2008 Primaries Thread

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.

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.

-- Abbott, Tuesday, January 15, 2008 12:07 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

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

I'd like a guy who has the skills to lay me off.

Plus when Obama was a young man, he did things I won't mention, that he admitted to doing in his book: organizing his community; any other suggestion, as to my inference is irresponsible.

http://www.wral.com/news/state/story/2300999/

In the pocket of the hamster wheel industry?

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.

-- Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, January 14, 2008 8:48 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

That sounds straight out of Prairie Home Companion - is that the point?

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Giuliani_tossed_my_crying_baby_like_0114.html

people talk without an accent

exactly!

people talk without an accent

you don't understand

i do. its if they have an accent that i don't understand.

i don't understand

that's okay.

this is what i'm thinking re Gore - http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/1/10/12035/4350?source=weekly

I'm afraid stevie still doesn't understand

arcade fire endorses obama!

Will their influences -- Springsteen and Echo & The Bunnnymen -- endose HRC, to set up a true generational divide?

uh, did the Ex-Prez actually call Obama "a KID"?

is there a website that lists endorsements from entertainers (and uh, indie rock bands too)?

better than 'boy' xpost

Yoopers definitely have an accent.

is there a website that lists endorsements from entertainers (and uh, indie rock bands too)?

http://www.newsmeat.com/campaign_contributions_to_politicians/donor_list.php?candidate_id=P80003338

thanks! i wonder how many gave to hilary too though.

michal chabon maxed out his contrib to obama. i didn't realize he'd have that kind of cash.

You can search by candidate at the top of the page. I just used Obama as a sample.

props to mark ruffalo for giving 600 bucks to gravel

And Barry Manilow is a Ron Paul fan, apparently.

i think hes just really anti-war

Manilow also listed for Edwards. Celebs spread it around like corporations...

i could see where rich people would give money to ron paul just to fuck with the rest of the republicans

And Barry Manilow is a Ron Paul fan, apparently.

I read this as RuPaul.

is rupaul one word? cuz otherwise defacing ron paul signs would be very easy.

DIVA-LUTION

props to mark ruffalo for giving 600 bucks to gravel

even more hateable now

tom clancy gave $ to duncan hunter

shocker

I was going to say.

still funny though

kelsey grammar gave money to guiliani.

thats it i'm not watching fraiser reruns anymore unless david hyde pierce gives $ to obama.

kelsey grammar gave money to guiliani

another shocker there

i guess i hadn't been following his life closely enough to know what his politics were

to the right of Niles.

oh awes, just what we needed

http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/coffeehouse/2008/jan/15/playing_with_fire_smearing_obama_among_jews

think adam sandler has contributed to giuliani (plus plugged him in at least two movies).

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0007/16/sun.07.html

this shit is ridic