It's Official: Palin Ignores Sunday Talk Shows

In this day of media coverage and politics, it is shocking, albeit, expected, that Sarah Palin has avoided being interviewed. She couldn't put back to back coherent sentences together to save her life, so I know why she's doing this.

The Republicans must be so proud to have such a puppet as VP.

"This Sunday, November 2, is the final Sunday before Tuesday's highly anticipated presidential election. Gov. Sarah Palin has thus far opted not to participate in what has become a campaign ritual: Interviews on the various Sunday talk show programs.

Well, all of the major Sunday talk shows -- NBC's "Meet the Press," CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer," Fox's "Fox News Sunday," ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" and CBS's "Face the Nation" -- have now announced their weekend lineups and none were able to land an interview with the Alaska governor, just days before the election.

It should be noted: The last vice presidential candidate to avoid NBC's "Meet the Press" -- long a ratings and gravitas champ among its competitors -- was...Dan Quayle."

Wait until after she losses on Tuesday to see what kind of media whore she turns into. She'll throw Grandpa McSame under any bus she can.
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Source: Mediabistro

McCain And Cheney Out Of The Closet

A vote for McCain may be a vote for Bush, but really it's a third Cheney term we are trying to avoid. With Cheney leaving his crypt after weeks of hiding to give McCain his blessing with his blood brother endorsement, Barack connects the dots between McCain, Cheney, Bush and the spectacular failure the last 8 years has taught us:

"I'd like to congratulate Senator McCain on this endorsement because he really earned it. That endorsement didn't come easy. Senator McCain had to vote 90 percent of the time with George Bush and Dick Cheney to get it. He served as Washington's biggest cheerleader for going to war in Iraq, and supports economic policies that are no different from the last eight years. So Senator McCain worked hard to get Dick Cheney's support.

"But here's my question for you, Colorado: do you think Dick Cheney is delighted to support John McCain because he thinks John McCain's going to bring change? Do you think John McCain and Dick Cheney have been talking about how to shake things up, and get rid of the lobbyists and the old boys club in Washington?

"Colorado, we know better. After all, it was just a few days ago that Senator McCain said that he and President Bush share a 'common philosophy.' And we know that when it comes to foreign policy, John McCain and Dick Cheney share a common philosophy that thinks that empty bluster from Washington will fix all of our problems, and a war without end in Iraq is the way to defeat Osama bin Laden and the al Qaeda terrorists who are in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

"So George Bush may be in an undisclosed location, but Dick Cheney's out there on the campaign trail because he'd be delighted to pass the baton to John McCain. He knows that with John McCain you get a twofer: George Bush's economic policy and Dick Cheney's foreign policy -- but that's a risk we cannot afford to take."

Source: Time

Biden: McCain Is Disappointing

Biden my be hidin', but he always has his boy Barack's back.

“In my view, over the last few weeks, John McCain’s campaign has gone way over the top,” said Biden Saturday at an outdoor rally on Evansville’s Main Street. “They are trying to take the low road to the highest office in the land. It’s not only George Bush’s economic policies that John McCain has bought hook, line and sinker. He’s also bought Karl Rove’s brand of political tactics.”

“It is disappointing, I never thought I’d see this from a McCain campaign,” Biden continued. “They’re calling Barack Obama every name in the book. They are going out in a way that I don’t recall it being more personally vicious.”

As with Bush, the one thing you can count on with McCain is that he will always do the wrong thing. You have 2 options, McCain will always opt for the easier, meaner, dickish option and then play it off that it took courage.

Source: CNN

Ohio Poll: Thanks Joe

McCain's Joe The Fraud Zionist Plumber caricature is from Ohio. Seems to be resonating quite well.

Wilco On Stephen Colbert

Wilco on Stephen Colbert last night performing the exclusive "Wilco The Song". Even throws "Colbert" into the 2nd chorus.

Today's Gallup

Gallup, October 31, 2008. Looks at the trends.

