Countdown Wednesday: McSayin' Anything
Posted: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 8:59 PM by Countdown
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The McMess in the McMessage:
Nothing could say "disconnect" faster. You're trying to pin your opponent with the phrase "share the wealth"...While your campaign gets pinned for having shared 150-thousand dollars of wealth with two of the ritziest clothing stores in the country, to dress up your running mate...It's almost inevitable that you'd wind up telling a Western Pennsylvania audience what terrible things were being said about them, and how you couldn't agree more. Our fifth story on the Countdown: John McCain now trying to survive the story of the Emporess' New Clothes. 
The GOP Ticket:
There was a nugget of actual news -- Sarah Palin saying if it would quiet skeptics and reassure supporters, she'd favor releasing her medical records. But the real takeaway from the Governor's joint interview with Senator McCain this afternoon in Ohio, with our Brian Williams... The chilling impression of political director Chuck Todd, who observed what he called a lack of "chemistry" between the running mates. Our fourth story on the Countdown: "It was as if they grabbed two people and said 'here, sit next to each other, we are going to conduct an interview," according to Chuck -- who went on to wonder whether McCain now **blames** his V-P pick for his ailing campaign. "There was," Chuck Todd concluded.... "a tenseness."ODDBALL: A footballer runs into a goal-post and a trip into the oddball mug shot hall of fame.
The Al Qaeda Connection:
Although Al-Qaeda's ability to affect the outcome of a US presidential election may have changed... Al Qaeda's rationale on the kind of American president it wants, has not. A bellicose American president -- according to this rationale -- is better for the recruitment of jihadists... and more likely to achieve Al-Qaeda's goal of draining American resources -- economic and otherwise. And in our third story on the Countdown, an Al-Qaeda-connected website showing support for a McCain presidency
Worst Persons....see below.
WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: Rudy G, those in charge of the Nike Women's Marathon in San Francisco and Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann.
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