G’morning Jane.

Wonder if Biden also owns a big ol’ gol’ belt?

Digg it.

linkalicious, thanks Jane!

In the Gallup poll, Obama was down by one on Tuesday. Today he is up by four.

I smell a Rethuglian MELT DOWN!! Lets see what else can go wrong because of Rethuglian policies before the November Election… I bet there is more much more to come out as the ball of string unwinds!!

At TPM Election Central, Obama leads or is tied in every national poll they have for the past two days.

I’ll be on Air America’s Ron Kuby program today from 2:00 Pacific (5:00 Eastern) until ? What is his show like? It isn’t carried in Alaska.

From a blog in the Netherlands linked by a commenter at Kos:

http://poligazette.com/2008/09…..2%BFspain/

“McCain has managed to strain relations with a European country without even being elected yet.
In an interview with Union Radio in Miami McCain answered a question to whether he would hold meetings with President Zapatero of Spain in such a way that it seems clear that:

1. He lumps Spain together with Venezuela and Bolivia as non-friendly nations.

Or

1. He has no idea of anything pertaining to Spain at all.

Neither option, as you can imagine, is causing much pleasure within Spain itself.”…………….

Polls won’t start to firm up until the debates. The first presidential debate will be a week from tomorrow. Jim Lehrer will moderate and the topic will be foreign policy

Trying link again:

http://poligazette.com/2008/09…..2%BFspain/

That should be fun since McC doesn’t know where Spain is s/

haven’t been around much at all so far today, has this beenm discussed?

In an interview with the Omaha World-Herald, Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel (R) suggested that Palin doesn’t have the foreign-policy experience to be president. “‘She doesn’t have any foreign policy credentials,’ Hagel saim>d in an interview. ‘You get a passport for the first time in your life last year? I mean, I don’t know what you can say. You can’t say anything.’”

Check out this other Hagel line: “‘I think they ought to be just honest about it and stop the nonsense about, “I look out my window and I see Russia and so therefore I know something about Russia,”‘ he said. ‘That kind of thing is insulting to the American people.’”

And this one: “‘I think it’s a stretch to, in any way, to say that she’s got the experience to be president of the United States,’ Hagel said.”

Holy moley is what I say.

I don’t know about the show but he is an interesting guy. Here is a link to his Wikipedia entry.

OUCH!!!

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/ro…..-dumb.html

Joe Biden, like Elvis, thinks rich people paying their full share of taxes is the patriotic thing to do. The GOP is out of step with the King

GOP also out of step with Warren Buffett and Bill Gates.

I don’t know his show but I believe he was William Kuntzler’s law partner and he did a show in NYC for years with Curtis Sliwa (Guardian Angels founder).

That hasn’t been discussed yet to my knowledge, but it was on the news on MSNBC.

Nate Silver at fivethirtyeight.com:

McCain’s is a creative campaign — more creative in many ways than the Obama campaign. As such, we should not discount the possibility of their finding an effective way to alter the momentum, perhaps one — like their ‘celebrity’ critique of Obama — that was difficult to envision in advance.

I strongly recommend Nate’s entire article for its excellent perspective on the state of the race and what to expect. It’s very good stuff.

Listening to Big Ed on AA. He just played a clip from
Ms. Sarah speaking today in Cedar Rapids. She referred to the “Palin-McCain administration”.

Pretty soon Johnny boy’s going to be feeling like a wolf’d foreleg.

Oh my…Carly got dumped for less that this…a Palin/McCain administration???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..lykos.com/

Nobody puts Baby in a corner!

This may trigger the McCain anger meter into overdrive…heh, heh.

Ed will be on “Larry King” tonight. Suspect he will speak loudly and clearly about hockey mom’s outrageous ambitions.

Andrew Cuomo starting investigation immediately into illegal short-selling…deliberate efforts to drive down stock prices by spreading rumors, false information. A securities fraud and he has jurisdiction.

