The National Enquirer is reporting that Cindy McCain is cheating on her husband John McCain.  She has allegedly been seen several times at concerts and other venues making out with a “washed-up ’80s rock musician.”

Not only that but multiple witnesses have caught the pair lip locking on several other occasions.

“I couldn’t believe I was watching Cindy McCain passionately kissing and hugging another man!”

That’s the stunned reaction of an eyewitness who says he watched in shock - and snapped photos - as the former presidential candidates life romantically kissed a long-haired man who resembles “a washed-up ’80s rock musician.”

Take it with a grain of salt but the Enquirer is also the source that broke John Edwards affair with Reille Hunter. The magazine also accused Sarah Palin of an affair with business partners but has failed to prove it so far.

Maverick is going to be PISSED one way or another!  Look for Johnny to put a troop ’surge’ on this poor rocker dude’s front lawn before Thanksgiving!

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Tonight Barack Obama was elected as the 44th President of the United States. Congrats to Barack and Michelle Obama on this historic victory for America.

Obama gave a rousing acceptance speech that finished eloquently with his story of Anne Nixon Cooper, a 106-year old woman from Atlanta, that was born a generation after slavery. A woman that wasn’t allowed to vote based on the color of her skin and her gender at one point.

Tonight is a good night for Obama, Cooper, and millions of Americans here and abroad.

John McCain’s Concession Speech

Live Blogging Presidential Race Results over at Political Kudzu for the 2008 ‘Big Boy’ race between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain.

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Here is a bit of election day humor to keep everyone loose today. Whether you are voting for Barack Obama or John McCain you will still very likely wake up tomorrow. Check out the video above and have a good laugh.

Presidential candidate Barack Obama flips off John McCain while attempting to say he will congratulate him after the election is over. Always good to see a Presidential candidate flipping the bird. Don’t forget George W. Bush doing it to a camera (he thought was not filming) back when he was governor of Texas. Pretty funny and observant by whoever noticed Barack giving McCain the middle finger salute and posted it on You Tube. This will all be over in one more day thank goodness.

Related Post: John McCain’s 5 Biggest Campaign Blunders

UPDATE: It appears Obama made the same gesture while talking about Hillary Clinton’s blistering attacks against him in the primaries. Watch that video HERE at Political Kudzu.

John McCain appeared on ‘Saturday Night Live’ last night. As you can imagine he poked fun at himself, running mate Sarah Palin, and opponent Barack Obama. Cindy McCain even made a guest appearance in the opening act. The skit played off of Barack’s informercial this past week that cost millions of dollars to air. McCain appears on QVC because it is the only place on TV he could afford airtime. In the skit Tina Fey makes an appearance as Palin wearing a ‘Palin 2012′ shirt. McCain also did a brief skit on the Weekend Update portion of the show.

View the McCain “Weekend Update” Video Here

I did a political piece this morning over at Political Kudzu regarding John McCain’s ‘5 Biggest Campaign Blunders’ of the 2008 Presidential election.  I think most of you will find it interesting regardless if you are voting for McCain or Barack Obama.

McCain might very well be worthy of being President (and shockingly could still win on Tuesday), but his campaign staff and team rank as one of the worst ever in modern day political history.

The blunder that I rank as the #1 biggest campaign blunder will likely surprise supporters or both candidates.

Read the Full List of McCain’s 5 Biggest Campaign Blunders

UPDATE: Todd has admitted to making the entire story up but doesn’t know why she did.  My experience with psycho, sick people is that they are just that….sick!  Ms. Todd should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. She should be branded on her forehead with the letters L-I-A-R.

A female volunteer for John McCain was robbed at knife-point, robbed of her cash earlier today.  The robber then knifed a big ‘B’ (for Barack) into her face after he noticed she had a John McCain bumper sticker on her car.  The victim, Ashley Todd, refused medical treatment initially, but stated that she would go to the hospital later today.

Todd handed the man $60 she had in her pocket and stepped away from him, investigators said. The man then noticed the bumper sticker on the woman’s car, which was parked in front of the ATM. The man became very angry, made comments to Todd about John McCain and punched her in the back of the head, knocking her to the ground, police said.

