Former Reagan chief of staff Ken Duberstein:

I think it has very much undermined the whole question of John McCain’s judgment. You know what most Americans I think realized is that you don’t offer a job, let alone the vice presidency, to a person after one job interview. Even at McDonald’s, you’re interviewed three times before you get a job.

McCain’s poor judgement shows that he is ill-fitted to be president.

I actually enjoy the duet rendition of “Con Duong Tinh Ta Di” from Duc Tuan and Nguyen Thao better Duc Tuan’s solo on his album. Vo Thien Thanh gives the tune a nice touch of bossa nova. Tuan Ngoc’s “Duong Em Di” and “Tinh Cam” are pretty good too.

John Ridley argues that Palin could have been the Republican’s Obama and “Palin 2.0 will be a force to be reckoned with.” Comparing Palin to Obama is an insult. Yeah, I said it. It needs to be said and I am not being sexist either. Let’s just hope that we won’t see Palin 2.0 in the future. In fact, let’s just hope that we won’t see her again after November 4th.

Fox News Business‘s Neil Cavuto rips McCain on his shifting positions:

You rail against big government, yet continue to push cockamamie spending plans that make a mockery of it. That’s why you’re losing right now, Senator McCain. Not because you don’t have the courage of your convictions. But because on economic matters, you have no convictions.

Here is a perfect example of rewarding the rich and penalizing the poor under Bush-McCain tax plan:

Bajillionaire Warren Buffett has argued that he isn’t being asked to pay his share. He went around his office, asking people what share of their income they pay in income taxes. Buffett’s 17.7 percent tax rate compared a bit too favorably with the 30 percent tax rate paid by his secretary.

Black Sheep’s Dres revived his classic joint to support Obama: You can get with this or you can get with that. The video is quite creative as well.

Hendrik Hertzberg breaks down how Obama got a bargain deal on his half-hour infomercial:

Obama’s half hour was the equivalent of sixty thirty-second commercials. The average price of a thirty-second prime-time ad on NBC is $102,928. On CBS it’s $116,729. Therefore, to buy a half hour in thirty-second increments—the usual procedure, at which no one bats an eye—on both networks would cost…let’s see…$13,179,420.

New Hampshire Republican, Fred Bramante, drops McCain and backs Obama on education:

Bramante, a member of the state Board of Education, said he opposes McCain’s support of school vouchers, which he said politicians must abandon if they want to improve education.

Bramante said he’s concluded that McCain would do little to improve education, while Obama supports new and innovative ideas.

I like Obama’s logo next to Daring Fireball. Very subtle but gives the site a nice touch.

Take a minute to read this well-written endorsement from the Economist:

[T]he Candidate McCain of the past six months has too often seemed the victim of political sorcery, his good features magically inverted, his bad ones exaggerated. The fiscal conservative who once tackled Mr Bush over his unaffordable tax cuts now proposes not just to keep the cuts, but to deepen them. The man who denounced the religious right as “agents of intolerance” now embraces theocratic culture warriors. The campaigner against ethanol subsidies (who had a better record on global warming than most Democrats) came out in favour of a petrol-tax holiday. It has not all disappeared: his support for free trade has never wavered. Yet rather than heading towards the centre after he won the nomination, Mr McCain moved to the right.

Will the real McCain please stand up? Looks like the real McCain is beaten by the evil one.