It wasn't his personal physician. The article says:

"And they provided a Washington physician, Dr. Matthew Parker, to interpret the records for reporters. He didn't know that information either, and had never treated Biden but has donated to the Obama campaign. The Delaware senator is treated by the Capitol physician who never does media interviews."

Not a big deal, but let's be sure we get things right.

Please keep talking Ms. Bachmann. Every time you open your mouth, you embarrass yourself more and your opponent gets more $$$.

Anyone who supports the Fair Tax should be tried for treason given what it would do to our country. Saxby Chambliss is a traitor.

Counter-thoughts.

We don’t need a stimulus package with another rate cut; Bernanke’s setting up another Greenspan bubble.

On the Secret Service stuff, it also denied hearing the “kill him� that Milbank says he did.

Three possibilities., not mutually exclusive.

One, Secret Service agents are so few and far between that they’re not in proximity to corroborate one another. And, Palin attendees are lying when informally asked about this.

Two, the Secret Service is in the tank. Remember the fake stories about the Clintons’ wild fights in the WH?

Three, somebody from the Obama campaign could be doing this deliberately. (Very unlikely, but neither logically impossible nor psychologically outside the world of reality.)

Jacoby getting arrested? Pure schadenfreude.

"Romney stammered when asked if Sarah Palin is ready to lead the nation. Oops."

If he were a better liar he'd be the VP candidate right now. You can't blink when you know what you are about to say is a blatant lie.

Winking. Yes! Blinking. No!

SocraticGadfly,

It's not a 'stimulus package' like the one where they basically paid us to like them more:

As part of that package, Democrats want to resurrect a $61 billion House-passed measure that included about $37 billion in public works spending, $6 billion to extend jobless benefits, $15 billion to help states to pay their Medicaid bills and $3 billion in food stamp assistance for the poor.

It's more infrastructure based. It won't be Bush telling us to shop.

Really, it's exactly the kind of government spending we need to help create jobs and right the economy.

I still remember footage of the huge lines of blacks trying to vote in 2004. It will be much much worse than that this year.

It wouldn't be implausible to think that Secret Service personnel would lean Republican. After all, they are hyper-security types by nature and calling (just like the military).

That wasn't an "oops" stammer, more Romney pissed that McCain passed him over for this airhead, but biting his tongue.

Now that Wealthcare is a reality, I don't trust anybody in Washington to help our economy.

We were told that fire and brimstone would rain down on us all unless 700+ billion dollars was given to the greedy who needed our tax dollars to pay for their party (housing derivative-based bubble).

You can hammer me all you want on the need for the bail out.

I just don't buy it.

Infrastructure should've been included in Wealthcare.

We can't just go from one stimulus to the other.

We already HAD a stimulus, then there was Bear Sterns, Freddi and Fanni, AIG, etc. How many trillion dollars has the gang in DC/WS conned us out of so far?

We haven't even seriously come to grips over the wars we wage and the lousy return on taxpayer's monies.

Look at Halliburton's profits, their stock is up. Ya think it's just on oil and gas? Hah. Try war-profiteering.

Wealthcare will be revealed to be the single biggest con on the American public, ever.

Wealthcare, protecting the wealth of the few at the expense of the many.

Actually, Ms. Bachmann is correct - she only said she was concerned that Obama may have anti-American views. Personally, I am concerned that John McCain may be a pedophile and that hostile foreign powers may have incriminating pictures of him engaged in obscene acts with small woodland creatures, but I am not making any accusations.

The Fair Tax, or even worse, the national 30% sales tax are two of the most blatant transfer of wealth schemes ever concocted. For any tax plan proposal, always check how it affects the rich. Always. And you will always find they make out like bandits, as they do with either of these two rip-off schemes. Under either proposal just compare the taxes someone would pay, assuming his taxable income is $1,000,000 with another $1,000,000 in capital gains under either plan with the current tax law. Even assuming this person consumes half a million for the sales tax example (that's a lot of shoes). Note that under either scheme, capital gains and estate taxes are eliminated. It'll just blow you away how much they would grab, which would have to be made up by the rest of us, or cut from essential services like Social Security and Medicare. Which is of course the point. As Palin would say, "Drown, baby, drown" that government in the bathtub.

Colin Powell's comments about McCain are so important on so many levels--I hope it's repeated several times. His comments were so comprehensive and clear that I find myself repeating and listening to his endorsement over and over.

And for anyone who (i.e., like Rush)who insist it's just race--well, they haven't heard the entire Powell endorsement--because he details precisely why he supports Obama--and it's all true, it's all humane, it's all responsible and accurate analysis.

