Distance himself? Not a chance.

If Palin is saying it, then McCain has given the go.

The man has no shame. And he's a goddamn coward for hiding behind Palin's skirt while she levels these scurrilous attacks.

So the McCain campaign's answer for overtaking Obama's lead is to.......dig up debunked bullshit that Hillary tried and failed miserably at???

Hey, did you guys see this?

http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/10/05/in-slip-up-palin-calls-afghanistan-our-neighboring-country/

Obama should come out and address the economic situation.

I like the part about her using basically the same text as the April ad. Even their attacks are leftovers...

McCain's Organ Grinder Flings Feces.

Hmmm, I wonder if McCain thinks it's unpatriotic to be more afraid of the economy than of a supposed friendship Obama has with a former anti-war extremist who long ago changed his ways.

Who should be more scared...us or McCain who has a running mate who claims Afghanistan is our neighboring country??

"If only Barack had agreed to my town hall meetings...." will be his attempt at a fig leaf.

I imagine he is steaming about Keating. How dare he respond with truth against my sleaze!

Why is McCain doing this? Well, from Ras's poll today:

It is worth noting that Obama’s lead is now bigger than any lead enjoyed at any point by either candidate in Election 2004.

Who cares about the economy? I certainly don't. Two wars? Meh. What I really want to hear more about is Obama's associations. That's going to make the difference in my life.

Can we talk about the Witchdoctor now?

If they want to go with Reverend Wright, we go with Hagee and Muthee. Wow, they rhyme. Heh.

News from Ed Shultz

Sunday night I was told by Capitol Hill insiders the polling after Tuesday's debate will determine McCain's next shift in resources. McCain will trim operations in Minnesota this week and may be out of the state by the end of the week.

Obama has opened a solid double digit lead in the Gopher state. Some McCain insiders feel the state is already lost coupled by the fact that Al Franken is now leading Sen. Norm Coleman.

Sources with knowledge of the campaign are telling me this will be a crucial week for McCain. All Minnesota efforts will be reallocated to Ohio, Florida and possibly Virginia.

The McCain camp is now expecting the 527's to attack Obama on character in an attempt to shift the conversation and focus off the economy. One source told me tonight, "We are definitely in need of a game changer."

http://www.bigeddieradio.com/

The Dem candidates are off the trail today, the idiots are smear attacking, and the DOW goes down 10000 -- surrogates should step up and hit back.

Time to surface every bullshit voodoo religious preoccupation flying around the fucked up cult she belongs to...AND to point out that her surfacing this shit despite McLiar's earlier statement that it was off limits only reinforces his dishonesty.

No doubt, she's got her own witch doctor problem. Cue it up!

Time for some soaring oration about our collective fate as Americans. Obama has this thing won--if he takes the high road. This is not the time to wrestle in the mud with the likes of Sarah Palin. She's a Hooter's waitress.

This is all they have - Ayers, and that couldn't be more absurd, and a retired United Church of Christ minister.

Jesus - I've never supported such a clean candidate.

Well, looks like McCain isn't listening to Ed Rollins over at CNN. So can we expect that landslide now.

John McCain, your challenge is to tell us what Obama's change means! Is it just rhetoric, or if not, is it really change in a bad direction? Don't waste your time beating up on him. Challenge his ideas and promises.

If you can do it effectively, you might come back from the deficit you now face. If you can't, you face the possibility of an electoral and popular defeat of landslide proportions.

View slideshow from Anti-Palin rally in Anchorage, AK

go to:

http://bigshow.bigfolio.com/?s=000011662&t=0e6a8ae03101be65098418ccb735e4a1

Sarah Palin has a witch doctor and attended a church where the pastor blamed the terrorism and violence in Israel on the fact that Jews haven't accepted Jesus...

does she really want to go there?

The MSM can shut this down before it gets any traction if they so choose to - not exactly the "base" anymore.

The only question now is which will go lower, the DOW or McCain. And in either case it's thanks to Republican philosophies (Economic and Political).

As long as the financial markets continue to suck and the unemployment rate continues to go up, the last thing the Aaerican public wants to hear is Rev Wright or Aryers.

Mike Murphy, McCain former campaign manager in his 2000 race, posted this morning that McCain is making a mistake by going negative. According to him McCain needs to get back to what he did in 2000.
http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/10/30_days_out.html

MSNBC switched from Palin's attacks to the Keating Five website. CNN still toeing the Republican party line.

"If we keep talking about economy, we are fucked"

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/10/05/2008-10-05_insults_fly_as_barack_obama__john_mccain.html

Rather than looking at the Ayers, Rezko, Wright stuff as legitimizing Keating Five attacks, maybe a bit more chatter is in order questioning the old man's miserable health.

Even Sanjay Gupta is now expressing skepticism about the records he flipped through under the McCain campaign's supervision.

Funny thing is, shouldn't the interviewer or MSM point out that Obama was NOT in the pews during Wright's sermon blasting the U.S. that is all over YouTube?

