Two Canadian disc jockeys at a Montreal radio station were able to easily convince Sarah Palin's handlers that she would receive a call from French Prime Minister Sarkozy. Just listen to it. It's unbelievable how unqualified this woman was able to convince Alaskans that she's capable of anything.

She's doesn't even begin to suspect that she's been punk'd when the "Sarkozy" disc jockey says he'd love to go hunting with her by helicopter because he LUVS taking away life.

What a bunch of amateurs she's got on staff. It's unreal. And how low has this country sunk that someone like this is vice presidential material.

UPDATE: And keep in mind, Sarkozy has endorsed Obama.

UPDATE: Here's the transcript. They even referred to the Hustler porn "Nailin Palin" and she didn't know she was being pranked.

(h/t Kos) 

So you’re the Governor of a State...but the next thing you know, you’re running for Vice President. The boss says you gotta bling up the ol’ Governor clothes—and the next thing you know, you’re having to explain how you can be the common “hockey mom” from Wasilla and how you can be clothed in more than enough money to buy Joe The Plumber’s house...both at the same time.

In the interests of telling the story fairly, I decided to conduct my own online shopping experiment.

Let’s head over to Saks and Neiman’s...and Bergdorf and Goodman’s to boot...and let’s just find out exactly what you would need to spend to look fabulous—and what you should probably be avoiding if you really want to project that whole “woman of the people” kind of thing.

My, oh my, who would've guessed this would be the real October surprise?

Supporters of al-Qaeda have said they would prefer Republican candidate John McCain to win the US election because he is more likely to continue the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

UPDATE: So, in thinking about this further ... if McCain wants to be the next U.S. President, are he and the people who vote for him on the side of the terrorists who want to put the financial nail in the coffin of this country? Cause that's what's likely to happen.

From what I've heard, former Wisconsin Department of Commerce Secretary Jack Fischer is really a pretty good guy, which makes it all the more of a shame that he had to resign after reports about his craving for luxury hotels and caviar tastes on the taxpayer dime.

Good guy, or not, I bet he never thought his behavior representing Wisconsin taxpayers and Governor Doyle's office would draw comparisons to that of Republican Vice President candidate Sarah Palin. 

Here's what Fischer has in common with Palin:

The charges included costs for hotel and commercial flights for
three daughters to join Palin to watch their father in a snowmobile
race, and a trip to New York, where the governor attended a five-hour conference and stayed with 17-year-old Bristol for five days and four nights in a luxury hotel.

In all, Palin has charged the state $21,012 for her three daughters' 64 one-way and 12 round-trip commercial flights since she took office in December 2006. In some other cases, she has charged the state for hotel rooms for the girls.

WTF is going on?

I thought the GOP brownshirts, generally young people, would begin to incite violence, but no.

Elderly women at a GOP rally assaulted Obama supporters, and gave one person two black eyes.

And reporters are being assaulted.

Now that McCain and Palin have draped themselves in Obama’s mantle of change, the crucial question has become: change to what? Obama, Biden, McCain and Palin all claim to feel the pain of hard working Americans who seem to be falling behind rather than getting ahead. All envision a bright tomorrow in which every American will be safe and prosperous. But there is a stark contrast between the Obama-Biden and the McCain-Palin vision for America. And nowhere is this contrast starker than in their competing plans for health care reform.

It’s easy for candidates to advocate a “free market” for health insurance, but my background as a cardiologist, the founder of a small but quite successful national consulting firm, a recognized expert on measuring clinical quality and cost-effectiveness, a developer of analytic tools to support coordinated, effective, efficient health care markets, and a Medicare beneficiary who once enjoyed rather good private health insurance permits me to look under the hoods and see how the engines will run, where they will take us, and what they tell us about two very different visions of America’s future.

This content is making the email rounds today. It deftly outlines the double standards that are causing cognitive dissonance in the 2008 presidential election. No idea who the author is, but the points are well made!

If you're a minority and you're selected for a job over more qualified candidates, you're a 'token hire.'
If you're a conservative and you're selected for a job over more qualified candidates, you're a 'game changer.'

Black teen pregnancies? A 'crisis' in black America .
White teen pregnancies? A 'blessed event.'

If you grow up in Hawaii , you're 'exotic.'
Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, you're the quintessential 'American story.'

I swore that I wouldn't pile on to the Sarah Palin story, despite her and John McCain's need to lie continually in their speeches - but I think this should be seen. I think a person's religion is their own business - but when we're being asked to elect someone who would ask her church to pray for a pipeline because it's part of her political agenda --- it raises a lot of questions.

My, oh my, this says it all.

Members of my republican family are very excited about McCain's choice for VP, Sarah Palin. She's a straight talker, blah, blah, blah.

The republican females are especially delighted. And once news broke of Palin's teenage daughter being pregnant and unwed they all rose up in chorus to declare that the families of politicians should be off limits. Then, out of the other side of their mouths, they talked about what a great symbol of morality this unwed, teenager's pregnancy is for those who support the pro-life "movement."

So, for a few minutes, everything at the Labor Day family get together was rainbows and kittens until I asked this question of my family:

Would you be saying the same thing if the unwed, pregnant teenager was one of Barack Obama's African American daughters?

Que sound of crickets ... or is silence to such a question the sound racism makes? <snark>