Bleccchhh

Home sick with some kind of bug I picked up at work, watching the bailout hearings and McInsane being a sleezebag on CNN. Which is making me feel worse.

Some of the stuff on teh intarwebs is pretty cool, though:

After being called on their jaw-droppingly mega-dumbass "I can see Vladimir's house from here!" talking point, the McNuts campaign admits that Caribou Barbie "has ‘metaphorical’ foreign policy experience."

A senior campaign aide who agreed to speak on the condition of anonymity admitted that Palin’s knowledge of Russia may be limited to the way someone from Miami might obtain a general feel for Latin America.

“It is very much being able to look off the tip of Alaska,” the aide said. “Metaphorically, I’m talking about.”

Metaphorically.

As one commenter put it, and I'm paraphrasing, 'yeah, and I fart: that doesn't make me an expert on natural gas...' Honestly.

The McSenile campaign is throwing a mega-temper tantrum because the media has finally decided to do their job --

McCain’s Media is shriveling up and they’re starting to point out inconsistencies…what’s a campaign spokesman to do? Be a WATB, naturally.

And lie some more!

Hah. So. John McCain’s campaign got pissed off at the New York Times for reporting a tenuous connection [sic](Note from Nicole: Kinda tenuous? $30,000 a month to lobby on behalf of Fannie Mae is hardly tenuous) between McCain campaign manager Rick Davis and Fannie Mae. So strategist Steve Schmidt, who is increasingly insane and unhinged and so un-Rove-like in his Rovian tactics, held a conference call to attack the Times. “Whatever the New York Times once was, it is today, not by any standard a journalistic organization. It is a pro-Obama advocacy organization that every day attacks the McCain Campaign, attacks Senator McCain, attacks Governor Palin, and excuses Senator Obama,” Schmidt sputtered. So, hah, if Politico’s Ben Smith’s writeup of the call is any indication, this media-attacking will backfire! “But the call was so rife with simple, often inexplicable misstatements of fact,” Smith writes, “that it may have had the opposite effect: to deepen the perception, dangerous to McCain, that he and his aides have little regard for factual accuracy”

Watch out, Ben, next thing you’ll know, The Politico will be on the McCain sh*tlist too. Glamour Magazine (really, Glamour? What are they doing interviewing McCain?) already is. As the Washington Independent puts it, if you point out their lies, you’re in the tank for Obama, as far at the McCain camp is concerned.

Noted Islamocommiefrancodefeatohomofascist George Will says McInsane "loses his head: --

Under the pressure of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. It is not Barack Obama.

Channeling his inner Queen of Hearts, John McCain furiously, and apparently without even looking around at facts, said Chris Cox, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, should be decapitated. This childish reflex provoked the Wall Street Journal to editorialize that "McCain untethered" -- disconnected from knowledge and principle -- had made a "false and deeply unfair" attack on Cox that was "unpresidential" and demonstrated that McCain "doesn't understand what's happening on Wall Street."

Yes, the Islamocommiefrancodefeatohomofascist Wall Street Journal editorial page said that.

To read the Journal's details about the depths of McCain's shallowness on the subject of Cox's chairmanship, see "McCain's Scapegoat" (Sept. 19, Page A22). Then consider McCain's characteristic accusation that Cox "has betrayed the public's trust."

It is arguable that, because of his inexperience, Obama is not ready for the presidency. It is arguable that McCain, because of his boiling moralism and bottomless reservoir of certitudes, is not suited to the presidency. Unreadiness can be corrected, although perhaps at great cost, by experience. Can a dismaying temperament be fixed?

I'm going with 'no.'