Couldn’t Have Said It Better Myself

Leon Wieseltier in the New Republic:

McCain feels with his heart, but he thinks with his base. And when he picked Sarah Palin, he told the United States of America to go fuck itself.

Conservatives Blame McCain As Obama Landslide Approaches

There Are No Words

I am disgusted by what the McCain camp is doing. I refuse to post the ad the McCain has released today, because it stinks of lies and hatred. It is the most desperate attempt at coming up from behind I have ever seen. This is worse than Bush in 2000. McCain should be ashamed of himself. But if you read the Rolling Stone article, you probably could guess that he is not.

If this works, and the American people buy into these false accusations about Obama and Ayers, then this is not the country I thought it was.

Yes. We. Can.

Know Hope.

We miss you, Molly

What’s missing from this election? Molly Ivins.

Mo Dowd Does Not Take It Lying Down

Maureen Dowd was banned from John McCain’s planes last week. I guess he can only handle a few sexy women at a time…

“I had had a great relationship with John McCain for 16 years, through columns he liked and didn’t like. So at first I thought it was a mistake and double-checked with the press office. They said I was banned from both planes for ‘the foreseeable future.’ Then [McCain spokeswoman] Nicolle Wallace was gloating about it to reporters on the Palin plane,” Dowd wrote in an email.

“It was disappointing because I didn’t think John McCain would ever be as dismissive of the First Amendment as Dick Cheney.”

Chris Matthews is out of the doghouse

“Fuck Off Sarah Palin”

 I want one.

(Thanks, Hannah)

“Beyond the Palin”

A nice diatribe from a fellow wordpress blogger.

The more attention you pay Sarah Palin, the more emails you forward to your friends about her, the more it becomes a story the MSM is justified in covering (and they LOVE covering it, she’s pretty, she’s quippy, she’s the new Tina Fey!) and the more free advertising you give the GOP and they more of their voters that would have stayed home

will turn out.  Especially women, who will be incensed that the “liberal media” is picking on her.

(Thanks, Evan)

Gotta love the Onion

The thing is, these days this qualifies as real news.

Palin Unveils 9/11 Firefighter Cousin, Reformed Lesbian Niece, Naturalized Mexican Half Brother

(Thanks, Lexi)

His Economic Plan

I think he should do more and more of these ads. By looking straight into the camera, and outlining proposals, he comes across as truthful and serious. And it’s a different kind of ad – a conversation versus a smear.

(See McCain’s ad released the same day – 30 seconds vs. Obama’s 2 minutes. And he claims that Obama is “all talk.” Don’t even get me started.)

If 50% of Americans do not think he is the right choice, then they do not deserve him. However, that means the rest of us are screwed.

Visit BarackObama.com/plan to read Obama’s plan.

The Game Changer

UNDECIDED VOTER

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The former GOP Secretary of State tells a group of D.C. students the election of an African-American president “would be electrifying” but he hasn’t settled on either candidate for his vote.

“At the same time [I have to] make a judgment here on which would be best for America.”

McCain and Healthcare

Bob Herbert points out a scary bit of info:

A study coming out Tuesday from scholars at Columbia, Harvard, Purdue and Michigan projects that 20 million Americans who have employment-based health insurance would lose it under the McCain plan

For starters, the McCain health plan would treat employer-paid health benefits as income that employees would have to pay taxes on.

Click here to ready the study.

Why is Palin getting away with it?

E.J. Dionne asks the question.

Since we’re talking about travel here, let’s stay focused on the Clinton comparison: Is there one standard for Hillary Clinton — a tough one — and another, permissive standard for Sarah Palin? I’ll be curious about this and so, I suspect, will Hillary Clinton’s supporters.

Barf

Next Up for Palin, Sean Hannity

Yeah, that will be tough. Like throwing food to the starving.

John McCain is Lying

(Thanks, Evan)