Date:  August 29, 2008
To:  Senator John McCain
From:  sales@sp64.com
Subject:  Model SP-64

Congratulations!  You are now the proud owner of the world's most technologically-advanced female robot, Model SP-64.  I know you will be pleased with her performance.  However, if for any reason she should malfunction in any way, please don't hesitate to contact our customer service representatives at service@sp64.com.

Date:  September 4, 2008
To:  sales@sp64.com
From:  Cindy McCain on behalf of John McCain
Subject:  Re:Model SP-64

My friends, I am indeed very pleased with the SP-64's performance.  The oratory skills and overall appearance exceeded my expectations.  Acceptance Speech mode works perfectly, with no deviations, no matter how often I play it.  I look forward to the upload of the model's talking points and feel assured that the process will go smoothly.  Thank you and may God bless you,

John McCain

Date:  September 24, 2008
To:  service@sp64.com
From:  Cindy McCain on behalf of John McCain
Subject:  Model SP-64 -- ASSISTANCE REQUIRED!!  NOW, DAMMIT!!
Sent with high importance

What the hell is wrong with this piece of crap robot you sold me??  The upload went completely wrong and now the [expletive] thing spouts out nothing but goddamned worthless crap!  It's like her wires got crossed or something.  You ask her a question and all these words start pouring out of her mouth and try as you might, you can't string any of them together to form one grammatically correct or freaking meaningful sentence!!  It started on September 12, during an interview.  That's when I first saw hints of a malfunction.  Certain statements would be duplicated, by mistake.  Like a skip in an LP record.  Ever since then, it's just been getting worse.  WTF is wrong with this thing?  I want a respone NOW!

Date:  September 24, 2008
To:  Senator John McCain
From:  service@sp64.com
Subject:  Re:Model SP-64 -- ASSISTANCE REQUIRED!!  NOW, DAMMIT!!
Attachment:  SP64_Instruction_Guide.pdf (10k)

Please accept our sincere apologies for the inconvenience.  It appears your Model SP-64 needs to be reset, and you will need to upload the files to her memory again.

Please refer to our instruction guide, attached.

Date:  September 24, 2008
To:  service@sp64.com
From:  Cindy McCain on behalf of John McCain
Subject:  Re:Re:Model SP-64 -- ASSISTANCE REQUIRED!!  NOW, DAMMIT!!

We don't know how to open the attachment.  Please advise.

How do you like McCain now?

How do you feel about him now that he’s squandered what little bit of credibility he had left after we all discovered just how truly unqualified and unfit his choice of VP is? How can you support him now that he’s "suspended" his campaign in name only and has flown into Washington to "save the day" with nothing more than a photo-op? How do you like him now that he’s still planning to postpone his first debate with Obama, pushing it off to a future date that previously was reserved for Sarah Palin’s debate with Joe Biden, thereby pushing her debate off to some future, unknown date that may or may not occur before Election Day?

How do you like your candidate now?

I really want to know. I really want to hear you justify your decision to support this idiot in November. Feel free to call me at home when you read this, and let’s have a nice, long chat.

Love, Lis

xoxo

Here's my top links for the day, from other sites.

This one covers the frustration and anger that many Alaskans are now going through, thanks to the McCain Campaign's taking over Sarah's Governor's office:

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-troopergate21-2008sep21,0,829160.story

"Why did the McCain campaign take over the governor's office?" the Anchorage Daily News demanded in an editorial Saturday. "Is it too much to ask that Alaska's governor speak for herself, directly to Alaskans, about her actions as Alaska's governor?"

The partisan spillover of the presidential campaign into the statehouse, political analysts here say, now threatens Palin's most powerful political capital in Alaska: her commitment to transparency, her willingness to forge bipartisan alliances with Democrats to advance her legislative agenda, and her battle to upend the good ol' boy network.

This is an eloquently-written narrative on the Dem Convention in Denver.  I found it extremely touching because I share a lot of the author's feelings regarding Obama, only I could never express them in writing like this:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21830

And today's dailykos poll shows us that old, white southerners like McCain, but no one else does:

http://www.dailykos.com/dailypoll/2008/09/21