Rasmussen just released its new national tracking poll. With leaners, it's Obama 47 to McCain 46. This is down dramatically from the result we saw on this day last month, when Obama was leading by 47 to 45. The numbers don't lie. Obama has fallen HARD and McCain has sliced his lead in half. Obviously, McCain has made serious inroads by saying that Obama supporters play Dungeons & Dragons. The evidence is undeniable. If Americans think Obama spends his weekends pretending to be a half-orc cleric, he will lose. Luckily, Obama has me to give him some advice. If he just follows these simple steps, he'll be back up to a 2-point lead in no time.

HAVE YOU SEEN THE LATEST POLL!? BREAKING BREAKING BREAKING!

McCain is up by 5 points! Game Over Man! Game Over! We are going to get hosed man, we'red going to get hosed! The Sky is Falling! Dogs and Cats are sleeping together! Alligators will walk on their hind legs and eat small children and midgets! GAME OVER!

Unless Barack Obama does exactly what I say starting right now!

1794 - At the Battle of Fallen Timbers in Ohio, General Anthony Wayne murders thousands of indigenous Native Americans, clearing the way for more hundreds of thousands more Indian deaths, and the largest land grab in the world's history.

1977 - The United States launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft to invade the solar system, threatening ET with a phonograph record of human civilization.

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

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"Of all learned men, the clergy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Any pastor is free to cadge customers from the divines of rival sects, and to denounce the divines themselves as theological quacks."
-- H.L. Mencken

FROM THE CHURCH OF INEFFABLE STUPIDITY:

Summary: As you almost certainly know, Rachel Maddow will be getting her own show on MSNBC.  As you probably know, there is no title yet for it.  Now, I could just run through a list of realistic titles for you to consider, but Clem Yeobright beat me to it.

So let's try something a little different, shall we?

There's a thing going around called, "Why I'm Voting Democrat." As can be expected, it's idiotically wrong-headed and scurrilous, citing false point after false point of jingoism and scare politics. Most of you have probably seen it, or will see it.

Here is my response. If you want to send it out in answer to the Democrat one, or just in general if you like it, feel free to do so. You may use any or all of it, edited or unedited, for content or length. I know it's kind of long, because once I got started ...  

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I’m voting Republican because Al Gore is a Democrat and he has started this hoax about global warming, and wants to make me pay more for gas, or drive a tiny car, instead of my All-American Hummer (which the Republicans gave me a tax deduction for!!). Or else Al Gore will force me to drive a slow electric car, like his gay friends in Hollywood. I believe that if someone investigated it (not the New York Times, which is socialistic) they would find that Al Gore has used the money from all those baloney awards he won to pay off scientists and news liberals to say that there is global warming. Because Al Gore hates my car.  

You know, Count Orlok.

Enough with this Hillary nonsense.

We all know what Obama's real problems are versus McCain:

Age.

Experience.

Sheer calculating evil, without the capacity for feeling mercy for man or beast.

Obama's choice is going to be Nosferatu.  Trust me.  You know it.  I know it.  Vegetable lasagna knows it (has that reference become "obscure" yet?).

So let's stop fucking around and plan for keeping the blood banks open 24/7 in Denver.

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McCain: 49% Obama: 44% Barr 3% Undecided: 4%

Yes this is the real deal. McCain's tactics recently have been working, in which the recent poll from USA Today/Gallup. Obama experienced a 10% decrease among voters under 30 years old where some analysts believe this may result from McCain's appearance at the faith forum with Warren the other night. It is believed that the higher percentage of religious people under the age of 30 gave a boost to McCain. The poll also found that Obama's recent statement regarding his answers to the Georgia-Russia conflict has made him weaker among national security issues among people polled overall in this poll.

No, not THAT Clinton.  Barack Obama is in serious talks with George Clinton, of Parliament/Funkadelic fame, to be his Vice Presidential running mate.

The following people have been confirmed as NOT being the guy

Dear Diary, Rachel Rox 4Ever! Well, it finally happened! Today Keith wrote an awesome diary (Rec List and a zillion comments!!!!) saying Rachel is getting her own show!!! Rachel is soooo kool. Rachel is soooo much kooler than Pat Buchanan, who looks like a child molester or something. My best friend from 3rd period last year, Tammi, thinks Rachel is soooo Kool too! Tammi has a Rachel ringtone on her awesome wicked new iPhone. It's soooo kool...it's the one where Rachel says Barack is, like, very smart! Rachel is soooo smart too! I heard today that Rachel went to Oxford, which is a kool school for smart people. I think it's in Europe, which is awesome because I love Europe because Europe loves Barack. I heard Rachel became a doctor at Oxford, which is seriously awesome because you can, like, write good prescriptions for yourself and your friends. Anyway it's the funnest thing when you hear Rachel talking about how smart Barack is, and her voice is coming from inside Tammi's awesome hoodie that she got at the kool kool kool Hollister store next to the Chick-fil-a at the mall!

Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?  - Sophocles

When I need some red meat, nothing replenishes my system better than some good old McCain mockery.  I don't go for that 'new kind of politics' shit.  When I get hungry, I need my politics with the blood still dripping off the meat as I shove it in my mouth like a starving beast.

So feel free to browse this collection of McCain mockery and feel free to add your own favorites below.

I have done a little research and I think I foundthat McCain has yet another POW story that sounds particularly fishy although.  Story below the fold.

The SMEAR artists are all over the latest career ending scandals soon to doom any chance of Obama winning this election

"THE SAVAGE WEENY WILL HAVE A CATACLYSM"

Michael Savage Warns of Cataclysmic Events That Will be Announced on His Website over the next six to fourteen days
AND there is more
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But Bikinigate is now underway on the intertubes.
Huffington Post edits Barack Obama Hawaii vacation pic photo of Barry Checking out Bikini Clad Woman →

Yes Bikinigate definitely requires a cover-up
or a healthy dose of SPF 25 sunscreen.

The Gulag Archipelago contains absolutely no reference to the cross in the dirt story.  I have to agree with the thinking that the story on McCain's cross story would have been better off left untouched.  The Saddleback church event may have shown us how easy it is to question McCain's honesty, but the cross story is a bust.  Who cares anyway?

Yeah, I wrote more below.

to not be the one to send it. The text message I got was from somebody else - and this person had NOTHING to do with the Obama campaign and no information what-so-ever about who his choice for VP would be.

He didn't tell me the name of his VP like his website promised that he would. How can he let me down like this when I-

Oh! Another text! That must be him! This must be it! He kept his promise after all! His VP will be:

That's right you heard it here first right after I received a text message from the campaign with only one symbol: Pi. After all there are few, if any downsides to pie as a running mate. See what I mean over the fold.

not going to be perfect.

No, that's right, regardless of who Obama deems to run with, that person will have flaws.  Probably a ton of them.

So as the latest buzz keeps on keeping on, (apparently now on Biden...so we have a bunch of diaries ad infinitum about HIS flaws now...having sufficiently trashed Kaine and Bayh as much as possible), let's remember whoever it is, they are not the "perfect" fit for Obama, or for the party, or even the country. Just ain't gonna happen.

1909 - The first race was run at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indiana.

1960 - The Russians sent two dogs into earth orbit in a satellite.

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

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"I have always been reasonably leery of religion because there are so many edicts in religion, 'thou shalt not,' or 'thou shalt.' I wanted my world of the future to be clear of that."
-- Gene Roddenberry

The Pastor's sermon
FROM THE CHURCH OF INEFFABLE STUPIDITY