That’s not the headline we wanted to use, but cursing isn’t welcome with search engines. Or maybe that’s just our mother, who, if she’s lurking, our brother did it.

Anyway, after Barry called out McCain as a chickenshit (hi, Mom!) for not mentioning Ayers to his face last week, McCain is promising not to pal around this time. As long as Bob brings it up. See, Tom didn’t ask about it, that’s why McCain didn’t say anything. Never mind that he managed to announce a major economic program just seven minutes after the opening bell.

(No, not yesterday’s major economic program. The one before that. Don’t worry, he’ll have a new one next week.)

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Like many Americans, Sarah Palin has had to take a low-paying second job recently to make ends meet, as a greeter for a failing hate merchant.

And it was while she was going about her business of saving the Republic from terrorist pals Monday that shouts broke out from the back of the crowd she was haranguing.

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Sunday morning:

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), one of McCain’s closest allies, said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” that the Arizona senator was weighing a plan “along the lines that now is the time to lower tax rates for investors — capital gains tax, dividend tax rates — to make sure that we can get the economy jump-started.”…

Graham said the campaign would discuss a plan Sunday, and he expected McCain to offer “a very comprehensive approach to jump-start the economy by allowing capital to be formed easier in America by lowering taxes.”

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George W. Bush will be staging his next reading of My Pet Global Financial Meltdown at 10:25 a.m., his latest attempt to restore confidence in the system.

This will be Bush’s seventh such statement in ten days. The Dow has dropped 20.8 percent during his previous six attempts, for a Bush Index of minus 357 points per statement.

Trading begins at 9:30 a.m. Bail while you can.

Bush Plans Statement Today to ‘Assure’ Nation as Markets Fall [Bloomberg]

For Shaggy.

B. Kliban

Nailing jelly to a wall: is it possible?

Asperse, belittle, besmirch, blot, blotch, blur, calumniate, cloud, corrupt, daub, defame, defile, degrade, denigrate, derogate, lambaste, maculate, malign, mar, minimize, slander, smudge, smutch, soil, spatter, splotch, stain, sully, taint, tarnish, thrash, trounce, vilify, John Sidney McCain III.

Our Presidential Debate Liveblog/Open Thread/Slime Geyser erupts at 8:45 p.m. Eastern.

McCain calls Obama a liar [AP]