Saw this article in the Guardian.  Worth a look. And quite funny.

To sum up, the new Republican VP pick belonged to a political party, the AIP, that wanted Alaska to secede from the Union.

Oops.

Here’s the funniest part:

Yet it is the AIP’s motto, “Alaska First, Alaska Always”, that may cause the most trouble for McCain. The Republican’s campaign slogan this year is “Country First”.

Vanity Fair has a piece about Cindy McCain’s middle class (hey, it’s less than $5 million, am I right?) outfit.

So, sure, it costs over $300,000.  But you’ve got to figure, most of that is going to those earrings.  The dress itself is only $3000.  That’s much more reasonable.

If you saw McCain’s acceptance speech last night, you would have been forgiven for thinking that they had put him in front of a green screen again (see below).  Apparently not.  McCain spent part of the evening giving a speech in front of an image of Walter Reed Middle School.  What this has to do with anything, god only knows.  TPM was speculating that maybe someone was tasked to find images of Walter Reed Medical Center.  But if you do a google image search for “Walter Reed”, the middle school is not on the first pages.

I guess maybe the McCain camp has a saboteur in their midst?

Say what you will about McCain, at least he’s making it entertaining.

You’ve got to love political advertising.  You don’t have to worry about facts anymore, you just have to make assertions. (Thankfully, some idiot named McCain wrote a law that would clean up malicious and deceptive advertising by adding the line “I’m so-and-so and I approved this message” to all official campaign ads.  Glad to see that worked.)

Whatever happened to that $200 million that Alaska got for that bridge?  Sarah Palin gave it back, right?  No.  Hm… Oh well, she’s still a maverick.  A maverick that keeps the earmark money and then rails against it.

By the way, that movie sucked.

McCain’s got a new ridiculous ad out against Obama.  It claims that Obama wants to teach sex education to kindergarteners.  Now, people say some stupid things in the heat of an argument, but is McCain really trying to claim that Obama wants to teach sex ed to pre-schoolers?  Are we really that gullible as a nation?  If you’re going to lie, why not go whole hog and say that Obama plans to distribute condoms to pre-schoolers?  Actually, that kind of reminds me of an XKCD strip.

I realize McCain’s a “maverick”, but was it really a good decision to stick his own head up his ass?  I guess a more genteel way to say this would be: for someone who claims to put his country first, he really seems to have jumped into the sleazy, mudslinging end of the pool with both feet.  It’s shameful.

Anyway.  Here’s the ad:

The appropriate response is: “WTF?”

And here’s the link to a blogpost debunking the ad.

I haven’t been the biggest Obama supporter, but damned if these new sleazy, despicable, dishonest, pathetic attacks don’t make me want to go and vote.  Anyhoo, like they say about Chicago, “Vote early, vote often.”  Here’s a link to register to vote, from the League of Women Voters website.  I wouldn’t bother with Obama’s site unless you wanted to be inundated with Obama ads for the rest of your life.