To me, John Mccain has been plugging away at this whole maverick reformer persona. When you look at the issues people are concerned about, Washington reform IS NOT one of them. Day by day he looks more desperate and out of touch! Not to mention angry and dangerous. The Republicans WILL NOT be making a return to the Whitehouse!!!

but I think using Bosniaks is correct.

We’ll just cancel the elction and swear Obama in as Emperor for Life!

“Who is it that affirms most boldly? Who is it that holds his opinion most obstinately? Ever he who hath most ignorance; for he also hath most pride.”

Akhenaton

There were at least 2 articles that Pejman wrote that I totally disagreed. But I still liked them a lot and they were written with passion and authenticity.

But this one is the most unspiring article I have read here at RS that claims to be written by Pejman.

Please, whoever you are, bring back the old, Pejman Yousefzadeh who AlWAYS revitalizes RS readers. We have high respect for Pejman and we need to this fight against the Socialists and Anti-Americans.

The presidential race is now heating up. The media would want you to think that O’bama is in the lead, but he is just hanging on. Most of the people in the audience behind the cameras in the O’bama campaign are just kids. look for yourself, look into the audience. Kids that can’t even vote making noise to give the impression that he has great support. Don’t be fooled. The McCain ticket will win!

The presidential race is now heating up. The media would want you to think that O’bama is in the lead, but he is just hanging on. Most of the people in the audience behind the cameras in the O’bama campaign are just kids. look for yourself, look into the audience. Kids that can’t even vote making noise to give the impression that he has great support. Don’t be fooled. The McCain ticket will win!

‘Bosniacs’ is the correct term.

Eagerly awaiting the apologetic update.

My god you people are all over the place! You call Liberalism a desease then you aspouse the virtues of the right! You go on about how the right are the only ones with values and morality, then you give us mean-spirited people like Anne Coulture and Rush Limbaugh who spew such hateful retoric. Saying things like MJ Fox is faking symptoms and that Canada, our closest and most reliable ally, should be “crushed.”.. Really..Canada??? And most of all, how can you say that the media is left wing when everytime I turn on my radio I hear right-wing commentators??? Or is the truth really that anyone who has freedom of thought and debates anything you say is automatically the enemy? Your way or the highway??

You have a good sense of humour Gensec..hats off to ya! ;o)

I think Palin resurrected her career last night. The Couric interview was a disaster for her and last night she redeemed herself. After this election (which I think is over now and I’ll explain that in a minute), in two or four years from now when she gets back into national politics, the pundits will look back at this campaign and say “she was just too green.” She is going to be a strong social conservative force down the road.

However, her performance needed to be way above an beyond expectations for this to help McCain. He needed something to talk about in the coming weeks, instead he has something to talk about today, and today only. With the House taking up the bailout bill again, she didn’t do enough to dominate the news cycle.

To be fair I’m not sure anyone could have done what she really needed to do to revive McCain, but fair or not, there you have it.

but I don’t think you can accurately say that she won. Judged on the sliding scale of expectations, she blew Biden away. Considering where some had set her bar, she HAD to exceed expectations.

Judged objectively, I think her sometimes obvious and not-so-smooth ignoring the question asked did her in a bit. But even on an objective measure, Biden only edged her out…maybe even lost slightly if you were watching with red-tinted glasses.

Point is, the debate won’t change much. It wasn’t a commanding enough performance by Palin to completely get her past the rough (to put it kindly) interviews she had. It wasn’t enough to turn the momentum. But she redeemed herself greatly with the performance.

And can we get a correct pronunciation of nuclear???

Team McCain hangs the mortgage meltdown where it belongs, on Obama and the democrats, little else will matter.
The facts are there.
The videos are there.
Why is team McCain not there?

To me she lost resoundingly and she makes me kind of ashamed to be a Republican. Everything she said was learned by rote or not pertinent to the question at hand. What has happened to our party?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosniaks

Which is both good and bad.

It didn’t hurt them in any significant way and if Palin is not elected vice president probably will help to salvage her career. Had the last few weeks of Sarah ‘unable to answer simple questions’ Palin mindset in the media continued through November a loss would have meant she’d likely never go anywhere beyond Governor of Alaska. She’d have just become a punchline. I think tonights debate helped show that while she’s not very good at answering direct questions in an interview, she does well enough in a debate.

That said no matter how you look at it now McCain needs something to get the momentum back on his side and soon. He’s down virtually across the board, he’s pulled out of states that were previously seen as battlegrounds like Michigan. He needs something to shake up the race. Palin couldn’t deliver that tonight, which means it’s a win for Obama/Biden because nothing happened to undermine the status quo in the race.

We’ll be back talking about the Bailout plan which for whatever reason seems to be winning ground for Obama later today as the House votes again. If they yet again vote it down I expect to see the McCain slide continue.

McCain needs to change the topic from the economy soon, it’s not winning ground for him. Sadly things that would have likely helped the campaign by putting the topic on more favorable ground like the hotel bombing have been buried by the media’s focus on the bailout.

While we were embroiled in financial crisis arguing, and Obama was surging ahead to a 7 point lead, I noticed the trolls and mobies had pretty much disappeared.

Palin clearly must have done very well and rattled their cage, because they are back in full force today.

When their biggest complaint is to tell us the the term “Bosniacs” is a correct term, then they are really grasping at straws.

“Again, it is kind of silly that we are penalizing candidates for innocent verbal flubs that have little to nothing to do with how they would govern, but fair is fair and this gaffe deserves a fair amount of ridicule.”

Which is it? Is it silly, or does it deserve riducule? Or was “Bosniac” incorrent at all?

Sorry, but this diary is not up to your usual high standards.

but now it’s time for McCain to come out swinging in the next debate. He needs to respond to Obama’s repeated attempts to link him to Bush. He needs to make Obama look foolish every time he tries to make that connection. And for goodness sake he needs to hammer Obama’s connection (and the rest of the dems) to Fannie Mae’s Franklin Raines. Obama and Biden have no qualms about connecting McCain to Bush, so I don’t see why McCain doesn’t bring up the connection between Obama and Raines and how the sub-prime mess took flight. And speaking of connections, let’s re-visit the Jeremiah Wright, Tony Rezko, Bill Ayers connections too. Time to sock Obama in the nose. We need to see some fire from John!

I have to say, Pej, I don’t understand this ridiculous notion that what the VP candidate does “will probably not do anything to change any votes.”

Of course it will! That’s why people watched the debate. That’s why you blogged on it at length. That’s why there was alarm over Palin’s poor showing in the Couric interviews, and glee over her strong showing last night.

It is true that relatively few voters (though by no means none) go into the booth thinking, “I like Obama over McCain, but I am voting for McCain because I like Palin more.” But for virtually all voters the VP nominee is part of the large backdrop that fills the canvas, and makes the top of the ticket seem better or worse. To say the VP won’t change votes is like saying a movie score won’t change people’s appreciation of the movie – we know that that is simply not true, the movie score is vitally important… even if few viewers walk out going, “Man, if it weren’t for the score, I wouldn’t have liked that movie.”

Does the VP nominee affect votes? Of course she does.

WOW…once again being nervous for Sarah like I was for her convention speech was unfounded. SHE WAS GREAT LAST NIGHT !!

But now that the debate “pop-quiz” is over…GET HER OUT HERE McCAIN…we need her campaigning not only for McCain, but for Elizabeth Dole in a hard race here in NC and other tight races i.e. Minnisota, New Hampshire, Colorado, and other Senate and House races.

Go Sarah Go…