which mostly comes down to losing planes over civilian targets in Vietnam still makes him unable to speak of any foreign affairs issue with intelligence, coherence, clarity and knowledge. He still has no idea who the Shi'a are and the histotical background of their struggle with the Sunnis. He confuses them with Sunni and Iranians, he has no idea where the Shi'a strong holds or where the Sunni power centers are in Iraq. he needs Joe Lieberman to whisper the answers in his ear in order to untie his tongue. His bomb, bomb, bomb Iran sums up his foreign affairs sophistication-any country that won't toe the American Empire line will be attacked.

Readerreader's post confirms to me the theory of parallel universes existing in extra-dimensions.

Apparently, he now wants even LESS regulation imposed on Wall Street. Not that the old regulations were ever enforced. I really think that the public must insist, based on his bizarre and erratic behavior and appearance, that McCain subject himself to a mandatory and exhaustive psychiatric evaluation, because if, heaven forbid, he's elected President, the first thing he'll receive would be the nuclear code. I have no doubt that if there's ever a nuclear war, a crazed and senile McCain would be the one to start it.

McShame tells the world he's suspending his campaign to save the country and his campaign actually ratchets up the attacks on Obama. He tells Letterman that he must catch a plane to D.C. so he cannot be on his show, and instead he goes to CBS to do an interview with someone who is more friendly to him. In the meantime, his suspended campaign keeps airing adds blasting Obama, and McShame gives four more interviews, all highly critical of Obama and highly political. He arrives in Washington only the next day, yet there's no evidence that he ever bothered to read the bail out proposal. The universal reaction to his presence in washington is wincing and comments like:he spoiled any progress, offered even LESS regulations of Wall Street and caused people to roll their eyes and stay away from him.

There's a group of old lifelong Republicans at my gym. I see them everyday sitting in the common area, drink coffee and discuss politics. They are old style Republicans, you know-keep taxes low, bust the unions but keep the government out of my life, including my bedroom. They would never dream of voting for a Democrat and will certainly vote for old yellow-belly this November. However, I was amazed at how angry and disgusted they were at McCain this morning for ducking Friday's debate. Not even one of them supported his crazy move. They used words like shameful, cowardly, afraid to defend his record in front of a 100 million people, he can run but he can't hide, can you imagine Reagan or GHWBush running away from a presidential debate, etc. It was totally amazing.

Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said that "nobody mentioned McCain" during the several-hour-long meeting on the $700 billion market rescue plan, other than Frank and that his Republican colleagues "winced" when he did. "He’s been irrelevant to the process. He remains to be," said Frank. "I was afraid that his dropping in here, like Andy Kaufman’s Mighty Mouse—'here I am to save the day'—I thought that would slow things down. I didn’t see any sign of our Republican colleagues paying any attention to him whatsoever." Franks went on. "Nobody mentioned him. The man’s irrelevant to the whole process. No Republican mentioned his name. I’m the only one who raised his name. They winced when I did," he said. ...

Even his Republican colleagues know that he's clueless vis finance and economic matters(he isn't much better on world affairs-still cannot tell the difference between Sunni and Shi'a unless Lieberman whispers in his ear)) and don't want him anywhere near them. This old punk knew that the issue of him being in the forefront of the financial markets de-regulation and having the most corrupt lobbyists working in his campaign would've come up 2 minutes into Friday's debate, and that's the only reason he took his blanky and ran to hide from the debate.

Because it asks the officers of corporations being bailed out to sacrifice a little (very little)in the form of a cap on salaries and bonuses. The GOP is a party of the wealthy and for the wealthy only and any attempt to make the new robber barons contribute a little to save the nation is unacceptable to the GOP.

Sarah palin should receive from us the same level of sympathy she has for the helpless moose or wolf she's about to shoot with her telescopic high-powered rifle.