Best/Worst Election 2008 Videos: Fey-lin and Hillbilly Experts

I know, it's a specious link so I can salute The Goddess Who is Tina Fey, but another hat-tip to the video that elevated politcal satire and doomed Sarah Palin:



Meanwhile, at the opposite end of the spectrum, a trio of Kentucky voters assess Barack Obama:

[youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Szg9gwlbZZ4[/youtube]

Contrary to the rumours being spread, these are not my relatives.

Post-Modern Election Talk: When Does a Campaign Go Beyond a Joke?

Seventy-two hours after Barack McCain dropped a 30-minute political "info-merical" on the US public, John McCain responded in the fashion appropriate to this 2008 Presidential election: he appeared on Saturday Night Live, the comedy programme that converted his campaign into a running joke.

Gotta hand it to Big John, who never winced as he appeared along the comic masterpiece Fey-Palin, the one that he inadvertently created with his Hockey Mom gamble in August. But, as a reader notes, "OK, this is just surreal... Lucky this campaign is over in three days or I seriously struggle to imagine what comes next."

John McCain and Fey-Palin Sell Their Campaign on QVC