My plan is to be downtown around 7am to watch the show (starts at 9:30am). It should be a good time.

Quoted: When Barack Obama takes the stage Thursday on Calder Plaza, he will deliver a message tailored to a critical constituency beyond the city borders. Once a stronghold for Republicans, suburbs are the new presidential battleground as Obama seeks to build on support in Grand Rapids to challenge GOP domination in suburban Kent and Ottawa counties.

FYI: John McCain will tell you when Sarah Palin means what Sarah Palin says.

Quoted: Sen. John McCain retracted Sarah Palin's stance on Pakistan Sunday morning, after the Alaska governor appeared to back Sen. Barack Obama's support for unilateral strikes inside Pakistan against terrorists. "She would not…she understands and has stated repeatedly that we're not going to do anything except in America's national security interest," McCain told ABC's George Stephanopoulos of Palin. "In all due respect, people going around and… sticking a microphone while conversations are being held, and then all of a sudden that's—that's a person's position… This is a free country, but I don't think most Americans think that that's a definitve policy statement made by Governor Palin."

Well I guess this explains the news being made by the McCain campaign in the past few days.

Quoted: Capitol Hill sources are telling me that senior McCain people are more than concerned about Palin. The campaign has held a mock debate and a mock press conference; both are being described as "disastrous." One senior McCain aide was quoted as saying, "What are we going to do?" The McCain people want to move this first debate to some later, undetermined date, possibly never. People on the inside are saying the Alaska Governor is "clueless."

Interesting idea.

Quoted: Samir Bazzi replaced his Sunoco sign with an Obama campaign sign five days ago and lowered gas prices to $3.49 per gallon. 'Everything's down,' Bazzi said. 'We're trying to support people.' Bazzi is also selling Obama hats and T-shirts.

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Airing tonight on your CBS National News program. Ouch.

Quoted: Katie Couric talks with Gov. Sarah Palin about her foreign policy experience and Alaska's proximity to Russia.

This should really be checkmate against the Republican ticket.

Quoted: The McCain campaign told ABC News on Wednesday that John McCain wants to postpone Friday's presidential debate until Thursday, Oct. 2. The Arizona senator would like the vice presidential debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden, which is currently scheduled to take place on Thursday, Oct. 2 in St. Louis, Missouri, to be scheduled for a later unspecified date.

The article itself is a bit too articulate to deliver the satisfying "Oh Snap" I was looking for, but the fact that George Will has reached this conclusion is still certainly worth talking about.

Quoted: It is arguable that, because of his inexperience, Obama is not ready for the presidency. It is arguable that McCain, because of his boiling moralism and bottomless reservoir of certitudes, is not suited to the presidency. Unreadiness can be corrected, although perhaps at great cost, by experience. Can a dismaying temperament be fixed?

Why oh why did The Daily Show have to take *this* week off?

GIBSON: Do you agree with the Bush doctrine?

PALIN: In what respect, Charlie?

GIBSON: The Bush -- well, what do you -- what do you interpret it to be?

PALIN: His world view.

GIBSON: No, the Bush doctrine, enunciated September 2002, before the Iraq war.

Thats not the change we need. [creepy grin]

Quoted: Gov. Sarah Palin took a hard-line approach on national security and said that war with Russia may be necessary if Georgia were to join NATO and be invaded by Russia.

also:

Quoted: Palin, who obtained her first passport last year

yikes. Its no wonder they keep her sequestered for weeks at a time.