2008 Primaries Thread

at least re weird; 'nerdy' means she likes to think of herself as smarter than she is

i swear, how many people supporting ron paul actually know what he stands for beyond 'he's a republican but he's AGAINST the war! lol'

don't forget the ever-popular "libertarians want to legalize weed!!!"

to be honest ive become deeply suspicious of anyone with a serious antipathy towards obama or clinton

-- and what, Monday, January 21, 2008 9:38 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

god, right? it's gotten so i'm a little antsy about talking to people about the primaries because i just don't want to know that shit about them. during the new hampshire debate a friend of my sister's who's an Edwards supporter was over and said something like, "if only Edwards wasn't a white man, he'd be the frontrunner." !!!

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/1/21/22103/8345/547/440825

o_O

as usual they didnt watch the debate and voted on who they hope will win .. altho at least that means they no longer seem to be huge edwards supporters

the more i think about hillary's cheap rezko slam the more it bothers me. what a fuckin hypocrit

obama's gotta play the lezbo card now, amirite?

rezbo

that was a joek, daria ; )

gershy hates women, busted

that hurts my feelings

"Obama: 'Yeah Well What About Kenneth Foster Huh?'"

i swear, how many people supporting ron paul actually know what he stands for beyond 'he's a republican but he's AGAINST the war! lol'

I've muttered this before, but the people around UCI manning the 'Ron Paul Revolution' tables appear to be the same general types flying the flag for LaRouche a year or two earlier.

dude driving the ron paul car on university ave the other day: white guy with long greasy hair, window open in the 9 degree weather so his cigarette smoke could escape, leaning to the side but not in a cool cruisin' way

throwin' candy out onto the sidewalk, watching little kids run up and grab it, but not in a santa claus way

more like an elmer gantry at the poolhall kinda way

the rezco thing was all in the game!! the trash talking had begun and hillary had that in reserve - politics has always been played this way!

one of bill's innovations/strategies for winning was "rapid response", and the cw on kerry is that he never moved fast enough to repudiate the mosquito swarm of charges and insinuations against him, was always playing defense -- whether the charges were true or not, went the thinking, kerry didn't "fight" back and americans wanted to see someone who could give as good as they got. who knows if that's true but there is something depressingly right-sounding about it. it seems to me that it's been hillary's m.o. for awhile now to answer every charge swiftly and immediately counterattack. the rezco thing doesn't amount to a hill of beans and everyone knows it but it's not a very serious charge in the first place - it was a strictly performative charge, allowing hillary to look strong and resilient and knowledgable about her opponents. you can argue that strategy will alienate more people than it attracts and you could be right but i think that's the gamble she's taking.

shit on these dems

we managed to go from the best class of candidates from over a decade to a triplet of scum shits

in one night

way to show yr stripes, fuckwits

see you in 12. good thing for whoever gets the nom the gop got shit all but a mormon blue

I'M SORRY
I KNOW THAT SHIT WORTHLESS PISS BUCKET BLITTERS WAS THE MOD
BUT COULD ANY OF YOU MENTIONED ONE REAL GOD FUCKING DAMMM SOLUTION TO PAYING PO' FOLKS EMS BILLS?
OR WHATEVER?
I'M SORRY BUT ALL OF YOU GOT P3ZND BY A COUPLE OF FUCKING CNN ANALYSTS
DO YOU KNOW BRETT FAVRE?
BRETT FAVRE ISN'T GOING TO THE SUPER BOWL.
BUT EVERYBODY LOVES HIM.
WHAT'S THAT ABOUT?

FUCK ANGRY ANGRY FUCK

AND SHIT

I sense that El Tomoboto is a bloomberg man.

OTM though, I only saw that Illinois state senate procedural senate which probably had 90% of the watchers reaching for the changers which was probably a good thing because not one of them could give a lucid explanation of their health plans. Best chance in generations to fix healthcare in the US and none of them can give a decent explanation of how they might do it.

i didn't watch the whole thing - or even most of it - but aren't all their answers basically the same?

