Waiting for the Beat

This would make great Christmas present for just about any geek… hint hint…

Fox News Channel reporter Carl Cameron reported that within the McCain camp, there were serious doubts about her knowledge of civics and current events. “She didn’t know the nations involved in the North American Free Trade Agreement. … She didn’t understand, McCain aides told me … that Africa was a continent and not a country.”

Newsweek’s “Special Election Project” reported other accusations being lobbed by campaign staffers, including new claims about Palin’s wardrobe expenditures.

Calling her shopping spree “more extensive than previously reported,” one aide told Newsweek it was like “”Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast.”

Staffers also accuse her of spending “tens of thousands more than the reported $150,000,” and asking low-level staffers to put purchases on their credit cards.

Newsweek also reported that during the Republican National Convention, McCain staffers Steve Schmidt and Mark Salter were greeted by a towel-wearing Palin when they arrived at her hotel room for a briefing.

“I’ll be just a minute,” she said, and asked them to chat with her husband in the meantime.

Sources also say that Schmidt, a strategist, was the one to veto Palin’s request to speak Tuesday night during McCain’s concession speech.

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It’s too bad that my childhood hero isn’t around to lay down a beat with my current hero.

This is crazy amazing.