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C'mon, Eric, you know better. Biden's "gaffe" about a crisis in the new administration was no such thing.

Biden was saying - in his usual short-hand, easy-to-misinterpret way - that the U.S. will face a major international critis in the next year (regardless of who is in office) and that Obama, as the new president, will be tested by it and will prove up to the challenge.

He NEVER said that Obama being president will CAUSE a crisis - that is the LIE the McShame campaign is pushing.

And shame on TPM for falling for it.

It's just a hunch, but I predict Palin will get teary-eyed during her speech on special-needs children. If she does, the media will eat it up.

I've got money that Hillary out draws McCain today in the Denver area.

Well to be truthful, Todd and Sarah did manage to have their LAKESIDE HOME built for free by the same contractor that built the STADIUM TO NOWHERE.

That's pretty damn frugal, you betcha.

The Highest-Paid McCain Staffer: Palin's Makeup Artist! The New York Times reports that Amy Strozzi, the traveling makeup artist for Sarah Palin, is in fact the top-paid staffer on the campaign. Strozzi was paid $22,800 during just the first two weeks of October, compared to only $12,500 for top foreign-policy adviser Randy Scheunemann.

"Country First" indeed...

http://thepajamapundit.com/

I posted this last night, it worth repeating:
I dont really care much about this B-in-facegate, but the girl was blogging an hour before the attack that she was searching for a bank of america ATM...it took me 3 seconds to look online that there are only 3 bank of america atm's in the pittsburgh area...and there are exactly 0 bank of america atms in bloomsfield pa, where this happened.

you can go to the bank of america webpage to search the atms in the area.

here is the report from her own blog:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/1023083twitter1.html

Who fuckin blogs that they are searching for a particular atm, then is mugged at said atm, when, if you are clever enough to blog what you are doing, you dont have the sense to search where the bank of america atm in the fucking shitsburgh area are??????

Palin following in the grand Bush tradition of "don't believe your lying eyes."

The RNC admits they spent 150k- she says it didn't happen. Shocking.

A CHALLENGE to all- any way to determine what percentage, by state, of all voters will early vote? And on top of that, what percentage in each state of early voters this year have been going toward each candidate?

I'd love to have some numbers to know what kind of lead Obama is building in the states that allow early voting?

I feel like Obama is building a 4 run lead over the first three innings with the advantages in early voting. I'd love to see Nate Silver, or anyone this board put together a list so that we can see what kind of percentage vote in each state McCain will need to make up the deficit in early voting.

Hey Greg!

You gotta put something on here about this - Palin's now denying she accepted $150,000 in clothing from the RNC!

It only took her THREE DAYS to utter this outright lie!

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-sarah-palin-1023,0,6207610.story

did anyone see Brian Williams interviewing the dynamic duo last night? Don't ask me what SP was babbling about, her sentences are so convoluted that my mind goes into a trance. More about why Bill Ayers is a terrorist, and then in the next question when she was asked if she considered herself a feminist, saying how much she dislikes anyone labeling another person.

Here's a piece that will brighten your spirits as you watch you 401K shrink ever smaller this morning:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14891.html

“If you really want to see what ‘going negative’ is in politics, just watch the back-stabbing and blame game that we’re starting to see,”

Sounds like flashback to the twilight of Hillary's campaign.

is it me or is the mccain ad not a very good one?

they used sen. biden's quote that barack obama will be tested in the first 6 months of his presidency and the response in the ad says "there doesn't have to be". there is no logical link between the prevention of a global crisis stemming from a mccain presidency. they just say "there doesn't have to be". which is the exact same thing i would say to sen. biden if i were in that room when he made that statement. but it doesn't give an argument or a semblance of an argument of WHY people should vote for mccain.

i think it is a weak ad, and the way i see it, we're in an international crisis right now. americans overwhelming trust sen. obama on the primary issue that has set the crisis (the economy) and americans overwhelming believe that sen. obama will best handle the crisis. so, i think that for mccain, he should've tried to make a stronger case with that ad. he totally missed the mark.

Yeah McCain will protect by his steady leadership and by relying on his experienced and smart running mate Palin.

Yeah McCain will protect by his steady leadership and by relying on his experienced and smart running mate Palin.

Yeah McCain will protect us through his steady leadership and by relying on his experienced and smart running mate Palin.

Those terrorists and radical leaders won't attack the US if McCain is elected because they'll say to themselves "ah well, McCain has already been tested so...lets not do anything. Now if it was that Obama...."

