Despite a supposed confirmation by New York Post gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a spokesman for Saturday Night Live denies reports of an upcoming appearance by Sarah Palin on the show. Adams has reported:

According to Adams, Palin has OK’d the deal and is booked to be on the show: “She — eyeglasses, haircomb, designer jacket and trunkful of gosh-darns, golly-gees and gol-dangs — will be on ‘SNL’ Saturday night, Oct. 25. Sarah’s rehearsal time has already been penciled in for Friday the 24th. And it’s because she wants to do it.”

An email to Marc Liepis of NBC, however, resulted in a flat denial.

“Her item is wrong.”

So who knows.

It’s only appearing on about 300 ballots in Rensselaer County, New York, luckily for the Obama campaign (and not so luckily for Team McCain). There’s no calls for racism as a Democrat is involved in the printing, too. Rest assured that a Democrat-free environment would’ve been prime ground for them, though.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s last name is spelled “Osama” on hundreds of absentee ballots mailed out this week to voters in Rensselaer County.

The misspelling, which elections officials on both sides of the aisle insist was simply a typo, is causing embarrassment for the county.

”No question this is an honest mistake innocently done,” said Edward McDonough, the Democratic commissioner. ”We catch almost everything.”

”This was a typo,” said Republican Commissioner Larry Bugbee. ”We have three different staff members who proof these things and somehow the typo got by us.”

Officials say the flawed ballots were sent to approximately 300 voters. On row 1A Barack Obama’s name is spelled Barack Osama.

Via Michelle Malkin.

Blogger Michael van der Galien, based in the Netherlands, reports that a group of Dutch Youth Socialists are traveling to the United States to campaign for Barack Obama.

I received an e-mail I found quite interesting. The Jonge Socialisten asked me whether I would like to travel to America with them shortly before the U.S. elections in order to do ‘research.’

Now, before readers will think this would be a great opportunity for me to visit the country I write about so frequently, the trip had a specific partisan purpose despite it being described as ‘research’: They would travel to the United States to campaign for Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee for the presidency.

In fact, one of the demands of potential applicants is that they need to have a “great affinity with the Democratic Party and Barack Obama.”

Finding Dutch Youth Socialists with a special affinity for the policies of the Democratic Party and Barack Obama shouldn’t be too hard to find. But perhaps they should take Van der Galien’s advice instead:

Perhaps these ‘Jong Socialisten’ should stop trying to influence the elections in other countries and, instead, do their best to fix the problems they created in this one.

Instead they’ll come over here and help create problems for us.

Tony Dean, the host of outdoor shows from South Dakota, is featured in a new Obama radio spot assuring people that Obama won’t infringe on your gun rights, despite mounting evidence to the contrary. Dean says he’s a lifelong Republican but is voting for Barack Obama this year. Sound a bit odd, does it?

That’s probably because Dean, if registered as a Republican at all, is about as righty as Lincoln Chafee. As Michelle Malkin noted back in August, Dean was considering a run for Congress in ‘03 on the, wait for it, Democratic Party ticket.

This is an interesting claim, given that Dean was mentioned by the Rapid City Journal in 2003 as a “possible Democratic candidate for Congress” who endorsed Democrat Senator Tim Johnson for reelection just a year earlier. Dean’s efforts to draw gun owners to Johnson weren’t enough, and Johnson’s Republican challenger, John Thune, became a U.S. Senator from South Dakota. According to public records, Dean donated money to another anti-gun South Dakota Democrat, Tom Daschle, also in 2003.

For Tony Dean to have “switch[ed] parties to head a Sportsmen for Obama group” he would have to have done so at least two years before Obama was even elected to Senate, and five years prior to he announced his presidential bid. Indeed, it appears the word “lifelong” is as difficult for Dean and the Obama campaign to define as the word “is” is to Bill Clinton.

