McBush/McSame Bashing Special Edition (Palin-Biden Debate Edition)

A special edition because I felt like it.

Thursday

• Howard Fineman: Palin is Test of McCain’s Judgment

• Kos, RNC calls McCain a liar
• HuffPo, McCain Camp’s Pre-Debate Spin: Palin Doesn’t Need To Pass IQ Test
• Politico, McCain pulling out of Michigan
• Crooks & Liars, Obama Hits Back Hard Against McCain on the Economy
• TPM McCain Says Bailout Bill He Voted For Is ‘Putting Us On The Brink Of Economic Disaster’
• Foon Rhee, Boston.com, McCain: Life isn’t fair
  • CNN, McCain: Obama lead growing because ‘life isn’t fair’
• A Siegel, Progressive Blue, Truth is utterly optional
• Veterans For American, Initial Findings Released: Alaska’s National Guard Has Reached a Crisis Point, Veterans for America Finds

Wednesday

• David Nather, Beyond the Dome, Obama Makes McCain Very Uncomfortable
• TPM, McCain Campaign Again Blames Obama For Bailout Collapse While Calling For End To Fingerpointing and New McCain Ad Decries The Partisanship He Indulged In Repeatedly
• Political Animal, McCain’s foreign policy advisor
• Michael Bérubé, So you Palin-mockers think you’re so smart (“Welcome to the Palindrome!”)
• Gary Farber, Amygdala, Blankness
• Kagro X, Kos, Yet Another Slick Sarah Palin Secret E-Mail Account
• Rolling Stone, The Truth About Sarah Palin
• Nicholas Thompson, Washington Monthly, How John McCain’s techno-monopolism will hurt the economy
• From Needlenose:
  
  
• Political Animal, A new, easier media strategy
• Political Animal, She’s no Harry Truman
• MoJo blog, McCain Campaign Takes the Hard Questions
• BarbinMD, Kos, McCain Campaign Attacks An Attack That Didn’t Happen
• Harry Hanbury, Palin’s Apocalypse
• Best of John McCain at the Des Moines Register Editorial Board
  • See the full trainwreck at the Des Moines Register, Full Video of Editorial Meeting with McCain
  • Or try the commentary at TPMtv: McCain Teeth-Grit-Athon!
• VetVoice, McCain’s Miserable Record of Not Supporting America’s Troops and Veterans
• Nitpicker, McCain’s timing is as impeccable as ever
• Campaign Money Watch, TV Ad: Keating

• HuffPo, McCain Repeating Keating Era Mistakes, Regulator Warns
• Oxdown, FDL, If you can’t face Maureen Dowd…
• Rolling Stone, John McCain, Make-Believe Maverick
• Calnurses, ONE HEARTBEAT AWAY: A Swing State Ad About Palin

• Political Animal, The gift that keeps on giving (Palin being interviewed…)
• Jesus’s General, The World According to Palin-McCain:
  

Tuesday

• HuffPo, McCain Ad Distorts Obama, Day After Decrying Gotcha Journalism
• Kaine: McCain’s choice of Palin less serious than hiring someone for a summer job
• AP, One-in-four chance McCain may not survive 2nd term. Forecast: 25% Palin. Wow.
• Kevin Drum, McCain and bin Laden
• Political Animal, Would McCain ‘suspend’ again?
• Brave New Films, John McCain: Economic Disaster

• Political Animal, Sometimes, a dig is just a dig
• Oxdown, FiredogLake 8:30 AM McCain Supports Bailout – 8:50 AM McCain Ad Against Bailout
  • Political Animal, The RNC vs. the McCain campaign
• Crooks & Liars, McCain/Palin’s bizarre definition of “gotcha journalism”
• Young Turks TV, Newsweek Reporter Tells the Truth About Sarah Palin

• The G Spot, McCain Tabloid Watch: Cindy McCain drug scandal edition
  
• HuffPo, New Urgency Over McCain Medical Questions As Election Nears
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Monday

