Top Items:
![](/081007/i136.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
The Palins' un-American activities — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her husband, Todd, at a rally in Vienna, Ohio, on Sept. 16, 2008. — “My government is my worst enemy. I'm going to fight them with any means at hand.” — This was former revolutionary terrorist Bill Ayers back in his old Weather Underground days, right?
RELATED:
![](/img/pml.png)
HIS DISGRACE KNOWS NO BOUNDS — As we saw yesterday, John McCain's latest gambit is to juice up his and Palin's crowds into calling Obama a “terrorist”, hurling racial epithets at black reporters (presumably, there aren't many in attendance as supporters), or just random calls for murder.
![](/img/pml.png)
Unleashed, Palin Makes a Pit Bull Look Tame — FORT MYERS, Fla., Oct. 6 John McCain is collapsing in the polls in Florida and other swing states, but Sarah Palin, God bless her, has a solution. — “For me, the heels are on, the gloves are off,” she announced at high noon Monday to a group …
Discussion:
Firedoglake, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Althouse, The Huffington Post, TPM Election Central, Comments from Left Field, Tales from the Trail, Jack & Jill Politics, pandagon.net, NewsBusters.org, BlueOregon, DownWithTyranny!, Newsweek Blogs, The Raw Story, Hot Air, Political Machine, The Daily Dish, CBS News, First Draft, Mathew Gross, Midwest Voices and No Silence Here
![](/img/pml.png)
Obama Hatred On Display Again At Palin Rally, Supporter Screams “Treason!” — In the latest instance of inflammatory outbursts at McCain-Palin rallies, a crowd member screamed “treason!” during an event on Tuesday after Sarah Palin accused Barack Obama of criticizing U.S. troops.
![](/img/pml.png)
Gallup Daily: 9-Point Obama Lead Ties Campaign High — Voters prefer Obama to McCain by 51% to 42% — PRINCETON, NJ — The latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking poll shows registered voters preferring Barack Obama to John McCain for president by 51% to 42%. — The nine percentage point lead …
RELATED:
![](/img/pml.png)
Americans' Satisfaction at All-Time Low of 9% — Dismal rating sets stage for town hall-style debate — USA - Election 2008 - Government and Politics - Most Important Problem - Satisfaction - Americas - Northern America — PRINCETON, NJ — Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John …
Discussion:
AFL-CIO NOW BLOG, Ross Douthat, American Power, Think Progress, GOVGAP and War and Piece
![](/img/pml.png)
William Ayers' past was unknown: Obama — NASHVILLE — Barack Obama has since condemned the Vietnam war-protest tactics of William Ayers, though a top adviser said today Obama didn't know of his past when Ayers hosted a campaign reception for Obama in 1995.
Discussion:
Political Machine, Washington Post, Townhall.com, Commentary, www.redstate.com, TIME.com and Wake up America
RELATED:
![](/img/pml.png)
Sarah Palin: Obama's ‘left-wing agenda’
Discussion:
The Huffington Post, FiveThirtyEight.com, Ben Smith's Blogs, Hot Air, The Caucus, Top of the Ticket and PrestoPundit
![](/img/pml.png)
Obama Outspending McCain Nearly 3 to 1 on Television — Barack Obama is outspending John McCain at nearly a three-to-one clip on television time in the final weeks of the presidential election, according to ad buy information obtained by The Fix, a financial edge that is almost certainly contributing …
RELATED:
![](/img/pml.png)
ACORN office in Vegas raided in voter-fraud probe — LAS VEGAS (AP) - Nevada state authorities are raiding the Las Vegas headquarters of an organization that works to get low-income people to vote. — A Nevada secretary of state's office spokesman said Tuesday that investigators are looking …
Discussion:
The Jawa Report, Hullabaloo, Townhall.com, The Raw Story, Atlas Shrugs, TPMMuckraker, www.redstate.com, Riehl World View and NO QUARTER
RELATED:
![](/img/pml.png)
McCain dumps racial-joking campaigner — The McCain campaign has denounced a racially charged, anti-Barack Obama newspaper column written by one of the Republican campaign's organizers in Virginia, and has removed the author-activist from his post as a member of the candidate's statewide leadership team …
RELATED:
![](/081007/i123.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