“He continued to kick and punch her repeatedly and said he would teach her a lesson for supporting John McCain,” said police Chief Nate Harper.

The man then carved the “B” into Todd’s right cheek. Todd, who isn’t familiar with the area, drove to a friend’s house nearby and told her friend she wasn’t sure of the exact location where the robbery took place but remembered a green sign above the ATM.

Todd has been working for the McCain campaign as a volunteer. John McCain has already spoken to her about the incident.  Obama’s camp issued a statement as well condemning the attack by the assailant.

“She is a volunteer for the McCain-Palin campaign,” said campaign spokesman Peter Feldman. “Sen. McCain has reached out to her via telephone and has spoken to her and her family,” as has McCain’s running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Feldman said. “Out of respect for her privacy we’re not going to comment further.”

Democrat Barack Obama’s campaign released a statement saying: “Our thoughts and prayers are with the young woman for her to make a speedy recovery, and we hope that the person who perpetrated this crime is swiftly apprehended and brought to justice.”

Our thoughts go out to Ms. Todd and hopefully the sick man that sliced her face will be captured and brought to justice.

Video footage of John McCain as a Prisoner-of-War (POW) in Vietnam was released today. Some of the footage (see above) had been shown on some news shows in bits and pieces. So hard to fathom being a POW for five years. Being a POW in Vietnam had to make imprisonment at Angola look like a Saturday afternoon at the beauty shop.

Howard Stern has one of his street reporters ask African-Americans if they are voting for Barack Obama. When they said “yes” he then proceeds to ask them if they agree with Obama’s policies on abortion or Iraq. The interviewer however states John McCain’s policies instead of Barack’s. They are even asked if Sarah Palin will make a good VP when Obama is elected. The audio clip here is pretty fun yet not that surprising.

Presidential candidate John McCain tried to appease talk show host David Letterman on Thursday night for canceling an appearance on ‘The Late Show’ last month when McCain said he had to get back to Washington to deal with the bailout plan.

That night Letterman took several fair and unfair shots at McCain.  Letterman didn’t let up last night when McCain was on the show.  He badgered McCain about Sarah Palin before trying to tie McCain to G. Gordon Liddy, a talk show host, who became known for infamously breaking into the Watergate Hotel for Richard Nixon in 1972 during Nixon’s re-election campaign.

Here is the back-and-forth from last night regarding Liddy:

“Did you not have a relationship with Gordon Liddy?” Letterman inquired.

McCain acknowledged knowing the Watergate burglar. Following the commercial break, McCain further said, “I know Gordon Liddy. He paid his debt, he went to prison … I’m not in any way embarrassed to know Gordon Liddy.”

“You understand the same case could be made of your relationship with him as is being made with William Ayers?” Letterman said.

McCain responded that he has been completely open about his relationship with Liddy.

Gordon did serve 4 and 1/2 years in prison before democratic President Jimmy Carter commuted his sentence in 1977.  Liddy has written several books since then and has a nationally syndicated radio talk show.  Liddy has donated around $5,000 to McCain’s campaigns over the years.

Bill Ayers, on the other hand, was never convicted of bombing several buildings and bridges including the U.S. Capital and Pentagon.  He admitted to the crimes but got off when evidence was mishandled.

Here is what Ayers said after the charges were dropped against him because investigators botched the case:

“Guilty as sin, free as a bird, it’s a great country”

Liddy is no saint.  Heck, nobody in politics is even close to being Jimmy Swaggart. But to compare Liddy to Ayers is an extreme and overreaching stretch.  Liddy broke into a hotel to steal documents which was WRONG.  Ayers bombed several locations and landmarks including the Capital and Pentagon which was HORRIBLE.

Liddy served time for his crime. Ayers got off because incompetent invesigators messed up evidence during one of their searches.

Ayers had this to say on September 11, 2001 about the Weather Underground activities of the 60’s and 70’s.  Yes 9/11/01:

“I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.”

McCain was smart to openly say to Dave that he knows Liddy and is not embarrassed by that fact.  Now if Obama would only do the same about Ayers.  If he had already come clean on the extent of the relationship it would be a dead issue.

