Election Central Morning Roundup
MoveOn Ad Blames McCain's "Friends" For Economic Crisis
In a sign that this campaign is certainly not being put on hold as John McCain would like, MoveOn has this funny new one-minute ad on national cable, casting the blame for the market crisis squarely on John McCain and those folks he'd call "my friends" for the economic crisis -- folks like Phil Gramm, Rick Davis and George W. Bush:
"Main St. giving Wall St. $700 billion and getting nothing in return -- it's outrageous!" the announcer says. "Americans shouldn't have to foot the bill for a mistake that John McCain and his friends made."
Another Poll Gives Obama Huge Lead On The Economy
The new Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll puts in perspective just how precarious the economic situation is for John McCain, with Barack Obama being trusted more on the economy by a 46%-32% margin. Overall, Obama leads 49%-45% in the horse race, with a ±3% margin of error -- meaning it is quite likely that the economy is what is making the difference and putting Obama ahead at this point.
Obama And McCain To Address Clinton Global Initiative
Both Barack Obama and John McCain will be addressing the Clinton Global initiative this morning, Bill Clinton's humanitarian organization, before heading back to Washington for the bipartisan meeting with President Bush to attempt to resolve the financial crisis. McCain is addressing the Initiative in person in New York, while Obama is appearing via satellite from Florida.
Joe Biden Still On The Trail
Joe Biden is in Pennsylvania today, defying the McCain campaign's request that he and Barack Obama stop campaigning. Biden has an event at 10:30 a.m. ET in Greensburg, and another at 2:30 p.m. ET in Wilkes-Barre.
Poll: Obama Edges McCain In North Carolina
In another very bad poll number for John McCain, a new Rasmussen poll gives Barack Obama a narrow lead in North Carolina, a Republican-leaning Southern state that hasn't voted Dem president since 1976. The numbers: Obama 49%, McCain 47%, within the ±4.5% margin of error.
Poll: Obama Up By Six In Wisconsin
A new Research 2000 poll in Wisconsin gives Barack Obama a healthy lead of 49%-43% in this swing state, with a ±4% margin of error. Wisconsin voted for both Al Gore and John Kerry, but only by extremely narrow margins, and it is perennially on the GOP's target list.
Huckabee Comes Out Against Bailout
In a display of grassroots GOP opposition to the proposed Wall St. bailout, Mike Huckabee has sent out a scathing e-mail to his supporter list, opposing the bailout and the leaders who are pushing it: "Frankly, I'm disappointed and disgusted with my own Republican party as I watch them attempt to strong-arm a bailout of some of America's biggest corporations by asking the taxpayers to suck up the staggering results of the hubris, greed, and arrogance of those who sought to make a quick buck by throwing the dice."
Right-Wing Pastors To Challenge Tax Laws, Endorse Candidates This Sunday
A coalition of right-wing churches is stepping up its challenge to the ban on tax-exempt churches endorsing political candidates, with pastors in 22 states set to give political sermons this Sunday. "I'm going to talk about the un-biblical stands that Barack Obama takes. Nobody who follows the Bible can vote for him," said Rev. Wiley S. Drake of First Southern Baptist Church in Buena Park, California.
A couple of weeks ago I joked that Intrade should open a line on when McCain would have a public meltdown. I didn't think it would be this soon, but I have the feeling he's right on the edge. A little more mocking disdain by his base and more bad polls like the North Carolina poll and I think Mount McCain is going to erupt.
September 25, 2008 9:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
Oh please, oh please, oh please....
I'm personally hoping McCain sees that clip of him getting dusted with foundation at Katie Couric's desk, the feed Letterman showed live on his own show -- so sweet! -- and blows that gasket...
September 25, 2008 11:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
Time out. Hold it. Yesterday, with great fanfare, John McCain announced he was suspending his campaign to rush back to Washington. The economy had to be saved and only he could save it. Now it turns out he isn't going to Washington until this afternoon. He has to stop at Clinton's global initiative before saving the world.
His schedule puts the lie to McCain's claim that he is putting country first by suspending his campaign. I wonder if anybody except David Letterman will notice.
September 25, 2008 9:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yes. I saw a McCain-approved advertisement last night at around 10:00 p.m.
