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Hang in there for 9 seconds and then the video will clear up and John Stewart will show all the Republican backtracking set in motion by Sarah Palin's selection.

Its a shame a real news organization won't actually ask these people for explanations.

Not a bad deal for Kwame considering the fact that he was facing two felonies that cost the city $8.4 million.

Quoted: Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Resigns in Plea Deal, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pleaded guilty to two counts of obstruction of justice and will step down as the mayor of the nation's 11th-largest city as part of a plea deal in a sex-and-misconduct scandal that has plagued the Motor City for months.

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Haahahahhahahahahahahaha. The next two days will be like watching people rearrange deck chairs on the Titanic.

Here is a written transcript:

Murphy: Um, you know, because, I come out of the blue swing state governor world. Engler, Whitman, Tommy Thompson, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, I mean, and these guys, this is all like how you win a Texas Race race, just run it up, and it's not gonna work.

Noonan: It's Over.
Murphy: Still, McCain can give a version of the Lieberman speech and do himself some good.
Todd: Don't you think this Palin pick is insulting to Kay Baily Hutchinson?
Noonan: Saw Kay this morning
Todd: She's(?) never looked comfortable up there..
Murphy: all bummed out.
Todd: I mean, is she really the most qualified woman they could turn to?
Noonan: The most qualified? No. I think they went for this, excuse me, political bullshit about narratives and youthfulness and the picture
Todd: Yeah, but what's the narrative?
Murphy: I totally agree.
Noonan: Every time Republicans do that, because that's not where they live and it's not what they're good at, they blow it.
Murphy: You know what's the worst thing about it, the greatest of McCain is no cynicism, and..
Murphy: This is cynical.
Todd: And as you called it, gimmicky.

For additional hilarity check out Peggy Noonan's paid opinion today in the Wall Street Journal.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122044753790594947.html

Ouch, it must suck to have your VP vetted by the media.

Quoted: He (McCain) has even gone so far as to publish "pork lists" detailing these financial favors.Three times in recent years, McCain's catalogs of "objectionable" spending have included earmarks for this small Alaska town, requested by its mayor at the time -- Sarah Palin. McCain also criticized $450,000 set aside for an agricultural processing facility in Wasilla that was requested during Palin's tenure as mayor and cleared Congress soon after she left office in 2002...Wasilla received $11.9 million in earmarks from 2000 to 2003.

Quoted: Palin and husband Todd each held a 20 percent stake in Anchorage Car Wash LLC, according to state corporation records filed in 2004... A Feb. 11, 2007 letter to the governor's business partner advises that the car wash had "not filed its biennial report and/or paid its biennial fees," which were more than a year overdue. On April 3, 2007, the state went further and issued a "certificate of involuntary dissolution" because of the car wash's failure to file its report and pay state licensing fees.

Of course these letters were sent on official Alaska state letterhead, featuring the seal and signature of one Sarah Palin. Obviously its hard to run a car wash when you can't follow the rules set by the state you're governing.

Quoted: That ain't no etch-a-sketch. This is one doodle that can't be un-did, homeskillet.

Ouch. Not exactly a ringing endorsement from a family member.

Quoted: Meanwhile, Palin's mother-in-law, Faye Palin, told a New York Daily News reporter that she didn't agree with Sarah on everything and hadn't yet decided how she would vote. She added: "I'm not sure what she brings to the ticket other than she's a woman and a conservative. Well, she's a better speaker than McCain," Faye Palin said with a laugh.

also worth noting is her response (in a different article) to the question of whether or not she was ready to be President Palin should something happen:

Quoted: "I am ... I am up to the task, of course, of focusing on the challenges that face America," she answered, and that was all she could say on her behalf on this question. Then she abruptly shifted to how her candidacy would help Alaska. "And I am very pleased with the situation that I am in, when, when you consider the situation now that Alaska will be in. And that is Alaska, and Alaskans will be allowed to contribute more to our great country and they'll be allowed to do that because I -- if we're elected -- will be in a position of opening the eyes of the country to what it is that Alaska is all about and what Alaska has to offer. So, I am happy to and very honored to be asked to do this. I know it's going to be great for Alaska."

Alaska.

Let me rundown the list of why this pick is a disaster for John McCain:

- 44 year old first term governor 2 years on the job
- currently in the midst of an abuse of power scandal where she used the influence of her office to try to get a state police officer fired
- Palin passed windfall profits taxes against any oil company operating in Alaska. Exactly the kind of tax McCain has been blasting Obama for suggesting for the last 3 months.

- Previous job was mayor of Wasilla City, AK (pop. 5,000)

I am not sure what legs McCain will have left to stand on to criticize Obama. And can you imagine what the Vice Presidential debates are going to look like? Biden v. Palin. Unthinkable.

Also worth noting is this doozy from Palin back on August 1, RE: The Vice Presidency:

Quoted: As for the prospect of her being vice president, Palin told Kudlow that she could not answer the question of whether she wanted the job “until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day.

But in her defense, she is Governor of the state with three electoral votes and she has five kids, one for each year John McCain was a POW.

Quoted: Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain has chosen Gov. Sarah Palin to be his running mate. She would be the first woman to serve on a Republican presidential ticket.

Quoted: There’s nothing surreptitious about the message of Boston rap trio East Coast Avengers’ new single. In “Kill Bill O’Reilly,” the lyrics call for the Fox News star to “be hanged like Benito Mussolini and otherwise killed.”

Keith Olbermann, care to comment?

Quoted: “Gentlemen, I’m the last person to disagree with you on the chicken hawk, lying coward, sexist, racist, needs a face-lift, whore stuff, but you really need to re-cut this track,” Olbermann said addressing the Avengers last week on his MSNBC show “Countdown.” “Nobody’s life should be threatened, not even in the hyperbole of the moment. Beside, you are rappers. You have better ethics than Bill O’Reilly does. Live up to them. Don’t live down to him. Word to your mother.”

lulz.