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[A²]

....that can NOT be real. 

[Kazz]

BLACK VOTERS LEAGUE, AWAAAAAAAY

[Romosome]

That's from 2004.

[Disposable Ninja]

You know what I think is just wonderful?

That when I embed this official McCain youtube video, straight from the official McCain youtube page --

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVLQhRiEXZs

--That it still works. That they haven't taken it down. That this video is, and continues to be, endorsed by John McCain.

Worth noting that the legislation in question was actually about teaching children about how to avoid child predators.

[Kashan]

I don't get it, is that video supposed to be especially outrageous compared to all the other lies going around right now? Or is there some outside information I'm not aware of?

[TA]

PUBLIC SCHOOL MONOPOLY

[Thad]

The WSJ acknowledges Obama has the more appealing economic plan and McCain has trouble connecting with the middle class.  That, of course, is in-between snark about how McCain's plan is better and voters are just too stupid to know it because they'd rather have handouts than a strong economy, but again, it DOES bear noting that this particular conservative, Murdoch-owned paper has been pretty honest about McCain's weaknesses recently.

[Royal☭]

Gerald F. Seib is a bear of a man if he can type...

On middle-class economics, the McCain position is, essentially, that his policy of preserving the existing Bush tax cuts for all taxpayers while keeping capital-gains rates low, cutting corporate taxes and keeping government spending down will produce an economy that creates lasting jobs for the middle class.

...without shitting himself.  And near the end of the article it's almost as if common sense wants to break through the man's skull when he flirts with the idea of acknowledging that Bush's tax cuts for rich folks may in fact be a really stupid idea.

 

Sen. McCain, meanwhile, wants to make all the Bush tax cuts permanent, while cutting the corporate tax rate and phasing out the alternative minimum tax -- the latter an expensive proposition indeed. In substantive terms, the question is how to pay for what amounts to a very aggressive low-tax plan.

But that's not his job.  He was hired to WSJ so that he could spout obvious lies and moon-rhetoric with a straight face.

[Thad]

Well, it bears noting that the news and editorial selections of the WSJ are often at odds.  Its target audience is rich investors.  They want their egos stroked and their views reinforced, and that's the op/ed team's job -- but they don't want to be lied to about what's actually going on in the world, because that hurts their bottom line; that's why the news page is generally accurate.

[Detonator]

Ron Paul gives endorsement to third-party candidates- all of them.

I'm glad he's not backing McCain, maybe his supporters will actually listen and vote for someone else.  Though it does raise the question of why Paul continues to identify as a Republican anyway.

[TA]

Ron Paul encouraging his fans to throw their votes away is a definite good thing, given that if cast for an actual candidate they'd be overwhelmingly for McCain.

Trying to change the constitutionally-encoded two-party system at the Presidential level, though ... well, libertarian ideology is nothing if not grossly disconnected from reality.

[Thad]

...Anyway.  The reason I could never run for President is that, if asked a question like "Do you think Reverend Wright loves America as much as you do?" I would have responded with, "Are you fucking KIDDING me?"  And after twenty minutes of questions like that, I would have told them to call me when they were ready to stop wasting my time, and walked off the stage.

Via Priest: he's basically done a more tactful version of that in his handling of the "lipstick on a pig" non-story.

As for the subject at hand:

Ron Paul encouraging his fans to throw their votes away is a definite good thing, given that if cast for an actual candidate they'd be overwhelmingly for McCain.

Probably, but that's not certain.  Anecdotally, I know a Ron Paul supporter who was determined to vote for neither candidate and instead write Paul's name in, who eventually wound up as an Obama supporter.

[Thad]

After my positive comments about the WSJ's coverage, I saw a provocatively-titled article called Obama Can't Win Against Palin.  Decided to give it a read, and it was just over-the-top spin and absurd comparisons.

I didn't notice until I'd gotten to the end that it was written by Karl Rove.  Ah.  That explains it.

[Air]

[Mongrel]

“It's not just that he's an eloquent guy who gives a good speech. A lot of people said that about my father too, but she sees through that.”

Ron Reagan, on why his mother, Nancy, likes Barack Obama and thinks he is similar to her late husband, former U.S. president Ronald Reagan

 

[Thad]

So uh remember Alan Greenspan?  The guy who, 8 years ago, McCain joked that he'd keep as Federal Reserve chairman even after he died?

He says McCain's economic policy isn't going to work.

[Mongrel]

So uh remember Alan Greenspan?  The guy who, 8 years ago, McCain joked that he'd keep as Federal Reserve chairman even after he died?

He says McCain's economic policy isn't going to work.

I love the obligatory 'quoted local idiot' at the end of that article.

[Thad]

...I have family in Gainesville.

[jsnlxndrlv]

Adam Cadre, talking about the election, on why Obama's convention speech isn't the slam dunk half of us thought it was: by explicitly stating that he was going to take the high road, Barack Obama hoped to win votes by showing himself to be the better man. There's only one problem with this calculation: red state voters don't want the better man. They want the worse man. They don't want the good son, earning plaudits from senators while in his 20s like John Kerry or working his way to the presidency of the Harvard Law Review like Obama; they want the guy who spent his salad days shooting craps and fucking strippers like McCain. It's a corollary of fundamentalist Christian ideology. Christianity is built around the idea of redemption for sin. And that narrative requires that you start off as a fuckup. Especially helpful is to be a privileged fuckup — the son and grandson of a president and a senator, say, or the son and grandson of two admirals — so that when you drop your prodigal ways (to a certain extent) and go into politics, there's a satisfying sense that you've been restored to your proper place. And a lot of Republican voters find it very important that people be kept in their proper places: that's the underlying theme of the ad in which a snippy matron huffs "How disrespectful!" at the black man challenging the white lady's lies.

[Thad]

All of which, as with the entire "elitist" line of smears, ignores Obama's humble beginnings.  Why is it that Sarah Palin gets to be the person who people think is just like them while Obama's perceived as an ivory tower other?

Because he's a Democrat.