How the fck did mccain make it this far? Seriously. By the way you senile old bastard, Tony Luke’s in Philadelphia is a sandwich shop and not a pizza place! Regardless, the fun starts at the 1:00 mark. Grandpa, let your running mate explain herself…

Kudos to Couric for pointing out the following: “It wasn’t a gotcha (question) – she was talking to a voter.”

Side Note: After her recent brutal interviews, palin STILL has diarrhea of the mouth. It’s scary that she hasn’t yet learned the basics like how to speak to the media.

Below is the original clip of Palin mentioning – as seen originally on BccList.com here – that she would support an attack in Pakistan if we had actionable intelligence of a high value taliban/al qaeda located within their borders . Is mccain no longer interested in killing/capturing bin laden? The fun begins at the 18 second mark. It’s worth noting, the campaign invited the media to follow her during the photo op at Tony Luke’s…

Dow drops 777.68 points. Wow!

No house vote anytime soon due to Rosh Hashanah. I guess it sort of makes sense (ha!) to delay a pretty important vote on the name of religion – separation of church and state anyone? Should be an interesting few days.

As originally seen on BccList.com here, here, here, and here…

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/3089433/Barack-Obamas-top-team-believes-he-can-win-White-House-by-a-landslide.html

“Their optimism, which is said to be shared by the Democratic candidate himself, is based on information from private polling and on faith in the powerful political organisation he has built in the key swing states.

Insiders say that Mr Obama’s apparent calm through an unusually turbulent election season is because he believes that his strength among first time voters in several key states has been underestimated, both by the media and by the Republican Party.

Mr Obama has come under fire from within Democratic ranks over his message and his tactics. Critics say he has failed to connect with the blue-collar workers seen as crucial to winning the election, and too reluctant to make direct attacks on Mr McCain.

But his aides are convinced that he has a strong chance of winning no fewer than nine states won by George W.Bush in the closely contested 2000 election, including former Republican strongholds like North Carolina, Virginia and even Indiana, which have not voted Democrat for a generation.”

P.S. FiveThirtyEight.com has Obama with a greater than 80% chance of winning the election. To date, I’m pretty sure their predictor has never broken 80%.