2008 Primaries Thread

Gossip Girl wouldn't be interested in this shit.

I should go watch Gossip Girl.

http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/8090/1184040522276lb8.jpg

"He's mean to me." "She's meaner to me." "The media is baiting me." "She's slighting me." "This is too ugly and unbecoming." "That hurts my feelings."

No way to choose a nominee.

Angry black men, runnin' amok.

Not shakin' hands.

Refusin' to smile.

SOTU thing was pretty silly. I think they're talking about it because the actual speech was so goddamn boring.

stand up sit down fite fite fite

cf comments here:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/01/obama-on-the-st.html

That said I bet Hillary was sorta trying to mess with him by walking right over there in a bright red suit to shake hands with Ted Kennedy.

. . . she was gonna start a fistfight until Kennedy cut her off.

NH Union Leader is PISSED at Hil:

Hillary's word: It's worth nothing

14 hours, 42 minutes ago

COURTING VOTERS in Iowa and New Hampshire, last August Sen. Hillary Clinton signed a pledge not to "campaign or participate" in the Michigan or Florida Democratic primaries. She participated in both primaries and is campaigning in Florida. Which proves, again, that Hillary Clinton is a liar.

Clinton kept her name on the Michigan ballot when others removed theirs, she campaigned this past weekend in Florida, and she is pushing to seat Michigan and Florida delegates at the Democratic National Convention. The party stripped those states of delegates as punishment for moving up their primary dates.

"I will try to persuade my delegates to seat the delegates from Michigan and Florida," Clinton said last week, after the New Hampshire primaries and Iowa caucuses were safely over.

Clinton coldly and knowingly lied to New Hampshire and Iowa. Her promise was not a vague statement. It was a signed pledge with a clear and unequivocal meaning.

She signed it thinking that keeping the other candidates out of Michigan and Florida was to her advantage, but knowing she would break it if that proved beneficial later on. It did, and she did.

New Hampshire voters, you were played for suckers.

http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Hillary's+word:+It's+worth+nothing&articleId=0853268a-d982-4190-81e8-740ae942f510

she's got the red suit! retreat!

Glad you think it's a silly story too Daria, and I agree Clinton was probably trying to instigate something like this just by walking over there. But I mean... keeping this story alive is basically Clinton strategy today. This is their end game.

Hey you know one of the advantages of being a woman candidate is that you can wear any bright color suit you want.

Union Leader is a Republican paper AFAIK they don't even endorse a Democrat.

Hey you know one of the advantages of being a woman candidate is that you can wear any bright color suit you want.

Obama couldn't get away with wearing a red suit before Labor Day.

True, they endorsed McCain. But obviously I, for one, would like the "Hillary is a contract-breaking opportunist" to be the media narrative for a couple days.

I think the media's driving it, guess there was a lot of chatter in the press gallery (some pundit wrote that) again probably because Bush said nothing interesting whatsoever (sad - what happened to mars, bitches?)

the interpretation of who-didn't-greet-whom is fucking retarded, let's please move on

I remember lol'ing so hard @ the Mars thing.

Human-animal hybrids

can we call an ilx-wide moratorium on not jumping up and down in a pavlovian frenzy to whatever bullshit controversy the media is drumming up to sustain interest in this race between three pretty good candidates? i usually find ilx somewhat sane on things like this and i'm starting to feel like half of you of been body-snatched and replaced by youtube commenters

xpost yeah elmo!

hydrogen-powered cars

government blogging team

"i want to send you the check TODAY"

school uniforms

can we call an ilx-wide moratorium on not jumping up and down in a pavlovian frenzy to whatever bullshit controversy the media is drumming up to sustain interest in this race between three pretty good candidates?

I tried to resist posting the Drudge-like goofy-looking-politican photo, but, you know, it's a pretty good one compositionally.

Jay Smooth weighs in, awesome-as-usual, on HANDSHAKEGATE.

the three pretty good candidates i had in mind by the way are pauly shore, dan cortese, and kennedy

ROCK THE VOTE

http://www.eurielec.etsit.upm.es/%7Ebisho/blog_files/vote_or_die.jpg

SWITCHGRASS

switchgraiss

Gorey thoughts - http://nymag.com/daily/intel/early_and_often/

was hoping that would be edward gorey's endorsement

wow, that was a pretty dramatic article

I just read Dan Cortese is producing some stupid reality show for nbc. Why is he still working? I wonder if he hangs out with Eric Nies.

best reality show ever

This picture!

http://nymag.com/images/2/daily/intel/08/01/29_hauntinghillary_lg.jpg

i'd be less surprised if gore came out and endorsed a candidate (if he endorses anybody, it'll be obama) now than if he did a few months back, obviously. the kennedy endorsement makes it seem a bit more likely.

I can't stop looking at that picture.

Anyone heard anything credible about the GOP vote today in Florida? Early exit polls, perhaps?

http://nymag.com/images/2/daily/intel/08/01/29_hauntinghillary_lg.jpg
I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS

guys I hear gore can control migrating birds with his mind, too

http://nymag.com/images/2/daily/intel/08/01/29_hauntinghillary_lg.jpg

"You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!"

I like where these captions are going already.

was hoping that would be edward gorey's endorsement

Haha, same here. From BEYOND THE GRAVE (which would be even better).

An Inconvenient Boo!

Okay, that's my Custos quota filled for the day.

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OK searching Google images for Ted Kennedy is not a good idea

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