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It’s things like this that should make any normal person feel like voting for Obama.

Some idiots stole the Obama sign from this guy’s yard (and several other yards as well), which prompted him to post this wonderful sign in response:

The old McCain attacks the new McCain:

“On Good and Evil”

It is obvious to me
Who the good guys are in this one
And who the bad guys are.
The bad guys are the ones
Who say Israel is a stinking corpse,
And should be wiped off
The face of the earth.

That’s not a good guy.

— Sarah Palin (To K. Couric, CBS News, Sept. 25, 2008)

You can read other poems by Palin here.

Zina Saunders is interesting.

Do we really want a person in the vice-president’s office who gets so rattled in interviews that she can’t think of a single magazine she ever read and can’t name any supreme court case with which she disagrees? Granted, she’s trying to avoid being labeled, but still.

“I think our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan will lead to further security of our nation, again, because the mission is to take the fight over there. Do not let them come over here and attempt again what they accomplished here, and that was some destruction, terrible destruction on that day. But since Sept. 11, Americans are uniting and rebuilding and committing to never letting that happen again.”

– Sarah Palin, September 25, 2008

Sarah Palin simply has no idea what’s going on.

This guy makes a good point–McCain might have had to grab headlines after this interview by ’suspending’ his campaign. If this interview went to prime time America would finally realize how inept and unqualified Palin is.

Oh, and it gets worse.

COURIC: You’ve cited Alaska’s proximity to Russia as part of your foreign policy experience. What did you mean by that?

PALIN: That Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and on our other side, the land– boundary that we have with– Canada. It– it’s funny that a comment like that was– kind of made to– cari– I don’t know, you know? Reporters–

COURIC: Mock?

PALIN: Yeah, mocked, I guess that’s the word, yeah.

COURIC: Explain to me why that enhances your foreign policy credentials.

PALIN: Well, it certainly does because our– our next door neighbors are foreign countries. They’re in the state that I am the executive of. And there in Russia–

COURIC: Have you ever been involved with any negotiations, for example, with the Russians?

PALIN: We have trade missions back and forth. We– we do– it’s very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where– where do they go? It’s Alaska. It’s just right over the border. It is– from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there. They are right next to– to our state.

If you live in Alabama’s third congressional district, I highly suggest you vote for Josh Segall. He’s running against Mike Rogers, one of the the most conservative congressmen Alabama has ever had. You may think that’s a good thing, but it’s not when you realize Rogers has simply voted what his party asked him to regardless of the effects on his own district. For example, Rogers voted for CAFTA, which cost the third district thousands of manufacturing jobs. Rogers has supported tax breaks for big oil companies, and refused to vote for the new GI Bill and veterans’ healthcare funding. So far the only criticism Rogers has dredged up against Segall has been a false allegation that Segall’s money is coming from “Hollywood” rather than from Alabama voters.

If you want to learn more about Segall and his policies, The Opelika-Auburn News has just run a three-part series based on interviews with the candidate. Check it out.

PART ONE.
PART TWO.
PART THREE.

“A few hours after the interview, an unknown woman helped herself to Schwartz’s resources.”

– from this story.

Great column on McCain’s behind-the-scenes platform.

There is nothing secret about Senator McCain’s far-reaching proposals, but they haven’t gotten much attention because the chatter in this campaign has mostly been about nonsense — lipstick, celebrities and “Drill, baby, drill!”

For starters, the McCain health plan would treat employer-paid health benefits as income that employees would have to pay taxes on.

“It means your employer is going to have to make an estimate on how much the employer is paying for health insurance on your behalf, and you are going to have to pay taxes on that money,” said Sherry Glied, an economist who chairs the Department of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.

If you don’t ‘trust’ this news source, read this Wall Street Journal op-ed piece which praises Obama’s health plan.

Also, a refresher on the candidates’ tax plans:

Let’s talk about double standards. Right now.

An excerpt from this article.

Another valley activist, Philip Munger, says that Palin also helped push the evangelical drive to take over the Mat-Su Borough school board. “She wanted to get people who believed in creationism on the board,” said Munger, a music composer and teacher. “I bumped into her once after my band played at a graduation ceremony at the Assembly of God. I said, ‘Sarah, how can you believe in creationism — your father’s a science teacher.’ And she said, ‘We don’t have to agree on everything.’

“I pushed her on the earth’s creation, whether it was really less than 7,000 years old and whether dinosaurs and humans walked the earth at the same time. And she said yes, she’d seen images somewhere of dinosaur fossils with human footprints in them.”

Munger also asked Palin if she truly believed in the End of Days, the doomsday scenario when the Messiah will return. “She looked in my eyes and said, ‘Yes, I think I will see Jesus come back to earth in my lifetime.’”

Palin’s Blizzard of Lies.

Candidates don’t ask for votes anymore. They peel them off.

Good question: If churches are allowed to endorse politcial candidates, shouldn’t they lose their tax-exempt status?

While I would normally refuse to tell even my worst enemy to watch Bill O’Reilly, he has been lucky enough to interview Barak Obama at length, which you can view here. O’Reilly’s cheap shots and accusatory tone make me want to strangle him, but Obama, as expected, handles him well.