I am posting this everywhere so you might see it on several forums and I will be updating as I receive new information.

So McCain is going for character assassination of Obama!  Well then, the gloves are off.  This is the season of the witch!  The witch is going ahunting!  Let’s see, how about starting with dickhead McCain’s first wife!  And how he left her after she had a disfiguring car accident for another cutsie chick, Cindy.  That’s loyalty for ya.  It’s one thing to fall out of love and divorce, but for guys who want to be politicians, messing around is deadly.

Two years younger than Ralph Nader, on his own health, check out this website:
http://therealmccain.com/doctors/

Joe Klein-Time magazine Sept. 17, 2008 tells us McCain’s claims skirt facts and his lies have ranged from the annoying to the sleazy, and the problem is in both degree and kind. His campaign has been a ceaseless assault on his opponent’s character and policies, featuring a consistent—and witting—disdain for the truth.  So we will publish these lies every day in every place possible. Even the New York Times editorial board is calling John McCain a liar.

Paraphrasing Klein’s words, John McCain raises serious questions about whether he has the character to lead the nation. He defaces his beloved military code of honor. He is running a dirty campaign.

Jon Stewart called him a shameless panderer. What could that mean?  He embraces all the things he used to condemn.  Bush being one of them, then he turns around and is now bashing Bush.  What??

By way of providing background, the article reprised the story of the Keating Five scandal that cost three Senators their jobs and nearly ended John McCain’s career. According to the Times, during McCain’s years in the House of Representatives, he became friendly with Charles Keating, Chairman of Lincoln Savings & Loan.

Vote Obama/Biden if you want change in the White House.

Nathayan, you are a smart Republican and funny.  What?  Has the world turned upside down?  I must be dreaming.

Bite, politely, but bite for God’s sake. Don’t let ANYTHING past.

Carmen is there some sort of confusion between cows and pigs?  Thursday should be onehellovanevning.

Excellent list of points ITW you are offering BIden.  And a few others have also given some gems too.

My advice to Biden:

1) Joe, don’t say anything really stupid, like “When the crash of 1929 came President Roosevelt…...”. I mean, if you’re going to have facts wrong make damn sure they aren’t the ones every school kid knows.

2) Don’t be so determined to push your agenda you don’t address the interlocutor’s question.  People who do that in debates always look stupid.

3) Being respectful of Palin is OK, but don’t pretend something really dumb flying out of her mouth isn’t really dumb! (like a journalism major not being able to name a newspaper she reads) A “Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy!” would be lovely, but if it’s there, it’s there, if it’s not, it’s not.  Count to 5 before you go after her.

4) I like the idea that you are going after McCain.  So if she says something incredibly dumb and ignorant it’s “Is THIS the kind of decision John McCain makes? Is THIS the quality of his advisers?”  Or, better yet: “I know you’re reflecting Sen. McCain’s position.  Is this what we really want as the direction for America?”

5) I think hitting the typical Liberal issues and laundry list turns off Independents AND Liberals alike.  Remember what’s important and what’s rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.  Stick to what gets in peoples’ guts: Bailing out Wall Street, an illegal war getting our kids killed, people not meeting their mortgages, jobs being lost at an unprecedented rate.  Play down spending and play UP cutting waste and RETURNING to a balanced budget.  Remind them that the GOP talks the talk but it was Democrats who walked the walk.

6) Don’t let Palin put a millimeter between McCain/Palin and George Bush.  She’s even closer to Bush.  Use it.

7) Fight dirty, but LOOK like you’re fighting clean.  Ain’t no Marquis of Queensbury.  Health care—McCain will cost us more because he’ll tax our employers more and WE’LL have to make up the difference.

8) Kick her butt and make sure it’s obvious you kicked her butt, but politely.

for Heaven’s sake, please don’t go easy on Sarah Palin. On the contrary, since she thinks she is sooooo knowledgeable, let her know explicitly when she goofs. We have had enough of morons - eight years of them. ENOUGH

Biden doesn’t have to kick butt as she will have an aura of the underdog and you know how Americans love underdogs.  He just has to keep asking her one question.  Gov. Palin would you please answer the question?  She will hang herself by dodging and showing her ignorance.  Also be careful of the moderator, we saw how Jim Leherer let McCain off the hook when he kept blustering fitfully on and on when his time was up a couple of times.

Treating her like anything other than a competent, bloodthirsty opponent is suicide.  Biden should be tough without mocking or condescension.  He can certainly expect her to be rough AND condescending.  If he plays it safe, she’ll be able to get into her “boot camp graduate” mode and will be seen as the winner.

Put on your cowboy boots Joe, and kick some butt.

See the link below to an article written by former Alaska state representative and gubernatorial candidate Andrew Halcro.  He talks about what it’s like to debate Sarah Palin, and how she’s the “msster of the nonanswer.” 

After reading that article, I think the Obama-Biden campaign must not underestimate Palin.  If the neocons have been looking at her since 2007, (see the link below) she could be an October surprise in the same way she was McCain’s surprise VP choice…if she was actually his choice and not his neocon handlers. 

If Palin shows a bit of intelligence at this debate, she could possibly turn the McCain campaign around again. The Democrats tend to play nice, but I am hoping that they have been practicing some street fighting techniques, too.

Biden must not treat her with kid gloves.

Here’s the link to the Halcro article:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1001/p09s01-coop.html

Here’s the link to the Sarah Palin Project allegedly planned by the neoconservatives:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/sarahpalin/2827217/Neoconservatives-plan-Project-Sarah-Palin-to-shape-future-American-foreign-policy.html

That’s what pisses me off about Biden and some of the Democratic strategists.  This is a PERSON who wants to be VP of the US. She shouldn’t be treated any differently than any other VP candidate who is debating.  Would he be “soft” on Joe Lieberman?  Would he be “soft” on anybody else who wasn’t female?

Queen Elizabeth 1 said it quite well:  “Had I been born crested, not cloven, you would not speak to me thus!”

If Palin was a male, Biden would show his toughness.  But Palin is “cloven,” as are all females, and his being “soft” on Palin is insulting, condescending, and not worthy of Biden as an experienced debater. If Palin wants to be VP, let her show that she’s got some brains. I’ve not seen any evidence of it yet. Being soft on her at this critical time in the election is simply WRONG.

Palin is the rightwing extremists’ Trojan Horse.  She is where she is because the Repubs actually think American women are stupid.  I want to see Biden look at Palin and say, “Governor, you’re no Hillary Clinton!”