If you're still deciding who to vote for you might want to read this. It's scary to consider how little research McCain's people did on Palin and how hastily she was chosen.

Quoted: Representative Gail Phillips, a Republican and former speaker of the State House, said the widespread surprise in Alaska when Ms. Palin was named to the ticket made her wonder how intensively the McCain campaign had vetted her. “I started calling around and asking, and I have not been able to find one person that was called,” Ms. Phillips said. “I called 30 to 40 people, political leaders, business leaders, community leaders. Not one of them had heard. Alaska is a very small community, we know people all over, but I haven’t found anybody who was asked anything.”

John Stewart's thoughts on the Palin pick. Also, some great commentary from Samantha Bee. Perfect.

Quoted: Sarah Palin may be the ideological opposite of Hillary Clinton, but she's her gynecological twin.

I always find it incredibly phony (if not devisive) when cadidates say "God bless America." That's something that you'd only genuinely say if you were moderately to very religious, which most of the candidates never are. I think they always think they have to say it to seem like "they got religion too," which is dumb.

Quoted: At the beginning of 2007 there were 38 things candidates could mention in public that wouldn't be considered damaging to their campaigns, but now they are mostly limited to 'Thank you all for coming,' and 'God bless America,'" ...

Interesting article ...

Quoted: For those of us who admire Mrs. Clinton and believe she would make a terrific president, there are hard trade-offs involved. She has an utter mastery of domestic and foreign policy, and among the Democrats she knows military and security issues in particular better than anyone else. And if the concern is to bring in fresh currents into the political system, what better way than electing a woman president?