More, etc., so on, so forth ...

John, John, John ... what is it about planetaria that you find so disturbing? Even though the whole "overhead projector earmark" thing has debunked about five different directions, we can tell that it's something that really bothers you. Tells us about it.

Actually, something was bothering McCain today -- bothering him terribly. It wasn't the economy, the collapsing stock market, the trembling world financial markets, global warming, the situation in Georgia or Iran or North Korea.  It was, instead, the utterly clear and present mortal danger of ... who threw a campaign party for him when he was running for state senate. 

Regardless of the fact that McCain isn't content with raising the Ayers boogie-man, but has to gild the lily with fibs, and regardless of how McCain and his proxies haven't actually explained what they think the fearful result would be of even if Obama and Ayers are best of friends (which they aren't), the biggest question of the hour is why McCain, so appalled by this unholy and despicable relationship, so brave and straight-talking and willing to fearlessly face any foe (because he was, after all, a war hero) ... why he didn't nail Obama to the wall (or even at least bring the matter up) when he was there confronting him face to face during the Presidential Debate? As opposed to waiting until he was speaking at a campaign rally, I mean.

It is a puzzlement.

In other news about McCain: lies, lies, and, oh yeah, lies. I suppose if you lie enough, people will assume there has to be some truth in there somewhere.

I'm glad someone else noticed how McCain bailed out of the room after the debate.

Not a good day for McCain's running mate, either. As more of the details of Troopergate continue to come out, the Alaska Supreme Court Srefused to block the Troopergate investigation, and people (well, I) laughed at her for her claim that Obama would damage "the prestige" of the office if he didn't show "candor" and "honesty".

Of course, it might be dangerous to laugh at Palin and McCain. Sure, their supporters have a zany sense of humor, but they can be kind of scary -- though not, perhaps, as scary as their fearless leader.

Speaking of leaders, which makes me think of Obama, it's interesting contrasting comparing the "transition" planning being done by both candidates. To wit, Obama already putting together a team, a strategy, contingencies, working groups -- and McCain basically planning on winging it. That may be indicative of each campaign's expectations of where the election is going to go.

Obama is also facing, in the face of victory, some difficult decisions about when he really starts to address the American people about what sorts of sacrifices and impact the current hard times are going to have for a while. That was a question in the first debate, and, honestly, Obama didn't really grapple with it. McCain has it easy: "cut taxes, freeze government except for the vital national security (and maybe VA) stuff we need" is the standard GOP mantra in good times and bad. Obama has to address how much this current mess is going to interfere with his cleaning up the mess of the last eight (twenty-eight) years.

That, of course, assumes Obama wins. Certainly various localities and states -- especially ones with GOP officials -- are doing their darnedest to make sure that as few voters vote as possible ... at least amongst certain areas, or amongst the recently (and thus most likely Democratic) registrants. All this focus on "voter fraud," coupled with the usual dirty tricks, promises to make this a very interesting election.

And so it goes.

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