We're loaded down here with Morning News today. We've got election predictions, strained candidate marriages, strained political relationships (starring Bill Clinton), Britney talking about her crazies, expensive fancy Elmo and a woman held captive by her husband for fifty -- 5-0! -- years. And much, much more (like, did you know Barack Obama's campaign plane stinks?).
We'll start with a prediction: Obama's going to win in a landslide.
Hey, we didn't say it. Democratic strategists did. They think with Florida, Ohio, Virginia and North Carolina shifting toward the Democrat -- and as long as the ecomony is still tanking (that shouldn't be a problem) -- the election is Obama's to lose. Hell, even military families are openly supporting a non-Republican on military bases and everything.
McCain didn't endear himself to the guy who asked the second question at Tuesday's debate. McCain assumed the guy hadn't heard of Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae. Because the guy was black? Or because McCain is that out of touch? The question-asker fills in the details on his Facebook page.
Bill "Holdin' a Grudge" Clinton still refuses to love Bill "Judas" Richardson. Hillary has forgiven him for endorsing Obama, the governor of N.M. said, but Bill hasn't. "That politics," Richardson says.
Know what a correspondent for CBS News doesn't love? The smell of Obama's campaign plane. Or the Democratic candidate campaign's treatment of its press corps in general (no printed schedules!). The reporter longs for the organized and fresh-scented flights of John McCain.
What else do we have in love today? Looks like it's time for our Daily Palin and this pressing question: Why, why isn't Sarah Palin wearing her wedding ring?
Is this splitsville for the first couple of Alaska? Or is she retaining water due to another pregnancy? Did she accidentally flush her ring down a sink in the Straight Talk Express? Or maybe, mayyyyybeeeee ...
It's Troopergate? She's pissed that Todd said too much? Though, truthfully, he appears to be falling on the sword for Sarah and taking the blame mostly himself. Read the dishy testimony here and here. It includes accounts like (1) Sarah got sorta spanked by the later-fired public safety commissioner for driving once without Trig in a car seat and (2) that the state retaliated against her for selling the famous eBay jet by not having available to her a plane that could fly her to the Bush and (3) that it was Todd's obsession, not hers -- she even asked him to stop talking about it! Still, other details make you think ... hmmmm, what is the deal with this trooper/ex? He seems kind of creepy.
Oh, PS: Palin and the McCain campaign when ahead and cleared her last night of any wrongdoing in Troopergate. (Wait ... outside of a George Orwell novel, can you do that? Clear yourself in your own investigation?)
Daily Palin interview meltdown: the energy expert told people at a town hall meeting that Congress bans exports of Alaskan oil (turns out, that's false).
Daily Palin action on behalf of the base: Her office refused to sign a state proclamation for National Coming Out Day. What do you think her gay BFF thinks of this?
Daily Palin justice: The son of a Tennessee state legislator has been indicted for hacking into Sarah Palin's email account.
Rounding out your Morning News, we have a sneak peak at the upcoming Britney Spears documentary. Even she wonders what the hell she was thinking back in her head-shaving crazy days. She also refers to herself as a "smart person." Hey, don't judge! Maybe she is.
It's official: continental Europeans are obsessed with imprisoning loved ones. The latest discovery? An Italian woman who was held prisoner in her own home by her own husband for fifty years. They have two grown kids, by the way. She finally broke free when she was taken to the hospital for a heart problem.
Does pizza make it burn when you pee? (No? Us either.) If you answered yes, however, you're not alone! Pizza and other foods may set off your undiagnosed chronic bladder condition. (Tip: you might want to get that looked at.)
Good news that could be better: One in four American girls got the cervical cancer vaccine.
Will there be room in the Christmas budget this year for the most expensive Tickle Me Elmo doll yet? This one can move just like the little TV monster. We have to ask: why? Why?
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