President Bush Ordered CIA to deliver heads of terrorists (on ice) to his desk, so they did

From the CBC Documentary The Bush Years, which you can watch here.


-Diane


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Political Pumpkins

-Diane






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McCain Doctrine: Preemptive ejection?

Audience members escorted out of Sen. John McCain’s, R-Ariz., campaign event in Cedar Falls questioned why they were asked to leave Sunday’s rally even though they were not protesting.

...

“I saw a couple that had been escorted out and they were confused as well, and the girl was crying, so I said ‘Why are you crying? and she said ‘I already voted for McCain, I’m a Republican, and they said we had to leave because we didn’t look right,’” Elborno said. “They were handpicking these people and they had nothing to go off of, besides the way the people looked.”

Elborno said while she has protested at events before, no plans were discussed beforehand for a protest and she shouldn’t have been taken out because she was not causing a disturbance.

“If I had been disruptive, then I would have deserved to be taken out,” Elborno said. “But at the time I was asked to leave, I wasn’t doing anything.”

Elborno said she’s stunned at how the situation was handled, especially McCain’s staffers’ refusal to discuss the matter.

“I’ve never seen anything like this,” she said.

Despite repeated attempts, McCain’s campaign could not be reached for comment.



-Diane



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A Night with the Jersey Devil

Bruce Springsteen has a free Halloween download on his site. The rocker has posted a free download of a new song, "A Night With the Jersey Devil," on his Web site. The song has a blues beat, and Springsteen sings about "16 witches casting 16 spells."

Writes Springsteen: "If you grew up in central or south Jersey you grew up with the 'Jersey Devil.' Here's a little musical Halloween treat. Have fun!"

There's also a video showing Springsteen as the legendary Jersey Devil.

-Diane


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Countdown

Is a McDonald's somewhere missing an employee?



Michael Moore stops in to discuss the election with Keith.

"There have been so many Republicans jumping over to Ombama lately that I fully expect, by Tuesday morning, McCain will be endorsing Obama." – Michael Moore



John Cleese, discussion of Joe the Prop.



Worst Person in the World: And the winner is...Ann Coulter. Runners up Bill O'Reilly and G. Gordon Liddy.




-Diane

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Good night!

Apocalyptica: 'Nothing Else Matters'

-Diane

Rachel Maddow Show

Rachel interviews Senator Barack Obama. Part One.



Part Two.

From the program aired on MSNBC 10-30-08.

-Diane

Countdown

Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane will get his revenge on Bill OReilly for claiming he uses the program to promote his causes in an upcoming episode of the show.



Keith talks to Frank Rich about how the Presidential campaigns have been run and the state of the Republican party.



McCain in the membrane: The B Actress update, when Neil Cavuto bails on you and when you can't remember a name to slime pretend only the hip people know.



Worst Person in the World: And the winner is...Sarah Palin. Runners up Bill O'Reilly and Pamela Geller.



Keith's Campaign comment.

And it is one thing -- one stupid, cataclysmic thing -- to try to slime your opponent because of his relationship with some guy, only to then find out that your own candidate has a stronger relationship with that guy.

But this graduates to the level of fatal political malpractice when the ultimate result of your effort to slime your opponent, is to in fact draw a parallel between your candidate, and William Ayers.
The huffing, puffing, panicky McCain noise machine has really done it this time.

John McCain, and William Ayers, both gave money to this man Rashid Khalidi.
Senator McCain, you may want to get a pad and pencil here and write all this down.

I'm actually going to agree with William Kristol, when he wrote in the New York Times, that you should fire your entire campaign staff.

In three short steps, while trying to link Senator Obama to Rashid Khalidi... they have instead linked you to Rashid Khalidi...and Bill Ayers.


From the show aired 10-30-08.

-Diane

CNN Polls

10-30-08.

-Diane

Find your own.

(AP Photo/WCS, Julie Larsen Maher)

-Diane

CNN The Situation Room

10-30-08: On The Situation Room, Wolf Blitzer while discussing the Liddy Dole ad against Kay Hagen, asks Donna Brazile and Bill Bennett if it's alright for candidates to be associating with athiests.

-Diane

Robots Attack!

Happy Halloween all!

-Diane

From the say it isn't so files...

1)Huffington Post writer stabs lover 222 times.



