At this point I'm actually almost hoping for an
Obama win. I have a feeling that the next President, no matter who it is,
will end up being considered the worst President ever (even more so than
Bush) since it will most likely get much, much worse before things get
better. That will fall onto the shoulder's of whichever candidate is in
office.

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Man, I've never hated anyone that much before. Not even my ex-wife.

I was glad to hear McCain's comments about Obama today.  He made them despite making some of his supporters unhappy.

I too am sorry to see John McCain's self-destruction, or his destruction by his campaign staff. Was it yesterday he singled out Barney Frank and Chris Dodd as the real culprits behind the whole mess? How is that in any way presidential? And then promising to one constituent that those responsible would pay?

then last night on Colbert, David Gergen mentioned the whole "terrorist" and "kill him" bits from McCain rallies, and Rachel Maddow talked about it tonight. Apparently when MSNBC contacted the McCain campaign about this, the response was something like 'Senator Obama has been attacking us from day one and we can't control our crowds.' Huh?

Now I am a Demmycrat so take this as you want, but can it be anything other than desperation driving McCain now? I live in a solid red state - I joke that the Kansas Democratic party are all named Lynch - so I can't attest to the advertising elsewhere, but I have only seen one really negative ad from Obama, the one concerning the Keating business. And I have yet to see one positive ad from McCain. So apart from Obama knowing Reverend Wright, William Ayres and now some vague terrorist link, is there any reason to vote McCain? Because he's sure not telling me anything. 

these are going to be 24 loooooooooooong days....

Jim - you are correct - see this story:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h_aCh8L4AX04vKgpsWmd1GRw0 AcgD93N50180

Key quote from it:

Nearly every TV ad McCain ran last week was negative, compared to just 34 percent of those by Obama, according to an analysis by the Wisconsin Advertising Project released on Wednesday

By the way - VERY funny Obama impersonator:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt_TnQqkVyk

Ladies and Gentlemen... Betty White.

Oh, by the way - with this Palin story breaking this evening... how cool is it tonight to be a Democrat?  To finally have an October Surprise work in your favor for a change?

"Oh, by the way - with this Palin story breaking this evening... how cool is it tonight to be a Democrat?"

To me, the most important part of the story isn't that she tried to abuse her position as governor to get her ex-brother-in-law fired, but that she did it so badly. Dozens, hundreds of phonecalls and nagging conversations to everybody under the sun.

Sheesh. All she had to do was call his boss in and say: "Full disclosure, my family has a lot of problems with a trooper under your command. I hope that doesn't get in the way of our working relationship. As for these budget requests, including your salary bump? I'm not sure if we can manage them. I'll set them aside and review them again next week, see if we have any new information that will help me make the right decision."

If you're the governor, and one conversation isn't enough to get a guy fired, the smartest thing to do is to shut up.