Short selling itself not illegal.

Right now on CNN with Rick Sanchez.

It is pretty creative too in the facts that are created and recreated on a daily basis

Hostlie acts toward companies, spreading false information, being investigated, says Cuomo, Atty Gen. state of NY

I’m like Sanchez more and more every day…he’s doing the “Spain” story…

Has McShame hired a food taster yet?

segue into McCain’s pain in talkin’ ’bout Spain

From the linked-to article:

Update: Reading more on the story, it seems that McCain expressed (Spanish), just a few months ago, that he’d have no problem meeting with Zapatero. So it seems increasingly likely he simply forgot who the hell Zapatero was, or where Spain was in relation to the US, instead of intentionally snubbing Spain. Ironically enough, his campaign seems to think that being seen snubbing is better than being caught forgetting. Thanks again, John.

I don’t like this use of the word “simply.” McCain’s level of forgetfulness and incoherence is a sure sign of senility. I for one do not want a senile old man with an increasingly short temper carrying the nuclear football.

I’ve liked Sanchez ever since he was morning anchor over at MSNBC pre-Imus.

Their loss.

Same re Ashleigh Banfield.

That is hilarious. If elected, McCain will be like Cary Grant in the cornfield in North By Northwest.

McCain: “I am NOT a wolf!”
Palin: “This is for eating up my grandmother, you son of a bitch!” (BANG!)

Okay, here’s my blow by blow
*Palin’s an inbred, wanna be loser. She knows that to use lobbyist is a good thing.
*It’s a fabulous thing to register voters, but, will they stay on top of those people to actually VOTE?
*I’m a 56 year old woman who has Never Watched Oprah…
Tell me what she’s done?
*I will watch Wes.
*I don’t get the Biden = Elvis reference. Please not so oblique.
*You really meant No Fucking Shit.
*Franco is dead. So is Elvis.
* And I’ll wait for a shot post on the follow up to that one. Thanks.
*Character? Anyone who is paying attention already know. People who aren’t, won’t be looking here to find the answer to that.
***
Harumph.
Let me just pose this. It must be nice to ….(I’m not going to say it. Not because I’m afraid of being kicked off. Just because I’m a nice person.)

Gawd, they are playing the Spain interview…he’s completely disconnected…Dr. Kirk Murphy is so right on…He is completely clueless…pathetic…scary….He’s having a major brain fart.

I wish the media would loop H. DEAN”s 2004 real “scream” DON’T TRUST THESE GUYS WITH YOUR MONEY!!!

Listening to the interview with McCain re Zapatero and Spain.

He has no clue who Zapatero is. Doesn’t seem to know that Spain’s not in Latin America.

And that interviewer’s accent was no impediment to understanding the questions.

So much for McCain’s foreign policy cred.

OT but Don Seigleman needs our help to get Congress off the Dime and hold Rove in Contempt of Congress and force him to testify under OATH!

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Take action to hold Rove accountable.

But now that a U.S. District Judge has ruled that White House aides like Rove can’t claim immunity in order to refuse to testify before Congress, it’s time to take the next step: Now it’s time to urge the full House to vote Karl Rove in contempt, forcing him to show up and testify.
There’s no room for Karl Rove to hide any longer — but our time is running out. If Congress adjourns at the end of September and nothing’s been done, all of our effort goes down the drain. So now we must pull out the stops and turn up the heat.
That’s why I’m asking you now to email your Member of Congress and urge the full House to vote to hold Karl Rove in contempt. It is time for Karl Rove to come clean and tell the truth about what he has done. If you’ll speak out, right now, and if Congress votes contempt for Rove, he’ll have to speak out too — and for the first time, under oath!
Click here to forward an email to your Member of Congress right now — and demand that the House votes to hold Karl Rove in contempt!
There is sworn testimony by a Republican lawyer that Karl Rove targeted me when I was Governor of Alabama through a malicious, unfounded, politically-motivated prosecution by the wife of Rove’s best friend in Alabama. I was shackled, handcuffed, taken to a maximum security prison, and put into solitary confinement. I served 9 months in federal prison before the appeals court released me. And now, Karl Rove refuses to even testify before Congress about his role in this whole nefarious scheme.
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Boy, they are in Major damage control.

