Ever time Palin says something stupid, take a drink.  The upside is that if McCain wins, it won't matter, because you'll be long dead of liver failure.

Those pesky eastern, pointy-headed, overeducated elites just can't be trusted to ask questions. And, given his clip, Palin can't be trusted with speaking for herself. McCain is like a dad (grandpa?) defending his screw-up kid in front of the principal.

Wait, was that not an SNL sketch?

No, no ratnerstar, you'll be stone sober.  Vice President Palin won't say anything stupid.  She won't say anything at all.

Anyone besides me think that this high-collar, red jacket thing Palin keeps showing up in--and that Tina Fey wore in the SNL sendup--looks like something you might've seen on Madam Mao?  Very DPRK.  Maybe SHE'S the Manchurian candidate.

Oh, wait, this clip is from the SAME damn Couric interview we saw last week.  I forgot that in lew of letting Palin talk to actual journalists the McCain campaign thought they'd let her do one long, softball interview with a bland female new presenter and run greatest hits clips right up until election day.

In legal terms, we call this a "brain fart" moment.  

POWPOW and the Palin, the greatest comedy duo this side of Abbott and Costello.

I guess I would rather have the president hold the hand of the VP nominee, rather than the other way around, a la Bush and Cheney 's 9/11 commission interview.

How much does anyone want to bet she says "We don't send a boy to do a man's job, and John McCain is that man." I just wish I was part of her debate prep team convincing her how great a zinger this would be., she would probably botch it though. "We don't send a job to be a boy but a man, and John McCain is that job."

Areo, Jiang Qing (her um...name), DPRK. Manchuria, wow you are all over the place. She was born in Shandong and is not manzu but han. I really got to get you up to speed so you don't get your cultural stereotypes all mixed up next time.

Just busting your chops, this means nothing.

It has been not quite five weeks since John McCain announced the oh-so-fragile Sarah Palin as his runningmate

Uh, blackie, I actually knew her name was Jiang Qing.  I used "Madam Mao" in the interests of comedy.  If I'd said Jian Qing, I'd have had to 've said, "Mao Zedong's wife, Jiang Qing" and that just ain't as punchy as straight up "Madam Mao."  

(I also knew she was neither from DPRK nor Manchuria.  Again, just trolling for laughs.)

I once read a memoir whose title I can't recall by a woman who came of age (and found Lesbian love) on a very scary collective farm during the Cultural Revolution and then got tapped to play the lead in one of Jiang Qing's revolutionary operas, only to miss out when Mao kicked the bucket.  

I was most taken by the language people used, so heavily laden with metaphor.  At the time I was in love with a Shanghainese lass.  Bracingly strange personality.  Hard nosed.  Topped her year in biochemistry at Tsinghua University.  (She didn't fully reciprocate my ardor.  Not fully.  Kinky story there, but for another time.)  But that book really gave me some insight into why my friend talked and thought the way she did.

aero, I know, just busting your chops. I am in a seriously snarky mood, trying to avoid being in a seriously down mood.

"We don't send a boy to do a man's job, and John McCain is that man."

If only she'd say that. She'd get pounded for the undeniable racial undertones. By the press, of course, not the campaign.

"Readers currently attending an institution of higher learning can develop their own related drinking games."

I dunno, an awful lot of people would end up dead of alcohol poisoning.