I just tripled my 401(k) contibution to 24% of my salary. I can’t afford it, but I also can’t believe how cheap this stuff is now. I’ll make the cuts elsewhere to make up for it.
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I just tripled my 401(k) contibution to 24% of my salary. I can’t afford it, but I also can’t believe how cheap this stuff is now. I’ll make the cuts elsewhere to make up for it.
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The Dow is down 380, S&P down even more, and GM shares are at a 60 year low and team McCain, in their infinite wisdom, are focusing on smears about Bill Ayers. Obama is hammering McCain on health care and the economy.
Keep listening to the NRO freaks, McCain.
*** Update ***
Down 678. Christ. How many retirements got wiped out today? How many people aren’t going to be able to retire when they want to?
But, but, but…. BILL AYERS!
Wankers.
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I am glad higher profile bloggers are beginning to recognize what I have been saying for days. John McCain is a coward:
He ever swaggered on for a couple days about how he was going to ‘take the gloves off’ when he met up with Obama in Nashville. But when the two of them were there in each others physical presence … nothing. By a myriad of gestures and reactions Obama owned him.
Nor is it a matter of shifting off the tactics, because as soon as McCain made his hasty retreat from the stage at Debate #2 he was right back at it. In every other aspect of life, high and low, refined and unlovely, we have a word for that kind of behavior: cowardice.
And now Obama can lightly taunt McCain with that very cowardice, his inability to just say it to his face. And if my take on the inner workings of McCain’s mind at the moment is right that should simply unhinge him even more.
John McCain is not man enough to own his shit. John McCain will not openly confront Obama with his smears and lies and innuendo. John McCain will not come out and talk about Ayers, he has to be asked. That is why he goes to places like Fox News, so he can be asked. What a coincidence.
John McCain is a coward.
John McCain would rather hide behind his wife and Sarah Palin than say it himself.
He would rather produce 2 minute ads that his campaign will never pay to air anywhere, and hope that the tire-swinging media will bring up the topic so he doesn’t have to do it himself.
John McCain just wants to throw shit out there, and “raise questions” about Obama, and hope his supporters connect the dots, because he is too much of a coward to directly push this toxic stew. He would rather hide behind right-wing bloggers, surrogates, and scummy websites staffed with wingnut welfare recipients like the NRO and the Weekly Standard.
John McCain had 90 minutes to bring this stuff up to Obama, to his face, and passed.
John McCain is a coward.
*** Update ***
Joe Biden is right:
“All of the things they said about Barack Obama in the TV, on the TV, at their rallies, and now on Youtube and everything else,” Biden said — referring to McCain and Palin tying Obama to Weatherman bomber Bill Ayers and accusing him of “palling around with terrorists.”
“John McCain could not bring himself to look Barack Obama in the eye and say the same things to him,” he said to cheers. “In my neighborhood, you got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.“
Coward.
*** Update #2 ***
And the nonsense starts. No one is debating that John McCain at one time exhibited great bravery in Vienam that I don’t think I would have possessed. How that changes what he has done the past few weeks, inciting his supporters to call Obama a terrorist while refusing to engage Obama directly on the matter, hiding behind surrogates and their sleazy innuendo, not mentioning the subject even though the gloves are “off” yet hoping upon hope that someone will ask him about it, is beyond me. It was one thing with Kerry- what McCain is doing now is dangerous, and he won’t even own it. Take that 2 minute commercial you released on the web, and pay for a national airing. If you want it out there, have it out there with your name on it and with your money backing it. Say something at the next debate. Own it. McCain is acting like a coward, and what he and his campaign are doing is a disgrace. Period.
And you can take extra special pleasure in the fact that Mr. Pent Up Jammies is chucking out the phrase keyboard commando.
More McCain handiwork.
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Jim Martin, a distinguished Viet Nam veteran, is the Democrat running against fearmonger, Saxby Chambliss, in Georgia. You can read about him here and here. Here’s what’s been happening in Georgia:
September 7-9
Chambliss: 57%
Martin: 28%
October 5-7
Chambliss: 47%
Martin: 44%
In other words, this has gone from “Saxby Chambliss = Foregone Conclusion” to “Jim Martin = Real Probability” – in one month!! The Chambliss campaign just has to be gobsmacked at this chaange in fortunes. Consider using this ActBlue page to donate to Martin. His campaign Web site is here. He can win this.
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So I guess the McCain campaign has decided in for a penny, in for a pound, and has gone full wingnut with Ayers (count the number of links to the NRO):
Several good things. First, after McCain loses in November, we won’t have to listen to the scumbag right claim he just didn’t hit Obama hard enough. Instead, maybe they honestly will reassess what they have become and determine that their party and their ideology is utterly bereft of ideas. While I am rooting for Obama, believe me, I want a reality based and decent opposition party. After some soul-searching, maybe the GOP can reconstitute themselves and fill that role while they convince the American public that they deserve another chance at leadership.
Second, I will no longer have to listen to certain old friends and, in one case, a member of my family, pretend that McCain is running an honorable campaign. The McCain campaign has now sunk to the putrid depths of the Bush 2000 crowd and beyond, and it is to the point it can not be argued. Those shouts at McCain/Palin rallies of terrorist, treason, kill him, and off with his head all have a direct line back to the McCain/Palin campaign. They can not be denied. While there may still be some dim bulbs who need to see some burned effigies and more overt incitements to violence, the rest of us can clearly see the connection here. John McCain may have bear-hugged George Bush in the past, now he is passionately tongue-kissing Karl Rove.
Finally, if by some freak act of nature, the McCain campaign does win, he will be the most ineffective President ever. Remember in the primaries, when Rahm Emmanuel said the following:
“The way the loser loses,” said Representative Rahm Emanuel of Illinois, who is close to both candidates but has made no endorsement, “will determine whether the winner wins in November.”
While that was certainly the case, it is also true that how the winner wins will help determine how effective they will be as President. If McCain wins this way, the atmosphere in Washington will be toxic. Although the country need strong leadership right now, at least we can count on a Democratic party that will strongly oppose the bad ideas and failed policies of the third Bush term that McCain will represent.
And there it is. The descent of McCain into the sewer of American politics is now complete. This is not an honorable man, this is not a decent man, this is not a good man. He may have been a war hero once, but no longer will that provide cover for his despicable behavior. John McCain is a disgrace to the country he claims to love.
*** Update ***
And don’t be confused. This is a 1:40 second web ad, and McCain has neither the money nor the balls to ad it nationally in any meaningful manner. Again, this is the guy who spent 90 minutes on stage with Obama and did not once bring it up. He is a coward. This ad has two target audiences- the first is the cable news bobbleheads, hoping that this will dominate the news cycle and the ad will get some free play. It will probably be successful in that regard, but with the DOW and S&P tanking again, will simply work against him as it advances the Obama narrative that McCain is out of touch.
The second target audience is these guys:
And they are already beyond hope.
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If Obama is a terrorist because he has a passing association with Bill Ayers, then Sean Hannity is an anti-Semite, full stop.
via Marc Ambinder. Oh, and I apologize to those of you who are repulsed to see Sean Hannity’s mug at the top of this site.
Greenwald has more: “…any Democrat preparing to go on Fox News should study how Obama communications director Robert Gibbs mauled Sean Hannity last night and copy and learn from it as though it is Scripture.”