His personal story - from his five months as a prisoner of war in Vietnam to his penchant for going against Washington's status quo - helped earned him the moniker, the Maverick.

Plus - McCain TV Ratings Beat Obama in Preliminary Numbers.

Related: Evacuation plans at Democratic Underground (language advisory)...

"As my wife and I discussed today, if McCain and Palin win this
election, we are going to have to consider getting out of this country..."

Related - Backing themselves into a closet, the CHRC moves closing arguments on the Lemire case to a smaller venue. Like that's going to save them.

“They went to print thinking Palin was dead in the water, and their mistake was thinking everyone who reads Us is a Democrat, when they’re not."

Original link

(h/t to Peter)

Open for your responses and comments on the McCain speech.

Ladies and gentlemen, you know the circumstantial reasons for our featuring this show tonight, yet there is an overarching consideration that transcends mere circumstance. Yes it is all well and good to go along to get along, up to a point. But the time comes when every honest human must stand his ground, and at a minimum that point has arrived when one is faced with corruption of any form, be it statist, corporatist, theologist, et cetera.

If you believe in heaven then you must prepare to ask yourself what you will say to St. Peter or equivalent when the time comes. And if you don't then you must prepare to ask yourself what you will say to yourself, your family, friends, and colleagues, when the time comes. You must ask yourself: in my life, have I been an honest human? Have I been honorable? Have I pursued the classic notions of truth, good behaviour, and the golden rule for all citizens, for all humans; or have I looked the other way when I knew better, have I condoned malfeasance to get along, have I pursued fraud for illegitimate personal benefit? This is your life; that is how by history ye shall be known.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Is there nothing that Obama can't do?

Update - SDA (and Robert Jago) gets results!

"I communicated with John and thanked him for his work on behalf of the
Green Party but explained that he will not be a candidate because his views
are not consistent with our philosophy. I will not sign his nomination
papers and the Green Party will nominate another candidate."

I think once this gets going, and as I said yesterday once this hits full stride, the Barack Obama campaign's going to realize what a loser choice it made in putting Joe Biden on the ticket, mark my words. There's going to be a huge reversal of this by the time this all shakes out. But why are they trying to force her off the ticket? If she's this big a trailer trash, and if she's so inexperienced, why not leave her there? She should be easy to beat, right? Well, that's the key. They're scared to death of her. They are frightened like they haven't been frightened in a long time. They thought they had succeeded in nullifying and eliminating the conservative wing of the Republican Party. They thought that they had succeeded in creating an impression among Americans at large that conservatism was in disfavor, that it was in a funk, that it was a minority, and here comes Palin, Sarah Palin just in her being, in her essence, simply destroys every myth and every lie that the liberals have told us that they want in women.

Now we know what had them so frightened. Tied.

A few weeks ago, I wrote a column arguing that readers will miss the mainstream media when we're gone. Oh sure, bloggers have a lot of spicy opinions. But when it comes to investigating important stories, they don't hold a candle to big, deep-pocketed, old-fashioned newspaper writers and broadcast media outlets.

Imagine my embarrassment, then, when it turned out this week that the flagship newscast on the biggest, deep-pocketedest, old-fashionedest Canadian media outlet of them all -- the taxpayer-funded CBC--got suckered into reporting a story that the blogosphere chewed up, debunked and spit out two days earlier.

I've said it before - this isn't an extinction. It's suicide.

News consumers are no longer willing to be passive recipients of filtered, uninformed, agenda-driven journalism. They're not just showing the imposters up for what they are, they're responding - in subscription cancellations, channel changing, and plain old talk back;

Dear (name withheld):

I write to acknowledge receipt of your e-mail, which I have shared with Mark
Harrison, acting Executive Producer of The National, along with the request that
your concerns be addressed.

Yours truly,

Vince Carlin
CBC Ombudsman

2957 buttons, T's, and stickers say it all.

A few of my favorites:

- Obama ... your CHANGE is in my diaper!

- I'm voting for Palin ... and the guy she's running with!

- McCain's Deadliest Catch!

- Viva La Barracuda!

... more.

h/t CJ

Video here and text.

(Plus a transcript of Rudy Giuliani's great barnburner here).

They love her in Hillary Land

"I love, love, love this!! We are going to kick Obama's butt all the way back to Kenya!!!!!!" ...

Yeah. It's really easy to see now what they were so afraid of. I have to watch that again.....if no other reason but to catch that joke about the greek columns again.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid just called her "shrill". That'll win the women back!

And is CNN rattled? You be the judge.... "McCain Wins Democratic Nomination"

(thanks to Paul C.)

Now we know why they pay Keith Olbermann the big bucks - "People who like this sort of thing will find this... the sort of thing they like."