who is the outcast?

look for the person bundled up and there you find the loner.

Let put Social Security into the stock market!

Guess we won't hear that idea for awhile.

It's like I'm psychic or something.

Is it a wonder McCain doesn't want to talk about the economy.

Palin wins the debate!

Hands down.

Did you see that flag pin?! She pwnd Biden and his puny flag pin.

Where is John McCain?

No seriously. Four weeks before the election and he doesn't seem to have ANY events scheduled today.

Has it been decided the less he's seen the better or is something wrong?

update: Missing Senior found. McCain is in Denver today holding a townhall meeting. Afterwards he plans on watching Matlock then falling asleep during the VP debates.

One month out

Actually 33 days until the election but it's close enough to start predictions

Overly optimistic? Maybe. But it isn't a complete fantasy.
Georgia, Louisiana and West Virgina are the only real longshots there. North Dakota and Montana will be tight but very doable.
Everything else is already solid Obama or close enough that momentum is moving it to the blue column.
McCain is running a terrible campaign and he's running out of time to turn it around. But the worst part for McMaverick is that every poll he's behind is like a kid screaming the emperor has no clothes. McCain was suppose to be about strength. He tries to convey the image of a solid dependable leader, but those tracking polls point out what a failure he is.
So for the next month he'll swing wildly from stunt to stunt. Launch attacks that grow in absurdity. Stories will appear with increasing frequency with staff infighting. The press will write McCain's political obituary before October is over and start discussing Obama's first 100 days as President.
And every negative piece of news will dampen support for the GOP. Why bother showing up to the voting booth if it's a foregone conclusion your guy is going to lose by a landslide Meanwhile the few people who remain in the fence and leaned toward Obama will feel safe supporting him. Who doesn't want to be on the winning team?

he's the anti-Nader

Ain't payback a bitch Republicans?

I also learned last night upon my return that John McCain’s operative in Pennsylvania, Republican County Chair Victor Stabile, filed an appeal after soundly losing his case to throw Bob Barr off of the ballot. This operative for John McCain is relentless in his quest to remove Bob from the ballot despite the Pennsylvania Libertarian Party dotting every “i” and crossing every “t” in their effort to place Bob on the ballot.

I cannot figure out why more Democrats haven't donated to Bob Barr.

(And if you won't vote for Obama, I hope you do too!)

Is it time to worry?

Wall street meltdown, adding a trillion dollars to the national debt, talk of a global recession - boring.

You know what's scary? milk.
Chinese milk.

Big deal, you say. You get your 1% from the local walmart and it comes from 100% American dairy cows. Other than a slew of antibiotics it's filled with it's perfectly safe. Okay, it probably is.
But before you get all smug, check your cabinets. Read the ingredients of everything and if it says milk protein concentrate or whey protein or powdered milk or dehydrated milk solids or anything along those lines maybe you should wonder where they get that stuff.
There's no reason to think American companies are getting this stuff from the same Chinese sources involved in the baby formula scare - except for the fact that none have rushed out to say "don't worry we don't get our stuff from China".

Globalization rocks, but those kidney stones are a bitch.