No matter how you slice it, Obama is our President and McCain is toast. That would be a good costume for McCain, a piece of burnt, bitter, race baiting toast.

Happy Halloween

Obama's "Rearview Mirror" Ad

Halloween is scary, so is this commercial. Look behind McCain and who do you see?

Et Tu, Cavuto?

Fox's Neil Cavuto gives the Straight Talk Express a dress down. I can only imagine the tantrum Grandpa threw when he heard this.

Cavuto complained that, point after point, McCain’s “positions are always changing” and asked, “What’s the deal with the Straight Talk Express?” Summing it up with:

"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."

Golf clap for Fox with 4 days left noticing McCain's shitty campaign.

A Halloween PSA; She's Lame Enough

A useful PSA.

Classic Halloween Prank Backfire

FAIL.


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The Daily Show: Goin' Rogue

"the septic tank has overflowed!"

Tito the Builder?



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Separated At Birth

Republicans and their bald, well-placed hacks: male escort Jeff Gannon and unlicensed, unregistered Joe the Plumber.

Palin's Joe Six Pack

Joe Six Pack could be a gym rat with flat abs and a sixpack stomach, or he could be a sub-par goober, cheap beer drinking Palin voter like this guy:

The Magical Mystery Chord

Beatle fans' wag of the finger. An extra note?

"The opening chord to "A Hard Day's Night" is famous because for 40 years, no one quite knew exactly what chord George Harrison was playing. Musicians, scholars and amateur guitar players alike had all come up with their own theories, but it took a Dalhousie mathematician to figure out the exact formula. Dr. Brown used Fourier transforms to find the notes in the chord, and deduced that another George — George Martin, the Beatles producer — also played on the chord, adding a piano chord that included an F note impossible to play with the other notes on the guitar."

Source: Slashdot

Palin's Medical records?

Where are the medical records Sarah Palin promised?

The baby drama continues......

Stepen Colbert Endorses* Obama

Stephen Colbert cleverly endorses Obama, but does not support him.

He uses the Republicans' relationship with the Constitution as an example. They endorse it, but do their best to shred it.

Seed Magazine: Science Endorses Obama

Pop-science Seed Magazine endorses Obama.

"Sen. Obama's embrace of transparency and evidence-based decision-making, his intelligence and curiosity echo this new way of looking at the world. And that is what we should be weighing in the voting booth. For his positions and, even more, for his way of coming to them, we endorse Barack Obama for President of the United States."

Building their endorsement:

"Far more important is this: Science is a way of governing, not just something to be governed. Science offers a methodology and philosophy rooted in evidence, kept in check by persistent inquiry, and bounded by the constraints of a self-critical and rigorous method. Science is a lens through which we can and should visualize and solve complex problems, organize government and multilateral bodies, establish international alliances, inspire national pride, restore positive feelings about America around the globe, embolden democracy, and ultimately, lead the world. More than anything, what this lens offers the next administration is a limitless capacity to handle all that comes its way, no matter how complex or unanticipated."

Took Bush to task:

"President Bush dismissed this potential, turned the very act of defying science into an art, and in so doing diminished US competitiveness and disenfranchised the country's source of innovation. His administration not only disregarded evidence time and time again but also rejected and debased the very enterprise that offered that evidence."

Bush and Republicans ideologues have torched intellect in their decades old class warfare while Sen. Obama's pledged stance on science resonates with me. The lunatics have run the asylum for 8 years, those dark days are over.

Source: Seed Magazine

McCain Needs Cartoons To Understand World Issues

The Washington Monthly's Steve Benen on George Will's "un-love fest" for John McCain:

And today, Will labeled McCain "John the Careless," citing among other things, McCain picking Sarah Palin for the GOP ticket because he seemed to believe "never having attended a 'Georgetown cocktail party' is sufficient qualification for the vice presidency."

