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Sun October 12, 2008
(Fivethirtyeight) PSA If you have 19:1 odds of winning the election, let it go because, man, it's gone (133)
(Some Guy) Obvious Obama officially linked to Weather Underground (240)
(Newsweek) Interesting Newsweek asks the question everyone is wondering. Just who in the hell are the 10% who think the US is on the right track? (89)
(Washington Post) Followup Seems there is more to "hacked" Palin e-mail account story (196)
(Huffington Post) Followup That story about Palin appearing on SNL? The one that said "She's booked. It's confirmed. Done deal."? Yeah, not so much (159)
(CBS News) Dumbass Branchflower Report: "I find that Governor Palin abused her power..." Palin: "I'm very, very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing, any hint of unethical activity" Branchflower: "wtf?" (270)
(National Review) Strange NRO reader figures it out. McCain and Obama are both stealth candidates, however McCain's picking Palin completes Obama's election which has been in the works for 40 years as he is the messiah (119)
(Sun Sentinel) Followup Rumor squelched: "Can you wear a campaign button or T-shirt to the polls?" (107)
(USA Today) Interesting Obama getting significantly more support from evangelicals than McCain. "Evangelicals are more concerned about peace and prosperity than they are about abortion or same-sex marriage" (153)
(AP) Dumbass Realizing that their passive-aggressive method to help McCain hasn't worked, the Clintons finally get around to stumping for Obama now that it's obvious he's going to win (92)
(Seattle Times) Misc McCain will be on "Late Show with David Letterman" Thursday to kiss and make up (135)
(MSNBC) Interesting "It looks like I'm going to have a lot of work to do between today and when the new president takes office." Uh oh (167)
(Washington Post) Dumbass Owner of hotel/conference center in county with 77% registered Democrats puts up giant McCain/Palin sign next to marquee. Boycottilarity ensues (251)
(Reuters) Obvious Zogby poll finds Obama with significant 6 point lead. "Clearly [McCain's] negative campaigning isn't working," says John Zogby (136)
(The Daily Beast) Interesting The Conservative Case for Obama, written by the son of William F. Buckley (112)
(CNN) Stupid Sarah Palin, who would make it illegal for your raped 13 year old daughter to terminate her pregnancy, is calling out Obama for his "extreme views on abortion" (522)
(Salon) Interesting Zombie Castro weighs in on racism and Obama's braaaiiiinnnnssss (27)
(Chicago Tribune) Interesting How well do you know the candidates? Take a 20-question quiz about John McCain and Barack Obama. Link goes to McCain's quiz; link to Obama's quiz is on the right of that page (95)
(Politico) Obvious Exclusive: McCain to unveil a new economic policy each day until he hits on something that will drive his poll numbers up (177)
(AP) Interesting Polygraphs proposed for Indiana congressional debate. Best. Idea. Ever (60)

Sat October 11, 2008
(Politico) Spiffy Sarah Palin was booed off the ice in Philly, which proves Sarah Palin is as popular as Santa Claus, which isn't so bad (401)
(Daily Kos) Dumbass Man brings monkey doll dressed up like Obama to Palin rally. Isn't that sweet? Even Palinstinians love Obama (366)
(Chicago Tribune) Amusing Either Obama is trying to appeal to the fat vote in Pennsylvania or he should really get a bite to eat before rallies (102)
(AP) Asinine Confident of victory, Pelosi and Obama are already planning another $150 billion for rebates and welfare (166)
(Deseret News) Obvious "For people openly to say they're atheist is similar to gay people coming out," says Louisville, KY man, who often wears a pin with a scarlet-letter A to prompt conversations about atheism (194)
(ABC News) Interesting John McCain's favorite black man compares him to George Wallace. That's gonna leave a mark (95)
(News Of The World) Silly Obama...#1 with gay porn barons (55)
(Telegraph) Interesting "Americans abroad are registering to vote in record numbers. There will be 200,000 to 300,000 voting in OH, PA, FL and MI. Their votes won't even be counted until November 14th." (82)
(Wall Street Journal) Obvious "If Barack Obama is elected president, we fear the Angry Right will become angrier and less inhibited, just as the Angry Left did with President Bush. It will be an embarrassing time to be a conservative" (435)
(Gallup) Interesting McCain continues to whittle down Obama's lead in the Gallup poll, now down to 9 points. At this rate he should surpass him some time in the middle of November (101)
(Michelle Malkin) Obvious Pro-Obama ACORN paid a man 'in cash and cigarettes' to register to vote 72 times (148)
(UPI) Obvious "Obama offers women more than McCain". Lili Von Shtupp says, "It's twue, it's twue" (58)
(Washington Post) Cool When I first heard Palin was set to drop puck at hockey game in Philly tonight my first thought was "she's having another kid?" (230)
(AP) Obvious To the surprise of absolutely no one, Sarah Palin liked to mix her Governor duties with her God duties (115)
(Some Guy) Amusing Journalist liveblogging a McCain rally: "A national reporter in front of me is bored and surfing icanhascheezburger.com." (93)
