now that's what I call a VICE president

Still can't spare the several hours required to construct a cogently-argued analysis of the complex issues in the run-up to the US presidential election, so here's a few amusing videos, all election-related, at least tangentially:

• Jon Stewart on the vexed question of Sarah Palin's gender and qualifications
• Tina Fey of Saturday Night Live doing an uncanny impression of Palin in these two clips - that's Amy Poehler playing Katie Couric and Hillary Clinton. Rather hilariously a senior McCain aide has called the Palin/Clinton clip "sexist", thereby refuting once and for all the notion that Americans don't do irony.
• Gina Gershon doing a slightly less uncanny impression of Palin, but on the other hand she does wear a bikini
• The real Palin this time, competing in a beauty pageant in 1984. Come on, you would, wouldn't you?
  
• The lovely Sarah Silverman with a novel approach to canvassing in support of Barack Obama in the key state of Florida
• Finally - maybe they've got the wrong Palin?
  

Needless to say there's some slightly more sobering stuff out there as well.