The column is worth reading, but this is the paragraph that stood out for me:

Palin may be an inveterate simplifier; McCain has a history of reducing controversies to cartoons. A Republican financial expert recalls attending a dinner with McCain for the purpose of discussing with him domestic and international financial complexities that clearly did not fascinate the senator. As the dinner ended, McCain's question for his briefer was: "So, who is the villain?"

This is amusing, but it's also important. McCain's appreciation for policy complexities doesn't exist. Maybe he's impatient, maybe he's easily confused, maybe both. But McCain not only prefers to see the world as black and white, good guy vs. bad guy, he needs this dynamic to make sense of current events. Subtleties, nuances, and depth are inconvenient, and therefore dismissed.

He's Grandpa, what do you expect? But Benen takes it further, breaking down why an out-of-touch, old man without intellectual seriousness is dangerous:

"There are three key angles to this. First, it's about the single worst quality a president can have, especially in a time of crisis.

Second, it helps explain why McCain's attacks against Obama have been almost entirely personal. Obama, as far as McCain is concerned, "is the villain." He doesn't deserve respect; he deserves, McCain seems to believe, to be destroyed.

And third, McCain's style is so similar to Bush's worldview, it's frightening. The only key difference is Bush, who famously boasted that he doesn't "do nuance," generally approached politics with a genial attitude. McCain likes to "reduce controversies to cartoons," but with angry and erratic temperament."

Too bad George "I'll Carry The Water" Will didn't say this 6-8 years ago when it obvious, yet unpopular, to blast a fellow conservative.

Source: The Washington Monthly

76 American Nobel Prize Winners Endorse Obama

In a strongly worded letter, 76 of the most distinguished scientists in the country endorsed Barack Obama for president.

"During the administration of George W. Bush, vital parts of our country's scientific enterprise have been damaged by stagnant or declining federal support. The government's scientific advisory process has been distorted by political considerations. As a result, our once dominant position in the scientific world has been shaken and our prosperity has been placed at risk. We have lost time critical for the development of new ways to provide energy, treat disease, reverse climate change, strengthen our security, and improve our economy."

McCain has a racist hick plumber who's pet cause is Isreal[?] and Obama has Science, et al.

The Bush administration's disdain for science is over.

Source: SALON

Campbell Brown Rips Dole's "Godless" Ad: Reclaim Your Dignity

The Mighty have fallen. Libby Dole joins the ranks of Republicans losers who make horrible attack ads to try to win votes off the their constituencies by invoking fear.

via Campbell Brown on CNN:

"The information in this ad is so ridiculously misleading, and yet Senator Dole is standing by it and continuing to raise questions about Hagan's so-called godlessness on the campaign trail," Brown said. "Is this really what it has come down to? We are fighting two wars, our economy is a disaster, and Senator Dole's message to voters is to falsely accuse her opponent of not believing in God?"

Closing with:

"Reclaim your dignity!"

Source: HuffPO

Satire: 23/6 Hacked By Ashley Todd Supporter

Hacked by Ashley Todd! Too funny. 23/6 pokes fun at Grandpa and his cronies.



Source: 23/6

Woman Paints Lawn

Someone kept stealing her Obama yard sign. "I just wanted to be able to say who I support, without being censored, which is how I felt when my sign was taken," said Shannon Bennett of Austin, TX.

Charles Meets Barack

Charles. Born in 1922. Remembers FDR. Seen it all. Volunteers in Colorado. Gets to meet Barack. Priceless.

The United States is Charles.



h/t to Oliver Willis

A Wee Bit Embarrassing

The front page of The Arizona Republic:

"Obama neck and neck with McCain in Arizona."

McCain will probably win, but throwing ad dollars and resources to defend your homestate is a sign.

"Sen. John McCain's once-comfortable lead in Arizona has all but evaporated, according to a new poll that has the underdog Republican presidential candidate struggling in his own backyard."