2)Barack Obama eyes Rahm Emanuel as chief of staff



3)Evil troll makes creepy predictions...



4)Military Investigates Amnesia Beams



5)Ahmed Chalabi crawls back out from under rock.


-Diane

Another McCain spokesman smiles and nods while called on the carpet

CNN Rick Sanchez discussing Rashid Khalidi with McCain Spokesman Mike Goldfarb. Rick catches him lying and "SHUTS HIM DOWN."


-Diane

-Diane

Get some sleep, would ya?

Snow Patrol: 'The Planets Bend Between Us'

-Diane

Colbert Report: Obama the Socialist

10-29-08: Before Barack Obama is sworn in, lick everything you own so it won't get taken.

-Diane

Daily Show: Meet Your New Cellmate - Ted Stevens

Ted Stevens is the Senate's longest serving Republican, and as of last night, a convicted felon.

-Diane

The Monster John McCain created.

CNN 10-29-08:

Wolf Blitzer: And this just coming into the "Situation Room," the Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin now speaking out openly about her intentions in 2012 if, if she and John McCain were to lose this contest next Tuesday. In an interview with ABC News, Sarah Palin is now saying, she would be interested in remaining a serious national political figure, going ahead to 2012. She was asked what happens in 2012 if you lose on Tuesday, would you simply go back to Alaska? Elizabeth Vargas of ABC News asked her and Palin said this, and I will read it to you verbatim according to an ABC News transcript: Absolutely not, Sarah Palin says. I think that, if I were to give up and wave a white flag of surrender against some of the political shots that we've taken, that ... that would ... bring this whole ... I'm not doin' this for naught, and that is a direct quote from Sarah Palin. Clearly, leaving open the possibility that she would be interested in leading the Republican Party in 2012 if she and John McCain were to lose this presidential contest right now. Let's go to Dana Bash. She has been covering the McCain campaign reaction from the rather blunt statement from Sarah Palin that she would in fact be interested in leading the Republican Party going forward after Tuesday if they lose?

Dana Bash: I just got off of the phone, Wolf, with a senior McCain adviser and I read this person the quote and I think it is fair to say that this person was speechless. There was a long pause and I just heard a huh on the other end of the phone. This is certainly not a surprise to anybody who has watched Sarah Palin that she is interested in potentially future national runs, and she is being urged to by a lot of people inside of the Republican Party if they do lose, but it is an if and people inside of the McCain campaign do not want any discussion that has an if in front of it six days before the election, they dont want any discussion at all, any kind of hypothetical talk about running for the next time around. So certainly, this is not at least initially being received well inside of the McCain campaign.

Wolf Blitzer: I am not surprised, not surprised at all. It is one of those wow, she is talking about 2012 if we lose, that is not supposed to be something that you say. You are supposed to say, well, Im not looking ahead, Im not looking ahead only to Tuesday, and those are the talking points shes supposed to be saying, but she is obviously blunt and she is looking ahead if something were to happen on Tuesday that she wouldnt be happy with.

-Diane

New CNN Polls

10-29-08.

-Diane

Rachel Maddow Show

McCain's comeback.



Making his case?



Florida early voting hours extended.



Confident.



The new GOP.

From the show aired 10-29-08.

-Diane

Countdown

Following Obama's 30 minute ad buy, Chris Matthews weighs in on what he thought of it. He looked like he was visibly moved by it.



And the winner is...Dennis Prager. Runners up an un-named Fox News spokesperson and Elizabeth Dole.



Keith has a campaign comment for "Joe the Plumber" who certainly looks like he's putting his interests first before "country first" and who Keith reminds us is no longer an "average Joe" who's not named Joe.

From the show aired 10-29-08.

-Diane

5 More Friends

Uncensored.

-Diane

Hardball

Tom DeLay gets his hate on with Tweety on Hardball, 10-29-08.


TRANSCRIPT: CHRIS MATTHEWS: Mr. Delay are you happy with the tone of the Republican campaign? Phrases like "Socialist", "communist", "Anti-American" all kinds of stuff being thrown at Barack Obama. Is it right, is it fair, is it smart?