Five-and-a-half hours AFTER he said that he was 'suspending' his campaign.
http://thepajamapundit.com/
September 25, 2008 9:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
The suspension doesn't kick in until AFTER he addresses the Clinton Global Initiative. I still want some enterprising reporter to ask him why the CGI is more important than the presidential debate.
September 25, 2008 9:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
And the Couric interview. If it was such an emergency why didn't he go to DC immediately?
September 25, 2008 9:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
Exactly.
You know, I was lying there this morning thinking about this and I realized - you don't piss off Dave Letterman and live to tell about it.
Dave is a hell of a nice guy apparently - he paid his writers while they were on strike, he supported Warren Zevon when Warren was dying of cancer - he's a hell of a nice guy. But my god - pissing him off is really stupid if you are running some kind of popularity contest - which the election is to a certain extent.
September 25, 2008 9:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
As a therapist, it was fascinating watching the guy, struggling... to come to terms with what had happened... as his mind clicked through the options and settled itself into a groove.
September 25, 2008 9:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
The Letterman rant hurts McCain because Dave has gone out of his way to cite McCain's "heroism."
Then comes Dave's "not-the-John-McCain-I-know" disclaimer on the candidate's decision to cut and run from the campaign trail and the presidential debate.
Plus he got in some digs about Palin ducking the press and being a not-ready-for-prime-time lightweight.
Yep, it ain't smart to piss Dave off. We haven't heard the end of it. Heheh.
September 25, 2008 9:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
Last night, Letterman was raking McCain over the coals without the benefit of his writer.
Just imagine what tonight will be like!
Dave can hold a grudge for a long, long time, and he has a huge audience. Just ask Oprah!
PEACE
September 25, 2008 10:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
You know he did worse than just piss him off. He publicly *dissed* him. Not sure what the consequences of that will be for McCain, but it's one more instance where he comes off just looking like an asshole - publicly - without anyone having to say so.
September 25, 2008 10:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
I was thinking that Letterman is a nice guy, but that all comedians seem to have the boiling...you know...anger beneath the surface. It's what makes them edgy and sometimes funnier. Letterman has always had that, though it was especially noticeable on his earlier shows, back in the day.
Guys like that are funny, but also have big egos, and are quite insecure, no matter how much success they find.
And you don't do anything to piss them off. They have a big stage and they aren't afraid to use it.
I was also surprised at just how LONG Dave went on about McCain. You could really see his brain working the entire time.
September 25, 2008 11:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
Or saving the country.
September 25, 2008 9:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
That too. I didn't want to be greedy.
September 25, 2008 9:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
McCain's Ad is still running in PA this morning.
September 25, 2008 9:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
What a surprise.
September 25, 2008 9:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
That's not change we can believe in!
September 25, 2008 9:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
This election cycle continues to amaze me. From a sports fan point of view the ups and downs and twists and turns have had more drama than any game I have ever seen.
Recently this has all come from crazy (or crazy like a fox) Johnny Mac. I keep thinking about him as a craps player and he just keeps rolling the dice. He must be thinking that if he can just hit one big number he will get back in the game.
Poker player Big O will just keep playing his cards right and Johhny Mac is about to crap out.
September 25, 2008 9:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
Tweety made a comment last night that surprised me for it's lack of guile.
He said that when one party screws up, the voters throw them out and elect the other party, and that that principle is "...true north on the political compass", but every time the needle starts to point that way McCain jumps in shakes up the compass because McCain "...doesn't want the voters to go there".
Very insightful and honest, I thought.
September 25, 2008 10:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
I heard about those pastors on NPR last night. Fucking bullshit.
September 25, 2008 9:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
Of course, they mean the Old Testament, right? Because if they're to be believed and by "following the Bible" you "can't vote for Barack Obama," that means throwing all that "least of my brothers" claptrap that Jesus guy talked about out the window.
Amazing how little interest in the truth about ANYTHING the right is interested in these days in light of getting elected.
September 25, 2008 10:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
Don't forget those prohibitions against Lying and Bearing False Witness. That coveting bit probably applies as well.
September 25, 2008 11:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
The Letterman clips are getting a lot of airplay on TV. I think Dave may have done the job the "journalists" aren't doing: calling McCain's bullshit. If Dave in any way impacts some people's perception of McCain and this self-serving stunt we all owe him our gratitude. No joking.
