add a column of figures without pencil and paper. Not so any more, and fast going downhill. But "diary" has always bothered me deeply -- it has such a connotation of gleeful little boys running away with their sisters' personal journals to read aloud to get their sisters into disfavor or ridicule somewhere -- be it with parents or with peers of the thieves -- that I find it inherently distasteful.

To me, a post is something unique. It may be a picture. It may be a quote. It may be an argument. But it is defined by its substance and its independence from context; it will make sense if it stands alone.It may be on your blog -- initiating a conversation. It may be in answer to another poster, expanding or expostulating.

A comment is almost always an answer, though, and usually won't make sense as a stand-alone statement -- it's a "you had to be there" rubric, I guess.

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfai... -- Palin's Pregnancy Problem

(she's a bad mom, not of DC, not prepared like Daddy Bush was, etc)

Get bent out of shape over what I perceived as, and I am sure you did not mean to advocate, the torture of animals.

We're still not that far from electro-shock therapy, are we? Sigh.

I've discovered many funny stories about electric fences.

I'm sure someday we'll find stories about tasers funny too.
It is, after all, the same principle.

Here. Of course, TL doesn't have the readership of a cable network, unlike the Obama 527 Formerly Known As Daily Kos.

[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

http://jezebel.com/5044017/sarah-palin-r...

"... When we waste our time and energy rooting around in someone's personal life for John McCain's next black baby, we are conceding to conservatives that they are right. They have spent the last couple of decades saying that the gender of the person one chooses to love should be grounds for discrimination at work, in housing choices, in marriage rights and whereever else a little homophobe's heart desires. They have said that the government should be able to limit (and to know) what woman does with the contents of her uterus based on what they wish to make a government-sanctioned religious conception of when life begins. They use their power in government to limit children's access to age-appropriate sex education in schools in the name of teaching children their religious-inspired world view on sexual behavior. I could keep going, but you get the point.

And when liberals and progressives pounce on rumors like this one about Trig's "true" parentage — whether or not it is true, which I'm pretty sure it's not — or rumors about Republican politicians' sexuality (in the absence of crimes committed) we are conceding that conservatives are right, and personal choices do qualify or disqualify one for certain aspects of participation in public life and this democracy. ..."

Liberals/Progressives are supposed to hold the opinion that a woman's uterus belongs to her and not to the government or the general public.

I want to believe that there is intentional ratfucking going on here. The other option is too horrible to consider. Multitudes of progressive panty-sniffers?

I do not think that Obama needs to come out and refute every hair-brained loopy conspiracy theory that comes out in the Orange Blob, DU, AmericaBlog, etc. He's never get anything constructive done in his campaign.