If you missed it, check out (above) John McCain's appearance on Saturday Night Live with Tina Fey playing his Vice Presidential running mate, Sarah Palin.

Lovesit!

P.S. Fierce cameo by Cindy McCain.

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This is somewhat shocking, funny, and yet sad at the same time.

A resident of Chapel Hill, N.C., was very upset that someone kept stealing his McCain-Palin campaign signs from his yard.

So, Shawn Turschak decided to do something about it! And, being an electrical engineer really helped.

Earlier this week, Turschak decided to hook up a third sign to a power source belonging to an electric pet fence. He also hooked up a surveillance camera to catch the thief.

And, to everyone's surprise, this time around it was a 9 year-old boy, with an Obama-Biden sign in his hand, that grabbed the McCain sign and got a jolt of electricity.

The child's father is upset that his son got shocked, so he showed up at Turschak's door along with an Orange County Sheriff.

As for the boy's dad, he says his kid just wanted to see how the sign was put together.

Riiiiiight.

Turschak says the boy intended to swap out the signs.

But, in Turschak's defense, he did put up signs warning of electrical shocks.

No charges are said to be filed and Turschak did remove the electric shockers.

The following day, though, his camera caught another person stealing another McCain-Palin sign off his property!

CLICK HEREto see footage of the kid getting shocked. Thankfully it wasn't anything hurtful, but we doubt the kid will be trespassing again anytime soon.

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Saturday Night Live is THE place to be for political playas!

John McCain is set to appear in this weekend's SNL.

We hope he'll appear alongside Tina "Palin" Fey!!

That would be so brills!!

Die-hard Democrat, Ben Affleck, is this week's celebrity host.

Will they incorporate him into the McCain skit too?

[Image via Getty Images.]

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“She is a governor, the most popular governor in America. I think she is the most qualified of any that has run recently for vice president.”

- John McCain tells Don Imus, on those who criticize Sarah Palin's qualifications to be President of the Unites States

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Sexy Sarah's off-script remarks about her "wardrobe scandal" at a rally in Tampa, Florida, on Sunday has got some of the aides in the Elephant House doing a collective face-palm.

Talk to the hand!!!

During the rally, Palin brought attention back to Wardrobe Malfunction 2008, defending her innocence once again with, "Those clothes, they are not my property. Just like the lighting and the staging and everything else that the RNC purchased, I'm not taking them with me."

Yeah, but one of those things is not like the others!

A senior McCain adviser told CNN that those "were not the remarks we sent to her plane." But a Palin associate says the candidate is just trying to break free of the rumors and prove what kind of person she really is.

Here's some advice:

Stop reminding people of it!!!

This isn't the first time she's given the McCain people a heart attack. One time she called "robocalls" "irritating" while the rest of the campaign defended their use. And in another instance of "going rogue," she told reporters she disagreed with a campaign decision to pull out of Michigan.

The snitching source went so far as to call Palin a "diva," "playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party."

Keep on dreaming!

Tension between pres and veep candidates is not that unusual, but when your veep is so questionable and receiving so much negative attention, the tension sure doesn't help.

After all, the McCain camp tried to keep Sexy Sarah under wraps for as long as possible while they brought her up to do date as quickly as possible because "Her lack of fundamental understanding of some key issues was dramatic."

Looks like someone shot himself in the foot!

[Image via WENN.]

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Abandon ship!

With T-minus 8 days and counting until the election, things are not looking good for the Republicans.

One of Alaska's largest papers - the Anchorage Daily News - has just announced its endorsement of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

Ouch.

They called their own Sexy Sarah "too risky" to be one very close step to President of the United States. And that even though the state may have been "captivated" by her nomination, they should not let her "overwhelm their judgment."

Sexy Sarah is indeed seductive!

But the paper said voters need to keep their eyes on the prize.

In other words, McCain is the "wrong choice."

[Image via WENN.]

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"We just let things get completely out of hand," he said of his own party's rule in the past eight years. Spending, the conduct of the war in Iraq for years, growth in the size of government, larger than any time since the Great Society, laying a $10 trillion debt on future generations of America, owing $500 billion to China, obviously, failure to both enforce and modernize the [financial] regulatory agencies that were designed for the 1930s and certainly not for the 21st century, failure to address the issue of climate change seriously."

- John McCain on George W. Bush's presidency, in a new interview with The Washington Times

[Image via WENN.]

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Does John McCain's family think they're above the law?

Apparently, his brother does!

Joe McCain was was stuck in traffic on October 21st in Alexandria, VA. Extremely upset by the traffic backup, the possible future president's brother decided he would call 911 to complain.

WTF?!?!?!

And he called TWICE!

Here's how the first call went:

Operator: 911 state your emergency
Caller: Well, it's not an emergency but do you know why on one side at the damn drawbridge of 95, traffic is stopped for 15 minutes and yet traffic's coming the other way?
Operator: Sir, are you calling 911 to complain about traffic? (pause)
Caller: "Fuck you." (caller hangs up)

So then, the 911 Operator, apparently a bit confused and bothered that someone would call an emergency number to complain about traffic, called back the number that placed the 911 call.

And instead of an answer, got his voicemail instead.

McCain's voicemail said, "Hi this is Joe McCain I can't take this message now because I'm involved in a very (inaudible) important political project… I hope on Nov. 4th we have elected John."

After receiving the message on his phone, an even more upset McCain called 911 again to bitch. That conversation went as follows:

Caller: Somebody gave me this riot act about the violation of police.
Operator: Did you just call 911 in reference to this?
Caller: Yeah.
Operator: 911 is to be used for emergencies only, not just because you're sitting in traffic.

The McCain campaign refused to comment. Nice!

If Joe is this way now, imagine how he'll behave on a power trip if his brother does become president?

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There's been even more mutiny on the Republican ship.

Harvard Law Professor Charles Fried - who has been one of the most prominent conservative thinkers in the country and served as Solicitor General of the United States under Reagan - announced that he's cast his vote for Obama in an absentee ballot.

Fried also asked to be removed from several campaign-related committees on which he served and stated that his reason for voting Democrat was "the choice of Sarah Palin at a time of deep national crisis."

Ouch!

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