TPM folks considering further opining on the choice of Sarah Palin, ought might also consider sitting down with that latte and boning up:

The Code Of The West: What Barack Obama can learn from Bill Ritter
by Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker, Sept. 1 issue.

P.S. Cutty Snark is obviously excused from reading the article.

Advanced Obamanomics:

A Free-Market-Loving, Big-Spending, Fiscally Conservative, Wealth Redistributionist.

Barack Obama has a lot to say about economics. How does he reduce it to a bumper sticker?

By David Leonhardt, New York Times Magazine, August 24, 2008.

I read it; recommend it.