Wow, this whole not talking about actual issues in the presidential race has even trickled down to Ralph Nader. Here is Nader spending 2:30 minutes complaining to his bird “Cardozo” about why his latest presidential bid isn’t getting enough media coverage. His possible solution, which he mutters along with other psycho drivel is that perhaps he should dress up as a panda.

Please pass this video along so that “Cardozo” can become the next presidential celebrity. On a side note, why the fuck is this guy running for president again?

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Oh really. You mean the one where rich people got huge tax breaks so they could invest in sub-prime mortgages in order for little bread crumbs to trickle down for American Oliver Twist types? Yeah that one, the one that allowed itself to run wild in a big circle jerk fuck fest that gobbled up everything in its path and left only blood stained remnants on the desert streets of Iraq.

This is the same economy that you want more of, more tax breaks for the ultra wealthy and less regulations on flesh eating succubus corporations. Even former FED chair Alan Greenspan has called McCain’s tax plan irresponsible. Also noting that the growing disparity in American wealth is not sustainable. And that guy is republican and knows just a thing or two about the economy.

So do you really want to have a commission investigate this John McCain? I really hope you have some of your guys look into this and weeks later they come back and simply present to you this picture, no words, just this.

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Anyways, in uncertain times like these I look to the rock of financial stability, the bookies. While McCain might have a slight edge in the polls, he still does not with the dudes who set football spreads. He has closed the gap however. A few weeks back I checked out my trusty sportsbetting.com and the money was still reasonably with Obama, at 1-2, with McNuggets at 3-2.

But just now I checked again and not surprisingly the gap has closed. Obama has slipped to 2-3 and McNasty has closed to 11-10. So Vegas has spoken and Obama is still the favorite! (Though not really).

Also, in no way do I endorse gambling ones fortune on sporting events, but consider putting your 401k on the San Fransisco 49ers this week at (-4) against the Detroit Lions. This is a lock because no NFL team (aside from the Rams, Chiefs, Raiders and Dolphins), playing at home, should be favored by less than 10 points against the Lions.

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As news of Lehman’s collapse and Merrill’s sale struck fear in the hearts of anyone with anything to lose, the gubmint strained its PR mechanisms to send out messages of hope, all with the same subtext: you’re all gonna die.

The Treasury Secretary sounded like a guy praising the Titanic’s hull structure even as he pushed old ladies and children out of the way to commandeer a lifeboat.

It’s not a good sign when the Securities and Exchange Commission issues multiple press releases, including one over the weekend, to tell you not to BE SCARED SHI*LESS!

Even Il Douche himself, who can barely count to five, vomited reassurance from the White House.

So to get back to our candidates . . . . I’d still like to hear a little bit about how the mortgage industry operated unsupervised for years as this debacle developed . . .  and maybe something about how we’re going to pay the $3 trillion tab from our occupation of Iraq.

Well, what about it then?

Image courtesy of the U.S. gubmint via Northwestern.

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The I started thinking about that other little off-budget item, the cost of occupying Iraq, which may go over the $3 trillion mark. The interesting thing about that number, as explicated in the Washington Post, is that it started out as an estimate of $50 billion.

Il Douche’s administration runs up expenses like a contractor from whole, so one wonders what will happen to this $200 billion estimate for the mortgage-meisters.

So what about it candidates?  Who’s going to pay the tab on all this crap?

No wonder the republiscum hate birth control so much–they need all the tax-paying wage earners they can breed.

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This is serious though because MSNBC has become the counter to Fox News. Fox is obviously unfair and unbalanced and they are #1 on cable news because of it. The reason: Fox News doesn’t have to fight for an audience like CNN and MSNBC do. Those networks must share a largely left leaning audience while Fox gobbles up most of the right leaning audience.