September 25, 2008 9:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
In our PC world, I think comics often break the ice by daring to laugh out loud at some dickhead that the mainstream press is coddling. They verbalize what everybody else is thinking. Anyhow, way to go, Dave!
September 25, 2008 9:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
Agreed -- Dave was in rare form last night! He doesn't turn his codger-power up past "bemused" to "pissed" often enough...he was nearing Jon Stewart levels by the time he zinged Palin and the audience went "Ooooooooooooohh!" Even Olbermann seemed in awe...woo!
September 25, 2008 11:46 AM | Reply | Permalink
The Ten Commandments has no prohibition on cruelty to animals.
So why don't these Talibangelical clerics go fuck a duck?
September 25, 2008 9:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
I agree that Letterman called out McCain's bullshit.
If McCain felt it was so dire to suspend his campaign than he should have been in Washington and not addressing Clinton's global initiative.
September 25, 2008 9:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
I have no problem with fundamentalist extremists endorsing John McCain.
Just revoke their tax-exemption so that they can give to Caesar what is Caesar's, effective immediately. Problem solved.
September 25, 2008 9:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
NPR covered that last night. The woman asked the leader of this group what will happen if they lose their tax exempt status and the guy was like, "It's no big deal. We'd just get it back the next day since churches are automatically tax exempt."
September 25, 2008 9:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
What the hell does that mean?
September 25, 2008 9:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
I really don't know.
He seemed to be saying that if the IRS took away their tax exempt status it only be temporary.
September 25, 2008 9:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
Naive!!! Totally naive!
September 25, 2008 9:46 AM | Reply | Permalink
Also, Rasmussen tallies Obama for the first time ahead in NC at 49-47.
September 25, 2008 9:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
Oops, I overlooked it. It must be the excitement.
September 25, 2008 9:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
It hard not to be a little giddy right now.
September 25, 2008 9:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
It's true. The train seems to be leaving the station.
September 25, 2008 9:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
HOPE is on the way!
I have OBAMA in 3 foot letters on the tarp on my huge chimney (and no neighbor has complained!) I have my bike outfitted with lovely OBAMA signs on both side of the back wheel (and the sign folks just loved the idea and helped me rig the signs!)
And Letterman, God love you!
September 25, 2008 9:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
I love the ad McCain is/was/still is running about "Change is coming" here in WI.
Funny he wasn't told the change is Obama and not him.
September 25, 2008 10:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
SHOCKER!
Obama ahead of McCain in Rasmussen's North Carolina poll!
September 25, 2008 9:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
But how could this be?? Moose Queen assures us how everyone's so excited about McCain's plan!
September 25, 2008 9:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, she's ready for the asylum.
September 25, 2008 9:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
Can she bring her exorcist in the asylum or d'they got rules? Maybe it's a state-by-state thing?
September 25, 2008 9:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
Well, they don't really screen visitors... so..
September 25, 2008 9:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
Just thinking that the sentiment expressed by Huckabee amongst the right wing might end up causing a number of them staying home in November if they see McCain at all tied to this bailout. Worth a percentage point or two in a swing state like VA, FL, or NC (wow, it is pretty wild that this state is in play) could be enough to throw them to Obama.
September 25, 2008 9:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
While waiting for Campbell Brown to come on last night, I caught the last few minutes of Lou Dobbs. He and his blowhard buddies were adamantly against anything resembling a bailout. While I disagree with him, I am sure he is giving voice to many out there, and these people are disproportionately Republican.
September 25, 2008 9:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
There are a lot of Dems who don't like this bailout but they're not going to take it out on Obama and screw up our one chance of making sure this kind of thing doesn't happen again.
September 25, 2008 9:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
True. This shows how important enthusiasm about a candidate is. If the GOP were as enthusiastic about McCain as the Dems are for Obama, this would not be an issue.
September 25, 2008 9:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
People forget that this is the 2nd time McCain has pulled this stunt in a month. Remember suspending the campaign and convention for Hurricane Gustav? How many timeouts does he think he has? Why do I get the same feeling from him as I do with a panicked NFL coach who uses all his timeouts in the 3rd quarter and then when he really needs it in the final two minutes, doesn't have any.
Time for the Hail Mary.
September 25, 2008 9:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
Chris Webber in 1993 comes to mind. Calling a timeout on the court, with no more timeouts left. Given a technical, lose the game.
