Final Presidential Debate Fact Check - Fact Checker

CHECKING THE FACTS
This is a pretty good site for checking facts. This one lays out where each of the candidates stretched the truth.
(Suggested by Donna Soto)

Why I'd Be a Better VP than Sarah Palin

ME JOHN, ME!
Johnny Cash's daughter would like to submit her name as a replacement for Sarah Palin saying that she feels confident that McCain will see in her the very attributes he desires in his VP choice. For your consideration, her big, fat résumé.
(Suggested by MOLLY THOMAS)

SAY IT AIN'T SO, JOE
The news keeps getting "worser and worser" for McCain. Yesterday even the GOP stalwarts started piling on. None other than neocon looney William Kristol and David Brooks, amongst many other commentators and politicians, started railing against McCain and bemoaning the state of their glorious GOP. (See today's Press Register for the Kristol piece.) Given the fractuous animosity and internecine stuggles between their competing party wings, maybe that's not really such big news.
Except they're going public. And, maybe, this is just some sort of tough love lesson for the party: "if you choose to break party discipline (be a 'maverick'), you will pay the price." Hey, I understand. I was so pissed at the Democratic Party, that I voted for Ralph Nader. But, seeing Joe Scarborough on Stephen Colbert - above and beyond being thrilled by what he said about McCain's campaign - was transformational. It went far beyond anything that I've seen on television lately.
I lived in Pensacola when he was coming up and saw how he went from a local dumbass know-nothing to a powerful and somewhat thugish GOP wunderkinder and then to a loud-mouth wannabee O'Reilly television commentator. And that's about all I've really known about him for lo these many years except that during Katrina a lot of folks rallied locally to take up the slack occasioned by the Bush Administration's indifference. Kathryn, Carlos' mom, was one of those that bought things out of her own pocket, generated fund drives, and broke the curfew to ferry the supplies to Mississippi. Scarborough was one of the local luminaries who rose to the challenge by being tremendously instrumental in that process.
Here he was on Colbert last night, not quite the mugwump pushing Obama, but giving his assessment that the election was over.
What really was so surprising and refreshing was the manner in which Scarborough has matured. He stayed on message while still comporting himself admirably against Colbert's antics, jovially giving every bit as good as what he got against Colbert's right wing strawperson. Unfortunately, it ended too soon. I wanted Scarborough to finish his thought process about how he'd gotten to where he was and especially the GOP's Katrina response.
Now, no one thinks that Scarborough is Saul on the road to Damascus. I just wanted to hear what he had to say about expecting someone to remedy a problem - be it a natural disaster or an economic one - if the solution is antithetical to their political philosophy and I wanted to hear it from someone who was out there dealing with the realities of trying to help someone who truly needed help.

Former federal prosecutor decries William Ayers link - Los Angeles Times

AYERS CASE PROSECUTOR SPEAKS OUT
A former United States Attorney has publicly taken issue with the characterization that the case against William Ayers was dismissed for "prosecutorial misconduct." The government dropped the case after the Nixon administration's "illegal activities, including wiretaps, break-ins and mail interceptions," were exposed, he said.
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