"It's embarrassing," an Italian foreign correspondent relented after diplomacy was pushed aside at the vice presidential debate last week. Not surprisingly, he was — along with others that nodded in agreement — referencing the nomination of Sarah Palin. "There are many qualified, intelligent women in the Republican Party, why her?"

It was the single thing that struck me most last week in St. Louis — more than Biden's ability to bite his tongue or P ...

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