• Obama Ad, Same Path

• DeLong, Palin’s Staff Says that She Knows Nothing About Any Supreme Court Decision—Except Roe
• Political Animal, Isn’t another ‘suspension’ necessary?
• TPM, But I’m An Orphan, He Told the Judge …
• Kos, McCain Claims Credit For Bailout Before It Failed
• Political Animal, He was for phoning it in before he was against it
  • When the gambler rolls snake eyes
  • Crooks & Liars, Chris Matthews: Bailout failed because McCain’s leadership failed
  • TalkLeft, McCain Blames Obama and Democrats for Bail Out Failure
• Political Animal, About that bracelet….
• Glenn W. Smith, Religion Dispatches, Dispatches from the Election: John McCain, Great White Nope
• AFL-CIO NOW Blog, 36 Days: Unions Educate Members About McCain’s Anti-Worker Record
• Juan Cole, Worst Campaign Ever
• Obama-Biden Ad, Parachute

• Andrew Sullivan, The Lies And Lies And Lies Of Sarah Palin
• DNC, Betting on McCain

• David Post, Palin to Withdraw!

Sunday

• Crooks & Liars, Meet The Press: Brokaw’s “Fairness” Facts Pulled Out Of Thin Air To Make McCain Look Better
• Fred Clark, Slacktivist, She doesn’t care
• Down With Tyranny, The Most Shocking Endorsement So Far This Year (“The last time the Stockton Record, an arch-conservative Republican mouthpiece in northern California, endorsed a Democrat for president was at the height of the Depression, in 1936, when they came out for the re-election of the most popular and beloved president in history, Franklin Roosevelt.”)
• Scholars & Rogues, Worst Week: Gonna be a big one for John McCain
• USA Today/Gallop Poll: Obama Did Better in First Debate
  • Informed Comment, Obama Won: Gallup/USA Today Poll; 52% Say Obama best to Fix Problems, vs. 35% for McCain
  • Crooks & Liars, Dick Morris says Obama won the debate and that angers Hannity
• Political Animal, Palin doesn’t speak for campaign
  • Jonah Gelbach, Prawfsblawg, If A Candidate Says Something, Does That Count As Saying Something?
• Delong, John McCain: Dishonorable, Dishonest, and Butt-Ignorant
• Crooks & Liars, SNL Spoofs Palin/Couric Interview
• The Washington Note, Tina Fey Does Some More Palinizing
• Georgia10, Kos, SuperMcCain
• WashPo, Mine Fallout Lingers for Palin
• Joho the Blog, Daily (intermittent) Open Ended Puzzle: Top Ten Reasons Palin Cancels Debate
• South Florida Daily Blog, Senator John McCain Is Unpatriotic….
• The Buzz, Schale: Enthusiasm will swing FL to Obama
• Jo Becker & Don Van Natta Jr., NYT, For McCain and Team, a Host of Ties to Gambling
• TalkLeft’s Jeralyn deconstructs John McCain’s “Mum” Ad. It’s not pretty.
• Political Animal, Rick Davis, Yet Again
• LA Times, Palin treads carefully between fundamentalist beliefs and public policy
  

  Soon after Sarah Palin was elected mayor of the foothill town of Wasilla, Alaska, she startled a local music teacher by insisting in casual conversation that men and dinosaurs coexisted on an Earth created 6,000 years ago — about 65 million years after scientists say most dinosaurs became extinct — the teacher said.

  After conducting a college band and watching Palin deliver a commencement address to a small group of home-schooled students in June 1997, Wasilla resident Philip Munger said, he asked the young mayor about her religious beliefs.

  Palin told him that “dinosaurs and humans walked the Earth at the same time,” Munger said. When he asked her about prehistoric fossils and tracks dating back millions of years, Palin said “she had seen pictures of human footprints inside the tracks,” recalled Munger, who teaches music at the University of Alaska in Anchorage and has regularly criticized Palin in recent years on his liberal political blog, called Progressive Alaska.

