On Craig Ferguson’s show, nice Betty White calls Sarah Palin a crazy bitch.
Sound bite: “If Barack Obama needs more experience, I could give it to him.”
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McCain praises Obama in a message he didn’t approve.
Gallup says the candidates are tied 46-46, the first time that Obama wasn’t at least a point ahead.
55 percent of Americans now rate the economy as poor.
Stiff-jawed vets say that Obama understands what victory in Iraq means.
Debate Porridge asks human bat David Blaine about John McCain’s disappearing act.
Ralph Nader makes a sitcom with the Obama Girl, complete with laughtrack and a cameo from Jesse Ventura.
Sound bite on tonight’s debate: “Jesse, if McCain pulls this stunt, maybe I’ll just take his place.”
For those following John McCain’s snub of David Letterman, here are the highlights:
Sound bite: “Hey, John, need a ride to the airport?”
The sequel:
Sound bite: “Now I’m feeling like an ugly date. I feel used.”
Via TechPresident, we see Ralph Nader in a soliloquy with a parrot, lamenting his lack of attention and crackers.
The Olympics had fewer of those up-close-and-personal videos but the conventions haven’t given them up. Here’s Michelle Obama’s official campaign tribute video. Cue the music.
Hillary Clinton makes a low-budget video talking about all her meetings in Denver and how she’s looking forward to the tradition of a roll call and then getting behind (ahem) Barack Obama and (cough) Joe Biden.
Moments after he left the stage, here is Ted Kennedy’s speech before the Democratic Convention: a half-century of Kennedys.
There’s more attention being put on Joe Biden now than there will be again for the next four to eight years, so we might as well take advantage of the spotlight and learn more about the man who may end up at undisclosed locations. Here’s ABC’s profile of him when he still wanted to be the guy picking veeps.
BBC commentator calls Joe Biden “a windbag.”
More words come back to goose Joe Biden. Here he says he wouldn’t be a candidate for vice-president. No how, no way.
Sound bite from then: “No, I will not be vice-president under any circumstances.”
And then….
Sound bite from now: He’s still not interested “but if the candidate asks me, I gotta say yes. But he’s not going to ask me…. I’ve made it clear I do not want to be asked.”
Faster than an SMS could shoot out to Obama fans’ phones, the McCain campaign made a commercial using VP candidate Joe Biden’s not-nice things he said about running mate Barack Obama and nice things he said about opponent John McCain.