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Palin Suggests Americans Looking Only To McCain For Leadership On Financial Crisis
CBS News had a bit of bad luck today: McCain's call for a suspension of the campaign is eclipsing the news the network had hoped to make with Katie Couric's interview of Sarah Palin, set to air tonight.
The network has now sent out another advance quote from the interview, in which Palin appears to suggest that the American people are only looking to McCain for leadership on the crisis, and not to Obama...
PALIN: The interesting thing in the last couple of days that I have seen is that Americans are waiting to see what John McCain will do on this proposal. They're not waiting to see what Barack Obama is going to do. Is he going to do this and see what way the political wind's blowing. They're waiting to see if John McCain will be able to see these amendments implemented in Paulson's proposal.
It seems worth pointing out that every national poll that has asked voters which candidate is more capable of handling the current crisis has favored Obama by significant margins.
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Ha! Go back to shooting moose.
September 24, 2008 6:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
EXCLUSIVE: LETTERMAN MOCKS MCCAIN CANCELLATION
Wed Sep 24 2008 17:41:58 ET
David Letterman tells audience that McCain called him today to tell him he had to rush back to DC to deal with the economy.
Then in the middle of the taping Dave got word that McCain was, in fact just down the street being interviewed by Katie Couric. Dave even cut over to the live video of the interview, and said, "Hey Senator, can I give you a ride home?"
Earlier in the show, Dave kept saying, "You don't suspend your campaign. This doesn't smell right. This isn't the way a tested hero behaves." And he joked: "I think someone's putting something in his metamucil."
"He can't run the campaign because the economy is cratering? Fine, put in your second string quarterback, Sara Palin. Where is she?"
"What are you going to do if you're elected and things get tough? Suspend being president? We've got a guy like that now!"
September 24, 2008 6:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
I doubt that Letterman will invite McCain ever again.
September 24, 2008 6:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think it's worse than that. I think McCain's campaign just jumped the shark. This looks desperate.
September 24, 2008 7:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
And if he did, would McCain accept. (The View revisited)
September 24, 2008 7:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hockey moms know that when you're killing a penalty, ya gotta dump the puck at every chance.
Promo opportunity: The Metamucil Dump of the Night!
September 24, 2008 7:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think McCain's stunt was timed exactly as it was to distract everyone from Palin's interview with Couric Then they get the twofer of getting him out of the debate on Friday, and the threefer: cancel her debate next week.
September 25, 2008 7:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
How about another $10 million dollar day?
I think we should let our donations do the talking in telling McCain that although he thinks political stunts are the way to get elected, progressive minds have something different to say.
$50 from me.
September 24, 2008 7:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
If she shoots a gun like she shoots off her mouth, then I suspect the moose in Alaska have nothing to worry about.
September 25, 2008 5:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
Palin is living in the McCain Campaign Bubble - she doesn't get to see what the rest of us are seeing, she only hears what her campaign wants her to hear.
Couric is going to treat her with kid gloves.
September 24, 2008 6:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Can I borrow your crystal ball? It's apparently 100% infallible since you aren't the slightest bit shy about continually announcing to everyone just exactly what will happen.
September 24, 2008 6:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
No.
MINE.
September 24, 2008 6:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is it the PalantÃr of Orthanc?
Better keep it covered lest Cheney^H^H^H^H^H^H the Dark Lord cast his gaze upon you!
September 24, 2008 7:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
By double digits, Greg.
Look, the woman is totally incapable of uttering the truth. I think she'd burst into flames if she tried.
September 24, 2008 6:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, she was meant to be the "spark" to his campaign!
September 24, 2008 6:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
She was the spark, John was the kindle.
September 24, 2008 6:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
A veritable hillside brush fire about to ignite into a forest blaze.
Crash and burn. But I digress. McCain doesn't need to relive bad memories.
September 24, 2008 7:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
he wasn't on the ground his pallies just delivered it. Go Neaplm
September 24, 2008 7:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
CNN just reported the McCain campaign is saying he will not appear on Friday under any circumstances - AND - that they want to postpone the VP debate next week and make it the 1st Presidential debate.
Good Lord - maybe this whole stunt is just a way to give Palin more time to prep for her big debate!
September 24, 2008 6:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
I was thinking the same thing, too. Her tutors must be flipping out in some kind of surreal beltway My Fair Lady.
September 24, 2008 6:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yep. It is not cynical enough to pull this stunt to try to somehow distract people from the reality of a sinking campaign and to avoid McCain having to get his ass handed to him on issues in the debate.