Source: The Arizona Republic

A Pragmatic Defense Of Punitive Taxation

An Andrew Sullivan reader wrote in to his blog"

"I think there is a prudential reason for maintaining a progressive tax system (and we certainly can argue about "how" progressive it should be): namely, that if you believe, as I do, that the U.S. is best served by maintaining a capitalist system and a free market, we have to accept that one of the natural consequences of such a system is the accumulation of wealth in the hands of fewer and fewer people.

Regardless of whether these fewer and fewer deserve the money they accumulate or are unfairly being punished by progressive taxation, the political consequence of such an accumulation of wealth is radicalism - a majority that uses its political power to destroy the system rather than simply to modify it.

In other words, progressive taxation is required to maintain the political viability of a free market."

Sullivan adds:

"Conservatism is not an ideology. It's a disposition. And sometimes it takes what Oakeshott called "trimming" to keep the ship afloat. Moderation matters. In some ways, I see Obama as a return to moderation in American politics. And it's conservatives who have become ideologues who cannot accept it."

And for good measure, references a classic:

"Aristotle's advice that polities should be concerned about the strength of the middle class, and that no democracy can long endure without one, is well worth absorbing."

Source: Andrew Sullivan

"His Choice?"

New Obama ad. No voice over, just a flow of McCain statements, detailing his lack of knowledge about the economy. Ends with the script, "I might have to rely on a vice president that I select' for expertise on economic issues.". Cut to "His Choice?" and a winkin' Palin.

The ad is a two-fer: it reminds viewers that McCain, by his own admission, doesn't know a thing about the economy, and almost as importantly, tells viewers that McCain will rely on Sarah Palin for economic advice.

Generation We

The largest new demographic is "Generation We", bigger than "boomers". And they are old enough to vote now. Very uplifting stuff. Progressives are the future.

Olbermann: Sarah Palin Is A Socialist

Double talking Palin slammed by Keith in his Special Comment. Palin is the same person who gave out $1200 checks in Alaska by socializing the oil resources.

"You Governor, are a fraud!"

McCain's Strength

McCain's strongest States: Utah, Idaho, Oklahoma, and Alabama.

Shitholes where you make $25,000 between 3 jobs with no benefits, your farming industries are subsidized, your aging classes depend 100% on Social Security, there's about 100 people in your town and the only decent aspect in your rundown backwater are Federal buildings like the Post Office, the Library and the Police Station. You need the Government more than anyone.

Yet, like a kid with his hand in a fire getting burned, you proudly vote Republican as if your Army buddies backdoor drafts, your shrinking civil liberties, your War bankrolled by IOUs to Communist China, your kids futures' destroyed by budget deficits and all the Founding Fathers' ideals you espouse are not being laughed at by Bush and McCain as they count on your uncontested blind faith, racism and anti-intellect for votes. Get 'er done, you hayseed.

Let's admit it, any place with a decent population, a diverse community, a bit of commerce, some international exposure and clue about the future are for Obama.

McCain's Own Advisor Admits Their Health Care Plan Sucks

Matthew Yglesias points out how truth is hard to hold back. The McCain campaign is now undermining its own proposal.

"Doug Holtz-Eakin [McCain's senior economic policy adviser] explains why McCain’s plan won’t cause young and healthy workers to drop out of group plans:

Younger, healthier workers likely wouldn’t abandon their company-sponsored plans, said Holtz-Eakin,

“Why would they leave?” said Holtz-Eakin. “What they are getting from their employer is way better than what they could get with the credit.”

In other words, John McCain is promising to make your health care worse! Ooops!

I’m actually not sure if this is a “Kinsley gaffe” (where you accidentally tell the truth) or an effort at spin so desperate that he wound up pleading to an even worse offense than McCain was accused of. The individual market for health insurance really does suck."

Source: Matthew Yglesias

Why would I want to take inadequate credits that the McCain campaign now concedes are worse than the status quo?

As Ezra Klein points out: McCain wants to "discourage employers from providing the "way better" healthcare, precisely so workers would take McCain's credit onto the open market. "Why would they leave?" Holtz-Eakin asks. Because McCain wants them to."

