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Hint: Turn your head sideways - Shey

Yes, but now it lokos like a mutant frog-horse thing :( - Rah™

That frog has some weird looking eyes! - Robert DeBord

"Going up against a very formidable Republican machine, and having been subject to constant attack and millions of dollars spent trying to scare people over the last two months, I’m still tied or in the lead with John McCain. That tells me that the American people are good. That they are judging me on my ideas and my vision my values, and not my skin color. Now are there gonna be some people who don’t vote for me because I’m black? Of course. There are probably some African-Americans who are voting for me because I’m black. Or maybe others who are just inspired by the idea of breaking new ground. And so I think all that’s a wash. The bottom line is am I viewed as somebody who’s gonna be a champion for the guy who’s waking up every day, working hard for a paycheck? And I’m confident that if they think I can help them, that I’ve got a shot at getting their vote. And it may take a little more work on my part. But I don’t mind working harder than the other guy." - Ruth Ferguson via Bookmarklet

Cool. - Russellreno

"Even though Palin knew that Stein is a Protestant Christian, from a Pennsylvania Dutch background, her campaign began circulating the word that she would be "Wasilla's first Christian mayor." Some of Stein's supporters interpreted this as an attempt to portray Stein as Jewish in the heavily evangelical community. Stein himself, an eminently reasonable and reflective man, thinks "they were redefining Christianity to mean born-agains." The Palin campaign also started another vicious whisper campaign, spreading the word that Stein and his wife -- who had chosen to keep her own last name when they were married -- were not legally wed. Again, Palin knew the truth, Stein said, but chose to muddy the waters. "We actually had to produce our marriage certificate," recalled Stein, whose wife died of breast cancer in 2005 without ever reconciling with Palin." - Chris Reed via Bookmarklet

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"Among likely voters, Obama now leads McCain by 52 percent to 43 percent. Two weeks ago, in the days immediately following the Republican National Convention, the race was essentially even, with McCain at 49 percent and Obama at 47 percent. " - newsjunk.com

The single biggest culprit from many accounts: Milton Friedman. He provided the holy writ for the train wreck. He is also a neoconservative icon. - Sean McBride

The Wall Street Journal: "It's Judgment Day for John McCain": http://tinyurl.com/4r4pcy "Last week, Republican presidential candidate John McCain called for a commission to "find out what went wrong" on Wall Street. It was an excellent suggestion: Public inquiries into Wall Street practices served the country well in the 1930s. And Mr. McCain has a special advantage to bring to any such investigation -- many of the relevant witnesses are friends or colleagues of his. In fact, he can probably get to the bottom of the whole mess just by cross-examining the people riding on his campaign bus." - Sean McBride

McCain by no means has an elitist attitude toward others. It really means nothing to this campaign that he owns multiple houses and cars. I'm pretty sure McCain wasn't shown any favoritism from any mortgage companies unlike Obama who was given a lower than normal mortgage rate and other special treatments in exchange for taking care of the special interest groups. - David Ward

I'm thinking that Mccain paid full price for all his houses, no Rezko to give him a $300,000 discount for his homes. Have we sunk to the level that having more than one house is bad, but gaining from Chicagoland corruption is good? - Daltonsbriefs

He did not gain, and Rezko gave him no money. Nice bit of McCain style libel, though. - Jason Carreira

must view. - Duncan Riley

http://tinyurl.com/4mpbkn "Speaking at an event organised by the German Marshall Fund in Washington, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice acknowledged that Georgia had fired the first shots in the breakaway region of South Ossetia. "The Georgian government launched a major military operation into Tskhinvali [the capital of South Ossetia] and other areas of that separatist region," she said. "Regrettably, several Russian peacekeepers were killed in the fighting," she added." - Sean McBride

The leader of Georgia doesn't inspire much confidence: http://tinyurl.com/6l6aya "Saakashvili eats own tie" - Sean McBride

why do they keep calling them selves "maverick?" i really don't get it - Caroline

Mark, from Wikipedia: "Swiftboating is American political jargon that is used as a strong pejorative description of some kind of attack that the speaker considers unfair or untrue—for example, an ad hominem attack or a smear campaign. Most accurately, it refers to the repudiation of a politician's personal history by people who were present as that history was made." Does the speaker (Leo) consider my comment to be untrue? - Community Organizer Chuck

if he's maverick whose goose ?his lady friend he just hooked up maybe. LOL. - nick

"You know that viral video of Sarah Palin talking to graduating evangelical students at Wasilla Assembly of God earlier this summer? The one where she urges them to pray that when it comes to Iraq "there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan." The same one in which she tells them to pray for a gas pipeline, saying "I think God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that." Well, it turns out she used state funds to cover her travel expenses there -- a total of $639.50. Remember when the separation of church and state used to mean something?" - Ruth Ferguson via Bookmarklet

Awesome! - phil baumann

I'm not sick of Star Wars...how could you ever get sick of that? I'm sick of the crapified versions of Star Wars that Lucas foisted on us in the last 10 years in order to sell merchandise. - Wensleydale Scoble

that Indiana movie wasn't good either. I did REALLY like "The Phantom Menace" though,,, but his batting average is not what it used to be. - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ

"The body of evidence now shows that Neanderthals didn’t contribute any DNA to the Cro-Magnoid OR modern human gene pool. Indeed, Caramelli and his colleagues point out that “the burden of proof is now on those who maintain that Neanderthals might have contributed to the modern gene pool.” - Ranjit Mathoda

Heh, now that's freaky. - Nick Munson

That's great, and certainly a good way to get the rest of the neighborhood talking about you... - Brandon Wood

that is excellent - Jim Goldstein