What Up, Johnny Mac?

And in another incrutable maverick maneuver, the McCain campaign pulled an aide from a CNN interview that would have made them actually look GOOD. HuffPo sums it up here: "CNN host Rick Sanchez said he was 'mystified' by a last minute decision by the McCain campaign to pull a Muslim grassroots organizer from appearing on his show. The aide, Daniel Zubairi, had been scheduled to appear on Sanchez's mid-day program after he was caught on video talking down an anti-Muslim protester outside a McCain rally in Woodbridge, Virginia. But, even after telling the network that an interview was 'good to go,' the McCain shop pulled Zubairi at the last minute, leaving Sanchez in limbo on live TV. 'Wouldn't you think they would have wanted him to come on?' the CNN host would later tell the Huffington Post. 'What the guy did was courageous. I called him heroic. I'm mystified why they wouldn't embrace him for his actions. Maybe they didn't like the story, but I'll tell you. I thought it was presented it in a very transparent way, if anything I kind of gushed philosophically about how impressive and real his reaction was to the protester's hateful message. It seemed to show some of the best of McCain supporters, didn't it?'"

The World on Its Ear

In the upside down world in which Iceland is being bailed out by the IMF, Cuba has discovered that they are actually rich --oil rich that is. Apparently the island is sitting on a field that could yield 20 billion barrels of oil. Hello world... introducing the Kuwait of the Carribbean...Can I hear a pro-Cuba shout-out from the candidates...? No? Maybe later.