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I’m not the hugest Family Guy fan around, though I do enjoy it somewhat.  Still, hearing show-creator Seth McFarlane recite the Sarah Palin-Katie Couric interview in the voice of patriarch Peter Griffin was something else.

Best one wins a high five from yours truly.  I’ll start.  John McCain doesn’t need George Bush to blow this election for him.

Also to think about: Obama spoke before 100,000 plus in Denver on Sunday and figured he had so much money in the bank he decided to purchase advertising on the side of the Straight Talk Express. Ouch! (and yes, I’m aware that last one is from The Onion but it still made me laugh)

Discuss amongst yourselves.

Genius.  That is all.

Willamette Week, Portland’s alt-weekly that elevates the genre from your usual rag to something a bit more respectful made their endorsement.  It was a real schiavo for the hometown paper to endorse Obama/Biden, but they did it with such elan.  The article itself wasn’t all that illuminating, except for the cover poster created by Barry Stock, a 1000 word picture if there ever has been one.

It says it all.  (Even more so than the ignorant supporters turning up at Palin’s rallies.)  Perfect, succinct, clear, simple and expressive.  Nope. No thanks, come again at some other time.  We don’t want you, we don’t need you, we think you’re pretty useless.  Maybe nope will become the new FAIL, which has already worn its course.

You’ve done the city proud Willamette Week and for that we salute you.

As far as PR stunts go, having the Republican VP candidate and Alaska Gov., Sarah Palin, drop a ceremonial hockey puck at an NHL game was a good move.  After all she is a self-professed “hockey mom.” It could have been a well orchestrated maneuver.  But where the stunt may have gone wrong is when her handlers inexplicably decided to have her drop a puck at Saturday’s Philadelphia Flyers opening night.

“I am surprised that the candidate would go on the ice in Philly — Philly fans threw snowballs at Santa Claus and booed Beyonce(*) because she was wearing a Michael Jordan dress,” said Ted Leonsis, owner of the Washington Capitals, a conference rival of the Flyers. “This is dangerous territory.”

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, a former Philly mayor and big fan of the town’s sports teams, also said before the game he didn’t think the puck-drop was a good idea.

“Sports and politics, I believe, never mix,” the governor said.  This is the same city that threw batteries at baseball player J.D. Drew and pelted Santa Claus with snow balls, as mentioned above; a citywide fanbase whose reputation is one of the most passionate and often vitriolic in the country.  Did they think that Flyer-fans would do anything other than shower Palin with a chorus of boos?

Though I often wonder about the sanity of the city due to the pent up aggression of not having won a major sports championship since 1983, I can honestly say that I’m proud of Philadelphia.  Big ups for all involved in showing how they really feel about Sarah Palin.

She is a national joke, her fake SAT scores notwithstanding, nothing but a giant albatross around an already sinking ship.

I won’t argue whether or not SNL is relevant or funny or what not.� I’m guessing there will be more dead silence this year than the last, but what a spot on way to kick off the season.� Tina Fey came back, like everyone hoped once Sarah Palin was announced as John McCain’s running mate, to team up with Amy Poehler.

SNL hasn’t been this spot on it quite a bit.� Maybe the election will bring something good out of the venerable NBC sketch show.

If you live outside the US, then you’ll want to swing on over to NBC to watch the clips.

Yeah okay, pretty standard Hollywood stuff here.� Actor Matt Damon speaking out against Republican Vice President nominee Sarah Palin.� He’s saying all the stuff liberals are thinking and basically asking the media to do their f*cking jobs and stop with the he said/she said and start calling Palin on her lies about the Bridge to Nowhere.� You know, the kind of job that shouldn’t be left up to bloggers.� I digress.� The part I loved though is towards the end when he just becomes flummoxed and resorts to “I wanna know if she thinks dinosaurs were on the Earth 4,000 years ago.”� You can almost see the blood vessels getting ready to pop, but he does a good job maintaining composure.

Completely inappropriate, but from a laughs standpoint it hits the mark. �In a very juvenile way. �Maybe it’s just the mood I’m in, or maybe it’s that John McCain really does seem to be checking out his VP running mate. �Kudos to secretsauce.tv for putting this together. �

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and her husband Todd have addressed those pesky rumors that four-month old son Trig Palin might actually be their daughters.� In announcing that daughter Bristol is pregnant, there leaves no discussion about whether or not Sarah Palin was trying to cover something up.� In discussing these matters so quickly, Palin and hence McCain, have deflated a potential landmind.

Curiously, it wasn’t Obama and the Democrats raising these issues, they couldn’t even if they wanted to simply because of the campaign they have constructed.� You can’t very well attack the character of a female Vice Presidential candidate when your campaign is based on changing the usual politics.� So, Obama largely stayed above the shit river because the last thing he can afford to do is turn this election into a debate over cultural values/issues and Palin tackles the rumors head on and ends up looking the better for it.

Everybody wins.� Except for the media who now have nothing worth investigating otherwise looking vindictive or leftist or worse beating up on a female.� And also Palin’s 16-year-old daughter Bristol.� She might have needed something more than abstinence only education.� After all, it’s no secret that teenagers will continue to bang have sex no matter how many times you tell them no.� Doesn’t matter if you come from the poorest of families or the richest, come from neglected parents or the most overprotected.� Kids will sexual experiment and truly the only way to prevent pregnancies during teenage years is to ah, use birth control of some sort.� The whole pull out method is probably not the best solution to avoiding pregnancy.

So where does this leave us?� Well, the Republican Convention is being overshadowed by a downgraded Hurrican Gustav (hopefully the levees hold even at a Category 2 storm) and it’s back to campaigning as usual.� This won’t truly heat up until the debates.

In the meantime, McCain may actually want to take a page from Obama and focus on the issues at hand instead of harping about how popular Obama is.� Things like energy security, the economy, foreign policy, etc.� Things voters actually care about.

Full statement from Sarah Palin:

“We have been blessed with five wonderful children who we love with all our heart and mean everything to us. Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned. We�re proud of Bristol�s decision to have her baby and even prouder to become grandparents. As Bristol faces the responsibilities of adulthood, she knows she has our unconditional love and support.

“Bristol and the young man she will marry are going to realize very quickly the difficulties of raising a child, which is why they will have the love and support of our entire family. We ask the media to respect our daughter and Levi�s privacy as has always been the tradition of children of candidates.”