Sarah Palin's fungible commodity

So what's up? You don't like John Brown's Sarah Palin smoothed-out R&B synth anthem? "So I heard you from Alaska? / Bitch, you into NASCAR?" That's good stuff!

OK how about this:

Listen how Wolf Blitzer leads into this clip. Throws up the softball, Sarah Palin as "energy expert," then goes yard. He gets too much satisfaction from this and, of course, he cheats by not showing the question before her answer.



The Brambles playfully juxtaposes the above clip with a memorable Q-and-A moment from '07. Check it out.

And for you GOP voters, another campaign-trail gaffe, this time from earlier in the year.



And yet the polls are still tight: The latest Gallup has Obama up 4 percent, citing consumer confidence, or lack thereof. Zogby's latest has Obama at 47 percent and McCain at 45 percent, i.e. tied. But those polls obv don't mean much on their own. And of course there's those voting machines in Ohio.

The RealClearPolitics electoral map tells a different story. Minnesota and Wisconsin, states Kerry took in '04, are toss-ups. Obama is doing better in Indiana, and Iowa might come back to haunt McCain if Obama can win Colorado and Pennsylvania and the Great Lakes states, but it's going to be hard fought. Obama needs to stay on message and off the defensive.

Nonsequitur: Did you know that I can name all the states in alphabetical order in less than 12 seconds. I also like T-shirts with lakes on them.

And did you know that there will be a group show at Bows and Arrows in October that also will be a fund-raiser for Obama. If Palin keeps this up, he may not need the cash.