I think Couric is doing a fine job and this might be a turning point in her career, but it's not like she's doing a hard core interrogation on Palin. This could just as well be a Today Show segment. Palin just butchers every question and talks in circles. Give Katie credit for keeping her cool and not spewing coke or something during the answers. It's got to be hard to keep a straight face during some of that drivel.

Palin should be on the SNL payroll as a writer during all of this. All they have to do is have Tina Fey watch the tape and just repeat it on Saturday night.

I do worry that the bar has now been set so low, that Palin only need show up in the vicinity of a podium and appear cognizant of her surroundings to be declared a success.

There is great polling news in state polls for Obama. In polls released today, Obama has taken his biggest leads yet in 3 key states: Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania. He's also gone over the critical 50% mark in all 3. Early voting is currently going on in two of them as well so the fact that Obama is pulling away comes at a critical time. Since 1960, no candidate has won the presidency without winning at least 2 of these states.

Florida: Obama 51, McCain 43 (Obama +8)
Pennsylvania: Obama 54, McCain 39 (Obama +15)
Ohio: Obama 50, McCain 42 (Obama +8)

I just read this on MSNBC.COM. It has been said for Obama to win he should have at least 50%, and in these 3 key states, is looking pretty good for the moment. This will also boost his electoral outlook potentially too.

You're absolutely right. Palin is just remarkably moronic. It is amazing that someone like her could advance as far with her complete lack of knowledge of history and current events. Every interview I'm more and more gob-smacked by her inanity.

According to this blog post, she's apparently becoming a larger strain on the McCain campaign. Maybe some are finally seeing the light. The whole idea that she would appeal with women is being debunked.

More on those state polls showing Obama leading by between 8 and 15 points in OH, FL and PA. From the pollster, Quinnipiac University, who conducted the poll:

"It is difficult to find a modern competitive presidential race that has swung so dramatically, so quickly and so sharply this late in the campaign. In the last 20 days, Sen. Barack Obama has gone from seven points down to eight points up in Florida, while widening his leads to eight points in Ohio and 15 points in Pennsylvania," said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.

"Sen. John McCain has his work cut out for him if he is to win the presidency and there does not appear to be a role model for such a comeback in the last half century," Brown added.

"Sen. McCain's problem is not with this or that demographic group. Although he still leads among white men, albeit by a smaller margin than in previous polling, his problems are across the electorate, especially among women, where he now trails Sen. Obama by 18 points. Sen. McCain's support is dropping among all age groups, and his once strong lead among those ages 60 and older has evaporated. Sen. Obama has expanded his lead among the 18-35 age group to almost a 3-to-1 margin."

I'm still skeptical of these polls. I'm just not putting that much stock into them. Thats a hell of a swing, particularly in states like Florida, North Carolina, and Ohio, and I'm just not sure I buy it. Young voters and what I read this morning about him having a 2 to 1 edge in new voters are key to big turnouts on November 4th. But, I'm still weary of the Bradley effect and still don't believe he's pulled ahead that much. I don't know. I think part of it is not wanting to let myself get too excited because I will not be at all surprised if he ends up losing. So, I am just staying with the belief that its about dead even and that I need to continue with vigorously registering people to vote and organizing transportation on November 4th.

But hey...if those polls are correct I agree its crucial that early voting is beginning now.

I don't think any Democrat should be complacent and think this thing is over because the Republicans are going to go to their bag of dirty tricks like they always do. I won't be confident until Barack's inauguration day. But with that said... more new polls came out tonight in key states, and USA Today is using the following headline: "Battlegrounds Breaking Big For Obama"....

Time/CNN state polls show Obama surging to leads as big as 11 points in every battleground state it measured. Those states are Florida, Missouri, Virginia, Nevada and Minnesota. It's no longer just one or two polls showing Obama surging now that we're in the month of October. It's every poll, which has got to be great news. It guarantees nothing, but I would much rather have my candidate of choice roaring to big leads in key states right now than the other way around.

I was watching a commentator talking about how worried the McCain camp is right now because they are having to pour money into states like Indiana and North Carolina, which are states they should've never had to defend this late. McCain's campaign is in major trouble right now.

So Larry Flynt of Hustler is producing a porno with a Sarah Palin look-a-like. Radar magazine has a mock script...it's pretty hilarious!

http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2008/10/...n-porn-film.php

Though I also posted this in "TV, Music, etc." I think it should be here as well. In a way Sarah Palin performing with The Wasilla Singers is more disturbing than Jeremiah Wright, or even the possible VEEP being blessed by a Kenyan witchdoctor.

Barack Obama dancing with a lesbian on the Ellen DeGeneris show was bad enough (though I'll admit he does at least have rhythm).

