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WASHINGTON — John McCain’s close friend and ally from South Carolina, fellow Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, will be on hand in Chicago Monday as McCain meets with his former rival, President-elect Barack Obama. Also attending will be Obama’s new chief of staff, Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill. In an interview Friday, Graham said Emanuel asked for the meeting about a week ago. “We were talking about some things that we could work together on,” Graham said.

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Joe the Plumber cuts to the heart of the Presidential choice. Whether or not last night's much-improved debate performance helps John McCain rally in the polls, at least voters finally got a clearer sense of the policy differences. For our money, the best line of the night was Mr. McCain's Freudian slip of referring to Barack Obama as "Senator Government." Neither candidate is offering policies that meet the serious economic moment. But Mr. McCain would let Americans keep more of their own income to ride out the downturn, while Mr. Obama is revealing that his default agenda is to spend...

It may not have come as a huge surprise to British observers that an ordinary little guy like Joe Wurzelbacher, now forever to be known as "Joe the Plumber", should have been propelled into a position of such influence in a presidential election. After all, we have had momentously important swings in election campaigns here as a consequence of anecdotes about individual ordinary people. Remember The Battle of Jennifer's Ear in which the discrediting of Labour's claims about supposed delays to NHS treatment for one child, was widely believed to have helped the Conservatives back into power? (Not only had...

Toledo, Ohio, officials plan to notify "Joe the Plumber" Worzelbacher that he's out of work, following his televised criticism of Democrat Presidential candidate Barack Obama's tax plan: A staff person with the Toledo Division of Building Inspection told On Call this afternoon that her division will contact Wurzelbacher to notify him that he can't work without a license. "We're trying to track him down," she said. In the meantime, the Democrat-friendly local plumbers' union is fuming. "He has no license whatsoever with the city of Toledo," said Tom Joseph, the business manager for Local Union 50 of the Plumbers, Steamfitters...

The best line of the night was McCain’s appropriate Freudian slip, referring to Barack Obama as “Senator Government.” That slip put a fine point on what this election is really all about. Senator Freedom vs. Senator Government America’s Founding Fathers were “rich white men.” As such, they designed a nation where intelligent self-reliant individuals would be free to “self-govern.” They designed a nation based upon Judeo-Christian principles of “free will,” in which every individual had the “unalienable right” to Life, Liberty and Economic Freedom, recorded as the “pursuit of happiness.” The land of the free was only for the brave.

Click to watch: Senator Government

No. Really. You're kidding me. Barack Obama actually told that Joe the Plumber guy that he wants to "spread the wealth around." What, did Obama just get done reading the Wikipedia entry on Huey "Share the Wealth" Long or something? Was he somehow channeling that left-wing populist from the Depression? Talk about playing into the most extreme stereotype of your party, that it is infested with socialists. A while back I chatted with a University of Chicago professor who was a frequent lunch companion of Obama's. This professor said that Obama was as close to a full-out Marxist as anyone...

It was becoming apparent she went into the interview with an Agenda (i.e. "There were rumors of you not being registered to vote) He slammed Obama, calling him a socialists and said yes he is registered to vote.

Ok, I hate vanities as much as the next fellow. But I need negative pictures of obama at least 640x480 resolution for a video titled "Senator Government". Please post your favorite pictures of Obama here if you have them. Preferably with no captions or edits. I need the picture where he is smoking, the picture where his nose is up in the air, the picture that makes his ears look goofy, a high rez picture of him with Joe the plumber, and anything else that makes him look goofy, angry, or otherwise undesirable. I have spent hours looking through past...

'Senator Government' Joe the Plumber cuts to the heart of the Presidential choice. Whether or not last night's much-improved debate performance helps John McCain rally in the polls, at least voters finally got a clearer sense of the policy differences. For our money, the best line of the night was Mr. McCain's Freudian slip of referring to Barack Obama as "Senator Government." Neither candidate is offering policies that meet the serious economic moment. But Mr. McCain would let Americans keep more of their own income to ride out the downturn, while Mr. Obama is revealing that his default agenda is...

Email John McCain and tell him to keep referring to 0bama as "Senator Government." Some people think that was a gaffe, but it is really a great soundbite that can clearly delineate the choice in this election!

Whether or not last night's much-improved debate performance helps John McCain rally in the polls, at least voters finally got a clearer sense of the policy differences. For our money, the best line of the night was Mr. McCain's Freudian slip of referring to Barack Obama as "Senator Government." Neither candidate is offering policies that meet the serious economic moment. But Mr. McCain would let Americans keep more of their own income to ride out the downturn, while Mr. Obama is revealing that his default agenda is to spend money and expand the government. APCribbing from Hillary Clinton's playbook, Mr....

I know there's a lot of vanities for the debate and this might get hacked out (sorry in advance to the mods) but I am just so happy that Senator McCain came to play ball tonight and decided to take BHO to the woodshed. My horror came after watching FOX post-debate analysis and Barnes and Kristol throw him under the bus. I have to say, up to now I had problems understanding Rush's attacks against them as "beltway insiders" but now I understand. And Krauthamer's remarks that "Reagan couldn't even beat Obama in a debate" is pure nonsense. If all...

The star of the final presidential debate was Joe Wurzelbacher, aka "Joe the Plumber." John McCain mentioned Wurzelbacher tonight shortly after the debate began, and both he and Obama said his name more than 25 times during the 90-minute debate. How many times did the word Iraq come up? Six. How many times was the word economy used? 16. So, what makes Joe the Plumber so special? Well, Obama met Wurzelbacher on Sunday, just shortly after landing in Toledo, Ohio. Before heading to his hotel for an intensive two days of debate prep, the campaign organized a quick stop in...

The transcript of the fourth and final debate of the 2008 election season is now posted at the Commission on Presidential Debates' official website, www.debates.org. Also available at this site are the transcripts from the other two presidential debates and the vice presidential debate between Governor Sarah Palin and Senator Joseph Biden. For a historical perspective, you can read transcripts going all the way back to 1980, Reagan vs. Carter. Enjoy!

I figured after all the Cain I've raised over the vanities, I ought to post one. Elections usually come down to concrete and simple choices. This is one. I'm opting for the guy Ed Norton would back.