Comedian Sarah Silverman is the foul-mouthed spokeswoman for a grass-roots movement to have Jews travel to Florida to convince their grandparents to vote for Barack Obama for president. Named “The Great Schlep,” the “movement” gets started with a funny, irreverent four-minute video hosted by Silverman. (Note: some profanity — you’ve been warned)
The Great Schlep from [...]

John McCain might be wishing he hadn’t stood up David Letterman as the first visible act of his “campaign suspension.”
After establishing in detail McCain’s history as a war hero and his lack of animosity toward him, Dave asks, “What happened to that guy?” From there, it just gets better and better, with Letterman filling the [...]

Left: African Witch Hunter Rev. Muthee prays over Palin; Right: “Countdown” reports on Palin’s claim that Muthee’s blessing helped her become governor
Transcript from the Sept. 19 edition of “Countdown” on MSNBC:

Earlier, we speculated that John McCain had suspended his campaign in order to postpone, perhaps indefinitely, the debate between his vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, and the Democratic nominee, Joe Biden, because Palin was not ready.
Another possibility is that the McCain campaign is trying to deflect attention from a new report in the National Enquirer [...]

You don’t suspend your campaign. This doesn’t smell right. This isn’t the way a tested hero behaves … I think someone’s putting something in his Metamucil.
— David Letterman, blasting Sen. John McCain for canceling his appearance on the “Late Show” even though he was “just down the street.”

Diageo/Hotline tracking poll:
Obama/Biden 47%
McCain/Palin 43%
Undec 8%
- Obama’s closed the gap among white women. The candidates are now tied 45-45%; one week ago (in the survey completed 9/17), McCain led this group by 10 points (49-39%).
- The enthusiasm gap has grown in Obama’s favor: 59% of Obama supporters are enthusiastic about their ticket, while just 47% [...]

Is the real intent of the suspension of the McCain campaign yesterday a ploy to delay or even cancel Sarah Palin’s vice presidential debate with Joe Biden next week? Why else would the campaign suddenly start negotiating the debate schedule, which has been set for months, by asserting that McCain will unilaterally cancel the first [...]

I knew there was a great joke in all this McCain stuff somewhere.
“As of today, I am officially bailing out of the debate,” Sen. McCain told reporters in Washington today. “And I invite Sen. Obama to join me in this bailout effort.”
Sen. McCain said he would be putting together what he called “a comprehensive [...]

Cancels ‘Letterman’ Appearance Tonight – Things Must Be Bad!
Failure of leadership: Telegraphing panic over the economic crisis to his fear-addicted followers, John McCain has announced he is suspending his campaign and that he wants to delay the debate Friday night:
If John McCain can’t juggle a debate with Barack Obama while simultaneously working on these economic [...]

With his approval rating as low as 19 percent, and with the exception of Dick Cheney, George Bush is the person least likely to reassure the nation about the current economic crisis.He will nonetheless address the nation tonight about the crisis, but it is questionable how yet another stumbling, incoherent poorly read lecture from [...]