Yeah I just watched that. Watch it again - that Katie Couric look is priceless - she's in total disbelief.

Will you be surprised if the McCain camp requests that the election be postponed too, for an undetermined date?

So the guy has a jet. U of Miss is not 10 hours from D.C.
fly in fly back.

And to postpone the VP debate

What a ploy.

What a worm.

This has something to do with it - the Polls. -

Politico: Obama moving into electoral lead

State by state, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill). is showing signs of breaking open a presidential race that looked deadlocked through much of September.

A new wave of polls released Wednesday showed decisive leads for Obama in the critical states of Colorado, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

That follows noticeable progress in polls in Virginia, which had looked safe for Sen. John McCain, and Florida, which had looked promising for McCain.

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

was comfortable dropping bombs on people who'd never done anything to him and has been complaining ever since about being treated harshly by those same people once they got their hands on him.

It's like saying: "I only tried to kill their children, why were they mean to me?"

Sarah Palin is like the broken arcade machine that keeps giving you free tickets...except her tickets are full of epic fail.

Why can't the VPs debate this Friday?  I'll make that trade.

Visit me at Tunnel Traveller

"I will  bring them to ya?" OMG

What is there really to add to this at all? I would have pity for my Republican friends forced to defend her but  they are so dirty, I do not.

Blue Tidal Wave

McCain can stand up to 5 years of Vietnamese torture, but a 2-hour debate with Obama is way too scary for him?  Not to mention a half-hour with Letterman?

"Little people are very stuff-intensive."

Plain and simple.

And Caribou Barbie?

She IS as bad as we thought she was. This is unbelievable. Unfuckingbelievable that she is ANYONE'S RUNNING MATE.

Couric just calmly and politely nailed Sarah to the wall.

Nicely done, Katie!

I am now going to hit myself over the head with a cast-iron skillet...

The "Palin Effect": put Sarah Palin and any other person in the room, and the other person suddenly seems like a perfectly reasonable candidate for president.

I think the more important point is that McCain's "set politics aside" excuse is a direct attack on the very meaning of democracy. Politics is supposed to be about the public deciding on important issues. McCain dismisses it as a sideshow. If you want more of the secret unitary presidency, vote McCain. Or move to Russia.

FDR's response to progressive demands: "I agree. Now go out and make me do it."

I thought her answer about Rick Davis was an eye opener. She seemed confused about the man running McCain's campaign.

Blue Tidal Wave

Seems McCain is issuing the challenge: will Obama agree to a bailout by Friday.  If he doesn't then all financial woes will evidently accrue to Obama and the Democrats (using the GOP what-you-say-bounces-off-me-and-sticks-to-you-like-glue school of accounting).

Is he suckering the Democrats into rushing into a deal?  

How will a vote turn out?  Will the Democrats schedule any votes for Friday?

Could they both go into voting not knowing how the other guy will vote?  

Wow. I don't know what to say...except NO! and enough already!

Seriously?

If you really want to see something funny, watch Letterman tonight.

Or, just watch it here!  I'm still laughing and I've watched it repeatedly.

JHC, what do you think Mitt Romney is thinking right now?  He's the veep pick who could have actually helped McFail at this point.  

Wow.

I've gone through job interviews for positions I was not qualified for and gave more cogent, to the point, and accurate responses on subjects I had no clue about, told the interviewer I had no experience in, but answered well enough to get called for 2nd and 3rd interviews (because they felt I was honest and trainable for that skill set).

She's not getting called back for one.

She has now shown her capability in dealing with Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric; now will she ever show up anywhere but Fox in the future?  And McCain couldn't even handle The View.

Hah! This is the best day evah! Meknows McFalin got played today and their camp has omelets on their faces (cheese, anyone?) and have only 2 non-choices: pres. debates at Ole Miss. & vp debates w/ Joey. I have never laughed so hard when I saw the whole coverage and realized that they just got it good! Hah! What happened today to them is so far better than a good old novel. THINK ABOUT IT! Think dysfunctional Palace politics, as in King Henry VIII. Sorry, couldn't resist the Henry part (Time cover of Paulson as King Henry). And WOD (wrinkly old dude) was on his way to BDW-NO's (Bubba don't want no Obama) Global Initiative? On Couric's show? Skip Letterman?  Not in DC?  But somehow solve the trillion $ problem. Cover up w/ what's rising from the cesspool of Sarah, etc. Then, what's up w/ the old guy's left eye (check out his press conf. and photos thereafter). Bugger if Keating Five didn't just rise up again. What else? Guillotine anyone? Nah, their brilliant idea:  we'll just suspend this !@##%^ campaign.  Done.  Cook the Goose.


UG

He has always been a coward.  Dropping bombs from high in the sky takes no heroism, guts, courage, integrity, honor.  NONE.

From the wet start on the USS Forestall (a show-off play by an inept fly-boy) to the planes he crashed once airborne, he probably killed more US soldiers than Vietnamese.  McCain was the first man taken off the Forrestal, BEFORE THE BURNED AND WOUNDED were evacuated.  Some hero.

http://judicial-inc.biz/82jjohn_mccain_and_the_uss_forresta.htm

(the site is anti-zionist but has good photos)

As for not taking early release (if it was offered)  that wasn't heroism.  It would have been treason and his family would have killed and shamed him if the government didn't.

Look at how he dealt with his injured wife!  Carol was heroic, raising the family despite her injuries.  McCain couldn't look at her, so he drank even more and played around with lithe strippers and pole-dancers.  A real man would have stayed and helped her recover.  He can't face reality.

The Keating 5 scandal?  He managed to duck blame despite being the most heavily involved.  He wasn't held accountable, and look at what the lobbyists have done to further his career since!  A hero turns down a bribe.

Cindy in the hospital with a drug overdose?  He removed her and had a car bring her back to Sedona... far from a treatment center.  He'd rather that she died (leaving him all that money) than have to answer a doctor's questions.  Coward.

His Senate stands?  He drapes himself in words such as "maverick" "war hero" "patriot" but his colleagues talk about his drinking and his anger, not about introducing unpopular legislation and sticking with it year after year until it becomes law.  Kucinich is a hero.  Feingold and Dodd and Wexler have shown heroism.  I loved the way Barbara Lee stood up to Bush and the war-mongers.  She is a hell of a lot more heroic than McCain could ever be.

So yes, he avoids reporters unless they bribe him and flatter him.  He avoids speaking at places where the audience isn't pre-ticketed and vetted for loyalty.  He avoids congressional votes that are a part of the permanent record.  He avoids exposing his medical or financial records to review.  

And he'll avoid the debates like the cowardly yellowdog dingo he is.

Is he running for President... or just running, running, running?

To judge by his face, he is running out of time.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080925/ap_on_el_pr/palin_finances

Now she needs more time to file her finances. Wouldn't this stuff have been pulled together when they "vetted" her? Wouldn't it be smart, even if she said she had no issues, to see what the whole world would eventually see before you made the first really big decision of his administration? Maybe that's just me, but doing your homework before you pick a VP or invade a country seems like a good idea.