In 2008, during the weekend of September 13-14, the political media couldn't get enough of Sarah Palin and her "lipstick" joke, "drill, baby, drill" mantra, and sightings of Russia.
Meanwhile, as Hurricane Ike raged through Texas, ominous economic news was leaking - the world's largest financial firms were in trouble. Bank of America was taking over the struggling Merrill Lynch, and another giant, Lehman Brothers, was collapsing.
Barack Obama's campaign, falling in the polls and beset with pleas from supporters to "fight back," tried to rally a New Hampshire crowd: "They've been talking about lipstick, and they've been talking about pigs, and they've been talking about Paris and Brittney," said Mr. Obama. "They will spend any amount of money and use any tactic out there in order to avoid talking about how we're going to move America forward to the future."
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