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The fact that earmarks are in this bill is really sad. Sadder still is that without these earmarks, they wouldn't be able to get enough no votes in the house to crossover.

The Dodgers are winning this debate, 5-0.

Who won tonight?

I had to turn it off. Biden is boring and not looking very telegenic on that set. Palin is being cute and not answering anything, just talking in circles. Palin wins.

This feels so good. THOME!!! DANKS!!! JENKS!!! GRIFFEY!!! ANDERSON!!!

It's not like nobody votes. The truth is, people hate Congress but love their Congressman.

There are term limits already. They're called elections.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Sep 30, 2008 -> 12:45 PM) His tone was sarcastic about the "apologizing" though. I don't think that he has any other tone, to be frank.

France is arguably the most racist country in Western Europe. It's ok to be a different color there, as long as you're American. Otherwise.... not so much.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Sep 30, 2008 -> 10:42 AM) Or maybe because its a bad bill. Barney Frank shoving his grill in front of the camera talking about how this is the bad evil republicans fault. Yet this is the same tool who did everything in his power to block any oversight of Fannie Mae and Mac. Back in 05 when people started to wonder about the stability of the 2 companies, Frank argued how fiscally sound Mac and Mae are and how they provide a service. He fought any oversight on this, and to me is one of the big bad guys in this whole mess. Yet he has the gaul to throw blame. I watched the Barney Frank presser yesterday and I didn't get that sense at all. And believe me when I say that I look for an excuse to be mad at Barney Frank. I thought he was uncharacteristically diplomatic about the whole event and when the questions came out about whether Pelosi's speech sunk the deal, he so much as said that this idea was an insult to Republicans and said that he couldn't believe that people would change their view on something viewed with such importance based on a few words by Nancy Pelosi. He even basically offered to apologize to the supposed 12 GOP Congressmen who changed their vote based on this.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Sep 29, 2008 -> 03:30 PM) Jesse Jr voted against it. Given that Rainbow/PUSH was protesting on Wall Street today, that shouldn't be such a shock.

Looks like the Dow may turn its worst full day point loss ever. (Still not even top 15 in percentage loss)

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Sep 29, 2008 -> 02:20 PM) Where is RSO? He should be able to fix this mess. According to McCain, he's been sitting on the sidelines, while McCain has been not phoning it in by phoning it in.

Hee Hee. John McCain, today. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wa...0,2146687.story Saturday, on the negotiations. http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/09/27/po...ry4482838.shtml

QUOTE (PlaySumFnJurny @ Sep 29, 2008 -> 11:00 AM) After all the lumps CBS took last election regarding the Dan Rather/George Bush militatry service fiasco, I find it hard to believe it would risk further criticism of its "neutrality" by holding back on more Palin quotes and releasing them in pieces. I guess we'll see. Maybe there are no real plans to release them.

Is the only reason Wachovia didn't fail because the FDIC said "Wachovia didn't fail?"

Seems that someone threw "chemical irritants" in a mosque in Dayton, Ohio during a Ramadan service. http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/o...=7&cxcat=16

*yawn* Don't care.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Sep 28, 2008 -> 08:26 PM) imagine that, they don't want their sons death to be used as a political stunt by the Obama campaign. classy move by mr.Obama to ignore them and continue. Oops, turns out that story wasn't true. http://www.nbc15.com/state/headlines/29864149.html

It was a good debate Balta, actually.

Let us know! Poll stays open til Tuesday.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 27, 2008 -> 01:54 AM) I honestly think McCain won slightly. I give him a 55-45. I was expecting Obama to make McCain look like a tired old man, but really he came off as very intelligent and knowledgable. He dropped a lot of names and a lot of stories about his experience. If you were truly on the fence, you'd have to say that you learned more about McCain than Obama. Obama basically rehashed his convention speech (as did McCain, but some of the detailed experience he talked about was new). My big thing is that the media seems to think that Obama merely had to show up and prove he could belong. What does that mean? He did nothing to show the country HOW he would lead or HOW he would make decisions - he gave a bunch of generic political talk. Did the media expect him to completely fail? I didn't understand what they meant. Weakest moment: Obama's "i have a bracelet too!" line. Really? Was that necessary? The reason Obama needed to just hold his own is really threefold. He's seen as the weaker debater, so doing well enough is considered winning. That's kind of what happened with Bush in 2000 and 2004. And frankly, if Palin can hold it together next week, it is what will happen to her. Performance tends to be evaluated relative to your perceived ability to debate. Secondly, this is McCain's "home turf." International Relations is supposed to be McCain's strength. His ability to not stand head and shoulders above Obama's positions in the debate is a bad sign for McCain because it differentiates him less in the good ways from Obama. And finally, the reason why holding your own is enough for Obama is that in the case of Obama, you have a base that's voting FOR him - and by and large the Republican base is voting AGAINST Obama and not for McCain. When your campaign is running hard against someone else instead of running for yourself, and your opponent "holds his own," he just neutralized another thing you can use against him.

I think McCain sounded angry and cranky at times. I think he did well with his base but poorly with independents. I think Obama did better with independents but didn't turn in any earth shaking moments either. But kind of boring and long winded. I don't think he can whittle down to the simple answers that I think that this was more of a draw overall. Tie goes to the leader in these situations. However, what you think tonight, may not be the common wisdom tomorrow or in three days. People thought Gore and Kerry schooled Bush in their debates the night of, a couple days later it didn't seem that way.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Sep 26, 2008 -> 04:18 PM) Anybody post this yet? http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/...mmentator-says/ GOP commentator calls for Palin to step down... hilarious. Between this past week's events, McCain declaring debate victory, Palin's interviews, and now this - that campaigns having a great time of things. About ten posts above you. Text included.