TOM DELAY: Absolutely it is, I wish McCain would be a little more assertive to be honest with you. I think what's gonna win this is when people get to the polls, they just can't bring themselves to vote for a radical like Obama, its Déjà vu all over again, hes more to the left than Gore or John Kerry put together and the American people are starting to realize that. And thats what I think McCain oughta be focusing on, not that Obamas not ready, Hillary Clinton tried that. Its that he is too radical for the American people.

MATTHEWS: Where would you put him on that spectrum between- well, youre using words like socialist, youre[]happy, I guess okay with words like communist. We had somebody on this show the other day who said he oughta be checked out for being Anti-American. Where would you put him? You think hes anti-American in his values?

DELAY: Chris, I tagged him as a Marxist months ago, particularly when you look at his relationship with Jeremiah Wright, his relationship with William Ayers. Its not that Wright makes outrageous sermons, its that Jeremiah Wright is a black, liberation theology preacher. And twenty years of association means that he must agree with the Marxist theology of black liberation theology. Same with William Ayers, its not that hes a terrorist, its that this guys so anti-American he wants to completely destroy America and build a new America[..]


-Diane

American Stories, American Solutions

Tonight, the campaign aired a special 30 minute program in which Barack addressed the nation about his plan for the country and the issues that are at stake in this election. In case you missed any part of it, or if you want to watch it again or share with your friends, you can watch the full program below:




-Diane

Ain't that a kick in the head?

-Diane

3am?

Jason Mraz: 'I'm Yours'

-Diane

Halloween past.

I'm not certain what these vintage Halloween masks were supposed to be(besides creepy!)but, damn! *shudder* Via Wired.

-Diane

Hope.

[People in Chester, PA attend a cold, wet rally today for presidential hopeful Barack Obama, who gave his speech in the pouring rain, wearing jeans and sneakers; image via EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images]

-Diane

Michelle Obama on the Jay Leno Show

Part One.




Part Two.

Our probable next First Lady, on Jay Leno, talks about her all-J. Crew outfit in a subtle(but never sarcastic) dig at Sarah Palin.

From the show aired 10-27-08.

-Diane

Hardball

Chris Matthews talks to Ed Rogers and Bob Shrum about the state of the Republican party and the best Ed Rogers can do is say that Obama is getting away with platitudes and has never had to work for anything in his life. He looks like his head is going to explode in the end of the clip.

From the show aired 10-28-08.

-Diane

Rachel Maddow

Rachel has a football analogy for the state of the Presidential race one week out.



Rachel's Ms. Information segment where she features a robo-call being sent from Zane Starkewolf.



Rachel Maddow talks to Matthew Segal about the methods used to keep college kids among others from voting.

From the program aired 10-28-08.

-Diane

Countdown

Keith talks to Margaret Carlson about the future of Sarah Palin in the Republican party.




McCain in the Membrane for Oct. 28, 2008 with more of Palin whippin' up the base.



Keith does a version of puppet theater of Republicans running away from Bush. Chris Cilizza weighs in on how the Congressional races are going for Republicans.



Keith's campaign comment for Sarah Palin.

From the program aired 10-28-08.

-Diane

-Diane

Morning always comes too early...

John Mayer: 'Daughters'

-Diane

Youtube deleted it...

Watch more randyr videos on AOL Video

But Homer tries to vote for Obama is back.

-Diane

Rachel Maddow

The GOP has pulled out the last resort bag, and Rev. Wright returns. Guest Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm.



Twitter terrorism, and we invaded Syria??



Where's the vote?



Clown McCain: 'Blah, blah, blah'



McCain meltdown.



Football future.



Senator Stevens guilty.

From the show aired 10-27-08.

-Diane

WSJ to endorse Obama? (Or: Matt Drudge drunk?)

Via Gawker. Seems the right really isn't taking this well. Oh, my.

-Diane

Stuff you couldn't possibly make up.

Feds disrupt skinhead plot to assassinate Obama

Two white supremacists allegedly plotted to go on a national killing spree, shooting and decapitating black people and ultimately targeting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, federal authorities said Monday.

In all, the two men whom officials describe as neo-Nazi skinheads planned to kill 88 people — 14 by beheading, according to documents unsealed in U.S. District Court in Jackson, Tenn. The numbers 88 and 14 are symbolic in the white supremacist community.

The spree, which initially targeted an unidentified predominantly African-American school, was to end with the two men driving toward Obama, "shooting at him from the windows," the court documents show.