September 25, 2008 9:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
You kidding? Moose Queen is a Hail Mary. Gustav was an attempted Hail Mary. This is another Hail Mary.
There may be more. They're very smart, they've long known that they're losing and they're looking for something out-of-the-box to save them. This is the third try. Next may be McCain going to Pakistan to personally hunt down Bin Laden: Country First, brother!
September 25, 2008 9:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
RED CARDS for mcShame and the Dame!
September 25, 2008 9:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
Watch for him to throw the ball out of bounds as often as possible, i.e., more distractions to gain time.
September 25, 2008 10:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
June 2008, Sarah Palin goes back to the same church, and tells them that the Preacher who laid on hands, to protect her from Witchcraft, helped her become Governor.
Read all about it, and watch her going through the witchcraft ritual.
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/09/june-2008-palin-tells-church-t.php
September 25, 2008 9:26 AM | Reply | Permalink
As the Democrats in Congress look to McCain to help get Bi Partisan support for the Bailout, Oilbama, who voted for the Bush Cheney Energy Bill, and raked in huge contributions from Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, is completely irrelevant and simply part of the problem.
Thank God for real men like McCain who can reach accross the isle. Oilbama will no doubt sit back and critisize while McCain helps solve the crisis, America first style.
September 25, 2008 9:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
"Thank God for real men like McCain who can reach accross the isle."
And of that isle would of course be the isle of Bermuda, where McCain and his cronies have set up tax shelters for shysters and America-haters.
September 25, 2008 9:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
Awww, why did you feed it? Now it's going to shitting all over the thread....
September 25, 2008 9:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
I apologize. I just couldn't resist the irony that misspelling.
September 25, 2008 9:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
Obama+oil, = 'Oilbama!' I get it, wow!
September 25, 2008 9:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
Pretty clever shit, eh, Mahatma?!
September 25, 2008 10:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
Was is me or did anyone else think Bush look like a hostage, or like he was taking us hostage again.
And how can McCain keep bringing up 9/11 (like he did just now again)...If anything is more likely to raise distrust 9/11 has got to be it!
This is to scary...I just hope my one vote will make a difference, not like last time
September 25, 2008 9:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
That Letterman video - or a cut version of it - will be circulating for the next 40 days and more.
mcShame caught in a lie. Mocked. Mocked for himself and for his running mate.
There is something about that video... the impromptu truths bubbling out of Letterman's mouth.
So many people will view that. It's going to be devastating in its effect on common people, the uninformed in particular.
mcShame's behavior has an air of desperation about it, an unhinged quality, vicious, unpresidential to the hilt. The man is completely unfit for office. His "second" unfit as well.
No pundit could duplicate the shock and awe unfolding within Letterman - as he struggled to connect the dots between the myth and the man - and COULD NOT do so. Put that together with the Enquirer article (and it's effect on the uniformed!). Put that together with the video of the exorcism of Palin. It's overkill. It will not play in small town and rural America.
The mcShame campaign is done for. Does anyone imagine the Couric interview will not be preceded (or followed) by the clip of Letterman?
Try to spin this any way you can. But it will not work.
mcShame has shamed himself and the nation. There will be hell to pay!
September 25, 2008 9:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
First it was Tina Fey, and now David Letterman. We live a pop culture, and many of those who haven't already decided who to vote for are greatly effected by things like what happened on David Letterman. And it wasn't one thing. It was the opening monologue, it was the top 10 list, it was the time at the desk with Keith by his side. All of it mocking McCain, who was once it seemed a proud man, a hero, and now look at him. Devastating for McCain.
September 25, 2008 9:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
And it will continue to "PLAY" for 40 days and nights and more!
September 25, 2008 9:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
The politics of youtube. For better or for worse.
September 25, 2008 9:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
A deluge - 40 days and 40 nights....
September 25, 2008 9:43 AM | Reply | Permalink
Letterman just kicked McSame's sorry ass. It was a delight to see. FINALLY folks are saying this out loud. That's a damned shame that The View and the David Letterman show are apparently the only ones who can say the emperor has no clothes but our trusty, learned, intrepid MSM can't.
Speaking of YouTube, a clip from last night's show already has nearly 404,000 views, not to mention it was mentioned on this morning's Today Show.
