I don't think Sarah Palin is dumb, but I don't think she's qualified to be next in line for the presidency. Neither does John McCain, that cynical bastard.

We've all seen this movie a hundred times - coach her, dress her up, trot her out, and hope that she can remember her lines and how to deliver them. Then when she can't take the tight leash any longer, she reveals her true self and we all see the true gem hidden behind the carefully crafted image.

Of course, it's sexist as hell. It's also a frequently visited Hollywood fantasy. As Republicans like to remind us, Washington has no use for Hollywood. Until now, apparently.

Let her talk - we can't be expected to buy a pig in a poke while facing this many serious problems. We all know she isn't qualified to be president.

And given this represents his first major decision, John McCain isn't qualified to be president.

I need more than that.

I'm listening to Lieberman trying to spin McCain's move as heroic. Good luck selling that snake oil, bub.

She can't talk. He can't debate. His campaign manager can't tell the truth about when he severed financial ties with Freddie Mac.

Bottom line: they can't run the country.

Mccain acting like his is the voice that all the other Senators are waiting to hear on this issue seems a bit ridiculous given his own admitted ignorance of how the economy works. This maneuver just highlights what a sham the Mccain camp has become. So if Mccain insists on skipping the debate...let him

and Obama can show the people the difference between substance and thin air...

New Slogan: "I'm John McCain and I Approved This Mess."

Obama, I f**king love you, man. Keep it up.

Right on.

He was already facing an uphill battle with his history of deregulation, his alliance with Phil Gramm, and not allowing his running mate to take questions from the press. Then the story on his campaign manager, Rick Davis, broke.

I know the debate is supposed to be about national security, but that's a broad subject which includes the economy. Now, neither McCain or his running mate are answering questions. The McCain camp is hiding - make no mistake.

Sorry, the McCain camp is throwing shit at the wall to see if they can get some of it to look like leadership. It doesn't. In fact, he looks befuddled and desperate.

The primary reason McCain wanted Obama to do the town halls with him is because McCain couldn't draw flies. He solved that by getting Palin on the ballot and now that seems to be going south.

I think the Democrats want the Republicans to own this bail out, so I fail to see how McCain is going to end up looking heroic.

Saying he's going to Washington to assess whether he will need to miss the debate might have sounded less histrionic than an announcement that he's suspending his campaign.

As it stands, yesterday he had the press rebel on him because they refused to acquiesce to demands of only photos of Palin - no editorial, the New York Times reported his campaign manager was still receiving $15,000 per month from Freddie Mac (for what appears to be access to McCain) up until last month when the government took it over.

Maybe one could make the argument that it was a good political move but only because McCain is dropping in the polls. I think it looks just like what it is, a tactical political move for a campaign that seems to unravel a little more every day.

And we hate you. Whether or not you get your Messiah into the White House, that does not go away. We will still hate you.

Gad, man - are you drunk or mentally ill?

She is so utterly clueless about what she is stepping into that it boggles the mind.

They - McCain and elected Republicans - know she isn't prepared to be president, either. They know it. We have two wars and a collapsing economy and they tap her to shore up one segment of voters - the Christian right. Wow.

If I was a Republican in California or New York or any other state that is going to go blue, I would vote for the opposition just to send a message to the party that continually catering to that faction has got to stop.

I don't know that he hates America - I suspect he lacks that kind of passion. The opposite of love and hate is indifference and that's what he has displayed with his selection of Mrs. Palin.

This illustrates that he simply doesn't care.

...I don't think an FCC licensed big three network comedy host should join the fray in a partisan way, particularly after he has made news all summer for his decision to direct humor only at McCain and not at Obama.

Il Duce called and he'd like his blackshirt returned. He asks that you clean the drool off first.

Did our hero make a big mistake by donning his cape and leotards for his announcement to suspend his campaign so he could dash off to Warshington to save the USA?

This evening finds our hero in the precarious position of either helping his frenemy, Dubya, by convincing the angry House Republicans to get onboard with the plan, or negotiating on behalf of the angry House Republicans for a plan that calls for - gasp - more deregulation and a free market solution.

Is it deja vu all over again for our hero?

Which side will he choose?

Will he make to Mississippi in time to debate?

Will he go insane trying to decide if he's a regulator or deregulator?

Tune in again tomorrow when you'll hear our hero say:

"She wasn't even my second choice..."

He was for deregulation then he was against it and now he's for it again. McCain is starting to look like the Mummy and sound like Sybil.