And does this now mean that Obama & his surrogates can start talking about Pentecostal speaking-in-tongues rituals she was part of? Or her time spent with a Kenya witch doctor (on YouTube)?

Unfortunately Obama has no events scheduled today and Biden is off the trail to be with his wife and family as they grieve the death of Jill's mother.

I know the Keating "documentary" drops in about half an hour, but I think Obama in the very least needs to schedule a press conference to provide some news coverage for the networks so they don't run Palin's comments all day.

I'm hoping that two things start appearing in Obama's speeches: John McCain wants to do for health care what he allowed to happen to our banking system. He's said it before, and here's hoping it becomes a staple.

Second, Obama should emphasize that John McCain will cut Medicare and Medicaid deeply to pay for his version of "health care".

Even *Karl Rove* is saying that this strategy is potentially fatal dumbassery from the McCain camp - and right now he's giving the electoral map to Obama.

I say an old aikido principle applies: the easiest way to defeat a charging opponent is to simply step out of the way and let them land flat on their face.

She's Howdy Doody with a very mean streak

"Gosh, Charlie, that's such a good question, and when that wonderful tongue-speaking pastor from Africa was laying hands on me to protect me from devils and witches and we were striving to pray out the gay I was thinking how gosh darn it was, dontcha know, that Senator Obama was in such a radical church and listened to that Reverend Wright hating America for so many years and never honors our troops by using the word victory or talk about winning while Todd and I were being such good Joe Six Packs and arming ourselves against the moose and the wolves and just in case Washington got a little crazy we palled around with the whatchamacallits, the separatists, to preserve our wonderful small town values and keep America safe while our troops were protecting us from all those terrorist communists in Chicago and northern Virginia."

"A little revolution is a good thing now and then, dontchathink, Charlie, isn't that what the founding fathers like Jefferson and Thomas Paine and General McKiernan were talkin about? Isn't that what we mavericks do is change things?"

You never expected them to honor McCain's word that the Wright story was off limits, did you? Word was out that Obama was going to release a piece on McCain's Keating Five scandal, and we're off to the nuclear war portion of the campaign. Read the Rolling Stone cover story, John McCain, Make Believe Maverick for how despicable and unfit for the presidency this man is.

A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a disturbing record of recklessness and dishonesty

By TIM DICKINSON

Sorry, I keep messing up the link insert.

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain

Food for thought: I just heard Palin on CNN talking in her rural, folksy, slang. Could you imagine if Obama spoke in slang of the Southside of Chicago?…he would be termed as ignorant and folks would probably wonder what ghetto he came out of. There is such a double-standard!!

mccain couldn't win this race if he single-handedly took out a middle-eastern terrorist strike force and defused a dirty bomb with his teeth on the washington mall.

thanks to his hard-charging (stillborn) rescue of the bailout everyone hates, even if he hauled bin laden up the capitol steps in chains, absolutely no one would think that it's not another one of his hail mary campaign stunts. he'd never get credit for it.

that's what happens when you lose all credibility, which up until now was the best thing mccain had going for him.

Dow dropped another 500 points. Index below 10,000 for the first time in almost a decade. The last thing audible will be Wright or Ayers today.

McLame is really lame,of couse Sarah doesn't know what stock market really doe.Bad day to bring up Ayers or Wright.

Most people are looking at the headline the economy tanks, rest ain't important.

Palin is disgusting. She's the worst of politics, a new generation that fed at the Rove trough for the past 8 years. When I'm done campaigning for Obama/Biden, I'm ensuring she only gets one term as Gov. of AK and never sets foot fear DC.

Last week, in his NY Times column, Bill Kristol had suggestions for the McCain campaign on how to advance a winning strategy. One of those suggestions was to delve into the Rev Jeremiah Wright affair once again. Judging from his column today, it's perfectly clear that he's taking the position of trying to "save" the campaign with his own hands, by creating self-fulfilling prophecy!

We all know that it was Bill Kristol, besotted by Sarah Palin during a cruise to Alaska earlier in the year, who encouraged John McCain to make her the choice for his running mate. Kristol, who is supposedly a man of letters with a propensity to ponder life's twists and turns in deeply thought-out measure, has completely ignored the fact that this woman can't even put a sentence together that makes any sense, unless she's reading a teleprompter or notes. Why would a person of such journalistic stature give encouragement to someone so unqualified? Can anyone - ANYONE - answer that for me?

There was a time in our history when a columnist could practically dictate to the electorate
how to vote. News was hard to come by and he (it was always a "he" in those days) was seen as somehow superior in knowledge; a person who could be trusted to steer us in the right direction. With the advent of the information highway however, that time has passed. We no longer need their advice; we can see for ourselves who's best qualified.

It's high time Bill Kristol stood aside and quit interfering in politics; it's not his job. He should realize by now that in making his case for Sarah Palin as a "superior candidate" for VPOTUS, Mr Kristol has shown he has no superior knowledge any longer. When he encourages Palin and McCain to dredge up old news about their opponent, it only reinforces my opinion that he and McCain don't care about this country's future; only their own.