It is done to avoid the VP debate.
That is just such fucking unbelievable arrogance.
September 24, 2008 6:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
You know, if they don't want Palin to debate I say fine. Cancel the debate. Palin is doing a fine job all on her own of becoming completely irrelevant.
September 24, 2008 6:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
And the National Enquirer will will again.
September 24, 2008 7:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
NO! NO! NO! NO! and NO!!!
September 24, 2008 6:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Debate Commission better not fucking back down. I look forward to seeing Obama standing up there all alone.
September 24, 2008 6:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe he and Biden could just do a press conference together.
September 24, 2008 6:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey mu crystal ball called this one right - that McCain would want to reschedule the VP debate and move the FP debate to that night.
Now the second part to my vision was that the McCain Campaign would then be unable to come to a rescheduling agreement for the VP debate and we'd never have one.
Then again, maybe this is just an epic attempt to lower expectations for the debates. McCain sucks and "he was preoccupied with the economic woes"...
September 24, 2008 6:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
I said exactly that a couple of threads down.
She must really be stinking up the gym if they're willing to go to these lengths to keep her out of a debate.
September 24, 2008 6:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Harriet Miers - REDUX!
September 24, 2008 6:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
I say let's do just the opposite. Keep the dates, but switch the debates. VP first, Pres. second.
They all said she had more experience. Prove it.
September 24, 2008 7:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Especially considering she couldn't provide Katie Couric with a single specific about what McShame's done over the past 26 years to "push for more regulation."
On the other hand, maybe I should cut her some slack, since he hasn't done a single thing in 26 years to "push for more regulation."
September 24, 2008 8:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
cnn just said that the mccain campaign wants to move the debate to next thursday thus postponing the VP debate...WhAT A FUCKING JOKE
September 24, 2008 6:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hmm... how conveeeeeenient...
September 24, 2008 6:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
May God speed the day she returns to political obscurity.
September 24, 2008 6:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
No shit - I can't wait. And I can just about guarantee you that once this is all over, we won't see or hear that name ever again, mostly likely.
Except for maybe an MTV: What Became Of?
September 24, 2008 6:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sorry, HTX, but I'm afraid you'll be seeing Sara Palin's name and face for years to come...every time you line up at the grocery store checkout. Like other white trash icons like Paris and Anna Nicole, she's now famous for being famous.
September 24, 2008 7:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
maybe.
She doesn't have Nicole's assets or Hilton's money. And I think she's boring.
;)
September 24, 2008 7:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
yeah, but shitstorms are attracted to trailer trash
and sarah palin is trailer trash
jerry springer could do a whole year of shows on the palin family
and everybody loves a shitstorm
September 25, 2008 10:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
She probably go to VH1's The Surreal Life.
September 24, 2008 7:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
And they're waiting with tar and feathers to greet her once she steps foot in Alaska without SS protection.
September 25, 2008 5:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
This quote is a perfect example of how stupid it is to have Palin do interviews rather than pressers. She's going to look really off her game to be saying that so late in this day, when we know a deal is nearly finished here.
This only suggests that the campaign had in mind dong an end run around Obama. But now it's pie in the face for both of them!
September 24, 2008 6:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
not "dong" - "doing"
September 24, 2008 6:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Go to your local news station's web site. Most are polling about whether or not the debate should be suspended. Weigh in. The more we can make it overwhelmingly clear that we think the debate must be held, the more people this will reach and sway.
September 24, 2008 6:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Only poll I saw was whether drunk driving laws are strong enough. And no poll on the other station.
September 24, 2008 6:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Certifiable.
And, just once, could she speak in a grammatically correct sentence?
September 24, 2008 6:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Holy shit! Is this for real? Seriously?
This responds to the question of why the campaign doesn't want her to face the press. The unbelievable stuff that would come from this woman's mouth is just too much to handle.
No wonder Tina Fey don't want to play her in SNL after November 5th.
September 24, 2008 6:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
She'll be of no interest to anyone after Nov. 5. Except maybe in AK, but she's burned a lot of bridges there. She'll be going back home to scorched earth.
September 24, 2008 7:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Facts are such pesky things.
September 24, 2008 6:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
What we in the reality-based world have to deal with.
September 24, 2008 6:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Facts have a liberal bias.
;)
September 24, 2008 6:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Believing in facts is not American!
