The Republic of T.

That’s the only word I can think of to describe this.

Seriously?
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It’s almost enough to make you feel sorry for John McCain. He’s got a bit of an identity crisis.

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I’m with Liza. I’m totally going to see this.

OK. It’s not the cast I would have chosen. Who cares? This looks totally worth getting a babysitter for.

And now, just for fun….

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Damn. It’s 9:21 p.m. on a Friday night. Nobody’s reading blogs right now, but I gotta run with this.

Not just abuse of power, but unlawful abuse of power. Well, what can I say?

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You’ve probably already seen this, but it’s something as many people as possible should see. So, I’m doing what I can.

I’ll just add one thing. These are the people who have kept George W. Bush’s approval rating in the double digits, if only just barely, for the last few years. These are the people the McCain-Palin ticket is going out of their way not just to court, but to rouse them in a way they have not been roused before.

What will happen if they win? What will happen if they lose? Which is worse?

At least he didn’t say “That boy,” but he was just one word off. I heard it, and I saw it. I saw it first, actually, during the first debate when McCain refused to look Obama in the eye.

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The vice presidential debate is over and much ink has been spilled and bandwith burned discussing how it all went.

The bar was set so low that if she managed to walk out there on two legs, breath air, and speak in complete sentences then she met expectations.

She met the expectations set for her in this debate. But that’s all.

Did she meet the expectations of someone who’s experienced and “ready on day one” to serve in our highest office?

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If I could figure out how to loop this, I would.

In lieu of that, here’s my best copying and pasting for today, because my automated digest posting isn’t working at the moment.

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After reading some of the comments at this Politico article, saying that Republicans are getting increasingly nervous about Palin after her media performances, there something that needs pointing out. The questions she was asked, and failed utterly to answer, are not “gotcha” questions. They are questions that any serious candidate should be able to answer coherently and without hesitation, or sense that they are leading questions and avoid answering them. It follows that the level of intelligence expected of any serious candidate would enable her or him to know a leading question when they hear one.

Problem is, your candidate ain’t got it, and it’s becoming increasingly obvious no matter how much you and your party want to pretend otherwise.

Thus, the more people hear from Palin, the more they look at her like this.

Why? Let’s review.’

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Last week was a bad one for the McCain campaign, no matter how you slice it. First, he pulls the stunt of trying to “suspend” the campaign, only to get called out by Obama when the chronology of their exchange reveals an impulsive attempt by McCain to back Obama into “suspending the campaign” and following his lead. Instead, a reporter’s question gives Obama the chance to say that whoever wins the election and ends up in the oval office “will have to be able to do more than one thing at a time.”

Then he cancels on Letterman, only to have Dave catch him in a lie, and show the NBC video feed which revealed that McCain was sitting in a make-up chair, about to be interviewed by Katie Couric. McCain didn’t actually leave for D.C. until the next day. And the big bailout summit he made a big deal of coming back to Washington for (which Obama managed to attend too, without suspending his campaign), but didn’t get his hoped-for photo-op.

I think the way I lot of people felt about the McCain campaign could be summed up with one look.

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My previous post had me asking "How did we get here?" (Actually, I cleaned up my language for this post.) How did we end up on what could be an economic "road to perdition."

per·di·tion – noun
1. a state of final spiritual ruin; loss of the soul; damnation.
2. the future state of the wicked.
3. hell (def. 1).
4. utter destruction or ruin.
5. Obsolete. loss.

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Ed.Note: I’m at home with Dylan today, ’cause he has a case of the “scoots” (as I call them), and I haven’t looked at the news today. So this post, which has been sitting in draft format since last night, may be

The murmuring started shortly after McCain announced that he wanted to postpone the first presidential debate. But, at least in my office, the references were made jokingly. Because we were certain that after pulling one fairly obvious stunt, the McCain campaign wouldn’t pull another blatantly obvious stunt, like canceling the V.P. debate. We were wrong.

McCain supporter Sen. Lindsey Graham tells CNN the McCain campaign is proposing to the Presidential Debate Commission and the Obama camp that if there’s no bailout deal by Friday, the first presidential debate should take the place of the VP debate, currently scheduled for next Thursday, October 2 in St. Louis.

In this scenario, the vice presidential debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin would be rescheduled for a date yet to be determined, and take place in Oxford, Mississippi, currently slated to be the site of the first presidential faceoff this Friday.

Or, maybe I was the only one who was joking about it. Surely the McCain campaign doesn’t think they can get away with it. But, all things considered, I guess I can’t blame them for trying.

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This is the weakest shit I’ve heard in a long time.

Republican John McCain said Wednesday he is directing his staff to work with Democrat Barack Obama’s campaign and the presidential debate commission to delay Friday’s debate because of the economic crisis.

In a statement, McCain said he will stop campaigning after addressing former President Clinton’s Global Initiative session on Thursday and return to Washington to focus on the nation’s financial problems.

The Republican presidential hopeful called Obama before he made the statement and told him he was going to suspend his campaign, according to a McCain senior adviser.

Message: What is John McCain afraid of?

Message: John McCain has no message on the economy.

Message: A president can’t postpone a crisis while he gets his act together.

Message: There’s no time-outs in the White House

Message: John McCain isn’t ready to talk about the economy.

Message: John McCain doesn’t want to talk to you about the bailout.

If I were Obama, I’d stand in front of a camera and say something like this.

John McCain can’t wait to get back to Washington. The people he wants to talk to about the economy and the bailout are in Washington. The people he wants to hear from about the economy and the bailout are in Washington. The people John McCain thinks are dealing with the economy and will deal with the bailout are in Washington.

I guess John McCain has forgotten his own words. It’s easy to be in Washington and frankly be somewhat divorced from the day-to-day challenges people have. Like I said before, if all you do is walk the halls of power, all you’ll hear is the wants of the powerful.

John McCain can go back to Washington and talk with the people he thinks are dealing with the economy and will deal with the bailout. But you know and I know, the people who are really dealing with the economy, and the people who who are really going to pay for the bailout are out here in the rest of America, going to work, paying their bills, taking care of their families, and it’s getting harder for them to do it.

Let John McCain go back to Washington. Until I get a call from the Senate that it’s time for a vote, I’m staying out here to talk to you and listen to you, because the real economy isn’t in Washington, or on Wall Street. It’s right here.