Barack Obama said in news conference moments ago that “the president has to be able to do more than one thing at a time,” and that it was more important than ever to hold the debate as scheduled. UPDATE: Is McCain throwing a political “Hail Mary” or just hiding from a public debate? The White House puppet will be speaking …
McCaint covers up a yawn; the losses on Wall Street have kept him from napping. . . .asks to postpone walking Friday’s debate, to chew gum address the financial crisis. Ben Smith: The only thing that’s changed in the last 48 hours is the public polling. Mickey Edwards: Oh, brother. What idiot came up with this stunt? It ranks somewhere …
Remember, McCain is the monkey who said he did not share his own economic adviser’s “views” when Phil Gramm’s mouth brought attention to his flaming incompetence and responsibility for the current fiasco. Since McCain’s views can move from one side of his mouth to the other in a matter of minutes, who the fuck knows when a “qualm” will become a “quarrel”??
Ex-president Bush shakes hands with ex-president McCain, who was officially replaced as president today, after a stroke left him with the communication skills of a very bright rutabaga, (a cross between a cabbage and a turnip.) McCain’s wicked shiner was not explained. Excerpts from Mark Crispin Miller: (my emphasis) The choice of Sarah Palin has been widely and repeatedly assailed …
This compilation by the NY Times proves beyond a reasonable doubt that they are in the tank for Obama, as the McCain campaign charged today. Further proof that facts have a liberal bias.
I’m out sitting in the sun reading a book my wife had left on the tub. Anne Lamott‘s Grace (Eventually). I’m just beginning page twenty when my eyes get pulled off the page by a moving blur coming towards me. It’s two dragonflies; they’re stuck together, and by God, they are going to land on me come hell or …
As ye sew, so shall ye reap… A list of what this latest, inevitable crash of Wall Street has cost some of its leading enablers (from yesterday’s NY Times). Surprising how, in the case of former Goldman Sachs CEO Henry Paulson, a $300 million loss to his portfolio would lead him to demand absolute, non-reviewable power to spend $700 billion …
