John McCain's War Against Spain
Outgoing president George W. Bush can admit that he's old and deaf, particularly when it suits him. But that would look really bad if John McCain did so! (Because he is old.) So the best thing to do, when clearly McCain is befuddled and has no idea what is going on, such as when discussing leaders of Spain, when he lumps them in with the likes of Hugo Chavez, is for the campaign to just to be all "YES THAT IS WHAT HE MEANT, SHUT UP, REPORTER." (Boy are we looking forward to McCain's big speech on the econom

We're Going to War with Spain Because McCain Misheard a Question
Yeah, whoops. John McCain may not have meant to intentionally lump Spain's leader José Zapatero in with Latin America's Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales and their anti-US sentiments, but now that the gaffe is out there on YouTube, he's not going to back down from his position:   To be fair, McCain's response was broad enough that it technically could have been about Zapatero (dude's just saying he won't meet with America's enemies!) but the smarter course of action w

McCain and Obama on International Talk Like a Pirate day
It’s “International Talk Like a Pirate Day,” and somehow — despite jumping on virtually every issue and occasion to go at each other — neither John McCain nor Barack Obama bothered to fire off an election year “yar.” It is our duty therefore to re-write a couple of their most recent commercials in pirate-talk. We use the “official” International Talk Like a Pirate web site as a guide to correct phraseology. Please send any complaints on verbal usage t

Meghan McCain Needs Your Help (File Under: Tattoos)
 No, no. She's not getting that "I heart Barack" tattoo she got when she was drunk removed from her ass. At least not yet, anyway. No, Meghan McCain needs help deciding what she's going to get next.  Meghan already has a little blue star on her foot (blue, eh?) but she's ready for another; now she just needs to decide what to get:Spies overheard Meghan, author of the new Simon & Schuster children's book "My Dad, John McCain," chatting about her love of body

One Undivorced Blind Vice: Straights Are Sluts, Too
Oh, this is a tough one this week: Do we do the cable star who's pretending to have a stalker (she's sending herself all kinds of horrendous things at work, just so her contract-renewing bosses think the babe's got heat, as if package-sending retards, imagined or otherwise, are going to make a difference in their decisions, oh, please)? Or the star who screws around like John McCain once did. Hey, it's political fever time out there, I vote for the latter! But first, gotta say something. You know, I really

What John McCain and Barack Obama are buying on Google [Politics]
Google is the modern American voter's oracle, able to provide an answer — perhaps not always the correct one, but always an answer — to almost any question. And it's very important to both presidential campaigns that Google show links to their websites as the answers, a privilege for which they're willing to pay. Both the McCain and Obama teams buy sponsored links on the search terms they believe voters are likely to use. Hitwise, a Web research firm, helped us dig up the campaigns' most-used se

Elsewhere: McCain's Mistake, Paterson's Plea, 'Hillary Sent Me'
John McCain was wrong when he said the C.E.O.s of Fannie Mae were paid by taxpayers--as the head of a private company, they were paid by shareholders. Not a surprise, but the trillion-dollar bailout could cripple the federal budget. Barack Obama met with economic advisers today and backed the bailout. According to Chuck Schumer, lawmakers were told today that the economy could die. David Paterson asked that the new "federal asset relief" program be based in New York. No one is show

Scientists Explain Why People Vote For Republicans [What We Need More Of Is Science]
Every election season, commentators trot out the old statistics about how more education makes people more likely to support Democrats, more studies are published on how liberal Daily Show viewers are so well-informed, and various smart people try to explain why anyone would ever vote for a Republican, against their "self-interest." This month has seen three alarming and remarkable scientific investigations into Americans' inexplicable habit of voting for George Bush and John McCain. Which means: trend! Hoo

Obama-McCain: Dow down, Obama up
The Dow Jones Industrial average may have suffered from the financial crisis unfolding on Wall Street this week, but Barack Obama's stock has risen steadily. The Democrat's five-point edge over Republican John McCain in the newest Gallup Poll daily track -- 49-44 percent -- marks "the fourth consecutive day that Obama has inched forward in voter preferences since the start of the Wall Street financial meltdown beginning with the announcement on Sunday, Sept. 14, that Lehman Brothers was headed

John McCain Hits Wall Street "Reckless Behavior"
Republican presidential nominee John McCain, seeking to boost his standing in the U.S. presidential race,...... <a href="http://www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_212173366.shtml"><b>More</b>

Workers Are Economy's 'Fundamentals,' McCain Says
Seeking to win over blue-collar voters crucial to capturing Ohio and neighboring swing states Pennsylvania and Michigan, Republicans John McCain and Sarah Palin criticized Wall...... <a href="http://www.postchronicle.com/commentary/article_212173356.shtml"><b>More</b>

The keywords John McCain and Barack Obama are buying on Google [Politics]
Google is the modern American voter's oracle, able to provide an answer to almost any question. Which is why the McCain and Obama teams pay to put their websites on its pages. Hitwise, a Web research firm, helped us dig up the search terms which the campaigns' have selected to show their ads against over the last 12 weeks.The terms reveal what the politicians' Web-savvy advertisers believe is on the public's mind — such deep issues as "Sarah Palin vogue," "raising McCain lyrics," "obama birth certific

