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From last night's debate comes a new Barack Obama ad. This is brilliant.


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Obama-McCain Debate Thoughts

So I was kind of thinking tonight since John McCain has suspended his campaign. To catch you up: He's "invited" Barack to join him by suspending his campaign until the bailout plan is done. McCain has also said he's not going to participate in the debate on Friday unless the bailout is done.

Well, that's nice. John McCain, who has admitted the economy isn't exactly his strong suit, has decided the economy is suddenly his area of expertise. Lovely.

But what about the economy of Oxford, Mississippi (the home of Ole Miss where Friday's debate will be held)? Let me tell you about it. And I happen to know a little about this area because my mom's entire family is from Batesville, Mississippi, just down the road from Oxford (about 30 minutes away) and Ole Miss was on my college short list (I still thank God I dodged that bullet not because Ole Miss is a bad school, it's not. I'm grateful I stayed away from my family.). That area of Mississippi is very rural and in 2000, the median household income in Oxford was $20,526 with 31% of the Oxford population living below the poverty level.

According to Ole Miss officials, they've spent $5.5 million preparing for and putting on this debate. They've closed of streets, built the whole set and more. Cancelling the debate would be devestating to Ole Miss. And they don't think they can easily just reschedule, which is McCain's suggestion.

Now it's my belief that this debate should happen. I agree with Obama that it's important for Americans to hear from their leaders. But if McCain can't be bothered to show up, well that's his choice. I'd be happy with Obama talking to us for an hour with McCain's empty chair just sitting there.

BUT both John McCain and Barack Obama are senators and maybe they should be doing the jobs they were hired to do. And maybe that means going back to DC and working on this whole mess. (Again, I'm not sure I really believe either of them would be more than an unnecessary distraction, but I'm trying to see the other side here). And if that's the case, then maybe their debate should be postponed.

McCain has suggested that this Friday's debate be moved to Thursday, October 2nd. Does that sound familiar for any reason? That's right! It's currently the date of the vice presidential debate at the Washington University in St. Louis. And McCain says we can just reschedule the VP debate later at Ole Miss.

That sucks as an idea. What the heck is he thinking?

Here's my idea:

Barack Obama should call McCain's bluff. He should say, "John, I've heard your proposal to reschedule our debate until October 2nd because of the economic crisis. I'm concerned about this economic crisis too. But I'm ALSO concerned about the economy in Oxford, Mississippi. [then toss out some facts about the economy and the costs to Ole Miss.] So here's what I propose: we'll be happy to move the debate to October 2nd IF the vice presidential debate can be this Friday, September 26th. I don't want Oxford to be out $5.5 million. Joe's happy and ready to step in at a moment's notice because that's the job of the vice president."

Obviously Sarah Palin can't be ready by Friday and so John McCain would say no and look like a gigantic ass.

Win-win for us.

All Together Now: John McCain Just Doesn't Get It!

As you'll recall, I previously wrote about McCain's desire to deregulate the healthcare industry here. We're in a huge economic crisis and no matter what John McCain would like us to believe this week, he has been a proponent of deregulation of all kinds for the last 26 years.

We simply cannot afford to have him in the Oval Office.

Barack Obama Is Clearly Having Fun

I gotta say, Barack looks like he's having fun here just wiping the floor with McCain.



Everyone say it with me now, "Are you better off today than you were 8 years ago?"

Vote Obama.

Women Are Just Burdens on Society

At least according to John McCain.

John McCain would like you to know that if you have a uterus, then making sure that your pay is equal to a man's pay is simply too great of "a burden on business." In fact, he thinks equal pay is such a trivial issue that he couldn't be bothered to show up for the vote on the Ledbetter Act in April.

I strongly encourage you to share this new Obama ad with your girlfriends. They deserve to know the facts about just how little John McCain thinks of women.

By the way, if you live in the Illinois 10th Congressional District, Mark Kirk (R), ALSO voted AGAINST the Ledbetter Act. That alone should be reason enough to vote for Dan Seals.

How Can McCain Fix an Economy He Doesn't Know (or Doesn't Care) Is Broken?

I don't know if John McCain doesn't know or doesn't care that there are severe problems with the economy. In a way it doesn't really matter.

Although it is kind of fun to think that maybe he believes that if he keeps repeating "the fundamentals of the economy are strong" as Sarah Palin clicks her heels, that maybe we'll magically travel back to a time when the economy was strong, jobs were plentiful, foreclosures were low, inflation was low, gas prices (and prices in general) were low, and people felt confident in their ability to support their families, send their kids to college, and retire. Oh, wait, those were The Clinton Years.

But I digress. Here's Obama's latest, and in my opinion, absolutely best ad of the campaign. I think this should run in every state all 24/7 until the election.

Share it with your friends.

McCain: "Ha Ha Ha! I Was Just Kidding! Gotcha!"

Isn't John McCain funny? Today, he told us all that the bruhaha he made over Barack Obama's "lipstick on a pig" comment from last week was just a joke. A little light-hearted campaign diversion. Didn't we all get that he was kidding last week?

Well, okay, that's not exactly what he said. This is:

When asked by reporters in Florida today, "Did [Obama] call [Palin] a pig?"

McCain reponded, "No, I but know that he chooses his words carefully, and it was the wrong thing to say."

WHAT?

John McCain and his talking heads spent a week running around screaming about how Obama was sexist and calling Sarah Palin a pig and now he's telling us that he knew that's not what Obama meant?

We have serious issues in this campaign Senator McCain. To borrow from one of my favorite movies, The American President, "We've got serious problems, and we need serious people, and if you want to talk about [sexism, John, you'd better come at us with more than a 'lipstick on a pig' comment you know wasn't sexist in the first place]." There is real sexism in this country, but Barack Obama's comment wasn't it. And for you to say that it was diminishes all the real sexism that women deal with on a daily basis.

We've got real, actual serious issues in this campaign. We simply don't have time for your candy-ass made up issues.