If I weren't heading in that direction I'd describe this as two scary balding white haired decrepit old men.

Why did McCain want this? Or was it like the Will Farrell skit on Thursday Update, McCain dragged into the 'presence' of Darth Cheney?

Cheney's job-approval numbers aren't better than Bush's. It's a bad and meaningless move from the McCain-Palin campaign.

It's also par for the course from a campaign prone to error after error.

With the countdown to Election Day now being gauged by hours instead of days, the campaigns have reverted back to bottom-line arguments. For McCain, that means describing Obama as inexperienced.

Oh, come on. That's not his bottom line argument. His bottom line argument is that Barack Obama is a radical negro who hates America, especially white America. That's what he's going with in the final two days. Fear.

I can't watch video on my computer, so I don't know if it's the same, but in his speech yesterday, Obama says McCain had to vote with Bush and Cheney to get it. I think that's a subtle (too subtle IMO) way of explaining all the flip flops.

It's official - we've gone down the rabbit-hole AND through the looking-glass. It is mind-boggling that a straight-forward endorsement by a sitting vice-president works better for the opposing candidate.

I wouldn't be too impressed at the "speed and efficiency" of the Obama campaign; I imagine the ad was already written, and they were just waiting for the endorsement to happen so they could drop the text/audio/video into a slot and run it. So it's really the campaign's preparedness that's impressive.

Also, the real gift is that Cheny not only endorsed, but did it on camera. I guess they have perfected a technology which is capable of capturing his image. I thought any film that was exposed to his presence just turned solid black....

With the countdown to Election Day now being gauged by hours instead of days, the campaigns have reverted back to bottom-line arguments. For McCain, that means describing Obama as inexperienced.

I wish Obama would confront McCain's argument head-on. I talk a lot of people who are persuaded by the argument that Obama is "inexperienced". I try to argue that someone's experience doesn't count for much if their record is being wrong all the time (McCain) or being corrupt at every level (Palin).

After all, Dubya has more experience than anyone except for Bill Clinton, but would thinking person want Bush for another four years?

But I liked that ad. It would have been better if the "Imperial March" from Star Wars had been playing when Cheney was onscreen though.

Poor McCain. First, al Qaeda, now this.

Dig the happy homemaker music in the background. I kept waiting for Mister Clean to wipe off some countertops.

I wish Obama would confront McCain's argument head-on.

There is the argument (not original to me) that this is a final F.U. from Bush/Cheney, who don't like McCain and knew exactly how a Cheney endorsement would play.

On MTP today the McCain line lurched erratically back to experience again. Just as the tax line started getting traction. They are incapable of deciding on a line of attack and sticking to it.

They should have run with the picture of McCain in shirt sleeves hugging Bush. That look of ecstasy on McCain's face says it all.

Just as the tax line started getting traction.

So much traction that Obama's lead has been widening.

I am puzzled why Cheney even made that endorsement. He didn't have to appear anywhere, but I guess if he did appear in public he was almost forced to comment on the election and say good things about McCain or awkwardly avoid talking about the election at all. So why did he even appear and speak?

The McCain camp has clearly avoided getting either Bush or Cheney to campaign for them, no doubt because of their toxic poll ratings. What brought Cheney out of his hideyhole to make this endorsement right before election day? Everyone had to know that Obama was ready to jump on it and associate Cheney/Bush with McCain.

The whole experience arugment that McCain is pushing is crap (enter Palin). The people who still want to cling to that argument, are just looking for an excuse not to vote for Obama. Hey, I got an excuse for you, wait for it, he's black.

Steve LaBonne said:
No smart candidate ever accepts the opponent's framing of an issue, as you suggest he do.

And yet, Obama handled the issue about William Ayers head-on.

The undecided people I talked about in my comment at 9:02 are mostly anti-Bush liberals and moderates who are fishing around for any excuse that will let them vote against the black guy without feeling bad about themselves. They already agree with Obama on issues, so arguing that way isn't persuasive. You have to show them that there is no good reason why they can vote for McCain.

It wouldn't take much of a change in Obama's argument to confront the experience question head-on. He already says over and over that McCain voted with Bush over 90 percent of the time. Why not add:

"John McCain voted to go to war with Iraq and he said the war would be easy. He voted for the deregulation that led to the current financial crisis and says we need even more deregulation. John McCain has been in Washington for 26 years, but that experience that he cites as his main qualification didn't keep him from voting with George Bush and Dick Cheney over 90 percent of the time."

The lead has not been widening in all the polls out today. R2K's daily tracker closed from +9 to +4 in one day yesterday. Granted there is volatility due to sampling error...

The key for Obama is a huge turnout. Every right-wing nutjob will be out voting for Palin, also I am still afraid the undecideds will swing mostly McCain's way as well as all those who can still be swayed in the voting booth, unfortunately, by pent-up racial issues.

Not only that, but many of Obama's supporters will be standing in line for hours to vote and getting intimidated and some may back down - while most of McCain/Palin's supporters will be in and out in 15-20 minutes.

My point is don't get cocky. Even the exit surveys had Kerry winning in 2004 by a healthy margin; but they were wrong again for only the 2nd time in in 60+ years; the other being interestingly enough 2000.

GOTV!! for Obama/Biden, vote yourself, and I'll be praying at my religious service that the team with the better values/motivation in their hearts (and not on their sleeves) win on Tuesday!

ahh the endorsement of DICK Cheney. No doubt, the proverbial "kiss of death."

Beautiful Dick, just beautiful.

And yet, Obama handled the issue about William Ayers head-on.

Smarter concern trolls, please.

R2K's daily tracker closed from +9 to +4 in one day yesterday. Granted there is volatility due to sampling error...

Even the exit surveys had Kerry winning in 2004 by a healthy margin

I agree nobody should be complacent, but they SHOULD be confident. Obama will win, handily.

There's a study that shows poll fluctuations in the last week of a presidential campaign are just statistical noise. Gallup released 2 polls yesterday and Obama was up 11 in each. And they used ridiculously different weighting criterion. The odds of getting the same result using 2 different weighting criteria are about nil.

Where is McCain's ad bragging about the Cheney endorsement?

No?

Okay, how about the robocall Cheney recorded?

Cheney just shot another Republican in the face.

What allbetsareoff said.

The GOP would have run a similar ad with foreboding DOOM music.

I snickered a bit. It was surreal. I liked it.
I wonder if the general population does.

Uhh, Steve, et al..

Being endorsed by Warren Buffett is only really a "plus" if you plan on governing as a Clinton-redux neoliberal.

Which of course Obama does.

Paulson, Summers or Geithner at Treasury?

Yeah, I can see the "change" from here.

Have a nice Kool-Aid toast Tuesday night, you suckers.

Sometimes, the good is the enemy of the best.

Sometimes, the good is the enemy of the best.

"...being endorsed by Warren Buffet is only really a 'plus' if you plan on governing as a Clinton-redux neoliberal."
And this is a bad thing? Concern trolling at it's best, folks.

Beautiful editing, score. 100% pure pwnage! Will Tuesday be Halloween all over again?

Dig the happy homemaker music in the background. I kept waiting for Mister Clean to wipe off some countertops. -- allbetsareoff, @9:24

Not just the music, the voice-over as well. I felt like I was pitched straight into a 50yr old Disney classic, with the good guys versus the villains being introduced right up front...

Oh, come on. That's not his bottom line argument. His bottom line argument is that Barack Obama is a radical negro who hates America, especially white America. That's what he's going with in the final two days. Fear.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy_t2KAT1Sk