Random rants or posts by a Brown Guy who is not always Angry. Usually about politics, sports or games but every now and then comes along a post completely off the wall.
John McCain canceled a scheduled appearance on CBS’s “Late Show with David Letterman” just a few hours before he was supposed to go on and tape the show that was scheduled to appear Wednesday night. However, since McCain has “suspended” his campaign, he personally called Letterman to say that he was immediately flying back to Washington D.C. to work on the bill regarding the economic crisis.
During the show though, Letterman learns that McCain was, in fact just down the street being interviewed by Katie Couric. Dave even cut over to the live video of the interview, and said, “Hey Senator, can I give you a ride home?”
Earlier in the show, Dave kept saying, “You don’t suspend your campaign. This doesn’t smell right. This isn’t the way a tested hero behaves.” And he joked: “I think someone’s putting something in his metamucil.”
“He can’t run the campaign because the economy is cratering? Fine, put in your second string quarterback, Sarah Palin. Where is she?”
“What are you going to do if you’re elected and things get tough? Suspend being president? We’ve got a guy like that now!”
I was watching this on MSNBC yesterday and was certainly hoping someone would put up the video. Here it is from MyDD:
Damn, when Chris Matthews is pissed, it can be good television, and today he was actually visibly angry that the McCain campaign was trying to portray Barack Obama’s “lipstick on a pig” comments as an attack on Sarah Palin. Repeatedly he asked Republicans “Do you think that Barack Obama was calling Sarah Palin a pig?”, which really is the pertinent question, and none of them could answer “yes.” In fact Matthews’ questions were met with much stammering. Here’s the first part of the interview:
Just caught this earlier today… and it definitely has to rank as one of the best Daily Show episodes I have ever seen!
If you’re only going to watch one of these clips, I will certainly recommend the first one. I know I say this every post but I don’t know how they manage to do this.
In a follow up to “Is CNN Saying Palin Is A Nazi?“, here are the main headline pictures on CNN.com on back to back days following the speeches by Sarah Palin and John McCain. You be the judge.
This coming from DailyKos, which I pretty much read on a constant basis along with FiveThirtyEight.com who have great in-depth analysis as well as polls and statistical predictions:
George W. Bush won North Dakota twice, with 60% of the vote, to 38% for both Al Gore and John Kerry.
Bill Clinton failed to win the state twice, and his closest margin in the state came in 1996 when Bob Dole defeated him by 6.8%. This was as he was delivering a sound electoral-college thrashing to the Kansas senator, 379-159.
No Democrat has won the state since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. That was the most successful year for Democrats in the television era, as Johnson set a modern record with 61% of the vote, and carried everything but the Deep South and his opponent’s home state of Arizona.
Keep those things in mind as you process this poll from North Dakota: (after the break)
Obama (D) 43 McCain (R) 40
Note that while North Dakota consistently votes Republican at the national level, its entire federal delegation – U.S. Senators Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan, and U.S. Rep. Earl Pomeroy – is Democratic, speaking to an independent streak among North Dakotans that transcends party lines.
If that streak extends this year to the presidential election as well, John McCain is in serious trouble. North Dakota has just three electoral votes for the taking, but they are three votes that McCain truly cannot afford to lose. If North Dakota is in play, virtually no state is safe.
