Have we burned through all the details and hit peak Palin yet in this campaign? Of course not!
Despite a worldwide financial meltdown and the aftermath of a devastating hurricane, and two -- TWO! -- mentions of Britney Spears, Sarah Palin, the country's most interesting VP possibility ever, dominates the news cycle. We've got a list of Palin points to get through. We're starting with her tanning bed. (Yes, we said "tanning bed.")
Daily Palin: Um, how shall we put this? ... Sarah Palin is a fake-baker. It's true! She had a tanning bed installed in the governor's official residence last year. Her gubernatorial spokesperson has confirmed it and everything! And before you get all "funds from the Bridge to Nowhere!" she paid for the artificial- and harmful-rays-generator herself. Damn, we can't help but love this woman!
Another thing she'll pay for is her fast rise to the very tippy top of the media-darlings. At least that's what this cynical contributor at CBS thinks. Soon readers/writers/bloggers will get bored, the thesis goes, and the same media that made her a star will knock her down just like Britney. Sure, but in the next 50 days?
Palin claimed there was a teleprompter glitch during her speech in Ohio last night, yet she winged it and nonetheless wowed the audience! Though the teleprompter worked just fine, reporters who know these things, said. Again with the gray areas, Palin?
Finally, you've heard Palin won't speak to investigators re: her role in "Troopergate" and why the public safety commissioner was fired. However, her lawyers filed papers yesterday explaining the commissioner was let go because he had a "rogue mentality" on budgeting and other policy issues. Oh? You mean, he got fired for being a Juneau outsider? For being ... a maverick! The filing includes an email from Gov. Palin to Monegan, the ex-commish, arguing a new proposal would still allow her ex-brother-in-law to carry a gun and, therefore, threaten her family.
From ADN.com:
"Amazing," the e-mail says. "And he's still a trooper, and he still
carries a gun, and he still tells anyone who will listen that he will
'never work for that b----' (me) because he has such anger and distain
towards my family."
In other news from campaign notables, Michelle Obama is back in the public eye. Maybe she's been there the whole time, but somehow she doesn't get her own Daily Michelle. Should that change? Anyway, she's written a piece for BlogHer on the fight for fair pay. It's long and campaign-y but maybe a sign that we'll be seeing more of her and the rest of the Election 2008 cast. (Why, Biden made a brief but zingy appearance in the news yesterday, too!)
Stocks are falling! Banks are falling! The dollar is falling! The sky is falling! But fear not, for financial institutions, there's a generous safety net (unless your Lehman Brothers or middle class Americans ... you know, sorry about that!).
Love this. A gay bar in Galveston reopened almost immediately after Ike tore through the island. A pre-curfew drag show and Tina Turner sing-along were in the works. (Why Tina? She survived an Ike, too.)
Kevin Federline missed his sons' birthday party over the weekend. Which gave the Spears women some time to drop restraining orders and reunite curbside. We've got chills! You?
Photo: sheknows.com
