By Steve Clemons

I have a long roster of McCain statements that Obama spokesman Bill Burton just sent to me and which he says needed to be debunked. I’ve created an html document of the list here. And. . .

This is a guest post by Judd Legum, who previously served as Research Director for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign and was a creator of “Think Progress” at the Center for American Progress. This post originally appeared at Huffington Post and is cross-posted with permission.

I have just flown back from Chapel Hill, North Carolina and am now in D.C. — about to watch the first debate showdown. On other fronts, Ted Kennedy has been taken to the hospital in Hyannisport, Massachusetts. No other news.

I’m not kidding. Paraguay President Fernando Lugo, while attending both the United Nations General Assembly meetings and the Clinton Global Initiative, shared with friends over dinner some of the other meetings he had been having in New York. He met this head of state. . .and that head of state. . .and so on. ….

I am at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill this morning joining a panel titled “Cuba and the United States: Historical Perspectives, Political Prospects.

The absence of a deal — something that will pump liquidity into the financial system — is choking global credit markets this morning.

Don’t ask where I got this. Like Sy Hersh, I get most of my best stuff outside of D.C. The price was very. . .high.

Online video chat by Ustream Michael Lind will be joining me today live at 12:15 pm EST for a discussion of his provocative book, The American Way of Strategy: U.S. Foreign Policy and the American Way of Life.

Just after the September 11th terrorist attacks occurred, George W. Bush went before the nation and made the case that he needed unprecedented authority — budgetary and military — to take on the threats poised at the well-being and safety of the country.

When Bush-McCain super booster Jack Welch issues warnings six weeks before an election, we are all in real trouble — no matter who wins the election. From a Reuters/Nick Zieminski interview with Welch: Former General Electric Co. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jack Welch said the U.S.