Re-entering the Atmosphere Without the Heat Shields

Sarah's finding out that all the Alaska stuff she bragged about on the campaign trail now needs to be dealt with. Ruh roh.

OCD

She really needs therapy.

No Argument Here

"It's amazing that we did as well as we did."

-Sarah Palin

Eeeyeeew

Todd's silk underpants.

Palin spent "tens of thousands of dollars" on additional clothing, makeup and jewelry for herself and her family, including $40,000 in luxury goods for her husband, Todd, our colleague Michael Shear reports. The campaign was charged for silk boxer shorts, spray tanners and 13 suitcases to carry all the designer clothes, according to two GOP insiders.

Lipstick on THEIR Pig

They're going to repossess her wardrobe, dontcha know.

Sarah Palin left the national stage Wednesday, but the controversy over her role on the ticket flared as aides to John McCain disclosed new details about her expensive wardrobe purchases and revealed that a Republican Party lawyer would be dispatched to Alaska to inventory and retrieve the clothes still in her possession.

And They Were Going to Tell Us...When?

Of course. They waited until after they lost. If they won, we'd have a vice president who was a total global retard and "a diva." And while Carl Cameron is imparting this frightening information, Bill O'Reilly still thinks she could have been "tutored" and her insane actions are "nitpicking." But how much of this was Fox sitting on before yesterday?

(By the way, follow that link to see Cameron's earlier report that Palin thought Africa was a country, and did not know the countries involved in NAFTA. Cameron KNEW but was sworn to secrecy.)

No wonder audiences are leaving this sewage by the trainload - and left this bullshit with lipstick at the curb.

Rick Sanchez Puts a Fork in Joe the Plumber

PWN'ed, brother.

Fightin' Fight and Fight Fight Fight

Fight.

Nobody Likes John McCain

I've drawn more people to a radio dance party.

Barack Obama may lead John McCain by just 2 points in the latest CNN Florida poll of polls, but the enthusiasm gap appears a bit wider.

John McCain’s first rally of the day, in Tampa outside Raymond James Stadium, only drew about 1,100 people. Local reporters noting that at almost the same spot just before the 2004 election, President Bush drew about 15,000 people. Two weeks ago, Obama drew an estimated 8,000.

A Complete and Total Hack

Time to call it a career, Joe.

McSNL [VIDEO]

Kudos to NBC for wisely getting these videos up so quickly, guaranteeing they'll be all over the web by daybreak...

Was he funny? Yeah. The opening was rather brilliant (Premise: McCain and Palin [Fey] can only afford to buy infomercial time on QVC).

The Weekend Update segment was okay - not exceptional but serviceable.

Did he come off well? Yep. If nothing else, McCain has good timing and is a dependable good sport.

Did he come off as someone who expects to be elected to be the President of the United States in three days?

Nope.

Now that it's over, it's a bit of a relief that Obama wasn't on this one so close to the election (despite my wishes earlier this week). We have a lot of serious shit going on in this country, and appearing in comedy sketches really doesn't seem right with about 50 hours before the votes are cast. McCain came off as everything he's chided Obama for and then some: Celebrity, buffoonery, and cheapening the office he's seeking by playing it for laughs.

I'm not sure how I would have felt if Obama did similar material tonight, which is probably a pretty good indication that it shouldn't have happened.

There was one fascinating moment. When he was introduced for the second time of the night during Weekend Update, there were actually several boos coming from the audience. He may have overstayed his welcome. Based on that alone, I seriously doubt McCain scored any political points tonight.

Palin Promises Free Oven Mitts to Every American

Okay, she didn't, but it's absolutely as off-message as this was, according to McCain advisers. She's being mavericky, and they don't like it.

"John is a Man Who Understands the Danger Facing America"

There it is. The very first number one reason Cheney gives for his support of John McCain. How uplifting.

And that about seals it for Obama.

UPDATE: Obama's reaction:

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?

McCain Finds His Gentle Side Three Days Before Election Day

It's about as close as he ever got to being positive, yet he still manages a snarky comment on "Hope." Some habits just won't die.

Foot In His Mouth? More Like a Boot Up His Ass

One of McCain's five former SoS' got a timeout. Lawrence Eagleburger backpedals so fast, he ends up back in 1988.

Bodybuilding Jokes

Schwarzenegger is doing lame girlyman gags in Ohio for McCain. Yawn. Same freakin' material he used four years ago for Bush.

Alarm Bells Ringing in McCain's Home State

How embarrassing is this? McCain has to race to Arizona Monday night to stop the bleeding. He obviously would rather be anywhere else.

Infwinging On Her Constitutional Wights?

It's important to leave Sarah Palin's constitutional rights sacrosanct while she plans how to make our irrelevant. Trying to affiliate Obama with an American-born professor with a scary Middle Eastern name isn't negative, I guess.

Is it unconstitutional to tell her to shut the hell up?

ABC News' Steven Portnoy reports: In a conservative radio interview that aired in Washington, D.C. Friday morning, Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin said she fears her First Amendment rights may be threatened by "attacks" from reporters who suggest she is engaging in a negative campaign against Barack Obama.

Palin told WMAL-AM that her criticism of Obama's associations, like those with 1960s radical Bill Ayers and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, should not be considered negative attacks.  Rather, for reporters or columnists to suggest that it is going negative may constitute an attack that threatens a candidate's free speech rights under the Constitution, Palin said.

"If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations," Palin told host Chris Plante, "then I don't know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media."

Kinda interesting that ABC News is ratting out what was said on an ABC radio station - even if they're owned by separate companies now.

What Mike Goldfarb Wasn't Saying

You've seen the video. And it's become pretty obvious to me that Goldfarb was referring to Rev. Wright as the other "anti-Semite" Obama was running around with. Now, why he didn't come out and say it is kind of a mystery. He may not know if McCain gave his campaign the green light to say Wright's name (Palin did within the last week).

Or, plain and simple, maybe Goldfarb flaked on Wright's name. These knuckleheads have so much slander rattling around in their skulls, it's quite possible this goon couldn't find it in that pile of yak shit which replaced his brain.

The Vet Who Didn't Vet

Neat little vid...

When I'm President, Kids WON'T Be Pulled Out of Class to Attend Hack Rallies

Um...I'd be pretty pissed if I were the parent of one of them. Use my child as a political prop? No way, old man.

A local school district official confirmed after the event that of the 6,000 people estimated by the fire marshal to be in attendance this morning, more than 4,000 were bused in from schools in the area. The entire 2,500-student Defiance School District was in attendance, the official said, in addition to at least three other schools from neighboring districts, one of which sent 14 buses.

Hi, Sweetheart. It's Daddy. I'm Calling To Ask For Your Vote...

McCain's robo-calling in...Arizona. I'm just guessing here - this isn't a very good sign.

ABC News Calls Palin's Bullshit

Like shooting moose in a barrel.

"There he was talking about the need for quote 'redistributive change,'" Palin said on the campus of Shippensburg University Tuesday night. “Sen. Obama said that he regretted that the Supreme Court hadn't been more radical. And he described the Court's refusal to take up the issues of redistribution of wealth as a tragedy. And he said he also regretted that the Supreme Court didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers there in the Constitution”

Obama had in fact argued the opposite in the 2001 interview, saying that the civil rights movement had become too focused on making change through the judicial system, rather than from the ground up through community organizations.

But Palin used Obama's words to follow an argument Sen. John McCain has made this week that Obama has long-advocated for "spreading the wealth."  "Obama says that he wants to spread the wealth," Palin said to boos from the crowd. "In other words he thinks that it's your job to earn the wealth and it's his job to spread it."

But Palin then went beyond any argument McCain has made, using the 2001 interview to insinuate that Obama wants to re-write the U.S. Constitution and appoint radical Supreme Court justices, while also suggesting that under Obama, judges would confiscate the property of American citizens.

Referencing the interview, Palin said, "So you have to ask, is this a suggestion that's he’d want to re-write the founding document of our great nation to accomplish his goals. And what does that say about his ideas on future Supreme Court justices?"

"Let me remind Barack Obama of something else. When judges don’t confiscate your property and your hard-earned -- all of your hard-earned money and then re-distribute that, he may call that a tragedy. But I call it fairness and adherence to our U.S. Constitution," Palin added later in her remarks.

Obama's 2001 interview made no mention of judges confiscating property. The Palin campaign did not provide clarification on what Palin was referring to with the remark.

h/t TPM

Take THAT, Colin Powell! Screw YOU, Scott McClellan!

McCain has his big name supporter. Excelsior!

And You'll Accomplish This...How?

The latest in McCain's "No (fill in the blank) when I'm president!" rants.

Sen. John McCain made a direct appeal to baseball lovers Tuesday morning while mocking his rival's decision to buy 30 minutes of television time Wednesday night for an address to the nation.

"No one will delay the World Series with an infomercial when I'm president," he said to the approval of a crowd of thousands at a stadium here.

The Fox television network agreed with a request by Major League Baseball to move the start of Game 6 of the series by 15 minutes to accommodate Obama's purchase of the television time, during which he plans to make his closing campaign argument.

In fact, McCain's own convention speech this summer forced a change in the start time of the NFL's season opener, which started an hour and a half earlier to accommodate McCain's speech.

No ants will invade your picnics when I'm president.
No unopenable ketchup packets will be handed out at McDonald's when I'm president.
No drivers will give me the finger when I'm president.
No one will pick on me when I'm president.