Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Afternoon Campaign Craziness

There's almost too much going on today. Here are the highlights of what I've been reading:
  • McCain picks up the al Qaeda endorsement. Naturally, his campaign is freaking.

  • In an interview with Don Imus, McCain said: "I think she's the most qualified of anyone recently who has run for vice president to tell you the truth." Cheney, Lieberman, Gore? Lightweights compared to Sarah!

  • Meanwhile, Ms. Qualified told James Dobson that McCain whole-heartedly supports the GOP party platform--including constitutional amendments banning all abortion and gay marriage. This does not jive with McCain's previously stated positions.

  • There was an anthrax scare at the New York Times today. And, I heard this morning on WGN news that there have been anthrax scares at 30 Chase Banks.

  • Gallup says 10% of registered voters have already voted early. Considering that not all registered voters end up making it to the polls, the early voters make up more than 10% of the people who will vote in this election. Word has it, Barack's doing well with the early voters, so this is huge.

I'm sure I missed something. It's been a crazy day--and I'm sure it'll be like this for the next two weeks.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

i LOVE that endorsement from actual terrorists, instead of some scrawny professor living in hyde park who barely knows obama.

also, today sarah palin said that as vp she would be "in charge" of the senate.
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/22/palin-takes-heat-for-saying-vp-in-charge-of-the-senate/

Briain said...

You know what America needs? Bigotry written right into our freaking Constitution. Asshats.

To Palin's ignorance regardng the post she is running for : Considering how much Bush expanded the powers of President beyond those granted by the Constitution, the VP might be in charge of the senate by the end of another Repulican regime. That's why we have to stop them (well, it's one of many reasons).

Of course, once the Democrats roll back all the "pissing on the Constitution" nonsense of the last 8 years, we'll probably have to stop them from enacting their own flavor of "taking away all our freedoms." But one thing at a time.