My friends, the scariest thing in this blurb is the allusion to Rove’s unofficial presidential symphonizing. Dirty Karl. (They ought to name an illicit sex act just that. Or the Impolite Rove-Around. “Were they just Roving in there? Now that’s disgusting.” Something that makes bukaki look nice by comparison...)

Do you think that Rove might have a little powah of tha darkside left up his sleeve?

i wonder if people in general have had enough of that slimy stuff. i hate to draw the comparison, but i feel like Hillary called up Rove at 3 AM from her secret phone hidden in the sole of her stylish but practical pumps.

The thing is that an ad like the 3 AM ad is designed to conjure up that primal moment of doubt which is such an obvious play on the fear card. But maybe it’s a good and necessary thing. She plays the fear-mongering bit now, but once the populous and the media have deconstructed the whole experience down to the lowest common denominator, the next attempt at fear mongering will be less effective than the first, and at that point it might backfire overnight, which is what we’re starting to see be the narrative for this week.

Barack Hits Back. That’s the media’s desired headline and tone, but better for Barack would be this: Barack Stands Tall Above Fray. He got a good one in this morning after Billary insinuated she might offer him the VP. Hillaryous!

This whole campaign is hilarious. McCain gets almost no press and when he does get press it’s because he’s a crooked old man with too many negatives to be a real consideration for the job. Crazy Ol’ Coot. But he’s had a long life filled with lot’s of experience of the type that might make a person a smidge callous.  (What exactly is a smidge anyway? Seriously, if you know, please let me in.)

Hillary shames the press corps into changing their tone from “Yay!” to “Hold the Phone...” —ever the victim. You gotta give it to her though, when she plays that victim card, people just eat it up. It’s like they didn’t notice that every month or so (no insinuation intended) we have seen “That’s Not Fair” Barbie pour on the proverbial waterworks. Old Faithful. She did nail the celebration speech though. If you like snarky, “Ha hah!” attitude wrapped in retina-damaging shades of fuscia (It was like a pantsuit made out of Olivia Newton John’s jacket from Grease.) surrounded by downpours of red white and blue confetti, this was the night for you.

i thought Barack’s speech was good. It was so serious, i thought it felt like it was set somewhere in Gotham City (i kept waiting for the Bat-Signal to flash up on the side of the building). i was also pleased that he was almost stump speech free. He did go into a couple of stump speech greatest hits, but was mostly new. Which is what i think he has got to do at this point. He needs to go out there unscripted ad let Barack be Barck. i think he got a little bogged down by all of the assaults on his experience. But he should “engage to disregard” a negative attack, make a witty quip about how it’s cynical politics; we don’t have to be a slave to fear.; Hilary is merely doing things the way she knows how to try and get a result, but it may not be a result that ultimately is the best result .

So John McCain, yeah. “My friends, i am about to sincerely recite for you a speech cobbled together from several book reports, diligently written by the eighth grade daughter of one of my closest aids, and it goes a little something like this....”