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8:50 pm  Going to watch on MSNBC, I think 9:00 pm  McCain shook Obama's hand. 9:02 pm  I must say, I don't like it when Obama goes "aaaaaand". 9:04 pm  McCain thinks economic crisis can be solved by energy independence.  No.  That fixes a different problem.  That said, I think McCain answered the first question better. 9:07 pm  Meg Whitman – Ms. Ebay – … Read More

I'm actually thinking that McCain might "win" this one.  He's not going to be grumpy and erratic.  He's not going to attack Obama, bring up Ayers or Wright, or any number of things which, in the end, will play into Obama's hands. He has to talk about the economy.  He has to give his plans for economic turnaround.  He has … Read More

Hmmm.  You ever notice how Palin's accent comes and goes?  Check out this compilation:

Obama-McCain Presidential Election Issue Comparison 2008International Herald Tribune Readers are highly encouraged to conduct further research at the websites for Senators Obama and McCain. Issue: Abortion Obama McCain Favors abortion rights. Opposes abortion rights. Has voted for abortion restrictions permissible under Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that legalized the procedure. Now says he would seek to overturn that guarantee of abortion … Read More

To be honest, I think we will see some blowback and moderate success from the McCain tactics, especially on Ayres. I know, it's stupid.  Obama served on a board, possibly two, with another guy who, 40 years ago, was a member of a radical group in the 1960's.  Somehow, that translates to "he was pallin' around with terrorists".  Of course, … Read More

Sarah, again…

Here they come.  The McCain camp is seeing its poll numbers go down and down, and they are fighting to hold on to some key red states, including North Carolina. Obama and the DNC were prepared for this.  Here’s a DNC ad — a very good one — to blunt the oncoming onslaught. Great ad.

It seems like someone over at American Conservative magazine has gone for off the ranch, because he’s actually making sense: I rehash all of this not to dwell on Palin’s problems, which are increasingly irrelevant as McCain heads towards defeat,but to implore conservatives to stop ignoring reality just because they happen to like a candidate’s personality and biography.Besides being bad … Read More

Isn’t "team of mavericks", the phrase used many times by Palin, an oxymoron?

Here’s the debate editted to ten minutes, courtesy of TPM: They cut out the winks, you know, to keep it from running 15 minutes.

What I saw:

You will read or hear that the flash polls conducted by CBS of uncommitted voters showed that Biden "won" the debate: Forty-six percent of the uncommitted voters surveyed say Democrat Joe Biden won the debate, compared to 21 percent for Republican Sarah Palin. Thirty-three percent said it was a tie. CNN had similar results: Fifty-one percent of those polled thought … Read More

The winks. That’s what stayed with me the most thinking about the debate this morning.  Palin’s winking. It caused me to pose this question: "If Palin were a woman who looked like, oh, Helen Thomas or Margaret Thatcher or Hillary Clinton or even an actual typical soccer/hockey mom from middle America, would she get away with that?" I don’t think … Read More

8:40 pm:  McCain was on Fox News today, saying the bailout bill — which McCain voted for — is a catastrophic bill which will lead the country into financial ruin.  Now, maybe McCain was having a "senior moment" and meant to say that the thing the bill was meant to fix was catastrophic.  But then, McCain said that Bush should … Read More