Lindsey Graham slipped and said that they wanted to move the debate to next week.  So of course they would have to move the VP debate scheduled for next week.

Everyone needs to stop complaining about McCain's negative ads. The more attention you give to them, the more they produce. Move on and develop your own plan of attack. This is a game.  Focusing on the opponents strategy and not developing and executing your own is a recipe for republicans to be back in the white house, leaving you on the side of the road with skid marks on your face.

McCain has no integrity.  We knew that. He has given a life time of examples to demonstrate this.  Why are we acting surprised when he demonstrates who he really is?

McCain and all of the Rovians are cut from the same cloth.  The Rovians brought it out in him.  He actually liked what they did to him in 2000. He just wished he had thought of it first.

Everyone is thinking for him.  Again, we shouldn't be surprised. This guy finished 5th from the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy.  

This guy has grown accustomed to getting what he wants by berating and intimidating others. He's just doing out in the open, confirming all of the rumors.

Bottom line...there is no depth too deep for McCain to go to add the white house to his list of houses.

The question is...will voters give him the key?

That's what they should have said. Stop playing nice.  Say what it is.  Be direct.  McCain is pulling no punches.  Your bare knuckles won't be enough to withstand the barrage that is coming. You've got to go for the nuts.

In response to his negative campaign, McCain has repeated several times that Obama should have accepted his invitation on the town halls. Meaning, if you don't do want I want, I will spread lies about you.

Sounds like a tantrum to me.

Thank goodness for TPM and other respectable blogs.  For this election cycle, the swift-boaters don't have to do much.  The MSM is doing it for them for free.

Pundits, celebrities, etc, sit in front of cameras repeating McCain and Palin's lies...all unchallenged.  The liberal female pundits all seem to have lost their ovalries and don't have any hormones for taking on Palin.  We all share the same body parts, so "she's one of us," they must be thinking. 

McCain gets slammed on the View about earmarks and abortion.  Not one MSM outlet is running the clip of him saying Roe v Wade was a bad decision and that the judges should interpret the constitution the way it was intended by the old guys. It took Whoopi to make sure that there wouldn't be a return to slavery since that was one of the things the old guys wanted.

Now, we get news the Palin is going on Sean Hannity's show Tuesday.  Give me a break.  This is a set up. She'll either receive or send the questions.  Sean will wet is pants.  Alan might grow some balls. He's been on a roll lately.

The irony of all of the noise about Palin is that it just might be the thing the wins McCain the White House.  Then we're in for another four years of cleaning up the messes of an intellectually blind man.
 
 

The Rovians have launched their all out scatter shot attack on Obama designed to take and keep him off message. It's time for Obama to unleash his own attack dogs and go on offense.

Palin is the perfect stepford candidate, programmed by Karl Rove and protected by screams of sexism and faux outrage when her record is challenge. 

Palin is GOP princess to the McCain toad. She has kissed the cheeks of his campaign and given it new life.

Palin is the perfect kryptonite to keep Obama at bay while the Rovians castrate him with lies. 

Everything McCain mocked about Obama he now calls his own.  McCain has taken Obama's change message and now he has is own celebrity and she's flying high. 

If and when Karl Rove lets Sarah Palin conduct a press conference, it might go something like this. Please join me below:

MSM: What is your experience with foreign policy?
SP: I can almost see the Kremlin from the governor’s mansion. John told me the Pakinstan and Irag shared a border. That Lieberman guys is jewish so I'll ask him about that.

MSM: Why are you now speaking to reporters?  
SP: Well, my "pimps," I mean, advisers Karl and John want me doing 30 fundraisers instead.

MSM: Who is Prime Minister Putin?
SP: Isn't he the minister who interviewed John at the Saddleback Steak House?

MSM: Do you keep up with national and international events?
SP: Why would I do that. I have a big state to run. You know Todd thinks Alaska should be a country.

MSM: Why are you running for VP?
SP: I thought it would look good on my resume.

MSM: What is your position on the conflict between Russia and Georgia.
SP:  I don't think it's fair for a country to pick on one of the lower 48.

MSM: If elected, what will you do on the first day?
SP: Put a desk in the oval office because I don’t want to work in that old gray building.

MSM: You actually fire people who don't agree with you? And...what's wrong with that?

MSM: What do you know about Washington DC?
SP: I know that it’s a part of the lower 48.  We go on vacation in Seattle some times.

MSM: If elected, how will you care for your children?
SP: My mom will take care of them like she does now.

MSM: Did you sell the government jet on eBay?
SP: No, but it sounded good because low information voters will believe anything we say over Obama.

MSM: Do you like Karl Rove?
SP: I wish I had him to help me get out of testifying when I abuse my power. OMG, he already is helping me get out of testifying.

MSM: Do you like Sean Hannity?
SP: He’s great.  Every time you guys tell the truth about me, he tells lies about Obama.  That works really well.

MSM: Don't you think that it's hypocritical to say you told Congress No Thanks to the bridge to nowhere when you supported it and took the money for it?
SP: No, Karl says that's how you do things in the lower 48. He says low information voters don't care about facts.

MSM: Why did you mock community organizers?
SP: Karl said it sounded good.