(Celebitchy) Amusing Ted Nugent's new book lays out his plan of how things would be handled if he was President: "The history of mankind is one of war, not peace...'Give peace a chance' will get you killed. John Lennon was wrong. Imagine that" (164)
(Time) Interesting "The Branchflower report convincingly answers a question nobody had even thought to ask: Is the Palin administration shockingly amateurish? Yes, it is. Disturbingly so." (113)
(Irish Times) Obvious "The United States effectively has a one-party system, the business party, with two factions, Republicans and Democrats" (113)
(MSNBC) Followup Sarah Palin: I didn't do nothin' wrong, you betcha (461)
(Boston Herald) Dumbass Obama was given $50 million by William Ayers and his cronies. Now that's walking around on the American flag money (358)
(National Review) Interesting McCain might still win this thing because the economy will stop imploding within the next few weeks (137)
(The New York Times) Interesting Conservative columnist David Brooks complains that Republican "disdain for liberal intellectuals has slipped into a disdain for the educated class as a whole" (252)
(Some Guy) Ironic Joerg Haider, head of Austrian far-right political party, dies in car crash after trying to pass someone on the right (255)
(dcist) Strange Business owner receives threats after hanging a painting of Sarah Palin juggling babies (119)
(Canada.com) Hero Canadian PM Stephen Harper shows his soft, emotional side four days before country's election, reminiscing about the beauty of attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion and seeing C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate (81)

Fri October 10, 2008
(Washington Post) Interesting Krauthammer: "If a Republican candidate had launched his political career at the home of an abortion-clinic bomber -- even a repentant one -- he would not have been able to run for dogcatcher in Podunk." (350)
(MSNBC) Unlikely Colin Powell puts down the vial of anthrax to testify on behalf of Ted Stevens, call his word "sterling" (45)
(CBS Minneapolis) Sad Al Franken tells a touching story about the late senator Paul Wellstone and his son. Norm Coleman (R-etard, MN) turns it into an attack ad. Stay classy, Republicans (85)
(Politico) Scary McCain crowd: "Death to Barack Obama. Terrorist." McCain: "Obama is a decent person." McCain crowd: "BOOOOO Death to John McCain." (417)
(Some Guy) NewsFlash Troopergate findings: Palin abused her power. Turns out she really does have executive experience (2205)
(MSNBC) Asinine McCain camp says what its supporters are doing at rallies is bad, says they'll tone it down a bit. Just kidding, they attack Obama for raising the question (109)
(Reuters) Unlikely Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega convinced that "God (is) punishing the United States with the financial crisis for trying to impose its economic principles on poor countries." Bet that makes his taco pop (121)
(Talking Points Memo) Stupid Senator McCain's campaign - June, 2008: "Spouses should not be an issue in this campaign, and [McCain] has stated that position frequently." October, 2008: "F**k that, Michelle's a terrorist, too" (219)
(Some Guy) Interesting The strong probability that Mr. Obama is a Marxist frees anyone voting for Sen. John McCain from a charge of racism (220)
(AP) Sad Cindy McCain's half-sister dies from Alzheimer's (97)
(Canoe) Unlikely "This is not a bailout of banks," says Canadian Prime Minister, minutes after bailing out banks, "and these are not the droids you are looking for." (37)
(Some Guy) Amusing Fox News, upset at McBoob's failing campaign, decides to direct its frustration toward CNBC's Jim Cramer, saying he's been wrong on EVERYthing [which is actually true] [video] (27)
(Canada.com) Dumbass Bush says US using a "wide range of tools" to fix economy. Isn't a wide range of tools who got us into this mess? (38)
(CNN) Scary Today's word from McCain supporters : Rage (450)
(Wall Street Journal) Obvious Now that Congress is grilling people who led us into the financial crisis, it's a good time to put Sen. Dodd on the witness stand (244)
(YouTube) Amusing Betty White: "If Barack Obama needs more experience, I could give it to him". RUN OBAMA RUN (73)
(Wordpress) Obvious McCain's tracking numbers against the S&P 500 over the past two weeks. It's the economy, stupid (233)
(The Register Citizen) Dumbass Student brings fake gun to school during visit by presidential candidate Ralph Nader. In other news, Nader qualifies for Secret Service protection? (62)
(Michelle Malkin) Stupid As if Obama's Quasi-Socialist New Party ties weren't embarassing enough, Dutch Jong Socialisten invading America to campaign for Obama (102)
(McClatchy) Interesting "Does the truth lie halfway between segregation and civil rights, or between communism and democracy? If you write an article that's critical of John McCain, must you devote an identical number of words to criticism of Barack Obama? (104)
(Political Wire) Cool Sarah Palin confirmed to appear on Saturday Night Live on October 25th (377)
(Chicago Sun-Times) Amusing Columnist plays the strong black woman card against "squealer" Rush Limbaugh in a fight that would be awesome if both of them lost (83)