"Both individuals stated they would dress in all white tuxedos and wear top hats during the assassination attempt," the court complaint states. "Both individuals further stated they knew they would and were willing to die during this attempt."

What do you say in response to hatred of such a magnitude?

Stevens guilty on 7 counts, won't quit Senate race

Typical, a convicted Republican says 'vote for me anyways.'

Boy, 8, shoots himself to death at Mass. gun show

With an instructor watching, an 8-year-old boy at a gun fair aimed an Uzi at a pumpkin and pulled the trigger as his dad reached for a camera.

It was his first time shooting a fully automatic machine gun, and the recoil of the weapon was too much for him. He lost control and fatally shot himself in the head.

Incredibly tragic, and senseless.

I see dead people...voting.


Almost 1.5 million Ohioans request absentee ballots

Only 8 days to go, don't forget to video your vote.

-Diane

Come Together

"Yes, we can argue and debate our positions passionately, but at this defining moment, all of us must summon the strength and grace to bridge our differences and unite in common effort – black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; Democrat and Republican, young and old, rich and poor, gay and straight, disabled or not. In this election, we cannot afford the same political games and tactics that are being used to pit us against one another and make us afraid of one another. The stakes are too high ..."

-Barack Obama,October 27,2008


-Diane

Countdown

Keith reports on the latest polls, what's been said on the campaign trail and talks about the state of the race with Richard Wolffe.



Keith talks to Jonathan Alter about what the McCain camp's strategy is for the rest of the campaign season.



Keith reports on the leaks coming out of the McCain campaign about Sarah Palin "going rogue" and her going off script on the campaign trail. Chris Hayes weighs in.



McCain in the Membrane: Change of address, country lovin' and Barbara West's wingnut interview with Biden.

From the show aired 10-27-08.

-Diane

-Diane

Where did the weekend go?

30 Seconds to Mars: 'The Kill'

-Diane

Purging away the poll spread

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- College senior Kyla Berry was looking forward to voting in her first presidential election, even carrying her voter registration card in her wallet.

But about two weeks ago, Berry got disturbing news from local election officials.

"This office has received notification from the state of Georgia indicating that you are not a citizen of the United States and therefore, not eligible to vote," a letter from the Fulton County Department of Registration and Elections said.

But Berry is a U.S. citizen, born in Boston, Massachusetts. She has a passport and a birth certificate to prove it. Video Watch some of the concerns of voting experts »

The letter, which was dated October 2, gave her a week from the time it was dated to prove her citizenship. There was a problem, though -- the letter was postmarked October 9.

"It was the most bizarre thing. I immediately called my mother and asked her to send me my birth certificate, and then I was like, 'It's too late, apparently,' " Berry said.

Berry is one of more than 50,000 registered Georgia voters who have been "flagged" because of a computer mismatch in their personal identification information. At least 4,500 of those people are having their citizenship questioned and the burden is on them to prove eligibility to vote.

Experts say lists of people with mismatches are often systematically cut, or "purged," from voter rolls.

It's a scenario that's being repeated all across the country, with cases like Berry's raising fears of potential vote suppression in crucial swing states.

"What most people don't know is that every year, elections officials strike millions of names from the voter rolls using processes that are secret, prone to error and vulnerable to manipulation," said Wendy Weiser, an elections expert with New York University's Brennan Center for Justice.

I'm afraid we're all going to have to fight tooth and nail for our votes to count this time. No more repeats of 2000, and 2004.

-Diane

The National Republican Senatorial Committee publishes, mails out creepy 'kids' books

Talk about an ugly Senate race in Minnesota! Who do you think the repugs hoped would look through these creepy, cartoonish mailers?

I've seen a lot of nasty, bogus mail-outs this campaign season, but this one geared towards children really pisses me off. I'd say shame on the RNC, but, well, pointless that is.

-Diane

This Week: What's Left of the Republican Base?

10-26-08: The panel on This Week discussing what McCain needs to do to pull out this election and apparently the last argument they feel he or any of the Republicans has left is fear of lack of a divided government. It amazes me that these talking heads in the media didn't have this mortal fear when the Republicans had control of everything. After admitting that the Republicans are losing the independents and the middle George Will makes this observation near the end of the discussion:

"The need to Sen. McCain to rally the base and appeal to the base, first of all even though the base is as you said in the earlier segment much smaller than it was then, was implicit in the numbers from 2006, in 2006 Republican candidates in the off year elections got more votes from Evangelical Christians than Democratic got from African Americans and labor union members combined. Evangelical Christians by....(crosstalk)..I'm just telling you..that base is not just the base. It is almost the Republican party."

