I am just waiting for the puns, jokes, banter and mud-slinging to happen in the comment thread. Here is a start ...

Tina Fey impersonation of Sarah Palin on last week Saturday Night Live was on-the-money and was downright hilarious(http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/palin-hillary-open/65...)! Did you hear that John McCain helped developed Blackberry (http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gcHFFZH949ykjRhXQHjqgLWe6F8Q)?

For a few more chuckles, check out http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb-staff/2008/09/16/newsbusted-2-01

Obama is going to loose! We've already rigged the VoteCount 2.1 software!

Sorry

http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

@Eric, I think you meant to say 270 electoral votes. There are a total of 538 total electoral votes for General Election for the Presidency.

The Palin factor is worrying some folks ...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/21/MNPP130KA7.D...
http://news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080921/NEWS0107/80921...

Also, race factor ...

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/09/22/2008-09-22_poll_bara...

I read that. Getting my passport ready. :S

Totally depends on where you look, and how you parse it.

The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote that McCain won on foreign policy while Obama won on the economy.

LA Times said it was too close to call.

Time Magazine's Joe Klein felt Obama barely won.

Conservative George Will believed Obama had a "leg up".

A CBS poll found Obama ahead with uncommitted voters.

And, a CNN poll found Obama winning overall. So, it's really all over the map and totally depends on where the report/poll is coming from. Republicans all feel their man won, as do Democrats. Something interesting to note, however: so-called Independents favored Obama's performance, 61-39.

All I know is that I found the debate refreshing in the sense that both men acted and spoke like well-informed adults. The attack ads, cable "news" programs and continuous propaganda machine becomes incredibly tiring and demeaning.

In Feb 2007 it was reported that:
"Senator Barack Obama’s ancestors link him to U.S. Presidents George Washington, James Madison, Harry Truman and Jimmy Carter, according to the founder of the Family Forest® Project. "

http://www.familyforest.com/PR_Barack_Obama.html

After this story, others came out about Obama being Presidential material...now people are actually believing he could be the next President.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54047
http://familyforest.wordpress.com/2007/10/18/another-barack-obama-cousin...

Anyone using the Family Forest® can visually explore some of Senator Obama's generation-by-generation ancestral pathways leading to some of his ancestors who were Magna Charta Sureties, Kings, and Saints.

The payday loan industry has been the key target for corrupt politicians, from all sides, seeking an increase in voter support at the expense of what’s best for the general public. Governors of several states including, Georgia, North Carolina, and Oregon completely drove payday loan businesses out of their states. The negative effects of driving out payday loan companies from these states, appears to have not been the best idea for its’ citizens. For instance, in Georgia, the bankruptcy filings, bounced checks and foreclosures all grew overwhelmingly after the cash advance option was taken away from them. In spite of this downbeat information, following the closure of payday loans in these states, several other governors continue to try and follow suit. Leading national politicians, such as presidential hopeful Barack Obama, are now making it their mission to eliminate the industry completely once and for all. Should such efforts be judged successful, the possibility is very real for increased unemployment rates, more debt, more foreclosures and an even more crippled economy.

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David Kernell, the 20-year-old son of Democratic Representative Mike Kernell of Tennessee, got popped. According to CNN (“Democratic lawmaker's son indicted in Palin hacking”), he reset the password and gained access to GOP VP candidate Palin's personal E-mail account. It is alleged that he read the contents, took a screenshot of her E-mail directory and obtained other personal information. The information that may have been compromised includes E-mail addresses and pictures of family members, one or more cell phone numbers of family members, family birthdates and more from Palin's address book. Interestingly, after turning himself in, David Kernell pleaded not guilty. He pleaded not guilty despite the fact that he (allegedly) took the information he hacked from Palin's personal account and posted it to a public Web site. Not only that, but he posted the new password he’d created, which would enable others to easily access Palin's E-mail themselves and view any of the contents. As a result, Kernell Junior may be subject to the heat of a five-year prison term, $250,000 fine and three years of supervised release. That’s enough to turn anybody into a fluffy white piece of popcorn. At the maximum of $1,500 per loan, that bail would require about 167 individual payday loans to free that fluffy little popped grain treat from being overcooked by cellmates.
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Oh god please do not let oh bamma win the election. pleeeeese.

If obama is president we need to move to canada?? Get it right bro, if McCain is president and we have 4 more years of republican government we need to move to canada. Look at our economy now and compare it 8-16 years ago... Was the best economy the u.s. had seen in decades. So tell me honestly that you want another republican and his dimwitted sidekick in office.

Chris
1. The economy started to tank while Clinton was still in office.
The economy of the 90's was not to president Clinton's credit. The boom was inevitable, no matter who was president. Mickey Mouse could have been president and we would have had the boom. It was the Tech Revolution, similar to the industrial revolution. And just as the boom was inevitable, so was the bust.
2. Everyone seems to forget the influence of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on our country. It was devastating in terms of loss of human life but also in terms of the effect on the economy. The solution was to drop interest rates to such a low level so as to kick start the economy.
3. Greenspan (originally from Clinton's era) raised the interest rates far too quickly. He would raise it a quarter point and if there was no immediate improvement that he considered sufficient, he raised them again. This attitude was straight from the 1990's, an instant gratification "Day Trader" mentatlity that did not have the patience to let things work.
4. The finacial collapse is clearly because of the policies of Democrats. Starting with Jimmy Carter there was a push to give loans to people who did not have credit scores that normally would allow them to purchase a home. Therefore the subprime market was created. It was greatly expanded in the 1990s and forced down the throats of banks by Janet "Jackboot" Reno.
5. The drop in interest rates after 9/11 combined with the sub-prime market created by Democrats greatly increased the number of sub-prime mortgages, most of which were A.R.M.s. When Greenspan raised rates quickly, the rates on those mortgages, and therefore the payments, greatly increased also. Thus many people went into foreclosure.
6. Fannie and Freddie's demise was because of mis-managment by DEMOCRATS!!! And Fannie and Freddie's demise was the first domino to fall in the global crisis.

Chris, we need to have an informed electorate. Please do the research and get informed!

Keith,
You really did not address any of the issues that I brought up, except for Greenspan being appointed under Reagan.

The point was that the sudden drop of interest rates after 9/11, along with lax rules for sub-prime mortgages, greatly increased the number of sub-prime mortgages. Then the quick rate increases helped cause this to crash. If the market had not been so lopsided with too many sub-prime mortgages the effect would not have been any where near this disastrous.

Liberals talk about how deregulation caused the problems but they (and you) can't actually make a direct connection. Just an overgeneralization that it is the fault of deregulation. You need to talk with some substance not just some nebulous idea that deregulation is the problem but not presenting any evidence that ties the crash to deregulation.

You criticize Rush Limbaugh but the reality is he and other conservative talk radio host bring up well documented facts, not just empty rhetoric.
Go to the Mark Levin site and look at the pages and pages of documentation he has.

http://marklevinshow.com/section/notes-of-interest/

Contrary to all the hype, latest AP Presidential Poll on 10/22 shows all even with no statistically significant lead.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D93VM4PO0&show_article=1
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/Polls.aspx?id=309546869309178

Latest poll shows Obama +3 only