Both candidates have made statements that appear to be flip flops. The real talent lies in how you handle those gaffes. In that regard, Obama is a lot slicker on the podium. I doubt that any reasonable person can compare what "I'm jealous that another black gettin attention" Jackson said, who is not on the Obama team, with Phil (you're all a bunch of whiners) Gramm, who IS (or was) on McCain's team, said.

The winner will be the one who does not combine denistry and podiatry as often. LOL Obama has an advantage in smoothing those gaffes over. McCain is going to have a lot more 'deer in the headlights' reactions as the questions heat up.

But it IS only July. We'll see who has to trim their toenails while brushing their teeth more often.

According to Newsweek poll, Obama would win the national election (as related by Meet The Press). Unless Obama does something very stupid, McCain ain't winning by any landslide.

It certainly would appear that way Cat. But ya never know. I wouldn't have thought that Clinton would be out Bush 1 either after the gulf war. But all that rah rah died down real quick and it became, "It's the economy dummy".

We really don't know what in the past either candidate has done to derail them. Right now, I think it's Obama's candidacy to lose. He's going to have to have to have something huge pulled up to keep him out of the White House. McCain has Bush's legacy to contend with.

Ever notice how the MSM shows Obama soundbites vs. McCain?

"Curious " as well.............

Obama is shown in front of thousands, making his made for TV soundbites.

While McCain is shown on the back of his campaign bus with all the background noise you can barely hear him, making unscripted off the cuff statements...... ones that weren't  "vetted" by his campaign.

Its all part of the MSM's campaign to get Obama in office.

If they DO fail however, they will have proven to all that they are powerless.

Alas...... I don't think that will happen.

I think Obama will be elected (too many Denver stadium rats who will be paid or otherwise enjoined to vote) and the DOW will go to 8,000 (or lower with dividend taxes and no LTG treatments) and the U.S. will go hat in hand around the world begging forgiveness for our sins and axing them what we should do (to be better earth neighbors).

It will be a sad end to America

It is sad what has happened to the media isn't it Chico?  I'm sure you'll agree that FOX goes the other way.

Newscasts have become one big editorial. It is truly sad. "Just the facts" has died no matter what dumbass slogan news agencies come up with.

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 Fox is even showing the McCain soundbites from the back of the short bus.

Obama's campaign is more skilled at keeping him sequestered from making off the cuff non-vetted remarks.

After all, they wouldn't want the public to really get to know what he is all about.

Obama will win, govern from the Left, and we will have at least 4 years of
 

Assad critical of Bush peace effort

But Al-Assad said that his government will wait for the next administration to enter the White House, and made clear that the US should be closely involved in the process.

He did not give a date for when direct talks might start, but Syria is already holding indirect talks on the return of the Golan Heights, captured by Israel in 1967.

"Quite frankly, this American administration is not interested in the peace process, so the question [of direct talks] won't arise before the arrival of a new American administration," al-Assad said.

Presidential elections will be held in the US in November and George Bush, the current US president, will leave office in January next year.

'Destabilising tactics'

After al-Assad spoke, Rob McInturff, a US state department spokesman, said that Washington would "continue to limit our diplomatic engagement unless Syria takes concrete actions to end its destabilising tactics in the region".

Israel and Syria, which have technically remained at war since the creation of the Jewish state in 1948, have held three rounds of indirect talks through Turkey since March.

The last round of direct negotiations under US sponsorship eight years ago collapsed, with Washington unwilling to re-engage Syria because of its close links to Iran and its role in Lebanon.

Al-Assad also asserted that Iran was not intent on developing nuclear weapons and and that the solution to the conflict over the country's nuclear policy should be solved politically rather than militarily.

"What we're interested in is finding a political solution," he said.

http://english.aljazeera.ne...

The Syrian president has accused the US president of not being interested in peace in the Middle East, making it impossible for direct talks with Israel to go ahead within the next six months.

Bashar al-Assad had asked Nicolas Sarkozy and the US to assist in peace negotiations as the two presidents met in Paris on Saturday ahead of talks by the Union for the Mediterranean.

Maybe the reason they never show McCain in front of large crowds is that he's never in front of large crowds.  He had to cancel an event because of poor ticket sales.  At a stadium that Eddie Izzard sold out two weeks later.  McCain is less popular in Arizona than an English transvestite.

As for the topic of the blog, right now the folks at fivethirtyeight have Obama pegged around 25% chance of winning in a landslide and McCain at about 6-7%.  I'll take those odds.

It's a shame a campaign has to be run on who makes the most gaffes and who has the bigger pooper scooper to clean up the messes.  It would be really cool if each touted their own assets.....but not likely.

Nancy, that's the problem with democracy; you have to give people what they want.  If you can't fit it in a headline, it may not be news.

BushCo needs a new and improved version of the poopscoop, wish we would of caught his gaffes before they became our gaffes 

So true Tom.  People want dirt (both sides) and they'll dig til they find it.  That's a lot more fun than positives.

And yet somehow, Nancy, we keep things going.  You just have to put it in context:  http://www.nytimes.com/2008...

Joe Cummins, author of “Anything for a Vote: Dirty tricks, Cheap Shots and October Surprises in U.S. Presidential Campaigns,” notes that it was George Washington, while commanding general of the American revolutionary forces, who wrote of a British peace proposal, “They are practicing such low and dirty tricks, that Men of Sentiment and honor must blush at their Villainy.” In 1828, The United States Telegraph, a newspaper supporting President Andrew Jackson, despite vilification in his re-election campaign for having married Rachel Robards before her divorce was complete, denounced its rival’s coverage with “The Intelligencer at its dirty tricks again!” (Cummins credits Ben Zimmer, an editor at the Oxford University Press, for this research; Zimmer is a source of mine on phrasedickery too.)

Funny Tom.  :-)

I know the more things change the more they stay the same but one can hope. 

Yup, Nancy.   We're all just electronic pamphleteers.  If it's any consolation, in 100 years people will talk about how civil we were and how it's too bad they can't be as studious and focused as we were.  :-D

ALCON,

I have a prediction and narrowed it down to two candidates who may become our next president.  My personal poll has determined either Barack obama or john mc cain.

The only landslide McCain will experience is the one that will bury him.