Pictured l. to r., John McCain, Sarah Palin
-Headline of the day-
"Palin's Favorability Ratings Tumble."
Yikes! Boy, have they ever. According to the report, "Gov. Sarah Palin's favorable/unfavorable ratings have suffered a stunning 21 point collapse in just one week, according to Research 2000 polling. Last week, 52% approved and 35% disapproved of the GOP vice presidential nominee (+17 net). This week, 42% approved and 46% disapprove (-4 net)."
Naysayers will say nay to the numbers, since R2k tracking is sponsored by the liberal and 'Merica-hatin' Daily Kos. So I say nay upon the naysayers, calling their dKos objection and raising them one Newsweek. According to that magazine, "Over the course of a single weekend... Palin went from being the most popular White House hopeful to the least."
My take on this? Almost every goddam thing Palin says is being shown to be a lie. Turns out a lot of voters are allergic to being lied to -- it makes them break out with a bad case of Screw-You. (Political Wire)
-Cartoon time with Mark Fiore-
Don't worry 'bout nuthin'. The economy is like women's basketball -- it has good fundamentals.
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McCain-Palin '08, because economic masochism means never being able to say "enough!" (MarkFiore.com)
-Say what now?-
Today in Green Bay, John McCain told a crowd he knew exactly what the root of the problem with the stock market was -- Barack Obama. "My friends, this is the problem with Washington," he said. "People like Senator Obama have been too busy gaming the system and haven't ever done a thing to actually challenge the system."
OK see, here's the thing. As McCain has been telling us over and over, Obama's been in Washington for two years. And, as McCain has avoided telling us over and over, McCain has been in Washington for twenty-six years. McCain's talking like he's never even been to DC.
It didn't take Obama long to make that point. "This morning Senator McCain gave a speech in which his big solution to this worldwide economic crisis was to blame me for it," Obama said to a crowd in Coral Gables, Florida. "This is a guy who's spent nearly three decades in Washington, and after spending the entire campaign saying I haven't been in Washington long enough, he apparently now is willing to assign me responsibility for all of Washington's failures."
McCain later blamed Obama for global warming, kids in baggy pants, ice cream headaches, pirates, and the sack of Rome.
Avast! (Wall Street Journal and Politico, which has video)