But the music industry really should not have to be exposed to this travesty. I speak as a lover of the arts, in all their forms.

The superscript that Palin did the choreography has to be a joke since she is actually out of step on more than one occassion.

Well I suppose until we see "Say it aint so Joe" cut a rug, we really can't make that ultimate decision about whether Governor Palin should be one carcinoma from the White House.

The new Disney movie trailer: Head of Skate

That was pretty funny Maddog! Here is the latest SNL Tina Fey/Palin skit from last night:

http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/vid...n-biden/727421/

I missed SNL last night, but the first thing I did this morning was watch the clip from last night. Thank you Sarah Palin, you've made SNL relevant again! This is must-see TV!

I want to know to whom she's winking and batting her eyes.

Sure her dad and the school kids know something we don't but all those other winks make wonder. What secret message is she sending?

And that batting of the eyelids, isn't that more appropriate in a beauty contest. You betcha Joe Biden's gonna have to "practice up" on that gosh darnit.

McBush does the same thing though. But, he probably won't tomorrow night, well not towards Barack anyways. He probably won't even acknowledge him again. It could be a MOST interesting debate. I wonder if the Repubs. are already blogging that McBush won.

So the Chicago Sun Times is reporting that Palin may appear on Saturday Night Live to spoof Tina Fey. Well she has been a comic genius so far so what the hell. And SNL's ratings would be ginormous!

http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/zwec...R-fey05.article

Pretty clever Sarah Palin song parody:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DIc8jdra0o

The "hockey mom" will drop the puck for the ceremonial faceoff at the Wachovia Center for the Flyers-Rangers game on Saturday.

I'll be out of town. I hope the crowd will do what I would do if I were there, and boo the hell out of her.

OMG, that ought to be something! Maybe somebody will throw an octopuss on her head. Can't wait to hear the corwd response when her name is mentioned. By the way, HOCKEY STARTS ON CENTER ICE TOMOOROW too. Oh boy!

Even putting aside her lack of qualifications and her sleazy campaign, there's no reason for her to be there. She has no Philadelphia connections. There's no reason for a candidate running for any office to be given such free publicity during their campaign. Clearly this is Ed Snider pushing his preferred candidate.

So I sent a message to them.

Got a reply from the Flyers -- from reading the Flyers' newsgroup on Usenet they're sending the same message to everyone who writes:



I replied:

This Hey Sarah Palin video might be an appropriate greeting for her at Wachovia.

Hope they get onto a television show with this.

Meanwhile, they're talking on the radio about how the Obama campaign offered to have Obama throw out the first pitch before today's Phillies-Dodgers playoff game...and the Phils turned down the offer. As they should have.

Correct me if I am wrong, but I understand the owner of the Flyers is a contributor to the GOP.

Three national polls released today all show Obama leading by double digits. Gallup has Obama up 10, Newsweek has him up 11 and Research2000 has him up 12. The Newsweek one is interesting because they don't poll as often as the other two. Newsweek just four weeks ago had the race tied at 46-46, but now show Obama up 52 to 41. Five different polls today show Obama getting over 50 percent of the vote. Fox News has some very bad news for McCain. In the Fox News national poll released today, McCain has dropped to his lowest point yet, garnering only 39 percent of the vote.

So now what? Palin has been exposed for abuse of power as Governor. When the denials and deflections fall flat, does she step down (blaming unfair media coverage)? McCain-Mulligan 08? Huckabee? Romney? Cindy? No, save Cindy for "Drug Czar".

What a FUBAR Presidential campaign. Is it possible that McCain is even more inept that W?

Bristol's baby's daddy is now a high school dropout. I would think they could pull the resources together for him to at least finish out his senior year in high school. The GOP is always extolling the virtues of responsiblity....I don't think dropping out of high school is very responsible. You would think his future in-laws might help him out.

Levi goes to work

I would forgive Levi anything.

His mom-in-law-to-be went to 5 colleges in six years. And look where it's gotten her. He has a spendid role model.

Ed Snider is chairman of Comcast-Spectacor, which owns the Flyers, Sixers, the arenas (soon to be one arena after they tear down the Spectrum), Comcast Sportsnet, etc. He's a major right-winger.

Seems Miss HB ( hockey bitch) is now using the wedge issues in her stump speech. Yesterday she was talking about Obama and his abortion stance. What is next Sarah, gay rights? It wouldn't surprise me. They have to be getting close to running out of "issues" to talk about, right? Maybe not. Meanwhile, Chris Matthews reported that the highest memebr of the GOP in Virginia was mentioning Osama, along with Obama, and said he was not backing down either.......digusting.

