I’ll betcha that there Tina Fey, bless her heart, will rear her head again tonight, playing the role of me, Sarah Palin for the third time, understanding of course that the other two times were in the past and we don’t want to be finger-pointing at the past but looking ahead at the future that is ahead of us.

That Tina, I mean, her reward is in heaven, right?

Also, I want to preference my remarks by saying that those Saturday Night Live folks, they’re a team of maverick cutups, doncha know, and Gwen Ifill will be playing Queen Latifah, and they told me what country of which she was queen but I forget because they’re telling me so much stuff. Like, did you know that nuclear weaponry would be the be all, end all of just too many people in too many parts of our planet?

Also, I know that millions of Americans wonder what the things are that attribute to my being vice president, yeah, but I’m one to just think they’re being funny and anyway, I don’t want to argue about the causes. What I want to argue about is, how are we going to get there to positively affect the impacts?

Say it ain’t so, Joe.

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Obama’s margin seems to be firming up, says Gallup

By Jay Bookman | Saturday, October 4, 2008, 01:17 PM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The newest Gallup tracking poll has Obama up eight, up one from yesterday:

“Obama has now held a statistically significant lead over McCain for the last eight days, one shy of his campaign-best streak of nine days with a lead around the time of the Democratic National Convention.”

And the margin seems to hardening.

“Voter preferences appear somewhat stable at the moment, as Obama has held similar advantages over McCain in each of the last three individual nights’ polling. That includes Friday polling, the first interviews conducted following Thursday’s widely viewed vice presidential debate, the passage of the economic rescue bill supported by both Obama and McCain, and Friday’s bleak jobs report.”

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‘I love the smell of napalm in the morning’

By Jay Bookman | Saturday, October 4, 2008, 09:09 AM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

I think some of you have been pleading for something like this:

“Sen. John McCain and his Republican allies are readying a newly aggressive assault on Sen. Barack Obama’s character, believing that to win in November they must shift the conversation back to questions about the Democrat’s judgment, honesty and personal associations, several top Republicans said….

‘We’re going to get a little tougher,’ a senior Republican operative said, indicating that a fresh batch of television ads is coming. ‘We’ve got to question this guy’s associations. Very soon. There’s no question that we have to change the subject here,’ said the operative, who was not authorized to discuss strategy and spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Palin wasn’t a game-changer, at least in a positive sense. The debates haven’t been a game-changer. So with time slipping away and the polls looking bad, this move was inevitable. Here come Bill Ayers, Rezko, etc.

The tactic might have had more effect back in the summer, before a public image of Obama took hold in voters’ minds. Now, not so much. But it will be interesting to see just how much of a scorched-earth approach McCain is willing to take, because his own reputation is on the line as well.

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