This looked like it might be different back in January. Since then, however, the DC "advisor/lobbyist" scumbags and parasites have turned it into the standard LOTE of the past 40-odd years. Sad to see so much potential dumped for the sake of the status quo, but for that we get the best government lobbyist money can buy and punditry can spin. Really too bad.

If the Dems are sweating that this election is too close to call then your voters are officially too dumb to manage their own affairs. After 8 years of Bush which, if you had strippers, amputees and vomitoriums would look like Caligula's reign, and they still want more of that, then you're doomed.

You're doomed, so give up.

This is a deeply underestimated political category.

Obama may be intellectually gifted but, that is where it ends.

Obama is by far more personable and does connect with people. If he did not, then why after 2 years on the road, do tens of thousand still line up hours in advance in excitement to see him.

Is it because he does not bowl? Geez, political reporters are so stupid. Generation Xers are not exactly the bowling types and Obama is very much of his generation.

That is why reporters do not understand Obama.

They are by and far baby boomers who see the fakery of Bill Clinton as the way a politician is suppose to act and cannot understand Obama and his generation.

Obama is very much an Xer.

They are more basketball then bowling. More wine coolers then beer. And they are not ashamed of having brains.

They are also more authentic and less fake or smoozy. They connect without being slobbery.

I think the boomers need to learn about and understand the next generation to understand Obama.

I don't want Bill 2.0.

I like obama the way he is. Pleasant and personable without the phoniness and not ashamed to be smart.

There once was a man named Wally

Who often engaged in folly

His name is Shapiro

Which rhymes with zero

He's not a hero

He's beginning to see

It's not you and me

They look at Obamas

A goof in Pajamas

Renown

Or a clown?

So what people would pick

A phony so slick?

What will he do

When the election is through

I think he's a clown

He'll jump up and down

The VP debate will decide the election with 100M people tuned in. Half that number will tune into the other three debates because they promise to be "major boring" for 90 minutes.

Let's face it: Obama has a good head on his shoulders but he is also boring to listen to. Lots of "ums" are mixed in with his legalistic style and what you have is a senator giving a speech to an empty Senate chamber. McCain is even worse, so there is not a lot of excitement when either of these guys speak.

The singular pressure will be on Palen as she is clearly out of her depth, but Biden will have only one chance to land a knockout punch. If Biden fails and leaves the "problem" for another day, this race will be too close to call in November. I expect fireworks to go off at the VP debate.

I dare you to do a whole segment interviewing George Will.

This economic crisis is unquestionably caused by the GOP.

These guys were totally wrong.

Grill George Will on the failure of laissez fair polices.

George Will based his whole life on something and it was a total failure.

Grill him G.S.

is that an elitist term ?

Yes, Obama is of that generation (and so am I).

Unfortunately, there are a lot more Boomers than there are Xers. And Boomers have never been interested in "understanding" any generation other than their own. They rebelled against their own parents, but aren't interested in letting the generations succeeding them find their own way in turn. You can see examples of this everywhere from aging hippies at the farmer's market whining about the kids these days not taking to the streets to their contemporary, the Decider, giving us our very own Vietnam (Gee, thanks!).

that Rumsfeld is bat-shiat crazy.

Or do you?

You are making a joke, or are you?

/have some nutrasweet - kills ants dead!

I completely agree that the VP debates will be huge, but Biden only has to stay on message.

Economic disaster clearly caused by GOP policies.

Iraq and Afghanistan clearly very poorly managed. Even if you accept the success of "the surge" it was years too late and things still are not good in either country.

Let her say "reform" 100 times. She's talking about reforming the GOP. That's the fox guarding the hen house.

Political pundits keep alive the uncertainty of elections. They neglect to mention that this keeps their audience returning to hear or read them

I wish some commentator would tell this election like it is. Most Republicans are hostile to John McCain. George W. Bush and the Republican Party are at historic disapproval levels for the last 2 years. Hurricane Gustav forced the evacuation of New Orleans the day the Republican Convention begins bringing up memories of Bush's failure to handle Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath to this day. The worst financial crisis since 1929 hits on September 15, 2008. John McCain has spent his entire career advocating de-regulation of business that is the foundation of the present day Republican Party. He suddenly announces that Wall Street needs the regulation he himself voted to dismantle. He next calls for the firing of the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. McCain does not mention that he has consistently voted to underfund and limit its regulatory role.

McCain is running as someone for change who does not mention he is a Republican The Republican Party has held the Presidency for eight years and the Congress for most of the last 14 years. Historic number of blacks and young people -- groups with low levels of voting -- voted for Obama in the Democratic primaries. The Obama Campaign has registered 1.2 million new voters. Pollsters concede their statistical models can not accurately account for these new voters.

A McCain victory would be an upset at the same level as Harry Truman's defeat of Thomas Dewey in 1948. But Truman was a sitting President who presided over the end of Wordl War II and the beginnings of the Cold War who had a booming post-war economy when the election was held. He also was a very effective campaigner who repeated his message that the country could not have another do-nothing Republican Congress. McCain's message switches almost daily.