-Diane

Late Edition: Debbie Wasserman Schultz vs Heather Wilson

From Late Edition Oct. 26, 2008 Debbie Wasserman Schultz squares off with Heather Wilson. Heather Wilson just can't stand not getting a cheap shot in on Biden at the end when trying to compare his hair transplants and Obama's ties to the RNC's $150,000 for Palin's clothes.

-Diane

WallStreet Bailout Bill Has 70 BILLION in Executive Bonuses

Once again,the rich continue to get richer.

-Diane

US Officials confirm US attack inside Syria

10-26-08: A US official confirms it attacked what it says was an al Qaeda camp within Syrian territory using US special forces.

-Diane

Bill Maher

10-25-08: Oh, Grandpa! The John McCain campaign.

-Diane

John McCain mocks nuclear safety

Let him store the waste in his Arizona hometown then.

-Diane

Four to ponder.

U.S. considers sending special ops to Afghanistan

-Despite recent setbacks, a large-scale influx of conventional forces is unlikely because of troop commitments in Iraq. But special operations forces could narrowly target the most violent insurgent bands.


Iraqi Islamic party says U.S. killed member `in cold blood'

-The powerful Iraqi Islamic Party cut off all communication with the U.S. in the wake of a deadly raid near Fallujah.




Scott Smith, dressed as Barack Obama, and Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld, dressed as John McCain, jump from a plane over Perris Valley, California. Why? Who knows?


McCain guarantees victory

-Sen. John McCain said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he can “guarantee” a win on Nov. 4 in a squeaker victory that won’t be clear until late that night.

Um, not sure exactly what he's confessing here...

-Diane

Meet the Press

10-26-08: McCain has a memory block.

-Diane

SNL

Road to the White House.




Obama Address.



A-Holes: Pitch Meeting.



Update: Ralph Nader.



Campaign ads.



Don Draper's Guide.

From the show aired 10-25-08.

-Diane

-Diane

Star Wars Pumpkin Patch

These awesome pumpkins were obviously carved by someone with far more time, and talent, than I.

-Diane

Saturday late night.

O.A.R.: 'Shattered'

-Diane

Congrats Amy!

Amy Poehler had a bouncing baby boy, Archie Arnett. Let's celebrate with these great clips of Amy's work via Gawker.




Who can forget Amy's magnificent satire of her own coming unborn!



Dratch and Rudolph and Wiig and Poehler!

Upright Citizens Brigade: Supercool Brownies


Amy's poignant run in the legendary sketch troupe Upright Citizens Brigade.



Amy's classic Dakota Fanning series.

-Diane

Hardball

10-25-08: Christopher Hitchens tells Tweety that its become 'morally and intellectually impossible to vote Republican.' He goes on to blast the 'nutbag' in Pennsylvania, and says McCain is 'borderline senile.'

-Diane

Bill Maher

10-24-08:Obama's Grandmother: Did We Mention She's White?


-Diane

Hardball

After asking the panel if Sarah Palin is a drag on the ticket or not and having them agree that she is a drag on the ticket and not bringing in independent voters, Matthews asks if Palin is likely to run in 2012 and the panel think she will and John Heilemann says she's the most popular person in the Republican party right now and thinks that she could win the nomination the next time around. I don't know how popular she's going to be if she gets blamed for McCain losing or how they could think she's a likely candidate after admitting she has harmed the ticket.

-Diane

-Diane

Friday Night.

Seether, Amy Lee: 'Broken'

-Diane

Vote Chasers: Inside an Acorn

In ACORN'S Michigan office, employees are baffled by what they call an "aggressive" attack on their organization. The community organization, whose goal during the election cycle is to register as many voters as possible, refutes claims that fraudulent voter registration cards have an affect on the election.

Via 'The Uptake.'


-Diane

Wassup 2008

-Diane

I'm dreamin' of a blue Christmas..

US map showing latest voting trends per state.

