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

Tina Fey striking poses during Amy Poehler's rant had me in stitches.

Dan OTM , this made the bit.

can someone code it so that post comes up every time morbius tries to complain about someone making an old man joke about him?

I just miss the last time SNL did actual satire, TB (ie, Aykroyd as Nixon and Carter).

lolz "did you take the brown acid?" = "actual satire"?

yeah whatevs

max, do you not find my vaudeville lingo funny?

Mo, Aykroyd's flashing of the Cheshire Carter grin as pure con-man snake oil was v perceptive. (And yeah, that sketch very nicely satirized liberal Dems' helpful-hippie projections upon a militarist prez.)

Thomas Jefferson: I'll join you.. presently. [ to Sally ] I'd like to take you out for corn cakes sometime.

Sally Hemings: Alright!

Thomas Jefferson: What time do you get off work?

Sally Hemings: Um.. never.

^^ my favorite snl president

the mime who was in The Aristocrats does a great Jefferson-Hemings scene.

maybe Condi sneaked Joe a copy of "Bin Laden Determined to Strike Inside US"

maybe Joe read the New York Times

Former publisher of National Review sez Obama's the better dude for the job.

"I can see russia from my house!"

that line was so good people now think that's what palin actually said

it's kind of like how ilxors think that dicaprio movie was called blood diamonds

yeah, ILXors think it was... plural?

Yeah, you know what, a few weeks ago I was copy-editing a list of the top DVD rentals of 2007 and it said "Blood Diamond" and I had to go to IMDb because I was convinced it was wrong.

I only regret that I have forgotten the recipe to the drink

John Justen and Fluffy Bear Will Drink It

hey, did any of you know that the blood diamonds meme had nothing to do with that movie?

themoreyouknow.jpg

(xp) was gonna say, "use one(1) search function"

also snl's political sketches have never, ever been funny or good satire, guys, so let's not get all crazy here with bringing up chevy chase or something.

I don't really dig Brzinsksi either (and yes I know he's advising Obama) but calling Carter a "militarist" is sorta exaggerating

just, y'know, for the record

and Ally otm btw

it's kind of like how ilxors think that dicaprio movie was called blood diamonds

Or how ilxors think that Bikini Palin came from this board.

but the meme poisoned the movie

if they make a sequel to blood diamond they should call it blood diamonds

Aykroyd typing with 2 fingers: "Mem-OIRS.... by Richard Nixon.... Nineteen dollars and 95 cents... Chapter 1... I was born in the house my father built..."

genius

BOXCAR

that is not genius, morbius.

when you see it, it is!

(the Chevy Chase stuff was pure slapstick, about as political as the Coneheads)

Nixon's passed-out head in a jar fantasizing about getting it on with feminists - now THAT is satire

Listen here, missy. Computers may be twice as fast as they were in 1973, but your average voter is as drunk and stupid as ever. The only thing that's different is me; I've become bitter, and let's face it, crazy over the years. And once I'm swept into office, I'll sell our children's organs to zoos for meat, and I'll go into people's houses at night and wreck up the place. Muahahaha!

hmm

that is bad satire, cuz Dick was always bitter & crazy.

i have seen that, morbius! i don't think it is "genius"!

this still reflects some of the bounce, is almost half-weekend, and precedes the market meltdown, but fwiw:

Pew (9/9-14): Obama 46-44 (RVs) (+3 to McCain since August)
among LVs: tied at 46
among those whose mind is made up: Obama 38-35
among swing voters: 9 McCain, 8 Obama, 10 undecided
in battleground states: tied at 45 (+7 to McCain since August)
among independents: McCain 45-38 (+11 to McCain since August)
among Catholics: McCain 45-44 (among nonhispanic Catholics: McCain 48-41) (+6 to McCain since August)
among white, noncollege women: Obama 47-38 (+2 to Obama since August)
who will win: tied at 39
Biden favorables: 52-30
Palin favorables: 54-32

Obama is doing better than Kerry among white women, men, young people, Midwesterners, and Westerners

xp: It's not Michael O'Donoghue's "Children's Letters to Hitler" from National Lampoon but it was on TV

aww, but I liked the "Bill Clinton in McDonald's" sketch

intercepted by warlords!

One can only hope the market meltdown will benefit Obama -- but so few voters seem to have a clue about even simple economics that McCain may be able to bluster and chest-beat his way to looking 'tough' on the disintegration of the banking system, all while being one of the Keating Five and having voted for further bank deregulation.

YESSSSSS

whether voters have a clue or not, they grade Obama better on the economy just about everywhere. there's a reason McCain looked sick on one of the morning shows early this week.

gabb, got any poll data from MI? (esp. in the vein of the ARG stuff you posted earlier)

McCain loses Nagourney

When I see the numbers move for Obama later this week, I will be relieved and happy.

how much did Lehman Bros give to Obama and McCain?

Or how ilxors think that Bikini Palin came from this board.

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, September 18, 2008 2:56 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it came from an ilxor, good enough

xpost and that reason is SKIN CANCERS

here's a whole bunch of poll data from MI

http://www.pollster.com/polls/mi/08-mi-pres-ge-mvo.php

sure, Obama has not always been quite at the level one would hope he'd be, but McCain has never polled above 46% (unless you go back to January '07). it's a blue state.

The press is so predictable.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/09/18/big_ten_battleground_very_tight_race_in_midwestern_states.html

how much did Lehman Bros give to Obama and McCain?

Dick Fuld is an equal-opportunity profligate; max to both, and $10K to each of the senate re-election funds

I google maps satellite viewed his house. Greenwich CT is fucking ridiculous.

BATTLEGROUNDS!!!! OH NOES!!!

democrats getting freaked out about losing virginia or nevada is kind of like getting scared shitless when russia moved tanks into georgia. you may have not noticed but we pushed the line back a little bit, kids.