THE McCAIN CAMPAIGN STARTING TO IMPLODE

With 10 days remaining, polls not showing a likely victory, that pesky Electoral College showing it's not even going to be close, the McCain advisers are starting the finger pointing...and it's all directed at Sarah "Hockey Lipstick Beauty Pitbull" Palin.

Who DIDN'T see this coming?!

McCain sources say Palin has gone off-message several times, and they privately wonder whether the incidents were deliberate. They cited an instance in which she labeled robocalls -- recorded messages often used to attack a candidate's opponent -- "irritating" even as the campaign defended their use. Also, they pointed to her telling reporters she disagreed with the campaign's decision to pull out of Michigan.

A second McCain source says she appears to be looking out for herself more than the McCain campaign.

"She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone," said this McCain adviser. "She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else.

"Also, she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember: Divas trust only unto themselves, as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom."

THE DEPTHS McCAIN SUPPORTERS WILL SINK TO...

***UPDATE***
She now admitted it was complete bullshit. To think that McCain and Palin actually CALLED this girl, ran with this story, attempted to make it a political issue. They should all be ashamed of themselves. Their race-baiting tactics and getting their supporters wrapped up in paranoid schemes. Is it any wonder she tried this? It NEARLY worked!
***UPDATE***


This story broke late last night, and at the time, Drudge had it above the headline, attempting to make it TEH BIGGEST STORY EVAR!!!

And hey, with a photo like this, it's no wonder the AP ran with it, hours later:



A knife-wielding man robbed a McCain-Palin campaign volunteer and etched a "B" into her face after he saw a McCain bumper sticker on her car, the woman told Pittsburgh police.

Todd told police she handed the man $60 she had in her pocket and stepped away from him. The man then noticed the bumper sticker on her car, which was parked in front of the ATM, and became angry, she told police.

He made comments to Todd about Republican presidential candidate John McCain and punched her in the back of the head, knocking her to the ground, police said Todd told them.

"He continued to kick and punch her repeatedly and said he would teach her a lesson for supporting John McCain," said police Chief Nate Harper.

The man scratched a backward "B" onto Todd's right cheek, she told police. Todd, who isn't familiar with the area, drove to a friend's house nearby. She told her friend she wasn't sure of the exact location the robbery happened but remembered a green sign above the ATM.

The friend called police and an officer met them at his house. They drove along Liberty Avenue until Todd saw a Citizens Bank ATM that looked familiar, police said.

Police said Todd declined medical treatment at the scene. Her friend, a law student at University of Pittsburgh, said he took her to UPMC Shadyside for treatment.

Police said she described the attacker as black, about 6-foot-4, and said he was wearing dark-colored jeans and a black tank top. She said he had a knife with a 5-inch blade and ran from the scene on foot, Harper said.

But, too much of this "attack" doesn't add up. Luckily, many on the internet are putting together pieces that don't fit together, and the police are giving her a lie detector, so the truth will be revealed shortly.

* The "B" carved into her face is backwards, (although that might have appeared correctly in a mirror?!) and never breaks the skin. What kind of knife did he use? Plastic?!

* You're going to rob someone at 9pm, get the cash, and stick around for another 10 minutes to carve a letter into someone's face? Allowing potential witnesses to see you and for your victim to struggle and make more of a scene? All to make a political statement?! Does that make any sense?

* After this horrible ordeal, she REFUSES medical treatment. Instead, she updates her Twitter account?!

It's a shame that shit like this spreads like wildfire so easily. A white McCain supporter gets assaulted by a black Obama supporter. Who needs anything else? That mother fucker is guilty...even if he doesn't actually exist.

JOHN McCAIN IS A SOCIALIST?!

Well, at least he USED to be...back when John McCain was John McCain and not the "change my mind every other day depending on if it might win me an election" Man he is now.



The bottom line is how utterly absurd this "Obama is a Socialist" talking point has become. Along with the notion that tax cuts for 95% of the American workers is somehow "welfare." We've tried it the other way for too long. Giving tax credits and corporate "welfare" to the top didn't trickle down shit. The wealthy got more wealthy and the poor got more poor. It's time we got our priorities in order and looked out for those in the middle. Focus on the average plumbers, not the ones making $250,000 a year.

And by the way, I was curious just how "massive" this tax raise was going to be for those individuals making OVER $250,000, so I looked it up. I dunno about you, but from all the panic and fear that Republicans had been spewing, I figured it was going to be insanely high. Turns out, it simply goes back to the level it was under Clinton.

It's now at 36%, and Obama's going to raise it to 39%

HOLY SHITBALLS!!! THREE POINTS?!

I really feel for those rich bastards.

I <3 BANKSY

(My wife mentioned this to me the other day and I totally forgot to blog about it!)