September 24, 2008 6:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain/Palin -- Pelts and Suspenders
September 24, 2008 6:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
What about "pelt suspenders"? And, actually, to parallel the ticket, it should be "suspenders and pelts," or is this a subtle way to agree with Palin's understanding of the ticket?
September 25, 2008 9:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
I get so confused reading her quotes, they make zero sense with her sentence structure.
On another note, I can certifiably say that no one is looking to her what her thoughts are. She has no authority.
She is so bland, I seriously feel like I am reading a day old USA Today when I am listening to her. What a waste.
September 24, 2008 6:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
The perfect blank-slate front person for the neo-cons who are tutoring her (one of those weird ideas where I agree with Pat Buchanan). I think some of them have given up on McCain and are thinking of ensuring she is politically intact after the election so she can run in 2012.
September 24, 2008 6:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
The lady will NEVER be ready! NEVER.
September 24, 2008 6:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
They're living in the past. We did it with Bush, we can do it with Palin.
September 24, 2008 6:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
O please - no kidding. She doesn't have the mental equipment and she sure as shit doesn't have the education or the training.
I still would like to see that B.A. I really have trouble thinking that B. A. even exists. I don't mean to be an education snob, but goddamn, I do expect the president to have more education than most of the rest of the country.
I don't think it's too much to ask that SCOTUS Justices have law degrees, ya know?
September 24, 2008 6:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yup. I doubt there's a diploma. That's REAL.
September 24, 2008 6:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Unfortunately there are a number of people of this country who like a president to be as dim as they are. Because we've been hit a by a 2x4 a few times recently, the Rove-Bush strategy isn't valid anymore. But I think the Bushites behind the scene are hoping against hope they can pull it off again.
September 24, 2008 6:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
There's no way in hell that America doesn't have a major hangover from Bush - his approval is at 19%.
Come on guys, give Americans a little break please - they really aren't stupid. After all, we're Americans here, right?
September 24, 2008 7:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
I guess I wasn't clear. I don't think it will work this time around. The historical fact is that this country elected W twice. So the potentiality is there. But things are dire enough that at least one of the two blinders are off and it won't happen this year.
September 24, 2008 7:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sorry.
I don't think the country really did elect Bush; in 2000 the Supreme Court threw the election; in '04, Rove stole it in Ohio.
But ok.
September 24, 2008 7:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Agreed, but it was close enough for those things to happen. The point is that there is a large swath of this country that will vote for the R no matter who they put up.
September 24, 2008 7:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
I can write you a long essay on why 2000 happened. In the first place, go back and look at the debates. Look at Bush - he's a different person. He was coherent. He also lied repeatedly throughout that campaign and it's at least within the realm of reason that people would vote for him. Especially since Clinton's problems were hanging over us and Lieberman was on the Democratic ticket and Ross Perot was running strong and so was Nader.
'04 is a different story. We got saddled with Kerry who was a terrible campaigner; we didn't have much money and people were still shaking in their shoes from 9-11 and we had a fresh war.
I could go on - but honestly, if you look at what happened it is an anomaly.
September 24, 2008 8:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh man, that ought to be entertaining. Actually seeing her go out and debate, interview and what not on a national stage.
She is a blank slate, kind of like those floppy disks you had to reformat all the time back in the day. A blank slate with limited capabilities. Shiny and nice, with nothing under the surface. That is Palin.
September 24, 2008 6:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
THat about sums it up. That she is the far right's last graat hope says how pathetic their situation is.
September 24, 2008 6:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Or a computer you have to reboot and reboot... In the middle of sentences!
September 24, 2008 6:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
But the commercials made it out to be so cutting edge and just what we needed.
September 24, 2008 7:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
OBAMA: Change we Need.
September 24, 2008 7:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's like the Mac Commercials, with the PC panicking and pulling stunts. And the Mac spokesperson being all calm and not quite able to comprehend the behavior of the PC spokesperson.
McCain: "Hey, I'm a delicious pizza."
September 24, 2008 7:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
... with pepperoni, anchovies, peanut butter and pickles.
September 24, 2008 8:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
I expect for McCain to show up in Mississippi with his hair dyed black, gold teeth, an earring and some adidas on talking about "Now this is change my friends."
September 24, 2008 6:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Flav-a-flave!
September 24, 2008 7:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Intrade: Obama - 56.3
McShame - 44.8
September 24, 2008 6:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
I read somewhere that McWar make up cost $ 5000...