(Donklephant) Followup 2000 McCain apparently still living deep within 2008 McCain, as campaign rethinks the negative tenor of attacks (99)
(Politico) Interesting You gotta know when to hold em, know when to fold em, know when to hide em from the IRS during your presidential run (33)
(Wonkette) Amusing Sarah Palin's SAT scores, yep, 425 verbal sounds about right (334)
(New York Daily News) Interesting Esquire endorses inchoate, diffident flummerer Barack Obama for president. Words used therein to describe McCain are much smaller and easier to understand (30)
(Huffington Post) Dumbass John McCain accepts endorsement from friend of Bill Ayers. Applications for 'hypocrite' tag now being accepted (71)
(New York Daily News) Misc McCain: Obama lying about Ayers link. When asked for proof, McCain responded: I SAID HE'S LYING DAMMIT NOW JUST F*CKING VOTE FOR ME (90)
(CNN) Misc Republicans beginning to look for lifeboats on the iceberg-bound Titanic that is the McCain/Palin campaign (41)
(Albany Times Union) Scary Obama called Osama on absentee ballots. Bonus: "So far three people have called to point it out" (299)
(Politico) Obvious Republicans having difficulty facing the prospect of defeat in November, getting frustrated with their mavricky candidate. Mostly because he isn't dirty enough (245)
(Some Guy) Obvious Man shot in street for wearing Obama t-shirt -- in England. There's no hate like Limey hate (48)
(Cracked) Silly Five presidential elections even dumber than this one (somehow) (45)
(Chicago Sun-Times) Sappy No matter who wins the election next month, our next president will be a pirate at heart (34)
(Examiner) Cool Obama to hold four rallies in Philly tomorrow. Secret Service detail on heightened alert for suspicious individuals bitterly clinging to guns, religion (397)
(Fox News) Ironic Fox News announces Sarah Palin hand puppet. Perfect for the candidate who never holds a press conference (46)
(Houston Chronicle) Strange Bogus donors raise questions on Obama fundraising. "Test Person" from "Some place, UT" submitted this with a better headline (73)
(Telegraph) Dumbass Cindy McCain accuses Obama of endagering her son in Iraq, while forgetting to mention her husband did the same exact thing (133)
(NH Union Leader) Obvious "Imagine if John McCain's career had been launched at the home of a right-wing terrorist such as Timothy McVeigh. Do you think the media would be shrugging their shoulders?" (338)
(YouTube) Amusing Best Obama impression ever: Barack in his dressing room at Tuesday's debate (67)
(Crooks & Liars) Fail "20/20" host and independent thinker John Stossel tells America what they already know: Young people are too stupid to vote and should just stay home (117)
(Sun Sentinel) Florida Hundreds of young Jews begin arriving in South Florida today, in futile attempts to convince their grandparents to vote for Obama (57)
(Reuters) Ironic Pot, meet black kettle: Man who brought us 20 percent inflation and the energy crisis, Jimmy Carter, scolds Bush on the economy (108)
(Time) Amusing The top gaffes of the 2008 presidential campaign. Also know as the top gaffes of the 2008 McCain/Palin campaign (32)
(NewsBusters) Scary Under Obama, unions could do to the rest of the economy what they did to GM (238)
(Bloomberg) Scary President Bush to announce martial law at 10:25 a.m. Just kidding, it's a public statement to calm the nation, followed by panicked selling at 10:30 and THEN martial law at 10:45 (579)
(Wordpress) Scary Next year, the Bush deficits will look like chump change. To get out of the current recession, get ready for a $2 trillion yearly budget deficit (70)
(9 News) Dumbass Colorado Secretary of State says his state is not violating federal prohibition on "systematic" voter purges. He then describes the careful system they use to do it (66)
(Gawker) Stupid More information about the meeting where Obama illegally pressured Iraqi.... aw, who are we kidding? Let's speculate if Palin's menstrual cycle is helping her campaign and compare her to a stripper (78)
(Washington Monthly) Ironic Presidential contender in 2000: "Sooner or later, people are going to figure out if all you run is negative attack ads you don't have much of a vision for the future or you're not ready to articulate it." Who? John McCain (61)
(MSNBC) Amusing Oliver Clark (who posed the second question at Tuesday's debate) responds to John McCain's condescension about "You probably don't know what Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac" are. Pwned, big time (88)
(MSNBC) Scary NSA supports our troops, by monitoring their phone calls for quality assurance (172)
(Washington Times) Sick Washington Times unearths 1986 lovefest exchange of notes between McCain and Charles Keating, including statement that "I'm yours til death do us part." NTTAWWT (71)
(Some Guy) Florida Pro-Obama group in Florida continues to attempt to steal an election that they have already won. Just 26 days until the next Florida recount (28)
(Wall Street Journal) Amusing News: CNN says a McCain statement is true. News: ABC says a McCain statement is false. Fark: The same statement (39)
(WSAZ) Obvious Race could be a factor for Obama in southern Ohio during the election. Especially when the head of the county Democratic party says, "I've never worked directly with African-Americans; it's been an eye opener" (63)
