Not so fast there, Slick...
-And the winner is...-
...John McCain! Woohoo!
Now that John McCain has flip-flopped on his pledge to suspend his campaign until a bailout deal is reached, tonight's debate is back on. It'll be at the Ol' Miss campus, it'll be the first debate of the general election campaign, and John McCain is celebrating after having won it this morning.
Notice a little problem with the tenses in that sentence? Tell it to McCain, whose "suspended" campaign took out this ad on the Washington Post's website:
Not only is this jumping the gun just a little, but this appeared before McCain unsuspended his campaign. In other words, he was campaigning. So, not only is McCain claiming victory in a debate that hasn't happened yet, but he did it while he said he wasn't campaigning and before he announced he was quitting that suspension gimmick.
In fact, that's not the only ad. According to the report, "Another ad spotted by our eagle-eyed observer featured a quote from McCain campaign manager Rick Davis declaring: 'McCain won the debate-- hands down.'"
It's becoming more and more clear that McCain can't go ten consecutive minutes without slinging some kind of bullshit. (Washington Post)
-Cartoon time with Mark Fiore-
The sex and drugs scandal at the Interior Dept. as explained by... well, a baggie of drugs.
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Drill, baby, drill! (MarkFiore.com)
-Headline of the day-
"Obama camp calls McCain 'erratic'."
And here I've been using "incoherent."
Obama’s national press secretary, Bill Burton, emailed a memo to reporters today. According to the report, "'Given his unsteady performance this week, [McCain] desperately needs to win this debate in a big way in order to change the topic and get back to his home turf,' said the memo, which cited McCain’s 'erratic, out-of-touch behavior this week, his failure to do anything of substance to move the agreement forward on the bailout, and his commitment to continuing Bush economic policies.'"
I don't know, sounds like incoherence to me. Still, Bill's the expert, so I'll defer to him. Other words that come to mind are "lunatic," "scatter-shot," "scrambling," and "demented."
If you've got some good ones, let me know -- maybe I'll write a thesaurus entry for "McCain." (Politico)
