Okay, one more before bed:
So I was wondering what the Republican talking points would be, following the speech?
Huffington Post has McCain's press release. Only for some reason it's a series of images, scaled down to illegible size -- they're not thumbnails, they're FULL-SIZED IMAGES scaled down in HTML. You can do a right-click, view image to see them full size, but they're also not bordered, so it's a pain in the ass to figure out where one ends and the next begins.
I read the first couple besides saying "fuck it", and they're incredibly weak sauce: the first few are subjective quotations; when they DO start quoting stats about Obama voting with his party most of the time, uh, guess what, John? It doesn't work both ways. When Obama says you voted with the wildly unpopular President more than 90% of the time, THAT'S BAD. But when YOU say HE voted with the (supposed) OPPOSITION to the wildly unpopular President more than 90% of the time, well, uh...you get it? (Also, it says "Democrat Party" repeatedly. YOU ARE IN THIRD GRADE!)
(Oh, and then on the next page he goes on to explain why it's totally misleading to say someone votes with someone 90% of the time.
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McCain's panicking and grasping at straws. And I can understand why -- there's a distinct possibility he just lost the race.