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Well at least we now know what she was thinking:

Speaking to the conservative talker Rusty Humphries today, Sarah Palin left the door open to speculation about President Obama's birth certificate.

"Would you make the birth certificate an issue if you ran?" she was asked (around 9 minutes into the video above).

"I think the public rightfully is still making it an issue. I don't have a problem with that. I don't know if I would have to bother to make it an issue, because I think that members of the electorate still want answers," she replied.

"Do you think it's a fair question to be looking at?" Humphries persisted.

"I think it's a fair question, just like I think past association and past voting records -- all of that is fair game," Palin said. "The McCain-Palin campaign didn't do a good enough job in that area."

And the failure in math from the right begins:

After the 9/12 march on Washington, conservatives falsely claimed that over a million people attended, when in reality the closest thing to an official count — numbers given by the Washington DC Fire Department to ABCNews.com — placed the crowd at “approximately 60,000 to 70,000 people.” Though today’s anti-health care reform rally has been much more sparsely attended, that hasn’t stopped conservatives from inflating the numbers again. On G. Gordon Liddy’s radio show today, producer Franklin Raff, who was on the ground at the rally, told guest host Joseph Farah that the crowd is “just as big or bigger than” the 9/12 rally, which Raff estimated “at about a million.”

Capital Hill Police are estimating it at 4,000, and here is a nice aerial photo of the crowd today:

You really have to feel bad for the women married to these wingnuts. I guess they get told every night that 2 inches equals a foot.

That is the new meme emerging following the two gubernatorial losses last night for Democrats. I seemed to have missed it where Obama was on the ballot, but that’s what all the talking heads want us to think.

Let’s take a look at Creigh Deeds and the Virginia race. Actually have a look at Think Progress and you will notice how Deeds made a sharp move to the right towards the end of the race. Moves like that won’t bring in any last minute voters, but it will certainly tell the more progressive crowd to just stay home, including those Obama voters.

Then we have a new message being pushed by the right saying that the Democrats should move “more towards the center'”. That’s an interesting angle considering the conservatives want the Republicans to move more towards the right. Sadly we can expect the Democratic leadership to heed this warning and do just that. They are already talking about moving health care reform until next year, and we know what that means. It will then be “well we got to worry about the midterms so let’s go ahead and put it off until 2011”.

The problem is that Democrats are gullible, and not just the elected ones but even the membership at large, including many in the progressive blogosphere. I have pointed out in the past how many Democrats seemed to drink the Kool-Aid that Obama is some uber-liberal, comparable to Ghandi light. Afghanistan is a perfect example of this. The left is acting like Obama has broken some promise by not pulling the troops out of Afghanistan, when he actually is doing what he campaigned on. Instead of listening to the candidate, the left chose to listen to the right wing talking points. This practice is very dangerous for any progressive movement.

Venezuela is a country whose defense budget is probably 1/600th of the United States’. They own Citgo. It’s unlikely that as a consequence of me shaking hands or having a polite conversation with Mr. Chavez that we are endangering the strategic interests of the United States. I don’t think anybody can find any evidence that that would do so. Even within this imaginative crowd, I think you would be hard-pressed to paint a scenario in which U.S. interests would be damaged as a consequence of us having a more constructive relationship with Venezuela.

President Obama firing back at the absolutely moronic idiots on the right, who think that shaking hands with Chavez will eliminate us as a nation.

Are you reading Joe Scarborough and Pat Buchanan? This is what common sense sounds like. Why don’t you guys follow it?

(h/t Gregg)

The carnage continues, this time in Alabama:

Two women and their children were shot to death this morning at a Greenhill residence, according to friends of the victims’ family.

Identities of the victims have not been released by law enforcement officials, but they have confirmed four people are dead.

Family friends say the victims are Tammy Garner, 40, and her 16-year-old daughter, Chelsie Garner.

Several law enforcement agencies are searching for a Morgan County man who Lauderdale County sheriff’s investigators say is a “person of interest” in the case. Kevin Garner, 45, is the husband of Tammy Garner and father of Chelsie, a junior at Rogers High School.

Also killed were Kevin Garner’s sister and 11-year-old nephew, family friends told the TimesDaily.

What does it say about us as a society when our way of dealing with things like divorce involves shooting our loved ones? The second amendment crowd is quick to jump and say “don’t blame us”, but it will get to a point soon where we will have to take action, and that may very well be the same kind of action Australia took a few years ago – take all the guns.

Instead of people being divided on this issue and worrying about their own interests, we need unity now more than ever as a nation. This is nothing short of an epidemic and a cure must be found.

The White House got surrounded by a huge crowd chanting "Obama" last night:

At today's campaign event, in which Joe the Plumber stood up McCain, it turns out that McCain had to bus in 4,000 students in order to build up his crowd - which turned out to only be 6,000. Pathetic.

During debate for the bailout, McCain didn't speak. Instead he entered into record a prepared statement. Barack Obama spoke for 13 minutes and all the networks covered it. The same would have happened for McCain, so why did he pass up this free PR?

I was skeptical about the whole "drooping eye" thing about McCain. That could have been something as simple as a back tooth really bothering him. You got a lot of nerves up there, and I have experienced the same thing before from a tooth that is messed up.

Then a few seconds after that happened, John McCain went to leave the stage. He was obviously confused as he walked back and forth until someone escorted him of. John McCain is a lot like George Bush in the sense that situations like that merit a little humor at the cost of ones self. A goofy, playful face to the crowd or quick joke, which McCain is good at. None of that happened.

McCain also gave that interview yesterday with the Des Moines Register, in which an angry John McCain peeked his head out. Not very presidential at all.

Given all that happened with McCain just yesterday, there are now serious questions about his health. The questions are growing around the internet and should bleed over to the traditional media in short time. The McCain campaign could easily put an end to these rumors of his well being by releasing McCain's medical records, but they won't. Why not? Is their something they are hiding? It sure sounds like it.