Palin already gives up on this campaign and talks openly about her next move for 2012. McCain aide is speechless and McCain is screwed. Poor old guy who has worked so hard to get to this point and lose it all by a beauty queen. It’s a damn shame.
I have to give credit where the credit is due. Shep Smith calls out Joe The Plumber for saying a vote for Obama would mean “death to Israel.”
Remember Obama said he has the last punch? Here’s one:
Lately he’s called me a socialist for wanting to roll back the bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans so we can give some tax relief to the middle class. I don’t know what’s next. By next week he’ll be calling me a secret communist because I shared my toys in kindergarten. I shared my peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Web design duoh, Veerle Pieters and Geert Leyseele, launched their new lovely business site.
A heartfelt clip from a man who gets to meet Obama.
A few readers have pointed me to an eighty-two-year-old political blogger, Helen Philpot, and haven’t have a moment to read it until now. She has some good points:
I started out in this election supporting Hillary Clinton because I believed our country needed a women’s point of view in the Oval Office. I truly believe that women approach education, war, healthcare, the environment, poverty, etc. differently. Of course then I met Sarah Palin and realized that some women are just bitches who only want to change their wardrobe and your religious freedoms.
Andy, a junior high school soccer buddy of mine, is a jazz musician. I once asked him something about his future and his answer was “to become a jazz musician.” I had no idea what jazz was at that age and I had no clue what I wanted to do with my life at that point, but he had already decided on his dream job. It looks like he has indeed followed his dream.
Some nice jazz tunes for trick or treat including Philly Joe Jones’s “Blues for Dracula,” Nina Simone’s “I Put a Spell on You” and Wayne Shorter’s “Witch Hunt.”
AP:
Vietnam is considering a ban on small-chested people driving motorbikes – a proposal that has provoked widespread disbelief, all the more in this nation of slightly built people.
Is this a sexist joke?
The larger point, though, is that if I’m not voting for McCain — and, after a long struggle, I’ve realized that I can’t — maybe it’s worth explaining why, for I suspect there are other independent voters who feel the same. Particularly because it’s not his campaign, disjointed though that has been, that finally repulses me: It’s his rapidly deteriorating, increasingly anti-intellectual, no longer even recognizably conservative Republican Party. His problems are not technical; they do not have to do with ads, fundraising or tactics, as some have suggested. They are institutional; they have to do with his colleagues, advisers and supporters.