McCAIN: “I don’t even have a Seal.”

McCain “demonstrated a greater command”?! What debate were you watching?
Will somebody give McCain a frakkin’ “seal” so he can move the debate into the realm of adult dialogue? And will the person(s) advising McCreep who laugh everytime he says “I didn’t get voted Miss Congeniality, you know” please have your lips sown shut?

Oh. Just. Shoot. Me.

This controlling the narrative stuff by the McInsane campaign is really getting out of hand. Don’t they have anything better to do than exploit these kids for their sorry ass political advantage? From The Sunday Times September 28, 2008 McCain camp prays for Palin wedding The marriage of the vice-presidential candidate’s pregnant teenage daughter could lift a flagging campaign. In …

My Daily Dose Of Cognitive Dissonance

From ThinkProgess: McCain never showed up at Capitol Hill for bailout negotiations today. After declaring he’d return to Washington to help with the bailout negotiations immediately after last night’s debate, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) never went to Capitol Hill today. In fact, McCain stayed largely holed up in his Arlington apartment, leaving only to go to his campaign headquarters just …

Bailout: Putting Lipstick On A Pig In A Poke

The way to feed rabbits is to feed hay to horses. A lovely little adage better known as trickle down economics. Unfortunately, it also describes even the modified bailout plan promoted by congressional Democrats, a plan that has no guarantee of ever working nor limits on the eventual cost. Instead of a top down approach,  a bottom up strategy that …

Take De Bait

The first challenge for John McCain is, of course, to take de bait— show up. But declaring yourself the winner before the event isn’t going to gitter done, even in McCain’s maverick version of the universe. What you’ll see tonight, is good ole “Gramps McCain,” creepy smiling, blinking too much, that “left eye” thing, and saying “My friends” just enough …

First They Sell You The Disease, Then They Sell You The Cure

Wall Street Closing In On $700 Billion Bailout Booty Inspired by the scene from the movie Blazing Saddles where the Johnson brothers point their guns at the black Sherriff Bart, who then holds his gun up to his own head and threatens ”Hold it! Next man makes a move, the nigger gets it, ” former Goldman Sachs CEO Henry Paulson …

Dispatches From The Religious Left

Shai Sachs: Dispatches from the Religious Left will be released in about a week, on Oct. 1, 2008.  The book, edited by Frederick Clarkson, contains a wide variety of thoughtful essays on what the Religious Left is and how it should move forward, including a brief chapter on new media that my wife and I co-write.  If you happen to …