McCain wants to break the system that people like and push Americans away from their "way better" healthcare, plain and simple. It ties into the "ownership society" that social conservatives push, the colossal failure that Bush tried.

Conversely, Obama wants to build on and improve the work-based system that people like. Over 160 million people, that's 160,000,000, get healthcare through work. We can't afford to let McCain bring his "deregulation" and anti-government rhetoric into our lives.

The Palin-McCain Conflict

Preach on Brother Andrew Sullivan:

"I think it's now fair to say it's a war. My view is that after the McCain peeps had made that crazy decision and realized after the fact what they had on their hands, they put their best face on it. They knew that the normal rules for a veep - a press conference, full media accessibility, airing of all the biographical details - would have required the candidate to quit before November. So they tried to shield her from actual democracy - a dangerous decision for the rest of us, but a rational, cynical decision for a campaign running a delusional liar as the potential next president of the US. Palin of course, lives in her own little, somewhat nutty, world and now believes her manifest destiny has been thwarted.

It's a massive, unmissable clusterfuck and has been for two months. They just can't hide it any longer. And the pick is a devastating one - because it basically destroys John McCain's credibility as a presidential decision-maker. His first major decision as a future president is one of the worst in American political history. That alone should be enough to seal his fate next Tuesday. You need nothing else."

Source: Andrew Sullivan

McCain '64 Car Crash

Nothing like being on the defense in your last 7 days. McCain's week has gone from bad to worse to shit storm. What's after shit storm?

"Vanity Fair magazine and the National Security News Service claim to have knowledge "developed from first-hand sources" of a car crash that involved then-Lt. McCain at the main gate of a Virginia naval base in 1964, according to legal filings. The incident has been largely, if not entirely, kept from the public. And in documents suing the Navy to release pertinent information, lawyers for the NS News Service allege that a cover-up may be at play."

Graduating at the bottom of his Navy class, a cover-up for killing someone on a Navy base, getting shot down 5 times in the Navy. See a trend yet? Maybe a true blue blood elitist with no talent and a father and grandfather who are Navy Admirals can skirt the rules.

Source: HuffPo

The Stevens Problem: Pallin' Around With Felons

McCain and Palin are running against old Washington. Stevens is literally old, 84, and represents the archetypal corrupt inner beltway politician. Fittingly, he's the Senate’s longest-serving Republican.

"On Tuesday morning, John McCain called for Sen. Ted Stevens to step down after the Alaska lawmaker was found guilty on seven counts of corruption charges, while a campaign aide suggested on television that Sarah Palin would not vote for the embattled legislator in his tight reelection race."

Will McCain suspend his campaign, again, to get Stevens out? Will the old coot just deny the facts and run in Alaska as if nothing happened?

If it's the GOP, predict the worst.

NOTE: As a convicted felon, Stevens cannot vote for himself.

Source: HuffPo

Frum: Rush's Blueprint For Irrelevance

Uber-Conservative David Frum on why Republicans are screwed and how Right Wing cheerleaders like Rush Limbaugh and Tony Blankley are "feeding [their] audience pleasing illusions that can only lead conservatives to even greater troubles in the days ahead."

Frum goes on to mock Limbaugh's "blueprint" for success, one that Rush thinks current conservatives are ignoring:

1) Reagan-style conservatism remains wildly popular with the American people. It was the "blueprint" for winning landslides between 1980 and 1994, and it remains the blueprint today.

2) Yet for some unaccountable mysterious reason, politicians are ignoring this blueprint! There is not a strong elected conservative voice in the country today.

3) So obviously what we need to do is return to the politics of the 1980s - and sit back and collect the rewards.

Frum's moment of clarity, "Could it be possible that the reason that we lack Reagan-style conservatives in elected office today is that they are having trouble getting elected?"

Hey Republicans, the train is moving forward. If you want 1980, or more like 1955 pre-Rosa Parks style America, those days are done.