"With less than two weeks left in the presidential contest, Barack Obama continues to hold a commanding double-digit lead over John McCain according to the latest NEWSWEEK Poll. Among registered voters nationwide, Obama now leads McCain by 13 points, 53 percent to 40 percent. Among likely voters, Obama's lead is similarly strong, 53 percent to 41 percent.

Obama's lead in the NEWSWEEK Poll is consistent with other recent national polls, including soundings taken by CBS News and The New York Times, The Washington Post and ABC News, NBC News and The Wall Street Journal and by Pew Research, all of which measured Obama's lead over McCain as somewhere between 10 and 14 points. In the NEWSWEEK Poll, Obama's lead stayed virtually unchanged from two weeks ago, when he led McCain 52 to 41 among registered voters. (For the complete results, click here.)"



-Diane

Rachel Maddow Show

McCain-Palin's cringe inducing day, Part One.



Part two with guest Ana Marie Cox.

From the show aired 10-24-08.

-Diane

SNL's Weekend Update Thursday

Bush endorsement.



Fred's map - Fix it!



Andy 'Jams the vote.'

From the show aired 10-23-08.

-Diane

Countdown

Keith reports on the McCain campaign pushing the hoax of the woman who said she was assaulted by a black man for being a McCain supporter. Eugene Robinson weighs in.



From tonight's Oddball, Keith plays the 9-11 call made by brother of John McCain, Joe where he used 911 to complain about traffic.



McCain in the membrane: Charles Fried says he voted for Obama, McCain having sat down with Pinochet without pre-conditions and Marsha Stirman the chairwoman of an Otero County Republican writing "I believe Muslims are our enemies." and called Barack Obama "a Muslim socialist."



Worst Person in the World: And the winner is....Rush Limbaugh. Runners up Kathleen Parker (not really) and Rupert Murdoch.

Aired October 24,2008.

-Diane

-Diane

Late, early, it's all a blur ...

O.A.R.: 'Shattered'

-Diane

Vote Chasers: The McCain camp might not want you to see this

If there's one thing both the McCain and Obama campaigns agree on it's that the election will be close in Florida. The McCain campaign says it has more volunteers than the Democrats and that ultimately gives them the edge. McCain's Central Florida Campaign Manger says ACORN and the Democrats have to rely on paid workers.

However, the McCain campaign is hiring paid workers who sometimes also call themselves volunteers. The UpTake's Sam Mayfield talked to a few of them... and that's when one McCain campaign worker decided you shouldn't see what is going on and threatened to have her arrested.

More here.

-Diane

Ron Howard's call to action.

Ron Howard wants to talk about the election. So does Andy Griffith and Henry Winkler.

-Diane

Countdown

Keith's campaign special comment: Joe the Failed campaign gimmick.



Worst Person in the World.



GOP attacking point of the day with Sam Seder.

Show aired October 23, 2008.

-Diane

Michael Moore on Larry King Live

Michael Moore: 'Socialism for the Rich': "They have bailed out wealthy people who were playing a high stakes game of risk and failed."



Michael Moore on 'The Sad Underbelly of This Election': "Let's hope that these last 11 days will be the last 11 days that we need to listen to talk like that in this country."



Michael Moore: 'Obama vs. Ignorance': "... Obama's main opponent in this election on November 4th is not John McCain, it's ignorance. It's Obama vs. Ignorance. And will ignorance and hatred and racism win or will whoever should be the next president and who the majority of the people who want to be the president -- is that's what's going to happen? ... if a certain number of millions of people are going to vote out of ignorance, I hope that they would educate themselves at some time in the next 11 days."



Michael Moore on a Potential President Palin: "What's risky is electing a vice president that none of us know. ... You have to walk into that booth knowing that you're potentially voting for President Palin. And what I would ask people is, would you turn the keys to your house over to somebody you've known for only seven weeks? Would you turn your kids over -- like if you were going away on a trip -- would you just, like, drop the kids off at somebody you've known for only seven weeks? And if you love your country -- I mean if you LOVE your country -- why would you turn something that you love so much over to someone you've known for seven weeks?"



