That’s Right Nate

I just wanted to post this message for my readers alerting them to what is going on in the blog.  As you know, last week John McCain suspended his campaign until the country’s financial crisis was solved.  On Friday of last week McCain declared the crisis solve and resumed his campaign.  With the bailout coming to a crashing failure on Monday, it is quite possible that McCain will resuspend his campaign.  There are also 168 Hindu pilgrims killed today in a stampede, Chinese cookies laced with Melamine were found in the Netherlands, and the White Sox defeated the Twins 1-0 to win the American League Central.  If John McCain suspsends his campaign because of the economy or any other reason we will be suspending this blog in solidarity.

The sky is falling talk continues all over the media since the bailout plan stalled yesterday.  I laugh when I see some thirty-something reporter in a lather over the “upcoming depression”.  These newscasters have no memory of the last depression so they’re naturally anti-depression.

If I’ve learned one thing from movies like Cinderella Man, Seabiscuit, and Annie its that our plucky can do spirit will see us through any financial crisis as long as we reach down deep inside ourselves for that something only we have.  That’s the way some washed up jockey can ride a broken down race horse to glory or an orphan down on her luck can charm high society with only her smile and her adorable dog Sandy.

Americans who fear the depression only fear it because they don’t know the thrill of travelling this country by box car or travelling the backroads with just a hobo pack.  Hardworking people will be out of work, sure, but a warm filling cup of soup is only as far as the nearest bread line.  I’m hoping that radio drama may make a come back.

Sarah Palin came under a lot of heat this weak after a reporter caught her telling a voter that she’d go into Pakistan if necessary to defeat al-qaeda.  As you may remember from the debate last Friday, Pakistan is one of the few countries that John McCain does not want to go to war with.  in recent weeks the country has been in the news for shooting at our troops and airplanes.

Speaking to Katie Couric, John McCain denounced gotcha journalism or the tactic where reporters wait for a candidate to say something questionable so that they can broadcast it on the news.  Calling the incident a “gotcha soundbite” McCain dismissed the statement.  Palin went on to make fun of the voter who asked her about Pakistan by doing a spot on impersonation.

I decry this horrible gotcha journalism which is completely different from the comments that Palin has taken out of context about Obama saying that people in Pennsylvania cling to their guns and their religion.  We cannot simply record the things that candidates say to voters and treat them as the candidate’s actual opinion or position.  Candidates must be allowed to lie to voters without fear of being recorded.  It is what our system of government is built on.

The news today is all about the Wall Street bailout failing and the stockmarket falling nearly 800 points on the news.  Sure that’s important.  You really can’t underestimate the effect of a collapsing economy on our country.  With that said, however, there are things that can never be bailed out.  Those things are called feelings.

Today during a speech, House Speaker and generally mean person Nancy Pelosi crushed the spirits of several Republicans.  According to House Minority Leader John Boehner (R), “I do believe that we could have gotten there today had it not been for this partisan speech the speaker (Pelosi) gave on the floor of the house…it caused a number of members we thought we could get to go South,”

Minority Whip Roy Blunt put the number of Republicans who switched sides after having their feelings hurt at a dozen.  However, Blunt also put the blame for the lack of agreement squarely on the Jews, saying “Clearly needing to respect the Jewish holidays of this week made the job very hard.”

What Nancy Pelosi did is unforgivable.  It would be like a high school girl who was asked to go to a Young Republicans informational meeting, but didn’t want to go so she said that her mom was picking her up right after school, but then at 4:30 when people were leaving the meeting they’d see her hanging out in the parking lot with her friends.  Where is the honor in that Speaker Pelosi?  Where is the honor?

I think that it is too much to ask House Republicans to overcome their hard feelings and put the country first when they feel so wronged.  The economy may be important, but its not as important as the feelings of those Republicans who were wronged by Pelosi.  I call on Pelosi to publicly apologize to each and every Republican whose feelings she hurt so that our country can move beyond this.

I am delighted to report that the video which I made awhile back as a tribute to John and Cindy McCain is being played on Cindy McCain’s Myspace page. I have had celebrity readers in the past like Newt Gingrich, but this is a person who has actually allegedly slept with the President of the United States. Wow!! I feel like this blog has finally made the big time.