(NewsBusters) Interesting Old and busted: Todd Palin's membership in the Alaska Independence Party. New hotness: Barack Obama's membership in the New Party, a political party established by the Democratic Socialists of America (149)
(Some Guy) Interesting Fear of an Obama presidency is what has caused the market to crash (208)
(YouTube) Dumbass Canadian Liberal Party PM candidate has meldown during interview. At least he didn't wink or say, "You betcha" (86)
(Daily Kos) Followup New York Times uncovers dozens of phone calls by the Palins demanding the firing of state trooper. Who knew "rampant corruption" was a small town value? (121)
(ABC News) Asinine Palin clears self in ethics probe. No, this is not an Onion headline (221)

Thu October 09, 2008
(Boing Boing) Amusing Staff member at Adler Planetarium would like to show McCain a picture of his $3 million "overhead projector" (261)
(Some Guy) Caption Caption this Presidential candidate playing "airplane" with his supporters (voting enabled) (154)
(Some Guy) Scary McCain loses his sh*t at a Puerto Rican casino. With witnesses. Oh craps (123)
(The Live Feed) Interesting Confirmed: Senator Obama has purchased a half-hour of primetime airtime on CBS, and is also in talks with purchasing airtime on NBC and Fox (238)
(Ottawa Sun) Interesting If you thought Obama's Muslim roots were scary, wait til you find out which rogue nation Sarah Palin's ancestors came from (33)
(Seattle Times) Interesting Sarah Palin accused of not buckling her son Trig in his car seat before driving. That's retarded (323)
(Talking Points Memo) Obvious McCain's Hero Petraeus: "I Do Think You Have To Talk To Enemies" (71)
(AP) Dumbass Cindy McCain claims Obama has run the dirtiest campaign ever. Article: All of Sen. McCain's ads last week were negative, compared to just 34% of Obama's (107)
(CNN) Dumbass Glenn Beck says there are still a lot of excuses you can use to cover up your racist vote against Obama (188)
(Boston Herald) Stupid John Zogby, whose poll completely blew the 2004 election, now wants you to think McCain will win in 2008. Heck of a job there, Zogby (93)
(NewsMax) Obvious "People can identify with parents like Sarah and Todd Palin, who are not, thank God, embarrassed to be seen loving God's children. That difference is what is driving political elites crazy with fear" (139)
(LA Times) Interesting So how did Newsweek get Sarah Palin to pose with a rifle on its cover? Long story short, it didn't (357)
(Daily Kos) Interesting A little nostalgia. Here's what the premier Democratic blog in the world said when Obama won his Senate seat in 2004 (107)
(Patterico's Pontifications) Asinine LA Times edits out McCain's remarks on economy, then suggests he won't talk about economy (44)
(Cincinnati Enquirer) Interesting Stood up: Barack Obama has the crowd waiting in Cincinnati (85)
(IA Independent) Obvious Ann Coulter endorses Steve King (R-IA), probably because she starred in many of his stories (44)
(YouTube) Amusing A parade of geniuses lining up for the McCain rally in Bethelehem PA (256)
(Rasmussen Reports) Stupid Apparently lutefisk and hockey shrink your brain into the size of a walnut: Looks like Minnesota will elect Al Franken to the US Senate (117)
(Huffington Post) Misc Blogger poses pertinent question for Republicans: How can you claim to put your country first when you continually attack, question the patriotism of, and call for the deaths of, half the citizens of the country? (394)
(UPI) Interesting Poll finds that Canadian voters think economy first, hockey second. Beer and back bacon tied for third (94)
(NPR) Fail Biden visits Tampa to campaign, shows he's in touch with sports world by noting local excitement over "what your Devil Rays did to the Chicago White Sox." Florida tag scores rare loss (170)
(Boston Globe) Obvious "Although it's easy to dismiss the Fox News Channel as the broadcast wing of the Republican Party, critics continually turn a blind eye to a basic virtue of Fox News: it's really pretty entertaining" (47)
(Salon) Fail Oy vey, elderly Florida Jews who were leaning toward McCain before the convention think he was meshuggenah to pick that shiksa as veep; are now planning on voting for the Shvartser (104)
(Wall Street Journal) Obvious Karl Rove: McCain still has a very good chance of winning because voters have yet to decide who they are going to vote for (98)
(CBS News) Hero Looks like Todd Palin is jumping on the troopergate grenade (488)
(NYPost) Asinine Canvassers for ACORN had Domino's Pizza worker register to vote "10 to 15 times" even though he was already registered, because they get paid for each registration (231)
(LiveLeak) Video Democrats go all Frankenstein, combine DNA of Biden and McCain and come up with ultimate VP candidate (22)
(Some facetimer) Asinine It's good to have a life outside of work, but Nevada governor Jim Gibbons has been in his office 12 days over the past 9 weeks (68)
(Fox News) Video Not News: Sensible, reasoned, moderate political analysis. News: On the Fox News Channel. Fark: By Bill O'Reilly (153)
(Some Guy) Silly Let's enter Wayback Machine, Sherman, and wander back to 1979...when Sen. Joe Biden secretly met with the Soviets and told them "he did not really care about the persecution of Russian dissidents." (48)
