I expect Obama to call out McCain in one of the next two debates on this tax lie. I also think Obama needs to hit back harder at it, really spell out what his plan is - maybe in one of those talk-to-the-camera ads, or maybe have testimonial ads with regular folks stating their income and how much they'll save under the Obama plan compared to the McCain plan.

This tax lie seems to be the only attack point McCain has left, because his gutter smears of course.

I want to see Obama call him out forcefully to have him own up to his lies.

That "Change is coming" at the end of McCain's ad make it like a bad movie preview. "McCain and Palin at theaters near you - January 2009."

I wonder if he contemplating riding PA Ave on inauguration day on a white horse, yelling "change is coming, change is coming!"

I give up. Nevermind that McNuts' campaign is the scuzziest I've ever seen, it is ill conceived, poorly executed and managed by a bunch of toothless reprobates.

Maybe we'll get lucky and have a "YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH" moment during the next debate.

Oh please, oh please, oh please.

Breaking:

McCain campaign is about to launch it's new campaign slogan:

Maverick Maverick is the new HeadOn HeadOn.

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Palin on Fox News has said Katie Couric annoyed her. Seems she was a tad bit PO'd that Couric kept a tight rein on her during the interview process. One of her complaints was that if she tried to change the subject of the question to one she felt the public wanted to hear, she got clobbered. Note she did exactly that last night during the debate.

She also indicated the type of questions she felt were fairer to ask would have been the ones which provided her an open window to bash Obama.

In short, the only fair questions to ask were those that allowed her to rant on about how good the McCain talking points were as a way to showcase the public her character and image while bashing Obama in between breaths.

Am I the only one that noticed that as the campaign gets closer to the end, the McCain ads make Obama look blacker and blacker?

Gee, they ran these sorts of ads in MI, nonstop, for about three weeks, let's hope they work just as well everywhere else.

I've lost all remaining respect for McCain with this racist-baiting ploy. Let's stir up any racist tendencies among the voters, shall we? We don't need that sentiment to get even worse, if you know what I mean.

Yes, they are demonizing Obama by trying to make him look like OJ and scare easily intimidated white people. I suspect we will be seeing a lot more "blame the darkie" gambits as we get down to the wire, for instance that minorities are responsible for Wall Street's F-up. It's just terrorism in another form and unspeakably despicable. The Republican Party has irretrievably lost its way and must now be deemed a cancer on our society.

This is so low. It just plays to blatant racism and antiquated prejudice. Who cares what shade his skin is? Obama has a brilliant mind and a calm temperament and can dance rings around the opposition, who is apparently getting desperate if you judge by the ads his campaign runs.

As someone who worked for years in national politics, but also as a part-time theologian, I have two observations. First, if memory serves, the 2002 Clinton/Gore campaign televised a one-half hour ad that closed with a slow-motion shot of Clinton and Gore in shirt sleeves. In the background, the closing tune from the movie The Natural played, and the slogan posted was "The Change is Coming." McCain's ad guys just took out the article.

Second, as a theologian, I find this slogan slightly messianic, which would fit in with the right-wing fundamentalists -- not all fundamentalists are right-wingers -- who await the parousia or the Second Coming of Christ. Maybe I am reading too much into this, but given Palin's fundamentalist leanings and the GOP track record of exploiting such fundamentalism, it would not surprise me that such messianism is a not-so-subtle part of McCain's campaign strategy.

John McCain has lost it, though I don't know how much of it he ever had; 'it' being all touch with reality. He is pathetically pathologically obsessed with getting that pat on the head, "You did good Johnny. We like you".

Watch him when he gives his readings; he doesn't do speeches. They had to go back to putting his notes (only in Senator McCain's case it is more likely the whole speech, in large print) on his lectern because he was so terrible at using teleprompters. I will have to admit, watching him look down for the next few words he is to speak (sometimes a sentence, sentence and a half, even two sentences) is not nearly as painful as watching his attempts at using teleprompters.
After he delivers the "punch line", the "hook", ever so seriously,he looks up with that big grin, "Didn't I do good. I did it!".

And finally, I think I may have figured out the real reason John McCain picked Sarah Palin as his running partner (given his history, I was a bit uncomfortable with running mate). He needed someone who can stand up in front of the whole world and tell a ball faced lie, knowing it is a bald face lie and not caring, as good as he can.