you hear the creature creeping up behind

Seen here through the twin miracles of a) photography and b) her handlers letting her out of her cage for five minutes (they probably just needed to change the shavings) is Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin and, uhh… you know, what’s-his-nose – the dude who’s setting aside his entire Friday to save the U.S. economy with his mighty, mighty superpowers. Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a desperate strategic maneuver from a heretofore clueless and unduly optimistic man who wouldn’t know a Laffer curve from a laugh track!