"...she's also majorly pissing off those valuable 'disaffected Hillary supporters'"

But not The Lady de Rothschild!

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Also, as the young whippersnappers on the intertubes would say, major lolz on "Snowjob Squareglasses"!

From Washington Monthly's Steve Benen

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_09/014865.php

DESPERATE CANDIDATES DO DESPERATE THINGS.... As the political world continues to try to wrap its head around John McCain's decision to "suspend" his campaign, the Obama campaign issued an interesting statement.

At 8:30 this morning, Senator Obama called Senator McCain to ask him if he would join in issuing a joint statement outlining their shared principles and conditions for the Treasury proposal and urging Congress and the White House to act in a bipartisan manner to pass such a proposal. At 2:30 this afternoon, Senator McCain returned Senator Obama's call and agreed to join him in issuing such a statement. The two campaigns are currently working together on the details.

You nailed it.

...and invite St Ralph, just so the Other Septuagenarian on the ballot will stop crying about not being included.

he's still concerned that Biden didn't personally remove the Greek columns from the stadium stage in Denver. If Biden flubbed an important "real world" issue like that, he must be as big a liability as Palin.

1. "Conceivably, this whole thing could be a setup" - This must be a typo; perhaps you meant to say "UNDOUBTEDLY this whole thing IS a setup."

2. "But given the level of anxiety about the plan on the Hill, it doesn't seem like a ploy." - How does it NOT seem like a ploy? (Apologies to the poster who said it first.)

3. "And it's also not clear how much credit McCain could claim for bipartisan leadership..." - Again, maybe this is a typo and you meant to say "...not clear how McCain could claim credit..." since we know he will claim ALL the credit but we might not foresee just what ridiculous logic he'll come up with to make the claim.

"My god, do dems have any idea how to run anything?"

- tiberius @ 2:36 PM

Republicans and Wall Streeters have long proclaimed that government should be run like a business.

Unfortunately, they've proven to be equally adept at running both.

"Hopefully, Palin doesn't have a hidden receiver to feed her answers like Bush did in 2004 when debating Kerry."

If her hair covers her ears - unlike 95% of the images I've seen of her - someone needs to take a magnifying glass to an HD screen and look for an earplug.

On the other hand, if there's no evidence of anything in her ears, I bet they've gone Gilligan's-Island-y and are using her dental work to communicate.

Either that, or she was working on a jigsaw puzzle on top of the podium.

Why is there a creepy drawing of Jackie Mason's mug on the Empire of Japan's battle flag and why does it keep sliding across the screen? Is it some sort of not-so-sublimininable message?

It would still be great to throw out Saxby Chambliss, the chickenhawk who slimed Max Cleland, and that smirking bastard Mitch McConnell, who never met a PAC contribution he didn't like.

In last week's debate McCain said that he "know(s) how to get Bin Laden." Why doesn't he tell someone NOW - or is this like Nixon's secret plan to end the Vietnam war, and he'll only tell us if he's elected? Why is John McCain holding America hostage?

And in the VP debate, Sarah Palin essentially said that Cheney has the right idea about extra-Constitutional Vice Presidential powers but he hasn't gone far enough. Does McCain share this opinion, and what does HE have in mind for Palin's future duties?

Just wondering.

But seriously folks...as has already been said, this flub is another stupid item wasting some of the space-time continuum.

I'd rather know just what Palin and, theoretically, McCain have in mind for the extraconstitutional powers of Vice President Palin.

Ya know, like SHE SAID OUT LOUD during the debate? The little tidbit that prompted Biden's great line "Dick Cheney is The Most Dangerous Vice President in history."?

How's about following up on that, Alex?

The (Southern Califormia?) Press-Enterprise article also describes another Obama "joke", this one at the Sacramento County GOP web site:

Obama in Turban

The newsletter is not the first such episode Barajas has had to respond to this week. The Sacramento Bee on Wednesday posted an image it said was captured from the Sacramento County GOP Web site that showed Obama in a turban next to Osama bin Laden.

It said: "The difference between Osama and Obama is just a little B.S." The site also encouraged members to "Waterboard Barack Obama," a reference to a torture technique. The Sacramento County party took down the material Tuesday after being criticized.

Those things are also wrong. Are any of them sponsored or promulgated by any chapter of the Democratic Party?

You know, like an official party newsletter?

John McCain will not stand by while the honor of veterans who support him is questioned!!!

I don't know what the hell that has to do with inciting "the base" (Al Quaida?) either, but that was McCain's response when Obama talked about shouts of "terrorist!" and "kill him!" at McCain/Palin rallies.

"Top Tampa GOP Figure Circulates Joke About Killing Obama"

http://www.tboblogs.com/index.php/news/story/top-tampa-gop-figure-circulates-joke-about-killing-obama

This moron, "a prominent real estate developer long known as one of the state’s leading Republican campaign fundraisers, has served in recent years as finance chairman for both the national and state Republican parties."

And of course he "said he forwarded it without fully reading it and didn’t know what it said."

If you believe that, I've got a bridge in Alaska to sell you.

From AP via Yahoo:

"McCain targets liberals in sharpened stump speech"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081020/ap_on_el_pr/mccain

What a sad example of blind ambition McCain has become.