MSM: Will you have to buy a new wardrobe?
SP: You betcha!  Cindy McCain wares a $300,000 outfit.  If we win, I can't have her dress better than me. I play second fiddle to no one.

MSM: John McCain finished 5th from the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy.  You went to 5 different colleges in 6 years. What does that say about your ability to handle the critical thinking that is required to be VP and president?
SP: Well, Obama went to two colleges and no body is complaining about that. I figured that I would look smart in case I wanted to run for governor.  

MSM: Do you know what the VP does?
SP: No, I just hope it’s a bigger job than being governor. I haven’t seen the job description to know for sure.

MSM: You know the VP is also the president of the Senate.  How will you get the senators to cooperate with you?
SP: Oh, I get to be a president afterall  I really don't want to be a number 2 to anybody. I will tell those senators that I will fire them if they don’t agree with me just like I do in Alaska.

MSM: Why do you think John McCain picked you?
SP: Look at me. Look at him. Look at his crowds. Look at the polls. Kinda obvious don't you think?

MSM: You were once supportive of Obama’s energy policy.  Do you still think he has the best energy policy?
SP: Shhhhhhhhhhhh. Don’t tell John.  I really support Obama. He’s cool. We don’t have a lot of African Americans in Alaska.  We have a lot of Artic Arabs though.

MSM: You are drawing big crowds.  Will you ever campaign alone?
SP: Why would I do that?  John needs me to help him look good.  Without me, John is boring.  He also gets to look at my butt when I speak.  So it’s good for both of us; I get to get my name out there and he gets to have a crowd to talk to. Besides Karl can't be in two places to tell us what to say.

MSM: Last question, what do you say to all of the democrats who voted for Hillary Clinton?
SP: First, I'm glad it's the last questions.  I really haven't study my notes yet.  I hope I did ok.  I would tell the Clinton voters to vote for Obama.  We really don't need all of those women cause I am the queen bee.

We are witnessing the reincarnation of George Bush and Dick Cheney based on McCain's 90% support of Bush policies and Palin's media blackout, take no prisoners management style and disdain for citizens.

John Bush and Sarah Cheney must have very low intelligence, finishing fifth from the bottom at the Navy Academy and enrolling in six schools before graduating, respectively.

They are depending on low-information, uneducated voters to elect them. 

LA Progressive is reporting that Sarah Palin said “So Sambo beat the bitch!” when Obama beat Clinton in the primary.  www.laprogressive.com.

The LA Progressive quoting Alaskans sharing stories about racial comments attributed to Sarah Palin.  If any of it is true, we have got to get the word out.  Here is the link.
http://www.laprogressive.com/

Just ran across article in the LA Progressive about Sarah Palin's accepted references to non-whites in Alaska.  http://www.laprogressive.com/

A few months ago, it was Sarah Palin who suggested the Hillary Clinton was whining about the media scrutiny.  Now the McCain campaign is whining for Palin.  Since when does a VP nominee need to be protected from the media?  Now, that's sexism! If she can't withstand media scrunity about her decisions and behaviors in office, then she should have just said no to John McCain.  With 60 days til the election, McCain cannot expect America to just bend over and look the other way while he visits chaos on the election process.

McCain camp is claiming they fully vetted Palin.  Just curious, why did she say on CNBC in July what exactly does a VP do?  If she was fully vetted and sat for hours of interviews with the vetting team, it would seem that she would ask herself ifshe were unclear.  Asking the question on national television, as a governor, raises serious questions about her aptitude to be VP based on a lack of understanding of the branches of government.

WOW!  A deposition, an unwed pregnant teen, a bridge to nowhere, a 527 and Ted Stevens, and a DWI are now going to fill the airwaves to clearly demonstrate that McCain didn't vet Palin and is therefore unfit to make decisions for the country. 

This is not what McCain and Rove planned to divert attention from Obama's masterpiece. They had hoped Palin would change the subject and energize the GOP. They also hoped that Hurricane Gustuv would help redeem the GOP. 

Instead, McCain and Rove must now deal with the aftermath of their imperfect storm: Hurricane Palin. 

And the real victim is Palin's oldest daughter who now has to live with a scarlet letter because of her mother's blind ambition.  Palin fell short in protecting her children. Now family values and experience are off the table. 

Nothing could have prepared Palin and her family for the national spotlight. The microscope is simply too intense.  

Hopefully, McCain and Rove will create an exit strategy for Palin to gracefully go back to Alaska and tend to her family and her state.  Her 15 minutes in the national spotlight may create a lifetime of pain for her family and her reputation.

Sarah Palin is being played by Karl Rove.  Background: everything that Hillary tried to use against Obama failed: inexperience, bitter-gate, bringing up assassination, Wright, Rezco, Ayers, etc.

With the help of Fox, Limbaugh and some lazy reporters, McCain thought all of that  along with Brittany, Paris, Moses and being a POW would surely bring him down.

But Obama is still standing on the message of change.

Palin is the pawn in the McCain's last-ditch effort to stay relevant.  McCain is screaming, me too! me too!  I am about change. I got a woman on my ticket. 

Change is not about gender nor race. It is about policy. Window dressing in the workplace is a tactic of the 1970s.
Trying to co-op Obama's message of change is shallow if the policies are the same.