Let's see on MSNBC, Nancy the clown said that if the crisis is solved, the debate will be happening.
They are trying to do anything to avoid the implosion of their campaign...
September 24, 2008 6:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
He hired the American Idol make-up artist for this price, though I don't know if it's a one-time deal or she's traveling with the campaign or something.
September 24, 2008 6:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
I swear McLame looks like he hired make-up people from a funeral home.
September 24, 2008 7:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Have you noticed how his eyes don't seem to focus on the same spot anymore?
September 24, 2008 7:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Especially that left eye. It's as focused as his campaign.
September 24, 2008 7:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Plus with the botox, when he smiles, it's a smirk!
September 24, 2008 7:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
I was cracked up by a pair of comments posted to the "Live Blogging the RNC" entry on the Mudflats blog the night of McCain's speech at the Republican Convention -- they were being posted live as the speech was being given.
One reader said, "Sheesh, they ran him through the spray tan booth on Dancing with the Stars!"
Another responded, "That’s not spray tan, that's the make up morticians use for dead bodies."
September 24, 2008 7:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
The American people are looking to the former POW JOHN MCCAIN for the leadership on how to rescue the economy from the hands of the evil doers! He will take us to -
John?
Hellooooo?
John are you still here?
September 24, 2008 6:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's taking a nap. Come back at another time.
September 24, 2008 6:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Here I am, on my plane back to being a POW."
September 24, 2008 6:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good God...
September 24, 2008 6:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
From:
Head of State
http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/09/lets-move-palins-debate-to-this-friday.html
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Let's Move Palin's Debate to This Friday!
McCain wants to cancel the first debate and move it to the Vice Presidential debate. Moving that debate into the future.
Talk about killing two birds with one stone--in addition to McCain's avoiding his debate in the face of falling poll numbers, after Palin's day of near-silent photo-ops at the U.N., attempting to also give Palin more time to prepare.
As suggested by Dana Milbank on CNN, there's an easy solution--just let Palin debate this Friday night.
The fundamentals of the debate are strong!
Cite:
Head of State
http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/09/lets-move-palins-debate-to-this-friday.html
September 24, 2008 6:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
And the real motivation behind this whole thing comes out: Palin simply can't do it. They had to come up with a way to keep her in the lock-box. There is a reason they are keeping her from the press..still. She is THAT bad.
September 24, 2008 6:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow!
Wow.
September 24, 2008 6:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Republicans look to someone in authority to figure things out for them. (poor dear)
We Dems can think for ourselves! And Obama knows that. He gave us just enough time to figure out he should go forward with the debate. And then he calls a presser.
September 24, 2008 6:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ole Miss officials say the debate setup has cost them millions and they may not be able to schedule for a later date.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/24/presidential-debate-cance_n_129051.html
September 24, 2008 6:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
The debate is happening, with or without McCain.
This will be one for the history books.
September 24, 2008 6:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Go to the debate, if McCain doesn't show up,...give the American public your views on the economy. Kinda like free advertising.
September 24, 2008 6:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
And if they cancel the debate hold a press conference and take questions from the press.
September 24, 2008 6:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain did the same to Gramm. McCain showed up for debate without Gramm.
September 24, 2008 7:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Chuck Todd laid the stunt directly on McCain's poll numbers.
September 24, 2008 6:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
You gotta love the Chuck.
September 24, 2008 6:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Olbermann and Rachel will tear McCain apart tonight.
September 24, 2008 7:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm especially looking forward to Rachel's take. She is on fire and she's got the audience.
September 24, 2008 7:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why does Sarah Palin talk like a pirate?
Couric: I am going to ask you one last time, cite me some examples of when Senator McCain, during the past twenty three years has pushed for more regulations of financial istitutions?
Palin: In her best Pirate accent: Ay will try to find ye some, and Ay will bring em to Ya!
This is not an exaggeration. That is what she said, and sounded like.
September 24, 2008 6:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
edit spelling: institutions
September 24, 2008 6:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
The irony here is that "Talk like a pirate" day was last week...
September 24, 2008 7:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
McLame got served and now he wants to take his marbles and go home.
September 24, 2008 6:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's gonna have to find those marbles, first.
September 25, 2008 8:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
This is the guy who supposedly wanted to have ten townhall meetings.
Guess McChickenShit would have canceled most of those unless everything was coming up roses.