(American Thinker) Interesting Did Bill Ayers help ghostwrite "Dreams From My Father"? (168)
(Slate) Unlikely "Red Dawn" is a perfect metaphor for today, except now we're the ones with black berets and porn 'staches, flying around in Hind gunships and mowing down Iraqis screaming whatever the Iraqi word is for "Wolverines" (104)
(Gallup) PSA How is race affecting voter decisions? Here comes the Gallup Poll (140)
(Columbus Free Press) Interesting According to a 1996 Columbus Free Press Article, Barack Obama was once a member of the now defunct, leftist and ACORN affiliated "New Party" (196)
(Right Wing News) Obvious Everything you need to know about Barack Obama in quotes (116)
(AP) Obvious In their never ending effort to carry water for the republicans the NRA endorses gun control advocate John McCain (677)
(RealClearPolitics) Sad Noted liberal, George Will, continues his characterless attack on John McCain, who was a POW (157)
(Wall Street Journal) Interesting According to Obama's own words, John McCain's health care plan is best for America (299)
(AP) Interesting Obama to spend $90 million on TV ads between now an election day, or roughly $3 million more than McCain had to spend for his entire campaign since Labor Day (122)
(Yahoo) Obvious Somehow in the 24 hours between when he proposed it at the debate, and his campaign formally unveiled it; McCain's new homeowner rescue plan got a lot more generous to the banks and a lot more expensive to taxpayers (265)
(Time) Amusing Time asks whether or not the Obama Surge will last. Look, dummies, Obama doesn't believe in the Surge (67)
(Huffington Post) Interesting McCain: We don't need no stinking transition team (117)
(Salon) Obvious "Something has gone seriously wrong with Democratic ideology, which seems to have become a candied set of holier-than-thou bromides attached like tutti-frutti to a quivering green Jell-O mold of adolescent sentimentality" (122)
(Wired) Asinine Q: What do the bailout bill and a Jimmy Dean sausage have in common? A: They're filled with green pork (31)
(Discover) Dumbass McCain hates planetariums. Weird, since as a kid he was taught sky is a crystal sphere with holes in it (175)
(Newsweek) Unlikely He thought he was the king of America. Actually, no he didn't. But he could have been (89)
(Fox News) Amusing Candidates for Indiana congressional seat agree to be hooked up to polygraph during their debate, to prove once and for all that politicians are so adept at lying that it's undetectable even to advanced electronic equipment (25)
(Salon) Interesting How the election ate daytime television, or why talk shows like "The View" are showcasing some of the most sophisticated (and mind-numbingly stupid) conversations about the presidential race (35)
(MSNBC) Asinine It's probably just a coincidence that voters are being illegally purged from rolls in swing states (108)
(Think Progress) Asinine White House press secretary Dana Perino to the unemployed: STFU and GBTW (144)
(FanBolt) Amusing If the McCain-Palin campaign fails, at least Palin has a backup offer from The Pussycat Dolls (63)
(The Atlantic) Ironic Michelle Malkin is pissed.... at McCain: "He spent the entire debate assailing massive government spending - while his featured proposal of the night was to heap on more massive government spending" (89)
(Wonkette) Obvious You know how the Republicans were like all "Argggg" when Obama said "Lipstick on a pig"? Wait until they hear how Palin is like cancer (80)

Wed October 08, 2008
(DFW Star-Telegram) Amusing If you were in Nevada and registered the entire starting line up of the Dallas Cowboys to vote, the FBI would like to speak with you (53)
(Talking Points Memo) Stupid McCain flashes back to Hanoi Hilton, refers to American populace as his "fellow prisoners" (345)
(The New Yorker) Obvious "Change", "pushback", "gravitas", and all the other words and phrases that need to be thrown under the bus after this campaign is finally over (124)
(Reason Magazine) Asinine In a shocking turn of events, police departments are abusing terrorist watch lists to spy on political activists (302)
(CNN) Amusing "At the pace things are going right now you're going to have ask whether you're better off than you were four weeks ago." (158)
(Think Progress) Obvious Does Obama's correct pronunciation of Pakistan annoy you? Congratulations, you are not alone as several other dumb people also feel this way (471)
(YouTube) Florida Not News: Yet another political rally in FL. News: ...please help me in welcoming the next Vice President--John McCain. Fark: At a Joe Biden rally (79)
(538.com) Spiffy "Five daily tracking polls all showed movement toward John McCain," marking his comeback according to Nate Silver of 538.com (219)
(Bloomberg) Scary Everyone who has a sitting parliament, please take one step forward. Not so fast, Ukraine (79)
(Gallup) Interesting For the first time this election season, the Gallup poll shows Barack Obama with a double digit lead over John McCain (181)
(Daily Kos) Amusing Conservatives up in arms over Newsweek cover of Sarah Palin. Why? Because they didn't airbrush her. Really (228)
