quote of the day

“I believe John McCain chose Gov. Palin because he truly believes that women who supported Hillary — an experienced, brilliant, life-long public servant — would vote for him because his Vice President has two x chromosomes. McCain’s selection of Governor Palin is a transparent and irresponsible decision all in the name of trying to win this election. John McCain has served this country. No one in this election is denying him that. But his selection of Governor Palin has demonstrated that he is willing to put his desperation to win this election above the welfare of the American people."
-Barbara Streisand

word of the day?

"There oughta be a word," Comedy Central's Indecision 2008 declared on Thursday, for "a last minute VP choice that brings a modicum of energy to an otherwise dull campaign."

Possible choices:

Apallin

Palindrom

Palin Pump

Check out the rest here.

quote of the day

"Let me offer an advance warning to the old, big spending, do nothing, me first, country second Washington crowd: change is coming."
-John McCain, at the RNC, on Sarah Palin

lies, lies, lies

Not to continue to attack the republican candidates, but honestly, guys? Hasn't the blogosphere proven already that the truth always comes out? The GOP convention was guilty time and time again for stretching the truth, and flat out lying in various speeches. Couldn't they just hire a fact checker?

Read more here.

who to believe?

Apparently it's being reported that Sarah Palin had an affair with her husband's business partner (...first mate?...). McCain's camp is threatening legal action, which blogger Perez Hilton says "makes her look guilty." The Enquirer was, apparently, the first news source to break the story, and as Hilton points out, has been right before about politicians having affairs.

My question is, does this matter? I mean, extramarital affairs used to matter to Republicans, but I maintain that, while I wouldn't want to date/marry Bill Clinton, he made a great president and sure, doing the nasty (allegedly) in the Oval Office isn't exactly kosher, he still managed to ride out eight years pretty successfully. And he was the H.B.I.C.; Palin would only be VP, so really, doesn't it matter even less?

Well, anyway. Read the two articles regarding the subject here and here.

Thank you, Perez

According to Perez Hilton, "The factually inaccurate and exaggerated speech bashing Barack from the lipstick wearing pit bull delivered at the RNC convention on Wednesday inspired 130,000 donors to give money to the Obama campaign." Apparently donors pledged $8 million in in only 24 hours to Barak Obama's campaign, and the senator has nobody but Sarah Palin to thank.

Read the rest of his post here.

quote of the day, part 2

"Isn't it cute that Obama thinks he can be president? Isn't it cute that all those people are dumb enough to believe that just because his mouth makes pretty sounds, he'll make a good leader?"
Huffington Post Columnist Seth Grahame-Smith on McCain's new perceived campaign strategy.

Read the rest of his article here.

quote of the day

"I told the Congress, "Thanks, but no thanks," on that Bridge to Nowhere."
-Sarah Palin, RNC speech

the REAL question

There are lots of different ideas of what counts when deciding who to vote for in the upcoming election. Whose policies do you agree with? Who will fight for what you believe in? Whose picture will look better, someday, on a one-dollar bill?

But there is one question that, above all, is inarguably the most important:



Whose kid is cuter?

According to Gonzalo Cordova of Indecision 2008, it's an easy question to answer. "The Obama girls have the whole cute kid sitcom thing going," she says. "For a second, I thought I was watching Nick at Nite." But on Palin's youngest daughter giving newborn Trig (no, I'm not kidding, kid's name is Trig) a "spit shine," she has to admit, "On a scale of one to ten, that’s really fucking adorable."

Read the rest of the article here.

the daily show gravytrain will stop eventually...

...But not todaaaay!