FWIW, I made sure I posted the YouTube clip on my FB page--I have to do my part. :)
September 25, 2008 9:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
Don't forget Joy Bahar (I believe she is a comedienne by trade)...
September 25, 2008 11:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
Well I just saying - I was lying in bed before I got up, Thera, thinking about Letterman, which I watched, and you know it seems to me that you don't piss off Letterman and live to tell about it.
Letterman is very nice guy apparently. But if you are running some kind of popularity contest, which this is to a certain extent - you do not piss off Dave Letterman. And McLame really pissed him off.
September 25, 2008 9:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think he did more than piss him off. It looked to me like some kind of Copernican revolution happening in his head... in deadly slow motion!
September 25, 2008 9:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
lol... My wife is a therapist. It's damn funny when you guys talk that way.
September 25, 2008 10:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think it was the "I got to get on a airplaine" and then to find out he was giving Katie an interview that really pissed him off. Keith just sat there probably thinking, I don't have to say a thing, Dave will do it all by himself.
September 25, 2008 9:46 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yes - I mean, that throws a show into chaos to have a guest bail like that and he bailed for Katie Couric.
That's fucking rude. And I think Letterman is mad.
I also believe Letterman is a Democrat, but still...
September 25, 2008 9:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
Nevertheless, the way his mind just got "stuck" in that groove... and wavering back and forth between the "hero" and the sorry mess of two totally awful candidates for high office.
PRICELESS!
September 25, 2008 10:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
How in the world did the Democratic party nominate this Muslim guy anyway?
September 25, 2008 9:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
I hate to tell you this, but you should probably change your pants.
September 25, 2008 9:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hope the IRS sends big, big bills to those pastors who have decided to take political stands and so are happy to render unto Ceaser, as the bible says they should.
But why do I have a feeling the IRS won't enforce the law against the right wing?
September 25, 2008 9:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
"Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them."
-- Justice Joseph Story : (1779-1845) US Supreme Court Justice 1833
September 25, 2008 9:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ignore it, people.
September 25, 2008 9:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ignored.
September 25, 2008 9:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
Second'd.
September 25, 2008 9:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
You know it's been a bad day when I troll rolls out the "muslim" smear. Scrapping the bottom of the barrel indeed.
September 25, 2008 9:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
that should be "when A troll..." I thought we were getting an edit function.
September 25, 2008 9:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think TPM has suspended all web site updates until the economic crisis has been solved.
September 25, 2008 9:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
Zing!
September 25, 2008 9:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
Time to strip those churches of their tax exempt status and deny them any future benefits.
Although, they can do whatever they want to do.... it's not going to make a difference to President Elect Barack Obama come November.
:)
September 25, 2008 9:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ohhhhhhh Dumb BillC..... once again your witty banter inspires me. My one question for you... How do you type with your head so far up your own ass?
The larger the lead Obama seems to attain, the more desperate your posts get. So keep on posting your mornic messages....they're like hugs from Jesus for Obama's supporters.
September 25, 2008 9:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
Is this thing working?
Last night the whole site went down and then came back up but wouldn't let me in.
Was it just me?
September 25, 2008 9:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
It wasn't just you.
September 25, 2008 9:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
No, you're right. The site just frozed. Nothing worked.
September 25, 2008 9:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
Me too, Tena. Our profiles were "missing" while they did "something." (Do I sound like Palin????)
September 25, 2008 9:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yes - scared me to death. I no longer existed for TPM. LOL!
September 25, 2008 9:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah... for a bit... we were treated like "witchcraft!"
September 25, 2008 10:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
I saw that. O god - just shoot me! I really do believe the Assembly of God is a cult and not a church.
September 25, 2008 10:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
oooh, a little more exorxism humor!!
September 25, 2008 10:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
Check out Andrew's post over on Café on the subject of the successful server switch last night.
September 25, 2008 10:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
Just a guess but some out there(check out HufPo) think that this may be more than a stunt. His cancer may be back. His left eye droops and he's hired a new makeup artist.
Just imagine if he and Obama stand side by side: Who's gonna look not just more presidential but more alive?
September 25, 2008 9:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
I noticed that eye-droop too. It is strange - I wondered about it but figured I just hadn't noticed it before. Anyone else?
