I bet that’s a valid worry they have. I wonder how they attempted to train him. My guess is that he’s going to put a lot of praise on her, like over-the-top praise, so on the face of it he can’t be accused of looking down on her. But they’d be hoping that Palin herself would wind up casting doubt on that.

By the way, I am convinced they trained McCain to not directly engage Obama at all costs, that’s what the “no eye contact” thing was about. You could see his rising anger in that one exchange where they were almost going back and forth. That’s why he wanted town halls–because he could focus on the crowd rather than Obama directly.

As for your subsequent question, that’s a non-starter. The decision to back out of the ticket would never be hers, though that is definitely how it would be presented.

If you were the sort of person who was interested in power, would you pass up an opportunity to be a 72 year old former POW’s heartbeat away from the Presidency?

If the debate goes on and is anything less than a bloodbath, Biden will have done very poorly indeed. But you’re probably right, their best bet at this point is to just bull through it and move on as quickly as possible. After all, no matter what happens on either side, the partisan hacks in Spin Alley will fall all over themselves in breathless admiration explaining how their candidate completely demolished their opponent. But I expect one side will have a much harder time than the other on this one.

Debates, I’d say it’s a longshot. Probably the McCain camp is busy monitoring the night sky for large-ish meteors headed roughly in our direction that will require Palin’s immediate attention due to her unique moose-hunting knowledge, but odds are low they’ll find one before Thursday.

VP spot: extreme longshot. It really can’t happen. If she got on TV and said she couldn’t be VP, it’s politically equivalent to McCain having a press conference and saying that he’s bowing out of the election. And besides, what we know about McCain is that he gambles big and sticks with his decision. (Except, oddly, the decision to skip out of the debates until an accord was reached on the bailout. That went strangely against pattern.)

Of course, that would mean instituting legislation that might be “harmful” to landlords, house-flippers, rent-seeking entities and other people and businesses that make money practically just from owning a thing.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/09/mccainpalin_could_win_this_ele.html

The mortgage foreclosures are mainly those in that subprime category (subprime means loans given to high risk applicants)…where changes in the law made for income to include welfare and unemployment…and if the lenders did not make those loans, they would be sued.

There are just some people who should not have been given mortgages…

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081006/schanberg

And here’s the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CazKanlYDg