The question is why did he show up to the bail out talks? To look like he's doing something?

McCain is big, big trouble for the U.S. He wants more war, less regulations and knows nothing about the economy....send him down the river with the rest of the neo-con con artist and idiots.

Send old man MeCain down the river with the other soulless money grubbing retards that make up the GOP.

Oh so often you hear the GOP and the right wing nut job spout off about taking personal responsibility, commitment to your country and so on...and yet you have the other side, the dodgers, the flakes and the plain chicken sh*ts.

It's this simple -- John Sidney McCain III doesn't want to face off with Barack Obama because Barack will absolutely hammer him on the economy, of which McCain has admitted he knows little about. Barack Obama will then bring up the Keating S&L scandal if McCain squirms.

God damn it, face the music like a man McCain. Show up for the debate and quit weenieing out.

p.s. and how about let Sarah Palin talk freely or talk at all with reporters?

Indeed, if the Palin turn-on-your-own pattern continues, McCain will have 6 knives in his back if he gets to be POTUS...delivered by Sarah Barracuda or her extreme right, neo-con henchmen like Rove. He won't see it coming but in the end, the American people will pay dearly.

Bringing up real talking points however is a noble cause and should be commented.

Given the complete and utter plundering the U.S. faces if John McCain and Sarah Palin take office, I believe legislation should be introduced where people's votes are tied to who they vote for.

That's right...vote for W (or another clown) and you own a chunk of the $9 trillion dollar debt. Call it merit based voting or responsibility based voting.

The uncovering of the dirt and muck is warranted because, holy crap, this woman could be and might be a heart beat away from being the POTUS.

Think about that for a second, McCain kicks the bucket and we have -- Sarah Louise Heath Palin, President of the United States.

That's a frightening and quite disturbing thought, and you should be scared. If Sarah Palin is ever POTUS, she's going to make George Walker Bush look like Einstein, Churchill and Roosevelt all rolled into one.

BTW, the neo-cons and far right fringe look forward to Sarah Palin being POTUS on the simple premise that their mission isn't to make government work, but instead to destroy it. Who better then a mayor from a small town in a state with 650k population to do this? Yeah, be scared.

Keep up the muck raking Salon...the possibility of Palin in office warrants it.

Yes it's good that Salon even gives Obama's speech coverage, unlike the mainstream press. Still considering this is a real meat and potatoes issues and effects the average person greatly...it's beyond me why it's buried.

Perhaps you at Salon have already begun deeper pieces and analysis and we'll see them soon...however if you have not, you really need to get on it.

Some hard analysis and a history lesson on the whole deregulation boondoggle would be a great start. Then some depth on the Keating scandal that featured John McCain would be a nice follow up.

Barrack Obama is absolutely right on this one. The continual deregulation and bailout is nothing short of looting.

Com'n Salon, this is a softball pitch that you should be hitting out of the park on first call.

...you know, not that there's anything wrong with that. The irony and kinkiness however isn't lost on anyone.

Any way the way to dress down Palin and flip her from a dom to a sub is use her radical right wing record (most of it on video tape) and hyper-extreme religious baloney like a whip and butt plug.

This list is long from the Iraq War is God's task Jesus talk nonsense to her anti-feminist stance.

For the Dems to win they must keep Obama on message about the economy and jobs AND turn a full S/M trick on Palin and thus McCain.

Make McCain the old man perv in diapers and Palin the switch who ultimately grovels for approval. That's right, flip the dom..and make the Puritanical evangelicals twist in the wind with her.

$150 bucks to shoot and kill wolves out of airplanes? What kind of nutty place is AK and who's the nut running it? Is this the stuff of VP leadership?

I mean WTF. Not only does it sound like a waste of public funds but it is completely unsporting (i.e., un-American) and inhumane. But hey, this is the party that brought you the current VP - a man who shot a friend in the face while shooting "ducks in a barrel". What do you FREAKIN' expect?

If wolves are truly a a threat there has to be a less costly and less drastic and inhumane was to address the situation.

Oh yeah, right...humane, costly and reasonable aren't of concern to right wing ideologues when it comes to getting their gun rocks off.

The only thing I can add to the whole Palin debacle is George W. Bush is smiling because indeed...someone nuttier, more fundie and totally out there has stepped up and made him look good.

My god, there is someone worse then W and she might be one heart beat away behind a 73 y.o. man with known health issues.

Jesus H. Christ. Just say NO.

...the kind of woman John McCain would call a *unt, like he did his wife.