Brain.... full.....

Unfortunately, as a non-professional blogger, I haven't been able to follow each crazy twist in the presidential election with sassy rejoinders, & etc. I have been following it, but it's really hard to know what to say. So, here are some random and unfinished possible blog thoughts in my head:

McCain Suspends Campaign: Okay, this could be McCain "showing leadership," it could be a publicity stunt (approximately the same thing), or it could be a brilliant tactical move. After the fact, of course, it mostly looks like a failed publicity stunt.

Strategy vs. Tactic: McCain comes across as condescending, and gets one of the few rises out of Obama when he suggests that Obama doesn't know the difference between a strategy and a tactic. Other debate moments to check on Wikipedia for later: Palin's McKiernen vs. McClellan (I thought it was surprising that the general in Afghanistan had the same last name as W's old press secretary!) And Bosnian vs. Bosniak. Turns out Biden was right. Of course, that didn't help Dan Quayle when everybody thought "potatoe" was a misspelling. Turns out it was an accepted spelling in the 19th century.

Sarah Palin: Still not sure what to make of her. She winked and doggone'd her way through the VP debate, and toward the end I was actually feeling annoyed at her. She lost likeability for me.

I think if you're going to pull off a "There you go again," like Reagan did, you're going to have to be as relaxed in front of the camera as he was. She was talking way too fast, and her voice was pitched way too high for the type of language she was using. It was her accent, but in that context, the way she talked seemed fake. I know they all launch into pre-rehearsed bits during these things, but it seemed like with her you could tell when the script was kicking in, and part of what was written on the script was "say it ain't so, Joe," and "there you go again," (which, incidentally, I would find to be extremely irritating to hear from someone I was debating, Ronald Reagan or no.)

Of interest, however: the accent sounds like Minnesotan because the part of Alaska where she grew up was settled by Minnesota farmers during the Great Depression. That part's authentic, anyway, don'tcha know!