It'd be nice if some reporter from traditional media tallied up the number of times McCain said "I" in his acceptance speech.

They sure were hot to analyze the number of times Clinton said "I" a couple of months ago.

Maybe they'd notice that McCain actually talks about himself quite a bit, AND, he even mentions that he's a POW. Whoops. WAS a POW.

Actually, he still IS a POW, if you follow Brooks' reasoning: John, the Saint, is a prisoner of this campaign. He doesn't really intend to run all those slimy disgusting ads. He's forced to do it, because, you know, he was a POW, or something.

That woman could not tell the truth if they put it on the teleprompter for her to read it.

Jeeeeeeezuz!!!

really? he fought for us? how come no one ever says that about him? so modest! such a hero!

Can we coin a new one please?
This campaign is now officially: Noun+ Verb+ Lie

McCain, a POW? Was he tortured? Did he give them the lineup of the Green Bay Packers, did he learn to love his country in the tiny cell that held him? Did he turn down an early release. Did they then torture him some more?

No. I've never heard that John McCain was a POW.
Are you sure your facts are straight?

If John Sidney McCain III is running his campaign on his biography, how can he avoid talking about his ex-POW status? Of course he talks about it every chance he gets, with every question his campaign answers/ does not answer. Complete oxymoron... or something like that.

This is really getting funny, because it hasn't been lost on very many people that until Sister Sarah showed up, McLame was POW POW POW all the time.

Not to mention all the POW at the convention.

Every word the woman says is a lie, including "a," "and," and "the."

to steal the already overworked phrase...

"Listen old man, I'll spew this crap for you 24/7 because I think you are going to die in office and I'll become president. But, if you so much as lay a hand on me, I swear to God, you will wish you never left Hanoi".

Too much?

there is unbelievable story just posted on Tpm cafe, Palin asked see if she could send someone else to debate other gubernatorial debate in 2006.
yup,yup, absolutely.

Has McCain called Palin a cunt yet like he did his wife. Guess Palin has not upset him yet. Give it time.

Just watched NBC nightly news and Brian Williams, Andrea Mitchell and Chuck Todd seem to think that McCain is an Asshole.

Here's a question: back during the primaries Josh said over and over that TPM was not in the tank for any candidate and that picking a side simply wasn't the role of TPM. TPM is a "news organization" -- I believe that is how he put it. Did that only apply to Democrats? Because now that Josh is making campaign ads for Obama, it seems like his faux objectivity just went out the window.

I have nothing against the ads per se...just seems a bit hypocritical and duplicitous for an "objective news organization" to be creating campaign ads while pretending to be a "news organization."

And I think it really casts the primary coverage by TPM in a new light, i.e., when someone criticizes TPM's coverage they jump behind this "neutral news organization" shield, only to reveal it to be a convenient device a few months later.

How do people call themselves christians and jusk lie like that? At least we liberals are godless, so we don't have the 10 commandments, that these hypocrites want in state building, but they can name but four (4) of them, to adhere to. I would think that "real" christians should be emabarrassed to have these people represent them.

http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/index.jhtml

Let's see what's happening on the world today:

The Chief of the Joint Chiefs says Afghanistan is in trouble. A scandal on the Dept. of Interior where sex, booze and drugs were exchanged for favors for Big Oil. Lehman Brothers is going down big time. Kim Jong-Il could be dead or incapacitated. Oil is almost below 100 bucks. 9/11 7th anniversary is tomorrow and Bin Laden hasn't been caught yet.

In a normal election campaign, these issues and more important affairs are the talk of the candidates, the parties and the pundits. But, today at 55 days before November 4th, what's the issue on the news? The meaning of "Lipstick on a pig"...

When Obama says "Enough is enough!", it's not just a call of attention to the shameful, despicable and empty campaign of McCain/Palin, who given the fact that they have no proposals to run on (except the "drill, baby, drill" BS and the call for a cultural war), they focus on a never ending flow of lies, distortions and fear mongering to scare the voters. It's also a call to the media for them to start to do their work.