You don’t have to speak their language to launch missiles at em. Ole!

Not going to make reckless promises to meet with America’s adversaries, says rambling McCain camp comment on the interview, taking a shot at Obama.

Do they think Spain/Zapatero are our adversaries?

She referred to the “Palin-McCain administration”.

you know, we should send that clip to all the talking heads, now that they’ve lost millions of dollars from the mccain strategy they might show that over and over to help obama along

you want to restate that please?

He clearly referred to “in the hemispere” in his answer

I’ll be on Air America’s Ron Kuby program today from 2:00 Pacific (5:00 Eastern) until ?

geez, ET, you’re becoming a media star.

Got a “posse” yet?

you gotta have a “posse”, ya know. Lemme know if I can help. *g*

Re foodtasters, mock movie violence, let’s not go there ok?

Now, the reporter is being interviewed…I just wanted to know if he would meet with the president of Spain in the WH….
I think he didn’t want to give me a straight answer…trying not to give me a straight answer…dodging the answer.

In another part of the interview I was asking about Mexico, and I think he just wanted to get his view about that into the interview…

Yeah, right. I believe my ears…

Sorta OT, but not really. I’m reading Walter Borneman’s “1812″ and on p.9, it says, “…xxx wrote: ‘There is no doubt but that upon every virtuous and prudent calculation yyy is to be preferred. He is by far not so dangerous a man and he has pretensions to character.” Now, in the book, xxx is Alexander Hamilton and yyy is Jefferson(Hamilton was very afraid of Burr and his ambitions). But, you could replace almost any thinking person for xxx and yyy would be Obama.

Ummm…let me get my valley girl hat on…
ah…fuck it.

Gawd, they are playing the Spain interview…he’s completely disconnected…Dr. Kirk Murphy is so right on…He is completely clueless…pathetic…scary….He’s having a major brain fart.

EXACTLY!!! And for those who have not read them here are Kirk’s comments on what likely has happened to McCain’s mind.

Well doesn’t that say it all!

Are we all Edward’s Entourage now? *g*

OT
Emerging Contaminants in U.S. Waters Hearing
US House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

for hearing link & details

So are you saying he knows–or doesn’t–where Spain is?

Hmmmm…you don’t suppose McCain will pull out at the last minute due to health problems…leaving us with Palin/Palin or Palin/???…

Honestly, it is a bit unsettling…His gaffes and her major gaffe…that is a major gaffe IMHO….Just sayin’. I don’t put anything past the Rovians.

You actually read what I wrote?
You saw that I actually read what Jane wrote?
Ha! This place, huh?

more CNN: screechin’ Sarah blathers about taxes

McCain was simply confusing Jose Zapatero with Emiliano Zapata. He went on to say he would rather lose an election than lose the Mexican Revolution.

as much as he has sold his soul to the devil to becomepres I would think he would fight them tooth and nail to prevent them from pushing him off the ticket. But then again, it is Rove

Apologies if that was in regard to my Hitchcock reference.

gag Brownback on my teevee lying about Painl’s energy credentials
blech

And confusing Spain with…err…Spain.

she just blathers about anything, doesn’t she?

That ship is sinking all on its own

I think he was confused as to who Zapatero is

LOL

Thanks, needed a laugh today.

she just blathers about anything, doesn’t she?

Not unlike the person she would replace should he prattle on off to the great beyond.

“Sarah knows more about Energy than almost anyone in Washington D.C.”

“And she was on a commission in Alaska for a little while.”

I still wanna see my proposed New Rule implemented. When an interviewee is obviously lying, the cameraman *must* slap a cream pie into his or her face….