September 24, 2008 6:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
I hope someone in big media picks up on the HuffPost and points out that canceling the debate would cost UMiss $5m+ -- that's not fiscal responsibility we can believe in.
September 24, 2008 7:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Whoa!!!!!!!
September 24, 2008 7:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
STOP REPORTING ON THIS STUFF. If Palin and McCain have not been paying attention to the American people the way some of their supporters apparently haven't let them live in la la land. They need not know that they are in full flight from reality
September 24, 2008 7:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
There's an online petition going on right now at "demand the debate 2008"
September 24, 2008 7:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Shit - I want a petition demanding that McLame-Painful concede the damn election since they are suspending their campaign.
September 24, 2008 7:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
According to Kos (top story), the Repugs now want to move the first Pres debate to October 2, when the VP debate is scheduled.
The VP debate? Uh, we'll get back to you later.
Obama needs to show up at that debate and just hold the floor himself, answering questions. He could cement the election in about two hours, assuming he hasn't already.
September 24, 2008 7:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama won't back down. There is no reason that McCain can't show up. And it would seem public sentiment is behind having the two speak to the country.
September 24, 2008 7:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Co-sign.
September 24, 2008 7:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Does mcShame want to lose Mississippi too?
September 24, 2008 7:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
CNN has him at only +4 in West Virginia for godsakes, so who knows.
September 24, 2008 7:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
In the phone banking I've done, many undecideds have said that they're waiting for the debates to make up their minds. It's really rotten of McGoo to deprive voters of the chance to see these two hash it out.
September 24, 2008 7:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
And they will resent him for it and see it as an act of a coward. This is a total bungle on McCain's part.
September 24, 2008 7:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080218/klein
if you put your arms around poor people and convice them of "Bush's home owner ship society",
well less educated people might really fall for it and sign on the dotted line.
.
After all rich educated congressmen and women are about to do the same thing.
Americans are just pain ol dumb man.
September 24, 2008 7:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obviously Americans don't. McCain is just too erratic.
September 24, 2008 7:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Katie Couric to Palin: name one piece of regulation that John McCain has supported.
Palin: I'll look around and bring it back to you.
Uh, that's not leadership we can believe in, Governor Reformer.
September 24, 2008 7:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Even Katie is catching the journalistic bug.
September 24, 2008 7:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Haha! I called it three days ago.
It is infectious. One reporter tells the truth, gets attention, more do it - don't tell me they aren't all going to jump on that bandwagon.
No way The View is outdoing Katie - at least in her own mind.
Jonze is unfortunately mistaken.
September 24, 2008 7:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
They know the world is watching. And she probably didn't want the same treatment Hannity received on the Daily Show.
September 24, 2008 7:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Americans are waiting to see what John McCain will do and say because he's so f-ing unpredictable! From singing about bombing Iran to arguing that it's safe to walk the streets of Iraq, to saying that the economy is strong one day then cancelling his campaign the next day because of the economic crisis. McCain lies with ease and changes his policies from one day to the next.
We are in two wars and the financial market is in turmoil, and McCain couldn't be more irrational.
September 24, 2008 7:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Irrational or is it the intention of the Republican Party to incite a financial panic?
September 24, 2008 7:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Usually I go with the maxim, Don't attribute to conspiracy what can be as well explained by stupidity.
This hullabaloo does have plenty signs of stupidity, but when I think about Karl Rove and Dick Cheney, my suspicions go sky-high.
September 24, 2008 8:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Palin: Buh, buh, but it says so in the bible...
September 24, 2008 7:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
She likely can't even quote the bible and make sense!
September 24, 2008 7:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe she's speaking in tounges.
September 24, 2008 7:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
forked.
September 24, 2008 8:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
The skill to lie while speaking gibberish.
September 24, 2008 8:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
You guys are cracking me up!
September 24, 2008 8:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
It certainly is an interesting narrative. Sarah saying America is looking to McCain. McCain suspending his campaign and returning to DC to help us out of this mess. Quite heroic of him. Rather weird too. Then he says, "I wouldn't shit you. You're my favorite turd!" Then, like Reagan, the press remembers this isn't a real experience from the war, but he's quoting "Private Joker" from "Full Metal Jacket..."
September 24, 2008 7:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
My guess is that the underlying M.O. here is the VP debate: Bump the first Pres debate into the October 2 slot and kick the VP debate down the road to a most uncertain fate.
It's all about Palin. Once she drops that gaffe that everybody knows is coming, the air's gonna leave McGoo's balloon quite rapidly.
