Photo- Statue of Obama as boy erected in Indonesian park

Good lord it's awful. Looks to me that they just reworked one of St Francis of Assisi as a boy. (A butterfly? Really?)

Video- Matthews Asks if Obama Has the "Bedside Manners" To Tell the Left They're Not Going to Get a Public Option

The Chris Matthews Show comes on here at 530a Sundays, so I rarely see it, but when I do, I can attest to the fact that it is hands down the worst political talk show evah. Vid via Heather.

Video- Tom DeLay makes dancing debut

Holy crapola, it's worse than I could have imagined.

Palin/McCain's first joint town hall meeting in 2 words: No specifics

By GottaLaff

Softballs, softballs, softballs. Per Dana Bash on CNN right now, at the first joint Palin/McCain town hall meeting, the questions were much friendlier than Gramm-pa Sid has gotten in the past. The audience didn't require detailed answers, and the duo didn't give any. Here's a sample:

Tell us about your foreign policy, Sarah Palin. Answer: Blahblahblah pipeline.

Then Gramm-pa stepped in and talked about her energy policies. It was a rerun of her Charles Gibson interview.

In short, they gave no specifics. None. I sat here and watched the report and the video, and there were, quite conspicuously, no direct answers, just more convention speech regurgitation.

There is simply no comparison between Obama/Biden and Palin/McCain. It's painfully obvious.

The reviews keep pouring in

By GottaLaff

Worst. Pick. Ever.

By pollster Del Ali, the president of Research 2000.

Sarah Palin will wow cultural conservatives in areas where they may not have come out to vote before the selection. This is right out of Karl Rove's strategy of getting more of your own to show up and vote.

However, in many of the swing states that Bush carried in 2004, there were anti gay ballot measures to motivate the cultural conservatives to vote. There are very few of these measures on the ballots in those key states in 2008. Palin may not be enough for them to get out and vote. Clearly Rove felt in 2004 that Bush would not have been enough, thus the ballot measures.

In fact, as Palin's cultural views become better known -- she oppose abortion in all cases and opposes the use of birth control pills and condoms even among married couples -- she will undoubtedly scare the hell out of the soccer moms and 98% of Hillary voters. In fact, many of these women may feel insulted by this choice in that McCain and the GOP think they are stupid and would bypass their own interest (reproductive and economic) to vote for the ticket due to gender and anger that Hillary was not the nominee.

In my estimation as a pollster and analyst, while historic for the GOP in selecting their first woman on a national ticket, this choice may be the worst selection by a major party nominee for President in modern times.

Clear? Clear.