Attack her in the air, on the beaches, in the streets, at every opportunity- and use the attacks to show McCain’s failed judgment, pandering, and reckless impulsiveness, etc.

Total job losses for 2008: 605,000 – Unemployment surges to 6.1%.

And McCain was talking about eliminating Unemployment insurance last night…and replacing it with some untested and unspecific plan to pay workers “part of the difference” between a mandatory low paying job and their old job…WHILE they also are compelled to go to a JC to get “reskilled” for a “decent paying job”.

And we all know that the Republicans consider “decent pay” somewhere below the minimum wage that most of them voted against last year!

McCain/Palin Questions from Media–Zip/Zero

McCain/Palin Questions from unwashed public at campaign stops –Zip/Zero

Obama–takes questions form both at nearly every stop several times a week.

her daughter is proof positive that it obviously doesn’t work. i think that’s fair game.

and as to the rumor that the downs baby wasn’t hers but her daughter’s, well, that rumor started and has been running around in alaska. blogtopia and yes, i coined that phrase, only amplified it. and again, if it turned out to be true, it would have spoken to the “abstinence only” platform of her agenda.

and to be fair, there is an incredible amount of circumstantial evidence, albeit no smoking gun, about the downs baby being the daughter’s and not the mother’s (palin’s long flight and drive home between water breaking and delivery, the daughter’s long absence from school right before the baby was born). so, while the story has the patina of smarminess, it’s not made up out of whole cloth a la drudge just to denigrate an opponent.

that being said, there’s plenty of real, political problems maggie o’connell has that we can hammer on (trooper gate, no foreign policy experience, attempted book banning, etc).

It’s not alone in this. I have some understanding of Christianity from having been raised Lutheran, but to the extent that I know anything about Islam, much of it comes from conversations on the excellent public radio program Speaking of Faith. There’s a lot of good there, and a lot of beauty, too, despite the truly horrific things some do ostensibly in its name. But the heart of Islam is not as visible in the media as it would need to be for people who aren’t actively looking for the information to get a balanced understanding.