Video of a summary of Sarah Palin’s career.

The Al Smith Dinner is a fundraising event for Catholic charities. The candidates are invited to speak, and in recent years it has been a humorous address.

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The Al Smith dinner was directly referenced in ‘The West Wing’, in the prescient in-so-many-ways campaign between Vinick and Santos.

The Saturday Night Live spoof of the VP debate is online.

Tina Fey does not have to do much spoofing, Palin spoofs herself. I had to grin at the ‘Due the historically low expectations….’

In the UK, ‘The News Quiz‘ has a nice take on Sarah Palin. Every time she is mentioned on the show we get a burst of ‘Halleluia!’ from Handel’s Messiah - It’s Sandi Toksvig thanking the Gods of Comedy for such a rich source of new comedic material.

Toksvig now finds herself "terribly grateful to Sarah Palin. For comedy writers, she’s just heaven."

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Several have been arrested following an alleged assassination plot on Barack Obama.

I find it amazing that someone planning to assassinate a US Presidential candidate would precede that by loading their car with weaponry and then going drink-driving in the early hours of the morning. Surely, surely, this might have seemed to be ‘not according to plan’.

Barack Obama might view this as a positive, when they want to kill you, you’re probably doing it right.

Obama has moved away from his Bob the Builder platform (and nominated Biden, known for plagiarising Kinnock, of all people).

John McCain meanwhile continues to promote his ‘home fry oven chips’ message.
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Today I received my electoral registration form. As usual, no changes - so very easy.

However, I did not one logical fallacy on the form.

We are supposed to register everyone at the address on the 15th October - but in order to save the costs of a reminder message, they would like people to do this by the 15th September. This is a physical impossibility if one is striving for accuracy!

As no changes are expected, I took advantage of the ‘as far as I am aware’ clause and registered by phone (you dial a number, and key an ID and pin code, printed on the form).