Two totally unrelated items

First: McCain is getting his bounce -- 48/46 in Rasmussen, 48/44 in Gallup (Obama still leads in both polls). Poll numbers don't mean much right now, but these close numbers should remind reporters that there is a very good chance that Sarah Palin could be elected VPOTUS -- so we are depending on them to continue vetting her, despite the McCain campaign's bullying.

Second: Ben Smith has an awesomely hilarious post about the former governor's plane Sarah Palin listed on Ebay. Turns out it never sold (she never claimed it did, only that she listed it). When it finally sold offline, the state lost $500K. But apparently McCain -- like almost everybody else in America, including me -- believed that the plain had sold online, because today he falsely claimed that it had, and falsely claimed that it had been sold at a profit.

Just another example of the vetting disaster.