I’ve written before on this site about how American news networks are almost equally to blame for the United States occupation of Iraq because they helped perpetuate the faulty logic that was involved in our invasion of Iraq. The media didn’t accurately report on the lack of intelligence the United States had while Hans Blix was still finding no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

The fact that NBC has caved to the demands of the right is shameful. Fortunately, Chris Matthews can still be seen on HardBall and Keith Olbermann can still be seen on Anchorman Countdown. It’s important that the voices of leading left leaning political pundits are not shut out, otherwise the road to Tehran could become an easier one for the potential McCain/Palin administration.

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The republican platform for change said it all in who their keynote speaker was. Rudy ‘9/11′ Giuliani. A man who has profited off that horrific day with book sales and based his entire presidential bid on scaring Americans into voting for him.

Fortunately Giuliani’s scare tactics didn’t work for his own political gain, even with republicans. It seemed the more people saw of Giuliani the more they disliked him. That’s why he retreated to my old home state of Florida, camped out and ran outrageous fear mongering ads. Then managed to finish 3rd in that state, dropping out with a grand total of 0 delegates.

This tired old message by republicans didn’t work in 2006 and it didn’t work for Giuliani. And it shouldn’t work for the McCain/Palin ticket in the general election. It is not un-patriotic to not always stand on your governments side, quite the contrary. “Country First” means that you put your homeland, common sense and principles before your government.

The Nazi party rallied Germans around extreme nationalism, and they made them scared of the growing power of Jews in their communities. It was for these reasons that they were able to unite the majority of their people into unjustified wars and to commit horrific atrocities against humanity.

The neo-conservatives used these same tactics to take us into Iraq and they will do the same to take us into Iran. McCain used to be a “maverick” but he is clearly no maverick these days. If elected, he will continue the backward policies of Bush/Cheney that have led the USA into economic disaster and international embarrassment. So congratulations John McCain, tonight is your night to take the helm of the new American Nazi party.

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In case you missed it last night here is President George-John “Insane in the Membrane” BuCain endorsing the real change, “country first” candidate. You know, the one that voted with itself 90% of the time.

Probably the best thing Bush could have done for McCain would have been to come out and endorse Barack Obama.

But notice how John McCain wasn’t at the convention last night when Bush was speaking and how we never see them together these days. Is it possible that they, in fact, really are the same person now!?!

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Admittedly, McCain generally displays the deft political footwork of a crash test dummy. But the choice of Palin is so idiotic that there must be more to it than just poor judgment.

So if McCain consciously chose to put Alaska baked trailer trash on his ticket, why did he do it? (Don’t miss amusing photos at Perez Hilton.)

The only truly plausible theory is that he’s going after the stupid vote. With a dash of hypocrisy thrown in.

As governor of Alaska, P-Douche slashed funding for programs to help pregnant teens.

Most hilariously, McCain’s flacks are already trying to roll out the old Republican strategy of putting themselves outside the sphere of their own self-righteous moral pontification.

As reported by the Chicago Tribune: “It’s a private family matter. Life happens in families,” Steve Schmidt, McCain’s top strategist, told reporters. “If people try to politicize this, the American people will be appalled by it.”

Maybe McCain has actually found the holy grail of American Republican electioneering: an appeal exactly suited for rigid moral dictators who want to talk about having less government intervention while shrewishly legislating tons of it–laws against abortion and sex education, same-sex marriage–for everyone except themselves.

Expect McCain’s new book to show up in Borders by the end of the week: The Joy of Hypocrisy, Or How I Got Fifty Million More People to Vote in 2008.

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Yesterday was just another day in John McCain’s train wreck journey toward the White House. Here we see George-John BuCain telling everyone to stay out of the sun, while standing in the sun.

Considering the unbelievable disaster that is the current state of the United States, how many points do you think Obama would be up right now if he was white? Combine this with the fact that McCain is a bumbling old man that makes no sense and my guess is 25 points. I’d say an all white Obama would be at around 60% and McCain would be at 35%.

There would be less undecided people of course because Obama would be a white man. Having no health care or potentially having health care with a black president is a toss up for many Americans.

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