2008 Primaries Thread

since obama is a secret radical muslim does that mean he will make all of us convert to muslim if he is elected?

"democracy" (ie, two white hick states)

who do you think edwards' base is??!!!

that was a forwarded email caught in the work spam filter. I deleted it like the Ophra would want.

Ophra Huzzah

I like Elmo's bowtie.

Durbin sticks up for Obama's anti-war record

Both events, clearly intended to tap into Clark County's large Hispanic population, stood in stark contrast to Mrs. Clinton's last visit to Nevada, when she gave a stump speech from a stage far from supporters in a nature preserve and then departed majestically whence she came.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/11/us/politics/11clinton.html

gtfo! ridiculous

hilary might have krugman but she's lost the crucial 'copyeditor primary' it seems

i thot the krug was an edwards man.

(x-post) >>We checked this out on "snopes.com". It is factual. Check for yourself.

As a matter of fact, I DID check this on Snopes, and as you might surmise, it is for the most part NOT factual. Pretty much a fabricated crock of crap.

The crowd broke out into “Hillary, Hillary!” especially in response to lines like, “All of our problems are interconnected, but we treat them as if one were guacamole and one were chips.”

haha, "i've been trying to dip the subprime mortgage crisis into the iraq war, but maybe i've been approaching these problems the wrong way..."

that line does not make any fucking sense

i know obama is the real rhetorician in the dem primaries but do her analogies have to be so base and retarded?

where is Hillarysombrero.jpg

I never realized the nation's problems were so delicious

“I’m very committed to reaching out and meeting the people in this state,” Mrs. Clinton said. When asked about her teary-eyed moment in New Hampshire, Mrs. Clinton referred to having “that connection and that empathy” that might appeal to voters.
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f211/katiewnh/1021_wide.jpg
"I have people skills!

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uh actually Clinton referred to having “that connection and that empathy” that might appeal to voters. << more sly BS from this article!

i thot the krug was an edwards man

he appreciated Edwards' being first to release a plan, likes his and Hillary's better than Obama's, and chronically gives O shit since O called him out, but essentially approves of all of them. he misses the point that the differences in their "plans" are largely minor differences of rhetorical emphasis with lots of room to align with one another in actual governance, and that the differences in rhetorical emphasis are largely responses to how the candidate is perceived by the public.

The crowd broke out into “Hillary, Hillary!” especially in response to lines like, “All of our problems are interconnected, but we treat them as if one were guacamole and one were chips.”

haha, "i've been trying to dip the subprime mortgage crisis into the iraq war, but maybe i've been approaching these problems the wrong way..."

they are all guacamole dont u seeeee

what we need to do is crumble the chips of subprime mortagage lending into the guacamole of targeted tax cuts, wrap it up with affordable health care, and bake the whole enchilada with a spicy molé sauce. of like, love.

spicy molé sauce of change, more like

as a Jew who loves Indian food, how can I trust that my interests will be represented in this mexican a la carte scenario

as a Jew . . . how can I trust that my interests will be represented in this mexican a la carte scenario

Convert.

MMM GIMME SOME MOLE

http://media.npr.org/blogs/bryantpark/richardson.jpg

i'm not sure that one candidate necessarily does better than another depending on who's on the other side, but i'd still like (contra kos) the other side to pick first - http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_01/012892.php

wouldn't richardson be reppin' for his home state's green chiles?

tho kos may just want us to get romney, in the not-illegitimate belief that he's easier to pick off

lots of good stuff at washmonth today

hillary spontaneously wells up again - http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_01/012887.php

the some girls try too hard take on hillary - http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_01/012886.php

The one you're all waiting for: Hitch on HRC

that's the best he can do? oddly toothless

well it's kind of a c+p for him at this point

Asking us to remember the name of the chapter in his book about Juania Brodderick does him no favors.

Please, conservative elites, scream this from the highest mountaintops:'The McCain domestic record is a disaster. . . . most far-reaching amnesty program in American history. . . . And McCain’s stated opposition to the Bush 2001 and 2003 tax cuts was largely based on socialist, class-warfare rhetoric — tax cuts for the rich, not for the middle class. . . . consistently hostile to American enterprise. . . . granting of due-process rights to unlawful enemy combatants (terrorists). . . . called for the immediate closing of Guantanamo Bay and the introduction of al-Qaeda terrorists into our own prisons'

But WTF: Mark Levin of the NRO says that Huckabee won't attack McCain's record because Huckabee "is apparently in the tank for" McCain? Waht?

he wants to be veep

But he can actually win, if evengelicals keep uniting behind him and the ABH (Anybody But Huckabee) vote is split b/w 3 candidates.

i think he's quite aware that he isn't going to win

from the hitch:

Well, the main "experience" involved the comprehensive fouling-up of the nation's health-care arrangements, so as to make them considerably worse than they had been before and to create an opening for the worst-of-all-worlds option of the so-called HMO, combining as it did the maximum of capitalist gouging with the maximum of socialistic bureaucracy.

kinda reads funny, like someone should tell ol' chrissy that hmos were invented in the 1970s.

wouldn't richardson be reppin' for his home state's green chiles?

Oh yeah you fucking KNOW it! Them're delicious. (And people kind of look at you weird if you ask for mole in my neck of th woods.)

Best thing about Richardson is he allows me to get intermittently excited about my state.

theres a funny 'i hate huckabee' facebook group that uses both conservative AND liberal arguments against him in their description, quoting both the cato institute AND slamming him for his pro-life stance

Proper term is "I Fart Fuckabees," hello9

Is it wrong or base of me that one of my main concerns about a Clinton presidency would be if the press got wind of fresh Bill philandering, followed by crushing one-term defeat?

xposts - haha i was to mark levin earlier tonight, he makes me laugh. hearing him yell about how much he hates mccain made me less worried about the prospect of a mccain presidency

*insert "listening" into that first phrase there. god i have so many typos.

One Newt Gingrich comes down from the mountain to dispense his ineffable wisdom.

Other merriment:

In response to Huckabee’s line that Americans want to elect as president someone who looks like “the guy they work with, not the guy who laid them off,” Hoekstra insists “the right Republican response is that we shouldn’t be judging people based on what they look like. We should be judging people on whether they have the qualifications . . . the ability to get the job done. I’d like a guy who has the skills of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.”

Newt:

...the challenges to America whether from immigration, from the secular Left seeking to drive God out of public life, or from those who would undermine English as the language of America is a different set of dangers than the those of 1980.

pinhead

I'm shocked no one commented on this Romney gem:

“Here in Michigan, the skies are cloudy all day, the trees are all the right height, people talk without an accent and most of the cars on the road are American made — as they ought to be,” he said. The crowd likes that line.

my mom favors a Clinton-Jobs ticket. i have tried to argue that mock turtlenecks=unelectability.