Dean is quoted by the Dallas News as saying he’s “99 percent sure a President Obama isn’t going to infringe on gun rights.” But seeing as Mr. Dean, who at least one blogger has been dubbed ‘South Dakota’s Al Gore’ because of his fervent belief in human-cause global warming, describes himself as a “moderate on the gun issue” who “opposes the NRA on most gun issues,” his assurances about Obama aren’t likely to be much consolation to pro-gun voters.

Barack Obama using misleading radio ads to lie about his anti-gun record? Shocker.

While the Bush Administration was attempting to negotiate an agreement to keep U.S. troops in Iraq through the end of the year, Barack Obama was privately attempting to convince Iraqi leaders that President Bush shouldn’t be allowed to make such a deal without approval from Congress. His conversations, confirmed to the Washington Times by campaign aides, began just two weeks after clinching the Democratic nomination.

Mr. Obama’s conversations with the Iraqi leaders, confirmed to The Washington Times by his campaign aides, began just two weeks after he clinched the Democratic presidential nomination in June and stirred controversy over the appropriateness of a White House candidate’s contacts with foreign governments while the sitting president is conducting a war.

Some of the specifics of the conversations remain the subject of dispute. Iraqi leaders purported to The Times that Mr. Obama urged Baghdad to delay an agreement with Mr. Bush until next year when a new president will be in office - a charge the Democratic campaign denies.

Mr. Obama spoke June 16 to Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari when he was in Washington, according to both the Iraqi Embassy in Washington and the Obama campaign. Both said the conversation was at Mr. Zebari’s request and took place on the phone because Mr. Obama was traveling.

However, the two sides differ over what Mr. Obama said.

“In the conversation, the senator urged Iraq to delay the [memorandum of understanding] between Iraq and the United States until the new administration was in place,” said Samir Sumaidaie, Iraq’s ambassador to the United States.

He said Mr. Zebari replied that any such agreement would not bind a new administration. “The new administration will have a free hand to opt out,” he said the foreign minister told Mr. Obama.

While Sumaidaie didn’t participate in the call, he was briefed on it by Zebari after the conversation. The New York Post also quotes Zebari as saying Obama wanted no troops reduction agreement until a new administration. Team Obama, naturally, denies this.

I’ll have more on this later today but I wanted to get this bit out first.

Imagine that. Apparently the District Judge has this weird thing about partisan politicians looking to ignore federal laws in order to help their candidate. Strange, I know.

A U.S. District Court judge in Columbus ruled Thursday that Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner must perform verification required by the Help American Vote Act. That includes matching a new registrant’s information with information in databases maintained by the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles or the Social Security Administration.

I expect this requirement that voters are confirmed as being able to legally vote to cut into the Democratic GOTV efforts. It makes it harder for non-existent and dead people to vote for the Messiah.

As Nice Deb says, I doubt Farrakhan means it ironically as we do. Feeling comfortable yet?

According to Matt Drudge, the Washington Times will report on Friday that Barack Obama secretly tried to get the Iraqi government to ignore a deal with President Bush to keep troops in Iraq. Does that sound like a violation of the Logan Act to anyone else?

Obama’s response? Hey, his kids just happen to go to the same school mine do. That’s also bull, of course, but it’s simply shocking how many people Obama’s associated with for years that he claims to know little-to-nothing about.

Bill Ayers? I didn’t know he’s an unrepentant terrorist who likes to brag about his history in national newspapers. Jeremiah Wright? Despite the fact that he’s held the same beliefs for the 20 years I’ve attended his church, I didn’t know he believed those things. It would seem that Obama has no effing clue as to who he’s associating with or what he’s doing.

Call me paranoid, but I’m always very uncomfortable with these things. Like the Obama channel on Dish Network, it feels a little too “Dear Leader-ish” propaganda channel-ish for my taste. A half-hour on a major trusted channel of just hearing Axelrod-approved talking points? Oy vey.

On the other hand, it can’t possibly be worse than the usual Obama talking points the news outlets spew. At least the remarks made in this half-hour spot can be directly attributed to Team Obama, so they’re likely to be a bit more responsible. Hopefully.