Number of times...

McCain looked like Barty Crouch, Jr with his lizard tongue breathing gasp he took every 90 seconds he spoke: 47
McCain seemed lost in thought on how to get out a false dig at Obama: 11

McCain spoke of 'Joe the Plumber': 21 (Obama, 4)

McCain has won a presidential debate in 2008: 0 (zlich, nada, zip, cero, none)

Yeah, not getting truly political - but thought it was funny that two months ago (or 7 weeks, whenever S. Palin was announced and I shortly compared her to Dolores Umbridge from Harry Pottery only younger, it took 5 weeks for the national press to pick this vibe up) - Why, then, has no one pointed out the McCain/Harry Potter character match of Barty Crouch, Jr? so here I do my duty...

In case you are wondering, Obama's Harry Potter character: Harry Potter himself. At first you think 'what is all this hullaballoo about this guy'? Then you watch, pay attention and notice he is brave, strong of character and someone who is leading, regardless of what everyone else thinks. It took 5 books for Harry Potter to impress me, its taken Obama two years.

G-O-B-A-M-A!

PS - Bob Schieffer, best moderator BY FAR in these debates. He'd be Albus Dumbledore... :-P

Fun, just not on a moving bus

So for the past 30 mins I took this 'quiz' here and I gotta say its more fun than you'd think.

The best I could do was a 7.6 but that was on a moving bus. How well can you eyeball things? I am guessing my dad will win if he takes the time.

I haven't taken a better picture yet

but clearly *I* am doing my patriotic duty and shopping to prop up this economy.

Oh, was I suppose to buy an American car?!? Not a single one showed up on my list, can you guess why? (Hint: quality hasn't been job one in decades)

I really wasn't going to do this - never have I wanted to own a Porsche. Then I drove this one - and while a top speed of 200mph doesn't help me, going 0 to 60 in 3.5 seconds sure does! This thing goes from 40 to 60 in less than ONE second. ONE! Now that is passing power. Oh yeah, it also has a back seat (two actually), sure people don't fit in there but the dogs do.

Plus, its AWD - and if you take a turn, or pass someone while punching the gas, you need all wheels driving. Man is this a blast - I highly recommend this for anyone suffering from any kind of blues/blahs/mid-life whatevers/addiction, you name it. Truly an engineering feat.

No wonder you folks don't want to engage...

According to a recent study - ideology trumps *facts* when it comes right down to it. And I will take it further to say that many of you don't even know what your ideology *IS* but cling to some idea of the self-applied label when pushed to 'think'...

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Anyway, I hate the labels we are all stuck with these days and propose that no one set of labels fully describe anyone well enough but we sure are comfortable throwing them around, aren't we? Sure, I am a liberal that believes in Choice, (some) gun control and social programs; I also have some conservatism and libertarianism in that I believe in not passing/deferring our national debt on to the future Americans and keeping Corporate America afloat does not make sense to both say 'regulation restricts a free market' and 'help us with $700BILLION as the free market is hurting' by deregulation (thanks again Bush, your presidency will keep on giving for decades to come).

Think Bush isn't the one to blame for this current $700B debacle? Check out what the White House press release from 2004 has to say on it. If you don't think his deregulation of the mortgage market isn't to blame, you should vote for him again in 2008!

Of course we could just trust Henry Paulson with the $700B and ZERO OVERSIGHT, after all he did spend 30 years in and running Goldman Sachs Group Inc. What was I hearing about that company recently...? Oh yeah - our govt. agreed to BAIL THEM OUT with some cash. Perhaps Paulson will pay back some of his TAX EXEMPTED $500MILLION in stock he was 'forced to sell' when taking the President's offered Post 1.5 years ago. Yup - tax free, 100% of it.

McCain't gonna happen...