Just when you thought they couldn't sink any lower they prove you wrong.

Holy Flurking Schnitt.

I hope they doM/i> unleash Michelle on these bozos. She's totally tough enough to take them on.

fucking assholes. Something like this get's by blood boiling!
Obama shold hold a press conference tomorrow morning, and really bitch slap McCain about this, the racist crowds & Davis defending them etc..

McCain once attended a Nationals game where a convicted sex offender was also in the crowd. You can look it up. But this isn't about Senator McCain molesting children- it's about his judgment.

Big mistake. Obama hates it when they go after Michelle. He's gonna bury the hatchet now.

Did anyone at this big, famous firm represent Cindy McCain when she went to court for her felony of fraudulently filling bogus narcotic prescriptions?

No? Oh, that's right. She got away with it, without so much as a night in the slammer. And they are talking about Obama's "drug use!"

This guy must be obese, all the fucking heavy breathing makes me feel as if I'm on the business end of a sexual predators phone call.

Those damn bastards. If they go after Michelle, we'll go after that prick Todd.

I'm losing interest.

Good god. What are they drinking at McCain headquarters?

They're only hurting themselves at this point.

McCain is getting more pathetic by the day.

Sidley & Austin? Sidley & Austin is the Secret Headquarters of Obama's Hidden Domestic Terrorist Conspiracy Against America?

Wow. Just . . . wow.

This is it - they are doing everything they can to get Barack to lose his cool. They know this is the one thing that gets him really angry, going after his wife. They're hoping he'll blow it at the final debate. McCain is baiting him now. It's his last hope. He wants Obama to end up doing an Ed Muskie.

But I think they're handing Barack yet another gift. Because, if he addresses this in the debate directly at McCain, eye to eye, in a cool, clear way, he can use it to make a very solid case for what a lying, dishonorable sack of shit McCain really is. Tell him to his face. Calmly.

Pack of Dogs chasing cars. Here is my question, even if it somehow comes out that The Obama's and Ayer's had dinner every Sunday with each other, what would that mean?

The dude never served jail time, he is a professor at a respectable university, was the Chicago Citizen of the Year in 1997, what's the issue?

If this is such a fucking issue, where was McCain in the past 26 years seeking to get this Terrorist behind bars? Why is he still free to roam the America of which he wants to be President? Did the US Government ever have any issues with a US Senator hanging with this guy?

Honestly McCain, what's the big fucking deal?

Again, he reminds me of the guy playing a game who realizes he is losing and wants to blame it on the refs or the other guy for his failed ways. It's never his fault...

Another WEEK! Another Couple Trillion Dollars Lost!

Hey! Lets talk about a 63 year old professor who tries to help children learn!

IMO:

It is time for the Obama campaign to turn the page on McCain. Other than at the debate (and then sparingly), Obama should not even mention John McCain anymore. Don't even refer to "my opponent." What's the point? Obama's basically won already. He should just focus on the issues and completely ignore McCain, who is beneath him.

Was there any sort of response from reporters?

I think, had they started this bullshit back in July, it might have had some effect. But after two debates in which Obama came across as likable, calm, and smart, it's going to be more difficult to link him to scary terrorists, or whatever it is they're trying to link him to these days.

Anyone want to take bets on whether the McCain capaign will raise the Larry Sinclair claims? I would have said "not a chance" about a month ago. Now? Don't know.

What a stretch. I guess that means that because I've actually driven by Sharon Tates former residence that I'm somehow connected to Charles Manson???

How is that logic and why would anyone bother to give these people air time.

Michelle Obama was so poised and dignified on Larry King and on The Daily Show. This is what she gets for it.

Obama in a landslide! Hey Michelle, I'm an Obama Mama too!

At that time, one of the senior partners in Sidley's Chicago office was Sam Skinner...who went on to be the first Pres Bush's Chief of Staff.

The web grows more tangled. Look for Sidley to be prominantly featured in the next Dan Brown book

That is a campaign that is in deep trouble

Newsweek Poll: Obama 52 McCain 41

http://www.newsweek.com/id/163339

New campaign slogan: McCain the Disgrace! Ambition first; country second.

Hmmmm. What might they be trying to distract attentioin from with this entirely bogus claim?

Is it possible they might have some sort of advance word on the outcome of the Troopergate investigation?

Ayers is a professor at one of the best universities in the world. Certainly wouldn't want to be associated with that guy. It's not like he's Chuck Keating or something....

I heard John McCain serves in the Senate with someone who is known to have ties to terrorists.

How does McCain respond to these serious charges?

Er, sorry; I know that should have been 'whom' in the above.

Robert

You mean that den of iniquity of the left Sidley Austin law firm which lobbies on behalf of the likes of Bayer, American Electric Power, and Master Card? That is awful, awful stuff.

I have a few words to say...MwWar's wife drugs addiction..

I think they know they have lost Latest newsweek poll: Obama +11

Unfucking real.

John

and it is now reported that poodle was dealing with Charles Keating and made lots of money, even after the scandal...
And McWar said he didn't know...

