The right-wing blogosphere is going supernova over this.  And you know what they think it means?

He’s going to take white people’s money and give it to black people.

We’ve been ignoring this story because frankly we can handle only so much madness at once, but apparently there’s serious concern that one of the presidential candidates is Constitutionally unqualified to take office — because he was born on foreign soil.

And in fact the rumors are true: John Sidney McCain III dropped anchor in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936.

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Barry’s infomercial comes on Wednesday.  GDP data for the third quarter comes out on Thursday. The official declaration of recession will dominate papers just before the last big push.  (Papers, it seems, which are almost unified in their conclusion on the readiness of Tailbunny: zero… point… zero.  But that’s the media elite for you.)

I’ve been wavering the last few weeks. Joy? Dread? Mind-numbing fear?  But the bottom line is this: events as they fall favor Barry.  And Geezer has nothing left to fling at him.  Rezko, Ayers, clinging to guns and religion. Three strikeouts.  Joe the Plumber is the new POW POW POW. (Update: Geezer refered to Plugz as “Joe the Biden” on Meet the Press. Lovely.) Even Rev. Wright might not work.  See what happened in Michigan — 527s tried to tie Obama to NAH NAH NAH and Kwame Kilpatrick.  Result: impending blowout for Black Eagle. The only new club he’s swung was given to him by Plugz (silly Biden: tests are for kids — gasbag), and even that seems to be falling flat. (Maybe it reasonates this week. We’ll see.)

And Meet the Press today? Brokaw, oddly enough, unleashed some moderate amount of whuppin’ — apart from the sucking-up part. Basically called him out on the whole socialist thing. Made him look like a fool on Palin; Geezer said that “she is a role model.” And McCain’s listing of all five secretaries of state — minus one who he could not remember? Oy.

Look: if there was to be an airstrike against Iran — the October Surprise some dirty liberals had basically counted on — it would have happened by now. The al-Qaeda tape (in the form of a blog post) is out, and it doesn’t matter. A quarter of the votes have already been cast, reportedly coming in big for the Inadquate Black Male. (Speaking of which: PUMAs are largely a non-factor.)

Barring electoral shenanigans: if there is to be an anti-Hope surprise, it has to be cataclysmic. Otherwise? Well… Let’s us say that it is NOT OVER. But, we can see over from our house.

From: watnatchansit@yahoo.co.th
Subject: Your consent
Date: October 26, 2008 11:16:53 AM PDT
To: god@www.stinque.com

Dear Sir,

It is obvious that this proposal will come to you as a suprise. This is because we have not met before, but I am inspired to send you this email following the huge fund transfer opportunity that will be of mutual benefit to us. However, I am Barrister Watnat Chansit a citizen of Thailand and a legal practitioner. Due to political uncertainty and politics of vendetta against my client and other top officers of the opposition political party in Thailand by ruling party. My client asked me to seek your consent to transfer his money in Hsbc bank in Thailand to your country. The situation here is so tense that the opposition party blocked and occupied the goverment house and refused to allow the new prime minister into the government house since his inception as the new prime minister.

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Brace yourselves: If shit’s going down, it’s going down this week. John McCain is a man without honor, and he’s desperate.

Pennsylvania GOP disavows inflammatory e-mail [AP/TPM]

Feldman Speaks — But Not About Hoax [TPM]

Stinque Jam II [Flickr]

So here’s how it works: Type “sex” into Google News. Click through ten pages of some really vile shit before a story turns up that’s prurient without being putrid.

Or, short of that, go with the headline you can’t resist.

Police: Man urinates on dog after owner spurns sex [AP]