How Palin Was Chosen

Two words: Cruise Ships. (I'm not making this up.)

The Election According to... Rove

(via Sullivan)

Still Think They Need Tax Breaks?

$14,830,000,000 in just three months. And that's pure profit.

Better 'Bama Than Broke

Middlers for Obama

Reagan for Obama (sorta)

Inspirational Video of the Day

This one's for my Dad, who died three years ago Nov 1. I wished he could have lived to see this election.

Only in America, Flipside

Only in America

"Fo as long as I live, I will never forget that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible." --Barack Obama

Something Fishy

The Political Wisdom of Gore

Vidal, that is.

Guess Who Said It?

"I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't.”

Find out here.

The People, We

Polls Don't Elect, Votes Do.

Worry.

The always insightful Dahlia Lithwick on the legal preparations for what could be a "perfect storm" for Election-Day mayhem.

Election Shenanigans Watch, Continued...

Beware, Floridans, the mysterious Raul.

Election Shenanigans Watch

Same Anti-democratic (and Anti-Democrat) crap.

Well, Someone Finally Said It...

...and The Palinator just kept talking.

Christopher Hitchens has some of his own thoughts about the Palin nomination.

Here Comes The Sun

The future. Almost here.

There might just be hope.

If Obama loses...

Forget Canada, why not really get away?

Closing Arguments

Now, vote for this man, damnit.

Ten Reasons

Sullivan delineates the reasons for a Conservative to vote for Obama.

I Heart Joan

Ms. Didion's dark but accurate insight on Election 2008 can be read here.

(Alerted to this by Jockohomo)

WTF Moment of the Day

More ballot-design problems in North Carolina might mean a loss of about 100,000 votes for President.

Senior Moment of the Day

There he goes again.

Voter Disenfranchisement 2008 Continues

A "computer error" purges 50K voters in Georgia.

Sicks Sicks Sicks

What we're up against in the "Heartland."

I grew up in a Fundamentalist Pentacostal Christianist family in Idaho, and the question I have for these facts-and-logic-defying folk is always:

So if the Antichrist would signal if not hasten the End of Days and get you to Heaven faster, why are you FIGHTING against that, and not voting for Obama to speed things along?

Abuse-of-Power Watch

It's hard to say if this is political surrealism, dadaism, or just plain irony.

Street Activism

I spent most of the day on Saturday helping other excited Obama campaign volunteers staff a table at the corner of 4th and Pine in Downtown Seattle, offering buttons, bumperstickers and the chance to take a photo with Obama (or at least a facsimile). The crowd of passers by were almost universally enthusiatic and supportive, save for a clatch of Pro-Palin frat-boys and a screaming, embittered Hillary supporter threatening to write-in her name.

We'll be there again next Saturday, the last weekend before The Big Day.

Suggested Yard Sign

The Trend

Virtuoso Performance

Donate now, donate here.

Rage Against Free Speech

Some scary Palinians are not at all pleased to see Pro-Obama folks protesting her rally.

Endorsements by Newspaper

Cool interactive graphic here.

(via Sullivan)

Change--That's Wassup.

Wassup 2008
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Senior Moment of the Day

The Really Right Answer

"Well, the correct answer is, he [Obama] is not a Muslim, he's a Christian. He's always been a Christian," he said. "But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer's no, that's not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim-American kid believing that he or she could be president? Yet, I have heard senior members of my own party drop the suggestion, 'He's a Muslim and he might be associated terrorists.' This is not the way we should be doing it in America."

--Colin Powell, on Meet the Press, Oct. 19, 2008

A Voice of Sanity--from the G.O.P.

My Vote Has Been Cast

It's in the vote-counter's hands now...

"So, Andy, What did you think of Sarah Palin on SNL?"

I'll defer to one of the Jedi Masters of the old Not Ready for Prime-Time Players to speak for me.

I prefer to laugh at, not with, that racist, sexist, homophobic joke of a ticket.

Ms. Fey--if the McPain ticket wins--I hope there's room on your rocketship for plenty of us. Do you really want to live in a country run by someone who uses the Book of Revelations as a guide for foreign policy?

McCains for Obama

More here.