(Reuters) Spiffy And the presidential campaign, once again, is at a statistical tie (204)
(Some Guy) Asinine Congratulations to Indianapolis on having all 105% of eligible voters registered (116)
(SMH) Obvious Sly old fox Brigitte Bardot tells Sarah Palin to stop lipstick comparison: "I know them well and I can assure you that no pitbull, no dog, nor any other animal for that matter is as dangerous as you are" (169)
(National Review) Interesting ACORN, Barack Obama, and the Democratic party (461)
(Talking Points Memo) Interesting The heroin snorting bipolar chimpanzee that decides McCain's new campaign strategy every morning now says Ayers and Wright are off the table (155)
(Huffington Post) Amusing Robert Gibbs pwns Sean Hannity on the phony guilt-by-association meme (204)
(The Smoking Gun) Followup Palin email hacker indictment. Neglects to use letters Not safe for work after each instance of "4chan.org" (477)
(National Review) Sad McCain and Obama go wobbly on Russia: "Let me help, guys: Polonium teabags are not the tools of the forces of good." (98)
(MSNBC) Florida Sheriff who referred to Barack HUSSEIN Obama when introducing Palin is being investigated for violation of the Hatch Act (235)
(CBC) Asinine Prime Minister Creepysmile takes a look at his downward-spiraling polls and flip-flops on yet another issue. Way to go, Captain Integrity (93)
(wsai) Amusing Turns out Palin is related to Princess Diana & FDR. The prophecy has been fulfilled (128)
(TBO) Scary Sarah Palin in an unedited long interview with a local news station (348)
(LA Times) Asinine That SNL bailout skit is back online...minus any mention of Barney Frank (86)
(Wall Street Journal) Caption Caption what Barack Obama is saying to John McCain after the debate (487)
(NewsBusters) Sad American Carol is doing poorly because liberal movie theater owners are conspiring together to give people the wrong tickets (373)
(Delaware Online) Dumbass Forgetting that his running mate is from Delaware, Obama blames Delaware for evil evil credit cards (95)
(YouTube) Dumbass "I think Senator McCain has some disdain for Senator Obama". Like when he refuses to shake his hand at the end of the debate (219)
(Washington Post) Obvious "The hits that I take from the media, if I can't handle that now, you know, I shouldn't be seeking office." (86)
(Wall Street Journal) Obvious That was quick. Obama campaign takes issue over being called "That one" (373)
(Some Tax Nerd) Amusing Reason #462 Sarah Palin is just like you: she does not understand the tax code and may owe tens of thousands in back taxes (106)
(MSNBC) Cool Wife of Republican Senator Chuck Hagel to endorse Obama (60)
(Pajamas Media) Video "The relationship between Obama and Bill Ayers went much deeper, ran much longer, and was much more political than Obama said." Translation: CNN just said that Obama is lying (327)

Tue October 07, 2008
(Think Progress) Stupid Why do the liberals keep crying about Palin's media bubble? Tommorrow will mark her THIRD interview with Sean Hannity. And she's got another Fox interview lined up after that Grow up, criberals (180)
(Radar Magazine) Followup The man who shouted "kill Him" at the Palin Rally yesterday? The Secret Service does indeed want a word with him (110)
(Reuters) Followup Obama/McCain 2: This Time It's Personal. Discussion Thread #2 (2746)
(Politico) Amusing Obama spokesman: "Are we going to get the guy who yells at the kids to 'Get off my lawn,' or do we want to talk about issues that matter?" (62)
(Canoe) Dumbass Obama admits he sometimes smokes. He's really going to wish he had admitted to something more socially acceptable, like heroin (81)
(Belmont University) PSA Obama/McCain 2: Talking Point Boogaloo Discussion Thread #1(Thread closed. See new debate thread above) (2584)
(BBC) Stupid What should one do with 17 terrorists suspects in Guantanamo when no country wants to take them back? Set them free in Washington DC of course (97)
(Reuters) Interesting Obama leads McCain "63 percent to 47 percent among voters who have registered to vote in the last six months" (95)
(The Tennessean) Stupid Cindy McCain says Obama has waged "the dirtiest campaign in American history." Andrew Jackson, John Q. Adams, Thomas Jefferson and John McCain all rolling in their graves (199)
(Chicago Sun-Times) Followup Second debate rules favor everyone except the voters (189)
(Salon) Interesting Turns out a certain Republican Governor of a certain South Carolina invited a certain William Ayers to speak at a certain college (86)
(Some Guy) Amusing Palin handles a heckler who is apparently zombie Jerry Garcia. (With video goodness.) (675)
(Fox News) Ironic Hell just froze over and pigs are flying. Fox News article "For Republicans who are hoping that John McCain will be able to turn the trajectory of this campaign around tonight, I would advise them not to get their hopes up" (265)
(Huffington Post) Amusing Anonymous package of bacon closes congressman's office, which marks the first time in history a politician ran away from pork (75)
(Breitbart.com) Interesting Swing state no more: Democratic wave washes over Pennsylvania, boosting party's registration edge by an additional 500,000 voters over Republicans, who are currently in hiding in a barn in Lancaster County (127)