With his glowing report about Sarah Palin today, Bill Kristol has shown us, once again, that he's thinking with another organ rather than his brain.

Isn't about time for another article on McCain's gambling - and the tax problem.

He did not claim gambling winnings on his '06 and '07 tax returns - Of course not - because he's obviously in collusion with his friends at the casinos to keep his winnings off the books.

How about a Waxman investigation? Here's the link to the explanation on HP from a tax person:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/martha-miller/mccains-tax-returns-hide_b_131675.html

Palin is PLAIN....She was picked by the zionists newsons....she is their new brainless, empty suit> who they hope will carries over their agenda>.Spread blood, hate,killing all over the world when our country is bleeding and almost crippled with financial meltdown, our homes lost value, our 401 K & benefits are slashed, our jobs are gone, almost 50 mil without any health ins., our schools and bridges and crumbling.... what's the urgent subjest zionist Bill Kristol will talk about or asked Palin to talk about??? The zionist newcons know Obama will NEVER let them have a say over our national or forigen policy and they are going to smear him on FIX news , WSJ,WS,etc....they are going down dirty and shamelessly.

I still think the Wright stuff could be turned around. The infamous "God damn America!" clip was really a populist expression of anger. The clip (when put back in context) says that those so-called leaders of government and business who say God Bless America, but then take away jobs and refuse to help the poor, are really saying "God Damn America!". It's not *Wright* who wants to damn America, it's Wright expressing his anger at those who by their actions damn America.

Sure, he's a firebrand and goes too far, but it's his passion for justice, his faith in God and in the people of America that makes him so angry.

Don't attack Palin's faith. There's a lot of Pentecostals, and attacking faith is a bad idea anyway. Draw the parallels. Wright's faith is actually very similar to many of the fundamentalists (including Pentecostals) who support conservative causes.

It's about Passion. It's about doing what's right for justice, what's right to help neighbors, what's right for America.

Address the fundamentalist Christians directly, many of whom are in similar economic positions to those Wright speaks of. He's not a scary stranger; he's much like your own preacher. Though perhaps louder than some.

Nothing this lady says has any substance. I don't care about something that was talked about months ago. I care about our economy today and my children’s future. I fail to understand why they feel the need to handle her delicately. I am a woman and when I am playing with the boys, treat me like one. I still do not see why see was chosen as the VP candidate. Any woman that supported Hillary should not support her. Hillary could run with the boys and play the game. This lady makes me think of some high school chic looking for attention. Can we please stay focused on the real issues that concern every American and not the mud slinging?

So I suppose Palin's shenanigans at the Pentecostal church aren't off limits any more?

When are these guys going to work out that it is futile to throw stones in a glass house?

Bill Ayers won't save John McCain. Wright and Rezko won't either. I seriously doubt too many people give a rats ass about those guys considering the challenges facing the United States.

The Keating Five scandal however, now that resonates. Especially since the comparisons between the S&L scandal of the 1980s and the present one are so disturbingly similar.

Want to talk about long associations with criminals and "terrorists"? Let's raise the issue of McCain's LONG and close relationship with G. Gordon Liddy of Watergate infamy. McCain is showing how incompetent and stupid he has become. He really doesn't want to go down this road.

The Repugnants are determined to do anything to attack Obama personally.

I'm waiting for them to announce they have phone video of him in a cave with Osama bin Laden.

They'll make up anything, they'll lie like there's no tomorrow and hope it makes people scared.

The truth is a casual association with a 60 year old ex-radical, when the US was embroiled in Vietnam and other problems are irrelevant today. Obama was 8 when Ayers did what he did, and wasn't convicted of anything. He's now a professor at a Chicago university. He's not a radical today.

On the other side, McCain and Keating were intertwined for years and years and there's no arguments about that. McCain got off, but Keating went off to prison.. Just because McCain slipped thru and skated on Keating, it doesn't mean he wasn't involved.. And with that crisis and this one so similar, one must wonder.

Desparation tactics.. McCain is dead.. he's just not stopped breathing yet.

"It's a dangerous road, but we have no choice," a top McCain strategist told the Daily News. "If we keep talking about the economic crisis, we're going to lose."

Wow. This should definitely be used in an ad. It will help put McCain's new smear strategy in context for every American.

It seems like the "No Rev. Wright for no Keating scandal" agreement just went the way of the dinosaurs. Shame on McCain, I once thought he had dignity...obviously not.

Reminds me of the old saying, if you don't stop lying about me I'll tell the truth about you.

http://palincounter.blogspot.com/

Army Brat --- Couldn't agree more. As a progressive, I have been spreading the word.

I do want to make sure that Obama doesn't look as trivial as McCain --- not when we are seeing another stock market crash and global economic fears on the horizon. He should make that double-edged statement or something similar, let us do the dirty work of raising McCain's ties to Keating Five, Palin's troopergate and her husband's membership of the secessionist party, and continue addressing the economic crisis. Let McCain make a clown of himself when Americans increasingly turn to Obama for reassuring ideas.