The problem for Obama is that people, i.e., voters, believe that the press has a bias for him.

Combine that with the fact that the Presidential candidate is quoted on Drudge as saying he as more experience than the Vice Presidential candidate.  By entering into that fray, he is essentially conceding that he has less experience than McCain.  Once again, he or his handlers are making unforced errors.

What is next, and ad that 'proves' how much experience he has relative to the Vice Presidential candidate??  Just foolish.  

Stop talking about experience (Obama has virtually none) and simply say that she is welcome addition to the campaign, qualified based on her experience as Governor of Alaska, but wrong on the issues...

Pawlenty perhaps, but that's too dull.
Jindal???  You are kidding, right?
Crist?  Too tanned for the center and right.
Guliani???  Oh, surely you jest.

Anyone picked by McCain was going to get scrutinized.  The MSM is in love with Obama and more important, it is the MSM who wants to determine who wins this election.  It is the MSM who want to be the Kingmaker, so they can control the story.

Did you see Scarborough and Buchanan's reactions?  And the stuff they said just before the pick was announced?  They were totally bashing the idea that McCain might pick her as ludicous.  Now, they've certainly come around and started spouting the standard talking points about why she's OK now, but it's really clear that a much of the Republican party understands this was a bad bad pick.  

The AP? run by Ron Fournier, a right-wing McCain shill that has been running consistently negative coverage on Obama throughout this election?

Here, try memorizing their talking points before defending them.  Their not too convincing:

The blogs and political organizations have made much of an email from Ron to Karl Rove that surfaced soon after Ron was named acting bureau chief, and which involved the death of Pat Tillman. The email exchange between Ron and Rove occurred in 2004, while Ron was a correspondent for AP -- long before he was named bureau chief. Ron has widely publicly said that the tone of the email was unfortunate, but that the contact with Rove was in the pursuit of a story. Ron has written both columns and articles that are critical of Rove. Here's what Ron said publicly about the email: "I was an AP political reporter at the time of the 2004 e-mail exchange, and was interacting with a source, a top aide to the president, in the course of following an important and compelling story. I regret the breezy nature of the correspondence."

Meanwhile, ANOTHER AP reporter (Jim Drinkard, the same guy who wrote the article blogged here) wrote a column of total concern-trollery LISTING the specifics in a neutral-to-approving tone and then tearing them all down.

"I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience he will bring to the White House. And Senator Obama has a speech that he gave in 2002."

I think that's what we have here:  Two people who meet the minimum qualifications.  

Anyway, I have a friend who did her fine arts program at U of I and happens to be a great artist. Maybe you should visit Idaho some time and take in the beauty instead of denigrating anyone who didn't graduate from the Ivy League.

The only public office she held before December 4, 2006 was as city councilwoman and then mayor of a town of 9,000 people.

Obama has 8 years as State Senator in a state with 12 million people, 4 years in the US Senate where he sat on the foreign relations committee, and a year and a half running a successful presidential campaign that involved dozens of debates and hundreds of briefings from the nation's top experts on economic and foreign policy.  

You know, it's interesting (to me) how my impressions of candidate qualifications have evolved over the campaign season, but I'm alot more impressed with Obama's work as a community organizer than I am with his Harvard Law degree or the one class he taught.

And why are the Republican spokespeople have moments on national television like this and this?

and "troopergate" may have been exposed by enemies, but she did herself no favors by lying about her involvement.

There is no doubt that Mr. Palin will eventually give an interview (I see Diane Sawyer in his future) where he discusses it.   If he's smart, he'll say he just wanted a vote and not a new country and that he didnt agree with the founder.