The Sleep Time and Rise "n" Shine Thread- 9/26-27/08-Senator Kennedy Returns Back Home

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While everyone was debate, debate, debate, debate, Ted Kennedy was released from the hospital last night. That was by far the best news of the night in the political world:

Ailing Sen. Edward Kennedy, a liberal giant and patriarch of America's most storied political family, was examined and released from a Massachusetts hospital on Friday after suffering a mild seizure, officials said.

"Senator Kennedy experienced a mild seizure at home in Hyannis Port today and was taken to Cape Cod Hospital for examination," said a statement from the office of the 76-year-old Massachusetts Democrat, who was diagnosed with brain cancer in May.

"Doctors believe the incident was triggered by a change in medication. Senator Kennedy will return home tonight and looks forward to watching the debate," the statement added, referring to the presidential candidates' debate between Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama on Friday night.

Oh that "Liberal Lion." He couldn't miss that debate, and that is great to see.

Looks like the Marlins may cause the Mets misery on the final weekend just like last year. The Brewers are taking advantage.

Back to the post-debate, reaction, and look at this from Franz Luntz's panel group. And thankfully, Luntz and his ego got out of the way:

The hilarious stupidity of the McFool's campaign new Ad afterthe debate.

Haha at Todd Beeton response.

read that the McCain folks had released a web ad compiling some of Obama's "John McCain is right" lines from the debate tonight and I was ready to groan and write something like "serves him right" but the ad itself is actually laughably bad. First of all, they could have fit way more examples of Obama praising McCain than they did, but also, if you're going to create an ad that uses Barack Obama's words of agreeing with McCain, the punchline needs to be "Even Barack Obama knows...John McCain is the right man for the job" or something like that. Instead, here they fall back on the lame (and after tonight, clearly obsolete) "Is Barack Obama ready to lead? No." Not only is it a complete non-sequitor, but how can you trash the messenger if you want people to believe the message?

Contrary to some initial thoughts, McCain didn't say the word "horses---" last night when Obama brought up his embarrassing radio interview last week with the Arizona Senator's bizarre comments on Spain and their Prime Minister Zapatero.

And DemfromCT's Abbrevated Pundit Roundup.
He especially got Roger Simon's rose closed glasses perspective on point, as he almost always does.

It's Saturday, and we have a lot of things to cover. Good morning and Sha-la!