It’s been an absolutely brutal two weeks for McSame.
On September 15th, the Gallup tracking poll had him up 1. That, as it would have it, was the same day McSame said the economy was "fundamentally strong."
Since then:
Surrogate Fail, 9/16: Fiorina says neither McSame or Palin could run a major company.
Neocon Fail, 9/17: McSame rejects Spain as an ally.
Wall Street Fail, 9/18: Not the best time to be a pimp for financial deregulation.
Constitution Fail, 9/18: McSame says he’d fire SEC Chief, though by law he can’t.
Pundit Fail, 9/21: The Village mocks McSame’s totally incoherent response to the crisis.
Message Fail, 9/21: McSame goes on "60 Minutes" and says financial deregulation is awesome.
Interview Fail, 9/24: Palin’s first cringe-inducing sit down with Katie Couric.
Campaign Stunt Fail, 9/24: McSame "suspends" campaign, "postpones" debate.
Interview Fail II, 9/25: Palin’s second disastrous interview with Couric.
Campaign Stunt Fail II, 9/26: McSame unsuspends campaign, decides to debate.
Debate Fail, 9/26: McSame gets his ass kicked by Obama.
Interview Fail III, 9/29: McSame and Palin both crash and burn on Couric.
Bailout Fail, 9/29: After McSame boasts about bailout bill, it fails to pass — and the markets crash.
Leadership Fail, 9/30: McSame blamed for bailout bill failure.
The problem seems to be that reality is in the tank for the Obama campaign.
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BT!
Zed!
And a chronicle of disaster.
Beautiful.
D’oh! Nice timeline, BT.
It’s been quite a run for the Mav.
Only three things to say: POW POW POW
Oh and: No taxes anytime anywhere ever
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. He he.
So what am I, chopped liver?
Reality has a well-documented liberal bias.
Character fail….
Country first, BT, country first!!
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
I humbly bow to the speed of your response. *g*
The Epic Fail Express, flip flopping to a city near you.
Interesting post, Blue Texan. Not that we didn’t already know these things, but to see them all gathered together in one listing brings home just how bad the week has been going for Johnnie Mac!
Hiya BT,
BAGnewsNotes has a nice analysis of McCain’s facial expressions during Palin vs. Couric round 2.
We’ve been discussing the pros and cons of another mavericky move downstairs.
McCain showing up in drag to sub out Palin. Takes the pressure off, y’know?
So far we have Cindy advising on lip gloss (with restraint, no troweling it on) and the party hat and the pundits announcing his genius afterwards.
Thank you!
And the incredible thing is-he’s still close enough to make a race of it. All of that-and he is still a viable candidate.
In truth, I just got there first by an accident. Just happened to check for a new post at the right time.
I think it’s time for McCain to campaign strongly against porn. He hasn’t done that yet, right?
Brain failure: Mcshame calls for bipartisanship and stop to finger pointing then blames Obama
Hmmm. Certainly anything can happen in less than 5 weeks. But it’s looking pretty bleak for the Maverick.
Great post, BT. Kinda makes me think of this.
I don’t know if it counts but both Letterman and Tina Fey brutalize McCain/Palin with their own words for full comedy gold.
Yeah, that’s the part that scares me.
I love it when people blame each other with the Blame Game.
I recall that being Ashcroft’s focus during the his first 8 months as AG. Wasn’t much else going on at the time.
Has Cindy still got the soft cast on her wrist? I haven’t seen any pics of that recently.
Has Barbara stopped by of late? Sending {{{Barbara & David}}}.
Puppet of wallstreet
Puppet of wallstreet
Puppet of wallstreet
that’s what I think now whenever he says POW.
Yeah he could porn investor Gramm to advise and develop his position
Might help if Brokaw wasn’t lying on McCain’s behalf.
You mean the Imperial Goddess of Excess? The aura of her gold lame blinds me to much to notice any soft cast on her wrist. What’s it for? Carpal tunnel syndrome for typing angry emails for John?
Excellent list…it’s amazing to see them all together…and I’m sure there are more to come today, tomorrow, the coming weeks!
That just frosted me. I always thought Brokaw was wimpy but that he was still a journalist. The MTP crap has disabused me of that fantasy. there is a petition to boot his skinny butt of the show. I’ll see if I can find a link.
and you didn’t even include Palin’s disastrous interview with “in what respect, Charlie?” Gibson.
Lots of those in government, if they had any talent they might put the Muppets out of business. Fortunately, no risk of that.
That was before 9/15.
She got a minor fracture a month or so ago from shaking hands. (As skinny as she is, I wouldn’t be surprised if she has osteopourosis.) For awhile she was wearing really bright contrasting colored casts: shocking pink, electric blue.
Blue Texan:
He blew up relations with Spain on 9/18 as well.
