Electile Dysfunction

Is there a 12-step program for campaignoholics? If there is, don't tell me about it. I'm having too much fun with stuff like this:

Schnaufblog parses the Bristol Palin pregnancy announcement, in particular this sentence: "We have been blessed with five wonderful children who we love with all our heart and mean everything to us."

The relative clause after children contains a coordination structure. What causes the ungrammaticality (at least I think the sentence is ungrammatical, not just odd) is that who is an object pronoun in the first part of the sentence, i.e. one could also say whom ("...five wonderful children whom we love"), and a subject pronoun in the second part of the sentence, i.e. one could not say "...and whom mean everything to us".

Conjugate Visits points out that although Sarah Palin's husband, Todd, works in "blue-collar" fields, he ain't "working class":

He's an oil production manager and a commercial fisherman. But class-wise, his income helps put the family well outside the group that's often called "working class" and that struggles to get by in today's economy.

Over at Slate, Paul Collins examines why John McCain can't stop saying "my friends":

Is this a doctrine of pre-emptive friendship—immediately declaring crowds won over with an oratorical "mission accomplished"? Perhaps, but McCain's friending is a strategy that hearkens back to classical rhetoric.

Or maybe just to mid-20th-century musical theater.

OMG, Sarah Palin has a blog! Well, "Sarah Palin" does. And she has so much to share:

I just have to say that I love the comments! :)  Outside of my rock (hi- todd!) there is no one else offering me this kind of support as I set out on this journey to become the second most powerful person in the world.  Keep it coming, it is great!  In alot of ways, I feel like Tom Joad in that movie East of Eden.  I am out there for you.  When there is stuff that is bad, I will be there to help. 

Something tells me she isn't talking about this comment from someone named Hillary: "Get over yourself, chiquita, and don't give up your day job." (Via Very Short List.)

There's a link from "Sarah"'s blog to "Bristol and Levi's wedding registry" at JCPenney.com. I totally have dibs on that awesome Bowler Camo Diaper Bag.

Previously on the Palin Channel.

Comments

[Nick Tata]

Shouldn't "heart" have an 's'? "we love with all our hearts"
We have been blessed with five wonderful children. We love them with all our hearts and they mean everything to us. We wouldn't trade them for a whole boatload of salmon. ........It's the thought that counts !
Seriously folks if Palin can keep up this kind of tugging at the heartstrings,Hallmark card mantra great grandmothers will be crawling out of their graves to vote for her. The Republicans know the value of the wholesome image of a middle class "MOM". Richard Nixon (talking about Pat)said, " That women is worth five million votes!" And all she did was stand next to him! Nancy Reagan is a saint or at least a constellation in heaven and was worth twice as many votes as Pat. Without Barbara Bush where would George be? She opened the convention and fits the "MOM" mold perfectly.
I can see it all now : As I leaf through my new Woman's Day magazine ( March 2009) I see the ad for finely crafted,lifelike ceramic figurines. "Wouldn't you like to add Vice President Sarah Palin to your first lady collection?" "Lots of guns. Lots of kids. Lots of oil. America we love you!"

[Jessica]

And now for the TV series: http://www.236.com/news/2008/09/02/the_palins_the_best_show_on_te_1_8675.php

Yes, I'm obsessed as well. Schadenfreude and all, you know.

[Barry Nordin]

" . . .who we love with all our heart . . ."

Do Republicans have a collective organ?

[Nancy Friedman]

@Jessica: Back at you with Levi's convention blog: http://tinyurl.com/65qc85

@Barry: Shhh. Never say "collective" to a Republican. Or, come to think of it, "heart."

[Nick Tata]

.....and now it's, "a task that is from God." Wasn't this from a Blues Brothers movie?