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In fact, Kissinger did recently call for “high level” talks with Iran starting at the secretary of state level and said, “I do not believe that we can make conditions.”

…A married couple would have had to make $83,000 to be affected by the vote, and anyway no such increase is in Obama’s tax plan.

Do McCain campaign people not possess the power to overcome cognitive distortion? PS: Most of the agreements were out of context and followed by ‘but…

That ancient history that no one talks about …

…Hat tip to Crooks and Liars .

Wikipedia: Fillers are parts of speech which are not generally recognized as purposeful or containing formal meaning, usually expressed as pauses such as uh, like and er, but also extending to repairs (”He was wearing a black shirt and uh, blue pants”), and articulation problems such as stuttering.

…Some have hypothesized that the time of an “uh” or “um” is used for the planning of future words; other researchers have suggested that they are actually to be understood as full-fledged function words rather than accidents, indicating a delay of variable time in which the speaker wishes to pause without voluntarily yielding control of the dialogue.

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/110/senate/vote-missers/ Good thing he made it back to the Hill to solve this crisis! Hopefully they’ll all recognize him. >hr />

“McCain is Andy Kaufman in his Mighty Mouse costume - ‘Here I Come to Save the Day,’” Frank said as he left a Thursday morning caucus meeting with House Democrats, saying the Republican presidential candidate’s decision to enter the mix “is not helpful.” … Frank, who has been working furiously to finalize legislation granting Treasury the authority to buy hundreds of billions in distressed mortgage-related assets, believes McCain’s entry “injects an…element of partisanship” into already tenuous negotiations.

McCain dissed Dave as part of todays circus act:

A few interesting links regarding this, and a funny video of the press being ignored and a McCain aide (poor soul) giving commentary.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/23/networks-revolt-against-r_n_128608.html http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Protecting_Palin.html?

Here’s what Andrew Sullivan says - read the article for yourself (BugMeNot for the NYT is ‘readwitthis’ and ‘lala12345′) and see what you think. … _r=3&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1222093544-NPTB8rVOkxoqYwx2Ub0yNw&oref=slogin

Last nights SNL opener: