NY Times did Sarah Palin, enemies-only, so she looks bad even with her 86% approval rating in Alaska, says John of Power Line.  It’s easy.  Just make it an enemies-only interview list. 

If the Times wanted to test that proposition, they could send a team of reporters to Chicago to search out and interview people who don’t like Barack Obama. Somehow, though, I don’t think that’s on their agenda.

Neither do I. 

John’s sidekick Paul says it would be harder in Chi, because O. has gone along to get along.

You don’t make many enemies by voting “present.”

The local dailies have been trying, of course — heh, heh.

Wondering as I was about slips of the tongue by the Big O., faithfully recorded on the Worldwide Web but not so faithfully in Chicago’s Sun-Times and Chi Trib, I googled “Obama gaffes” and found a bonanza.

The first of them was, you guessed it, a blog called “Obama’s Gaffes: How Many More Gaffes Until We Can Call Him Stupid!”  The proprietor starts with an apology (and a misspelling):

I don’t post as often as I used to, becuase [sic] my job is done, after 14 months of following and documenting Obama words. I am confident that people finally have figured out what Obama is all about. A gaffe galore candidate along with a VP who is worse than he is with gaffes. I guess likes attracts like! Enjoy the the best of Obama’s gaffes.

He has videos, like this of O. using his middle finger to show Hillary what’s up. 

On the lipstick business, he offers this from Times of London:

“The character question it raises is not that he is a sexist or that he lacks courtesy. It is that he folds under pressure. Obama has looked amazingly uncomfortable under the pressure that Palin has put him under. He relies on his cool – it is a core part of his appeal. So he looks bad when he loses it. During the Hillary contest he rarely came under any pressure from the media. When he did he reacted badly.”

Getting a little less exuberant than this blogger, but no less telling, we find Michelle Malkin at National Review Online, with “Barack Gaffes: the Obama machine,” which opens with this staple of anti-media data:

All it takes is one gaffe to taint a Republican for life. The political establishment never let Dan Quayle live down his fateful misspelling of “potatoe.” The New York Times distorted and misreported the first President Bush’s questions about new scanner technology at a grocers’ convention to brand him permanently as out of touch.

She lists:

* the 10,000 killed by tornado in Kansas.  No, 12 people.

* the 57 U.S. states.  No, 50.

* Arkansas is nearer Kentucky (than his state, Illinois) — given as why Hillary led him in Kentucky.

* thanking Sioux City for the welcome.  He was in Sioux Falls.

* His parents conceived him in response to the Selma bridge crossing in 1965.  He was born in 1961.

* We use translators in Iraq that could be used in Afghanistan.  Different languages.

* Said he’s not familiar with Hanford OR nuclear waste disposal site.  Voted on how to deal with it.

* Cited nonexistent Life Mag article he read at age nine, about black man scarred by trying to whiten his skin.

* Said one day Iran posed no serious threat, next day that he had “made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave.”

Ask yourselves, ladies and gentlemen, are mainstreamers in the tank for this guy or not, that he hasn’t become the stuff of editorials, not to mention comic skits?

This old man, he’s not cool:

McCain “can’t send an email?” [says Obama ad]  That’s true, actually, as Jonah Goldberg explains:

The reason he doesn’t send email is that he can’t use a keyboard because of the relentless beatings he received from the Viet Cong in service to our country. From the Boston Globe (March 4, 2000):

McCain gets emotional at the mention of military families needing food stamps or veterans lacking health care. The outrage comes from inside: McCain’s severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes.

Friends marvel at McCain’s encyclopedic knowledge of sports. He’s an avid fan – Ted Williams is his hero – but he can’t raise his arm above his shoulder to throw a baseball.

From the man who says it’s time to make government cool again.

Actually, McC knows a lot about computers, Power Line further explains:

This excerpt from a 2000 Forbes article about McCain’s pioneering web-based campaign is noteworthy:

In certain ways, McCain was a natural Web candidate. Chairman of the Senate Telecommunications Subcommittee and regarded as the U.S. Senate’s savviest technologist, McCain is an inveterate devotee of email.

His nightly ritual is to read his email together with his wife, Cindy. The injuries he incurred as a Vietnam POW make it painful for McCain to type. Instead, he dictates responses that his wife types on a laptop. “She’s a whiz on the keyboard, and I’m so laborious,” McCain admits.

Forget Sarah.  Is O. ready to be president?

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Later:  In the spirit of Nyaa, nyaa, when read B. wrote:

something stinks.  right now, as i write you, my elbows are touching my waist.  my forrearms are on a small slant upwards as i type on my laptop on the kitchen table.  my shouldders are as far down as anyone’s shoulders go.  so jonah is lying and stretching as he usually does.  john mccain is simply an old fart who doesn’t want to know or try out anything the least bit new… bottom line, your shoulders do NOT ever have to go up at all to send an email.. and i am insulted that they are trying to say otherwise as my shoulders are as down and immobile as any human being’s as i write this email to you.  –b

I responded:

This one got you, I see.  Jonah does not lie here, nor does he usually.  Read his Liberal Fascism (HG Wells’s phrase meant to put a smiling face on f.).  If McC is an old fart, what am I, older than he?  And why is he “savviest” on technology?  You have not worn his shoes, so shut up.  He does not wave at crowds, have you noticed?  So shut up. 

Clever, eh?

“Any dirt on her?” a reporter asked Debbie from Wasilla, calling in to Bill Bennett’s Morning in America radio show.  D. is a process server and provides copies of court files to anyone who asks (and pays a “not cheap” fee).  She’s getting lots of calls from Obama camp — oops, no, not them — from mainstream media reporters including from Wash Post and LA Times, looking for files that in any way relate to Sarah Palin, taking their cue from Natl Enquirer’s “Sarah Palin — WHAT SHE’S HIDING.” 

Nothiing of substance in this one, she had told the one explicitly looking for dirt.  Big seller is the friend’s sealed divorce file, which has tax returns and contact info for the husband, as in the Enquirer.  He sealed them for privacy’s sake, says Debby; now they’re unsealed and a hot item for newsies, who have shown little or no interest in Obama’s Chicago Annenberg Challenge files.

They are after her. 

Listen in.

[Hat tip, as we bloggers say, to The Next Right]

Look at the last numbers here, in which the light green swings up, the dark swings down:

I used to like dark green (the color, St. Patrick’s Day style), but that light green (the color) is my shade these days.  Go McC-P!

Sarah Palin the target:

“Democrats dare not issue [Sarah] Palin a pass — she’s too dangerous a foe. Normally vice presidential candidates fade into the background. Nobody is expecting that with Palin; indeed, her newfound celebrity has made even Obama look dull. [Italics added]

The usual rule is that voters don’t trust attacks from people they don’t know, but Palin is turning the adage on its head. Democrats are determined to attack her credibility, even if it gives her more visibility. ‘We’ve got to go after her, and fast,’ a top Democratic strategist, who asked for anonymity when discussing strategy, told me”

That’s Newsweek’s Howard Fineman, in the latest issue.

In post-speech comments, one of the non-Fox cable stations had full-bore analysis of whom Palin was aiming for with all those small-town-culture references, as if demographics were her concern.  They don’t get it, do they? 

It’s the culture part, stupid, where traditional values hold forth, not only in small towns but in big-city neighborhoods.  Or they get it but resist it, because it gets right at something they won’t admit — how far removed they are from the American Majority.