Any good will we may have felt for Sarah Palin after her SNL appearance just went straight down the drain.

The Republican vice-presidential candidate recently sat down with the Christian Broadcasting Network's David Brody and, breaking from her running mate, John McCain, implied she would support a federal ban on gay marriage.

Brody: On Constitutional marriage amendment , are, are you for something like that?

Palin: I am, in my own, state, I have voted along with the vast majority of Alaskans who had the opportunity to vote to amend our Constitution defining marriage as between one man and one woman. I wish on a federal level that that's where we would go because I don't support gay marriage.

I'm not going to be out there judging individuals, sitting in a seat of judgment telling what they can and can't do, should and should not do, but I certainly can express my own opinion here and take actions that I believe would be best for traditional marriage and that's casting my votes and speaking up for traditional marriage that, that instrument that it's the foundation of our society is that strong family and that's based on that traditional definition of marriage, so I do support that.

Senator McCain, who would be Palin's ticket to the White House, has previously described a federal marriage amendment as "antithetical" to the Republican party's core beliefs.

While debating the issue back in 2004, McCain said, "It usurps from the states a fundamental authority they have always possessed and imposes a federal remedy for a problem that most states do not believe confronts them." Apparently Palin thinks she knows better than McCain - and a number of States she would represent as vice-president.

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John McCain's political attacks are getting more subtle.

While the Republican's campaign previously shouted out against Barack Obama, especially with regard to "domestic terrorist" William Ayers," those negative attacks eroded some of the Senator's support.

Now, in an effort to undercut Obama and maintain some resemblance of respectability, McCain's taking a less heavy-handed angle with two key words "socialism" and "welfare."

The s-word came up a number of times this weekend as McCain derided his opponent's economic plans.

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He may have worked for President Bush and has been friends with John McCain for over two decades, but Colin Powell lent his weight to Barack Obama this weekend, a move that's garnering him plenty of criticism from the right.

Appearing on NBC's Meet The Press yesterday, General Powell expressed his concern of McCain's economic ignorance and ever-changing, negative campaign direction before diving into full blown Obama adoration. Describing the Democrat as a "transformational figure," Powell went on to laud the Senator's "steadiness," "intellectual vigor" and "inclusiveness."

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So, Joe the Plumber, the beefy goofball from Smalltown, Ohio whom John McCain invoked about 666 times during the last presidential debate? A big fraud who may be nothing more than a shoddy plant from the McCain campaign!

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Now we know why John McCain wormed out of his first David Letterman appearance to instead attend a televised chat with Katie Couric.

Because David Letterman, y'know, actually asks questions people on TV without backing bands are supposed to ask.

For instance, after grilling the senator on his incessant whining about Barack Obama's gossamer "connection" to Bill Ayers, Letterman then asks, "Did you not have a relationship with Gordon Liddy?" (Liddy, of course, was the scuzzy bastard who broke into the DNC headquarters in 1972, thus beginning the Watergate scandal and ultimately leading to Liddy's conviction and imprisonment.) And guess what? McCain is buddies with Liddy and his son! Hahaha!

He doesn't even try to pretend he's not a hypocrite.

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Presidential competitors Barack Obama and John McCain took some friendly cracks during last night's Al Smith Dinner, a Catholic charity event and routine pit stop for presidential campaigns.

McCain joked that he's qualified to be a "maverick," but a "messiah," a reference to Obama's adoring masses, is "above my pay grade." The Republican also took a shot at Bill Clinton:

Where's Bill, by the way? Can't he take one night off from his tireless quest to make the man who defeated his wife the next president? The man is a relentless advocate for the Obama campaign, and he has a subtle approach to making the case. When a reporter asked if Senator Obama was qualified to be president, Bill pointed, "Sure, he's over 35-years of age and a US citizen."

Even Hillary Clinton laughed at that one.

Obama got some good quips in, as well, telling the crowd he wouldn't rather be "palling" around with anyone else, a clever take on McCain's assertions that the Democrat pals around with "domestic terrorist" William Ayers. He also joked about the evening's locale:

Tonight's venue isn't really what I'm used to. I was originally told we'd be able to move this outdoors to Yankee Stadium - and can someone please tell me what happened to the Greek columns that I requested? I do love the Waldorf-Astoria, though. You know, I hear that from the door step, you can see all the way to the Russian Tearoom.

