leaderless GOP

Rachel Maddow asks the question:
Who is Leading the GOP?

it's certainly not McCain or Bush. no one in
their own party is listening to them.

banned book week

September 28–October 4, 2008

Banned Books Week is the only national celebration of the freedom to read. It was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries. More than a thousand books have been challenged since 1982.According to the American Library Association, more than 400 books were challenged in 2007. The 10 most challenged titles were:

1. And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
2. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
3. Olive’s Ocean by Kevin Henkes
4. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
6. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
7. TTYL by Lauren Myracle
8. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
9. It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
10. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

GOP already planning election theft

via Mark Crispin Miller:

Here Spoon tells us that McBush's team--i.e., Karl Rove and his henchpersons-- have their plan in place to steal this next election: by 51.2% of the popular vote, and three electoral votes.

this is just part 1 of 10 part series of videos in which Stephen Spoonamore, a computer fraud specialist & a Republican, spells out how the GOP has already put the wheels in motion to steal the next election.

unbelievable

how could this possibly be justified, other than as a complete,
& extremely desperate publicity stunt.

"Inside John McCain’s campaign the expectation is growing that there will be a popularity boosting pre-election wedding in Alaska between Bristol Palin, 17, and Levi Johnston, 18, her schoolmate and father of her baby. “It would be fantastic,” said a McCain insider. “You would have every TV camera there. The entire country would be watching. It would shut down the race for a week.”"

that last line of course is the key. McCain has no strategy other than distraction & running out the clock. does anyone think this strategy is anything less than complete contempt for the American people. "country first"!? Please.

dial tone deaf

before the debate last Friday, McCain rushed back to D.C. to help
w/the bailout negotiations, he claims...

“I came back because I wasn’t going to phone it in."

now that the debate & his grandstanding are over & proved fruitless for him, he decides to "phone it in."

"On ABC’s This Week, McCain said he came back to Washington DC to get involved in the bailout negotiations. “I came back because I wasn’t going to phone it in,” he said. And yet, McCain did just that yesterday. He “did not go to Capitol Hill after coming back to Washington.” instead opting to phone it in. Salter explained, “He can effectively do what he needs to do by phone.” McCain did have time, however, to take in dinner at an upscale DC restaurant with Joe Lieberman (I-CT)."

Paul Newman 1925 - 2008

Obama Wins Debate!

or so the pundits think.
so do most of the progressive blogs.
oh well, McPalin can make up the lost ground
in the VP debate. *snark*

McCain Wins Debate!

or so his campaign would have you believe
with these internet ads that are already running.
Guess there's no sense in even tuning in tonight.

teh sadness

don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of top 10 lists of
all shapes & subjects (gawd knows I've wasted too much of my life mulling over desert island picks), but this list just makes me sad.

McSame wants out

of the debate on Friday, that is. he claims it's to focus on the economic crisis.
think maybe it's to direct focus away from his own culpability in creating the crisis?
I do.
or maybe it's to allow this storm to die down.

or as Ben Smith notes:

"...his move is a mark, most of all, that he doesn't like the way this campaign is going. The only thing that's changed in the last 48 hours is the public polling."

Nico Pitney at HuffPo:

"John McCain has skipped more votes during this session than any member of the Senate except for Tim Johnson, who had major brain surgery. All of a sudden, McCain demands that the presidential race shut down so he can return to Washington."

"For all of his sudden urgency, McCain acknowledged just yesterday that he had not even read the administration's three-page bailout proposal."

UPDATE: Obama's response:

"I think it is going to be part of the president's job to deal with more than one thing at once."

here's to walking & chewing gum at the same time.

gimmee more CANDEE!!

Rachel spells out this financial mess, brilliantly, speaking very slowly, & in ways that even Republicans can understand. Robert Reich gets in on the act about halfway through.

McSame

just to be clear,
WaPo has a handy dandy chart showing all the
BushCo. cronies now on the McCain campaign staff.
too mavericky.