V.B.Bart:

Yes, it’s really a fascinating analysis tool. I ran the entire text of the front pages of Kos, DU, and Huffington Post through Worlde. The results are quite interesting.

Of course, you will get a lot of returns such as “REPLY” and “NEW” and “COMMENTS”. If you right click on such common returns, and click on REMOVE, you can pull those words out of the cloud.

It’s astonishing to me to see just how often SARAH PALIN is mentioned. She’s also a huge topic on the right-wing blogs. Obama supporters may wish to insist she’s a nobody, they may wish to diminish her, but they absolutely cannot stop talking about her.

Obama has two strengths: his ability to mesmerize and his ability to link McCain to Bush. He has one weakness: his lack of experience and lack of a record. She does exactly what McCain needs: she takes fawning media attention away from Obama. And the minute people try to focus on her inexperience, that meme can instantly be flipped back on Obama’s experience.

Obama’s campaign cannot afford to make Palin the issue because she can either direct that attention back at his biggest weakness and/or seize that attention and do her own mesmerizing. Palin simultaneously takes away Obama’s greatest weapon and reveals his greatest vulnerability.

And, if what I’ve read is any indication, the lefties are taking the bait. Hook, line, and sinker. She expertly produces a rage in them while at the same time not appearing particularly harsh or attacking to independents. And she’s energized the base like no other candidate I could have imagined.

Would I like a more experienced vice-president? Oh, I suppose that I would. But if anyone was REALLY all that interested in valuable experience, the democrats wouldn’t he selected Obama. There’s all sorts of highly capable and respectable democrats who are more qualified than Obama. Experience and qualifications were never the interest of the democrats and if they try to make it an issue now it will only backfire on them.