After the Presidential Debate last night, I expected the media to be talking about the way that John McCain knocked it out of the park.  You can imagine my surprise when the media instead seemed to dwell on a gesture made by Maverick and totally misinterpret it.

What anybody with any knowledge of history would know is that Barack Obama is not the first black person from Chicago to come down to Mississippi.  In August of 1955, a 14 year old black boy named Emmett Till went down to stay with an uncle in Money, Mississippi.  A week later he was murdered.  His crime was staring at a white storekeeper and whistling at her.  At that time in the South, black people were not permitted to look a white person in the eye and risked a beating or worse if they did.

Last night John McCain attempted to use the debate as an opportunity to offer his apologies to black people who lived in the era before the Civil Rights movement.  He did this by humbling himself and not looking at Obama in the eye.  I was choked up when I saw a great man like John McCain nearly prostrating himself to make a point about his belief in inclusion an equality.  This is a man who doesn’t see color.  His nominating convention was the most diverse Republican convention ever with 36 (Wow!) of the 2380 delegates being people of color.

Uninformed people saw a Republican candidate who wouldn’t make eye contact because of the supposedly false attack ads he’s launched against Obama or because of a hatred of the man.  I saw a brave war hero who took his chance on a grand stage to make ammends for the horrible lynchings of the pre-civil rights era.

I just wanted to thank you Senator McCain for the great performance tonight.  I know it was on very late and I appreciate your sacrifice.  I know you have had trouble getting the rights to play rock songs at your campaign events, but I believe this Peter Gabriel song could be a great new theme for your campaign.  It was used in a movie called Say Anything which I think you might like.

Its one half-hour before the McCain-Obama debate and I’m down 2 litters of Mountain Dew and 3 doughnuts already.  I wanted to get the tags up and a picture posted so the I can just keep hitting save when I find something worth blogging.  This is an experiment so please comment if you’re reading this so I’ll know if its worth doing for future debates.  You know it occurs to me that it wasn’t too long ago some other people were asking John McCain questions–those people were the Vietcong.

8:01 – Jim Lehrer is speaking now.  This is going to be good.  Nin minute segments.  I should score this like a boxing match.

8:02 – Obama tried talking to McCain.  He was having none of it.  How fitting Obama came in from the left and McCain from the right.

8:05 – Oversight seems to be Obama’s answer to everything.  I like McCain’s deregulation plan.

8:06 – Who cares about the middle class Barack?  What about the rest of us?

8:08 – Obama won’t commit to his opinion on the plan just because he hasn’t seen it.  I bet McCain won’t be such a chicken.  Ha!  I knew it.

8:10 – Wow!  I think McCain is blaming Ike for the crisis.

8:12 – The candidates are having a hard time with this format.  They don’t like talking to each other and would rather talk to the monitor.

8:14 – McCain’s belief in the goodness of America trumps Obama’s so called policies.

8:15 – DNA of bears in Montana?  You might as well just study crabs mating or seal DNA in Alaska or something.

8:17 – $18,000,000 in earmarks!!!  Sheesh!  What a waste.  We could finance almost 2% of the Wall Street bailouts this year with that money.

8:20 – McCain doesn’t need a flag pin.  He wears it on his heart.

8:21 – McCain offers $5,000 for healthcare?  How could one person possibly spend that much? Its worthy paying payroll taxes on your employer funded health insurance.

8:24 – China has a space walk.  They’re only 40 years behind us.  Let’s see how fast they get to casette tapes.

8:29 – I love how the Democrats always nominate the candidate with the most liberal candidate.  It is such an amazing coincidence.

8:33 – Yes!! McCain finally is onboard with taking care of our veterans!!

8:34 – Shouldn’t we be encouraging countries like Iraq to build nuclear reactors so that they cut the world demand for oil?

8:36 – I would like the decision of what to be done with my $5,000 in medical spending to be made by myself, my doctor, and my HMO.

8:38 – Obama just said orgy.  Why wasn’t this beeped out by the censors?

8:38 – McCain wasn’t voted Ms. Congeniality?  Was Sarah Palin?

8:39 – Dammit I had a bet McCain would say POW before surge.

8:40 – Like John McCain, I’m glad that we managed to free Iraq from Iranian influence.

8:41 – Question for Obama, “Afghanistan?  Are we still fighting that old thing?”