• Frank Rich, NYT, Op-Ed Columnist: McCain’s Suspension Bridge to Nowhere

Saturday

• Political Animal, Funding the troops
• Political Animal, Mr. Freeze
• Kagro X, Kos, Palin’s Morphing into Cheney Continues
• James Fallows, The Atlantic, On strategy and tactics
• Delong, Marc Ambinder Calls John McCain a Liar
• Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek, Palin Is Ready? Please. McCain says that he always puts country first. In this important case, that is simply not true.
• Delong, John McCain: Dishonest, Dishonorable, Underbriefed, and Butt-Ignorant
• Delong, McCain Misremembered the Eisenhower Story
• Leiter, An Open Apology to Ignorant Yahoos
• Bob Herbert, NYT, Op-Ed Columnist: Palin’s Words Raise Red Flags
• HuffPo, Obama Is Right: McCain Was Wrong

• Jo Becker & Don Van Natta Jr., NYT, McCain and Team Have Many Ties to Gambling Industry
• Needlenose, Will McCain’s next Hail Mary pass be “Here Comes the Bride”?
• Man or Maniac?, Before you CUT the budget, you need to UNDERSTAND it.
• Reidblog, The reviews: Obama won (even George Will thinks so)
• Pachacutec, Firedoglake, Why Does McCain Blink So Much?
• Crooks & Liars, Presidential Debate: McCain Doesn’t Know Ike
• Obama Ad, Zero

Friday

• Letterman slams McCain for second night

• Jack Cafferty Tells Us How He Really Feels About Sarah Palin

• Kos, Sarah Palin Has Never Heard Kissinger Say, “Yeah”
• TalkLeft, Is The Pence Plan The McCain Bailout Plan?
• Washington Note, President of Paraguay Turns Down Meeting with Sarah Palin
• First Read, MS-NBC, Losing the Spin War
• ABC‘s Jake Tapper, Conservatives Embarrassed About Palin (No. 2 in a Series) — ‘She Makes George W. Bush Sound Like Cicero’
• HuffPo, Ex-Adviser: McCain “Blinked,” Campaign “Governed By Tactics, Not Ideology”
• Chris Cillizza, The Fix, WashPo, The Fix: McCain Blinks
• Oliver Willis, Blink
• Spencer Ackerman, You Can Have It All, My Empire Of Dirt
• WashPo Blog, McCain Wins Debate
• Down With Tyranny, Former Congressman John Buchanan (R-AL) Wonders What happened To The John McCain He Knew And Supported
• TNR, Focus Groups, Undecideds For Obama
• Pop-up Double Talk: Ole Miss Debate

• Politico, GOP concerned about Palin
• SEN. REID: John McCain Was Silent @ White House Meeting; Lacks “Temperament” to Be President

• Top clips captured last week at McCain and Palin events:
  • Demonstrators yell ‘No third term’ at McCain
  • McCain: Taxpayers Shouldn’t Pay For ‘Bloated Golden Parachutes’
  • McFire Changes His Tune, ‘I Admire And Respect’ Paulson ‘A Great Deal’
  • Press Frustration With McCain Bubbles Over: Is This The ‘No-Talk Express?’
  • Town Haller Asks McCain How He’s Supposed To Pay For $18,000/Year Health Care With $5,0000 Credit
  • McCain Is ‘Proud’ To Have Supported GI Bill ‘In Its Final Form’
  • McCain: ‘Service To Country Should Not Come At The Cost Of A Civilian Career’
  • It Was ‘Nearly Pre-Ordained’ That My Occupation ‘Would One Day Take Me To War’
  • McCain: SEC Displayed ‘Mismanagement And Greed,’ Allowed Naked Short Selling and Permitted Hedge Funds To Gamble With Our Money
  • McCain: Americans Tired Of ‘Cozy Relationship Between Politicians And Power Brokers’
  • McCain Decries The ‘Corruption And Manipulation’ Of Our Home-Loan System That Set Off This Current Crisis

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