Al-Qaeda essentially endorses McCain, reports the Washington Post.

Except, you know, not.

I knew there was a reason I didn't think Charlie Crist was such a bad guy - he's distancing himself as much as possible from the McCain campaign, and especially its laughable attempts to paint Obama as a socialist. He's also called the GOP's ACORN bullshit what it was. He and Powell are two of the few respectable Republicans left ( Read more... )

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If you thought the right-wing was already coming unglued, you're going to be utterly shocked by their conduct over the home stretch. They're utterly desperate now, and there's nothing more dangerous than a political party in desperation. We'll probably be seeing more campaign workers getting attacked, more blatantly bullshit robocalls, more ( Read more... )

to various political campaigns, it's getting close to the point beyond which donations won't make much, if any, difference. Daily Kos has been especially good about drawing attention to races which deserve it, as has MyDD. I know in economically tough times (although the Dow jumped 900 points today, a record, though who knows whether it'll stay ( Read more... )

Sorry I didn't update any this weekend. I barely had time to breathe.

McCain's attacks on Obama backfire, say polls.

Students for a Democratic Society (the '60s incarnation) co-founder Tom Hayden argues that Obama's supporters will form a new progressive movement resembling the one of the '60s.

Andy Martin, originator of the "Secret Muslim" slur ( Read more... )

William F. Buckley's son, Christopher Buckley, endorses Obama wholeheartedly. Read the whole piece; it's superb. (I'm linking to John Cole's blog rather than Buckley's because I can't get Buckley's to load right now; I'm not sure if it's just my connection, but Cole has a link to the original anyway).

Meanwhile, the prosecutor of the Weathermen ( Read more... )

Arch-conservative columnist Kathleen Parker is, like me, concerned about the behaviour of crowds at McCain-Palin rallies lately. She also jumped off the Palin tire swing in a big way last week, you may remember, so perhaps she's leaving the extremist rhetoric behind for more sensible waters. I'm not going to be that optimistic though ( Read more... )

They were actually transcribing people's phone sex calls.

R.I.P., Land of the Free.