On “The Tonight Show,” Michelle Obama noted that she and her husband still sparred privately like the lawyers they are, and added:
“You want to know how Barack prepares for a debate? He hangs out with me, and he’s ready.”
Blame game: GOP forms circular firing squad
If McCain comes back to win this election, it will be the story of the year. It seems like the people with the McCain campaign don’t believe in victory anymore.
Report by: Jonathan Martin and Mike Allen and John F. Harris (Politico.com)
With despair rising even among many of John McCain
McCain told the Times that 
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[Read More] Reactions to the Third Presidential Debate
Once again the most useful piece of evaluation of the debate comes from the focus group run for Time.com. Amy Sullivan reports:
In politics it is generally not considered a good sign when voters are laughing at you, not with you. And by the end of the third and last presidential debate, the undecided voters 
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[Read More] OBAMA WINS 2ND DEBATE
McCain has 27 days to find a better way to take on his opponent or he’ll be calling him Mr. President.
—John Dickerson in Slate.com
Click on more to read the analysis of how undecided voters reacted to the debate.
They Liked Him, They Really Liked Him
From TIME’s Amy Sullivan:
As he did for the first presidential debate, Democratic 
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[Read More] The State of the Presidential Race
It is to early to open up the champaign bottles, but at the least the trends is going into the right direction. I am going to buy a good bottle for November 4 and let’s hope the final numbers allow me to drink it.
Tina Fey aka Sarah Palin is a Genius
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I did not see this live. But poor Penny Noonan, who initially was shocked by the Palin nomination (Oh, my God, now it is over) wrote this bizarre endorsement/non-endorsement of Palin.
Palin the Populist
Joe Biden was no match for “Joe Six-Pack.”
By PEGGY NOONAN
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
As far as action films go, the previous episodes of the Indiana Jones franchise left me pretty unmoved. Archeological treasure hunts were never my cup of tea. For this reason, I could have easily done without Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. But here I am on the airplane. What the 
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[Read More] Wall E
If you are like me and wonder how Pixar can pull off one creative blockbuster after another, here is an interesting peek behind the scenes of the studio. In an interview the writer and director of Finding Nemo and Wall E, Andrew Stanton, intimates that Finding Nemo did not work as a film until very 
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[Read More] “Socialism arrives in America”
Maureen Dowd commenting on the meeting at the White House last week.
It was quite a memorable moment in history for the M.B.A. president and the nominee of the party of business. Who would have dreamed that when socialism finally came to the U.S.A. it would be brought not by Bolsheviks in blue jeans but 
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