what he meant about "Obama will face a test" in his first six months in office? I find it absolutely incredible that there is no curiosity about this statement from the so-called "mainstream" news media. Biden is supposed to be some kind of "foreign policy expert", so does he know something we don't? Is it to much to ask for the media to do it's job and find out for us before we vote? Ooops, I forgot the writers at Slate.com and papers like the NYTimes aren't so much "journalists" as they are Democrats posing as journalists. Well, if I need the latest on Palins beehive or her wardrobe I guess I am at the right spot.

I think that the reason that Sarah Palin's recent activity has attracted so much attention is because everyone is a tax payer in some form or another and this appears to be another case of someone being unjustly enriched at taxpayer expense. American voters are really sensitive to greed right now.

After the election is over, do you think that the clothes, bling and makeup are going to be returned? Is Palin going to report the fair market value of her leftover clothes, bling and makeup on her income tax or do we taxpayers just take it in the shorts again while another Republican unjustly enrisches themselves?

I'm sure you'll find plenty of what you're looking for from him.

"what he meant about "Obama will face a test" in his first six months in office? I find it absolutely incredible that there is no curiosity about this statement from the so-called "mainstream" news media. "

Maybe I am missing a crucial element here, but I have noticed that every time a new boss is hired, the rank and file push his/her buttons to see what the reactions will be. Testing authority and a newbie's mettle is just part of everybody getting used to a new face. Granted, the world of international politics is an enormous one and I am not trying to lessen its import. But if the same tendency is exhibited on an enormous scale, is this not a normal thing to happen, whether it is to a US president or the new CEO?

So here is what I am missing: why the fuss about Biden stating that Obama will face a test? Wouldn't any new kid on the block get tested? Why the implied assumption that Biden has special knowledge of any tests? Is he supposed to be prescient? Perhaps keeping secrets? Maybe the mainstream media is not curious because such a stage in any newbie's life is so normal.

People and organizations who don't like the United States will try to find a way to present the new administration, whether Obama or McCain, with some sort of confrontation. It might be military, political, financial or a combination of those.

The McCain campaign endorses Biden's concept with its latest ad, which assures voters a crisis will come and only their man is equipped to deal with it because Obama has "no executive experience." Oddly enough, neither does McCain. Palin is the only one with "executive experience," so I guess, according to the logic of the ad, she ought to be president.

Palin herself said as much when she slipped up and made a reference to what she would do :in the White House." Of course, the vice president does not live in the White House, but in the Naval Observatory residence. Perhaps she was thinking she'd be hanging out with McCain once he gets in the White House, but she may be a little naive about the role of the vice president.

Don't worry about the Palin VP - she'll be head of the Senate, "down there shakin' things up and running the agenda" . . .oh, yea, AFTER she READS the Constitution . . . .

well,if the american people are sensitive about greed, then let's hear slate discuss obama's millions of dollars he has already spent on his lincoln park victory party. OK?

And where has all that campaign money come from, why won't he release it?

Jess Wonderin:

Don't worry about the Palin VP - she'll be head of the Senate, "down there shakin' things up and running the agenda" . . .oh, yea, AFTER she READS the Constitution . . . .

...which does say that the vice president is the president of the Senate, and that if the vice president isn't there the Senate should elect a president pro-tem to replace the veep in running the Senate.

That's in the written Constituion, not the "living Constitution" that liberals use to overthrow the laws of the country.

You can get a detailed account of where the money comes from and how it gets spent for any political candidate. Most of it is published on websites as soon as it is received by whatever election official has jurisdiction.

Careful how you use the phrase "writers at Slate.com" -- you'd give real writers everywhere a bad rep. As best I can tell, they're merely Obama press secretary wannabes. As for Biden, well, as a recent convert to all things Obama, I'm okay with standing behind Obama six months from now when it appears he is in the wrong, but I wish Biden elaborate a bit more on how to "gird your loins" instead of just leaving us hanging. Maybe jazz it up again on the campaign trail, "Gird your loins and thus shalt thou answer the people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it somewhat lighter for us; thus shalt thou say unto them, check out my father's loins," and, you know, really get the crowd on its feet.