McCains’ Visit Spikes ‘View’ Ratings
John and Cindy McCain’s appearance on “The View” on Sept. 15 was the talk show’s fourth most watched telecast ever with 4.62 million total viewers. The appearance helped the show deliver its highest-rated week in a year and a half among total viewers and the seventh best week of its 12-year run with 3.95 million viewers. “The View” placed in the top three daytime programs for women 18-49 for the second straight week with a 1.3 rating. The show also attracted a 0.9 rating for women 18-34, placi

ICYMI: The World Air Sex Championships Somehow Manages To Be Even Worse Than It Sounds
According to Spout Blog, after a screening of Kevin Smith’s new movie Zach & Miri Make A Porno, the famed Alamo Drafthouse movie theater recently hosted the World Air Sex Championships, which is sort of like air guitar, but with people doing it. While the very thought of a group of lonely people simulating the act of coitus with the air on a stage might be both awful and terrifying, actually seeing video footage of the event turns out to be profoundly disturbing in ways you have likely never ima

"60 Minutes" says Obama, McCain agree country in recession
Here's one thing the candidates agree on: The country is in a recession. Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama talk about the economy in separate interviews on Sunday's "60 Minutes." The program airs at 7 p.m. on WKMG-Channel 6. "I think, for a lot of people, they've been feeling like we've been in a recession for years now," Obama tells Steve Kroft. "When their wages and incomes don't go up, and the cost of gas and groceries and home heating oil and prescription drugs are all goin

Obama Ad: John McCain Sniffs His Own Butt, Too
Here’s the latest ad from the New Barack Obama, who’s nothing more than a big meanie. It’s responding to an independent ad from BornAliveTruth.org that claimed Barry voted to KILL LIVE BABIES — ones that have actually popped out of the vag! — during his pitiful tenure as a state senator. Obama directly blames this smear on the McCain campaign as yet another “DESPICABLE LIE.” Why is this fruitball Barack Obama suddenly trying to play politics? [YouTube]

Accuracy in Political Ads: The Truth is Not Dishonorable
John McCain ran an ad criticizing Barack Obama for supporting sex education for kindergartners.  The reaction of Obama and his media sycophants was so vociferous that you might have thought abortion had been...

The Weekly Walk-Through
We learned that: Hillary Clinton doesn't want your subway fares to go up. The Wall Street crisis will impact city real estate immensely. Mario Batali's Del Posto took a PR hit regarding its sanitation. The city's hitting an affordable-housing roadblock in Hell's Kitchen. Mayor Bloomberg was optimistic in the face of the Wall Street crisis. Governor Paterson, on the other hand, was rather pessimistic. A less-slow bus service launched on 34th Street. The East Village's Death & Co. wants its landlord

'Mensch' Bill Tonelli On Cutting DFW's McCain Piece For Rolling Stone in Half: 'I Just Did It!'
The last book David Foster Wallace published before his suicide last Friday was McCain's Promise: Aboard the Straight Talk Express, a souped up edition of the classic piece on the 2000 election originally published in Rolling Stone and later anthologized in Consider the Lobster along with a thorough, at points severe foreword about how the piece almost didn't happen because the editors at Rolling Stone couldn't make up their mind about whether they wanted or not: At first I was supposed to follow McCain ar

Woody Allen: 'It Would be Terrible If Barack Obama Lost Election'
Woody Allen says it would be "terrible" if Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama fails to win the race for the White House. "It would be a disgrace and a humiliation if Barack Obama does not win," the Vicky Cristina Barcelona director told Spanish journalists at the ongoing 56th San Sebastian film festival, where his latest film is being screened. "It would be a very, very terrible thing for the United States in many, many ways," he said. Obama, Allen said, is "so much better" than Republican riva

Barack Obama Call For Wall Street Rescue
Democrat Barack Obama called Friday for a globally coordinated financial rescue plan that puts the taxpayers on Main Street ahead of the imprudent investors on Wall Street, reports the AP. To learn about his plan, click here.   Share: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. Email this article

New Mexico Poll Released by Allstate National Journal Magazine: Barack Obama 49%, John McCain 42%
New Mexico Poll: John McCain 42%, Barack Obama 49%.

Addressing McCain-Obama Controversy, Bloomberg Takes the Side of Nobody
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, one of the country's highest-profile experts on financial markets, has been remarkably careful in the past week not to publicly favor either Barack Obama or John McCain when discussing the Wall Street crisis. And after speaking with Obama about the economic challenges in a telephone conversation last night, Bloomberg seemed to agree with McCain--and not agree with McCain--on one contested issue relating to the meltdown. McCain's remarks this week that he would, as president, fire t

Barack Obama & McCain We Are Def In A Recession!
CBS reports "In separate interviews, both Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain agree that the term "recession" describes the country's current economic woes" Total Views : 1931Video Added : 2008-09-19 Video Code: URL Embed AutoPlay Video Size: 448 | 640 | 800If video loads slow, press the pause button and wait 1 -2 minutes for it to fully load and press the play button again Watc

Blacks against Obama VIDEO
VIDEO! Watch video just in of the “Blacks Against Obama” protest. The Blacks Against Obama protest struck a Barack Obama reported campaign stop in Coral Gables, Florida moments ago. The Blacks against Obama protest reportedly including individuals holding signs one of which read “Jesse Jackson hates Obama.” Meantime, as to be reported later in detail here on LALATE, Barack Obama is now leading John McCain in all polls for the first in several weeks. Many analysts believing that is cau