2008 Primaries Thread

being that ppl actually pay attention to like current events, y'all have probably seen it like 20 times, but it just made my mornin ; )

Hillary: "John, who is, as we know, the son of a mill worker..."

Admittedly, not bad for a race-baiting, change-agent elitist c*nt who just found her voice.

Except I'm not sure she was consciously trying to be funny.

You then, must see the continuing saga of Obama Girl.

She rocks.

(xp)

yes i just saw that, how funny!!

wait, guyz, this is too funny! you hafta see this! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDwODbl3muE&feature=related

was that Tracy Flick/Hillary video from slate posted upthread? (i can't be "arsed" to look) pretty obvious but i lolled.

For Elmo: The Adventures of Conventional Wisdom Man.

haha: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/mccain-campaign-responds-to-mailing-in-sc/

“Today, a shadowy political organization calling itself ‘Vietnam Veterans Against McCain’ launched a vicious attack on John McCain in an attempt to impugn his character in the closing days of the South Carolina Republican Primary,” Orson Swindle, who was a fellow prisoner of war in Vietnam with Mr. McCain, said in a statement put out by the campaign. “The group claims that John McCain turned his back on his fellow POWs in order to save his own skin.”

There's something just so hilariously lazy about some of these jerk-offs thinking, "well, hell, it worked last time, let's do it again"

"Orson Swindle"

OMG. Jim Pinkerton, new advisor to Mike Huckabee, on how he (and, presumably, Huckabee) would deal with American Muslims.

Orson Swindle sounds like a failed porn name.

^^^lolz

http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com/cin_wasmccainbrainswashed.htm

http://www.madore.org/~david/images/cards/english/queen-diamonds.png

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080116/capt.dfdb107a18814ba597d5f66388e00a54.huckabee_2008_scab238.jpg?x=400&y=248&sig=hPdIbWXlO0nE_Ixw2bdq8g--

He looks like the grinch.

http://churche.home.mindspring.com/tb/irish.jpg

http://rofl.wheresthebeef.co.uk/McCain%20Angry.jpg

http://www.doublespeakshow.com/images/2006/08/mccain_wow.jpg

http://tusb.stanford.edu/mccain0508.jpg

oh my wau

http://www.stanforddaily.com/article/2008/1/16/editorialChelseaLacksClassAtExclusiveEvent

http://nymag.com/arts/theater/features/42753/

yes, that's exactly what she said

i'm sure she was just tired and babbling tho

Mamet: if there were the two candidates, McCain and Obama, either of them would probably make a hell of a president... But I’m not the guy to ask about politics.

well, obviously.

great from Colbert last night after MSNBC Hil montage-

HILLARY '08: What Barack Said

shocker that mamet doesn't like the girl

mamet on just about anything but dramatic theory and practice = sucks (including his actual directing)

You also directed a Ford commercial. Why?
I did it for the money. Why do you think I did it?

all my favorite people are endorsing my favorite candidate

http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2008/01/leahy_for_obama.html

http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003697586

Hilarity ensues.

it's better with the visual aid

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/jan/17/joke-leaves-em-gasping/

(Haven't been able to get that site to load.)

wtf I don't get how that's an "inappropriate" joke at all

http://www.duke.edu/~tmc/motherpage/covers_gcpfas/cov-paintwhitehouseblack.gif

shakey are you serious

I dunno, maybe. depends on who said it and how it was said, I guess.

he's just the first guy to get called out for a joke everyone's already thought of but then decided not to tell because it's a dumb, unfunny joke.

everyone, huh

yes. even george clinton.

but feel free to interpret my offhand remark through the narrow lens of dull literalism if you wish.

lolz

Edwards made his bed - http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/064006.php

Rielle-ty bites.

judge tosses whiny vegas lawsuit, Bill gets testy about it, and Leahy pimps Obama. This might be enough Omentum to push him through NV and SC.

YesYesYes -- Huckabee Pulls Even With McCain in South Carolina

Best primary season ever.

This is a fun one.

Feingold on Edwards. Pretty much sums up the reasons I can't understand anyone wasting their time/money/vote on him:

Voted for the Patriot Act, campaigns against it. Voted for No Child Left Behind, campaigns against it. Voted for the China trade deal, campaigns against it. Voted for the Iraq war... he uses my voting record exactly as his platform, even though he had the opposite voting record.

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/01/carl_bernstein_weve_got_the_hi.html

xp: cuz he might've changed, and might be able to beat McCain.

are you calling him electable?

Edwards v. Romney might be fun. Who will flip-flop fastest? Who will pander most? Who has better hair?

Sadly, won't happen.