(Reason Magazine) Obvious "Who knew that Europe, of all places, was so under-regulated? Or maybe de-regulation is not the chief cause for the outbreak of financial chaos?" (182)
(Hot Air) Interesting In addition to funneling money via earmarks to large campaign contributors, his wife's employer, and his pastor, Obama awarded $75,000 in government grants to his wife's cousin (372)
(National Review) Dumbass Even the NRO is tired of McCain: "Not having a compelling economic message before the financial crisis hit was malpractice; now it's madness" (77)
(Some Guy) Interesting Since Plain was asked about Creationism, Obama should be asked about his belief in an asinine, widely debunked, phony-balony theory clung to by a surprisingly large number of clueless lunatics: Marxism (229)
(KC Star) Interesting College hosting the presidential debate has been dry for more than 50 years, but will allow alcohol the night of the debate, since the live audience will need it (64)
(Salon) Stupid One of John McCain's favorite examples of wasteful spending in government is a costly study of grizzly bears. Only thing is, he voted for it. Now that's mavericky (83)
(Network World) Interesting The Obama campaign's Search Engine to Nowhere (44)
(Hot Air) Interesting What happens when SNL takes a break from the "Palin is stoopid" weekly segment and instead makes fun of George Soros and Nancy Pelosi? Next stop "memory hole" (298)
(National Review) Amusing "As Joe Biden would no doubt point out on his entertaining "This Day In History" segment, McCain was only six when Czogolsz killed President McKinley. But I doubt he'd let the guy host a fundraiser for him" (75)
(Washington Post) Obvious Joe "Gaffe McGafferson" Biden wasn't quite as influencial in solving the Bosnian crisis as the voices in his head tell him he was (109)
(Gigwise) Asinine Madonna, whose concert includes images of John McCain with Adolf Hitler, bans Sarah Palin from her show under the assumption that Sarah Palin would even know who she is (141)
(AJC) Dumbass If you hire a voodoo priestess to give cancer to your political rival, be sure not write her bad checks or she may go to the police (34)
(Some Guy) Florida Palin no longer stumping so much as leading the Two Minute hate: "After she blamed Katie Couric, supporters turned on reporters shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One shouted a racial epithet" (1033)
(NewsBusters) Interesting If a Republican-hater like Alec Baldwin understands that Democrats are responsible for the current financial crisis, and says so on national television, why can't America's so-called "real" journalists? (212)
(CBS News) Followup Obama's latest contributor: $7,722 from "Dahsudhu Hdusahfd of Df, Hawaii with the following employer CZXVC/ZXVZXV and Uadhshgu Hduadh listed as living in Dhff, Florida listed their employer as DASADA/SAFAS" (109)
(YouTube) Obvious Keith Olbermann gives Sarah Palin the pimpslap she's got coming after her weekend attacks on Obama (345)
(Religious Dispatches) Interesting John McCain may not believe in God, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, or Mothra. This is bad news, for Obama (60)
(SFGate) Unlikely With the economy floundering, 12 counties on the California-Oregon border are considering seceding from the Union. "Those liberal people down south don't understand us at all." (214)
(Canoe) Strange Obama loses election. Obama loses election. Obama loses election. Obama loses election. Obama loses election. Obama loses election. Obama loses election. Obama loses election (111)

Mon October 06, 2008
(The New York Times) Cool A comparison of Presidential candidates by height. Just watch out for Evil Teddy and Zombie Truman (37)
(Gawker) Asinine McCain calls Obama "touchy" and "angry." Also mentions "lawn" and "belt onion" (152)
(Rolling Stone) Obvious Five myths about John McCain (84)
(ABC News) Hero Obama on McCain attacks: "We don't throw the first punch... but we'll throw the last punch." (218)
(The Atlantic) Dumbass John McCain goes half-retard and his audience goes full-retard, calling Barack Obama a terrorist (427)
(FiveThirtyEight) Interesting McCain has an estimated twelve percent chance to win. This is bad news...for Obama (180)
(Reuters) Hero He may be a mavrick, but "he's no Maverick," says patriarch of the orignal Maverick family. Adds, "now get off my lawn" (183)
(Radar Magazine) Video Sarah Palin talking about "the choice" in the evening gown portion of the Miss Alaska pageant (150)
(Politico) Amusing Tom Delay: John McCain is "hard to swallow," salty (79)
(Wall Street Journal) Obvious Biden's debate inaccuracies would have got Palin mocked from New York to Los Angeles. "Sarah Palin may not know as much about the world, but at least most of what she knows is true." (192)
(Politico) Fail McCain for the last 20 years: "Keating was my biggest crime and sin." McCain in 2008: "I did nothing wrong with Keating. Obama and my former self are smear artists" (180)
(WorldNetDaily) Hero Chuck Norris on the 500-page bailout bill: "And the president signed it just an hour after receiving it from Capitol Hill on Friday -- I guess that speed reading course paid off" (88)
(Some Guy) Amusing She's not as dumb as you think she is. Look at all the things that Sarah Palin can name (617)
