I can whole heartedly agree there. He also has dignity and grace, and is extremely well spoken, which are qualities we have not seen in the White House for a very long time.

"who we can trust to do the right thing."

Now you have gone too far. Don't forget that he is also a politician.

One area in which I expect him to do absolutely the WRONG thing is in foreign policy, particularly to do with Iraq, Iran, Israel, Afghanistan, and Pakistan - and probably Russia as well. His intentions in that area started out all wrong, and have gotten nothing but worse.

Been taking lessons from Sarah, have you? ;o}

He has nothing left for issues and this could prove beneficial for him.  This is an incredibly unpopular initiative - and not just among the infants on the intertubes.  McCain could leverage this bill into a "taxpayer's revolt."  It may be too late, but what else is there?

I watched Paulson on 60 mins and he was pathetic.  These guys must know something we don't know, but they're doing a terrible job of selling it.  That, combined with some fairly reasonable economists calling BS, and it doesn't take a vivid imagination to see some voter anger across the country.

Watch to see if McCain hitches his horse to this wagon for the last month.  It scares me.

via npr archives:

...Less frequent is the occasion of a president switching running mates. In 1864, Abraham Lincoln saw nothing to be gained by running again with Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, and so the Republican convention that year decided instead upon Andrew Johnson, a Democrat. Schuyler Colfax, vice president under Ulysses Grant, was implicated in a scandal and was replaced at the 1872 GOP convention by Sen. Henry Hendricks of Indiana as his running mate. After Hendricks died in 1885, Cleveland ran for re-election in 1888 with 75-year-old former Sen. Allen Thurman of Ohio. They lost to Republicans Benjamin Harrison and Levi Morton. Four years later, Morton was replaced on the GOP ticket at the convention by Whitelaw Reid, the former editor of the New York Herald Tribune. (For his part, Cleveland came back in 1892 with still another running mate, Adlai E. Stevenson -- father of the 1952 and '56 Democratic presidential nominee.)

President William McKinley's number two, Garret Hobart, died in 1899, and in 1900 the Republican convention named New York Gov. Theodore Roosevelt in his stead. William Howard Taft was elected in 1908 along with James Sherman. Just days before the election in 1912, Sherman died and was replaced on the ticket by Nicholas Butler.

At the 1940 Democratic convention, Vice President John Nance Garner challenged President Franklin D. Roosevelt's bid for a third term; FDR, in turn, named his secretary of agriculture, Henry Wallace, as his new running mate. Roosevelt's role in the dumping of Wallace at the 1944 convention is still murky, but it seems clear that he was not especially keen on running again with Wallace, who was seen as too liberal for many in the party and outwardly hostile to Southern conservatives. Though Wallace fought for his job, he was replaced at the convention by Missouri Sen. Harry Truman. Less than a year later, FDR was dead.

A most unusual situation occurred in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal. In 1972, Republicans Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew were re-elected. A year later, Agnew -- involved in a scandal of his own -- resigned the vice presidency, and Nixon, utilizing the 25th Amendment for the first time, named Gerald Ford as his new VP. Within months, as his role in Watergate led to calls for his impeachment, Nixon also resigned, elevating Ford to the presidency. Ford then named Nelson Rockefeller as his vice president; it was the first time the nation had an unelected president and vice president. But under pressure from conservatives, who never forgave Rocky for his feud with Barry Goldwater in 1964, Ford announced he would not run with Rockefeller on the ticket. Instead, Ford named Kansas Sen. Bob Dole as his running mate for the 1976 election...

mcstain is certainly not lincoln, ergo, she's an dead albatross...or moose if you prefer...around his neck.

barring any significant upheavals, this election could very well be approaching the point of no return for the flyboy.

they've blown it. good riddance.

the revolution will not be televised...