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Some guy named Obama won the presidency.

I get to keep wearing my Obama cap.

Obama the Steady won the debate

Brokaw, the NBC liason to the McCain campaign, selected the debate questions based on an outdated sense of what politics has become. The Republicans always hide behind someone else's reputation until it's used up.

McCain is getting poll-axed.

I don't want to start a Red-state Scare, but McCain is a wild-eyed erradical.

Another similarity to Bush: McCain is all ass-hat. no cattle.

McCain's heart has already beat over 2,264,178,600 times and that doesn't even count all the sex he had when he was younger.

McCain's political capital turned out to be a sub-prime loan.

McCain's current incarnation should face incarceration in concern for the nation.

McCain should get a boob job. Turn those man boobs into man bazooms and get all those hormonal barely repressed male pundits back in his corner.

They wind up Palin and send her out to spout their smears. And she's easily wound up. She's McCain's spokesmodel.

Gotta go take the car in for an oil change that we need.

Shock and Aw Shucks

Will Sarah Palin, the vocal yokel, use her "Shock and Aw Shucks" schtick to wink her way into the presidency while McCain nods off? Or will Obama the Steady take his leftful place in the White House?

Sarah Palin readin' The Economist:

Tuh... thu... The...E..con...omi...st. Whew! Done!

Winkin' not blinkin'

KKK Day

Does McCain think he's playing kabbadi with his political footballs?
Does Palin think this is a kabuki performance with no substance?
Is Palin ulitmately just a droning kaka?
Are they both reading from a kakemono of talking points?
Is that old man smell kakidrosis?
Will McCain/Palin usher in a form of kakistocracy?
Or will we soon be saying kaddish over McCain's campaign?

Brokaw Spanks Olbermann?

Tom Brokaw, the NBC liason to the McCain Campaign, was instrumental in getting Olbermann taken off anchor duties for political events. Now Olbermann has named Obama one his Worst Persons in the World. Is Olbermann kowtowing to Brokaw now?

Flyboy, Interrrupted

I'm for another McCain suspension. This time by the balls.

McCain's going to have to pay rent on the green room if they keep having do-overs with Katie Couric. Hey John, if you pick it, it will never heal.

I think McCain has untreated shell shock. I would call it Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome but when McCain got it, it was still shell shock.

McCain is acting like a chicken with a head-deficit.


"Wounded veterans are symbolically popular figures, if individually painful, and sometimes frightening. " William Finnegan

Hand to hand politics

An amusing moment happened to me at the store the other day. I was walking down the aisle and a very old woman started shaking her fist at me in that faux angry way. I didn't get it for moment and then I realized I had my Obama cap on. So when we passed I gave her a little terrorist fist bump on her hand. She smiled and patted me on the shoulder.

Witchcraft Begone

I need a young priest and an old priest.

Ironic Similarities

With all this talk of the inaccessibility of Palin, I can't help but note that on Talking Points Memo (an otherwise great site) they don't allow comments on Josh and David's posts. Interesting.

"I've got his pecker in my pocket." Lyndon Johnson

Very nice sir, but this outfit doesn't have pockets.

Mad Money

White House's Tony Fratto said: "We certainly understand and are sympathetic to the sentiment regarding the pay of CEOs and senior management of these firms, but we have to focus on the problem, and the problem is that we need these firms to participate in the program and sell us this debt. Having punitive measures would provide a disincentive for firms to participate, and that would make the program much less likely to succeed."

We're begging the companies to let us save them? If they don't want to participate in the bail out then they must not need to be bailed out.

It's been a couple of days now and nobody has crashed.

This is Bizarro Bush Bum's Rush.

The Big Bail of 08

What does it have in common with the Keating Five bail out?

John McCain

McCain, McSame, McShame by the Numbers

Lobbyists working for him: 177 Washington Monthly .

Repeated Lies: 60 McCain Wikipedia.

Flipflops: 76 The Official McCain Flip-Flop List by Steve Benen.

Updated:
Andrew Sullivan enumerates The Twelve Lies Of Sarah Palin

Kristol told a truthy

(What are cherished principles for but to be violated in emergencies?)Bill Kristol.

That sums up the Bushes and the Republican Party nicely. That's why Bush claimed to be a war president. And the Constitution was the summary of the cherished principles they violated.

Hitchens' bitchin'

It was much the same in 1988, when Al Gore brought up the Dukakis furlough program, later to be made infamous by the name Willie Horton, against the hapless governor of Massachusetts who was then his rival for the nomination. Christopher Hitchens in Slate

Now doesn't that sound like Hitchens is accusing Gore of the Willy Horton ad? But he's a righty so you have to expect that kind of dishonesty. It was, of course, Bush who made the Willy Horton ad.

Hitchens thinks in-your-face rhetoric makes someone strong and manly. He accuses Obama of being too mild. Hitchens is the Peggy Noonan of macho blowhards.

Market Highs and Lows

McCain in Spain. No habla Englis.

When McCain was interviewed for a Spanish magazine, he kind of screwed up and called their leader suspect. Then the markets all fell down and everyone forgot about it.

The scary thing about McCain's confusion during that interview wasn't so much that he was confused, but he lacked the acumen to pick up on the numerous attempts by his interviewer to orient him. Perhaps McCain heard the interviewer say "European" and checked his Depends(tm), thereby losing his focus.

I think McCain's problem with Spain started back during his second jet crash which occurred while he was deployed in the Mediterranean. "Flying too low over the Iberian Peninsula," Timberg wrote, "he took out some power lines." Maybe the locals dragged him out of the plane and scolded him...in espanol!

McCain doesn't understand me says McCain.

McCain is in much the same position as Hillary was. They took the wrong road toward the Rovian style. What a wonderful thing it would have been if she had run a positive campaign and if McCain had been a true mavrick. America please don't let the stodgy old mal-verick win.

Fibber McCain and Palin

Okay break's over. Get back to peeing.

The Week End God Report

Evangelist compound raided in child pornography investigation

Is this really an optimal way to conduct business?

Perhaps a reform package could take stock trading out of the hands of people who act like they're at a fire sale at Walmart.

Flipflop Surrogates

When John Kerry used a loophole in the public financing law McCain's surrogate, Trevor Potter, was outraged at violating the spirit of the law. Now, of course, he's all for it because McCain is doing it.

McCain’s Camp Tests Fund-Raising Limits