Anyway, the setting of the tone has begun.

Admittedly I’m nearly always of the give them the benefit of the doubt and a chance to explain sort of persuasion. Not so sure there is an acceptable explanation here though, so they’ll either have to ignore it in the hopes it goes away, or confront it and attempt to paint it as a fraud.

via Ace

I just wonder why not more has been made of the statement by Palin during the debate last night that “Maliki and the Talabani”–this is a quote from the transcript–”also in working with us are knowing again that we are getting closer and closer to the point of victory.” The Talibani obviously are our absolute enemy and have been since 9/11; Maliki, our central ally in Iraq. This to me is a tremendous blunder, revealing a very superficial familiarity with these sorts of terms.

Tom some guy on the phone

The response

I think that “superficial” is absolutely the right word for the knowledge or the lack of knowledge Palin showed yesterday.

E.J. Dionne Washington Post Columnist

What she actually said…

We’ll know when we’re finished in Iraq when the Iraqi government can govern its people and when the Iraqi security forces can secure its people. And our commanders on the ground will tell us when those conditions have been met. And Maliki and Talabani also, in working with us, are knowing, again, that we’re getting closer and closer to that point, that victory that’s within sight.

Sarah Palin

See, Sarah Palin is stupid because she thought that when she was talking about Iraq, the talking heads would know that Talabani was the President of Iraq, not the taliban in Afghanistan. But in their world, she couldn’t possibly know that, so obviously she was talking about something else.

If you’re still confused, Neo-neocon has pictures to help.

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I wonder how that keeps happening. Must be gnomes…

Unless of course there is more to it than that.

Anyway, it looks like it’s starting to get some coverage. I suspect that it’s mostly a bunch of nothing, but with the absurd investigations of Palin, it seems like there should at least be some sort of honest look into Obama.

More here, here, and from one of my favorites, Fausta.

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I wonder if they’ll run a promo for the book during the debate…

More at Gateway Pundit

I’m always met by a comment of disbelief, and generally something along the lines of “then why am I always hearing about that surplus.”  I have to bite my tongue to stop the retort “because you, and people like you are too stupid to look things up for yourselves.  Sheep to the slaughter.”

Now if you want to claim the budget was in better shape then than it is now, fair enough.  But if your in the habit of believing something just because someone who has a vested interest in having you believe told you it’s true…

Oh.

Whatever the answers are here, someone needs to get them out there. I would think that if there isn’t anything to see, the Obama campaign would be all about getting it into the open so everyone could move on to something else. I’m not saying (or trying to imply either) that just because they aren’t it means they have something they’re trying to hide. As the saying goes “you don’t know what you don’t know.”

I think we need to know.

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Personally, I’d like to see everyone pay at least some income tax, and I’d like to see the amount of tax paid, by everyone, go up or down every year in tandem with federal spending. That would encourage fiscal discipline directly. It would also make it harder for politicians to promise everybody a free lunch, but hey — why shouldn’t they sacrifice something, too?

Heh