Today's Links (9/16)

[Italicized comments are my own and not from the referenced article.]

Palin aide says Obama backers politicizing Alaska investigation
http://us.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/15/palin.investigation/index.html

Listen, lady -- if you don't have anything to hide, do the smart thing and cooperate.

Running on a Lie
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/15/AR2008091502471.html?wpisrc=newsletter

It takes amazing guts (and a truckload of stupidity) to keep telling a lie over and over again even after it's been proven a lie.

The Ugly New McCain
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/15/AR2008091502406.html

McCain has sold his sold in an effort to win this election.

Tanning Bed to Troopergate: Palin Aides Kept Scrambling
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5813754&page=1

Let me make sure I've got this straight: the person running for vice president on a ticket with a man who has suffered from skin cancer on multiple occasions has a freakin' tanning bed in the governor's mansion?! Good grief ...

Reformers?
http://www.democrats.org/a/2008/09/reformers.php

Anybody expecting the Republican ticket to do things that make sense is probably going to end up disappointed.

Politicians Lie, Numbers Don't
http://www.slate.com/id/2199810/

Democrats manage an economy better than Republicans? Well, duh ...

Adviser calls BlackBerry 'miracle' McCain 'helped create'
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/16/mccain.blackberry/?iref=mpstoryview

Wow -- and I thought McCain didn't even know how to use e-mail!