"For the simple reason that it wasn't necessary...until this summer, when a new regimen of message discipline was imposed."

That followed a first round of frequent McCain gaffes if not downright ignorant statements, and some of those about foreign policy (his supposed strength).

So they implemented "discipline" and yet, somehow, the gaffes have started again.

I'll ask it again...

What's the difference between Bush/Cheney and McCain/Palin?

LIPSTICK!!!

Don't you just love this transparency they tout? I honestly used to admire McCain, thought he was the best of the Republican bunch. Getting hard to recognize him anymore. What a shame.

Because

Palin isn't the only moron on the ticket.

That's why

they can't answer questions...

because they don't know...

throw these bums and their Cheney Bush wall of silence they hide behind...just like the last 8 years...

out!

The media is finally growing some balls. I was HOPING some of you out there would protest and NOT cover Palin's stage managed appearances.

FINALLY.

Please - we do not want pretty pictures. We want REALITY. This is NOT the time for light-weights.

While the bailout of our economy (with money we don't have by the way) is the story of the week if not the year, the biggest campaign story of the day is George Will's article.

In it, Will pretty much endorses Obama. He says Obama's experience level can be overcome while pretty much implying that McCain's temperment can't be overcome.

Temperment is the primary issue with McCain. His Republican colleagues warned us about it eight years ago, and his performance on the campaign trail highlights it now.

Its bigger than McCain's stretching of the truths, or flip flops, deregulatory past, questionable judgment in picking a running mate, and inclination to gaffing.

Its the single most relevant reason why he should never be president.

Bush Cheney hid Bush's ignorance and ineptness

and Cheney's satanic war mongering imbalances behind
the same wall of silence

same team
same tactics
same results
9th year.
throw these bums out!

yea their reform message sounds a lot like bush cheney selling us on iraq

Finally the media stops this marketing mess created by McCain/Palin. There is a failing economy as we speak. We don't need to get nice photos of Ms. Palin looking smart and international.

Stop the Hate

If you can't handle our press, how are you going to handle hostile, contentious world leaders?

As an Independent voter who will be voting for the first time I believe Obama is risky but in the last one week since the economic problems came to fore I even believe more that McCain is the riskier candidate for president.

He seems to have no clue on economic issues and besides I have no confidence in his economic advisers. I watched Obama surrounded by economic advisers from the Clinton era and that somewhat has made me tilt towards Obama but I still havent made my final decision. I wish we had better choices

I guess THIS is the kind of presidency we can expect from a McCain/Palin ticket. Transparency? HA! Now THAT's a joke. A very dangerous one...

I heard McCain saying this morning that Palin could "take it" when a woman in the audience criticized the press for their coverage of Bristol's pregnancy. If she can "take it" why are they keeping the press away? And now I'm beginning to wonder if McCain can "take it."

Sounds like the same old, same old...remember how Rumsfield treated the press in the beginning? Does that ring a bell?

From a Feb 2000 Newsweek article:

Of the 55 republicans in the U.S. Senate, only four support John McCain for president. Most of the rest... back George W. Bush.

Why can't McCain win the votes of his own colleagues? To explain, a Republican senator tells this story: at a GOP meeting last fall, McCain erupted out of the blue at the respected Budget Committee chairman, Pete Domenici, saying, "Only an a--hole would put together a budget like this."

Offended, Domenici stood up and gave a dignified, restrained speech about how in all his years in the Senate, through many heated debates, no one had ever called him that. Another senator might have taken the moment to check his temper. But McCain went on: "I wouldn't call you an a--hole unless you really were an a--hole."

The Republican senator witnessing the scene had considered supporting McCain for president, but changed his mind. "I decided," the senator told NEWSWEEK, "I didn't want this guy anywhere near a trigger."

I'll be okay not seeing photos of Palin or McCain for a few days. Its not like we get real issue converage from a photograph! Leave them alone for a while. Maybe then, they will realize that Americans are on to their Rovian way of doing things, and that it is simply no longer acceptable.

The Republican party has totally lost its way. The only thing they excel at is propoganda.

Ro, I've been in your shoes in just about every election. I've had to hold my nose to vote for candidates I really wasn't sure about. I keep hearing that Obama is "risky" but I think so much of that fear comes from the smears perpetrated by the Limbaugh-Rove-Hannity crowd, not from the man himself. Certainly Rev. Wright did him no favors. But I've listened to him for two years now, and I do believe in his sincerity. Good luck making your decision. I am glad you are being so thoughtful. We all should be.

So go follow the Messiah around. I heard he refurbished his jet.