Monday morning mirth

John McCain Accidentally Left On Campaign Bus Overnight

Democracy

So far, Obama has 3.1 million donors, and their average donation is $86.

Suggested Yard Sign

The Reflex

Eight Ain't Great

Donate here. I already have, twice.

"Help, I've Fallen In The Polls and I Can't Get Up!"

(Anything I would say is pretty much summed up by this photo.)

So Much for the SuperHero Vote

Apparently Lynda "Wonder Woman" Carter is not amused about comparisons between Sarah Palin and Carter's former role on TV.

"She’s judgmental and dictatorial, telling people how they’ve got to live their lives," Carter added. "And a superior religious self-righteousness … that’s just not what Wonder Woman is about. Hillary Clinton is a lot more like Wonder Woman than Mrs. Palin. She did it all, didn’t she?"

You go, girl.

They're Not US

Mental Floss reminds us of eight movements other than the Confederacy that tried to leave the Union.

Song of the South

Supposedly sighted in Florida. This is what we're up against.

If McCainanites Can Wave Blunt Signs...

...then so can we.

From the Right...

Cecilia, You're Making My Heart

A 106-year-old American nun living in a convent in Rome could well be one of the oldest voters to cast a ballot in the 2008 US Presidential election.

Sister Cecilia Gaudette, who last voted for President Eisenhower in 1952, has registered to vote and says she will vote for Democrat Barack Obama.

Give This Man A Prize! (Oh, They Did.)

On the economic policy of the Bush administration: “There is no economic policy. That’s really important to say. The general modus operandi of the Bushies is that they don’t make policies to deal with problems. They use problems to justify things they wanted to do anyway. So there is no policy to deal with the lack of jobs. There really isn’t even a policy to deal with terrorism. It’s all about how can we spin what’s happening out there to do what we want to do.”

--Paul Krugman, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics

Latest Bumpersticker

Inspired by the latest quote from the inimitable Tina Fey.

(Available for purchase here.)

In the Swing States, He Must Whip It

The original members of DEVO are reuniting to perform at a a special fundraiser concert for Obama in their hometown of Akron, Ohio. (Drool, green with envy.)

Details here.

(via Jockohomo)

Redneck-Watch 2008

Some of the news is good. Some of the news is bad.

McRage

This man as Commander in Chief? Shudder....

Another report here.

Voter Disenfranchisement 2008

Check out the map at this New York Times article to see where the most Voter Registration Challenges are taking place already...

Looking Up

(from FiveThirtyEight.com, the best polling site on the web)

Suggested Bumper Sticker

(Available for purchase here.)

Suggested Yard Sign

Terrorism

At a McCain rally in New Mexico, a crowd member cries out "Terrorist" when McCain snarls his rhetorical "Who is the REAL Barack Obama?"

At a Palin rally in Florida, while Palin accuses Obama of "palling around with terrorists" like Ayers, a crowd member says "Kill him!" At another rally, the crowd turns mean against the press, with one member hurling a racial epithet at an African American sound technician and told him to "Sit down."

The WingNuts are cornered and losing. It's getting ugly, folks--and scary.

(via Sullivan)

"Palling around with terrorists"

While Sarah Palin accuses Obama of "palling around with terrorists," HorsesAss.org points out the obvious hypocrisy with seriousness, while New York Magazine offers a more humorous angle.

Unsafe at Any Altitude

John McCain, wreckless flyboy. Well, at least a president isn't required actually to PILOT Air Force One...

A Peek Inside

(via Sullivan)

Reverse Psychology

Quote of the Day/Blast from the Past

"I watch you at these debates with no notes, no papers, and yet when asked questions, you spout off facts, figures, and policies, and I'm amazed. But then I look out into the audience and I ask myself, 'Does any of this really matter?' "

--Sarah Palin, in a conversation with an opponent for the governor's race in Alaska

With a T

Anybody happen to notice that the National Debt topped $10,000,000,000,000 this week? Didn't think so.

If Only It Weren't So Accurate

While We're All In a Tizzy About Wall Street...

The government started using satellites (paid for by some of the 638,000,000,000 of our tax dollars Congress allocated) to spy on us despite "privacy concerns."

Everybody waaaaaaave...

Endorsement

(via The Slog)