Heh. I’m “on” the NPR website…

From “Bill in Portland Maine”@Daily Kos:

Closing Appeals

Dear America,

Mine.
Mine mine mine.
Me Me Me Me Me Me Me!
Mine mine mine mine mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine!

In conclusion: Fear fear fear fear. Very scary fear!

Sincerely,

The Republican Party

P.S. If you liked Joseph McCarthy, you’ll love us!

Dear America,

We.
Us. We. Together. Americans. United States.
Hope compassion equality inclusiveness competence.
Brains common sense community respect hard work accountability.
Action change responsibility. More viewpoints, smarter solutions.

In conclusion: Yes we can.

Sincerely,

The Democratic Party.

P.S. Vote.

Damn. I’m still undecided.

The website Obama for a Sound Economy has testimonials from a fair number of people who will be paying more taxes under an Obama administration — and are voting for him anyway. For example:

I will pay more taxes under the Obama administration, and like Warren Buffet and Adam Smith, I think that is not unreasonable. In return I get a country that: invests more in basic science research (which will grow the economy faster), understands the need for a transformative switch to a new energy economy (which gains jobs, decreases oil usage and alleviates climate problems), and regains respect on the world stage (bettering all of us in the USA, and all of us on earth). I call that a bargain.
– Peter Norvig, Ph.D., Director of Research, Google, Palo Alto, CA

No, seriously.

Republican presidential nominee John McCain and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, equated lawmakers’ requests for funding for special projects with corruption on Wednesday even though Palin herself has requested nearly $200 million in so-called “earmarks” this year….

“I got an old ink pen, my friends, and the first pork barrel-laden earmark, big-spending bill that comes across my desk, I will veto it. You will know their names. I will make them famous and we’ll stop this corruption,” McCain said during a rally at a park in suburban Washington, D.C.

Oh, wait, don’t answer that, the past 7 years has answered that question quite well.

According to Nicole Wallace of the McCain campaign, the American people don’t care whether Sarah Palin can answer specific questions about foreign and domestic policy. According to Wallace — in an appearance I did with her this morning on Joe Scarborough’s show — the American people will learn all they need to know (and all they deserve to know) from Palin’s scripted speeches and choreographed appearances on the campaign trail and in campaign ads.

TinyURL.com, which for years has been shortening URLs to make query strings fit in your emails, has now started allowing custom aliases for the URLs.

For example, I just linked to a NewsBank story from the Anchorage Daily News about Sarah Palin firing the police chief and library chief for “not fully supporting her efforts to govern” as http://tinyurl.com/mayorfirespolicechief.

It’s apparently official. Unfortunately, I got the email before the text message, which was a bit disappointing…

The Obama campaign has a website called FightTheSmears.com, on which they give the truth about various smears that have been going around. The lead story currently is the non-existent “whitey” tape.

I just saw a poll linked to McCain’s campaign site that I decided I had to vote in. Once I clicked through the “give us money” page to get to the main site, I found the following. Nice worldview, huh?