(Link to the whole transcript of McCain on Meet the Press, 10/26/08. The snippet in question is on page 3.)

The role of government is to intervene when a nation is in crisis.
[John McCain, "Meet the Press," 10/26/08]

The problem is that McCain and the Republicans don't see a role for government in intervening when an individual citizen is in crisis. 

The bar is open if you need to anesthetize yourself against unmitigated and bacteria-laden bullshit. If MS in LA shows up, there may be popcorn. As for me, I seem to be nodding off at the keyboard, and the debate is likely to exacerbate that condition. Maybe some lively and/or funny commentary will keep me awake.

Let 'er rip.

said the snowball, as the lenders kicked it towards the fires of hell.

Well, friends, the Fed just dropped it's basic interest rate by 1/2 a percent. Not only that, they got similar banks all over the world to drop their rates within seconds. This has never happened before. Never.

The following is Hillary Clinton's intial statement regarding the conventions and mccain/plain.

"The two party conventions showcased vastly different directions for our country. Senator Obama and Senator Biden offered the new ideas and positive change America needs and deserves after eight years of failed Republican leadership. Senator McCain and Governor Palin do not," Clinton said.

That Charlie Black comment wasn’t McCain’s only off-message moment yesterday. At a town hall in Fresno, CA, McCain admitted that the offshore drilling proposal he unveiled last week would probably have mostly “psychological” benefits, NBC/NJ’s Adam Aigner-Treworgy notes.

“Even though it may take some years, the fact that we are exploiting those reserves would have psychological impact that I think is beneficial."

Uh oh.

http://www.alternet.org/election08/85744/The Real McCain That the Corporate Media Won't Show YouBy Robert Greenwald, Brave New Films. Posted May 19, 2008.Video: John McCain's record is something the public wants to discuss, and yet the corporate media is doing nothing to present the truth.

Leaving nothing to the imagination, the document concluded by emphasizing that MindWar should employ subliminal brainwashing technologies, and weapons that directly attack the targetted population's central nervous system and brain functioning: "There are some purely natural conditions under which minds may become more or less receptive to ideas, and MindWar should take full advantage of such phenomena as atmospheric electromagnetic activity, air ioniz

CrossKos - Excerpt

http://www.architecturaldigest.com/homes/features/archive/mccain_article_072005

Blazing Saddle Diplomacy

http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20080327/cm_huffpost/093643

Excerpt

Mar 27 2008