October surprise?
It's Travelgate Palin-Style. Wink. According to a CBS News report:
"Alaska Governor and Republican Vice President hopeful Sarah Palin may be facing another round of scrutiny, this time for charging the state for her children to travel with her while conducing official state business.
CBS News has obtained a copy of the complaint that Frank [...]
Another McCain staffer now has come forward anonymously to declare the veep nominee a "whack job." Not sure why just yet. Maybe it was for her really lame Jackson Five reference.
There is just so much out there crazy talk among McCain supporters/volunteers/paid staff/people-old-enough-to-know-better that it has become difficult to pick out just one item for a morning blog post. McCain's People–and that includes, you Gov. Palin–should read yesterday's Frank Rich column. Just sayin'.
Here's my McCain Camp Crazy Moment of the Weekend:
The Associated Press is reporting [...]
In her policy speech yesterday, her first, Palin and Palin's people based it on her one talking point not yet deemed a "lie" or "false"–motherhood. She tries to drop some science on fruit-fly research. She deems fruit-fly research a joke. One of those wasteful earmarks.
Science bites back. Science doesn't like Sarah. At all:
"This idiot [...]
OK. The headline was a little harsh. Via TPM:
"By now you've all heard about Ashley Todd, the 20-year-old McCain volunteer who claimed that she was assaulted in Pittsburgh on Wednesday night by an attacker who scratched a 'B' in her cheek after learning that she was for McCain.
The story was flacked madly last night by [...]
Chicago Tribune has an interview with Palin. The Veep nominee says this: "If people only knew how frugal we are."
New Columbia Heights asks: Know any brothels in the Hood?
And Now, Anacostia reports that Big Chair Coffee is close to opening its doors. This is just one more bit of good news coming out [...]
The Atlantic is trying to figure out if Palin's $150,000 clothing haul from RNC donations was even legal. They dig through election regs and find at least one mention of where such an expenditure does not fall within legal guidelines. Check it out, here.
I just think this whole mini-scandal goes to the larger Palin narrative. [...]
I'm not one to talk. I have three shirts. I don't know a lot about fashion. But jeez. Sarah Palin ain't looking all Real America. The Politico is reporting that the RNC appears to have shelled out $150,000 for Palin's outfits budget. Talk about welfare!
In between calling Obama a socialist, claiming that he hangs out [...]
The New York Times reports that several baseball players from the Tampa Bay Rays appeared yesterday at a rally in support of Obama. The players should be resting, reading up on their World Series opponents. Instead, they're hugging it out with the candidate:
"On Monday, he was endorsed at a rally in Tampa by six players [...]
The Post endorses Obama. Its editorial board writes in part:
"There are few public figures we have respected more over the years than Sen. John McCain. Yet it is without ambivalence that we endorse Sen. Barack Obama for president.
The choice is made easy in part by Mr. McCain's disappointing campaign, above all his irresponsible selection of [...]
Maybe he'll want to revive his column for The Nation again! Is this Hitchens endorsement a shocker? Not really when you consider the man's distaste for lies, propaganda, stupidity, and so on. He writes best when putting McCain in his place (saying what so many are at least thinking):
"But the difference in character and temperament [...]
Another day. Another reason to be kinda scared about the people who shout things at Palin rallies. This from a Huffington Post story:
"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."
Did this kind of [...]
Wow. Dana Milbank reports some scary stuff at a Palin campaign event in Florida:
"Palin's routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness. In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric's questions for her "less-than-successful interview with [...]
OK. The Veep Debate is over. Perhaps the most hyped debate ever turned out to be a bit of a snooze. While Slate's press critic warned that the format was going to be a problem–a rapid pace of 90-second answers which could only lead to sound bites–I still hoped for fireworks. In Palin's case, the [...]
Via TPM. Finally. This could be Palin's defining moment. Just embarrassing and shameful. You've been warned [her interview is after Biden's]:
