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Christ almighty, G. I don't know what to make of this, do you?

At first I was delighted because I thought this VP pick so patently ridiculous that I was convinced McCain had, in effect, handed the election to Barack Obama. This is perfect, I thought, this is almost too easy!

But now I'm starting to worry. Maybe it is too easy... Palin IS a ludicrously unqualified choice, and this DOES say troubling things about McCain's judgement (or should) but will the mainstream media (always bending over backwards to try to disprove "liberal bias") allow McCain, Palin and the GOP to get away with spinning and lying their way past the hypocrises and contradictions?

The MSM after all have been such admirers of John McCain's "maverick" persona that they've seemed unwilling or unable to admit to themselves (and thus to the American public) that McCain has not been that person in years if he ever truly was. And then there's the Democrats, with their uncanny talent for "snatching defeat from the jaws of victory." Will Democratic leaders actually find a way to blow it, to screw up what should have been--after 8 years of the train wreck that has been the Bush presidency--a cakewalk to the White House?

Even more importantly, will the American people use common sense, recognize the disaster-in-the-making of a McCain-Palin administration and vote accordingly? Or will lingering racism about Obama and self-delusion about John McCain's supposed "experience" sabotage us? I'm just wondering if in November this country will give the Europeans yet another reason to shake their collective heads and wonder--again--what the hell the Americans are thinking.

When I consider all of that, I'm not sure of anything anymore