Oh, and RE: Palin. (here I go, derailing my own thread)

I think it's unfair to call her detractors 'sexist' when I think she was dragged out on the McCain campaign for sexist reasons. The left had played the race card. The right then decided to play the gender card. I like Palin as a politician well enough, but I think you're crazy if you think she was put on the ticket as a genderless politician.

It was an experiment to see if unpolitical Americans were more embarrassed by imaginary sexism or imaginary racism.

I was embarrassed that my party stooped to that level. I thought we were supposed to be above the silly superficial level of politics and focus on the issues. Ah, well...