Word on the street is that Barack Obama is secretly scheduled to do SNL on November 1, the last weekend before the election.

Lorne Michaels recently contributed $4600 to Barack Obama’s campaign, and NBC CEO Jeffrey Immelt contributed $10,000 to Joe Biden’s Delaware Democratic State Committee.

Hm.

Republican and former US Secretary of State under President George W. Bush has endorsed Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.  In a nutshell, he thinks John McCain is a bit unsure how to handle some challenges and Sarah Palin isn’t ready to be president.  The full clip of Powell as he appeared on Meet the Press this morning.  Thoughts?

A montage of John McCain’s eye rolls and other facial twitches from the debate.

Is it possible this guy has mild Tourette Syndrome? I’m serious here.

What I’m kind of disappointed about is that this video does not include the clip of John McCain laughing so hard he snorts a little. It was somewhere toward the end of the debate but I don’t know where. Does anybody know where I can find a clip of that shit? It was actually kind of endearing, because my little sister totally does that all the time. She’ll be laughing really hard and then she’ll just snort, like, really really loudly, and it’s about the cutest thing in the world. And I can say that without fear of repercussions, because she is currently conducting a bunch of fancy scientist experiments in a sea-faring vessel and doesn’t have access to the outside world. Which is good for her because she doesn’t have to hear about how our economy’s collapsing but bad for her because I can write about her laugh-snorts and know she won’t read it.

Make sure to stay tuned for Blake Lively’s bit at the end. It’s my fave.

Here’s his thoughts on McCain’s use of the term “that one” during the debates last night. Between “that one” and “my friends,” all anyone can seem to talk about today is John McCain’s lingual pecadillos.

One of my friends changed her status message this morning to “THAT ONE ‘08″ and I thought that was kind of a riot.

Okay, my days of being politically undecided are over.

I’m voting for Barack Obama, who admits, in an upcoming issue of Men’s Health magazine, that he’s been smoking cigarettes on the campaign trail.

“There have been a couple of times during the campaign when I fell off the wagon and bummed one, and I had to kick it again,” he says. “But I figure, seeing as I’m running for president, I need to cut myself a little slack.”

I love it! A Presidential candidate ADMITTING to SMOKING CIGARETTES!!

And then he offers advice for folks trying to quit smoking: Eliminate “certain key connections – that first cigarette in the morning, or after a meal, or with a drink,” he says, speaking from personal experience.

Oh, Barack Obama. You truly are a candidate I can relate to.

“They’re going to talk about pigs, and they’re going to talk about lipstick; they’re going to talk about Paris Hilton, they’re going to talk about Britney Spears. They will try to distort my record, and they will try to undermine your trust in what the Democrats intend to do.”

Barack Obama, discussing the Republican strategy at a campaign stop in New Hampshire.

My Lord.

Now both parties have invoked the names of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears in formal campaign activities.

Wow.