Samson141, it's the pattern. McCain keeps confusing things. He can't quite remember that Czechoslovakia no longer exists; he confused Sunni and Shiia; he can't even read his own speech lines. It's time to ask openly in the MSM whether it's his age, his Ambien use, his chemotherapy, or early onset Alzheimer's that is causing these consistent flubs. Watch the man give a speech--he's wandering and weird. Listen to the audio of the interview in which he made those odd responses about Spain: he sounds either ill or profoundly out of it. There is something definitely wrong with McCain besides his flip-flopping and lack of principles.

Hasn't the point been building the party in each red state? Creating enthusiasm, increasing voter registration and funding/supporting downticket candidates?

Alex, there's always the chance that people will read "his firm" to mean the firm Davis works for.

You should write: "the firm he owns." That would eliminate any doubt and make it clear that his not getting a salary is moot when the money was being paid to the firm he not just manages, but owns.

Who said Biden was perfect? Who said we're asking for perfection in our candidates?

Biden is smart, authoritative, balanced, knowledgeable, intelligent.

Sara Palin is none of those things. Her interview with Katie Couric shows her up as unprepared, ignorant, utterly lacking in insight, and a complete tyro.

There is no comparison between any Biden gaffe and her incompetence, so don't even try to pretend there is, Alex. We don't need fake "perspective" that reads like a GOP spin point.

Can someone explain her weird gestures that seem to have nothing to do with the garbled statements she's making? What is up with that? In their own way, they're as peculiar and off-putting as McCain's rictus that he seems to think is a smile, and Bush's smirk.

He looks twitchy, his smiles are discordant and peculiar, and his sentences sometimes wander. he seems very old and very tired.

McCain came off much worse than I expected. He was fidgety at the podium; his comb-over and signs of cancer look terrible on HD; and he made very ill-advised jokes about his own age, asking if Lehrer thought he hadn't heard a question early on, and pointlessly, weirdly saying his pen was old.

Worse than that, he came off as the old man Letetrman has mocked repeatedly (the kind who picks up the remote when the phone rings). I'll be curious to see if the MSM bothers to pay as much attention to his nonverbals as Gore's. He sneered; he smiled like a jackal; he kept sighing; he ignored Obama; and near the end he was sniffling. He did not seem ready for prime time, despite his debate prep and centuries in the Senate.

Initial polling across the board shows that among undecideds and independents Obama crossed the threshold of looking/acting presidential. That was the main challenge, holding his own against Senator Centuries on subject matter about which he's supposedly an expert. Yet the expert fumbled leaders' names and Obama said softly at one point, "It's a hard name to pronounce." Beautiful! Understanding--with a barb.

The last thing I needed to see in "Entourage" was Turtle disporting himself in beach wear.

The next to last thing I needed to see in "Entourage" was Ari sending a bag of human shit to his rival.

The show seems to be devolving into a gross-out comedy, and it's becoming increasingly witless. Why did Drama have to puke on the cake? Is this show written for or by 14-year-olds?

This is what's wrong:

"Mr. McCain was betting at a casino he oversaw as a member of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, and he was doing so with the lobbyist who represents that casino, according to three associates of Mr. McCain."

It's the appearance of impropriety from Mr. Clean. As Letterman says so trenchantly, it smells.

Are journalists so starved for attention, suffering from such low self-esteem, or crippled by being unpopular in high school that this is what sways them?

"he'll tease the press and give them shit in a way they don't ever mind because it's the sort of shit that makes you feel that here's this very cool, important guy who's noticing you and liking you enough to give you shit,"

If so, then the entire MSM is suffering from a case of arrested development.

Given McCain's acts of desperation like picking Palin to begin with, and then the slo-mo rush to D.C. to save America, I could see him deciding he needs another adrenalin infusion for his campaign, and dumping her to pick someone who'll be the next nine day wonder. He doesn't like Palin, not really. He looked pained and contemptuous when he sat next to her in the Katie Couric interview. He knows she's a dimwit. He didn't care when it seemed not to matter, but now that it does--

This is what continues to bug me about the MSM: they ask questions and rarely push for an answer, but move on to whatever's next on the list. Why didn't the reporter ask him to give a specific instance? It was an amazing lost opportunity to show McCain up as the desperate liar he is.

The comment of his is belligerent and ridiculous. First of all, what foreign policy advice does he need, since that's supposedly his forte? Secondly, has he asked her for advice in the last few weeks? Before he picked her as running mate?

The question wasn't what other recent Supreme Court decisions did she disagree with, it was simply what Supreme Court decisions. That opens up several hundred years' worth. You'd think a politician might have some ideas? But if you do insist on recent ones, how about the Supreme Court's June decision cutting the awards related to the Exxon Valdez spill? Surely Palin would resent this on behalf of her concerned constituents?

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/06/court_slices_exxon_valdez_dama.html