Morning Whiskey - 10/06/2008

NOTE: Don't get cocky. Barack Hussein Obama is still a black guy with a terrorist's name. It may appear that he is 8 points and 3 steps ahead of McCain at this very moment, but with 30 days left, anything can happen, and all of Obama's gains over the last 3 weeks can be reversed in an instant. Read this devastating Rolling Stone article....John McCain will, and is going to, do anything to win. Follow Obama's lead. What he is talking about is what we should be talking about.

1. The Asian markets crashed in overnight trading by 4-5%. The analysis is that the bailout wasn't enough and the greater globe will have financial problems.
2. MUST WATCH: High noon today, Obama launches a documentary on McCain's direct involvement with the Keating 5 savings and loan scandal which cost people over $100 Billion. Basically, McCain and his wife traveled on this businessman's dime then intervened on his behalf to stop it when people tried to regulate savings and loan operations. It is the exact same thing that led to the Wall Street meltdown we are currently experiencing. The McCain campaign continues to insist, falsely, as Hillary did back in April, that Obama has a relationship with Bill Ayers...someone who lives in Obama's neighborhood and teaches where Obama taught. Bill Ayers is a 60s radical. When he committed his acts, Obama was 8. It is nonsense for the McCain campaign to be doing this. It is like Hillary saying Obama has been planning to be President since he was in Kindergarten.
3. Even though RCP is a joke because they cherry pick polls, I just noticed something: 3o days out Barack Obama leads in every battleground and nationally.
4. Registration gains favor the Democrats. Today is the last day for a dozen or more states.
5. Sarah Palin sued over emails.....She really sounds like Bush now.
6. Bill Kristol, former McCain advisor(which is also why it is funny when the McCain campaign attacks the NYTs), gets his dick on hard for Palin and says play the Jeremiah Wright card, which through the written word seemed to make him even more excited.
7. MUST READ: Paul Krugman explains what I couldn't over the weekend about McCain's healthcare plan.....if you have a pre-existing condition you will lose your healthcare. Republican or Democrat, this should scare everyone:

Mr. McCain, on the other hand, wants to blow up the current system, by eliminating the tax break for employer-provided insurance. And he doesn’t offer a workable alternative.

Without the tax break, many employers would drop their current health plans. Several recent nonpartisan studies estimate that under the McCain plan around 20 million Americans currently covered by their employers would lose their health insurance.

As compensation, the McCain plan would give people a tax credit — $2,500 for an individual, $5,000 for a family — that could be used to buy health insurance in the individual market. At the same time, Mr. McCain would deregulate insurance, leaving insurance companies free to deny coverage to those with health problems — and his proposal for a “high-risk pool” for hard cases would provide little help.

8. "How did we get into this mess?"
9. McCain is hiding his gambling winnings on his tax returns
10. Beats you need......

• Counting Crows - A murder of one(live)
  
• Katy Perry - I kissed a girl(and I liked it)
  
• Jonny McGovern - Soccer practice........the shirt is available here for $25
• Jace Everett - Bad things
• Old Crow Medicine Show - I hear them all
• Counting Crows - Einstein on the beach(imeem)
• CCR - Travelin' Band
• Tupac - Can't C Me
• Bobby Womack - Across 110th Street(video has movie scenes from American Gangster and Jackie Brown)
• Mamas and the Papas - California Dreamin'
• Deacon John - Jumpin in the morning......one of the many injustices in life is that there are no Deacon John videos on the internets...Barack Obama better get on that....he likes jump blues.

11. MUST WATCH: Barack Obama speaking in rural North Carolina yesterday...4 minutes...about how McCain is trying to distract instead of talking about the economy...Obama will further paint McCain as out of touch and McCain is telegraphing all of his punches:

"Senator McCain is gambling that he can distract you with smears rather than talk to you about substance. They'd rather tear our campaign down than lift this country up. That is what you do when you're out of touch, out of ideas, and running out of time."