For anyone who claims that this support is because of race--they cheapen they insult not only Powell but all of us. It's arrogance and bigotry beyond belief to assert so.

What he said about Patriotism, about being Muslim, about what it means to be an American was moving beyond belief.

meanwhile Ken Adelman is going to vote for Barack Obama.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/georgepacker/2008/10/not-quite-colin.html

as to the infrastructure, I argued for this months ago... real money for real jobs for people who are the hardest hit at the moment (I should know, I am a laid off union carpenter). There are many infrastructure projects already in the pipeline, waiting only for the money. Instead, we got the "Chinese Economic Recovery Act"... What else are you going to do with $600?

Three possibilities., not mutually exclusive.

You forgot possibility #4: Campaign operatives pretending to be Secret Service and flashing fake badges. It wouldn't be the first time.

Here's a couple more stories of Republican operatives pretending to be Secret Service agents.

Now this cooks my grits!

Bear found dumped at WCU with Obama signs

* Judith Miller is ending up at Fox News.

Do I get a pony for predicting this months ago?

I'll go out on a limb and predict that Palin will end up there as well since she's likely to be a one term governor.

One V.P. has released his med records. Where are Gov. Palins ? She's what..44? In the prime of health.What's she hiding? Where's the Dem outrage? Destroy this rescum NOW or she will come back to bite you in 2012.The wench can charge 15 mil for state emails but her med records should be free for perusal, goddamnit.I'm not a site that can influence people to take this story and run. Maybe you should.

Here's something fun you can do with McCain-Palin campaign mailers.

A lot of us "military types" vote Democratic. Don't stereotype me. True, more will vote Republican, but you might be surprised . . .

Mr. Fish's comic at Harper's Magazine revisits the crazy campaign McCain lady...
and captures McCain's modus operandi perfectly: The Motherfucker

Scroll down. It is the second comic.

Where are Gov. Palins ? She's what..44? In the prime of health. What's she hiding?

That she's detoxing from the crack pipe?

* Contrary to what Dana Milbank reported last week, the Secret Service denies having any role in keeping journalists from talking to voters at McCain/Palin rallies.

This just reinforces the fact that the next time journalists are ordered to stay in their designated area and not talk to attendees, they should ignore the order, or at least force the person giving the order to identify themselves on the record (including audio of them giving the order and pictures of any ID presented) before complying.

"* Judith Miller is ending up at Fox News."
What took that conscienceless witch so long? It's her natural home. And she's Rupert Murdoch's little cutie pie.

One of the ironies of current conservative complaints against the progressive income tax - "It isn't fair to take a higher percentage from one person than from another" - is that the reduced capital gains tax does that (when applied to short-term gain, since indexing issues clouds the issue for long-term turnovers.)

BTW, many of those talking about Sarah Palin's stint on SNL (fun to watch) don't seem to get (assuming I'm right) that Palin was never originally intended to do the rap song. It would be a bit weird and too get-down for a VP candidate. The whole "I'd rather not do it" - let Amy do it (clearly well prepared) was part of the script all along, I'm sure. But they still had "Your a lot hotter in person" - heh. Now, you guys here admit you'd get a kick out of a thrashing and some wild time with Cariboob Barbie!

Hey - Mr. Fish rocks!

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Bachman said she's "concerned." That makes her the rightwing Joan Walsh.

Unless....

"Judith Miller is ending up at Fox News."

It's only surprising that she's not ending up as Dick Cheney's press secretary.

Romney stammered when asked if Sarah Palin is ready to lead the nation. Oops.

Stammered? They're lucky he was willing to try to answer the question at all. Romney has every reason to outright be hostile towards McCain-Palin camp. They should be grateful he didn't throw her under the bus.

No, better that she lies about it. It suggests embarrassment, an understanding of having done something wrong. It's when they don't lie about it....

PALIN - BACHMANN IN 2012!!!

While we're on the rant, why not ask our Political leaders to insist on a Congressional pay cut across the board for the next 3 - 5 years? Why should the people face all of the pain without our leaders absorbing some of it. Seems they contributed to it in the first place. And why should they be paid for the rest of their life after their own defeat? Doesn't anybody think this is just plain dumb?

It's incredible that -- in the age of YouTube -- politicians still believe that they can get away with bold-faced lies -- or flip flops. Don't they "get" it that if they appear on Hardball one day, they cannot contradict themselves the next on another station, without someone picking up on it?

In the series "Commander in Chief", vice president Gina Davis is implored to resign before the death of the president because she was never meant to be president. She was only VP to get the women's vote for the misogynist president.

She refuses after some hand-wringing; believing those women that voted for a woman VP should get what they were promised.

I really hope Palin never watched that show if "Ace" McCain pulls it off.