I've always blamed Dukakis (just a teensy bit) for letting himself get hornswaggled, but I kind of feel bad that he still blames himself.

And are we doing "SCOTUS" now? Is it too late to vote no on that one?

Agreed! A voluntary beauty contest for hot Brazilian nuns is, by far, the least harmful way for priests to deal with their sexual feelings. This should be encouraged.

Now I'm going to go find a way to cope with the guilt over my impure thoughts about hot Brazilian nuns.

The article links to polling data where NC is classified as a "toss-up." You fail for failing to read.

Are you making a joke? Go back and do your fucking reading!

The depressing thing is, I doubt Obama could have done himself any good at all by explaining this-- the only answers that seem to get any traction are ten words are less. As a country, we might just be to stupid for our own good.

To have the best headline of the day in the whole wide internets, Andrew?

The folks at factcheck.org must be manning the battle stations for this one...

Throw on another pot of coffee and tell my wife I won't be home for a week!

Hannity and Palin will spend at least one segment beating the fuck out of Colmes while congratulating one another for their righteousness.

I just hope Colmes has the good sense to leave before Hannity has her demonstrate how to field dress a moose.

I can't think of any better preparation for the Republican vice presidency than a few months of ignoring subpoenas.

I was about to dismiss your "doubt that McCain could even talk for this long about something of substance" as simple name-calling.

Just then a new post popped up, detailing McCain's new 30-second spot in which he takes insubstantial swipes at Obama and inexplicably tries to turn it all into a tax issue.

Slackie wins the internet for today!

Is the "tough guy" (or not-so-tough, I guess) supposed to be Barack Obama? Out-toughing Obama might win McCain an election, but it's not an economic plan.

Or is it supposed to be the system of financial regulation? Because that's actually a lot of guys. I mean, we could refer to the regulatory regime as a metaphorical "guy," I guess, but I don't imagine those guys would describe themselves as "tough", and I don't see what being "tough" has to do with solving such complex problems.

I don't mean to belittle-- I'm mean, John McCain stared down North Vietnamese prison camp guards, tobacco executives and the Senate Ethics Committee, and they're all pretty tough guys.

The most shockingly asinine part of this is that (to my mind, at least) Palin had a pretty good chance of facing this investigation and coming away relatively intact. As someone said before, the only thing that has changed is the VP nomination. It certainly seems like, in the GOP's rush to keep Palin untarnished, they're making this Troopergate business a lot bigger than it ever would have gotten otherwise.

But I suspect this is part of the reason most of us don't do business on Yahoo, Hotmail or Gmail.

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"Yeah, well the jerk store called, and they're running out of you!"

You've stumbled upon the key to political invincibility! Should I ever find myself in public office, I'll handle all my dirty government business on my Gmail account, reserving my official government account for discussion of my bizarre sexual pecadillos. And if that plan fails to give me sufficient legal cover, fuck it... I won't cooperate anyway.

Meta-troll with a finely honed sense of irony, or wackjob in a foil hat?

That is all.

There is no statement so asinine that you can't find at least one person to wholeheartedly agree with it. (See RIChris above)

We've had a year of these two-- if you don't have enough information to make a choice yet, you just haven't been paying attention. I'm afraid these mouth-breathers will be the ones who make a decision based on the inevitable "October surprise," when someone whispers in their ears that Obama is a Muslim Manchurian candidate or that McCain has a brace of illegitimate black children.

And we have to watch the candidates pander to these boobs for another month?

As ugly as this is, I almost have to laugh when I see it juxtaposed with Obama buying a half hour of network prime time a week before the election. I've always been disturbed by the ease with which American elections can be bought-- but now that the McCain campaign has turned into a nasty, desperate whispering campaign, I'll be more than happy to see it buried under millions of Obama dollars.

No one cares if you come here pasting articles from the National Review, blaming the media for John McCain's problems and generally rousing the rabble, but besmirching the honor of Betty White... That's just ugly, even for a man with a gigantic cauliflower-like face.

Just think, though-- G-Rod should be around just long enough to pick Obama's successor.

As badly as we all want to turn this into a political issue, I really doubt the booing had much to do with Sarah Palin, politically or personally. Philly sports fans-- although they can be surprisingly smart about their sports-- are mostly assholes. I mean that in the most affectionate way possible, but it's true. I can't imagine any of the other candidates (or pretty much anyone at all, short of Mike Schmidt, maybe) faring much better in front of this crowd.

Can we please stop feeding the abortion troll?

If you're going to spam the boards with Fox News ads, could you at least use some of your apparently ample internet time to find out what time the program will actually air?

I remember the good old days, when the trolls and spammers weren't so fucking lazy...

And, upon closer inspection, the fans were clearly saying "Boo-urns! Boo-urns!"