Countdown Monday: Obama Unplugged
Posted: Monday, September 08, 2008 8:59 PM by Countdown
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McMaverick: It might be time for an entirely new definition of "Maverick" No longer "someone who holds independent views"... Nor... "one who refuses to conform"... Rather, in our fifth story on the Countdown, the term -- as it applies to the Republican nominee, Senator McCain -- would seem increasingly to refer to the continued repetition of out and out lies... Including the Republican ticket's now daily assertion that Governor Palin has always been against the World-Record Pork-Barrel Project that was Alaska's "Bridge to Nowhere." Presently, my interview today with Senator Obama...
You Say Dubai, I say Hello: When Senator Obama told a crowd of voters in Missouri earlier this summer that Republicans would try to scare voters by saying he doesn't look like "all those other presidents on the dollar bills"... McCain campaign manager Rick Davis accused the Democratic nominee of quote "playing the race card from the bottom of the deck." A reminder that last week, Senator Obama's race was injected into the campaign... by a Republican: Congressman Lynn Westmoreland of Georgia, calling both Senator Obama and his wife, Michelle quote "uppity." Asked further if he really meant to use that word, Mister Westmoreland saying, quote "Yeah, uppity." In our fourth story on the Countdown: When I asked Senator Obama about that -- in passing -- in our interview today -- and he answered my larger question -- he was not, Rick Davis, "playing the race card."
ODDBALL: Penguin Art and the Alamo gets a shampoo.
Lies and Videotape: Nothing beats injecting a brand-new, not-battled-scarred, broadcasting-trained sarcastic zingers and one-liner machine, into any political campaign. There is only one problem with such an entity... If those sarcastic zingers and one-liners... aren't true. As in: mistakes, and lies. Our third story on the Countdown: and you can make it worse -- especially when it turns out the sarcastic zingers and one-liner machine, turns out to only have one speech, which she repeats, again and again. Because that means the machine, in this case, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, repeats -- again and again -- her mistakes and her lies.
Worsties...see below.
WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: A Fox Sports host, Chris Wallace and Bill-O vie for tonight's top honors.
Bible Belting: Perhaps the fate of the McCain - Palin campaign lies in the hands of a power much greater than America's constitutionally designated democracy. In fact, your votes may not matter at all. Your prayers however...that's a whole different ball 'o wax. In our number one story on the Countdown, Sarah Palin, messenger and messiah.