September 25, 2008 9:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
Well, that eye has always looked "puffy" in the past. And sometimes nearly closed. Now... to me... it looks like it's rotting!
September 25, 2008 9:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
yup, i had the same exact thought...oh no, i just realized, im sexist
September 25, 2008 9:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
Someone else said that me yesterday - he's gotten a prognosis that isn't good.
It's a possibility. But if that's the case, then he's got to come clean.
September 25, 2008 9:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
No worries anyhows! Unblinking Moose Queen's got "that readiness" like she say.
September 25, 2008 10:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
This is potentially very bad. If McCain dies or is incapacitated before the election, and the repugs substitute Romney, they would keep the freakazoids Palin attracted and get back some of the moderates and independents leary of McCain's likely death in office.
Not to mention the sympathy factor.
Only a healthy McCain can lose this election - let's send positive vibes he can keep up the facade for six more weeks.
September 25, 2008 10:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
O for the love of Pete!
Do you people stay up all night because monsters will come out of your closet if you go to sleep?
September 25, 2008 10:07 AM | Reply | Permalink
McC's eye droop and blinking anomaly could also be the results of a mini-stroke.
September 25, 2008 10:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
Thank you big sister for keeping the rugrats in line. :)
September 25, 2008 11:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
Does he?
September 25, 2008 10:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
If he did he would lose the race. His condition and his age would be the talk for AT LEAST 2 days, and that is like Obama having to speak about his race. It's an automatic loss.
September 25, 2008 10:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
From Rass's tracking poll out just a few minutes ago (49(O) 46(M)):
September 25, 2008 9:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
Right-Wing Pastors To Challenge Tax Laws, Endorse Candidates This Sunday
Excellent! Strip away their tax exemption, and confiscate all their money and property in punitary fines.
Use the money to establish a national program teaching basic Principles of the Constitution.
Fuckers. Too bad there's no god - she'd smite them for sure.
September 25, 2008 9:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
Word!
They are in violation of the constitution - it's just simple. They don't like the constitution - tough fucking titties.
September 25, 2008 9:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
OH!
What got me so fucking pissed while listening to them yesterday on NPR was how they said they'd sue the IRS if they took away their tax exempt status. They said it's unconstitutional for the Government to assert its will on a religious institution.
I was just about screaming at my radio, "It's fucking unconstitutional for a religious institution to assert its will on the political process you fucking hypocrites!!!"
September 25, 2008 9:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
"We fear change" - Garth
September 25, 2008 10:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
This was supposed to be a humorous response to TenaX's baddies in the closet comment. God it's too early.
September 25, 2008 10:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
Check out this video from Sarah Silverman:
http://thepage.time.com/sarah-silverman-video/
September 25, 2008 9:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
THE GOOD Sarah!!!!
September 25, 2008 9:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
A modest proposal:
Senator Obama; call McCains' debate bluff. Demand that if he is not going to show up tomorrow, then the VP debate should be held tomorrow, to keep all four debates on schedule.
Click on Recommend to keep the request up front, and hope that the suggestion gets to the Obama people. Thanks.
Do it. This would be a great time to catch Sarah and McCain off guard.
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/09/senator-obama-call-mccains-blu.php
September 25, 2008 9:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
I wouldn't give it at all. I say call his bluff by showing up on Friday. Ole Miss is not going to cancel the debate. Either McCain shows up with his tail between his legs or gives Obama 2 hours of free airtime.
McCain says he'd show up if a deal is struck by Friday. I know it'd be playing politics with a crisis, but I sure wish the Dems could take away McCain's one cop-out option and make sure there is no deal until real late Friday night, or Saturday morning.
September 25, 2008 9:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
Devious. And. Delicious!
September 25, 2008 9:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
McCain's stunt would have had a better chance of succeeding had the Repubs been in charge of the Senate. But they're not. Oh well.
September 25, 2008 10:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
September 25, 2008 10:46 AM | Reply | Permalink
I agree, I wish they would do this - since they insist Palin is ready to be vp they can shame all the nay-sayers by having her go out there tomorrow against Biden. There really isn't an excuse not to do it since she won't be involved in negotiating the bailout. A perfect solution.
September 25, 2008 9:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
Totally agreed.