September 24, 2008 7:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yup. At least it was, in the eyes of McCain strategists, the icing on the cake. Now they have icing all over their face.
September 24, 2008 7:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
I agree and I am laughing my ass off at McLame.
She must be far worse than we know if he's this scared shitless.
September 24, 2008 7:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Has Sarah Palin made a public utterance at any point during the last month where she hasn't come across as woefully unqualified to be Vice President of . . . anything?
I think this is what's frustrating McCain's camp more than anything. She's totally incapable of concealing her ignorance. Even a dope like Dan Quayle could make himself look halfway competent as a speaker when he had to, but I don't think she even comprehends how poorly she performs in these Q&As.
Wouldn't you love to be in on her debate prep sessions?
September 24, 2008 7:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
O man - for about 15 minutes and then I'd be pulling my hair out. Or else rolling around on the floor laughing so hard I I couldn't breathe.
September 24, 2008 8:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Stand firm, Barack.
September 24, 2008 7:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
We've got your back.
September 24, 2008 7:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Right on, brother!
September 24, 2008 8:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
AMEN!
September 24, 2008 8:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well there was that poll saying almost everyone thinks it isn't a good idea to delayed the debates. I almost cant believe they want to delay the VP debates. Are they so stupid that they don't know that almost everyone in America is going to think they want to delay the VP debate because Palin isn't ready.
September 24, 2008 7:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's either stupidity or desperation. I think it's the latter.
September 24, 2008 7:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why does it have to be either/or?
September 24, 2008 7:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good question.
September 24, 2008 7:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Lamont is right on!
"McCain camp to propose postponing VP debate"
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/24/mccain-camp-to-propose-postponing-vp-debate/
September 24, 2008 7:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'll say it again - Sarah Palin must be worse than we know since McLame is running so fucking scared shitless of letting her loose.
September 24, 2008 7:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Watching CNN blast her for the media accessibility at the UN, she had that look on her face that just said she would have no idea what to say if they suddenly starting throwing questions at her.
September 24, 2008 7:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm sure it's already been expressed here, but I'm beginning to think that the chief purpose of the 'Suspend the Campaign' stunt is to get Sarah Palin out of next Thursday's debate.
But would they really do something that cynical?
(yes, it's a snarky question)
September 24, 2008 7:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
A deer in headlights look?
Or more appropriately for Palin, a moose in headlights look?
September 24, 2008 7:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
No blinking, though, right?
September 24, 2008 7:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now that you mention, it was a kind of no blinking kind of stare, semi-conscious of how foolish McCain's people are making her look, and yet feeling helpless to do anything about it.
September 24, 2008 8:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Aye, and so must McLiar. Combine that with their internal polling, and WHAM! Another Hail Mary!
But this time-out bidness is really not going over very well at all. No one is in a buying mood.
tick tock tick tock
September 24, 2008 8:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
An oldie but a goodie: for 5 and 1/2 years I didn't have a clock to go tick tock tick tock.
September 24, 2008 8:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here's my favorite Palin moment (so far):
COURIC: But he's been in Congress for 26 years. He's been chairman of the powerful Commerce Committee. And he has almost always sided with less regulation, not more.
PALIN: He's also known as the maverick, though. Taking shots from his own party, and certainly taking shots from the other party. Trying to get people to understand what he's been talking about — the need to reform government.
COURIC: I'm just going to ask you one more time, not to belabor the point. Specific examples in his 26 years of pushing for more regulation?
PALIN: I'll try to find you some, and I'll bring them to you.
"He's also known as The Maverick"
Terrific.
September 24, 2008 7:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
No wonder they want to delay the VP debate.
Holy shit. I'd pay so much money to be a fly on the wall of their "study sessions."
September 24, 2008 7:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is what happens when America's Mullahs choose the veep and let the Great Jehosephat do the vetting. Dobson, Perkins, et al, chose her for McLiar the Friday before the GOP convention, and he has not been in charge since, if he ever was.
The vile neo-Con Chimpy McWar Co. folks are behind Palin, and they are controlling McPastIt.
And the Great Jehosephat either needs more ardent worshipers, or a better opposition research team. So much for omnipotence.
September 24, 2008 8:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
... ominimpotence
September 24, 2008 9:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, my....that's just kind of sad.
September 24, 2008 8:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sad in a funny kind of way.
September 24, 2008 8:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sad in a funny kind of "Fuck you and the moose you rode in on" way.
