2008 USP(G)ET pt. II: counting the days to 2012 primary thread 1

lols at the murderers' row of WTFF on the left side of the screen

Given how wonky the last debate was I'm hoping that Palin is gonna just stumble blithely through a series of non-answers.

...which would be a victory for her!

Blitheness works to her advantage.

not lately.

her answers are like those you give at job interviews when you've got no clue what to saw

That's what I've been thinking every time I hear her speak.

"stump the candidate" is a special game for gov. palin -- you can play it without even intending to!

They had her gubernatorial debate opponent on CNN earlier and he made the talking-point-but-possibly-correct suggestion that "she may not be able to quote policy details, but that doesn't really interest the average voter."

to paraphrase into english:

people criticize me a lot because i'm not from washington. i'm ready to be vice president; my biggest qualifications are my confidence and my eagerness to take on the job. i'm ready to take your questions about specific countries.

i mean, even if you can distill the content out of the torturous knotted sentence structures, she's still saying absolutely nothing.

they put joe morgan's brain in the skull of a pagent queen

obama makes mccain very uncomfortable

I know I sound like Miss Manners, but whatever happened to civility? His behavior during the debates was very bad, too.

he couldn't seem to bring himself to look Obama in the eye during the debate last week.

btw is "in the tank" the new "thrown under the bus"?

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no they mean two completely different things

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yeah I didn't mean is "in the tank" the new synonym for "thrown under the bus," but that "in the tank" is the new hip phrase everyone's throwing around for this election. "thrown under the bus" was v popular in 2004.

"she may not be able to quote policy details, but that doesn't really interest the average voter."

The average voter isn't saying "quote policy details" right now, they're saying "look like you have a fucking clue, that you're not scared shitless." People keep talking about her magical powers despite the fact that AMERICA IS NOT BUYING IT. Her likability and preparedness numbers have dropped massively in the polls, and there are only two possible reasons for it. 1) A lot of Americans don't like what she has to say. 2) A lot of Americans don't like the way she says it. I don't see her delivery style or her message changing any time soon, and with the economy as it is, I don't think "sharing her story" is going to help the McCain campaign do anything other than appease the people who are already voting for him.

this comment on the "uncomfortable" article made me lol

Is McCain for real? He acts like Obama is part of the Viet Cong. Can someone please remind McCain that he doesn't have to behave like a Prisoner of War anymore! I think they need to do another psychological check on him. Something is fundamentally not right with his coconut.

McCain won't look him directly in the eye 'cause he's afraid he will fall under the spell of Obama's magnanimous temper and laser-like intellect and end up voting for him his own damn self.

He doesn't want to "turn to stone," wink wink.

idea for one-act play: McCain meltdown in voting booth

CBS poll

Handling of financial crisis - Obama
Voter confidence in handling of economy - Obama
Winner of the 1st debate - Obama
Voter enthusiasm - Obama
Favorable rating - Obama
Handling Iraq/Commander-in-Chief qualities - McCain
Empathy - Obama
Prepared to be president - McCain
Cares about protecting ordinary people - Obama
Leading among women, moderates and voters under age 45 - Obama

Overall: Obama (49-40)

No wonder McCain's all butthurt. Obama's like the gifted young brother who gets all of the attention and obviously deserves it.

Rasmussen: Obama 51-44
GWU/Battleground: Obama 49-44

mccain told msnbc that he suspended his campaign to sign a bill that puts us on the brink of disaster. grandpa no!

Joe Biden... EXPOSED! - NYT - An Everyman on the Trail, With Perks

Persistent investigative journalism has revealed that Joe Biden lives in a nice house - which he obtained legally! Joe Biden's dirty secret: his Amtrak tickets are expensive. He's audacious enough to legally cover some of them with campaign funds! Worst of all:

Mr. Biden’s campaign said the payments to tree trimmers and lawn services, typically totaling a few thousand dollars a year, were permissible because they were tied to political events at his home. Jim Whittaker, co-owner of Grass Roots Inc., which was paid $4,345 in 2000, said the payment probably represented several visits to the senator’s property, adding that Mr. Biden was “late paying the bill one time.”

SCANDALOUS!

"thrown under the bus" was popular like six weeks ago!