Frum nails Rush claiming "he is feeding his audience pleasing illusions that can only lead conservatives to even greater troubles in the days ahead."

Summing it up:

"When Rush and Blankley tell us the blueprint is there, if only we would follow it, they are telling us something that is not true. They are offering flattering illusions when we need truth. They are leading us to disaster - and beyond disaster, to irrelevance."

Source: David Frum

A Top 10 List For Conservatives

Andrew Sullivan puts down his Top 10 reasons Conservatives should to vote for Barack Obama. His reason #2 is worded perfectly.

10. A body blow to racial identity politics. An end to the era of Jesse Jackson in black America.

9. Less debt. Yes, Obama will raise taxes on those earning over a quarter of a million. And he will spend on healthcare, Iraq, Afghanistan and the environment. But so will McCain. He plans more spending on health, the environment and won't touch defense of entitlements. And his refusal to touch taxes means an extra $4 trillion in debt over the massive increase presided over by Bush. And the CBO estimates that McCain's plans will add more to the debt over four years than Obama's. Fiscal conservatives have a clear choice.

8. A return to realism and prudence in foreign policy. Obama has consistently cited the foreign policy of George H. W. Bush as his inspiration. McCain's knee-jerk reaction to the Georgian conflict, his commitment to stay in Iraq indefinitely, and his brinksmanship over Iran's nuclear ambitions make him a far riskier choice for conservatives. The choice between Obama and McCain is like the choice between George H.W. Bush's first term and George W.'s.

7. An ability to understand the difference between listening to generals and delegating foreign policy to them.

6. Temperament. Obama has the coolest, calmest demeanor of any president since Eisenhower. Conservatism values that kind of constancy, especially compared with the hot-headed, irrational impulsiveness of McCain.

5. Faith. Obama's fusion of Christianity and reason, his non-fundamentalist faith, is a critical bridge between the new atheism and the new Christianism.

4. A truce in the culture war. Obama takes us past the debilitating boomer warfare that has raged since the 1960s. Nothing has distorted our politics so gravely; nothing has made a rational politics more elusive.

3. Two words: President Palin.

2. Conservative reform. Until conservatism can get a distance from the big-spending, privacy-busting, debt-ridden, crony-laden, fundamentalist, intolerant, incompetent and arrogant faux conservatism of the Bush-Cheney years, it will never regain a coherent message to actually govern this country again. The survival of conservatism requires a temporary eclipse of today's Republicanism. Losing would be the best thing to happen to conservatism since 1964. Back then, conservatives lost in a landslide for the right reasons. Now, Republicans are losing in a landslide for the wrong reasons.

1. The War Against Islamist terror. The strategy deployed by Bush and Cheney has failed. It has failed to destroy al Qaeda, except in a country, Iraq, where their presence was minimal before the US invasion. It has failed to bring any of the terrorists to justice, instead creating the excresence of Gitmo, torture, secret sites, and the collapse of America's reputation abroad. It has empowered Iran, allowed al Qaeda to regroup in Pakistan, made the next vast generation of Muslims loathe America, and imperiled our alliances. We need smarter leadership of the war: balancing force with diplomacy, hard power with better p.r., deploying strategy rather than mere tactics, and self-confidence rather than a bunker mentality.

Those conservatives who remain convinced, as I do, that Islamist terror remains the greatest threat to the West cannot risk a perpetuation of the failed Manichean worldview of the past eight years, and cannot risk the possibility of McCain making rash decisions in the middle of a potentially catastrophic global conflict. If you are serious about the war on terror and believe it is a war we have to win, the only serious candidate is Barack Obama.

Source: Andrew Sullivan

1000 Words

The poster boy for the silver spoon. Born on third base and thinks he hit a triple. Douche.