September 24, 2008 8:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Coming to an election near you: The Maverick and the Moose Whisperer
September 24, 2008 8:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bwah!! "He is also known as the Maverick, though."
Epic, epic fail.
September 24, 2008 8:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
They are shooting for the quiet and effective vote re: Palin,
September 24, 2008 7:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Looks like it went right into his foot instead. This is craziness most foul.
September 24, 2008 8:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
SHE IS JUST STRAIGHT UP LYING
September 24, 2008 7:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
ACTUALLY SHE'S JUST STRAIGHT UP STUPID WITH A BIG FAT STUPID!
September 24, 2008 8:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sarahhh!
Grab the moose by the tail and face the situation - John McCain, the tail of your ticket, and your country need you to fill in for him at this Friday's debate.
Stop blinking! You're looking like a big "pit puddy."
September 24, 2008 8:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
All I can think of is John Malkovich in the opening scene of "Burn After Reading."
"What the FUCK are you talking about?!?!"
September 24, 2008 8:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Then after a pause. "No, seriously, what the FUCK are you talking about?1??"
September 24, 2008 8:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL!
Both of you.
September 24, 2008 8:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Must-see TV tonight:
The Late Show with David Letterman
This is starting to get fun.
September 24, 2008 8:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
When George Will and then Dave turn on you, you know you screwed.
September 24, 2008 8:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow, Olberman is on tonight! Should be a hoot.
Is he taking McCain's spot or was he on the bill already?
September 24, 2008 8:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
On TPM's front page, a statement from Obama's camp:
"A few moments ago, President Bush called Senator Obama and asked him to attend a meeting in Washington tomorrow, which he agreed to do. Senator Obama has been working all week with leaders in Congress, Secretary Paulsen, and Chairman Bernanke to improve this proposal, and he has said that he will continue to work in a bipartisan spirit and do whatever is necessary to come up with a final solution. He strongly believes the debate should go forward on Friday so that the American people can hear from their next President about how he will lead America forward at this defining moment for our country."
Holy shit! Bush is asking for help! To Obama!
September 24, 2008 8:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama your multi-tasking presidential candidate (he can solve the bail out issue, attend a debate, and bring home the bacon.)
September 24, 2008 8:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Barack Obama: A multitasking president for a multitasking world.
September 24, 2008 8:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
...and fry it up in a pan.
September 24, 2008 8:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Whuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh?
[shakingheadhardsobrainswillunscramble]
September 24, 2008 8:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
We've gone down the rabbit hole it would seem.
September 24, 2008 8:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm imagining cartoon sound effects, like clanky robot noises follwed with a Model T horn... ah-OOO-ga! Maybe with a boinging spring.
September 24, 2008 8:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Holy shit - Obama and McLame released a joint statement, only it was written by Obama.
Has McLame just rolled over and become Obama's bitch?
September 24, 2008 8:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Matter of fact, today's response from Obama was in code talk. Translated it said: "Back off, bitch!"
September 24, 2008 8:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
I fucking believe it.
What's more, McLame seems to have gotten it.
Olbermann just read their joint statement released tonight and hell, Obama added 5 footnotes of his views on how to fix the economy.
To their joint statement. Ok, in a trial, whichever lawyer gets the judge to accept his jury instructions probably just won the trial.
September 24, 2008 8:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
You better take a look to this. The "smoking gun" of today's stunt has been found:
http://coloradoindependent.com/9151/oops-colorado-mccain-camp-sends-internal-e-mail-to-reporters
The shit is hitting the fan!
September 24, 2008 8:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Gosh, I love the web! But can hardly keep up!
September 24, 2008 8:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain is pushing to cancel the VP debate.
September 24, 2008 8:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Don't let him do it! Citizens, unite!
September 24, 2008 8:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is my first election here in the states. Are they always this much of a circus?
September 24, 2008 8:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
No, mike, we've never had an election like this - not in my lifetime (and I'm 63). What a year to vote!
September 24, 2008 8:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, not *usually*....welcome to the madness!
September 24, 2008 8:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
They're all a circus, but this is unlike any circus we've seen. It's like having seen only two-bit circuses with a couple of clowns and a sad old elephant, then Ringley Brothers Circus and Cirque de Soleil both come into town on the same day.
September 24, 2008 8:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
No, Mike, we are living in "interesting times." We've all been cursed, apparently.
