Here are a few absurd, racist comments from the people at the rallies who McCain is so proud of:

“I’m afraid if he wins, the blacks will take over. He’s not a Christian! This is a Christian nation! What is our country gonna end up like?”

“When you got a negro running for president, you need a first stringer. He’s definitely a second stringer.”

“He seems like a sheep – or a wolf in sheep’s clothing to be honest with you. And I believe Palin – she’s filled with the Holy Spirit, and I believe she’s gonna bring honesty and integrity to the White House.”

“He’s related to a known terrorist, for one.”

“He is friends with a terrorist of this country!”

“He must support terrorists! You know, uh, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck. And that to me is Obama.”

“Just the whole, Muslim thing, and everything, and everybody’s still kinda – a lot of people have forgotten about 9/11, but… I dunno, it’s just kinda… a little unnerving.”

“Obama and his wife, I’m concerned that they could be anti-white. That he might hide that.”

“I don’t like the fact that he thinks us white people are trash… because we’re not!”

Come and join me. I really don’t know what to expect. We probably heard enough of policies already. McCain can’t go any lower than he already had. Obama needs to stay on the positive side, which I think he’ll do well.

Why people in Alaska voted for her and why she is not qualified for VP.

Get an estimate for your tax cut through Obama’s plan.

Jon Stewart mocks McCain’s brand new stump speech. We all heard it before.

DJ Green Lantern drops a mixtape called Yes We Can featuring tracks endorsing Obama.

While Obama gets a world’s biggest supporter, McCain gets a bunch of seriously deranged supporters.

Christopher Hitchens:

Obama is greatly overrated in my opinion, but the Obama-Biden ticket is not a capitulationist one, even if it does accept the support of the surrender faction, and it does show some signs of being able and willing to profit from experience. With McCain, the “experience” is subject to sharply diminishing returns, as is the rest of him, and with Palin the very word itself is a sick joke.

Obama is greatly overrated because McCain runs such a disgrace campaign and Palin is nothing but a joke. McCain and Palin handed me the Obama-Biden ticket after her RNC speech and the downright, dirty lies they played.

Anchorage Daily News:

Sarah Palin’s reaction to the Legislature’s Troopergate report is an embarrassment to Alaskans and the nation.

She claims the report “vindicates” her. She said that the investigation found “no unlawful or unethical activity on my part.”

Her response is either astoundingly ignorant or downright Orwellian.

Autumn is here and nothing sets the mood better than the jazz standard “Autumn Leaves.” I am currently enjoying Sarah Vaugh’s amazing scat rendition followed by Wynton Marsalis’s blazing solo and a wonderful call and response between the two. Still, Cannonball Adderley’s version gets me every time, especially with Miles Davis blowing that gorgeous muted trumpet solo.