This is so pathetic. Throw enough (any) shit against the wall and hope it sticks. Not only does it fall far short of the definition of the word tenuous, but it is kind of ironic to see the McCain campaign keep soiling their own in their desperation. First, Walter Annenberg, who could be fairly said to be an uber Republican, Reagan-appointed ambassador, etc., and now Sidley & Austin which is a blue stocking, corporate, management firm extraordinaire with deep Republican ties. Duck, incoming. Evidently, they couldn't care less about the collateral damage done to their once (and hopefully, now former, like everyone else who has gotten a whiff of this Steve Schmidt-inspired odious campaign) allies.
Just when you thought they couldn't sink any lower...

The people making these charges for McCain are the same people who smeared McCain's family in 2000 for Bush. McCain then did something unbelievable - he hired the same people who smeared his own family to help his campaign.

Is there anything lower than that?

Now they're smearing Obama's family. I think Barack should point that out - that McCain hired people who slandered his own family to now slander Obama's family.

Integrity? What integrity? McCain has none left.

I have it on unimpeachable authority that McSlime has spent 72 years, 72 YEARS!!!, inhabiting the same spiral arm of the galaxy as the Borg.

Now I'm not saying McScum is a Borg, or even a Borg sympathizer. This is about McPuke's judgement. He had a choice. He could have left. He stayed. He's not fit to...erm...well, anything, actually, the slimy fuck.

testing

As I wrote earlier today, John McCain has turned toward the Dark Side.

Anyone remember in 2000 when some were calling him "Luke Skywalker"? Because he was a pilot or whatever?

He's actually Anakin Skywalker. He's come under the influence of Sen. Palpatine (Rove) who has advised him to give into his hate and turn toward the Dark Side. His rage will be his downfall. Fortunately, he's too old to be rebuilt as a Darth Vader.

It'll never work. Their heat sensors are locked in on Pailin's tail. They'll never be fooled by chaff. Only anti-aircraft SAMs and AAMs can save her now.

Stupid. stupid. stupid. Haven't they seen the Fox poll (or any of the National polls, for that matter) - the Ayers thing isn't working. Attaching Michelle to Ayers is such a huge stretch, this may really be the end of McCain. He and they won't stop - it's a hate thing and they can't help themselves.

So you're telling me that two smart women in Chicago would end up at the same huge law firm?

Inconceivable!

Where the hell is the troopergate report?

Folks, we are talking to ourselves and preaching to the choir. I strongly urge every member of this blog to send letters to the editor to their home town papers. This is my letter I sent this morning. I try to send at least one letter a day and often a letter to the papers in the areas where the two mavericks cum bigots are appearing.

At precisely the moment when this nation, brought to its knees by the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, needs to unite and act as one, John McCain and Sarah Palin are recklessly trying to divide the American people. Forget about "Country First". McCain and Palin are putting Campaign First. In stump speech after stump speech, McCain and Palin are actively and knowingly stirring up racial hatred and class warfare. This is not only criminal (there are laws against inciting to violence), it is absolutely the kind of selfish divide and conquer politics that dragged us down into this financial mess in the first place.

We are only going to get through this crisis with calm, cool and intelligent leadership. To this end, Senators Barack Obama and Joe Biden have already started putting together a transition team that includes some of the best and brightest economists in the country. Mr. McCain and Mrs. Palin plan to wait until after the election to assemble their team. Does this mean that they don't plan to change anything?

The time has come to say NO to "us against them" politics and to start voting for our self interests: our jobs, our homes, our economy, our security, and our future. After eight years of divisive, me first politics, it is time for a leader who really will put America first and lead us, as one great nation, back to prosperity.

Michelle Obama joined an 1800 member firm the year that Bill Ayers' wife left the 1800 member firm.

Therefore, vote for me.

Hang on a minute - This means that every fucking member of the Illinois State Bar Association is formally associated with a terrorist.

If Bernardine (and I remember her better than I do her husband) went to work in a law firm that has to mean she has a law license.

Follow me here - they will not issue you a law license if you have been guilty of any crime of moral turpitude and that doesn't just mean a criminal record. If they had a problem with her they would not have issues her a law license.

Good god almighty -

Actually, at this point these attacks are starting to get kinda funny...

(not the crap at the rallies, of course)

So does this mean all of Sidney & Austin's employees were terrorist sympathizers? Why would Sidney & Austin hire a domestic terrorist?

I would like McCain or his Mooselini running mate to have the cojones to say this to Michelle's face. She would clock both Boris AND Natasha in the face for pulling her into this bogus off-roading...

STAY. ON. MESSAGE.

McCain is trying to drag Obama into a dogfight to move the message away from the economy.

If anyone here speaks to anyone in the Obama campaign- tell them to please let Barack ignore this.

This is just some coward during a conference call. Stay on the economy. Defend your wife's honor after all hope for McCain is lost.

I dont think Barack Obama will stoop to their level of attacks. He has much more class than that. If you ever push and push issues like this, you will find out, that it will make you look even worse..
If they say anything bad of obama's family, it is open season on john sidney mccain his wife, and his kids also. he (john mccain) wasn't even born in the United States..check out wikipedia..
but really, I think he has more class than mccain's people...