“Carpal tunnel syndrome for typing angry emails for John?”
Or maybe to coax an erection?
I was no great fan of Russert but I don’t believe he would have made a “mistake” like that.
True. That interview, to me, was what set the tone.
Hey, BT, don’t forget this:
Check out this Youtube video running now about Dems (notice the racial implications) opposing regulation of Fannie and Freddie in a hearing…:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..ture=bz303
Oh yeah, right — that was a good one. I’ll add.
Sorry, that’s not what I meant. I meant the time Sarah called it the Palin/McCain campaign.
oops, McCain dissed Spain on Thursday 9/16? the articles I saw were dated 9/18.
o/t Congratulations FDL on 64,000,000 site visits
Well, you’re right — the truly awfulness of it started to set in over the next several days. But it just missed 9/15 — which is the last day McSame led.
Oh, for crying out loud! They are just throwing it out there now
As well as trying to get Olberman and Tweety removed from commenting on election results as emmisary from McShame campaign
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..30453.html
Ew!
ew ew ew!
Actually, the interview was Wednesday 9/17. The noise happened the day after.
Gad, I hope that was just some sort of oblique reference to Flagstaff, AZ.
This is who is creating this vile stuff…I wonder if their website can be traced to the McCain campaign..?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..ture=bz303
Yay! Where’s the cake?
Ha! LOL, rat!
anyone else notice how the Rick Davis Fanny/Freddie connection got lost in all the noise?
Sorry, wrong link…this one:
http://www.nakedemperornews.com/
Hadn’t he retired? Wasn’t he just brought back for election crap or is he back now that Russert is no longer among us
Thanks. Unlike McCain, I know I need a factchecker.
yep because he (McCain) was able to change the topic to his “campaign suspension”. expect many more stunts before this election is over
Gee, so many gaffes all at once. It almost makes me forget that Iran is the border between Pakistan and Iraq.
Don’t forget Sept. 12. That was the day McCain appeared on “the View’ and the ladies tore him a new one for being a liar.
It was actually hard to track down the original interview, because it was on radio.
Pretty sure most know how SINdy sprained her dainty wrist. McHorney misplaced his Viagra?
Apparently, he is still just acting as a placeholder/McCain surrogate. The following is the most recent news on the subject I’ve heard. Doesn’t sound like I’ll be able to stomach watching MTP any time soon. Copied from the same article I linked to @ 32.
Can we add Pakistani leader trying to invade Palin on 9/24? and palin wranglers booting out reporters?
I am exhausted after this amazing week. I can just imagine that McC feels completely drained – or he would if he understood.
That was so inappropriate. They didn’t know he was a POW.
Seems like I heard McCain mention something about al Qaida and the Taliban regrouping in the area of the Pakistan/Alaska border.
hmmm I’m no Gregory fan and am only luke warm to Todd.
Digg this excellent post!
that was the shia with their leader, nicknamed Sunny.
But John’s not worried – Sarah’s got us covered.
OT, but I thought worth putting out here. I was speaking with a friend in the rag trade a couple of hours (she imports brassieres or something), and she says everybody is going to ground and hoarding cash. Her suppliers are calling her from all over the world for cash, the transporters as well. Other side of the coin, she and they are delaying payment as long as possible. To quote T.S. Eliot, ‘This is the way the world ends.’ It grinds to a halt.
McInsane still has Tom Brokaw to do his utmost to, one way or another, hand McInsane a “win” in the next debate. Also, don’t count out Palin this week. She may just pull his nuts out of the failure fire…by being just adorable during the debate.
So far, in what I’ve heard from him, Todd has been pretty cogent. He seems to be the most competent analysis guy on TV.
Has McCain said when he will leave on his trip to follow Bin Laden to the depths of hell? If he doesn’t get elected, is the trip off?
Todd makes me crazy with his “Obama hasn’t been able to close the sale” crap. He could say something like “needs to close the sale” as in the future, but he always frames it in terms of a done deal.
I can only see DG dancing his lame dance with rapping MC Himmler at the WH correspondent’s dinner. what a trollop.
I think Fareed Zacharia at CNN has the potential to be the best Sunday AM
Ditto. Gregory reminds be of an old bit from SNL. They showed a picture of Dan Quayle holding a pumpkin beside his head and posed the question, “What is the difference between these two spherical objects? Answer, the one on the right will eventually have a light in it.”
It is only Tuesday
Uh. Oh….here is the full video of the Couric interview portion about the bailout…puts the gobblygook into context….
I smell a set-up come debate day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..ture=bz302
I just read a comment at an article about her meeting with the Pakistani leader which said she’ll bring peace to the middle east with her grace and charm. It was not snark.
I don’t know how a end of earther can bring peace, but oh kay.