Advisers worry about ‘grumpy McCain’ — When Politico's Ryan Grim approached Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) after the evening of the Senate bailout vote, the reporter didn't even get his question out. — “Excuse me, you're bothering me,” McCain said. — It was a surprising rebuke …
![](/img/pml.png)
After Bailout, AIG Executives Head to Resort — Less than a week after the federal government offered an $85 billion bailout to insurance giant AIG, the company held a week-long retreat for its executives at the luxury St. Regis Resort in Monarch Beach, Calif., running up a tab of $440,000 …
Discussion:
Seeing the Forest
RELATED:
![](/img/pml.png)
A follow-up follow up — Lynn Sweet reported yesterday that the two campaigns had reached an agreement under which, among other things, moderator Tom Brokaw wouldn't ask follow-up questions tonight. — But Brokaw wasn't a party to the deal, I'm told, and hasn't agreed to it …
Discussion:
Political Machine, Sister Toldjah, TPM Election Central, Liberal Values, Think Progress and Washington Monthly
RELATED:
![](/img/pml.png)
‘Town-hall McCain:’ Expectations game — With so many people today suggesting that John McCain needs a “game-changer” in his debate with Barack Obama tonight, the Democratic Party is happy to hold the GOP's presidential nominee to that standard. — After all, the DNC suggests, the …
Discussion:
Top of the Ticket
RELATED:
![](/img/pml.png)
The Debate Format — The Town Hall, in case you were wondering, is basically a farce:
Discussion:
TalkLeft
![](/081007/i105.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
Dukakis on the Election: Obama Knows How to Win, ‘McCain Has Nothing’ — When John McCain's campaign made it clear over the weekend that their stretch-run strategy would lean heavily on raising questions about Barack Obama's personal history and past “associations,” Obama's communications director provided …
Discussion:
Wonkette
![](/img/pml.png)
Hulu, NBC Pull SNL Skit — But Political Skits Bringing in Huge Numbers — The presidential campaign has been good for “Saturday Night Live” — and for Hulu.com. In a few short weeks, the first clip of Tina Fey impersonating Gov. Sarah Palin has become the site's most-viewed of all time.
![](/img/pml.png)
Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers — Ed Whelan takes apart Howard Kurtz's fact-check of the McCain ad posted above: … Today, on the Washington Post's Trail blog, Kurtz fact-checks a new McCain ad that says Obama has lied about McCain's record. — Kurtz writes: “Both presidential candidates …
RELATED:
![](/img/pml.png)
More Factchecking Follies — In today's Washington Post …
Discussion:
Washington Post
![](/img/pml.png)
U.S. debt grows too big for National Debt Clock. — The National Debt Clock in New York's Times Square — first erected in 1989 when the debt was less than $3 trillion — cannot keep pace with the growing national debt, now at more than $10 trillion. NBC's Brian Williams reported last night that …
![](/img/pml.png)
Peggy Noonan Admits GOP Base Is Full Of Racist A**holes — A rather revealing exchange on ‘Hardball’ last night in which Nooner tells the truth about her fetid, decaying party (ignore the BS about Nooner being undecided about who to vote for): … Calling Obama a terrorist? Fine.
![](/img/pml.png)
Obama Team Ready for Mud — NASHVILLE — Barack Obama's advisers are usually cautious about managing expectations — never predicting a landslide, always downplaying how well their candidate will do in the debates. But with just a few hours until the second presidential debate here on Tuesday night …
Discussion:
TIME.com
![](/081007/i153.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
Iceland teeters on the brink of bankruptcy — REYKJAVIK, Iceland - This volcanic island near the Arctic Circle is on the brink of becoming the first “national bankruptcy” of the global financial meltdown. — Home to just 320,000 people on a territory the size of Kentucky …
Discussion:
Newshoggers.com
![](/img/pml.png)
Bush Now Least Popular President Since Polling Began — Not sure how I missed this yesterday, but with the new Gallup poll, George W. Bush has passed Nixon and Truman, and become the least popular President of all-time. According to the Roper Center, here is the worst net approval / disapproval result …