I cannot believe that after all of the low road sleaze in this campaign from the dirty right, even our left press is hesitant to call this for the clear political ploy it is to chicken out on the debate at a time where McCain has collapsed mentally, physically and in the polls. By giving him undue benefit of the doubt that this might not be another dirty trick, it also gives him leeway to back out of the other debates and leaves Obama less likely to demonstrate the stature necessary against McCain.

I knew something was up when Obama´s camp was detailing the plans for their Florida debate camp, while McCain was silent as though he had no debate prep plans. They probably had this schemed out all along. There is nothing that the right will not do to cling to power even as their handiwork brings the country crashing down all around them.

At election time!

So, sure, Barack Obama might be every bit as much a slick piece of imageering as Sarah Palin. The difference is in what the image represents. The Obama image represents tolerance, intelligence, education, patience with the notion of compromise and negotiation, and a willingness to stare ugly facts right in the face, all qualities we're actually going to need in government if we're going to get out of this huge mess we're in.

Here's what Sarah Palin represents: being a fat fucking pig who pins "Country First" buttons on his man titties and chants "U-S-A! U-S-A!" at the top of his lungs while his kids live off credit cards and Saudis buy up all the mortgages in Kansas.

"The truly disgusting thing about Sarah Palin isn't that she's totally unqualified, or a religious zealot, or married to a secessionist, or unable to educate her own daughter about sex, or a fake conservative who raised taxes and horked up earmark millions every chance she got. No, the most disgusting thing about her is what she says about us: that you can ram us in the ass for eight solid years, and we'll not only thank you for your trouble, we'll sign you up for eight more years, if only you promise to stroke us in the right spot for a few hours around election time.

Democracy doesn't require a whole lot of work of its citizens, but it requires some: It requires taking a good look outside once in a while, and considering the bad news and what it might mean, and making the occasional tough choice, and soberly taking stock of what your real interests are..." --Matt Taibi, Rolling Stone

"So, sure, Barack Obama might be every bit as much a slick piece of imageering as Sarah Palin. The difference is in what the image represents. The Obama image represents tolerance, intelligence, education, patience with the notion of compromise and negotiation, and a willingness to stare ugly facts right in the face, all qualities we're actually going to need in government if we're going to get out of this huge mess we're in.

Here's what Sarah Palin represents: being a fat fucking pig who pins "Country First" buttons on his man titties and chants "U-S-A! U-S-A!" at the top of his lungs while his kids live off credit cards and Saudis buy up all the mortgages in Kansas.

The truly disgusting thing about Sarah Palin isn't that she's totally unqualified, or a religious zealot, or married to a secessionist, or unable to educate her own daughter about sex, or a fake conservative who raised taxes and horked up earmark millions every chance she got. No, the most disgusting thing about her is what she says about us: that you can ram us in the ass for eight solid years, and we'll not only thank you for your trouble, we'll sign you up for eight more years, if only you promise to stroke us in the right spot for a few hours around election time.

Democracy doesn't require a whole lot of work of its citizens, but it requires some: It requires taking a good look outside once in a while, and considering the bad news and what it might mean, and making the occasional tough choice, and soberly taking stock of what your real interests are..." --Matt Taibi, Rolling Stone

I believe it is the Boston Fenway Victory Gardens, completely unharasses by the police who seem to be glad to have the inevitable (with 250,000 horny college students in residence) corralled in a place which is right in the middle of the city but still out of the way enough that you really have to be going there after dark to go there.

All night long some of the best built men in the world, from straight frat jocks to the gay leathermen from the bar across the street, engage in every combination imaginable. Straights do come in and get theirs, but it is mainly men on the hunt. Bashers learned the hard way that there is always the likelihood that much bigger guys will kick their butts down the street, so they stay away, or come in for some on the side.

Face it, Presidents have to act like bullies in order to please the Bush 1/3 of the population who are redneck baboon bullies. They only became the dominant political force in this country because rightwing dirty tricksters pirated the AM talk radio dial and used it as a disiformation medium to rally these hicks around their favorite redneck issues, the ones most appealing to 500 pound primitives whose manhood long ago shrunk up into the fatrolls. Once in control, they completely wrecked the country. THe only question is whether they will rise again to complete their ruin, since they still have control of the entire AM radio dial and positioned to roll over Obama the way they rolled over Clinton and on to ruin.