In a telling sign that the McCain campaign's recent attacks on the character of Barack Obama and the overall 'terrorization' of the democratic nominee is working to plan, McCain himself was attacked for admitting that he had consorted with the presidential hopeful.

During an evening rally last night McCain began touting his bi-partisanship and recalled a time when he "reached across the aisle" to collaborate with his rival Barack Obama. But before McCain could finish his tale of Washington done right, his stage was rushed by a large group of overweight blond women and white men shouting such epitaphs as terrorist-sympathizer, traitor, Muslim, Arab, and ni**** lover. Even Cindy McCain was seen kicking her husband in the gut with a $5,000 stiletto.

Once McCain's secret service finally wrestled away the bulk of the assailants and after a few harrowing minutes between McCain and his personal defibrillator, the republican nominee was able to compose himself enough to thank the crowd for putting country first, while at the same time rebuke them for woefully misplacing their hate. "My friends, I am just like you," McCain insisted while bending down, rolling up his sleeve and holding his forearm in parallel to the unconscious blond mulletted man cluttering the stage. "I am of the same skin -um...I am fundamentally the same as you. The enemy is the other one," he continued, "I am just a Joe-the-six-pack like you," he insisted while pointing behind him at the life-sized card-board cutout of a smiling, winking McCain holding a six-pack in one hand and making the thumbs up sign with the other. The crowd grumbled somewhat reassuredly, most likely not completely convinced because in the cut-out McCain was holding a six-back of Tsingtao.

After the rally, during a brief news conference, McCain derided his rival: "If Barack Obama would have simply agreed to the 536 town-hall meetings I suggested, all of this uglyness could have been avoided."

As kos glowingly points out, Prop 8 is finally catching on. It had been looking like a no-go for some time thanks to those fags in San Francisco and their Nazi propaganda. But it's starting to look like the more level-headed Californians are finally seeing things for what they are and have accepted that marriage needs to be between a man and a woman only.

Now with Prop 8 picking up ground, I say we stick in an add-on amendment (they can do that, right?). We can call it Prop 8.5 and it will just further strengthen the institution of marriage. Prop 8.5 will change the California constitution to show that marriage should be not only between a man and a woman, but between a man and a women of the same race.

If you read the bible as I do, and you read the same version as I do, it's plain to see that God intended marriage to be between a man and woman of the same race only. It is especially important to further sanctify the bond of marriage thusly in light of the upcoming elections and the problems that could arise if Barack Hussein Ayers Obama (God-forbid - though at least he's straight (or is he?)) becomes president.

And if for some reason the homo-loving P.C. wags in the California congress don't add Prop. 8.5 to the ballot, I plan to pencil it in myself and so should you. If we all make our will - God's will - known, they'll have no choice but to cave to the righteous. Individually we may be weak, but together, in numbers, and with anger we're strong. Kind of like a mob.

Ok, so he's not really a friend, more like an acquaintance (and I'm white if that matters to anyone). But anyway we were talking about something and he mentions a show he was watching so I segue to the last debate (which he missed) and mention what a bastard McCain is.

"You think so," he tells me in a surprised way, which is when I find out he's still undecided. I suppose it's naive of me, but I can't help but assume that the intelligent, cool people I know (or are acquainted with) are democrats, or at least, as tired of the Bush and Friends bullshit we've had to deal with over the last 8 years as I am. And I suppose the fact that he was black may have had something to do with the degree of my assumption (though I do assume this of my white acquaintances as well).

He starts in with the spoon-fed crap about experience and Obama's flip-flopping (when the fuck did reevaluation and mind-changing become such a bad thing?), but the point that I thought was really interesting came out a little later in our conversation.

He said he was worried how bad tings are with the economy and with the country in general being so deeply buried in the steaming shit Bush has been shoveling on us for 8 years (not his exact words ;). He's worried that if Obama wins and subsequently is unable to dig us out sufficiently, and things just continue to get worse, as they may regardless of who's in office at this point, that Obama may be seen as a failure and people will say (or think): well there you go, that's what happens when you let a black guy run things.

Of course, that's a pathetically bad reason not to vote for Obama, but I thought it was an interesting point nonetheless.

I've got a pretty intense distaste for those potential voters who have yet to make up their minds. Unless you're completely isolated from all forms of media and information dispersal in general, you should have made a decision by now. But that's a side-rant, here's the main rant:

Compare the CBS snap poll of 'undecided' voters from the first debate to the CBS poll from tonight's debate.

Who won:   Obama   McCain  M.O.V.  Draw

debate 1       39            25         +14       36

debate 2       39            27         +12       34

It's essentially the same. But it sure looked to me that Obama did much better and McCain did much worse in this debate, and this sentiment is backed-up by the CNN poll of all watchers (Obama debate 1: +13; Obama debate 2: +24).

This leads me to conclude that about 65% of these 'undecided' voters that CBS is polling are, in fact, decided, while the other 35% or so are the kind of fucking idiots who buy whatever the last ad they saw told them to and believe whatever the last pundit they heard tells them is true. These 35% will likely just pick whichever name comes first on their ballots.