Sometimes we have beer drinking contests as well.

Which ever candidate downs the most Fosters, they take the title.

Well, we don't really need another Kennedy in the White House.

Do they celebrate at Outback Steakhouse?

Nah, Just the local Pub. A bit of drunken boxing and a good game of Knifey spoony!!

The news says she used this account for "official business". Who the hell would use a Yahoo account for official business??
I'm a pee-on in State Government, but I have a State of NJ email address for official business. Are they that far behind in Alaska that they're using Yahoo?

The same person who believes that simply looking at another country gives you foreign policy credentials.

Well, she can see Russia from her house.

I forget, Lou. Is it better to be peed-off or peed-on?

I'll have to think about that one.

I'm watching the McCain rally live from Iowa, and at least twice Palin has the referred to the "Palin/McCain" administration. I wonder if that's a slip or intentional? I don't think it's intentional since she's said "McCain/Palin" the majority of the time.

Freudian slip.

I guess Joe Biden felt left out after McCain's colossal gaffe, so he came up with a gaffe of his own telling 'Good Morning America': "paying more in taxes is the patriotic thing to do for wealthier Americans".

Like that won't be repeated. I was in the waiting room at the doctor's and watched Sarah Palin introduce her husband as The First Dude. Oh, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip, please allow me to introduce you to Vice President Palin and The First Dude.

Is it only me that finds something so very WRONG with that?? I'm not trying to be a snob, but I DON'T want a "common" person in the White House. I want someone who is UNcommon, someone who is way smarter and way more driven than most people.

Within hours of him saying it, McCain/Palin both repeated it. Not that I blame them. Biden needs to keep to the script, and keep repeating 95% of Americans will be getting a tax cut. Not bringing up the 2% that will be paying more.

I found Palin "interesting" at first, but now I thinks she's totally obnoxious. Looking at how her approval ratings are dropping like a rock, it seems most of the American public is starting to feel the same way.

This page has been completely dominated by Obama supporters... Vote for McCain, Palin will be on TV for the next 5 years

The polls are starting to trend back to Obama. I think by November Palin will be scaring the beejesus out of all reasonable people.

If I were to vote for McCain, I'd say a prayer every night that we never have to see Palin's pretty face on TV.

Palin excitement levels off as Democrats regain lead


(CNN) -- Is America's honeymoon with Sarah Palin over? Polls suggest that might be so.

Palin appears to be losing some of her initial appeal as Democrats make gains in the polls.

The Alaska governor came out swinging at the Republican National Convention, energizing her party's base and shifting the momentum to John McCain's favor.

At rallies in the week following the convention, the McCain-Palin duo saw their best attendance and a newfound zeal, and the Republican ticket took the lead in national polls for the first time.

But polls show the momentum has shifted once again.

Palin's favorable rating is at 40 percent, according to a CBS News/New York Times poll. That's down 4 points from last week. Her unfavorable rating is at 30 percent, rising eight points in a week.

The poll was conducted September 12-16 and has a sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points.

Former Bush adviser Karl Rove predicted Wednesday that Palin's star power would wear off.

"Nothing lasts for 60-some-odd days," Rove told The Associated Press. "Will she be the center of attention in the remaining 48 days? No, but she came on in a very powerful way and has given a sense of urgency to the McCain campaign that's pretty remarkable."

But this week, the Democrats recaptured the headlines and Obama regained his lead in the national polls.

CNN's latest poll of polls, out Thursday afternoon, shows him ahead of McCain by two points, 47-44 percent.

The poll of polls consists of six recent surveys: CBS/NYT (September 12-16), Quinnipiac (September 11-16), IPSOS-McClatchy (September 11-15), Gallup (September 15-17), Diageo/Hotline (September 14-16) and American Research Group (September 13-15). It does not have a sampling error.

After a week in which McCain put Obama on the defensive over allegations of playing the gender card, the economic crisis has given Obama an opportunity to go on the offense. Most Americans see Obama as more capable than John McCain when it comes to handling the economy, polls show.

The Illinois senator has been aggressively attacking what he sees as shortcomings in McCain's economic plans.

Also this week, McCain handed Obama ammunition for what has turned out to be a weeklong attack.

Despite the shake up on Wall Street, McCain said Monday that "the fundamentals of the American economy are strong."

The Obama campaign jumped on those remarks, replaying them in a campaign ad, even after McCain clarified his comments. He said what he meant was that American workers are the fundamental strength of the economy and that the country will rebound with their help.

Obama continued to criticize the remark Wednesday at an event in Elko, Nevada: "His campaign must have realized that probably wasn't a smart thing to say on the day of a financial meltdown, so they sent him back out a few hours later to clean up his remarks."

