The McCain campaign calls Sarah Palin a "tough executive who has demonstrated" readiness to be president. But the Obama campaign calls her a candidate with "the thinnest foreign policy experience in history." Today, a brand new part of Palin's identity dominates the political scene: game-changer.

John McCain's brilliant but risky "Hail Mary pass" choice for vice president, Alaska Gov. Sarah "Barracuda" Palin, has the political world saying first: Who? And then: Why?

John McCain needs what Kinky Friedman calls "a checkup from the neck up."

Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination in a packed stadium Thursday night and laid out his credentials to take on and beat Republican candidate John McCain in the fall election. "We are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look just like the last eight. On November 4, we must stand up and say: "Eight is enough," he said.

You knew Barack Obama would deliver a magnificent speech in accepting the Democratic nomination for president. And he did.

Tropical Storm Gustav's winds and rain blasted Jamaica early Friday and the storm's path was expected to take it to Grand Cayman later in the day, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Ricky Murray was having a miserable year long before a storm named Gustav started threatening the Gulf Coast area. Now he's afraid he will lose his family because of a previous hurricane.

At 14, Andrew Busskohl got a second chance at life when he underwent a heart transplant. But four years later, neighbors have more fear than compassion for him.

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