This presidential campaign has easily been the most hilarious of my lifetime (older readers are welcome to chime in), but in the last week, like a sitcom run out of ideas and desperate for ratings, it's gone from hilarious to batshit fucking insane:

You and I own 79% of AIG.   And right after winning Time's "Person of the Year", things are looking up!

A former Goldman Sachs executive who in three months will be returning to the private sector, asked the government for 700 billion dollars to give to his old friends, in exchange for nothing.  And was taken seriously.  Why 700 billion, you might ask?  "It's not based on any particular data point," a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. "We just wanted to choose a really large number."

John McCain wants a timeout in the presidential campaign because he's losing really badly of the economy.  Funny, it seems like just a week ago he was talking about how strong the fundamentals of our economy were.  Bonus Round!  Events not important enough to suspend campaigns: Civil War, Great Depression, WWII.

Lady Lynn Forester de Rothchild, international financier and Clinton fundraiser, is supporting John McCain because Barack Obama 'is an elitist'.  Yeah.  I can only assume that elitist is code for something that rhymes with 'trigger'. Relevancy, you may ask?  Meeting with her is what McCain was doing when he was supposedly working on the crisis.

But what can he do to save the Republic?  Take it away top McCain surrogate Lindsay Graham!  "McCain supporter Sen. Lindsey Graham tells CNN the McCain campaign is proposing to the Presidential Debate Commission and the Obama camp that if there's no bailout deal by Friday, the first presidential debate should take the place of the VP debate, currently scheduled for next Thursday, October 2 in St. Louis." 

Just how scared is their campaign about having Sarah Palin face questions, even if they're so easy a special needs third grader could answer them.?  Let's look at the pool report from Politico:

"McCain then looked around the room and gestured as if to welcome questions. The AP reporter shouted a question at Gov. Palin ("Governor, what have you learned from your meetings?") but McCain aide Brooke Buchanan intervened and shepherded everybody out of the room. Palin looked surprised, leaned over to McCain and asked him a question, to which your pooler thinks he shook his head as if to say "No.""

Finally, one bit of sanity from musical group Heart  (linked for graphic descriptions of analingus on a very unattractive man):

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