2008 USGE RESULTS THREAD PS GOP U LOST DIXVILLE NOTCH LOL

http://www.bbc.co.uk/leicester/content/images/2006/10/19/dmu_head_in_hands_315x420.jpg

turkmenistan! thats not a real place come on its april fools day or something here?

hey guys I was gone last night I heard Obama won & that there is a GA Senate seat runoff but that's about it!!!

"Kyrgyzstan? HELLO, in ENGLISH please!"

"Iran is the one we're in, right?"

She probably thinks Iran is a Flock of Seagulls song.

If you like the Palin dirt, there are to come. Seymour Hersh:

'You cannot believe how many people have told me to call them on 20 January [the date of the next president's inauguration],' he says, with relish. '[They say:] "You wanna know about abuses and violations? Call me then." So that is what I'll do, so long as nothing awful happens before the inauguration.' He plans to write a book about the neocons and, though it won't change anything - 'They've got away with it, categorically; anyone who talks about prosecuting Bush and Cheney [for war crimes] is kidding themselves' - it will reveal how the White House 'set out to sabotage the system... It wasn't that they found ways to manipulate Congressional oversight; they had conversations about ending the right of Congress to intervene.'

I think I want to know how many American holders of high office would share that perception? Hopefully none?

elitist.

(xpost -er, I meant to write something like "that's just an early treat of what's to come", blah blah)

huge sy hersh fan here but his constant warnings abt imminent war w/iran never came to pass did they

i read his constant warnings about war w/iran as attempts by people inside the pentagon (or outside it but with good contacts) to try to keep it from happening. of course since it hasn't happened, it's impossible to know how much was chicken little alarmism and how much was real but derailed by events (events including hersh's articles). anyway, i'd rather have him write it and it not happen than the reverse.

But knowing how deep his sources are, I believe him when he says that a lot of people want to spill the beans when they aren't working under Bush/Cheney anymore.

yah im pretty psyched for that - in fact i posted the link up thread myself lol

ooops

huge sy hersh fan here but his constant warnings abt imminent war w/iran never came to pass did they

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Did he really warn about an imminent war with Iran? I thought he just reported the planning that was going on for one. I mean he's a reporter, not a prognosticator.

on the nyer masthead hes listed as "Staff Prognosticator" so i dunno what ur talkin about

Hersh: Cherry Red Handbags Will Rule in 2009

I just think that there will be all kinds of articles equivalent to that Palin scoop after folks stop working under Bush/Cheney -- hilarious, frightening stuff.

Oh Jesus the dirt is so, so wonderful

NEWSWEEK has also learned that Palin's shopping spree at high-end department stores was more extensive than previously reported. While publicly supporting Palin, McCain's top advisers privately fumed at what they regarded as her outrageous profligacy. One senior aide said that Nicolle Wallace had told Palin to buy three suits for the convention and hire a stylist. But instead, the vice presidential nominee began buying for herself and her family—clothes and accessories from top stores such as Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. According to two knowledgeable sources, a vast majority of the clothes were bought by a wealthy donor, who was shocked when he got the bill. Palin also used low-level staffers to buy some of the clothes on their credit cards. The McCain campaign found out last week when the aides sought reimbursement. One aide estimated that she spent "tens of thousands" more than the reported $150,000, and that $20,000 to $40,000 went to buy clothes for her husband. Some articles of clothing have apparently been lost. An angry aide characterized the shopping spree as "Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast," and said the truth will eventually come out when the Republican Party audits its books.

A Palin aide said: "Governor Palin was not directing staffers to put anything on their personal credit cards, and anything that staffers put on their credit cards has been reimbursed, like an expense. Nasty and false accusations following a defeat say more about the person who made them than they do about Governor Palin."

McCain himself rarely spoke to Palin during the campaign, and aides kept him in the dark about the details of her spending on clothes because they were sure he would be offended. Palin asked to speak along with McCain at his Arizona concession speech Tuesday night, but campaign strategist Steve Schmidt vetoed the request.

yah obv i dont know how close we were to war w/iran - hersh for years portrayed it as a serious possibility - because of our stressed military capabilities and public war weariness it always seemed like a non starter to me - of course then id consider the bush admin i think those crazy fuckers are capable of anything

yeah otoh it's possible that his reporting exaggerated the likelihood -- I mean military weirdos are always planning for all kinds of "scenarios"

guys the newsweek history of the campaign piece is amazing reading

He had wanted to go back to the state of his first great triumph to give a speech unofficially kicking off the fall campaign, even though Clinton officially was still in the race. "That's an interesting belt buckle," he said to Michelle, mischievously. She feigned offense and said, "I am interesting, next to you. Surprise, surprise, a blue suit, a white shirt and a tie." Obama grinned and bent down until he was almost at eye level with her waist. He jabbed a playful finger toward her belt buckle, and let loose his inner nerd. "The lithium crystals! Beam me up, Scotty!" Obama squeaked, laughing at his own lame joke as Michelle rolled her eyes.

mccain people who believe palin undermined their campaign will dish like crazy in a spiteful effort to ruin her future political prospects - i look forward to hearing their stories :)

So do I! She is just so entertaining, now that I don't have to worry about her destroying the country.

dudes, barack obama

love him

Mr. Zakaria, you are spoiling us!