Street Guerrilla Artist BANSKY opened a Pet Store (and Grill) in New York recently. Check it out if you live nearby.

Some highlights:

TONIGHT

Be there or go fuck yourself.
(Sorry, just saw "W" and can't quit quoting Cheney.)

CREEPY RACIST GUY AT PALIN RALLY

This video was what I saw first, a couple days ago, taken by the CBS News team covering the rally.

He's all smiles, holding onto his Curious George doll around with an Obama 08 bumper sticker wrapped around it's head...until he notices the camera crew staring up at him. He quickly rips the sticker off, stands there like a sweating doofus, looking back and forth, eventually hands the doll to the boy in front of him. It was creepy and send chills down my spine.


...that was until I came across ANOTHER video of this same asshole!!! This time, taken on his way into the Town Hall, and he's talking to the camera and waving it around, as proud as he can be...


This has gotten out of control.

THE HOLE McCAIN HAS DUG HIMSELF INTO

Here's the problem with going nasty with fierce attack ads...they work. They get people riled up and angry, because they're already desperate for an easy target to lay their worries and fears upon.

So, after spending the better part of two weeks asking questions like, "Who IS Barack Obama?" and attempting to make him best friends with "terrorists," John McCain faced the difficult challenge of trying to correct his audience.

McCain was responding to a town hall attendee who claimed he was concerned about raising a child under a president who "cohorts with domestic terrorists such as [Bill] Ayers." Despite the fact that McCain and his campaign have repeatedly used Ayers to hammer Obama in recent days, the Arizona Senator tried to calm the man.

"[Senator Obama] is a decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared about as President of the United States," he said, before adding: "If I didn't think I would be one heck of a better president I wouldn't be running."

The crowd groaned with disapproval.

*****

"I don't trust Obama," a woman said. "I have read about him. He's an Arab."

"No, ma'am," McCain said several times, shaking his head in disagreement. "He's a decent, family man, [a] citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues and that's what this campaign is all about."

Gee, John, I wonder why she'd get a crazy idea like that?! Maybe she didn't see all those television ads where you talked about Obama being a "decent, family man?!"

Oh, that's right, because you chose to make him appear scary and dangerous instead...

BARACK OSAMA?!

This supposedly went through 3 sets of "proof readers" and still ended up on hundreds of official ballots in New York State’s Rensselaer County.

Somebody needs to be fired over this shit. How can it be a "typo" when the S and B keys aren't even near each other on the keyboard?!

SAW A NEW McCAIN AD ON TV TONIGHT...

...and apparently, he CAN sink lower:


Here's the reason this ad is beyond the pale. John McCain said basically the EXACT SAME THING back in 2000, about the Kosovo air raids...


And that line about "Liberals voting against funding the troops" leaves out that McCain did the very same thing, because he didn't agree with "timetables for withdrawl." Not to mention that none of those bills ever passed.

But that's just silly ol' me trying to interject "facts" into a campaign that feeds on lies and smears. Who needs truth when your favorite Republican talking point is "The Liberals hate the troops!!" It works too, right?!

What's that?

The polls are actually showing that this constant negative campaigning is HURTING McCain with Independents? Especially women? But...I thought those bitches knew their place once he picked Palin?!

Hmmmmmmm...

The best part of watching this ad air in between the commercial breaks for The Office tonight was hearing Molly's reaction. She's hardly the political junkie I am, and much more "down the middle" than a furious Liberal bleeding heart freak like me. After John McCain's creepy, glowing smiling face comes on there with his, "I approve this message" quote, she shakes her head in disgust and says, "He should be ashamed of himself."

Truer words have never been spoken.

McCAIN'S LAST GRASP

This is it. This is all he has. One last chance to scare the American public into thinking that Obama is dangerous, has terrorist "friends," and is somehow hiding his "true agenda."

It's a 1:30 ad called "Ayers" and is the same old bullshit everyone's heard for months now...only with a bitchy woman's voice added for effect:


And for anyone (one of you) who thinks this is the kind of thing that McCain NEEDS to do with less than a month away from the election, check out this clip of a guy asking questions before a McCain-Palin rally in Ohio. The people come out and say that Obama is a terrorist, in a manner that it's somehow just assumed at this point. Like, "Duh! His name is Muslim, what else you need to know?!"



And before you act like these are random people and they don't speak for the campaign...who do you think these ads are trying to preach to? They're nothing but red meat for these kind of paranoid, creepy, borderline racist nutjobs.

It boils down to this...

Do you want to lift people up, have them come together for the greater good, bringing out the best of us, in an attempt to get America back on track?

Or do you want to divide us into hating one another with fear and paranoia, bringing out the worst in us, just so you can win an election?

It's that simple.