That ship has sailed. He's spent the last three months dangling raw meat outside of their caves; there's no putting them back at this point.

Does a man who would choose Sarah Palin for a running mate have the concept of dignity on his menu at all?

my exact thoughts.

oh hey, mine too.

"NO!!! HE'S A DECENT FAMILY MAN!!!!"

I love how that's supposed to be a counterpoint.

Yeah, that in itself is fucked-up.

Also the unsurprising spectacle of someone obviously not being able to differentiate between "Arab", "Moslem", etc.

Sigh.

or "Arab" and "Terrorist" even

Those goddamn Arabs! THEY'RE ALL TERRISTS

I'm saddened that people from my state act like this. (Minnesota BTW)

For me it brings back a little of that 9/11 ghost. Not a good time to have a big goofy middle east nose.

The mussed, crazy-woman hair on her just makes the "Ay-rab" confusion more fitting.

Yeah, there really is a tragic element to this election. I think future scholars will have a field day studying him. He does not have the character or the compassion to deal with the amount of racist poison he awoke in his followers, and it's clearly surprising him.

I also have sympathy for McCain. However, much more than that, I fear what this particular demographic is capable of.

There has always been radical, violent, bigoted and predjudiced people in the world. Frequently, those people easily fall under the sway of demogogues, making them even more angry, more violent, and more out of touch with reality.

But in America in 2008, there are just so many of them.

just think, McCain is sleeping right now.

ssshhhhh.....

If we're talking tragedy McCain reminds me of MacBeth actually.

Both were war heroes, both had evil wives, both succumbed to the temptation of power promised them by misshapen, corrupt servants of darkness.

Is it to much to hope for that the last debate will be a duel with swords, both parties wearing armor and talking in iambic pentameter?

Sadly I think the battle already occurred when he tried running to the Clinton supporters, using Palin, and ultimately left himself vulnerable.

Five stars for Greek tragedy.

Spot on.

What frightens me about this election is that we have SO MUCH of America that can't make it over the baby-step sized hurdle of racism and bigotry in order to think rationally. For the past 8 years, these insane bastards have been pandered to and look what's happened.

What's good about this video is that it seems like McCain is trying to break it to the crazies that, "Hey, I'm not winning this election."

I think he's more Richard III than Oedipus. He seems to be deliberately villianous and sneering, all the while feigning humility and being obsequious to his party betters. He never had any intention of winning and has already pinned Palin as his escape hatch.

Whereas I would say he reminds me of King Lear being misused and ultimately destroyed by the people he put all his trust in. No doubt someday we'll hear how he cruelly mistreated Bridget even as she tried to set him back on the right course.

No wait actually he reminds me of Titus Andronicus murdering his patron's wife's sons and feeding them to her in a pie. And then getting stabbed and strangled to death. Yeah, that's the one.

You realize that the whole McCain / Macbeth comparison was just on the Colbert Report earlier this week, right?

Are they even his rallies anymore?

All of the news articles I've read so far where the hateful racist people of the party always seen to stem from whenever Palin makes a speech or her general presence. She's taken the spotlight of the entire media focus of his campaign. Even the goddamn "McCain/Palin 2008" banner ad I'm seeing at the top of this page features her face and her face only, it's scary.

Yeah, really, WTF is up with that ad?!!

Palin for president!!!!

Also. I keep seeing Jetblue ads for fare to Orlando...

For future reference:

http://img363.imageshack.us/my.php?image=palinmccainadverths9. png

I'm actually getting a McCain ad that shows McCain without Palin. It also asks me to give him fifty bucks to "invest in victory."

Funny, I have a Jones soda ad.

Funny, I see no ads.

They have daughters. Obama's black. The President has keys to everyone's house.

They did the math and they are afraid.

It's going to be my personal mission to fuck all these promise-ring wearing, chastity-belt having, young Republican sorority girl racist spend-daddy's-money bitches back to the stone age. Seriously. It's gonna be lobotomies performed with my penis.

Racism = terrible. Sexist rape jokes = HILARIOUS. It does not make sense to me why it's not okay for people to be racist but it is plenty okay to be really violently sexist. Can you explain to me how this makes sense to you, King Arthur?

I think the main point is that usually it takes months or years for him to show any hint of contrition. That makes this somewhat unusual.

Of course there's no respect for Obama, that's not what we were talking about. It's about the things he's done to motivate his base, out of sheer ambition, created something way more than he has the temperament or drive to handle. This is a man who has routinely embraced immigrants and condemned religious zealotry from the Right, and here he is trying to court these same kinds of vitriol that have always been just under the surface of white culture, waiting for someone like Obama to shake it loose.

Yes! More cowbell!

I know! Aren't they still pushing the "Who is the real Barack Obama?" angle?

A: "He's a decent family man citizen?"

It's like the campaign's memes and narratives are just so many plates to be kept aloft on poles.

You actually assume he's loosing and somehow elections wont be rigged like the last two in favor of the war mongers/profiters of this world, somehow hoping that some last-minute catastrophe wont surface just at the right time?

You might want to be less quick to pass judgement on the decisions people make when it comes to stakes that are orders of magnitude outside of your experience.

Also, no amount of time is going to make Palin not dumb. The woman is 43 years old. If you are a fucking idiot at the age of **43** that's it, that's your intellectual lot in life, the end.

I'm sorry, but tons of people manage to run for public office, including the office of president, without selling out every ounce of morality they have or claim to have. Yes, the run for president is dirty. But this is not a new McCain, and people are acting like it is, like he's been dragged along all unwilling by Rove. It's not true. He never would have done this if everyone hadn't started calling him on it. If it had been working, he never would have tried to rein these people in.

And by Palin getting smart I guess I meant Palin getting better at talking to people. As Reagan and Bush showed, you don't have to be smart to be dangerous. And I think after a few years of grooming, Palin could've been dangerous.

"Do not be afraid, creature! I am your FATHER! You will do as I say, DO YOU HEAR?!"

The last pargraph of Xenocide's analysis is pretty astute, I'm thinking...

Spot on, Xeno.

The brilliant tactic: Both sides are retarded.

Also I get the feeling that in that split second he wanted to stop any possible assassination attempts because he's pretty much painted Obama as the biggest terrorist ever and he is aware that Obama could very well win. His supporters would not be so gung ho to scream kill Obama if it weren't for his direct and completely inappropriate association tactics.

They're like a bunch of children at a pantomine booing the villain.

If we're lucky, none of them will leave the safety of their barbed-wire-in-the-woods compounds to vote.

At this point, dignity and McCain are no longer on speaking terms. You'd have to be an idiot to fall for that. Oh wait, this is AMERICA.

Don't worry. Come 2010, we're gonna sell you guys as pets to the French.

You can try, but my black friends won't let you do that.

Not if I bring some hoes and chicken.

Also possibly spinning rims.

Okay now you sir are a racist. How is it blacks exclusively love hoes and chickens. I love that shit too. And they won't take your little bribe.

What if I threw in some Chamillionaire CDs?

Maybe Jibbs? I heard black people like Jibbs.

I am a rapper, a producer, and a bassist. They will not give me up. My contributions to hip hop will be great.

They'll be very impressed by a man dressed as a dog who can play bass.

The French will love you! You will be a treasure.

Damn, Stog, why you gotta inflict them on France?

Five for this alone. Come for the crazy, stay for the 'man dressed as a dog' line!