And two different ways that it could. Firstly if New Orleans rebuilt flood protection fails, and the city gets drowned yet again, then the GOP is exclusively be on the hook for the failure, and will have to explain how after three years they still got it wrong. Thankfully if this does happen it seems that unlike last time everybody or at least the vast majority of people have gotten out in time and are not in harm's way themself. That's how it seems in the media and I do hope that they're not just full of it on this point.

The other way it could really backfire if people decide to protest Bush or McCain when they go down for their photo op. This I think is more likely. I still don't think anyone on the gulf coast has forgiven Bush, and their hatred probably is easily transferrable to McCain. Can you imagine how bad it would be if something happened like when that guy off camera told Cheney to 'go fuck yourself'?

Like I said, I think the second is more likely. Of course I also would prefer the latter, because then the backfire does not need utter disaster to happen. No matter what destruction or lack of destruction occurs this week, the damage of someone yelling at McCain to suck his balls would be the same.

No, really. Is everyone sure that I didn't actually just a have a stroke or something and this is all some kind of fevered dream? And McCain claims he knew of this before he picked her? And he still picked her? Seriously? SERIOUSLY?!?

(clapping my hands and putting both my arms straight up in the air...)

DONE!

Obama was perfect in his response, and I think it was his genuine reaction. Although I'm not so distressed about people talking about it as he is. People are going to talk about this ad naseum, as they would with any car wreck of a political story.

I would like it however if people could at least keep it to what is the real issue behind this whole thing, which is how Palin's destructive and wrong headed abstinence only in school stand has come back to bite her family square in the ass. That is the issue here that people should be concentrating on.

Perhaps if she had not been outright lied to by her school and her parents about the viability of contraception, she might not be in the situation.

Two points:

1) That is the best you can come up with as a knock? He doesn't get North Carolina and he still wins. He even wins without Ohio and Florida.

2) If you had actually bothered to read that actual post, you would note that he said that all states are pushed into the category of who is ahead at this particular moment, even though many of them have not been polled at all since the Dem convention ended and the Palin sideshow started. Many of these states are so far in the margin of error as to be dead heats. Specifically, many of the McCain states in the map are dead heats- very few of the Obama states are.

So basically, even if McCain holds on in all of his clinging by a thread leads, something like seven states of around 80 electoral votes, which is incredibly unlikely, he still loses.

Hollywood Squares' new center square.

Just when I think they're gonna put the cherry on top of this, they add yet another scoop of ice cream.

Hi. It's me. We don't talk much. We probably should, but you know how life is. I mean, you set all this life stuff up.

Anyhoo, I was just wondering if I could ask a teensy little favor from you. It seems a little selfish of me, in the light of the great bounty you have given Democrats, liberals, and other Obama supporters these past few months, what with McCain's delusional attitudes, and now with Palin being such a lunatic.

But if I could be so bold, could you please, if its not too much trouble, please keep Palin talking about this reformer nonsense tonight? Specifically, could you please have her use her fictional opposition to the bridge to nowhere schtick of hers as a main point? Please, pretty pretty please? Even better have at least one analyst on each of the networks mention this lie of hers before she speaks, maybe show the photo of her holding up the Nowhere Alaska T-shirt, so when she talks about it later as if she was ever actually against it she will immediately be seen as the liar she is by every single person in the country, no spin needed?

As I said above, you have already given us all such a bounty of riches the election year, to which we are all so very, very grateful. And it seems perhaps a little too much to ask for more. But, could you please, just do this one little thing for me? I would seriously appreciate it. And I'll owe you one- whatever you'd want in return, just name it.

Thanks.

Claim you were against the bridge to nowhere. Please please please please tell an outright boldfaced lie on national television. I'm begging you. I mean, you have no other example of reform to speak of, you have to keep with this schtick, otherwise your delusional reform image is just so clearly an gimmick. So you have to lie on national television to millions.

None of us Americans know this is really a lie, a complete and utter fabrication. Honest. And we won't utterly crucify you for doing it, I swear. It's okay, we'll give you a mulligan on it. Just look right into the camera and say you were against the bridge to nowhere. I'm am literally on my knees as I type this, and I am begging you.