I think Sarah Palin uses words like “recuse” and “fungible” to hide the fact that she doesn’t know what she’s talking about. Hilzoy: Sarah Palin has been described as a quick study. But she has been surrounded by briefers for nearly three weeks, and she’s still completely unable to string together an intelligent thought on Read More
GTFOHWTBS. (CNN) — 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 Read More
Are you effing kidding me with this?!* McCain has just announced that he will be suspending his campaign so he can pitch in with the financial crisis. He also wants to put off Friday’s debate. Ben “In The Tank” Smith at Politico: Both candidates have been marginal players; McCain, though, seems to have the potential Read More
Rick Davis. [photo from the NYT] I’m not sure what the McCain camp is doing. (But one gets the sense that they don’t know, either.) The other day Steve Schmidt and Rick Davis, McCain’s top advisors, went apeshit after a Times story that reported that Davis took millions of dollars as a lobbyist for Freddie Read More
Damn. What got into Campbell Brown?
Kids went back to school a few weeks ago, but fall didn’t start until today. Already stores are filled with fake Jack-O-Lanterns and awful, environmentally unfriendly, disposable Halloween costumes. We’re officially on the inexorable march to the most wonderful time of the year (am I the only person who is always jarred to see Christmas Read More
From the WP: First it was his seven houses. Now, Sen. John McCain has to explain his fleet of 13 cars. According to a Newsweek item published online today, McCain and his wife, Cindy, own more than a dozen cars, including three electric bubble-shaped cars, called GEM’s that the magazine says are popular in retirement Read More
The first presidential debate is Friday. (photo from The Big Picture blog.) Some folks are Cali are worried that Prop 8 — the ballot measure that would amend the state’s constitution to ban gay marriage —- could get a boost from the large numbers of black people hitting the polls to vote for Obama.* The Read More
John McCain’s new ad, “Advice,” attempts to tie Obama to Franklin Raines, who ran Fannie Mae. Raines and Obama are somewhat tenous connection (he took phone calls from the Obama campaign). And Karen Tumulty of Time says the decision to tie Obama to Raines in this ad — and not, say, Jim Johnson, the disgraced Read More
So remember the other day how I was all worried about Obama’s bad poll numbers? Sike! I was just playin’. The momentum has swung back to Obama, with a bunch of major polls showing him back out in front. It’s still the state polling numbers that really matter, though. There are a lot of Read More