September 25, 2008 10:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
The debate commission said No to cancelling. Ole Miss is already out something like $5million to hold the thing -
McLame can't just drop his campaign - I'm with Letterman - you don't just suspend your campaign.
I still think we should all say Fine - you just conceded the election to Obama. Go home.
September 25, 2008 9:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
Plus... tsk! tsk! tsk! will say the folks in Mississippi. Do they want to lose Miss too???
September 25, 2008 10:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
I would love it if Dems called McCain's bluff and did the final deal on Sunday.
Ha ha ha ha!
September 25, 2008 10:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
I want the VP debate to be held tomorrow night.
Let us put Sarah on the grill. Click it on up please.
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/09/senator-obama-call-mccains-blu.php
September 25, 2008 10:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm utterly frustrated that Democratic-leaning websites such as this one haven't made a 30-second clip of:
1. Palin's witch hunt video
2. McCain's funky face (stroke or what?)
3. Letterman's Rovian attack on McCain's perceived strengths -- he made McCain look like a p*ssy!
The aforementioned are all fodder for the uniformed voter! You know, the ones who decide the elections. If this site offered digestible bits (clips), they would likely be picked up by bigger media outlets. I thought these clips were going to omnipresent this morning on ALL left-leaning blogs, and I don't see any of them. It's Christmas in September, but no one is opening up the gifts!
September 25, 2008 10:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
September 25, 2008 10:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
It's amazing how after 8 years GWB still looks like a first-timer on stage for amateur night. Not to mention how irrelevant he's become - seeing him last night was a stark reminder of how invisible he's been for at least a year.
September 25, 2008 10:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
That's whey call him "No Drama Obama"
I know it's a relatively small thing, but as I blogged, they called Obama to Washington specifically to deny him debate preparation time. They hoped he'd either refuse and thus get labeled a traitor, or if he went, surely he'd agree to move the debate and then it would all be a "joint decision" so no accountability for McCain.
No-Drama Obama fucked them good. He can do D.C. *and* the debate. No bother at all.
September 25, 2008 10:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
O I think so, too. I think Bush called Obama to DC purposely to give McLame an out. McLame must have called in a favor cause he and Bush hate each other.
September 25, 2008 10:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
Bush has owed McFogu since 2000 when he bowed out of the race. There were lots of closed door meetings between the two campaigns before the announcement, so I've always suspected that some deal was struck to give McFogu the nod in 2008.
September 25, 2008 10:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
Commander CooCoo Bananas definitely had that terror-stricken look he gets - the one he got on his face when he sat in that classroom for almost 10 minutes after being told we were attacked.
I'll never forget that as long as I live. There is not another president I can think of who would have just sat there while Americans were diving out of 50 story windows.
September 25, 2008 10:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
McCain is in a horrible lose lose situation. He can either have the right revolt against him because he supports the bill or he can have the country look at him in disdain for voting against helping the country go through in HIS Vice Presidential candidates words "the second great depression". It is a thin line he has to walk.
September 25, 2008 10:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/24/congress.mccain.reaction/index.html
CNN says that it's a split on party lines but I still gotta feeling that McCain's supporters off the Hill are not so enthused.
Where's the Maverick? Where's the pitbull?
I mean CNN also suggests that Obama was blindsided - like he should have been prepared for it? Everyone was blindsided especially and more importantly his own supporters.
September 25, 2008 10:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
From watching CNN last night it was blindsided in the sense of being suckered punch. Candy basically said he talked to McCain on the phone about working out the bi-partisan statement and then goes back to his hotel room and sees McCain on tv making the announcement. Obama didn't seem to be coming off in a bad light in all this.
September 25, 2008 10:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
It seems like O never gets rattled, at least not in public. That guy REALLY knows how to stay calm collected and thoughtful.
September 25, 2008 10:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
McCain just went all in a bad hand and Obama called it. Not only that, but Obama started it with the joint statement idea knowing McCain owuld do something half brained.
September 25, 2008 10:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
I've been wondering about McCain's eye. Has he had eye surgery? My folks each had had eye surgery for different reasons, and it caused their eyelids to droop. But I don't recall eye surgery being on McCain's health list. And I'm not sure it's the droopy eye that's the weirdest. The other one always looks dilated or something.
September 25, 2008 10:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
Where is that story on HuffPo?
September 25, 2008 11:10 AM | Reply | Permalink