I hope so.

Via Hot Air.

Posted by: Ace at 09:04 PM | Comments (78)
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Ah, so here's that Ben Smith article people were talking about.

I'm not being a "pessimist." I am seeing the situation accurately, which John McCain is not. The public is seething in white-hot anger over the destruction of the economy and the $700+ billion (and growing!) cost to even have a chance of staving off economic catastrophe.

There is only one issue. There is only one issue.

Whoever is blamed for the crisis will lose. Catastrophically.

John McCain tried to stop it, but won't say so. The Democrats engineered the crisis, but he refuses to blame them. (Sorry, PUMAs, but it's true -- even Bill Clinton said the Democrats blocked the necessary oversight because all they cared about was affordable housing.) Obama voted present, but he won't note that, because Obama's black and to suggest he did anything wrong would be racist.

There is only one issue.

Yes, they believed the charges against Obama. Yes, they actually think he's too liberal, consorts with bad people and WON'T BE A GOOD PRESIDENT...but they STILL don't give a f***. They said right out, "He won't do anything better than McCain" but they're STILL voting for Obama.

The two most unreal moments of my professional life of watching focus groups:

54 year-old white male, voted Kerry '04, Bush '00, Dole '96, hunter, NASCAR fan...hard for Obama said: "I'm gonna hate him the minute I vote for him. He's gonna be a bad president. But I won't ever vote for another god-damn Republican. I want the government to take over all of Wall Street and bankers and the car companies and Wal-Mart run this county like we used to when Reagan was President."

...

I felt like I was taking crazy pills.

McCain won't make this case, however. And the entire Republican Party will suffer for it.

It's not "defeatism" to scream to your party leader that he is destroying your party.

Incidentally? McCain running as a POW Maverick reformer who reaches across the aisle?

Helps only him. It's as if he's unwilling to make an argument if, incidentally, it would also help other Republicans win.

He's determined to have a Lonely Victory or none at all.

Styen: McCain has no one to blame but himself.

Posted by: Ace at 08:58 PM | Comments (105)
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The Secret Service has investigated and could find no one who heard it besides the one reporter who claims he heard it.

Yeah well that's nice but The Narrative must be served. Obama brought it up at the debate and I've already seen the clip played on a bunch of news shows. As the old saying goes, "A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on."

UPDATE: Thanks to Slublog, below the fold we keep the new format alive. more...

Posted by: DrewM at 08:10 PM | Comments (67)
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Again, on points, and on the subjects actually discussed, McCain won.

As he did the other two debates.

But he did not address Issue Number One -- the subprime crisis, his attempt to stop it, and Obama's refusal to do anything.

So he lost -- again.

He can win on all the topics being discussed but if he cannot address the "Dark Star" in whose gravity-well the entire campaign spirals, he loses.

He lost.

It was his choice.

Thanks to jenjis for the pic and Ace Queen for the caption.

Posted by: Ace at 06:32 PM | Comments (504)
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So, as I said to the comorons, we're switching over to an all-LOLcat, all the time format.

Posted by: Ace at 06:27 PM | Comments (55)
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If McCain loses, this sounds like a pretty good plan B idea to me.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at 04:56 PM | Comments (29)
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Obama's already released his talking points to the media. As if they didn't already know what they were supposed to say.

And while we're waiting, let's ponder the breathtaking scope of this year's voter fraud.

Thanks to CJ for that last one.

I Agree With Everything O'Reilly Just Said About the Debate and Message: And I'm not an O'Reilly fan.

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Posted by: Ace at 03:52 PM | Comments (262)
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Write a good story about Obie and we'll invite you to the inauguration.

...Mrs Obama asked API to write a good story about her husband and that will earn API an invitation to the innoguration ceremony when, as she put it , her husband will be installed as the next President of the United States of America next year.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at 03:50 PM | Comments (45)
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Ah, but it was just a foiled attempt on Bush's life, and we all know the media doesn't care about such aggressive guerrilla activism.

The headline blares assassination attempt foiled. I'm not sure we actually got to that stage -- looks so far like threatening messages were the biggest offense.

So far. But the story is developing.

A man in possession of a Chinese passport and an AK-47 was arrested in a Fairfax hotel Sept. 30 for sending threatening messages to President George W. Bush and former Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates.

According to an Oct. 5 search warrant affidavit filed in Fairfax Circuit Court, the United States Secret Service contacted Fairfax police on Sept. 30 after tracking a man named Charn-Chen DAI to an Extended Stay America hotel on Lee Jackson Memorial Highway in Fairfax. Both agencies questioned DAI at that time.

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Hey, Obie knows best, right? He knows you should be donating to him and will conveniently make sure you do so even if you don't want to. Think of it kinda like setting up an automatic payment for your bills. Only its a payment you never setup and never wanted to make.

...Steve and Rachel Larman say a strange credit card charge appeared on their statement this month -- a $2300 donation to Barack Obama's presidential campaign...

Posted by: Purple Avenger at 01:48 PM | Comments (18)
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