Uh oh. Soledad O’Brien is hopped up on speed, talking so fast and loudly flailing her arms at a captive Columbus, Ohio audience as she talks up this hokey device that CNN is giving them during the Biden-Palin debate. We’re supposed to be mesmerized by this focus group, which has been given an all-you-can-eat fried shrimp dinner at a Red Lobster, with their voting devices, signaling up and down throughout the debate when either candidate makes a gaffe or hits a home run. We are t-minus 5 minutes to the Vice Presidential debate between the hockey mom from Wasilla and the scrappy veteran Senator from Delaware. The candidate from nowhere versus the insider who entered the Senate when Sarah Palin was in the second grade. Oh, by the way, she made this stupid point to Katie Couric the other day, an obvious dig at Biden’s age. Imagine that. She makes a jab at her opponent when it is she who everyone fears would become President should old guy McCain drop dead sometime in the future. That is, if he wins. Read the rest of this entry »