September 24, 2008 9:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
She is so not ready! Watch video of the interview with Katie Couric
September 24, 2008 8:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
I can't wait for Sunday when Mark Halperin gives McCain the nod for winning another week.
September 24, 2008 9:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Fuck! Talk about makeup - he must have one hell of a hangover - they've got about 3 inches of pancake on Commander CooCoo Bananas.
September 24, 2008 9:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
And so now Bush is blaming this on Clinton - he says it started "more than a decade ago."
Lying piece of shit.
September 24, 2008 9:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Could he be more reading a teleprompter?
September 24, 2008 9:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
No. But he's doing a hell of a job of reading it, for once.
September 24, 2008 9:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
You mean youz guyz are actually watching Dubya's drivel? I salute you for sacrificing for the good of the community!
September 25, 2008 1:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
I watched too. Rather see a SCUD than a DUD.
September 25, 2008 2:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
Well, well, well.
Mr. 19% approval is an economics professor now...
Shameful.
September 24, 2008 9:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
We expect? LOL!
Fuck you Commander Coo Coo - Pelosi has said your plan is DOA.
September 24, 2008 9:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
O hell - he just assured us that the FDIC was going to be sound?
we're fucked.
September 24, 2008 9:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCains Rose Garden Strategy
McCain in an attempt to take the lead, and focus exclusively on the financial crisis, is following a path that has in the past proven to be disasterous.
Jimmy Carter was overwhelmed by the American hostage situation in Iran. He too put aside the many duties of his presidency and focused on one issue. Carter was viewed as being incapable, some say incompetent, of dealing with numerous problems The last fifteen months of his presidency was in a state of political paralysis.
McCain thinks that his take charge, I will rescue everyone, attitude will score him a political victory. His awkward attempt actually dismisses the presidential process, and his efforts to micromanage legislative negotiations will backfire.
The historical difference is that Carters approach was based on a genuine concern to solve a serious problem. McCain is using a serious problem as a way to create political gain. the result will be the same. and people will see through this.
September 24, 2008 9:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
I was there...Carter Did ir for his Country.
September 25, 2008 5:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
Wow. Those Palin/McCain folks really are living in some alternative reality. This just gets scarier and scarier. Imagine if they're actually elected.
September 25, 2008 12:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
I believe the voting was on MSN about the debate could vote once. They must have had McMoose /McGoose kids voting continually on the other site last night.
Actually elected its OMG don't think of that.
September 25, 2008 2:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
THAT ... was hysterical!
September 25, 2008 4:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
All we want as Americans is competence for a Change...Is that too much to ask?
September 25, 2008 5:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
From:
Head of State
http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/09/mccain-trailing-in-polls-continues.html
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
McCain, Trailing in Polls, Continues Campaign By "Suspending" It
John McCain, trailing by 9 points in national polls, has announced that he is "suspending" his campaign.
Having lost significant ground to Obama on the issue of the economy, and facing a potentially defining and withering debate on Friday where he would be confronted on his statements on the economy that have led to this sharp decline, McCain has attempted to change the rules of the game, to erase many past errors through a putatively "unpolitical" move--something we have seen before.
A simple question: Under the same economic conditions, if McCain had been leading, does anyone believe that McCain would have "suspended" his campaign?
This is the ultimate in cynicism--using the current conditions in order to attempt to blunt a sharp decline and try to control the media dialogue, through a political act designed to avoid a potential political debacle. He is continuing his campaign--which was leading to loss in all directions--by "suspending" it. It is an attempt to silence media criticism and questions--and to prevent a debate on these issues that for him is sharply unfavorable.
McCain is attempting to avoid the debate in the face of this decline, through the type of evasion and lack of press access and communication that has characterized his campaign. Don't be cowed.
Cite:
Head of State
http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/09/mccain-trailing-in-polls-continues.html
September 25, 2008 6:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm hoping for Friday's debate to be Obama vs. Biden (as Olbermann suggested on Letterman).
September 25, 2008 8:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
This is so absurd --
I say let Obama talk
to an empty chair.
http://thehaikudiaries.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/september-25-2008-3/
September 25, 2008 9:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
And now the empty chair will have one minute for a rebuttal:
September 25, 2008 11:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
"I'LL GO FIND IT AND I'LL BRING IT TO YA".
Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, BREATH, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha.
September 25, 2008 10:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
Wonderfully put, you may just be a marketing genius...no snark!!!!
September 25, 2008 11:40 AM | Reply | Permalink