I tried watching a little boxing since NBC seems to want us to watch it so bad. It is on seemingly 24 hours a day on the cable channels so you don't have much choice if you are not watching during live event time. Anyway the scoring is so non-sensical that I turned it off pretty quickly.

All of these judged sports have their problems. Perhaps there should be no judged sports. If you can put a clock on it, or count the goals scored...but then again look at sports with referees like the US soccer team getting knocked out thanks to a player being sent off in the 3rd minute of the match. Or the ridiculous penalty kick called in the NED-JPN match, and maybe that's not any better. I guess that leaves us with swimming, track & field, shooting, and maybe the racket/paddle sports.

I personally tune all of these ads out now by both sides. When one comes on I change the channel. I have already made up my mind. I expect most people have. Both sides do an awful lot of distortion of the truth i not outright lies. Two more months of this will be excruciating. Think of all the good that could be done with all of these hundreds of millions of dollars. Certainly it would be better spent than fattening the bottom lines of TV stations.

so how long is this video? Could it be made into a 30 second TV ad? That seems to be the only way anyone gets any other media attention. Sounds like these guys are just preachin' to the choir at this point. Or are they hoping it goes viral somehow?

they should settle it by arm wrestling or maybe jello wrestling for the men. Or a series of American Gladiator style games.

If the best we can come up with is her husband's 20 year old DUI then she ought to sail through this who thing without any trouble.

Instead of talking about that the focus ought to be on her apparent vindictiveness and crazy right wing christian views. The attacks should be on her policies. Not on her family struggles.

The scary thing is that people seem to have swallowed McCain's story about how great she is. Watching tonight's BBC news was very disheartening. As long as people don't bother to do any critical thinking or research we are doomed. The uninformed electorate in this country is leading us straight down the drain.

"You haven't heard a word about getting serious about green and alternative energy ..."

Last time I checked offshore drilling doesn't have anything to do with green or alternative energy. So he is quite correct there.

Let's hope Charlie asks her about this in his interview. My guess is that he won't bring it up at all and it will end up being a total puff piece and give her a chance to talk about her family instead.

yeah, I gave him a lot of money during the primary campaign. But his votes this summer have definitely quashed my enthusiasm. I will of course vote for him, but it is harder to justify sending him more of my money. Maybe it's time to consider giving some money to the party. Now that McCain picked his crazy religious zealot running mate it might be time for a re-think.

When I saw this story on the news and in the paper this morning I gave up. This country is going to hell. The people voting don't care if it goes to hell. The media doesn't care if it goes to hell. So I have decided that I just don't care anymore either. When the moronic majority elects McCain in November we will finally see the total and utter destruction of what is left of our economy. And the Constitution's destruction will be completed.

Maybe then people will finally pay attention...but probably not.

The Thai press was full of stories about Thai cooks and kitchen help also being threatened with being tossed out of the uK.

Having just returned from London I can tell you that you don't want to flee there after the election. It was shocking how expensive things were there. Maybe it's not as bad in other parts of the UK.

OK, maybe this wasn't in the best taste, but I laughed out loud when I read this piece.

The "outraged" GOP is the most cynical, morally bankrupt group of people in history. A little tweaking is good for them.

With all of the frenzy Palin has managed to whip up, how long after they are elected do you think these religious nuts will let McCain live before something happens to him?

I thought WE MUST HAVE A DEAL IN PLACE BY FRIDAY or else the world will end. So, since the debate is late Friday night why can't McCain be prepared for both? McCain and Obama are supposed to be at meetings in Washington today.

McCain has been absent from Washington all year. But now only he can come in and save the day? That's just stupid.

Both of them are and should be in on what is being decided since one of them is going to have to deal with this mess in a couple of months. But McCain backing out of the debate makes him look like he is not capable of handling more than one thing at a time.

I see no downside to this for Obama.