Palin's nomination seemed to have immediately appeased the ultraconservatives. After all, she is an evangelical Protestant and she is anti-abortion and she is pro-gun and can field dress a moose and so on. Education, or experience is not even a part...

...for me at least the real highlight of the 2008 Democratic National Convention was the actual appearance and speech of Ted Kennedy, who made the effort to be there despite battling a malignant brain tumor. Those few minutes alone made it worthwhile...

The almost de-rigueur visits to Jerry Falwell's den, or the endorsements by Pat Robertson and other mega church businessmen make the accusations leveled towards Barack Obama for the words of Jeremiah Wright pale in comparison.

I dont know how you feel about the advertising foldouts in magazines, but they drive me bananas. You know, those ads, printed on double-sized paper, which open, or maybe I should say spill outwards from one, or even both covers of a magazine?

George W. Bush said after that meeting that: "I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy and we had a very good dialogue. I was able to get a sense of his soul