McCain wants to cancel this Friday's debate and "suspend his campaign" because he suddenly remembered he's a Senator? The grandstanding asshole who, by his own admission, doesn't know much about economics, hasn't cast a Senate vote since April and now he wants to play Serious Selfless Senator for the camera. He's gonna march into Washington, sit em all down and tell em to Cut The Bullshit? What a transparent ploy - plea, actually, for media attention.

I'm afraid to listen to the news coverage. Odds are good they'll fall for it.

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The non-stop lies, Palin, the constantly-changing positions, the blame-the-press defense, the time he suspended his campaign for hurricane Gustav, so he (a 72 year old man who can't lift his fucking arms) could go down there and help, and now this? It's the most ridiculous campaign ever. If he loses, people will look back on this in slack-jawed amazement. It'll be in textbooks on how Not to run a campaign. If he wins, people will blame Obama, cause McCain's got nothing but cheap tricks.

Kevin Drum points out that the VP debate is next Thursday. One has to assume that postponing this Friday's debate would upset the scheduling for that one, too... how convenient. No, wait... it's not just a theory. They want to reschedule Firday's debate for next Thursday, absolutely pre-empting the VP debate. Fucking children.

Hacks

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Less than a week after balking at the Alaska Legislature's investigation into her alleged abuse of power, Gov. Sarah Palin on Monday indicated she will cooperate with a separate probe run by people she can fire.

A dark month gets darker...

In the wake of an epic financial meltdown that threatens to derail the U.S. economy for years, Barack Obama announced he was ending his run for President of the United States, declaring to a stunned nation, “Man, this is bullshit.”

In a boisterous and hastily-called press conference, Obama detailed his reasons for the decision. “I was prepared to fight global warming, reform the health care system, repair our crumbling roads, create a 21st century electric grid, find Bin Laden, end the war in Iraq, and bring peace to Israel and the Palestinians. But now you tell me I have to clean up the worst financial mess since the Great Depression too? One that’s going to plunge our economy into a recession for most of my administration while I take the blame? Fuck that. That’s fucking ridiculous. You guys clean up your own shit. I’m outta here.”

Crap!

McCain on banking and health (Paul Krugman):

OK, a correspondent directs me to John McCain’s article, Better Health Care at Lower Cost for Every American, in the Sept./Oct. issue of Contingencies, the magazine of the American Academy of Actuaries. You might want to be seated before reading this.

Here’s what McCain has to say about the wonders of market-based health reform:

Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation.

From a recent viral wingnut email:

Enter Governor Sarah Palin. With incredible timing, the very next day, Sarah Palin also appeared out of nowhere...

We quickly learned that Sarah is a born-again, Spirit-filled Christian, attends church, and has been a ministry worker.

Sarah is that standard God has raised up to stop the flood. She has the anointing. You can tell by how the dogs are already viciously attacking her. But they will not be successful. She knows the One she serves and will not be intimidated.

Back in the 1980s, I sensed that Israel's little-known Benjamin Netanyahu was chosen by God for an important end-time role. I still believe that. I now have that same sense about Sarah Palin...

Only God knows the future and how she may be used by Him, but may this noble woman serve to bring renewal in the land, and inspiration.

But remember, Obama's followers are deluded cultists.

McCain Invented The BlackBerry

Yes, Go There

Some idiot at The Corner is upset over the way Sarah Palin, the GOP heartbeat-away hopeful, was interviewed last night:

Is it fair to ask a would-be vice president these questions? Sure. But I just don't recall seeing anyone quiz Barack Obama on the details of any particular set of policies early on (or later).

"Early on"? Palin jumped into national politics just two weeks ago. The election is in seven weeks. If she isn't asked now, then when ? It's now or never.

On the other hand, Obama has been through 18 months of campaigning, including twenty six debates and countless interviews and speeches, in addition to being a Senator who serves on the Foreign Relations and Homeland Security committees. If you don't know his answers to these questions, you haven't been paying any attention at all to him.

And, for the record, it just looks condescending and inappropriate for one of the great minds of the national media to sit, notebook in hand, quizzing this younger woman, as someone said, as if she were a grad student. Just physically, in those chairs, him leaning back and her leaning in, costs her the appearance of power.
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Actually, the set up made the previously invariably likeable Charlie Gibson seem like a condescending jerk.

Words fail me...

Aren't we supposed to ask serious questions of someone applying for a serious job ? Should we skip all that because Palin is a woman ? Or should Palin only allow herself to be interviewed by younger, deferential, women ?

Here she is not knowing what the "Bush Doctrine" is:

Hah! Stupid Palin!

Sadly for our country, while Palin has no idea what Gibson is talking about, it's a safe bet that few viewers know either - he might as well have asked her to describe Inuit marriage rituals; so Palin will win that exchange merely by the fact that she was able to confidently bullshit her way through an answer.