Some smart Alien. Illegally here, I'm sure, but isn't that an issue McCain does know about? Funny that the Alien can read and follow instructions like "go to my website"; bet they have better schools on the home planet. If it is so easy to look at the record and compare that to the rhetoric, what's wrong with us? Where do we sign up to be Aliens? and last: Can the Alien do tricks like predict anything that might change the direction of this election, maybe a new message from Old Sam Bin Laden?

I thought you were going to say the "fatal flaw" was his herkyjerkyness. It almost looked choreographed and he was following some feet-marks on the stage. Maybe he was learning the "lindy-hop" again.

All right, listen up everybody: This is not over!
Not by a long shot. There are still almost four weeks left until the election. Did anyone else stay tuned after the debate and watch the debriefings with the groups of "typical" undecided voters? Talk about space aliens! These people are totally lost in a vacuum when discussing politics and issues. All the McCain campaign has to do is find the right shiny object to dangle in front of them (we'll pay your mortgage off for you!) or a slander that sticks (Obama was raised by cannibals!) and we're right back to everything hanging on New Hampshire and Colorado. The fact that McCain's record doesn't match his rhetoric doesn't matter one whit to these folks, because it's completely over their heads -- it is not his "fatal flaw." He's not dead yet!
The Reeps definitely are floundering right now, no question. But it's way to early to say, "Ha! They're toast!" What it is time to do is redouble our efforts -- and our donations -- and work that much harder. With any luck, we'll win this thing. With a little more luck, we can bury the Reeps so deep they'll never claw their way back to the surface. But if we start congratulating ourselves early, we're asking for disaster.

It is said that we do not see individual things, objects, or people. Rather, we see the relationship between that person and his environment. In Debate 2, we saw Senator McCain in that way. Managing the affairs of our nation's economic affairs, in fact, social policy more generally is not in McCain's sweet spot. He is a student and has been an active participant of the War, our foreign policy, our friends, our foes and he is a good soldier always referring to a General's opinion. He has not been a participant nor has he emerged to lead us through this difficult economic time. In another time, McCain would impress the American people with his knowledge but he is a man from the past. A 35 year veteran of COngress, soldier of the Vietnam War and all its philosophies of one side or the other. This is not the world view that faces the new American President. This is not the needs of America at this moment in history. The American People see McCain in this context and McCain see himself in this context. McCain left the stage after debate 2 quickly, I bet he understands that his time has past: he missed the window.

"McCain, in supporting the war in Iraq, told us that victory would be easy and we would be greeted as liberators. (You can watch him say it here and here.)"

It's hard for public figures to successfully be deceitful in the internet age. He hasn't figured any of this out yet.