Obama has filled this week's campaign speeches with a focused view of his economic agenda and sound-bite friendly slams to bruise McCain's image.

"This is somebody who has been in Congress for 26 years, who put seven of the most powerful Washington lobbyists in charge of his campaign. And now he tells us that he is the one who is going to take on the old boys' network. The old boys network, in the McCain campaign, that's called a staff meeting," he said Wednesday.

David Gergen, a senior political analyst for CNN and former presidential adviser, said neither candidate has shown expertise on the economic situation, but Obama has gained more from it than McCain.

"The momentum for John McCain and Sarah Palin has stalled out. There is a little momentum on Barack Obama's part. But he hasn't yet fully seized it and it is still very close," he said, adding that McCain could still recapture it.

But the Democratic ticket has shown a weakness in regards to the government takeover of insurance giant AIG.

A day after saying the federal government should not come to the rescue of AIG, Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden shifted his position Wednesday, saying he needs to get more details on the terms of the $85 billion takeover.

"The truth is I don't know what the bailout is yet," Biden said Wednesday afternoon in Mansfield, Ohio.

Obama was slow to respond when asked about the AIG deal. A statement issued from his campaign did not clarify whether he supports or opposes it.

McCain said he didn't want the government to have to take over the company, but it was necessary.

"When AIG was bailed out, I didn't like it, but I understood it needed to be done to protect hard working Americans with insurance policies and annuities. Sen. Obama didn't take a position. On the biggest issue of the day, he didn't know what to think. He may not realize it, but you don't get to vote present as president of the United States," he said Thursday in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

He also accused Obama of seeing the economic crisis as a "political opportunity."

Obama's campaign responded by accusing McCain of flip-flopping on the issue because he said he opposed the bailout earlier this week.

"Barack Obama does not second guess the Fed's decision to take unprecedented action to prevent the failure of one of the largest insurance companies in the world from creating an even larger crisis, and he believes it must protect families who count on insurance," said campaign spokesman Bill Burton.

As the McCain campaign tries to regain its footing, they're hitting hard with a new ad accusing Obama of wasting taxpayers money.

The ad says Obama's economic policies would severely worsen the country's economic woes.

"When our economy's in crisis, a big government casts a big shadow on us all," the ad's narrator states. "Obama and his liberal Congressional allies want a massive government, billions in spending increases, wasteful pork. And, we would pay -- painful income taxes, skyrocketing taxes on life savings, electricity and home heating oil." "

Obama has repeatedly said the notion he will raise taxes on middle-class Americans is untrue.

According to a CNN fact check, Obama's tax plan would increase taxes in 2009 on the wealthiest 20 percent of households, while offering tax cuts for the other 80 percent. The largest increases would be on the top 1 percent of earners, according to analysis by the Tax Policy Center, a nonpartisan research group whose staff of experts includes former economic advisers to the White House and Congress under both Republicans and Democrats.

By comparison, the Tax Policy Center analysis says McCain would offer tax cuts across the board. Those at the top end of the scale would get the biggest percentage cuts under McCain, while households with the lowest incomes would receive the largest percentage cuts under Obama's plan.

Do you think that all African Americans will vote for Obama?

If Obama wins, they get their wish of a coloured guy a President. Will they then stop acting victimised on the slavery issue?

I thought their wish was a BLACK guy as President, not "colour," unless you mean Latino or Arab or whatever. BTW my anglo-friend, it's "color," not "colour."

As for the slavery issue.....sure they'll do that when the South will get over the Civil War.

Wow.

I'm waiting for all the PC-people to come and rape you now. Sorry, it's inevitable.

Yes, just as all the guinea wop dago goombahs would have come out of the woodwork for Mayor Giuliani.

Seriously, there are so very many things that are so incredibly wrong with your post that they don't even deserve comment.

Colour is how it is spelled in england

In this clip, from January 2000, Obama talks of how he prefers Ronald Reagan's presidency over Bill Clinton's presidency.

Yes, perhaps the most liberal member of the Senate saying that the NeoCon's God was actually pretty good.

Yeah, but America is better so fuck "colour."

ooooooooooooooooook, how would you go about doing that?

I wonder what Chopper, or Yogi, or Turi would fell about that

I wonder what Chopper, or Yogi, or Turi would fell about that[/quote]

You mean Yogi with the avatar of an American Mafia mobster and Turi the Pittsburgh Steelers fan?

UK is cool and all, maybe better with the time-scale* and some other little things, but does American MPAA cut out headbutts for PG-13 like British censors do for their equivalent?

No.

*=Fuck AM/PM, why not simply 13:00 to 24:00?