Palin can’t deal with the pressure of campaigning, poor thing:

“So North Carolina, I appreciate you all so much, who are here who already get it. You know, maybe I’m preaching to the choir a little bit here, but being here encourages me because I know that I’m not alone and I’ll send this message back to John McCain also. At those times on the campaign trail when sometimes it’s easy to get a little bit discouraged, when, you know, when you happen to turn on the news when your campaign staffers will let you turn on the news,” she said, prompting laughter from the group. “Usually they’re like ‘Oh my gosh, don’t watch. You’re going to, you know, you’re going to get depressed.'”

Clean up after yourself before you go. (via)

Jonathan Cook, The National, 15 October 2008

Israel has been suffering its worst bout of communal violence since the start of the second intifada, with a week of what has been widely presented as “rioting” by Jewish and Arab residents of the northern port city of Acre.

The outbursts were triggered by events on the night of Yom Kippur, or Day of Atonement, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. The country effectively shuts down for 24 hours as religious Jews fast and abstain from most activity, leaving secular Jews little choice but to do likewise.

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The Real News: Palestinians dismantle road blockade

BBC News: McCain and Obama in tense final debate

McCain/Palin supporters assault and batter Obama supporters in New Hampshire

Fringe Update:

Misconceptions of Obama fuel Republican campaign via Ta-Nehishi Coates

Michelle DeArmond: Inland GOP mailing depicts Obama’s face on food stamp (via)

The Associated Press
16 October 2008

OTTAWA: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper sought to show he would make Canada’s financial health a priority and released an economic plan a day after his Conservative Party won re-election but fell short of a Parliamentary majority.

[…]

“The No. 1 job of the Prime Minister of Canada is to protect this country’s economy, our earnings, our savings, and our jobs, during a time of global economic uncertainty,” Harper said Wednesday. “The mandate we received allows us to continue moving forward.”

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A mandate on cluelessness.

Chavez says “Comrade Bush” turns left in crisis
Reuters | 15 October 2008

“Bush is to the left of me now,” Chavez told an audience of international intellectuals debating the benefits of socialism. “Comrade Bush announced he will buy shares in private banks.”

Chavez, who has insulted Bush in the past as a drunkard or the devil, called him clueless on Wednesday. He accused him of simply parroting the words of his aides without understanding the new policies that rely on heavy state intervention.