From an interview tonight with Brian Williams:
WILLIAMS: Who is a member of the elite?
PALIN: Oh, I guess just people who think that they’re better than anyone else. And– John McCain and I are so committed to serving every American. Hard-working, middle-class Americans who are so desiring of this economy getting put back on the right …

With McCain’s poll numbers plummeting, his recent ill-advised strategy of going negative by trotting out “guilt-by-association” backfiring with voters, and Our Little Sarah showing a statistically significant drag on the ticket, GOP candidates are starting to run for cover. The entire GOP has been running away from George Bush for over a year. Are they …

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Japhy Grant:

On Russia, these guys are basically the same. McCain finally lands a joke that’s funny when Brokaw asks if Russia is “an evil empire”and says, “Maybe.”
Four minutes left and we’re talking about Iran and Israel. McCain repeats the same lines from his last debate, adding a few more “my friends” in.
There’s a weird thing …

As the campaign enters its home stretch, we asked our panel of queer political junkies to put on their pundit hats and tell us how it’ll all turn out come Nov. 4th. Here’s their analysis:
Brock Savage:

My map doesn’t represent exactly what I think will happen, or hope will happen, but rather was an attempt …

Want a solution to the crisis?
Here it is, courtesy of James K. Galbraith. It addresses the things I’m always talking about here– the fact that in the 21st C. energy, the economy and the environment are really one system. Yes, it offers a solution that will take three years to achieve, but it opens the …

Kos seems to think that if Paulson, Frank, Pelosi et al. think the economy is so bad  they should tell us why so “we can all see what supposedly has them all so spooked that we have to mortgage the next several generations of Americans”. So, he wants the U.S Government to say, to its …

Make no doubt about, John McCain is playing politics. After “suspending” his campaign to address the financial crisis, McCain came into Washington and– did nothing. He did not signal his support for the current administration plan, either publicly or in his requested meeting with the White House, not did he offer up an alternative publicly …

Let’s pretend for a moment that John McCain didn’t try to jump the shark (again!) by calling off the debates and you know, running around claiming the world’s going to end when a week ago he called the fundamentals of our economy “strong”. Instead, let’s look at what the issues of the day would have …

What a disheartening week to be an American. As the nation remains gripped in the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression, nobody in the government has stepped up to the plate to explain what is happening in simple common-sense terms. You have two candidates who have demonstrated a greater interest in using the crisis …

As the financial sector continues it meltdown this week and both candidates struggle to formulate a response to the current crisis, it appears on the surface that we’re undergoing a super-sized version of any of the bubble-bursting economic collapses Americans have endured over the past decade. The attitude of the economy and of the American …

Did anyone else get a friendly email from your airline today?
The CEO’s of the major airlines have banded together to encourage their customers to sign a petition at www.stopoilspeculationnow.com. The letter reads in part, “For airlines, ultra-expensive fuel means thousands of lost jobs and severe reductions in air service to both large and small …

Dear John & Barack,
I don’t care about your patriotism, I don’t care about your character, I don’t care about which one of you I can trust and believe and honestly, I don’t care about Iraq.
I care about $144 a barrel for oil. I care about the slumping economy and I care about when the next …