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The McCain campaign is cratering. The absurdity (and hilarity) has been turned up to 11. A synopsis I’ve been working on:

• They call Obama elitist … then drop $150k at Neiman Marcus to put lipstick on their pig.
• They call out Obama on Fannie/Freddie … then it’s revealed that their campaign manager was getting money to lobby for Fannie as late as a month or 2 ago.
• They call Obama naive in foreign policy … then Colin Powell endorses him.
• They call Obama a socialist … then McCain votes for the bailout.
• They pick Sarah Palin for her all-Americanness… then she can’t answer a single question of substance and Tina Fey destroys her.
• They highlight Joe the Plumber as a small businessman to be hurt by taxes … then it turns out he’s a broke-ass contractor with no license, no business, no prospects and a tax lien on his house.
• They dismiss the idea that they don’t stand for any race-baiting/dirty politics … then this Backwards B race-baiting hoax is uncovered in Pittsburgh - where they gave facts to TV stations that the Police Dept didn’t verify
• They trot out Palin to discuss funding for special needs children where she derides an earmark for fruit fly research … the same research which helped reveal a genetic link to AUTISM

OOOOOHHHH - so close.

Are you kidding me? And now this … I think this is the capstone on the campaign. Or rather the tombstone.

John McCain’s brother’s angry 911 call: a short family fuse | The Dish Rag | Los Angeles Times

Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s brother, Joe McCain, called 911 in Alexandria, Va., to complain about traffic earlier this week. And when they told him that 911 was only for emergencies, he used an expletive to the operator and hung up.

Wow. And they say John McCain is a hot head. Maybe short fuses run in the McCain family.

Here’s a snippet of the transcript:

Operator: Alexandria 911, state your emergency

Caller: Well, it’s not an emergency but do you know why on one side at the damn drawbridge of 95 traffic is stopped for 15 minutes and yet traffic’s coming the other way across the drawbridge?

Operator: Sir, are you calling 911 to complain about traffic? (pause)

Caller: “[Expletive]” (caller hangs up)

The operator called the caller back and received this message: “Hi this is Joe McCain I can’t take this message now because I’m involved in a very (inaudible) important political project… I hope on Nov. 4th we have elected John.”

The operator then called the number back and left a message for Joe about how it is illegal to use a 911 number for anything other than emergencies.

Here’s the best part: An outraged Joe called the operator back to complain about being read the riot act about calling 911 and got read the riot act again.

Anyway, it’s priceless. Watch the video call and see if you don’t think that Joe even sounds a lot like John.

Scary!

BWAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

Good Night, Schweethart.

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It shows the true character of people.

Man Holds Monkey Doll With Obama Sticker At Palin Rally (VIDEO)

CBS reports:

As the crowd cheered at a Sarah Palin rally this morning in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a man in the audience grinned as he held up a stuffed monkey doll with a Barack Obama bumper sticker wrapped across its forehead.

After Palin finished her remarks this morning, the man holding the stuffed monkey seemed to notice that a video camera was pointed at him, at which point he removed the Obama sticker from the doll’s head and crumpling it up in his hand. He then handed the doll to a young boy who was watching the rally from his father’s shoulders. The boy’s parents later told CBS News that they weren’t acquainted with the man who gave their son the stuffed monkey.

But in this video, the man is clearly proud of his work:

John McCain should worry that these are the kind of people his ads have scared up. And he should worry that the backlash has filled Obama’s coffers:

With the presidential campaign approaching its final stretch, Barack Obama finds himself in an enviable position.

One official close to the campaign said that September’s fundraising haul set a new record, surpassing the $66 million Obama raised in August. Another aide, asked about the campaign’s take, would only describe it: “big.”

Moreover, the assault that John McCain has launched against Obama’s character - including repeated criticisms of the Illinois Democrat’s association to former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers - has largely backfired. Obama sources shared internal campaign polling figures that show a sharp fall in positive feelings for the Republican ticket. Following the most recent spat of negative ads, they say, McCain’s unfavorable rating has gone over 50 percent, notably higher than anything detected in recent public polling.

Gov. Sarah Palin is fairing just as poorly if not worse. In New Hampshire, an official with knowledge of internal polling says the Alaska Republican’s favorable rating has nosedived to 36 percent, with 56 percent viewing her unfavorably.

Even within Republican circles it seems there is a growing sentiment that McCain’s recent strategy has had a blow-back effect. On Sunday, the Weekly Standard’s William Kristol called the negative tactics “stupid.”

“The main thing to say about these negative ads — which, I don’t think, almost none of them has been across the line — they haven’t worked,” he said on Fox News Sunday. “Obama’s favorable rating is as high as it’s been in three months. It’s actually gone up in the last month. So it’s a stupid campaign.”

I want to say taking the high road and fighting back honorably against smears is why this has happened, but I realize it has a lot to do with the economy. Either way - I’m glad the hidden dirt is getting exposed.

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