Why stop campaigning? All McPalin needs to do is call for a staff meeting to get the skinny on the bailout.

I was wondering how he’d get out of getting pummeled in the debate.

This is like the weak kid calling in sick because he knows he has to fight the bully after school, and he doesn’t want his clock cleaned.

Watched Rahm Emanuel just after getting off the phone with Kevin.  Laughed my ass off.  M-u-l-t-i-t-a-s-k-i-n-g John, multitasking.

Not sure yet, but this is looking as though Obama contacted McCain early today to suggest that they make a joint announcement of shared principles that they both feel need to be part of the bailout formula—the idea being that they could push bipartisan approval of a general frameork. McCain agreed to the joint statement, then turned around and stabbed Obama in the ass.

Sen. Harry Reid says “No Thanks.”

“I understand that the candidates are putting together a joint statement at Senator Obama’s suggestion. But it would not be helpful at this time to have them come back during these negotiations and risk injecting presidential politics into this process or distract important talks about the future of our nation’s economy. If that changes, we will call upon them. We need leadership; not a campaign photo op.”

Good one, Harry. Source: TPM

Sorry John , pretend you’re still a man and show up for the ass whipping you so richly deserve.

Don’t forget, the Enquirer published the name of Governor Palin’s secret lover today.

I think McCain is starting to feel a tad squeezed by events.

Well, I’m getting ready to interview my Congressman about the bailout effort. Any suggested questions are welcome, I’ve put together 12 questions so far.

damn you Morse!!!

Sorry Iceberg. While all this was breaking, I had to take my son to his dance class, so I was eager to catch up.

I think I heard Wolf Blitzer say that McCain wants to have the debate next Thursday when the vice presidential was scheduled for.  Then of course they would postpone that debate as well.
Worst. Campaign. Ever.

The McPalin ticket really has turned into a clown show, but something tells me Republicans don’t really give a fuck. They got 8 years of unfettered access to our national treasury, so they can sit back for the next 12 years and count their take.

Meanwhile, Democrats are set up once again as the cleaning lady and you know damn well that come November 5th the same Republicans drumbeat about tax and spend Democrats giving your money away to illegal abortion Doctors and gay-marriage preachers is no way to run a gubmint.

Breaking News:

McCain Asks Congress to Bail Out His Failing Campaign

Meanwhile, Democrats are set up once again as the cleaning lady and you know damn well that come November 5th the same Republicans drumbeat about tax and spend Democrats giving your money away to illegal abortion Doctors and gay-marriage preachers is no way to run a gubmint.

Sad but true, Humboldt. That’s the way it always shakes out, and we can probably kiss universal health care goodbye thanks to the massive cost of this bail-out and the rest of the shit-pile GWB is leaving in his sorry-ass wake. Jesus H. Christ on Canadian fucking crutches, it’s depressing.

McCain Asks Congress to Bail Out His Failing Campaign

Hilarious.

riverchucky @ corrente:

Hillary steps in to save the day?

F’n brilliant.

Hilarious.

Agree. That’s great.

Hillary steps in to save the day?

I’m afraid to look.

But, of course, I will.

Goldberry = Riverchucky (that was her old nickname)

Tricky politics
Submitted by goldberry on Wed, 2008-09-24 16:11.

Ok, McCain asks to delay the debate and it looks like he is putting service to his country above everything else. Obama howls in disbelief that the *debate* is the most important thing in the world and that McCain is chickening out. Hmmm, McCain looks like an adult for putting his senatorial obligations first while Obama looks like a narcissist.
Hillary steps in to save the day?
When will we learn? Republicans are really good at cornering their opponents. The guy who picked Palin (and it might not have been McCain) might have something up his sleeve. They’re not amateurs. If they delay the debate, there’s got to be an upside for McCain.

Stupid, stupid, stupid Obama people
Submitted by goldberry on Wed, 2008-09-24 16:42.

He’ll end up looking like the Black Knight with no arms and legs, growling at McCain to come back because he can still bite. Obama can not win this move. He should have beaten McCain to the punch.
Make no mistake. There *will* be a debate. But it will be on the senate floor where the questions are unscripted and Republicans will wheel out another catchy slogan like “cut and run”. Obama will be forced to actually, like, do his job. The matter will be made to look like life and death, he’ll be put between a rock and a hard place and he’ll capitulate to his buddies who gave him money to run this turkey in the first place.
The only question remains whether there will be enough fear that DNC will let the whole shebang get derailed that they will send for the relief pitcher to save the game for Obama.
And if the media start to expose what’s really happening politically in order to save Obama’s bacon, they are going to run right up against average Americans who are afraid they’re on the brink of losing their savings.
So, if I were Obama, I’d cancel the debate and take it up with McCain on the Senate floor. Better yet, dump Biden (I don’t think he’ll mind actually) and put Hillary in to go toe-to-toe with McCain and the Republicans.
Of course, I *want* Obama to lose so maybe he should just ignore my advice.

She is an exceptionally stupid and politically unsavvy person.

Kevin K.—Is it just me, or do those excerpts from riverdaughter sound like the mimeograph handouts I usually receive from a man on a streetcorner wearing a sandwich-board sign and a football helmet?

Why do they keep fantasizing that Obama needs his “bacon” saved, and that every twist in this campaign narrative is the Magic Moment when Hillary will be roused from her centuries-long sleep under Salisbury Hill and summoned back to Camelot to preside over the Round Table?

Oh, wait. I remember. It’s the same reason the Sioux Indians believed that all of their dead ancestors would return to defeat the white-eyes, and that their “Ghost Shirts” would protect them from bullets in battle.

PUMAs have graduated from a blustery grievance-committee to an end-times miracle cult.

She is an exceptionally stupid and politically unsavvy person.

I would add deluded.  Still waiting for Hillary to come riding in on that big, white, pretty (oh, so pretty) horsey.

She astro-turfed that “this is great news for McCain” fantasy at a few of the bitter sites today.

Stupid and unsavvy? Yep.

PUMAs have graduated from a blustery grievance-committee to an end-times miracle cult.

After watching Bill’s less than enthusiastic media performances, I’m leaning towards the 2012 fantasies being shared and fueled by the Clinton’s themselves. It’s like some exiled royal household insisting restoration is imminent.

I hope they enjoy their long, lonely trip to irrelevance.

Yeah, or that French family in ¨Apocalypse Now…Redux¨. 

They both have given uninspiring performances, and fail to respect that anyone with a brain knows thier heart ain´t in it.  Seriously, they could have been like Carville and just slither back in his hole…I realy think he was a mole.

The only one of that era who is earning their keep is Paul Begala, and I hated him for the las 3 months of the primaries.  He has really been the only old brand surrogate that´s been on point. ¨Clooney Clooney Clooney!!!¨