What's funny about reading some of the comments is that they apply logic to McCain's smear. There isn't any. There isn't supposed to be any. It's barroom taunt.

I assume this is partly to stir up the base, and partly to try to throw Obama off his stride. I assume the Obama campaign understands that McCain will do anything, and that includes attacking his wife in the waning days of the campaign -- with, perhaps, the goal of getting Obama get angry and overreach.

I hope folks don't think any of this is easy for Obama, and that just because he has kept his cool so far that he always will. He's very, very good, but he's also a mere mortal.

CNN just showed a clip of McCain telling his audience to be respectful of Sen Obama. Richard Wolf of Newsweek was on Chris Matthews show and said McCain is backing off because his internal polling is showing his negatives soaring through the roof. Plus Fox's own polling shows that the Ayers thing is having no impact. So watch for the walk back by the McCain camp over the next few days.

I have asked the question before and unless I missed it there has been no answer... Everyone just seems to assume this Murtagh nut says Ayers firebombed his house. Yet he says his fathers problem was with the Black Panther Party. When did the Weather Underground become the Black Panther Party? Is there any historical record supporting anything Murtagh says? Why should we trust as fact anything any of these McCain surrogates are saying?

Wow...um...this has become just stupid. I can't quite figure out how they think this is going to help them any (though I can think of lots of ways this could blow up in his face). I think the nice men in white coats need to haul the McShame campaign away--the screws that were loose in their heads clearly fell out.

Stick to John McCain if you want to attack. Because it will have a stronger effect.

Point out his cowardice.

I know -I'm totally amazed at just how clean these people are.

It's obvious that the Obamas saw early that their work, and Barack's political activity would make their lives subject to a lot of scrutiny, so they took the sensible route of living lives which would bear scrutiny. Pretty simple!

But McCain sure is raising the expectations that he has an Obama-destroying narrative to give at the next debate. And he ain't got shit, and has descended to attacking Michele.
The way I see it, all McCain has to do to fail miserably at the next debate is not mention any of this stuff. Obama has no need to defend himself if McCain doesn't raise it. And if he doesn't, he's a punk, a skirt-hiding, can't say it to my face punk. And nothing McCain can say will add up to a knock-out, or even staggering blow.
McCain has painted himself into a corner. He's stuck. He's done, so done.

Some years ago I was involved in a legal matter straightening out a family inheritance. My side of the family used Preston Gates, my cousins used Sidley Austen. I have since felt bad about supporting the firm the hired Jack Abromoff, but at least I wasn't consorting with terrorists like my cousins.

Hows your effort to poll hip handymen coming?

TROOPERGATE UPDATE:

At 2:15 Alaska time (6:15 est) reporters waiting on the report were told to wait another hour, or roughly 3:15 AK time (7:15 est). So there should be some info within the hour.

You can keep up on it here:

http://community.adn.com/adn/node/132527

Just hit "Refresh" every now and then.

Obama does not have to say a thing! That's the beauty of it. If McCain dares to bring it up, Obama can rip it to pieces. And if McCain doesn't, Obama doesn't need to say a thing.

For a little fun, try and imagine how McCain can present this Ayers thing at the debate such that it constitutes a powerful narrative of betrayal and treason. It's gonna take some doing. And I repeat, after this week, McCain has got to bring it up. He is so lost.

I bet McCain's latest tactic of calling for civility is just bob and weave.

These negative attacks wont help McCain win, but it almost ensures the continued deep divisions in this country, providing a shot in the arm for the red state/blue state mentality. The bitter attacks on Barack and Michelle is fast becoming the republicans Clintonization of the Obamas.

Get used to it folks. No matter what Obama does in the next four or eight years, or what he does for the remainder of his life after his political career is over, there will be those on the right attacking him.

Rut-roh. Obama has warned McCain more than once about attacking his family.

Demand a personal apology from John re: Michelle or pull out from the debate and have his own press conference at the sam time as debates!

uh.... um..... Wow! Ya' know, I have never tried heroine, but I think this pitiful excuse of a "campaign" might be a little clearer to me if I too was throwing my life away.

Obama should just refuse to debate until...

Your CONCERN is noted, troll!

Obama doesn't have to do or say anything! All he has to do is show up at the debate, ready, and he is. If McCain doesn't bring up all the ACORN-Ayers terrorist-pals bullshit, MCcAIN IS TOTALLY PUNCKED, PAWNED, KAPUT. If McCain does bring it up, Wow.
But McCain has got to bring it. He can't tell his followers he's got a knockout narrative of Obama-as-traitor and then sort of forget it at the debate. Why is he debating a terrorist, then?
And if McCain does bring it up...

He is so screwed. The only thing he can do to avoid coming out of the next debate with Obama owning is white ass is something he simply is not capable of doing!!! He will either look demented and apathetic or demented and raving mad.

Gosh, has McCain had good campaign advice, or what?

And then they went gambling at the same casino that night. McCain was seen shooting craps at the same table. OMG, they "might" have been talking about their mutual sex crimes!

Holy crap, they do NOT want to go there. Attacking Michele opens the door to attacks on Cindy. Man, they REALLY don't want to go there.