By idiotically announcing he is about to kick Obama in the 'nads, McCain has shown he has not only sold his honor for a chance to prove he's not the family idiot (just like someone else I could mention) but that honor-for-sale isn't honor at all.

Anything that comes back on McCain now, from his Keating Five disgrace to his publicly obscene berating of his current wife, to his having been engaged to Cindy while still married to Carol, who was apparently not as attractive after her terrible accident, to his cancerous jaw to his near-the-bottom-of-his-class legacy graduation from Annapolis, to his "command" experience spent in a POW cell, is all fair game and he's pulled it all over on himself.

Obama won't do this with the clear delight McCain seems to take in trying to break the uppity Negro, and of course Obama isn't uppity and won't break.

As for Bill Ayers, back in 1975 I would have killed him if I could have, and it was a distinct possibility at the time. That fact makes me no better than Ayers back then, but I'm not running for President, either. And while I was 25 then, Obama was, what? Eight? Tops. Good luck with that.

The devil gets Mccain's soul and God just laughs at both of them.

Usually he looks pretty good.

Today he looked old and his normally perfect combover was messy. His shirt looked a bit rumpled. He looked tired, and his left eye seemed to be stuck in a semi-squint.

I, a notch below Communist as far as my leftist tendencies, defended McCain to my friends when he became the nominee:

"The Republicans nominated someone who is impossible to hate - a nice guy who has had a genuine tradition of acting his conscience."

Does the taste of absolute power corrupt absolutely?

http://my.barackobama.com/keatingvideo

"So, sure, Barack Obama might be every bit as much a slick piece of imageering as Sarah Palin. The difference is in what the image represents. The Obama image represents tolerance, intelligence, education, patience with the notion of compromise and negotiation, and a willingness to stare ugly facts right in the face, all qualities we're actually going to need in government if we're going to get out of this huge mess we're in.

Here's what Sarah Palin represents: being a fat fucking pig who pins "Country First" buttons on his man titties and chants "U-S-A! U-S-A!" at the top of his lungs while his kids live off credit cards and Saudis buy up all the mortgages in Kansas.

The truly disgusting thing about Sarah Palin isn't that she's totally unqualified, or a religious zealot, or married to a secessionist, or unable to educate her own daughter about sex, or a fake conservative who raised taxes and horked up earmark millions every chance she got. No, the most disgusting thing about her is what she says about us: that you can ram us in the ass for eight solid years, and we'll not only thank you for your trouble, we'll sign you up for eight more years, if only you promise to stroke us in the right spot for a few hours around election time.

Democracy doesn't require a whole lot of work of its citizens, but it requires some: It requires taking a good look outside once in a while, and considering the bad news and what it might mean, and making the occasional tough choice, and soberly taking stock of what your real interests are..." --Matt Taibi, Rolling Stone

Now that McCain has taken the low road, smart people must realize that he will lie to the American people at will.

He will make up lies, and mislead this country just as Bush did when he made the case for war with Iraq.

In search of WMD's, which are obviously somewhere with

Jimmy Hoffa, the reason we could not find them.

What harm can a little lying to the American people do?

It can cost over four thousand mother's their child, on the

battle field. It can cost thousands of children, their mother or father, and it can cost America, over four thousand fellow American's.

McCain/Palin, America cannot afford you.

He might still but this slow motion implosion is what we'll get. McCain might stroke out before election day. His anger will kill him.

I'm a year older than Barack, read the New York Times and Washington Post daily, but the domestic terrorists I would recognize in a crowded room 30 years later are limited to Angela Davis and Patty Hearst (although we wouldn't consider her one anymore - that was the big story when I was a kid). I live in Chicago, run in the local political class, sit on non-profit boards here and host teas to kick off campaigns, but I could not have identified William Ayres in a crowded room nor did I know of his background until this past spring during the primaries. It is completely plausible that BO didn't either. While I am not always supportive of everything Mayor Daley does, he practices forgiveness and is not reluctant to use every resource he can to improve our urban schools. It is his passion. If he thinks William Ayres brings new ideas to the table that outweigh his past bad decisions, that's good enough for me.

Wonderful article. One other thing McCain had better consider. Let's say he DOES manage to lie, cheat, and smear his way to the White House. Does he really want to start a presidency with an approval and/or trust rating in the toilet? I, personally, and many of the people I know believe that any honor he had disappeared with his gnawing ambition to be president before he dies-and this is clearly his last chance. Should he be elected via these kinds of tactics, our already cemented distrust of Washington politicians and disdain for all they represent would become rock hard. I wouldn't trust or support innately anything he would say or do-and would encourage any elected representative to stymie him at every turn in the hopes that at least he would be confined to a single term. All while praying that he wouldn't succumb, as a Palin presidency would have me seriously thinking about applying for permanent residency in Canada...