(1)Today's newspaper included a wonderful article which describes how working class women in Pennsylvania are not buying into the Palin mystique. They admire her for becoming the first woman on a presidential ticket, but they agree that, once you cut through the glamor, there's no substance there with regard to the problems that so many women face every day, e.g. child care, health insurance, the price of gas, home foreclosures, etc.

IMHO, the great majority of female voters would be extremely foolish to vote for McCain/Palin or not vote at all.  Because, unless you're a hard right religious extremist or a multimillionaire, this ticket is simply not going to do what you hope the new administration will do.

Plus, Ladies, please remember that Joe Biden was the author of the "Violence Against Women" Act.

I've hear him say on numerous occasions that "national security is John McCain's strong suit."  Not, the public perception is that it is his strong suit, but that it simply is that way, that McCain is to be trusted and respected in that area.

I would like to see good journalism, not hackery left or right.

You seem to like hackery of the Left. I do not.

I'm just willing to call it as I see it on BOTH sides.

A bloviating a$$hole is just that, regardless of the perspective.

Bill OReilly's got a bachelor's degree is in History from Marist College.  He also has 2 Master degrees.  One in Broadcast Journalism from Boston University and another in Public Administration from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

But from listening to McCain's campaign manager to day there is no way that McCain will go on shows like that. He didn't say that but he did more or less indicate that they are going to be very stingy with the press.

Besides McCain has nothing to gain from going on the KO Clown Show. That is just not a place to get his message out when he can get it out to the same people in other ways.

Obama was not too smart to go on O'Reilly. Which once again shows me my instincts and trained political eye was right about him all the time. He talks about judgment but he continues to show time after time that he lacks judgment and worse - common sense.

It's pretty much locked up the "DKos left" demographic in a tight bow.  That does, of course, put a pretty tight ceiling on KO's reach.  Which is what differentiates him from O'Reilly, quite frankly.  O'Reilly is a reliably right-leaning populist blowhard to be sure, but he draws a shocking amount of viewers from both sides of the aisle.  I think it's kind of like the Howard Stern phenomenon, where several of his most attentive listeners were the guys who professed to hate him so much.  It takes a certain sort of showmanship to sell yourself that way successfully, but apparently O'Reilly's got it a lot more than KO.