• Remember Oliver Clark? He asked a question at Tuesday's debate on the economy and John McCain told him he "probably" hadn't ever heard of Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. Well, it turns out he has a B.A. in PoliSci, a Masters in Legal Studies, and is in the midst of a Masters in Public Administration. So, he'd heard of them both, and he thought McCain's remark was condescending — and he's right. [MSNBC]
• Oh, speaking of telegraphing contempt and racism, former Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating called Obama "a guy of the street" and suggested he should admit to the drug use he's already admitted to. Frank ought to admit that he's just trying out something BET founder Bob Johnson tried on Hillary's behalf in January in South Carolina that failed so spectacularly. [Huffington Post, NY Times]
• Other things John McCain is stealing from Hillary? His mortgage buyout plan. He thinks that'll make us fickle ladies vote for him. [UPI]

• If you hadn't yet been asked to swallow enough bullshit from the McCain campaign, Sarah Palin told conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham today that she and John McCain answer questions every single day and Obama never answers anything. The Bible Spice refused to be interviewed by Ingraham again. [Think Progress, PoliticoThere's a lot of scary, scary anger out there among Republicans, mostly because they think they're losing. Suck it up, assholes. [Politico, Washington Post]
• In that, though, they're just like their scary, anger-addled idol. [The New Republic]
• The fact that Obama has enough money to buy a 30 minute advertising spot on CBS (and possibly NBC and Fox) is unlikely to help McCain's temper or the mood of his supporters. [Politico]
• But it does distract them all from how the Dow is now down below 9,000 for the first time since 2003 and the Bush Administration has decided to give up on the remainder of their free market principles and nationalize more of our financial system. [Washington Post, NY Times]

MEGAN: Happy Monday crappy hour!
MOE: I'm not sure what happened just then but I'm grumpy.
Did you see Hillary on MTP?
MEGAN: Bits and pieces after the fact. I might've been out a little late on Saturday night.
Are you referring to the part where she blames Obama for promoting her recent statement, which she claims was misunderstood, that it "took a President" to give African-Americans their civil rights?
MOE: Uh no I just saw a little of it. I Tivoed it meaning to watch it and then didn't, because, well, Top This Party: Orange County was on. But uh, I feel like if it had been important for me to watch it I would know that by now? I'm pretty sure the most important Hillary Headline of the day is: Hillary: well duh, she's a Scorpio.
MEGAN: Well, as a fellow Scorpio, I hope this puts to rest all the rumors that she has a sexless marriage.
MOE: And you're in such good company: " After all, it was in the stars: she is a Scorpio and Scorpio rules the instinct for survival. Scorpio also rules cockroaches. Did you ever try to spray or drown them? They can hold their breath and play dead until you walk out of the kitchen and turn out the light. Then they scurry away, laughing. "
MEGAN: Actually, my favorite quote may have to be: "Scorpios do lack subtlety when they have a goal. They get fixated. They zero in. Hillary can't help it. She's an assertive female. (That's why Bill married her. He likes to get slapped around once in a while.)"
MOE: Oh man, so Barack and Bill are both Leos? Interesting.
And Michelle turns out to be a Capricorn. Hmmm. But she's almost cuspy.
Okay.
Oh man, Bob Johnson of B.E.T.
MEGAN: Hillary needs to stop letting people talk about Obama's drug use, because it always backfires.
MOE: I love how he was all "How DARE you all misconstrue my statement??"

"And to me, as an African-American, I am frankly insulted that the Obama campaign would imply that we are so stupid that we would think Hillary and Bill Clinton, who have been deeply and emotionally involved in black issues since Barack Obama was doing something in the neighborhood - and I won't say what he was doing, but he said it in the book - when they have been involved."