Denial is just a river in Egypt

via Pajamas Media » Ten Reasons Why McCain Could Still Win

Can’t blame him for trying

John McCain has an interactive part of his website that allows his supporters — and others — to make signs. Here’s one result:

Voter registration fraud: fact edition

via TPMMuckraker | Talking Points Memo | Irony Alert: GOP Political Consultant Arrested For Voter Registration Fraud
Arrests for voter registration fraud connected to Democrats: 0
Arrests for voter registration fraud connected to Republicans: 1
Arrests for voter fraud (overall): 0
Most people have rejected this ACORN, Ayers, and Wright nonsense as irrelevant. The only people who care are [...]

McCain’s living in dreamland

via CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive – McCain to supporters: ‘You’re angry, and I’m angry too’ « – Blogs from CNN.com
McCain insists anger isn’t directed at Obama? After his campaign deliberately uses Barack Hussein Obama in speeches, and his supporters spout rabidly paranoid invective about blood lines, Arabs, and terrorists? [...]

McCain’s cognitive dissonance

via Daily Kos: 100 Percent Negative
It seems McCain has pulled out of the race, at least mentally. While his campaign airs 100% negative ads calling Obama “dishonorable,” “dangerous,” and “risky,” he tells his audiences (correctly) that Obama is deserving of respect and that people shouldn’t be scared of a Obama presidency.
His message is incongruent. So [...]

Owning your $#!+

via MyDD :: McCain Defends Obama At Campaign Event
McCain does the right thing at this event, and gets booed for it. Good on McCain for an act of courage and doing the right thing, and I hope that he sees what his campaign has done.

Second presidential debate, McCain’s word cloud

Keating Economics – John McCain’s albatross returns

James Carville said that when your opponent is drowning, “throw the son of a bitch an anvil.”
Anvil #1: while conservative pundits will forever think that Sarah Palin winked at them during the VP debate, everyone will remember “On the issues that matter … John McCain is no maverick.”
Anvil #2: John McCains previously “untouchable” war record [...]

Annenberg fact checks the debate

FactCheck.org: FactChecking Debate No. 1.
Again, the worst Obama comes out with is a few misleading statements (eg 95% of households, not people, get a tax break), McCain misleads on his own record, and Kissinger flip-flops on Iran.

Factchecking the debate

Check Point: The First Debate – The Caucus Blog – NYTimes.com.
Obama had a few possibly misleading statements. McCain also had a few misleading statments backed up with some outright lies. Obama’s a bit of an idealist when it comes to energy, McCain wants to drill, baby drill and nuke, baby nuke.
Bonus: Kissinger debates self on [...]