Michael Moore on the "Ownership Society" Scam and Bailout: "The wealthy that have been calling the shots here for so long, their party has been in power for 20 of the last 28 years -- the Republican party -- and I think that they know that they're probably on their way out ... they're like guests at a dinner trying to steal the silverware on their way out the door. ... Everything that's going on right now, all the hiring that the Treasury Department is doing, all the consultants they're bringing in, all the million dollar contracts -- these people are just going to get rich over and over again as they try to pull themselves out of a mess that they created because it was one big check-kiting scheme: Using money they didn't have to buy other money to make more money. Again, if an average person did that, they'd be in jail, but not these guys."



Michael Moore Welcomes Aboard Republicans for Obama: "The Democratic ship is a nice, big ship and redemption is the course of the day."



Michael Moore on 'Slacker Uprising' and the 2008 Youth Vote: "They're the ones that started this whole Obama movement and they're going to carry this all the way to Election Day. I think we're going to see a record turnout among young people."

Show aired October 23, 2008.

-Diane

Row(ing) Versus Wade(ing)

-Diane

Countdown

10-22-08: Worlds Best and Worst, and Keith's special comment, this evening it was addressing McCain's clumsy hypocrisy.

-Diane

Rachel Maddow Show

10-22-08: Dirty rotten campaigning? Rachel talks to New York Times columnist Bob Herbert about the campaign tactics both sides are using just 2 weeks before the election; The Palin Problem: Rachel talks to Uncle Pat and is at odds with him over whether or not Sarah Palin is bringing down the Republican ticket; Also NBC political director Chuck Todd, and NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams discuss their interview with John McCain and Sarah Palin.

-Diane

And the crowd goes wild.

Barack Obama makes a surprise appearance on the Ellen Show on October 22, 2008.

-Diane

Hardball

Chris Matthews talks to Bill Burton and Nancy Pfotenhauer and hammers Pfotenhauer over who's decision it was to spend the $150,000 on Palin's clothing, and why she doesn't know what the job of the Vice President is.

-Diane

-Diane

Don't hit me

'Yes we carve'

-Diane

Another attempt to arrest the nation's most innocent man

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- There was major political theater involving President Bush's former chief of staff Karl Rove. A protestor tried to arrest Rove for treason Tuesday morning while he was speaking at the Mortgage Bankers Association Convention, continuing in San Francisco.

There were three protests during a very lively back and forth between former senate majority leader George Mitchell and Karl Rove. Rove blamed the Democrats for everything wrong with the economy.

A protestor tried to smack handcuffs on Karl Rove, but Rove slapped back, and the woman was taken off stage.



-Diane

Countdown

Are you smarter than a third-grader? Keith's campaign comment for Sarah Palin.



Keith reports on the McCain campaign's ties to groups that are trying to disenfranchise voters.



Worst Person in the World: And the winner is....Rupert Murdoch. Runners up Dana Perino and Sean Hannity.



McCain in the Membrane for Oct. 21, 2008.

-Diane

Rachel Maddow Show: How Sarah Lost It

10-21-08:Rachel Maddow talks to Ana Marie Cox about Palin being a drag on the ticket.

-Diane

Cafferty: Why Do Citizens in 70 Countries Prefer Obama?

From the Cafferty File 10-21-08:

Senator John McCain says when it comes to foreign policy hes light years ahead of Barack Obama. Over and over again, McCain has insisted Obama lacks the necessary experience to conduct business with foreign countries on behalf of the United States.

So how do you explain this?

Citizens of dozens of foreign countries prefer Barack Obama over John McCain as our next president by a margin of almost 4 to 1, according to a massive poll conducted by the Gallup Organization. About 30 percent of those surveyed prefer Obama, while just 8 percent favor McCain.

This was no daily tracking poll either. Gallup polled people in 70 countries in Africa, Europe, Asia and North and South America, representing nearly half the worlds population, between May and September of this year.

Citizens of the Philippines and Georgia were the only ones who preferred McCain to Obama. Not exactly the super-powers were looking to mend fences with.

Heres my question to you: Why do citizens in 70 foreign countries prefer Barack Obama to John McCain by a margin of nearly 4-1?

Interested to know which ones made it on air?


Justin from North Carolina writes:
Barack Obama is the candidate of reason. Only a fool would think of supporting the ticket with the oldest presidential nominee and a woefully inept vice presidential candidate are in the best interest of America or the world especially when the current disaster of a president proves to be more coherent than the both of them.

