Russell Brand:

The best safe sex message of all time: Use a condom or become a Republican.

Mike:

It’s an old expression, and I’m going to have to cut Obama some slack on that one. I do not think he was referring to Sarah Palin; he didn’t reference her.

CBS pulled a recent McCain’s webad, which attacks Obama regarding to his lipstick-on-a-pig comment, because a CBS anchor Katie Couric was quoted saying, “One of the great lessons of that campaign is the continued and accepted role of sexism in American life.” The problem is that the clip was referring to Hillary Clinton, not Sarah Palin. Damn McShame!

If Palin becomes president is like “a really bad Disney movie.”

Josh Marshall on McCain’s campaign:

[L]et’s face it, John McCain is running a campaign almost entirely based on straight up lies. Not just exaggerations or half truths but the sort of straight up, up-is-down mind-blowers we’ve become so accustomed to from the current occupants of the White House…. John McCain is running the sleaziest, most dishonest and race-baiting campaign of our lifetimes. So let’s stopped being shocked and awed by every new example of it. It is undignified.

A great post by Andrew Sullivan on “McCain’s Integrity“:

So far, he has let us all down. My guess is he will continue to do so. And that decision, for my part, ends whatever respect I once had for him. On core moral issues, where this man knew what the right thing was, and had to pick between good and evil, he chose evil. When he knew that George W. Bush’s war in Iraq was a fiasco and catastrophe, and before Donald Rumsfeld quit, McCain endorsed George W. Bush against his fellow Vietnam vet, John Kerry in 2004. By that decision, McCain lost any credibility that he can ever put country first. He put party first and his own career first ahead of what he knew was best for the country.

By now you probably could tell that I am rooting for Obama. I was going to wait until the debates to make up my mind, but I simply have enough of the little games McShame and his McMILF are playing. I am sick of all the lies, hypocrisies and the mean attacks they have put on to get the votes. Most important of all, McMILF’s evil speech is still creeping me out. Although she is running for VP, you’ll never know. You’ll better pray for McCain’s health if he’ll get elected. I can’t even begin to imagine her in power. And no, I am not a misogynist. I would back Clinton any time.

As for Obama, I like the way he stays focused even though McCain tried to make some distractions with the lipstick and the sex education. Now that is the president we need.

When McCain used the line, “you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig,” on Clinton’s health care plan, it was fine. When Obama used the same line applying toward McCain’s political policies, it’s offensive and disgraceful to Palin. Damn, these people sure knows how to smear words.

McCain’s new ad, which attacks Obama on kindergarten’s sex education, is unbelievably despicable. It amazes me how someone could reach that low to win an election.

Update: Here is a fact check from Margaret Talev:

[T]he legislation allowed local school boards to teach “age-appropriate” sex education, not comprehensive lessons to kindergartners, and it gave schools the ability to warn young children about inappropriate touching and sexual predators.

McCain must not want to teach kids to be cautious of sexual predators.

Time‘s Michael Kinsley:

Of the 50 states, Alaska ranks No. 1 in taxes per resident and No. 1 in spending per resident. Its tax burden per resident is 21/2 times the national average; its spending, more than double. The trick is that Alaska’s government spends money on its own citizens and taxes the rest of us to pay for it. Although Palin, like McCain, talks about liberating ourselves from dependence on foreign oil, there is no evidence that being dependent on Alaskan oil would be any more pleasant to the pocketbook.