McCain keeps saying he won't be tested by the world because he has already been tested. My question is, when was McCain tested? When he was a POW and broke? Nobody holds that against him but making videos for the enemy during wartime certainly doesn't give you grounds to claim that you've been tested. Or was it when he was Bush's lead cheerleader to take us into the Iraq war without reliable evidence of WMD?

McCain was tested before the entire country in this election, and after years of hearing of his "high code of honor" he has fallen to running the most despicable campaign in modern times. Once again, McCain broke under pressure. But this time it is not forgiveable.

In the Biden ad, did they slow the audio down slightly to make Joe sound more ominous?

So... $22,800 for two weeks... let's say twelve weeks on the contract... so times six... $136,800. So depending on what she did the rest of the year, Amy the Cosmetician may still be eligible for an Obama tax cut.

After Bush being caught off guard on 9/11, I think the country would rather have a president who anticipates being tested and is prepared over one who is so arrogant that he doesn't believe that our enemies would ever test him.

Hi everybody. I'm new here. Mind if I join the conversation?

Time for the Obama campaign to put out an ad saying that McCain won't need to be tested because the al Qaida supporters have already concluded that he will be as stupid as George W Bush and the terrorist organization can continue their strategy of exhausting the US militarily and economically.

Seems like the McCain campaign is under the direction of Karl Rove:

In a WSJ opinion piece just yesterday, Karl Rove wrote:

" McCain should use vivid imagery to highlight concerns about the freshman Illinois senator. There are plenty of warning signs about Mr. Obama we ignore at our peril."

He adds "Mr. Obama is dangerously wrong-headed on national security.

Rove continued by asking "Should we elect someone so wrong about a strategy vital for success in what Osama bin Laden calls the central front in the war on terror?"

Rove also brought up what he calls Obama's "four amigos", Ayers, Rezko, Wright, (maybe the fourth is Obama himself.)

The title of Rove's piece was a bit misleading:

"the tax argument still works".

Have a look:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122471862591760559.html

TNTim, while I cannot, and should not speak for this establishment, as far as I know this is lberty hall, man. Make yourself at home.

In Knoxville, TN (my family lives there) several neighborhoods are having trouble with their Obama yard signs being stolen. One lady rigged a video cam and nabbed a thief. Others are actually putting motion detector alarms on their signs.

I have started thinking lately that Obama supporters and blog sites need to take their lead from Obama and lay off Palin. Nobody is more offended by McCain's cynical choice than I am, can't even stand to listen to her talk. But as a woman, I am beginning to feel a little like she has become the victime of a witchhunt. There is just something different when attacks are done on a woman--shouldn't be but there is. It starts feeling like sexism.

The last thing we want to do is make a martyr of Palin. My instincts say lay off because we don't want sympathy rising for Palin from female voters and changing the polls.

btw....from Americablog..."
This afternoon, a Pittsburgh police commander told KDKA Investigator Marty Griffin that Todd confessed to making up the story.

The commander added that Todd will face charges; but police have not commented on what those charges will be...."

A backward "B" on her cheek. This to me is the typical mentality of McCain low information supporters...the ones he most appeals to.

Palin is more than just a distraction ...she is an insult to serious people...a slap in the face tot hose concerned about the state of our nation...but mostly a DRAGDOWN of the McCain chances.

McCain says Palin lowered taxes in Alaska and she didn't, she raised taxes and left them a deficit not there previously.
McCain says Palin negotiated a multi million dollar oil deal...she didn't...in fact she had little to do with it as it was negotiated by the oil companies and I wonder why dems let them get away with these obviously provable mis-statements.

McCain is so embarrassed by the failed Bush administration yet wants to continue all its main policies. I'm amazed that so many are willing to overlook how much McCain represents failed policies that only benefit the very wealthy...like some alien black lady making less than $30k/yr yelling "I am Joe the plummer, I am Joe the plummer" like people in some make believe fairy tale. Republicans seem to have spent the last 30 yrs cultivating ignorance depending on mis information to protect their profiteering and ended up with a base that represents some of the sickest and ignorant citizens in our nation. If one wanted to see how a modern Nazi party could be created one only needs to look at the republican party over the last 8yrs and pray they don't get a deviously popular thug leader. We now have the ability to prevent the conditions that would support such ideology from becoming a reality. We are the change we have been looking for.