GATES of hell, DEPTHS of hell is where he intends to lead the country. No, even if he loses the election I imagine he’ll get there eventually.
That may be the case, but my rule of thumb is not to really trust any of them. It helps with keeping the sanity
and am only luke warm to Todd.
Chuck “If I play with this shit long enough I can find a way to make it look like John McCain is still in this thing” Todd?
What the fuck, Chuck?
(I just like saying that)
Simple, after they’ve destroyed everything and everybody, there’s bound to be a period of stability.
Guy’s got lousy taste in women.
She will bring them all to Jesus! That will peace the hell out of everywhere.
Set up how? the campaign has said she is an excellent debater (from her performances in Alaska) and have said that they are not taking her for granted.
Don’t forget. Palin will also be speaking in tongues.
uranium-enriched come-to-Jesus bombs?
ugh. another blizzard of words. She’s like a walking reverse mad lib book. All the blanks are already filled in with
bipartisanship, oversight, reform, peace, maverick, islamic extremists, health care, POW, privilege, honor, Senator McCain, democracy, economy, job creation, victory, leadership, interviewer’s name, voter/constituent, american people, maritime border, canada, russia, and God Bless America!
And she’ll have her exorcist waiting in the wings.
“Dear Jesus,
Please come get your blind follower zealots, so we can live here in peace.
Thank you.
Sincerely, Planet Earth.”
Because the clips the MSM have been playing about the bailout have been out of context..making her sound completely incoherent…therefore, setting up the idea that she has a very low bar to clear. I expect that she will handle herself much better than anyone expects…Just saying.
At least she did not make up a story about landing in Tuzla under sniper fire. Is she honest?
Oh, I totally agree. It’s impossible for their to be lower expectations Thursday, and I think she’ll soundbite just well enough.
I mean seriously — has their ever been lower expectations for a veep debate?
And don’t forget this.
Maybe not but I can’t remember what anyone expected out of Quayle.
When she does well in the debate, they will crown her the winner.
Huh? I forgot to add “thanks but no thanks”.
why are you asking me if Palin is honest? I say no. She is not. fyi, i’m not hot on the clintons right now, but don’t change the subject with hillary. thx!
Huffpo:
emphasis mine.
Anyone else get the creeps with the whole, “as creatively as possible” line?
Quayle wasn’t this much of a trainwreck. And he’d given lots of interviews beforehand.
Though all everyone remembers is LB eating his lunch.
Palin doesn’t know anything. Period. But McC is a much more interesting character. There are only 2 choices – either he is in early senility or he is just dumb and has always been dumb. I don’t see any other choices and they are both awful.
Does have a certain ring to it…
Luddites unite and support McPalin!
It could have the opposite effect of having everyone looking for the gaffes
much like what people were saying about Obama, that all he had to do was show up (I guess that can be challenging for some candidates) and look presidential. All Palin has to do is complete her sentences. Not answer questions about policy. No context required for the future videos/ads.
Or you could make it “What the fuck’s up Chuck?” and get two puns for the price of one…
Republicans expected a new conservative JFK. Lloyd Bentsen… not so much.
About as average as your run of the mill bridge salesman
Troopergate witness flips under oath:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…..817/615479
Republicans consider “below average” their key demographic.
OK, I’m ready to start those post debates rumors that Biden was debating either a. Tina Fey or b. McCain in a dress.
bbl, pups.
Use the force, Sarah. Listen to your secret earpiece and repeat what you’re told.
Tine Fey would do much better in the debate than the real Sarah Palin.
Would that be Gov. Jindal or Pastor Muthee?
See ya, dosido.
McCain’s henchmen didn’t do a good job in Alaska, it appears.
Pastor Muthee, Jindal is still ticked about getting passed over. After all, he has foreign policy experience too, his state borders the Gulf of MEXICO.
This has legs
Seems like it should.
Crooks and Liars has a post up about Palin Pokes Fun at Biden’s Age
I-R-O-N-Y
So, folks don’t expect Palin to flop like Stockdale did? See around 7:15 into the video.
New Ian post
Byron Dorgan on Cspan2. Dark money 1.9T, is being run through the Caymans, plus more from other locations. Bear Stearn Goldman Sachs, credit default swaps…Paulson has a list of firms too big to fail. Answer make them biggdr…no fault capitalism.
Was that about the time she started speaking in tongues?
It could happen.
All the news about lobbyist, the gambling story on the front page of the NYT, upcoming story about lobbyist in Newsweek – none of it is getting traction. And no one in the MSM mentions Keating Five.
Same with Palin. There has been about a scandal a day coming out about her, but Americans are not paying attention, and those that are, love her because they think she’s just like them.
Never underestimate the stupidity of the American Electorate.