I should be an investigative journalist. I've got goods like that on all sorts of people.

senator lives pretty well, film at 11

can't wait for that to make the rounds on the corner/puma blogs

Oh man Obama's gonna totally lose the old white person vote when they discover Biden's into his lawn.

In fact, Biden is arguably the LEAST wealthy member of the Senate:

http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/overview.php?type=W&year=2006&filter=S&sort=A

uh, I think that's common knowledge

His average net worth is negative. Must be those mortgages that he obtained LEGALLY!

Oh man Obama's gonna totally lose the old white person vote when they discover Biden's into his lawn.

He might lost the youth vote if folks find out he waters his lawn wearing black dress socks.

he = Biden, of course

Except where he = Obama.

Florida GOP meet in secret as Obama passes McCain
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/state/article835288.ece

Gee why are they so worried. McCain keeps saying the more people know about Palin the more they love her. He's not telling tales again is he?

Sorry if this has already been posted... a blog about going on Holiday with John McCain

I was shocked when he said, "If I was in charge, I would nuke Iraq to teach them a lesson". Given McCain's personal experience with the horrors of war, I had expected a more balanced point of view."

http://myblogthebword.blogspot.com/2008/09/my-holiday-with-john-mccain-it-was-just.html

With some grass roots organizers complaining about coordination problems with the campaign, Republican Party chairman Jim Greer gathered top officials at the state headquarters in Tallahassee on Tuesday afternoon. He swore the group to secrecy.

When asked about it by the St. Petersburg Times, Greer confirmed the meeting. He largely declined to discuss what was said, but sought to play down any strife.

Coming up with a new way to rig the election?

McCain's appreciation of the beauty of Asian women was so great that David the American economist had to move his Thai wife to the other side of the table from McCain as McCain kept aggressively flirting with and touching her. Needless to say I was irritated at his large ego and his rude behavior towards his wife and other women, but decided he must have some redeeming qualities as he had adopted a handicapped child from Bangladesh. I asked him about this one day, and his response was shocking: "Oh, that was Cindy's idea - I didn't have anything to do with it. She just went and adopted this thing without even asking me. You can't imagine how people stare when I wheel this ugly, black thing around in a shopping cart in Arizona. No, it wasn't my idea at all."

McCain fan-fic is the best because I can really imagine it happening.

Coordination problems, there's a great euphemism.

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0fdFguG19V8Uj/340x.jpg

Get ready to possibly see a lot more of this guy in the next few weeks.

lolz UC Santa Cruz

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My god, those poor desperate folks at The Corner are touting Palin's Hugh Hewitt interview as if it really demonstrated her suppressed intelligence and skillz.

Rush probably feels cheated.

IFILL: My name is Gwen Ifill. I am the moderator and managing editor of Washington Week and a senior correspondent for the News Hour with Jim Lehrer. The title of the book is "The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama." It's taking the story of Barack Obama and extending it to cover a whole new generation of black politicians who are doing similar things in different ways.

HANNITY: Your thoughts, Governor, is that a concern at all to you?

PALIN: You know, I'm not going to let it be a concern. Let me just tell you that John McCain has been in an underdog position before, and this ticket, I think it is safe to say, is in an underdog position. But that's what makes us work harder. It makes us want to communicate more clearly and profoundly with the electorate, letting them know what the contrasts are between these two tickets, It's motivating to me, even, to hear Gwen's comments there because, again, it makes us work that much harder, and it provides even more fairness and objectivity and choices for the voters on Nov. 4, if we try that much harder.

lol @ calling the description of her book "comments"

being in an underdog position: makes us work harder
gwen ifill writes a book about black politicians: makes us work harder.
mccain/palin 08: provides even more fairness and objectivity and choices, as opposed to gwen ifill.

hmmm

Narrative:

If she crashes and burns tonight, it will be because of Ifill's bias.
If she doesn't, it will be a heroic overcoming of Ifill's bias.

Tomorrow morning should be interesting...

imo i don't think any spin they try to put on it will work, they just look like they're flailing about now and palin can't come off as anything better than very well-coached at this point in the game.

I'm guessing the "reverse racism" tack will do as well as the "sexism" tack has.