8:44 – Obama says “not my committee.”  McCain can run this thing without a congress.  He’ll pass the legislation himself if he has to.

8:45 – The difference between a tactic, a strategy, and a strategery

8:49 – Why are Obama and the Iraqis so determined to get American troops out of Iraq?

8:49 – The other difference between Petraeus and Bin Laden–The Pakistanis aren’t defending Petraeus.

8:52 – As McCain points out, one of the trademarks of US foreign policy has been a hands off approach to the middle east.

8:53 – “Pakistan – The Country McCain Doesn’t Want to Go to War With”

8:55 – We don’t need more troops in Afghanistan.  What we need is 6 younger versions of John McCain armed with 6 pistols and 6 bowie knives.

8:58 – McCain just slammed Reagan.  He’s not making me want to support him this way.

9:00 – McCain and Obama are sporting some bling.

9:02 – McCain is a sucker for travel.  I remember this from the early 80s when he discovered that was the best way to get to the bottom of the savings and loan scandal was travelling to the Bahamas to meet with Charles Keating.

9:04 – If we form a League of Democracies, I get the feeling that Canada will be the League’s Aquaman.  I mean talking to fish just isn’t that impressive when you have Superman and Green Lantern.

9:05 – Nice! McCain got the Iran training thing right without Lieberman!!  That’s huge!

9:06 – Why is it always the Republican Guard?  What about the Democrat Guard?

9:06 – What Obama fails to reallize when discussing Iran and Iraq is that there is a thin line between love and hate.

9:08 – Raul Castro is kind of the Curly Joe of Dictators.

9:09 – Boy did the right nail Reagan for meeting with the Russians.

9:12 – Stand up to Spain McCain!

9:13 – The average South Korean is 3 inches taller than the average North Korean?  No wonder they don’t play exhibition basketball games.  I bet the North Koreans would be good jockeys though.

9:16 – Wow! McCain got angry

9:19 -  Yep, McCain loves to travel!

9:21 – Maybe Georgia shouldn’t have tried to settle their conflicts with Russia by using their military.  We did warn them.

9:25 – That makes sense.  If offshore drilling is a bridge, I can see why you’d put Sarah Palin in charge of your energy policy.

9:25 – Obama doesn’t object to nuclear waste?  McCain is killing him in this debate.

9:26 – Like Charlie Black, one of McCain’s advisers said, if there is another 9/11 attack you know it would help McCain.

9:29 – CNN’s graphics are confusing too me.  Think think that the audience is very supportive of terrorists getting nuclear weapons.

9:31 – McCain poses an interesting question.  Would Iran allow al-qaeda to build a base in Iraq if we left?

9:34 – Oh geez, its getting late. I think McCain is falling asleep.  Let’s call it for tonight.  The poor guy is 73.  Could we have the next one a little earlier?

9:35 – It is hard to hear McCain over his tie.

9:36 – This is a major upset!  He barely got POW in.  It was a full 57 minutes after surge.

Conclusion–It was closer than I thought especially when McCain started dozing off, but I have to give it to McCain solidly.  He was brilliant and Obama faltered all over the place.  I think this debate will win the Presidency for McCain.

I am proud to report that I will be resuming blogging now that John McCain has averted disaster for our fundamentally strong economy.  It is becoming clear that Washington Mutual was responsible for the crisis and with it now safely in JP Morgan Chase’s hands America can get back to the business of business.

I have a dozen bavarian cream doughnuts, 6 liters of Mountain Dew (I still hate using metrics), and my Matt Drudge reporter hat at hand.  I will be blogging the debate tonight live and I hope you’ll join me for that incisive conservative commentary you can’t get elsewhere.  I am the incisor.  I am glad that tonight’s debate will come off, though I do think that the Vice Presidential debate should be cancelled until the US economy rebounds.

In solidarity with John McCain, I am suspending this blog until the financial crisis afflicting our fundamentally strong economy.  I am not quite sure what this means yet.  McCain surrogates have been on television and his campaign offices are still open since McCain suspended his campaign, but I intend to suspend this blog in solidarity with John McCain until the financial crisis is over. Once McCain’s lobbyists are finished solving these problems and can return to running his campaign, I will be back posting.  I was going to keep posting, but when I saw Sarah Palin shying away from the press so that they would focus on the financial news, I knew I could do no less.