The reporter brings him back on track a couple of times…I’m talking about Europe, the President of SPAIN, would you meet with him at the WH….

Either he can’t digest the word Spain, or he’s just completely confused…she gave him several opportunities to answer the question…she was quite clear.

I think he was confused as to who Zapatero is

But that won’t tarnish his foreign-policy credentials with the MSM.

lol or at least someone shout out, “stop lying”

I still wanna see my proposed New Rule implemented. When an interviewee is obviously lying, the cameraman *must* slap a cream pie into his or her face….

Hear. Hear.

If Obama had made McCain’s gaffe, he would be finished, over, kaput.

Palin/McSame = Exxon Vadez/Titanic ticket………

off to teach, then on Ron Kubi at 2:00 Pacific…

ah, ah, ah think so too.
Confused much?

But that won’t tarnish his foreign-policy credentials with the MSM.

“Hey, could I remind you that I was in a prison cell for 5 years, and unlike you, was unable to visit this place you call Spain?”

Oh, great…McCain Campaign covering this by saying that McCain’s not going to have an “open-door” policy for leaders….. for what…..frikkin’ ALLIES????

Now, were gonna make Spain our enemy, because McCain made an ignorant or mental deficient mistake.

Yosemite McSam…

No “we’re” not.

Now, were gonna make Spain our enemy, because McCain made an ignorant or mental deficient mistake.

I’m afraid that there’s no choice.

It’s Spain’s fault, after all, for not having supplied any Spanish lobbyists to McCain’s staff.

I think that this is a question that we should put to Doc. I also think that it is possible that he got some kind of brain lock and got focused on South america. I think in this guys mind there is a place where he ceases to focus on what the other person is saying but rather focuses on what he thinks they said and what he thinks they are going to say

Necessity is and always has been the mother of invention.

New Blue Texan over at the Mothership talking about McCain trying to break the law again.

either that, or he’s bugfuck ’round the bend….

It’s truly is all spain’s fault. who told them to colonize South america anyway spreading their religion, language etc. If not for them, South america (most of it) would speak some other language (not spanish) and mccain would not have connected the two.

sheesh
the arrogance

Listening to Big Ed on AA.

Who is this?

I meant that in a sarcastic tone…I should have been more clear when I wrote it…*g*

Is someone collecting and/or sending this stuff to Doc

Yeah, because if he gets in a mindlock and mixes up Russia and Iran or something…the world could be toast.

Which Doc are you speaking of?

Dr. Kirk

Dr. Kirk Murphy…he’s got a “McCain brain watch” thingy going, collecting evidence of McCain’s…errr….mind problems..

Oh yes – the rapture

Oh.
(holding my lips so I don’t say anything further.)
Oops. Didn’t work.
Just be careful. You are known by your friends.
I’ve heard of other people here making lists.
Kirk, not to my recollection.
Jesus, he’s long winded enough without having a list.

Oops! I forgot that he wanted examples. But there are so many of them.

pass the bong

Thanks for the link, LS ! Everyone should spread that link all over the net. McCain may have the big one over that.

Is this the first time she has slipped and revealed her true goal? First Dude is standing behind her and clapping big time when she said that.

FWIW, here’s a link to Kirk’s posting on that matter: http://firedoglake.com/2008/09…..-againand/

Strange comment…I don’t get it.

Ha. Unfortunately, this is me straight.
Kinda wish I had one with something in it, these days.
You’re kinda kidding me, right?
Strange Days Indeed.

He and I are just not on the same page.
Don’t understand the groupie thing for him, is all.

Sorry…had stepped away from the computer. He’s a talk radio host. His show is syndicated and is on XM’s radio on the Air America channel every day from 12-3 PM.

http://www.bigeddieradio.com/

John McCain can’t decide if he isa Barry Goldwater or Dennis Kucinich

Thank you. She is a bloody twit.