Latest endorsements

In another one of those gosh-durned funny twists of fate, Scott McClellan, former Mouth of Sauron-- I mean Bush press secretary--endorsed Obama at a taping of D.L. Hughley's new show for CNN. Ooooh, Scott, there's something growing out of your neck... oh wait. I think it's a backbone.

And holy moley, Ron Howard has gotten the Opie wig back on and had a reunion with Andy Griffith and Henry Winkler in this latest ad from Funny or Die.

Obama also picked up the NY Times endorsement, unsurprising because of course that Liberal-bias rag has been in the tank for Obama since the start. Hah.

It will be an enormous challenge just to get the nation back to where it was before Mr. Bush, to begin to mend its image in the world and to restore its self-confidence and its self-respect. Doing all of that, and leading America forward, will require strength of will, character and intellect, sober judgment and a cool, steady hand. Mr. Obama has those qualities in abundance.

Watching him being tested in the campaign has long since erased the reservations that led us to endorse Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic primaries. He has drawn in legions of new voters with powerful messages of hope and possibility and calls for shared sacrifice and social responsibility.

Mr. McCain, whom we chose as the best Republican nominee in the primaries, has spent the last coins of his reputation for principle and sound judgment to placate the limitless demands and narrow vision of the far-right wing. His righteous fury at being driven out of the 2000 primaries on a racist tide aimed at his adopted daughter has been replaced by a zealous embrace of those same win-at-all-costs tactics and tacticians. He surrendered his standing as an independent thinker in his rush to embrace Mr. Bush's misbegotten tax policies and to abandon his leadership position on climate change and immigration reform.

Gallup has gone the extra mile and gotten polling from the rest of the world as to who they would vote for. Not that you couldn't guess, but it's interesting to see what a vote of confidence McCain doesn't get. Of the top ten countries that are most pro-McCain, four of them are not for McCain--but nevertheless, they still qualify as the most "pro" that he's got. Obama, unsurprisingly finds his biggest supporters among African and European countries. It's the companion piece to the similar poll from earlier in the year. Interesting how BLUE everything looks.

Painful. Really painful... Nancy Pfotenhauer, new Mouth of Sauron, is back, this time trying valiantly to defend...er... justify...er... cover up... Sarah Palin's (mis)understanding of the constitutional role of the Vice President, to wit, that "A Vice President has a great job because not only are they there to support the President's agenda, they are like the team member, the teammate to that President. They are in charge of the senate. if they want to, they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better." Yeah, get in there and be all senator-ey and as to agenda-advancing and good. With smile firmly affixed to her teeth, Nancy has a go, and Chris Matthews, to his credit does NOT let it go.