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…the prom queen ain’t ready for the VP debate.

McCain supporter Sen. Lindsey Graham tells CNN the McCain campaign is proposing to the Presidential Debate Commission and the Obama camp that if there’s no bailout deal by Friday, the first presidential debate should take the place of the VP debate, currently scheduled for next Thursday, October 2 in St. Louis.

McCain cancelled his appearance on Letterman tonight and Dave was none too pleased. Especially when he found out that McCain was right down the block doing an interview with Katie Couric.

you don’t mess with the Dave.

In the middle of the taping Dave got word that McCain was, in fact just down the street being interviewed by Katie Couric. Dave even cut over to the live video of the interview, and said, “Hey Senator, can I give you a ride home?”

Earlier in the show, Dave kept saying, “You don’t suspend your campaign. This doesn’t smell right. This isn’t the way a tested hero behaves.” And he joked: “I think someone’s putting something in his metamucil.”

“He can’t run the campaign because the economy is cratering? Fine, put in your second string quarterback, Sarah Palin. Where is she?”

“What are you going to do if you’re elected and things get tough? Suspend being president? We’ve got a guy like that now!”

That’s right. In addition to not knowing how many houses he owns, driving 13 cars, and walking around in $500 loafers Richie Rich spent $5,583.43 for the make up services of the woman pictured above— according the the Federal Election Commission.

Remember when people went nuts over John Edwards’ haircuts and Obama’s acceptance speech stage? What will the media say about McCain’s make up? I’m betting with the exception of Rachel Maddow or Olbermann, no one says shit.

In her interview with America’s Sweeheart, Katie Couric, Sarah Palin, choked when asked if she could name a single example of McCain pushing for regulation in the past 26 years.

After being asked by Couric to site a specific example of McCain pushing for regulation in the past 26 years, Palin refused to answer, then veered towards a bunch of B.S. about McCain being a “maverick”. Couric later pressed the prom queen about “specific examples” and Palin said she’s “try and find some” later.

lame.

We first featured this story here, but there’s new dirt. The National Enquirer has has completed their “exhaustive” probe of Sarah Palin and her back doorman, Brad Hanson. Here’s the skinny: apparently the affair went down in the 90s and Sarah Palin’s friends say that though the love flowed deep, Palin maintained (to her girlfriends, anyway) that the relationship was never “consummated” (think Monica, blue dress). Palin’s husband Todd and Brad Hanson were homeboys, who were in bidness together until Todd found out Brad and Sarah had been “bonding” over “shared interests”. (What kinda “bonding” would make a husband tell his wife she can’t talk to his friend no more?) The witness: Former brother-in-law of Brad Hanson, Craig Bratton, is the one spilling the beans. Bratton claims, “everyone knew Brad was having an affair.” and that word has gone down he family pipeline that if anyone comes asking to deny the affair was with Palin. However….

Bratton has been given a polygraph test and passed! with flying colors. Uh-oh.

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Serial whore chaser and Fox “News” liar Bill O’Reilly is claiming that in a “60 Minutes” interview McCain was asked about the economic crisis, while Obama was not during his “60 Minutes” interview.

Quote from sexual predator, Bill O’Reilly:

All right, here I am. Now, John McCain was on 60 Minutes along with Barack Obama last night. They didn’t ask Obama — Steve Kroft did not — about this financial disaster, OK? But they did ask McCain. Roll the tape.

O’Reilly proceeds to roll tape on the McCain interview where Richie Rich was, in fact, asked about the financial crisis. Then in true Fox fashion, O’Reilly neglects to roll tape from the Obama interview. Wanna know why? ‘Cuz Obama was asked about the financial crisis— several times— and O’Reilly is a lying douchebag. Transcript after the jump.

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Obama’s team has responded to McCain’s cry for mercy and it ain’t pretty. Basically they had this to day: See you Friday, bitch!

Or in political speak courtesy of the Obama camp: “The debate is on”, said a senior campaign official.

Now look for team McCain to claim, “Obama wants to win more than he wants to fix the economy.” “Obama isn’t bipartisan”, etc. etc.

You know, Team Bambi really walked into this one. By calling McCain early this morning to ask about issuing a joint statement, Obama has given the McCain team an opening to make this debate about something other than the economy. Namely, Obama. Which is what they want.

They don’t want to talk about issues and now they don’t have to. Now they’ll get to spend the next two days talking about Obama.

In the end Barry will have created this mess himself. As I’ve said before, he just don’t got that killer instinct.