He also took some friendly shots at McCain's age, saying the Senator told him wonderful stories about former Governor Al Smith, with whom he shared great times before prohibition. It's gold!

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John McCain stars in two new commercials this morning - and neither's very flattering.

The first comes from the Republican himself. Entitled "Fight," the 60-second spot features Senator McCain doing his best impersonation of personable and promising, "The last eight years haven't worked very well, have they? I'll make the next four better." Pam Spaulding can't help but describe this show as a near "parody." We've included the transcript down below.

The second commercial comes from McCain rival Barack Obama, whose team seized on McCain's comments last night that he's not George Bush. Insisted the Republican, "I am not President Bush. If you wanted to run against President Bush, you should have run four years ago."

Well, the Obama camp took those words and paired them with a McCain appearance on Bill O'Reilly's show, on which McCain bragged that he voted for Bush in 2000 and 2004. Not only that, says McCain, he did "everything in my power" to get Bush elected and reelected.

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Hayden Panettiere lets the f-word fly in the video for Funny Or Die, in which the Heroes actress sarcastically urges voters to do three things: smoke cigarettes, disregard seat belts and vote for the Republican: "He's just like George Bush, except older and with a worse temper."

She goes on to remark, "John McCain - he's had affairs with lobbyists, so he'll get fucked and you'll get fucked. So everybody wins!" Indeed.

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So, David Gergen remarked that John McCain's performance at last night's debate looked like "an exercise in anger management."

At least one video-savvy voter agrees, because they took the time to create this montage of McCain's huffs, puffs, eye-rolls and visible irritation - all set to Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy."

Senators Barack Obama and John McCain had their final face-off last night at Hofstra University.

The conversations revolved around domestic issues like (surprise!) the economy, energy and health care, but be sure there was wiggle room for political attacks.

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The Onion offers an exclusive, entirely satirical report!

Republican presidential candidate John McCain obviously isn't screening his staff and campaign cohorts.

Never mind the fact that his vice-presidential pick, Sarah Palin, was under an ethics investigation when he tapped her.

There's now a much, much bigger fish to fry: William Timmons, the lobbyist McCain picked to head his potential presidential transition team.

What's the problem? Timmons worked with two other lobbyists who worked for former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

Um, yeah…

During [a five-year period] beginning in 1992, Timmons worked closely with the two lobbyists, Samir Vincent and Tongsun Park, on a previously unreported prospective deal with the Iraqis in which they hoped to be awarded a contract to purchase and resell Iraqi oil. Timmons, Vincent, and Park stood to share at least $45 million if the business deal went through.

Timmons' activities occurred in the years following the first Gulf War, when Washington considered Iraq to be a rogue enemy state and a sponsor of terrorism. His dealings on behalf of the deceased Iraqi leader stand in stark contrast to the views his current employer held at the time.

John McCain strongly supported the 1991 military action against Iraq, and as recently as Sunday described Saddam Hussein as a one-time menace to the region who had "stated categorically that he would acquire weapons of mass destruction, and he would use them wherever he could."

In case you're wondering, Timmons claims he didn't know what his pals were up to, but then later told federal investigators that, yes, he did.

Has the entire nation gone insane? By the looks of some politically-inspired Halloween displays, we'd say yes.

First, we had John McCain-supporter Melissa Neese, a Georgia woman whose All Hallow's Eve spectacle featured the "shadow of death" standing behind Barack Obama. Then, after inspiring "surprising" outrage, Ms. Neese replaced the macabre character with another figure the right finds frightening: Hillary Clinton.

Now we find ourselves in Odessa, New York, where a man named Ron Havens erected this set-up: a KKK-hooded McCain running after Barack Obama, an image that's pretty objectionable. McCain may have inadvertently fueled racist sentiment last week, and opposed Martin Luther King Day, but we'll give him the benefit of the doubt and say he's not a member of the KKK.

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