They ran out of ideas weeks ago. Now you see the disgusting aftermath of desperation. Nothing reeks worse. The GOP has chosen the worst, most wrong path possible, and I could not be more thrilled. They are attempting to fire up the half-wits of their base, which isn't hard to do. This campaign is reminding me of an episode of "Family Guy" when Lois runs for mayor, and all she has to do to get the crowd riled up is mention "9/11". It worked every time. This race has become comical.

Check out this interactive site of a Palin Oval Office:

http://palinaspresident.com/

Ungh Ungh...I'm not even touchin that one. Thats just wrong.

OMG! ROTFLMAO! That is the funniest, albiet most evil thing I have heard yet! I LOVE it!

That 'exchange' was, as my Aunt Ginny used to say, "Rude, crude, and unrefined".

However, on the broader scope of the Sarah Palin VP Candidacy, I can't help playing that ole' tune in my head, Patsy Cline sang it I think.......

"Who's Sorry Now?"

And permit me to add, I have NO prayers for that Whore with her wenching broken hip, who lives in Bel Air, CA. I loathe her so.

But I don't loathe Sarah Palin, although, I still consider her to be a domestic terrorist, as she has proven herself to be in every speech she's given since I made my pronouncement.

TRL

As much as I don't like her I think this goes a little too far.

agreed. santana, could you edit that out and remove it please?

I find the hateful and racist rhetoric coming out of Palin's mouth far more disturbing than some cartoon.

Yeah she's going around trying to paint Obama as a terrorist and make people fear the black man and I'm supposed to be offended by a joke? I don't think so. I'm much more offended by her belief and gall that she is somehow qualified to be President of the United States.

I betcha by golly she's made or heard a whole hell of alot more offensive gay jokes in her day.

And it has been confirmed that she will appear on SNL tomorrow night:

I'd love it if everyone just got up and left!

I wonder if the crowd at SNL will boo her as they did at the Flyers game.
I also wonder if they will warn the crowd not to boo her as well.

This link may have already been posted somewhere and/or may have already been passed on to you. It's fun-ny!

http://www.palinaspresident.com/
click around/again
(watch the window for a dinosaur...and open and close the door 3 times)

Considering that Lorne Michaels is a McCain supporter and has donated to the McCain campaign, I'm guessing the crowd will be on its best behavior... or else!

Today, an Obama rally in St. Louis drew a police-estimated crowd of 100,000 (ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND). The Obama camp said the crowd was actually between 125,000 and 150,000 and the police typically estimate low, but it's safe to say there were at least 100,000 there. The very conservative Fox/Rasmussen state poll of Missouri came out yesterday and showed Obama in front in that state by 6%. Here are a couple of photos:

Wow. Impressive.

And he drew an estimated 75,000 people later in the day in Kansas City!

That's 175,000 people turning out to see Obama and hear him speak in Missouri. The Show Me state indeed!

SNL: That Weekend Update rap was hilarious!

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Edit to add: The rap (NBC video). Words (which I copied off some website):

one two three

my name is sarah palin you all know me
vice president nominee of the gop
gonna need your vote in the next election
can i get a 'what what' from the senior section
mccain got experience, mccain got style
but don't let him freak you out when he tries to smile
cause that smile be creepy
but when i be vp
all the leaders in the world gonna finally meet me

how's it go eskimo
(eskimos)
tell me what you know eskimo
(eskimos)
how you feel eskimo
(ice cold)
tell me tell me what you feel eskimo
(super cold)

i'm jeremiah wright cause tonight i'm the preacha
i got a bookish look and you're all hot for teacha
todd lookin fine on his snow machine
so hot boy gonna need a go between
in wasilla we just chill baby chilla
but when i see oil lets drill baby drill

my country tis a thee
from my porch i can see
russia and such

all the mavericks in the house put your hands up
all the mavericks in the house put your hands up
all the plumbers in the house pull your pants up
all the plumbers in the house pull your pants up

when i say 'obama' you say 'ayers'
obama (ayers) obama (ayers)
i built me a bridge - it ain't goin' nowhere
(ohhh)

mccain, palin, gonna put the nail in the coffin
of the media elite
she likes red meat
shoot a mull humpin moose, eight days of the week

[three gunshots]
now ya dead, now ya dead,
cause i'm an animal, and i'm bigger than you
holdin a shotgun walk in the pub
everybody party, we're goin on a hunt
la la la la la la la la
[six gunshots]

yo palin, i'm out!

I was so hoping that Amy P's water would break during that song...lol It was great!

Palin actually was ok, seeing her in non-political way you can see why she's liked she seems ok.....when politics aren't involved, then she gets stupid

It's a fact: Joe Sixpacks love the maverick woman.