Cease-fire

[The Mikado]

I have a deal: I'll say something nice about Senator McCain, and ask my other Democratic/left-leaning indies to do the same.  In return, I'll ask the GOP posters do do the same about Senator Obama.  I'll go first: John McCain was very polite when I ran into him in an airport a few years back, and took thirty seconds or so out of his day to talk to me.

Go.

[The Mikado]

Where do indies fit into this?

You don't like either of them, do you?  Well, try both of them.

Oh, and as a bonus, I'll do President Bush: the National Do Not Call List was a good idea.

[The Mikado]

Now that this is over:

Sarah Palin...hmm...Sarah Palin is...well...

Give me a minute:

She is genuinely proud of her humble roots and has managed to come quite far, much further than you would expect for someone who has a husband who works up at the North Slope.  She's tenacious and, with a little lot of seasoning, could be a fixture of American politics for the next decade.