The lithium crystals! Beam me up, Scotty!" Obama squeaked, laughing at his own lame joke as Michelle rolled her eyes.
Bet he said DiLithium crystals.

President Obama, Trekkie. This just keeps getting better.

guyz i was downtown in grant park for the speech and it was amaaaaazing

i think the thing that tripped me up the most was how really subdued and calmly happy everyone was - i mean, people were really excited but it was this really serene scene walking with thousands and thousands of other people back from grant park. coming over the hill right before reaching michigan ave and passing by all the bootleg obama t-shirt sellers (there were TONS) you could see how far the mass of people walking west through the streets stretched out, it was really really powerful and crazy - ive never seen chicago (ESPECIALLY a city as historically racially charged as chicago) so CONGENIAL.

ahhhhhhh i am so happyyyyyyyyyyyyy

i think one of the other great things about this campaign is how it encouraged people to feel like they owned a piece of it - because of the money i sent and the time i invested, woke up early the last two days to canvass in indiana and prior to that was phone banking in ohio .... the stories i have meeting people ... it makes me really PROUD to have been a part of it

Good stuff.

I hope the Obama campaign can figure out a way to turn the campaign organization, with all its eager energy, to other purposes very soon, like helping local organizers recruit people for local civil volunteer service (maybe partly managed by paid organizers, like the campaign in swing states). If they can pull this off, I will be so pumped.

deej, that sounds like an amazing scene. wow.

I posted this on the Rolling Metal Thread, but what the hell. Came up with this doodle while waiting for election results last night:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3045/3006202229_76f71b5583.jpg?v=0

hahaha jeff i love you dude

I linked to this on the schadenfreude thread: more delicious Palin dirt

no gaahlo xp

deej i love your description of that scene. my only regret about all this is that last night i was so spent from canvassing with a flu all day that i ended up watching the speeches from my couch instead of a public place with others. sigh.

I give to you all Operation Leper:

We're tracking down all the people from the McCain campaign now whispering smears against Governor Palin to Carl Cameron and others. Michelle Malkin has the details.

We intend to constantly remind the base about these people, monitor who they are working for, and, when 2012 rolls around, see which candidates hire them. Naturally then, you'll see us go to war against those candidates.

It is our expressed intention to make these few people political lepers.

....

Don't make us add you to our list. Do you really want to be next to Kathleen Parker in the leper colony?

Malkin here, with plenty more links.

Oh, this will be fun.

oh man that is GOLD

oh man, night of long knives is on. let them carve each other up.

so, they are intending to go to war against republicans who hire operatives who smeared other republicans? so their position on john mccain was...

oh man that is GOLD

Even this did not prepare me for the lulz.

Dice are rolling, the knives are out...:

Randy Scheunemann, a senior foreign policy adviser to John McCain, was fired from the Arizona senator's campaign last week for what one aide called "trashing" the campaign staff, three senior McCain advisers tell CNN.

One of the aides tells CNN that campaign manager Rick Davis fired Scheunemann after determining that he had been in direct contact with journalists spreading "disinformation" about campaign aides, including Nicolle Wallace and other officials.

"He was positioning himself with Palin at the expense of John McCain's campaign message," said one of the aides.

IIRC this was the guy who vented to Ambinder...ah yes:

Just read your post. This is on the record. This is cleared by HQ. It is a fact that Barack Obama was palling around with terrorists. It was a fact before Governor Palin said it in a fully vetted speech and it is fact today. It is bullshit to claim or write anything else.

Fun fun!

Good lord, at this point, all the infighting and angst is just dessert to an excellent terrorist fist jab main course.

ahahahahhahaa

ohhhhh my god that malkin post is a gold mine

Let’s assume the rumor-mongers are telling the truth for a moment. Who does it damn more: Sarah Palin or McCain and his vetters who green-lighted her for the vice presidential nomination? Don’t need an Ivy League degree to figure that one out.

lololooolooloolool

"If she's not an idiot, they're scumbags. If she's an idiot, they're stupid scumbags."

On November 5th, 2008 at 11:41 pm, nativeaz08 said:

I’ve heard it was Romney’s ex-aides who were doing this because they want him to run again in 2012, not Palin.

Anyway, I’ve decided I am not watching any news channels, including FOX for one year. I will get my news from reliable blogs, which are more accurate than any news channel anyway. Screw the MSM.