I suspect an Obama campaign memo is on its way...

Iam scared McCain is such a tough candidate....
300+ electoral vote win for Obama.

time to start thinking that mccain is the bait before the switch?

I swear to God(dess), I really don't think he knows about YouTube or the "tubes". How the hell could anyone running for office make statements like this that are so clearly shown to be false with a 2-second Google search? If this is the way he's going to run his campaign I agree with Mus-Hussein-Grove - it will be a blowout!! :D

Let me refresh your memory, Grampy. You were being Bush's fawning toady and wanted to make sure there wasn't an investigation that might turn up hard evidence of malfeasance and criminal negligence on a massive scale. Ring a bell?

Eric, did you mean "levee failure?" Anyway, that green backdrop last night really tied McCain's speech together.

My friends. Chug, chug, chug. Whoo, Whooo. The straight talk express chugging along. Too funny. I think with the media spotlight starting to shine on mcbush, he is going to start having some major problems. Thank you.

John McCain is so harmless and frail sounding I can't even hate him. Doesn't he have a great grandson he can take fishing?

I didn't watch his speech last night; I watched the snips of it that are on the front page of TPM, with the talking heads trying to figure out what the hell had happened - it was that bad.

And god, it was that bad. He fucking looked like a waxwork dummy and delivered his lines like a waxwork dummy with clockwork parts.

It was downright scary. Not to put too fine a point on it - they need to lay off the lipstick - he looked like an upright corpse. And that ghastly background green - holy shit, are his people color blind?

Actually he said that the only one he voted against were loaded down wic pork that had nothing to do with helping New Orleans.

The dude is displaying incipient signs of dementia.

All Obama has to do at a town hall forum or debate is attribute McCain's lack of specificity or factuality to McCain being confused or fuzzy on the details or just plain mixed up. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Oh boy, is this great!

Keep in mind folks: McCain keeps trotting out his mother, who is over ninety, as proof that he has a long life expectancy. Of course that is complete bullshit. He might just as easily have inherited his father's gene pool, and he died when he was seventy. It is folly to elect someone who would be seventy two years old when they took office.

You would not let him drive a school bus, you would not let him fly a passenger jet, and I would not let him operate my TV remote. Hell, my family thinks I am too old to do that, and I am younger than John Bush McPain In The Arse; so why the hell would you vote to let him pilot the future of our Planet for the next eight years.

he was against it before he was for it.

vote mccain!

I swear I'm going to rip these nails off, Obama (sp)

McCain, what a toolbox!

He said he voted against one that was filled with pork. Was it porky? Was the other? I'm disinclined to believe him but would be interested in knowing.

The more McCain talks the better for BO. he is just giving Dem 527 ammo.

They say McCain is better in these town halls and that maybe true, but he is also very gaffe prone in these settings as well. Every time he made a gaffe in this campaign it was during an unscripted press conference or town hall.

Man, I couldn't watch that whole episode of veracifier about McCain's speech.

He really looks physically awful. I felt uncomfortable just looking at him. I guess I'm age-ist now, but I think it's going to be a major major problem for him. He's got the next 5 months under a spotlight.

While their at it, some folks ought to ask him, if, as he states, many mistakes were made in Iraq, which mistakes were brought up by him... which bills were introduced by him in the Senate in order to rectify (and hopefully cut back the deaths of our soldiers), and which ones he simply ignored until he decided to run for the presidency....

I love how he pronounces New Orleans. I think he added a couple extra syllables. More evidence of how clueless he is.

McCain is such a flip-flopper his new nickname is Johnny "Whiplash" McCain. I can't wait to see him dry humping Bush and Falwell on an endless youtube loop. Go, Johnny, Go.

Hooo boy...

This statement is so full of bounty it's hard to choose.

First off, what, in particular, "doesn't bode well" WHat the hell does that mean?

Second, again with the "our candidate's not good with details or facts so don't bother us with calling us on not knowing them."

Third, how can the McCain staffers be running this campaign as if the communication technology is back in the 80s?

If it keeps going this way, McCain will position himself as utterly incompetent.

So a negative attack is one in which you point out the "misspeaking" of the rival candidate?

Thanks for this story. I'm a blogger in New Orleans and we really do need all the national help we can get.

McCain's comments were a total distortion of his record. He has been using Hurricane Katrina to take his shot at distancing himself from the President. The fact of the matter is that when push came to shove in the Senate, he voted to shield the administration from accountability on Katrina response and levee failure.

The Congressional investigations of Katrina were dictated by a Republican Congress and failed to live up to the standards of an independent investigative body. Levees.org continues to call for an independent commission.

At my blog
, I point out that the McCain spokesman's response to TPM is also bogus. He claims that "bipartisan" investigations were "fully underway" when McCain voted against the bills. This was not true for his first no vote, cast on September 14th, 2005. This was the day BFORE the Senate Committee was launched.

My Dad got caught up in the 'behind the story' episodes of the bands of the '70's when they were being aired. I asked him why, he said he had been serving on a submarine during the 70's, and had really missed out on the music of that time. Maybe Mccain missed out on...the industrial revolution or something, and just doesn't get that everything he does, says or overtly implies will be recorded for all time for anyone to see?

Stop making fun of the green Magicam backdrop behind McCain. It's there for important, orthodontic reasons.

For example, if John H. McFuddle loses one of his teeth during one of his bizarre, quizzical, forced smiles, the tooth can be put back into his mouth during post-production.

See? The Post-Rove team has thought of everything!