Overheard

Paul MacDonald, a retired social worker, PA on how McCain's VP pick clinched his decision: “[Palin] is anti-abortion, anti-gay-marriage, anti-Big Oil, a lifetime member of the N.R.A., she hunts, she fishes — she is the perfect woman!”

Ray McCormick, Catholic parishioner stating explicitly that he wasn't going to vote for Obama because he was black: “Are they going to make it the Black House?”

Har Har Mr. Ray. My question: Is it really 2008?

Last week I had my mind all twisted up in knots trying to figure out a reasonable explanation for how well the McCain-Palin campaign was doing. I think I know now. I'm the one who's seriously out of touch with the American people.