With many problems that America is suffering right now, the attention should not be on word twisting, flag pins, interpretations of who can connect with voters, nasty rumors and other meaningless shit. Yes, I'm blaming in part the messenger (the MSM) because their lack of commitment for the public interest. By don't giving the information that the voters really need (the candidates plans to deal with the issues) and instead focus on the creation of the so-called narrative, like some bad reality show from VH1. This not just hurt some candidate or political position, this hurt democracy at its core and the base of the country in general.

The Agenda setting theory spoke of this, as resumed on this comment by media expert Bernard C. Cohen in 1963: "The press may not be successful much of the time in telling people what to think, but it is stunningly successful in telling its readers what to think about."

It's unbelievable that "The Daily Show" deals with news more deeply that CNN sometimes. The damage is done to the public by treating news only as feed to the pundits and avoiding to cover the larger themes in a serious manner. No wonder, the network news are falling on the ratings and the newspaper are losing ground to the blogs like TPM.

There is still time for the MSM to redeem themselves (except Fox News, they're fucked already) but I'm not hopeful on them. Maybe I'm wrong. Time will tell...

McCain-Palin'08: The same but worst.
Obama-Biden'08: The change we need now!

Why does Palin want to imply that military service is a prerequisite for being President? Doesn't that disqualify her from being Vice President?

Clearly she was not listening to his acceptance speech.

Oh that's rich. Palin though, isn't the first one who has pulled this stunt. I can't count the number of times I've heard McCain tell his story of being a POW, and it's almost always either preceeded or followed by somebody saying how he never likes to talk about it. I guess the campaign has decided that makes him more sympathetic.

I can't believe the number of falsehoods coming from these people. They way they tell it, it's like the entire McCain campaign exists in some sort of alternate universe...

Lie, lie, and lie some more.

Are people going to wake up and see how empty and shallow these idiots are?

Or are they going to line up for a plate full once again?

Don't forget that when he's in PA, he changes the anecdote so that it's the Pittsburgh Steelers.

There's only one candidate in this election who is fighting for the 150,000 homeless vets. There is only one candidate in this election who is fighting to bring our troops home from Iraq. There is only one candidate in this election who has fought for educational and wage benefits increases for troops. There's only one candidate in this election who wants to make sure that our military men and women have the health care they need.

That candidate is Barack Obama. He's the candidate for our military and our vets. Because it's not about him, it's about them.

>>>Actually, he still IS a POW, if you follow Brooks' reasoning: John, the Saint, is a prisoner of this campaign. He doesn't really intend to run all those slimy disgusting ads. He's forced to do it, because, you know, he was a POW, or something.

Well ..... He **was** forced to take a VP that wasn't the person he wanted, someone he didn't know much about (obviously!). And I just saw, on Hardball, the web ad that they put together about the lipstick comment and, like the 'kindergarten sex' ad, it was WAY, WAY over the line. Not something that McCain would have done in the past. (I think most people who know of his past campaigns would agree on that.) So what the hell HAS happened to him???

That's sort of rhetorical but sort of serious. Maybe he's just become evil because of the elixer of ambition. ---- Maybe he's simply "losing it" and isn't really aware what is going on in his campaign until it's done. ---- Maybe someone in the Rep party has something hot on him and is literally forcing him to hire the same people who wrecked his life and reputation just 8 years ago.

I don't know but it's a legitimate question when anyone changes their way of doing things so dramatically -- and the implications aren't good whatever the answer it. Suddenly bereft of moral principles -- doddering and borderline feeble-minded -- being blackmailed ....... none of these are something we want in the person who might become President. I don't think we should just scoff when people who've known him for a long time say that he's changed dramatically. Maybe we should listen and find out, or at least ask, why. If he's not in charge, for whatever reason, then who would the voters be electing in November?

There's a quite sad story out today (CANNOT find it again, damnit!) where Joe Biden is talking about his surprise at the techniques McCain is using -- how the same ones were used against John in SC and so viscious that Biden, a Gore supporter, offered to travel to SC and stand up with McCain to vouch (some word like that) for his character. It's hard to believe that something serious hasn't happened to bring about this big a change.

"There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you. That man is John McCain."

The only thing Grandpa K5 McCain fought for was to keep Vietnam a French colony and even then he screwed that up.