I heard Obama use the lipstick on a pig joke back in May. And it was clearly in reference to McCain's policies. Same old, same old. Obama is a smart guy, but I doubt that in May he could have had Sarah Palin in mind. Your assertion is tired and worn out.

And to the person wondering about McCain's economic flip flop, ABC World News tonight showed McCain in the morning doing the "Fundamentals are Strong" speech in the morning and then saying that the "Economy is in Crisis" in the afternoon.

When I saw him in May, Obama was already warning of severe trouble on the horizon — not that he would need a crystal ball to guess that. But he was willing to engage the audience as adults so that we could all put our heads together on the problems ahead. That is the tone that has made me an Obama supporter.

McCain/Palin's message? Go back to sleep, America. Everything's fine the way it is, we just need to trim a couple of earmarks, and then banks won't be collapsing.

McCain flips so much I can't blame you for not being able to keep your story straight.

McCain and Palin are the ones running around the loudest now promising to stick it to "da man." All of a sudden, they are "Maverick Reformers" (haven't you heard?) although most of their platform is exactly the same as the current administration's.

Your history on Salon has been one of mocking anyone who dares suggest that Bush/Cheney have not been paragons of perfection. For years now you've been wandering in here to dump your nonsense. The administration has never done anything that you haven't called the best thing ever. You obviously think that anyone wanting to change what has happened is childish and naive and moronic; sticking it to "da man" is stupid because "da man" is not in any need of being "stuck to."

But now McPalin are trying to steal Obama's platform out from under him by promising reform. They are scrambling as hard as they can to pretend that they are not Bush. "My friends, we're going to reform things, my friends." McPalin are offering a direct assault on your basic message these past endless years, that Bush/Cheney are perfection itself. Shouldn't you be devoting as much time to mocking McPalin as well?

Or is it that you don't have to take them seriously because you know they are completely full of shit? That under them, "da man" hasn't really got a thing to worry about at all.

This is just another gambit by McCain to control the pace of the campaign, to keep it from building a momentum that would leave him huffing and puffing in the rear. Its desperation is so obvious, so cynical.

Look: The Repubs have one strategy, and only one strategy, for victory. A) Do everything and anything, no matter how ridiculous, to keep Obama from building up any momentum. Thus the Sarah Palin pick, designed to suck all attention from Obama's great speech in Denver. Is she able to do the job? Who fuckin' cares! She'll dominate the news cycle for several days, another week closer to election day.

This is another such gambit. The news of the past week definitely looks bad for McCain, and Obama's building momentum. Must put the brakes on it, but how? Wow! We'll just say we're too busy being the unofficial president already to have to campaign for the job.

The second part of their strategy, and this is their one real hope and the reason they pursue part 1, is that they absolutely MUST create the illusion of a neck and neck horse race so that come election night, when the exit polls/actual votes once again do their little magical reversal, they can make it seem like there is nothing to see here, folks, the polls were wrong -- again -- But certainly only paranoid people and America haters could think that we pulled any tricks.