Well, so much for foreign policy. I’m laying in a good supply of wine for the next debate. I’m glad we’ll be getting some comic relief.

L - I think that’s a given. I’m counting on people being a bit smarter than believing a grumpy old man essentially calling a presidential candidate essentially a “whippersnapper”.

AARRRRGGGGGJHHHHHH !! ! !

Is that morphing red and white dividing line one of McC’s arteries or veins? I’m a dinna jacket, for heaven’s sakes. I’m a dinnajacket

Positive parallel construction “muddle thru”s cancel out the over the top”take-em-out” phrase.

Thanks, Leslie. I needed that.

“Youuu don’t say that out louuud!” John McCain as Miss Manners???

Hatchet/Scalpel=3pts Barack

Neither does Barack. The face-to-face-face off isn’t gonna happen without mutual eye contact. Poor Jim.

John doesn’t take direction well,.

I don’t know why Karl et al are letting McCain look like an even crankier old man than usual. It seems he wants to create the impression he is against the bail out and further himself from the administration. I’d like to know what he knows about this 700000000000 desperation-hyped windfall for Wall Street that we DON’T know. We know that the investors and executives responsible for this mess get the 7, thru our taxes and reduced services. All those in the middle of the country, away from toney Connecticut, Wall Street, The Cape and The Hamptons get the zeros. The estimate of the number of banks that will fail in this mess is a bit over 1100. Each account is “insured” by the FDIC up to $100,000. But the FDIC looks like it may need a bail-out itself. They spent 10 years not charging the majority of banks for the insurance. Funny, my insurance companies have no qualms about not only charging me, but increasing my rates on a whim. The three ring circus we’re in right now is the second brought to us by Paulson in a month. But Karl wouldn’t let McCain look quite so senile unless there is more behind this “charade” of leading the Washington mugwumps to an agreement. The agreement must stink even more than we know. The Republican Nabobs stole Wall Street’s money and security and now they’re make sure that it looks like they’re being hauled, kicking and screaming, into the 700000000000 “fix” which they cooked up in the first place. I guess it pays to read “The Prince” from pre-school on up! Is it in the Wasilla library??

Cuddos to you, David Letterman. You broadcast to all America (well, ok, all of America that was tuned in to CBS) just what we all were thinking. We’re aghast, upset, insulted. All those words, and many more. And Craig Ferguson’s opening bit put the frosting on the cake. I scared the living heck out of my poor, sleeping dog with my loud guffaws and whoops! Go, Dave! Go, Craig! Oh, by the way, it was raining Republicans here in St. Paul a couple of weeks ago, but it’s almost back to normal now …the barbed wire fences are gone, and there’s hardly a whiff of the teargas residue.

Cheryl - Welcome to our world. Our cockamammy, upside-down, illogical, UNBELIEVABLE “vote for a uterus, not a brain” world,. Be afraid. Be very afraid!

Thanks, Ms Dee! After that public service announcement, I can now get back to Sarah. I loved the Post Turtle metaphor, and remembered a couple of others that seem appropriate this week, as we deal with cockroaches, snakes and scorpions. Zealots will lie to achieve their ends. All zealots. In custom Italian suits or short skirts or liturgical garb, they will do whatever is necessary to achieve their desired ends. It is their nature. Note below: http://www.snopes.com/critters/malice/scorpion.asp Of course, they’ll respect us in the morning!!?!??

DIVERSIONS DIVERSIONS As we sit at our laptops, opining, venting, and expressing … our children and grandchildren who may be in college in another state are being told that they cannot vote there. Call your college students and let them know that they MUST register to vote, if they plan to vote at all. In many states, they must register by OCTOBER 6. They will not lose their scholarships, nor will their parents be forced to lose them as a deduction. They need not “plan to reside in that community after they finish college”. But they must register before October 6. In most states, they may register on line or in person, but they must check the rules. Evidently many students around the country have been told otherwise. So check with that child whose education you are paying for. Make sure he/she has the correct information. This is their future …literally!