Countdown Wednesday: '08 and the Numbers
Posted: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 9:59 PM by Countdown
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Bailout Bill 2.0:
That vote right now... perhaps hinging on tonight's vote on Capitol Hill. And in our fifth story on the Countdown: According to the latest polling out of the battleground states...Senator Obama with a clear edge... heading into the final weeks of this campaign.
Surly McClaims: For all the talk about how Sarah Palin can not handle herself with anyone other than a starry-eyed supporter... let alone someone challenging and adversarial... our fourth story tonight, a fresh reminder that the top of her ticket... has his own shortcomings. John McCain sat down yesterday with the editorial board of the Des Moines Register. He had a strategy here that apparently included opening with a dictator joke during a discussion of the Bailout. And it flat-lined. This is just a not acceptable situation. I'm not saying this is the perfect answer. If I were dictator, which I always aspire to be, I would write it, very diff, a little bit differently.
Stumped Speech: The worst might be yet to come. Or for Governor Sarah Palin there could be an epiphany of knowledge, a metaphorical lightning bolt of insight going through her, perhaps at tomorrow's debate. But, in our third story on the Countdown, no matter what is next, there will always be 6:45 Eastern Daylight Time on Wednesday, October 1st, 2008. The moment CBS News played a tape, a kind of smoking gun of stupidity... During which the Republican Vice Presidential candidate... flat-lined. In a segment in which both Mrs. Palin and Senator Joe Biden were asked about Roe-v-Wade and other Supreme Court rulings, the Governor responded thoughtfully about her opposition, insisting the abortion issue should be left to the States. Then asked if there is a right to privacy in the Constitution, she answered that she believed there was, and didn't seem to notice when Katie Couric interrupted to note that that right was the quote "cornerstone of Roe v Wade." And finally came the question and answer that erased whatever had remained of Sarah Palin's credibility as a national political figure.
Worsties...see below
WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: Steve King of Iowa, Brian Wilson of Fixed News, and Bill-O
Palin Reprise: All political gaffes will now, by necessity, have to be put in historical context. B-P or A-P... Before Palin, or After Palin. And in our number one story on the Countdown, all Palin material will have to be further divided... As B-D, or A-D... Before Debate, and After Debate. Unless we are being low-balled in the greatest conspiracy in world history... or they load her up on steroids... tomorrow night's face-off may produce a cornucopia of brand-new classics... And before these moments yet unborn emerge... We wanted to salute the river of words Governor Palin has already navigated.
