John McCain vs. John McCain's campaign
John McCain, to ABC News' George Stephanopoulos, on why he left the campaign trail as Congress worked on a Wall Street bailout deal: "I came back because I wasn't going to phone it in."
McCain senior advisor Mark Salter, to the New York Times' Elisabeth Bumiller, on what McCain was doing in Washington to help reach a deal: "He's calling members on both sides, talking to people in the administration, helping out as he can ... he can effectively do what he needs to do by phone."


The losers who gave us Sarah Palin
Clergy say, "I won't"
And still our vote mattered
Joan Walsh
Glenn Greenwald