Let me explain. Obama called McCain at 8:30am this morning to suggest he and McCain issue a joint statement with regard to the current economic meltdown. Stung by recent polling that shows him getting his ass kicked, McCain took six hours to respond to Obama and agreed to the idea of a joint statement. MINUTES later the little bitch took to the podium himself calling for what? a pause in campaigning and desire to work with Obama in a bipartisan way to solve the economic crisis.

In other words, he stole Obama’s idea, came out to the press solo and made it look like the whole thing was his idea.

In addition, McCain is crying uncle on the debates, knowing full-well he’ll get his ass kicked this friday with the nation so entirely focused on economic issues. Although the debate is to focus on national security, look for the questioners to turn every “national security” question into an economic question. That’s a debate McCain will lose. As such, he don’t want to play.

If the Obama team falls for this stupid shit and agrees to postpone the debate, they deserve whatever they get…

The original spoiled rich kid doesn’t want you to know how bad he’s fucked up the war in Afghanistan, so he’s going to keep it a secret until after the election.

Full story here.

Is this seriously the best they can do?

Wanna see a good ad? Click here. Or here.

The pitbull can’t seem to walk a straight line. Here’s the break down in no uncertain terms from the Atlantic:

- She has lied about the Bridge To Nowhere. She ran for office favoring it, wore a sweatshirt defending it, and only gave it up when the federal congress, Senator McCain in particular, went ballistic. She kept the money anyway and favors funding Don Young’s Way, at twice the cost of the original bridge.

- She has lied about her firing of the town librarian and police chief of Wasilla, Alaska.

- She has lied about pressure on Alaska’s public safety commissioner to fire her ex-brother-in-law.

- She has lied about her previous statements on climate change.

- She has lied about Alaska’s contribution to America’s oil and gas production.

- She has lied about when she asked her daughters for their permission for her to run for vice-president.

- She has lied about the actual progress in constructing a natural gas pipeline from Alaska.

- She has lied about Obama’s position on habeas corpus.

- She has lied about her alleged tolerance of homosexuality.

- She has lied about the use or non-use of a TelePrompter at the St Paul convention.

- She has lied about her alleged pay-cut as mayor of Wasilla.

- She has lied about what Alaska’s state scientists concluded about the health of the polar bear population in Alaska.

Although recent polls show Obama gaining in a national race, we all know that ain’t how this shit is decided— if the American people got to choose the president we wouldn’t have this problem.

What does matter is the electoral college and there Obama is making some nice gains— probably due to the shift from bullshit like lipstick to real issues like the economy. (Bambi don’t do bullshit.)

Barry has broken out in the battleground states of Virginia and Florida according to the latest polling data. Moreover, Richie Rich and his team are having to worry about shit they should have all wrapped up like Indiana and North Carolina.

Since the conventions, Obama has also gained ground in the battlegrounds of Colorado and New Mexico.

This don’t mean it’s all over for grandpa Simpson, though. He still got good prospects in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ohio, but this recent polling is encouraging for Obama.

During the 2006 campaign there was criticism that Palin was ducking debates and candidate forums.

From the Anchorage Daily News:

Last week, the Knowles campaign also pointed out Palin’s cancellation of a meeting with Alaska Native corporation chief executives Oct. 3, asking if she’s only attending events she’s comfortable with.

Palin said Friday it wouldn’t have been appropriate to attend the meeting out of respect for the audience.

“I didn’t know enough about tribal government and we did not have time to do all the research to give the subject its due,” she said.

Asked about the cancellation at the time, her campaign spokesman, Smith, talked about Palin’s hectic schedule.

“There’s always competing obligations,” Palin said Friday.

Knowles’ campaign manager, Leslie Ridle, said not being ready isn’t a good excuse.

Response from The New Republic:

If only I’d have thought of that back in high school: No ma’am. I didn’t do the assignment–didn’t know anything about The Great Gatsby and didn’t think it was appropriate to write the paper, out of respect for you and my classmates. It’s f***ing brilliant!

Sick and fucking tired of the Palin-McCain ticket railroading their coverage, the media has started to bite back (See here and here).

The Associated Press actually led with this sentence in this piece yesterday (wow!):

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Less than a week after balking at the Alaska Legislature’s investigation into her alleged abuse of power, Gov. Sarah Palin on Monday indicated she will cooperate with a separate probe run by people she can fire.

I seriously thought it was from the Onion at first.

Maybe you’ve seen this story already or maybe you missed it. But it’s too good to ignore. Palin stayed home 315 days during her time as Governor of Alaska, so not counting the weekends, she spent a total of 85 days in the state capitol during her entire tenure. Members of the Alaska state legislature, run by Republicans, actually had “Where’s Sarah?” buttons printed up.

So, that’s it. She can see Alaska from her house and has 85 days experience. What’s this say About McCain’s judgment to be commander-in-chief?