I will be live blogging tonight’s Presidential debate between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain at PoliticalKudzu.com.  The debate takes place tonight from Hofstra University in New York.  Tonight’s debate will be moderated by Bob Schieffer of CBS News.

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I will be live blogging tonight’s Presidential debate over at Political Kudzu.  The debate between Barack Obama and John McCain starts at 9pm EST from Belmont University in Nashville, TN.

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I posted earlier today about tonight’s Vice Presidential debate between Joe Biden (Democrat) and Sarah Palin (Republican).  The tussle will be moderated by PBS host Gwen Ifill.  I will be live blogging the VP debate over at PoliticalKudzu.com starting at 9pm EST (Debate Time).

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In the upcoming Nov. 2nd (Election day is Nov. 4th) episode of The Simpsons, Homer Simpson goes to the poll to vote for Barack Obama (see video above). The balloting computer changes his vote to John McCain and then proceeds to kill him.

UPDATE: Live Blogging VP Debate Between Palin and Biden at Political Kudzu

Tune in tonight at 9:00pm EST/6:00pm PST to see the Vice Presidential debate between Republican Sarah Palin and Democrat Joe Biden.

The extreme buzz around the debate got even louder yesterday when it was revealed that moderator Gwen Ifill is writing a pro-Obama book, The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama, that is scheduled to be released on Inauguration Day.

She has also written an article for ‘Essence’ magazine titled, “The Obamas: Portrait of an American Family.”  Gwen will for sure make upwards of a million dollars if Barack Obama becomes President in book sales.  Her book will sell like hotcakes and finally make her wealthy (since she makes peanuts working for PBS).  So she for sure has a financial interest in a Barack victory.

Gwen will be in a wheelchair tonight (see photo above) because she fell down her steps on Monday at her house and broke her ankle.

Tonight’s debate will be more watched than last Friday’s debate between John McCain and Barack Obama.

I don’t think Ifill will be unfair tonight with Palin.  I believe she will be very careful to make sure she comes across as fair to both candidates.  Palin won’t lose the debate tonight based on any question from Ifill, at least in my opinion.  If Ifill does pose questions to Palin that America thinks are extremely unfair then there will be a public outlash against Ifill and Obama.

Republican John McCain has suspended his Presidential campaign to return to Washington, D.C. and the Senate to try and iron out the $700 billion bailout bill that is starting to face serious troubles and additions.

Here is what McCain said just hours ago in a released statement:

Tomorrow morning, I will suspend my campaign and return to Washington after speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative. I have spoken to Senator Obama and informed him of my decision and have asked him to join me.

I am calling on the President to convene a meeting with the leadership from both houses of Congress, including Senator Obama and myself. It is time for both parties to come together to solve this problem.

We must meet as Americans, not as Democrats or Republicans, and we must meet until this crisis is resolved.I am directing my campaign to work with the Obama campaign and the commission on presidential debates to delay Friday night’s debate until we have taken action to address this crisis.

I am confident that before the markets open on Monday we can achieve consensus on legislation that will stabilize our financial markets, protect taxpayers and homeowners, and earn the confidence of the American people. All we must do to achieve this is temporarily set politics aside, and I am committed to doing so.

This is a very body and risky move for the Maverick.  It will either pay off with a win in November or it could backfire Barack Obama all the way to Pennsylvania Avenue.   I think both Senators should be in D.C. until Monday morning to figure out this extremely important financial bailout plan.

I believe the debate will happen Friday in Oxford.  Too much planning has gone into it for it to be canceled.  I also believe McCain knows this and knew before there would be no chance of it being cancelled.  So therefore he asked knowing the result before hand.  Rough and tumble politics as usual.

The Atlantic Magazine didn’t do their homework and hired unapologetic liberal photographer Jill Greenberg to shoot Presidential candidate John McCain for the cover of the October issue of their magazine.

Jill didn’t touch up McCain’s photo for the cover and has admitted that she did all she could to make the image look as bad as possible.

“I left his eyes red and his skin looking bad,” she told Photo District News.

