That was one of the best two commercials (the Betty White/Abe Vigoda/Snickers one). That and the underwear casual Friday commercial for career builder.com

Abe Vigoda: uniting force.

Okay, it's passed.

Speaking of condoning violence against women, will you be endorsing Linda McMahon's run for Senate in Connecticut?

I honestly have no idea who she is.

ETA: McMahon of the WWE McMahons? Interesting. I know nothing about her except that now. I would figure at very least she can't be as corrupt as Dodd, so that's a step up.

I know I should be ignoring Sarah Palin entirely...but I can't help it.

I've enjoyed watching her squirm, trying to maintain her conservative credentials while being an activist for the first thing I agree with her on.

Then there's the teabagger speech, where she made fun of Obama for his reliance on teleprompters while A) reading her speech off a piece of paper, B) having been given the soft ball questions for the post speech press conference beforehand to review, and C) even having been given the soft ball questions beforehand to review, still needing to refer to notes written on her hand to answer.

You know, if the end result of Sarah Palin being put on the national stage is that the nutbags that idolize her are siphoned into some impotent independent party of nutjobs, maybe it's a good thing.

I'm not a Palin disciple, but mocking Obama for his reliance on teleprompters is open to anyone who writes notes on their hand or not. The man sets up teleprompters when he speaks to elementary school kids.

I used to wince a bit when Obama would speak off the cuff and use a LOT of "umm" and "uh" pauses. But the teleprompter talking point? Sorry, but that boat isn't gonna float anymore.

1) Every president since the invention of the teleprompter has used them at nearly every one of their televised speeches.
2) He doesn't set them up himself, though that's an amusing image.
3) The school incident was a little silly, and I doubt it has happened again, though you are welcome to prove me wrong on this one. It's still a pretty big "so what," but I'll give you partial credit. However ...
4) Did you SEE him when he had the open question session with Republicans, live, a few weeks ago? No teleprompter. No script. You may have disagreed with him and found his every answer evil, but you can't claim he was helpless and floundering. He was on fire. And FOX News made themselves look like scared ninnies by cutting off before it was done. Anyway, whatever the political import or content of that encounter, it proved decisively that Obama is not somehow pathetically dependent on teleprompters. Game over.

Y'know, Sarah Palin used a teleprompter when she gave her much-praised speech as she accepted her nomination. She used it all the time on the campaign trail, as did McCain. Nobody cares, because this is standard practice. The first time I heard the McCain campaign using this as a talking point, I thought they had to be joking. It made them sound desperate, as if they knew they didn't have anything of substance to use against their opponent. (And SURELY they did, yes?) I suppose they keep on tossing this out because their base laps it up, but you aren't going to get any mileage out of it around anyone who has been paying any attention.

It would sure be entertaining. (Unless they actually won!)

Did you see her interview with Glenn Beck where she seemed to have a hard time coming up with a name when asked who her favorite "founding father" was?

I loved this bit they did on Jimmy Kimmel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAPWD-PR_FA

Oh, I don't care about using it on every major speech. Doesn't bother me a bit. Of course he needs it and every President does on such addresses.

I didn't mean he actually sets them up himself. Would figure that would have been evident, but I suppose I didn't word that well.

I did not see the question and answer session with Republicans.

I think the whole thing is silly to focus on, but so is a lot in politics, and both sides do it when it is in their interest to do so. I've never posted about it and only did in response to a post which addressed the subject.