Sy Hersh has let on that his sources - new and old - are all telling him "you want to hear about abuses that have gone on?  Call me January 21."

Ms. Palin called Mr. McCain "a uniter," but saved her most lavish praise for Senator Barack Obama.

"This is an historic a moment," she said. "Barack Obama has been elected president. Let him be able to kind of savor this moment, one, and not let the pettiness of maybe internal workings of a campaign erode any of the recognition of this historic moment that we're in. And God bless Barack Obama and his beautiful family and the new administration that we're in. It is time that we all pull together and work together and America is going to reach her destiny."

watching (and paying for) your entourage for the next four years would have been as unbearable as listening to your garbled sentences.

with any luck, they'll get her to speak at republican prayer breakfasts, bestowing her insightful analysis on them, and protecting them from witches.

Not sure why you feel the need for a rescue job. She is an extremist. BiPartisanship is more about defining the middle which has shifted leftward.

...perhaps some lawyers are in the house?

...these are notions in democracy...even a good psychological approach to avoiding wars...live and let live...I won't kill you just because I disagree with you...

the point is, you, or I, do not have to support Hillary, or Palin, or Joe, the Plumber, or Dennis Kucinich, or ANYONE...but they all have a right to get in the game and compete...

and this past election season CLEARLY showed most objective and fair minded people, that a woman, regardless if she was a Democrat or a Republican, was fighting to compete with a different set of rules...the women, on both sides, had to fight distortions, faux scandals, distrations, hairdos, wardrobe, their kids, etc...

so my point is, Sarah Palin does not scare me in the least and I support her chance, her opportunity to compete, just like I support Jeralyn's opportunity or Hillary's etc...

what I do not support is pushing the person out of the game based on stupid, sexist reasons and with a ferocity the men managed to evade...

I am not making excuses or protecting anyone in particular, I am standing on principle...

Palin inculcated a virus of hate, and gave permission to people to express it.

The Obama campaign was provided with reports from the Secret Service showing a sharp and disturbing increase in threats to Obama in September and early October, at the same time that many crowds at Palin rallies became more frenzied. Michelle Obama was shaken by the vituperative crowds and the hot rhetoric from the GOP candidates. "Why would they try to make people hate us?" Michelle asked a top campaign aide.

thought Africa was a country, not a continent...apparently confused it with South Africa.

Why is that?  

One could hypothesize, perhaps, that TL thinks the vice presidency will continue as in the current administration -- that the vice presidency will be far more powerful than the presidency?  And, therefore, TL sees that in the next administration, Obama will be just a token, and Biden will be the real power in the administration.

There comes a time when all the making fun of Sarah Palin can backfire. My mother absolutely hated this woman. I couldn't believe how much she (Palin) got under my mom's skin.

The past two days of the media making fun of her have produced some sympathy for her. It's actually starting to bother her. If this continues, the people of Alaska will get offended and probably send her to the Senate. You can only take so much of it.

She was probably doing a pretty decent job for what the state of Alaska's needs are. Obviously, she wasn't prepared to be VP. That's McCain's fault. He had his nose stuck so far up Lieberman's, his true choice, butt that he didn't properly vet her.

The people on his campaign leaking all this stuff are the lowest of the low for trying to blame her for his weaknesses as a candidate. It makes me think very badly of him if he doesn't speak in her defense. They had 7 months where they could have been preparing her. Word may have leaked that she was being considered but she would never have been thought of as more than a huge dark horse.

I realize she could have said no, but how many times did I read regarding Hillary's VP wishes, that it is a job you do not turn down when truly asked.

In fact, even in losing this was a historic moment for the Republican Party -- heck for both parties -- because we don't get to see many women up on that stage on election night -- at least not as nominees.

I don't find it inappropriate at all that she had her extended family with her to share the moment.  I recall seeing quite a few Bidens around at the convention (although I didn't check specifically on Tuesday night). The article seems to have a bias and to extend that to imply that this would somehow be an ongoing pattern of abusive behavior on her part seems a little premature and unfair.

Who knows - who cares.  Point is, good ol' been-here-three-weeks-ks knows what is good and what is not and has no shortage of p*ss and vinegar stored up to fuel telling us which is which.

And, in so doing, dodges the points I made.  I wonder if ks even knows who Seligman is.

Dial it back a bit, read and learn, ks - we're all p*ssed and wanting to go after straightening things out.

That it looks to you like "Personal Destruction" is more a reflection of your prejudices and preferences than anything else.  

I didn't hear (or see) a peep out of you when we were discussing and defending Governor Siegelman and the political persecution, prosecution and incarceration he suffered from Karl Rove and the Republicans for having been a successful Democratic officeholder and candidate in Alabama.

I didn't hear or see a peep out of you, standing up for them, when Geoffrey Feiger and others were prosecuted in federal court on trumped-up (and meritless) charges - in retaliation for having supported John Edwards in 2004 - charges whose provenance led straight back to Rove's office.

I didn't hear or see a peep out of you, when we were discussing the US Attorneys Rove had Bush fire for lack of political fealty - when they refused to bring meritless "voter fraud" cases to intimidate into not voting people inclined to vote Democratic.

I didn't hear or see a peep out of you, when Bush's DoJ went after and indicted for money-laundering crimes one of the most prominent criminal defense attorneys in Florida for having the temerity to issue an opinion letter on the provenance of funds used to pay another lawyer to defend someone Bush and his DoJ wanted convicted.

I didn't hear or see a peep out of you every time Jose Padilla's torture and show trial were the topic of discussion here.

Only when Republicans get their hindparts caught in the wringer of justice do you see fit to complain.  And you do so loudly.

what about the new way of doing polictics and bipartisainship...just words, huh?

the republicans can either follow, get out of the way, or get crushed. it matters not the least to me which one they choose.