I thought it was interesting that McCain mentioned Warren Buffet for Treasury Secretary given that Buffet has endorsed Obama and is one of Obama's economic advisers.

Buffet has been very vocal about the unfairness of the tax system, therefore, I think McCain is being overly optimistic in thinking that Buffet would work with him. They are on two different tracks regarding taxes.

McCain is getting pilloried by his base tonight. I'm sure some of them won't be able to sleep. It was all over CNN International news in between reports of tumbling Asian markets and waiting for the European markets to open.

Am I the only one who thinks McCain mixed this up with the bill that was already passed? Does he know what he's talking about?

Seriously, I'm not sure.

NOW.

Is this payback for McCain not getting more than a tepid endorsement from Nancy Reagan?

There's a homeless guy who lives in the park near my mother-in-law whose sole companion is a boom box which he uses to blast Rush Limbaugh's show.

We've started walking our dog in a different park.

Did anyone else see the governor of North Carolina interviewed on Rachel Maddow's show earlier today predicting a reverse Bradley effect in North Carolina?

According to him, he thinks there will be people who will say that they're voting for McCain but will actually vote for Obama because it's in their best economic interest to do so.

McCain has chosen to stare into the rear view mirror rather than look forward. I remember seeing him on Jay Leno with anti-Vietnam war musicians Crosby, Stills and Nash several years ago, and I think it was David Crosby who told McCain that he needed to understand that they were only trying to get his ass back home.

I don't think McCain has ever understood this. If there hadn't been a draft, Vietnam would have played out much differently. I think the national division and tension is difficult to comprehend for those who weren't around then. The anger and frustration sustained a fever pitch for years.

Just about the whole world rebelled in 1968, and I think in some ways this election may represent the beginning of the end of 1968 in America. But McCain clearly doesn't want to let it go. I don't think using Ayers as a tactic is going to work on moving independents. If Ayers is a terrorist, shouldn't he be in jail?

We need to move on and McCain simply can't.

Mark Penn reminded me of why I had developed a visceral hatred for all things Republican. Joe Trippi showed a lot of guts by interrupting Penn in the middle of his rap.

Where is Joe Trippi? I haven't seen him on any of the news shows.

He's mad as hell and he has nothing to say. Good work, gramps. I've been mad as hell for eight years and, better yet, I can tell you why, you old fart.

The impact this has had on my mother is mind boggling. She has been a McCain fan for years. Joined the Straight Talk Express, donated to his campaigns, stood in line to have her book signed, and championed him through the primary - waited for years for the party to give him the nomination.

She describes him as beneath contempt and can't stand to look at him now. She told me she will never vote for him again, so if he plans to make another run for the senate she will vote for his opponent "even if the Democrats nominate a gila monster". She now believes she never really knew who he was.

What a political whore - just wind her up and point her in a direction.

McCain looks and sounds ridiculous. If we are to take him at his word he knows how to capture bin Laden yet hasn't, he knows how to fix the economy yet it continues to tank, he knows how to create millions of new jobs yet unemployment continues to climb, he knows how to win wars yet we're still in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Barack Obama knows himself well and John McCain doesn't. It shows. People are suspicious of anyone who thinks they have to sink this low to try to win. They begin to wonder to what other depths that person will be willing to try in the future.

But you know what might help you, in all seriousness? Carriage returns.

LOL. Right on.

The split in the Republican party is starkly illustrated in the McCain campaign. It isn't any secret that McCain preferred Lieberman or Ridge for a running mate but when the party intervened and strongly suggested Palin, he chose to compromise himself rather than pursue winning over independents.

There are two Republican parties: the one that touts fiscal responsibility, non-intervention, and no nation building, and the other that marches to the beat of god, guns, gays and stocking up on K-rations.

You could see William F. Buckley's eyes glaze over when the subject of guns came up. His position was that the government will always have better weapons than you.

No wonder Buckley's son endorsed Obama today.

Palin doesn't think people from cities in the lower 48 are real Americans. Philly Flyers fans may be of a different opinion.

About damn time he corrects these lies and innuendo.

First, this is politics, not religion. The McCain campaign is way out of line and the passage you quote is far from applicable in this situation.

Quote me some Voltaire if you want me to take you seriously.

Forget about Rezko and Keating - they're history. My concern is with the legal creep McCain is close to - Phil Gramm. The issue is the economy and both McCain and Gramm are economic disasters. We're in enough trouble. Deep economic trouble. I don't want John McCain and Phil Gramm near the presidency. Wise up and vote Obama.