(The New Republic) Obvious "Is the McCain camp's strategy at this point to have Palin utter foolish, obnoxious, factually inaccurate comments every day just so they can attack the media when it reports on them?" (87)
(Huffington Post) Obvious Columnist says he and the rest of the liberal left have gone "batshiat crazy" since September at the thought that McCain might win. No word on how this differs from their mental status in years past (119)
(Some Guy) Obvious No matter whom you want to win the November elections, Obama is the clear favorite of malcontents, pimp-smacking McCain 6:1 in Spam volume (38)
(Washington Post) Interesting Barack Obama could nominate as many as three Supreme Court justices as the older members die, retire, or get shot by Justice Scalia in questionable hunting accidents (187)
(Some Guy) Amusing And now for a hard-hitting political discussion: Is Sarah Palin flirting (81)
(NPR) Scary Jerry Falwell Jr.'s Liberty "University" registers its students in Virginia, gives them election day off, so they can vote McCain and prevent Virginia from going Obama (275)
(Daily Kos) Strange Not news: Songwriter unhappy her song is being used at Palin rallies. News: So she's donating all her royalties to Planned Parenthood in Palin's name. Fark: The song is about a murder-suicide triggered by domestic violence (177)
(BBC) Interesting "There's a split going on right now between al-Qaeda and the Afghan Taleban. And if the West cannot see this or cannot exploit this, or if Pakistan cannot understand this, then the world will be collective losers" (37)
(MSNBC) Interesting Palin says Obama "pals around with terrorists." Obama's response: "I WILL NOT STOOP TO THEIR GUTTER Keating five POLITICS AS USUAL." (301)
(BBC) Misc Congressional hearings on banking crisis begin today, will continue for three weeks. John McCain expected to suspend his campaign to rescue the Oversight Committee from itself at least twice (34)
(CNN) Dumbass Sarah Palin Fact Check, No. 832: Obama votes party line 96 percent of the time. Not so fast there, sweetie (130)
(Rasmussen Reports) Obvious According to a poll, 59 percent of voters would have no problem with replacing the entire Congress with intelligent atheist otters or horses that communicate by stamping their hooves (148)
(Politico) Scary The election may give Democrats a fillibuster-proof majority of 60 seats in the U.S. Senate. Combined with the inevitable Democrat in the White House, and we better get our free health care. And our free ponies (249)
(Wall Street Journal) Obvious John McCain plans to finance his health care plan by cutting $1.3 trillion from Medicare and Medicaid. Social Security also expected to benefit from all the old people dying sooner for lack of medical attention (59)
(National Review) Obvious How to fact-check McCain or Palin: 1. Announce loudly that everything they just said is a lie. 2. Take a minute to briefly skim what they actually said. 3. Extract random, vaguely relevant information from butt to prove step 1 (74)
(RealClearPolitics) Spiffy "McCain has now taken the lead on handling of two key issues. The GOP nominee holds 43-42 percent leads over Obama on both the economy and energy policy." Operation Comeback Mac is now underway (73)
(Yahoo) Interesting You hear that Mr McCain? That is the sound of inevitability. It is the sound of your defeat. Goodbye, Mr. McCain (150)
(Guardian.com) Obvious An otaku is now in charge of Japan. Giant robot construction to commence shortly (45)
(CSMonitor) Dumbass Conservatives to McCain: "Excuse me, WTF are you doing?" (109)
(Human Events) Scary "If Obama is elected president, get ready for a unionized America and the end of the worker's right to a secret ballot" (90)
(Washington Post) Amusing Sarah Palin forgets the first rule of political thermonuclear war: Make sure the other side doesn't have a bigger weapon than you do (308)
(Wired) Asinine Congress cuts $130M from defense research budget because they failed to spend every last penny (63)
(LA Times) Interesting Life-long Democrat, head of Los Angeles NOW chapter, endorses Palin: "This is what a feminist looks like" (245)
(Some Guy) Interesting Obama's Stateway project doesn't lead to nowhere... it leads to $20 million going in the pockets of backers that have given Obama heavy political contributions over the years. Now that is some pocket change you can believe in (100)
(Huffington Post) Unlikely Is John McCain just angry at himself? Unpossible (41)
(Talking Points Memo) Obvious I'll see your Weathermen Underground and raise you one Keating Five (147)
(Billings Gazette) Misc Register to vote, get a free beer. Works for me (4)
(Reuters) Dumbass Sarah Palin can see Afghanistan from her house (54)
(Think Progress) Asinine Latest GOP line: "Barack Obama is unpatriotic because he criticized President Bush" (132)
(Bitten and Bound) Sad Friday, Joe and Jill Biden sent a son to Iraq. This morning, they lost Jill's mother to a long illness (83)
(Daily Kos) Scary Sarah Palin: Freedom of the press is a "privilege" that the media "abuses" (491)
(FARK) Amusing Obama = ? Biden = ? McCain = ? Palin = ? You've seen the meme, here's the thread (voting enabled) (923)



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