Greenberg then used the outtakes from the shoot to doctor them via photoshop, add unflattering commentary, and posted them on her website (see images below).

Jeffrey Goldberg who wrote the accompanying article for The Atlantic had this to say about Greenberg:

“Greenberg doctored photographs of McCain she took during her Atlantic-arranged shoot, which took place last month in Las Vegas. She has posted these doctored photographs on her website, which you can go find yourself, if you must. Suffice it to say that her ‘art’ is juvenile, and on occasion repulsive. This is not the issue, of course; the issue is that she betrayed this magazine, and disgraced her profession.“

WARNING: The Below Photos Are Graphic and Offensive
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Just four years ago Michelle Malkin wrote about how Greenberg had parents drop kids off at her studio for a photo shoot.  She would then terrorize the kids to make them cry and scream so she could get photos of them in a state of disarray.  She then used the photos in an attempt to attack President Bush.

A simple Google search would have turned up my post and posts by many professional photographers disgusted by what she did in 2004 and put on exhibit in 2006. This woman deliberately terrorized children, stripped them, ordered parents to “step out of the studio for a couple minutes” in concerted attempts to make children cry who were not cooperating, and then captioned the photos of the children with anti-Bush slogans.

The editors of The Atlantic have stated they were shocked about the shoot and didn’t know anything about Greenberg’s past.  Google?

Katherine Brittain Bradley, the wife of The Atlantic’s owner David G. Bradley, has given $28,500.00 to Barack Obama’s campaign.

“Some of my artwork has been pretty anti-Bush, so maybe it was somewhat irresponsible for them [The Atlantic] to hire me.” - Jill Greenberg

So what do you think about Greenberg’s photos?  Over the line?  No big deal?  Atlantic’s fault?

I believe The Atlantic hired her intentionally knowing she would do something like this and create a firestorm. Therefore bringing the magazine an unprecedented amount of publicity and sales.

Female rock group Heart is pissed off about the Republicans using their song “Barracuda” last night as Sarah ‘Barracuda’ Palin and her family joined Republican presidential nominee John McCain on stage after his acceptance speech.

Nancy Wilson, of Heart, had this to say in response to their song being used by the elephants last night:

“I feel completely f—ed over.” She and sister Ann Wilson then e-mailed the following exclusive statement:

“Sarah Palin’s views and values in NO WAY represent us as American women. We ask that our song ‘Barracuda’ no longer be used to promote her image. The song ‘Barracuda’ was written in the late 70s as a scathing rant against the soulless, corporate nature of the music business, particularly for women. (The ‘barracuda’ represented the business.) While Heart did not and would not authorize the use of their song at the RNC, there’s irony in Republican strategists’ choice to make use of it there.”

It was mentioned in the same article that Barack Obama stole George W. Bush’s republican music theme, “Only In America” by Brooks & Dunn, to conclude his speech to 85,000 screaming fans at his acceptance speech last Thursday.

If you’re not aware of the history of the GOP using “Only in America,” a refresher is in order: Brooks & Dunn played it at the Bush inauguration in 2000. At the 2004 GOP convention, Dick Cheney used it as his exit music after his speech. And President Bush frequently used it on the campaign trail four years ago, even asking Brooks & Dunn to come out and play it live at rallies in the final week of the race.

McCain has been using the Brooks & Dunn song “That’s What It’s All About” at his campaign rallies this year.

Kix Brooks summed it up well when he spoke of the Democrats using a song that has become such a staple of the Republican party:

Kix Brooks released his official response in a benign statement: “Seems ironic that the same song Bush used at The Republican Convention last election would be used by Obama and the Democrats now. Very flattering to know our song crossed parties and potentially inspires all Americans.”

I think Kix summed it up best.  We for sure wouldn’t be speaking of Heart at all this morning unless their hit song was used as a backdrop for Palin to enter the stage last night.  I don’t think people at home go around wondering or giving a flip whether Heart supports McCain and Palin.  Palin’s basketball nickname from high school is “Barracuda.”  Heart should be smart, take the money that will come from the song being downloaded on iTunes, and donate it to their boy Barack!

The true winner this election season is Brooks & Dunn.

Truly, “Only in America!”

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