Christopher Hitchens: Sarah Palin's War On Science

Christopher Hitchens' article on Slate:

"at a speech in Pittsburgh, Gov. Sarah Palin denounced wasteful expenditure on fruit-fly research, adding for good xenophobic and anti-elitist measure that some of this research took place "in Paris, France" and winding up with a folksy "I kid you not."

It was in 1933 that Thomas Hunt Morgan won a Nobel Prize for showing that genes are passed on by way of chromosomes. The experimental creature that he employed in the making of this great discovery was the Drosophila melanogaster, or fruit fly."

On her creationist intellect limiting her appreciation of science:

"We never get a chance to ask her in detail about these things, but she is known to favor the teaching of creationism in schools (smuggling this crazy idea through customs in the innocent disguise of "teaching the argument," as if there was an argument), and so it is at least probable that she believes all creatures from humans to fruit flies were created just as they are now. This would make DNA or any other kind of research pointless, whether conducted in Paris or not."

And Hitchens seals the deal, calling to action to end "the bluff, empty-headed plain-man's philistinism" of a potential McCain administration:

"This is what the Republican Party has done to us this year: It has placed within reach of the Oval Office a woman who is a religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus. Those who despise science and learning are not anti-elitist. They are morally and intellectually slothful people who are secretly envious of the educated and the cultured. And those who prate of spiritual warfare and demons are not just "people of faith" but theocratic bullies. On Nov. 4, anyone who cares for the Constitution has a clear duty to repudiate this wickedness and stupidity."

Bush and Palin's political anti-science view of the world, vis a vis evangelicalism, is over. Long live science, rule of law, freedom and hope.

Source: Christopher Hitchens

Sen. Ted Stevens Found Guilty in Corruption Case

The 40-year career of Alaska's Republican political patriarch ending in disgrace.

(WASHINGTON) — Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens has been convicted of lying about free home renovations and other gifts he received from a wealthy oil contractor.

The Senate's longest-serving Republican, Stevens was found guilty on all seven counts of making false statements on Senate financial documents.

The verdict throws the upcoming election into disarray. Stevens is fighting off a challenge from Democrat Mark Begich and must now either drop out or continue campaigning as a convicted felon.

Get Utah Senator Larry "Mr. Airport Gay Foot Tap" Craig on the line.

Stevens was guilty of seven corruption charges, Palin was guilty of violating ethics as Governor. Way to go Alaska, your love of corruption is really the change in politics we need now.

Source: Time

Obama's Defining Moment

We know the past 8 years sucked. It's the next 8 years. Obama lays it out in 2 minutes.



And then watch this sad McCain video. His whole approach is "I know how to make things better because I know how to make things better". Never a policy or example of how he'll do anything. Then cue the lame Obama bashing. Great message Grandpa.

I challenge you to defend his video over Barack's.



h/t to Oliver Willis

Sen. Chuck Hagel: Mensch

Nebraskan Sen. Chuck Hagel, Republican mensch keepin' it real about Palin. Worst. Wannabe VP. Ever.

Hagel may be the only senior Republican elected official who has publicly criticized McCain’s choice of Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. “I don’t believe she’s qualified to be President of the United States,” Hagel told me. “The first judgment a potential President makes is who their running mate is—and I don’t think John made a very good selection.” He scoffed at McCain’s attempts to portray her as an experienced politician. “To try to make the excuse that she looks out her window and sees Russia—and that she’s commander of the Alaska National Guard.”

He added, “There is no question that this candidate is arguably the thinnest-résumé candidate for Vice-President in the history of America.”

Source: The New Yorker

Anchorage Daily News Endorses Obama For President

Palin's home town, home state and largest local paper. Zing!

"Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee, brings far more promise to the office. In a time of grave economic crisis, he displays thoughtful analysis, enlists wise counsel and operates with a cool, steady hand. The same cannot be said of Sen. McCain."

Source: ADN

Conservatives For Change

A conservative I can identify with. Simple message. Simple choice. Obama.

I think for a few years, guys like this will have to use "air quotes" around conservative to refer to their former selves.