Internal Monologue

The immortal billmon on DailyKos : Maybe associating Obama -- who was all of seven or eight years old when the Weathermen were play acting at revolution -- with an armchair radical old enough to be his father will be enough to push all these old buttons one more time. Certainly McCain's allies in the corporate media will do what they can to help lean on those buttons. Nevertheless, I don't think there's much future in this strategy. The '60s culture war is gasping its last gasps, with McCain and his Rovian crew frantically trying to get one last bestial fuck out of the old sow before she lays down in the mud and dies.

Scoped sniper rifles and white supremacist trappings. Glad they were caught .

Here's a picture of Quinn from our walk today.

A fictional character based on a real person... ...who is now following a path similar to that of the fictional character. Photo of Obama and Jimmy Smits in 2005 stolen from here. (Chris Greenberg/Getty) Yglesias : Steve Benen spies a parallel between Barack Obama’s choice of Joe Biden and Matt Santos’ selection of Leo McGarry as a running mate during the final season of The West Wing . There really are a somewhat freakishly large number of parallels between the Santos-Vinick race and the Obama-McCain matchup. It’s worth noting, though, that it’s not all coincidence. As Jonathan Freedland pointed out in a perceptive Guardian article some months ago Santos was actually modeled in part on Obama . Freedland : The result is a bizarre case of art imitating life - only for life to imitate art back again.

via Sullivan .

Apparently, CNN is saying so . Intrade has him at 97%. I'm sort of hoping it will be someone else now, just for the shock value. I don't know much about Biden , but that's a link to his Wikipedia entry.

American automakers want a bailout, in the form of a $25 billion dollar government-backed loan : The plan is for the government to lend some $25 billion to the automakers in the first year at an interest rate of 4.5 percent, or about one-third what the companies are currently paying to borrow, the report said. Under the proposal, the government would have the option of deferring any payment at all for up to five years, the article said. Oh wait, make that $50 billion : Aug. 22 (Bloomberg) -- General Motors Corp. , Ford Motor Co., Chrysler LLC and U.S. auto-parts makers are seeking $50 billion in government-backed loans, double their initial request, to develop and build more fuel-efficient vehicles. Here's what Yglesias has to say about that: On a somewhat less jokey note, observe that at the moment the entire market capitalization of General Motors is just $5.91 billion . If it’s genuinely the case that access to a low-interest line of credit would turn GM aroun