Kevin writes:
They prefer him because hes a patsy and they know hes going to pander to them. Kennedy was on medication during meetings with Khrushchev and Khrushchev called him a pygmy. No fear whatsoever. Good thing Kennedy did stand up to him during the Cuban missile crisis. Obama needs some testosterone shots. Putin, Chavez, the Castros, the Girl Scouts of Chinaanybody could chew him up, push him around, and spit him out.

F.S. from Rollinsford, N.H. writes:
Jack, just to let you know that from my wifes and my visit to Europe for 3 weeks just recently, we couldnt find anyone in 4 countries that wanted McCain for President. They all think he is warmonger and that Palin is a joke. Do they know something we dont?

Jackie writes:
To be fair, I think McCains negativity rests with the R after his name. He is a decent man who, because of his age and knowing this is his last chance, sold his soul to the Republican National Committee.

Mike writes:
Its simple. It may sound racist, but its really not. Foreign countries are tired of old white men bossing them around and looking down on them. They finally see someone who will respect & approach them as equals.

Zach writes:
Lets see, Jackwhere to beginThey dont want to get bombed? They want to work with a well-spoken, even-keel U.S. President for a change? Theyre smarter than almost half of the people in our own country?

Hardball

Matthews talks to Pat Buchanan and Mark Green about Sarah Palin not knowing that the Vice President has no legislative role in the Senate, and of course Buchanan is doing his best to make excuses for her.



Chris Matthews talks to Bill Maher about the comments made by Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann. 10-21-08.

-Diane

-Diane

Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan

"I'm also troubled by, not what Senator McCain says, but what members of the party say. And it is permitted to be said such things as, 'Well, you know that Mr. Obama is a Muslim.'

"Well, the correct answer is, he is not a Muslim; he's a Christian. He's always been a Christian.

"But the really right answer is, 'what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country?' The answer's 'no,' that's not America.

"Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim-American kid believing that he or she could be president?

"Yet, I have heard senior members of my own party drop the suggestion, 'He's a Muslim and he might be associated terrorists.' This is not the way we should be doing it in America.

"I feel strongly about this particular point because of a picture I saw in a magazine. It was a photo essay about troops who are serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"And one picture at the tail end of this photo essay was of a mother in Arlington Cemetery, and she had her head on the headstone of her son's grave. And as the picture focused in, you could see the writing on the headstone. And it gave his awards -- Purple Heart, Bronze Star -- showed that he died in Iraq, gave his date of birth, date of death. He was 20 years old.

"And then, at the very top of the headstone, it didn’t have a Christian cross; it didn't have the Star of David; it had crescent and a star of the Islamic faith. And his name was Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan, and he was an American. He was born in New Jersey. He was 14 years old at the time of 9/11, and he waited until he can go serve his country, and he gave his life."

– Colin Powell on Meet the Press, October 19th, 2008






-Diane

Countdown

10-20-08: Olbermann's Special Comment. Keith says he may need to do more of these special comments in these last days leading up to the election. He really smacks down Sarah Palin here, and more on sleaze and innuendo.

-Diane

Get Well Soon

Holding Senator Obama's grandmother in thought and prayer during her illness, and wishing our next President safe travels to and from Hawaii.

Campaign events scheduled for Thursday and Friday are cancelled. More info as it becomes available.

-Diane

Update

MSNBC:

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama is canceling nearly all his campaign events Thursday and Friday to fly to Hawaii to visit his suddenly ill 85-year-old grandmother, his spokesman said.

Robert Gibbs told reporters Monday that Obama's grandmother, Madelyn Payne Dunham, who helped raise him, was released from the hospital late last week. But he said her health had deteriorated "to the point where her situation is very serious."

Obama was expected to resume campaigning on Saturday, though Gibbs was unsure where.

Muslim McCain Fans Confront Intolerance At Rally

At a John McCain rally in Woodbridge, Virginia, three people handed out "Obama for Change" bumper stickers with the Communist sickle and hammer and the Islamic crescent, saying Obama was a socialist with ties to radical Islam. Several moderate McCain supporters, Muslim and Christian alike, struck back.

-Diane

Update: From Kos, CNN reports that the McCain campaign won't allow Dan the Muslim speak to the media. Seemed like a very decent man, not sure what McCain has against decent folks. Video of the CNN follow-up below: