Does anyone have an extra ticket for the 6:45 showing of Fanboys that I could buy?  I bought two, but it turns out I need a third and it is sold out now.

You will decide what happens on November 4th over the next few days. Voter registration deadlines are looming in most states, and the people you encourage to register could decide this election.

Take a moment to think about what bad news could look like:



Let's make sure Barack Obama wins on November 4th.

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The smartest political mind that I know, genvc , wrote this:

http://genvc.livejournal.com/193137.html

I could not agree more!  The debate performance that we saw from Obama was not intended for the liberal faithful.  Like many of you, I was screaming at my TV whenever it looked like Barack missed an opportunity to step on McCain's throat (and there were many of them!)  While I agree with Gen's assertion that the strategy of the Obama camp was to play to the voters in the center (to whom I hope McCain's grumpy grandpa routine was off putting,) I would like to add one more intended audience. 

Barack's performance was, at least in part, to create this:

 

McCain only leads Barack on who won the debate by 2 points in a Fox News poll?!!?!?

Obama had a checklist on the podium that looked like this:

[Check] Don't have five o'clock shadow
[Check] Don't look at watch
[Check] Don't compare yourself to Kennendy (oppontent might have met him)
[Check] Don't scare the white people!!!


The thing that most people forget is that Obama is black!  Now that is probably a good sign as to the color blindness of liberals, but the country as a whole hasn't gotten there, yet! I would love to see Obama go all Angela Davis Dolomie Shaftastic on McCain, but passion is often mistaken for anger and for black people it is more often than not.

On the first day of black man finishing school, they teach you the most important lesson, "Don't scare da' white folk!" As ridiculous as it is that a little skinny guy from Hawaii with a white mom and big ears could be categorized as just another angry black militian (by this measure, I'm screwed,) there are plenty of people who see him this way.  Obama doesn't need to court these people's vote because let's be honest, he isn't gonna get them! He just needs to make sure he doesn't scare them to the polls for McCain.

My advice to Obama would be this:

"Avoid tripping the American 'They're coming for our daughters' Mandingo trigger and you have a pretty good chance of getting a Presidential Library on the south side of Chicago someday!

Cavuto suggests Congress should have warned that "[l]oaning to minorities and risky folks is a disaster"

Summary: On September 18, Fox News' Neil Cavuto conflated giving home mortgages to minorities with risky lending practices, suggesting that there should have been "a clarion call that said, 'Fannie and Freddie are a disaster. Loaning to minorities and risky folks is a disaster.' "

http://mediamatters.org/items/200809190021


"Well, we's sorry Massa Cavuto, we's tryin' ta pay our bills, but you know our poor little minority brains cain't understand the A, P and da' R!  Howsabout we's just sang and dance for ya and you take care of all that mean nasty matf stuff for us.  Ta' Camptown ladies sing tis song. doda doda...


I cannot even explain the level to which I am disgusted...

When Charlie Gibson asked Gov. Palin if she believe that Global Warming is a result of man's actions, she said this:

"I don't know if it [Global Warming] is caused by man or whether it is the natural climate cycle of our planet, but either way, John McCain and I are committed to do something about it!"


HUH?

Ok, I know I am succumbing to that pesky habit that I have of....I don't know...thinking, but if you believe that it is a natural part of the planetary climate cycle, what do you plan to "do about it"?


I mean if this woman can change the orbital path of the planet, she had my vote!

If she can get the flying spaghetti monster to make the polar caps colder and hold back the water from the increased hurricane activity, then she has my vote (as well as locked up the electoral college votes of all the gulf coast states and lower eastern seaboard!)

If her and McCain have a Doctor Evil device that they can turn off and make the planet not so hot, then they have my vote!

You know when a poet changes a couple words or phrases in an old poem to update it and then reads it again?  We should say:
 
"You can put lipstick on an old poem, but it is still an old poem!"


Uh huh, uh huh, sounds stupid now, but you'll be using it!

The Washington Post/ABC NEWS Poll

August 19 - 22

WHITE WOMEN VOTERS

OBAMA    50%

MCCAIN  42%



The Washington Post/ABC NEWS Poll

September 5 - 7

WHITE WOMEN VOTERS 

McCAIN/PALIN    53%

OBAMA/BIDEN   41%

It just occurred to me that the $27 million in congressional ear marks that the then mayor Pailin hired a lawyer to secure for Wasilla would work out  to almost $4000 per person.

4K PER PERSON?!?!??!

Are we buying the citizens of Wasilla cars?


IF (and I do stress the "if") the McCain campaign ever let's her answer questions from the press, I hope the first question that a reporter asks her is WTF!?!?!?

One thing I was looking forward to last night was Cindy McCain's speech.  The spouse typically talks about their relationship with the candidate and how they met and so on.  It is always a valuable and different insight into the candidate.  Michelle did this with Barack.  I think we all know that Barack kept asking her out and she kept turning him down, blah, blah, blah.

But, I was really interested in how Cindy would explain how she met John.  Well, she didn't talk about it, but they did mention it in the introduction video about her.  They talked about how they met at a USO dance in Hawaii in 1979.  He was 41, but told her he was 37.  She was 24, but told him he was 37 (wow, lying to get to a ten year age difference...I like my chance of bride hunting on Sixth Street this weekend!)  Anyway, the video mentioned that it was love at first sight when this handsome Navy captain walked over to meet her.  Despite the cradle robbing aspect of it, it sounds sweet and sorta Officer and a Gentlemen like (if Deborah Winger had not been a poor factory work and instead a rich beer heiress and Richard Gere had been, well, in his forties!)

But there is a small fact that the family values conservatives don't mention about that storybook meeting...

HE WAS MARRIED!!!

No politician disgusts me more than Joe Lieberman.