1) rescind bush's tax cuts on households making more than $200,000/year
2) use that money to insure > 95% of america

3) But definitely not illegal immigrants. If you are brown and not carrying proof of citizenship you must be refused entry to the emergency room.

lol blasted

a cup of tea and splash of cold water does do wonders

"nevada: what really happened in the at-large caucuses?"

http://ruralvotes.com/thefield/?p=269

that article is absolutely fantastic, at least the three paragraphs I bothered to read, because it enforces a lovely idea I already had - that once again, any idea, any concept, any inkling that people under thirty had any purpose or design on this election besides holding signs and looking pretty when necessary is, in fact, utterly A WASTE OF TIME because we're ALL TOO BUSY WORKING TO SHOW UP AT THE FUCKING POLLS.

OR DRINKING AWAY OUR LOAN PAYMENTS, PERHAPS THAT WOULD BE A BETTER TURN OF PHRASE

LET'S JUST GET IT ALL OUT

FUCK YOU MOM & DAD, HAVE YOUR WHITE WAR BITCH
WE'LL DIE FOR YOU, THAT'S WHAT YOU ALWAYS WANTED ANYWAY

Hillary nasty.

ehh pretty disappointing to this obama fan. it became amazing to me how disconnected his gifts are: such a classy orator who is so klutzy on his feet? how does that even happen? i was thinking of better retorts to the BS being slung at him, more or less in real time.

http://images.politico.com/global/spinme.jpg

Rodham no longer worried about being likeable, apparently.

Prez McCain shd start writing his inaugural on our Hundred Years' War.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/images/2008/01/22/01125109par89380imagefile.jpg

(Rush made that)

Who cares about being likable?
Obama smiling like John Kerry in that photo. bad sign

You're likeable enough, daria

haha holy shit

This is even more roffly, somehow:

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_012108/content/01125109.Par.4584.ImageFile.jpg

"AAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

He looks like he's going to hurl it at someone.

Rush and Michael Moore should have a bullhorn battle royale.

For some reason it's his watch I notice the most.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/today.parcolmem44.4091.ImageFile.jpg

Not so sharp-looking when he's on the job.

http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/8720/hillaryblackkidax9.jpg

unsurprisingly, i agree with the howler:

Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo! In last night’s debate, Mommy and Daddy started to fight—and all the children started to cry. “Relive the brutal moments,” they caterwaul, as they show us the tape of the tussle. Sorry, but here comes the ultimate insult: They sound just like Patrick Healy.

In fairness, Mommy and Daddy did swap accusations. First, Daddy said Mommy sat on Wal-Mart’s board while he, Daddy, fought the good fight. Moments later, Mommy said Daddy helped slumlord Rezko while she, Mommy, fought the good fight. (Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo, said the kids.) Tomorrow, we’ll discuss the fuller exchange. But for Dems, it’s a good idea to bring Rezko out now, just as it would have been good for Dems—and for Michael Dukakis, a superlative person—to explore that prison furlough program during the 1988 primaries. (You know? The program that kept this decent man from the White House when he didn’t know how to explain it?) One thing is certain: If Obama becomes the Dem nominee (as well he might, and we’ll cheer if he does), the Rezko matter will be beaten within an inch of its life. It would be extremely smart for Democrats to hash this matter out now. But boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo! Last night, the children started to cry when they saw Mommy and Daddy fighting. Mommy! Daddy! Stop fighting now! Dick and Jane said through their tears.

P.S. Mommy and Daddy were quite civil throughout the vast bulk of the evening.

the writers strike has really hurt the pundits as well eh

howler also says that if obama wins the nomination, the basic attack is going to be along dukakisian lines rather than kerry/gore lines: not that obama is a flip-flopping liar who will say anything to be president, but that he's weird -- an alien. "why does obama have such a problem with the pledge of allegiance?"

Mitt Romney in SC: "Who let the dogs out? Who Who?"

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/01/21/politics/fromtheroad/entry3734680.shtml

(scroll down for video)

who's Patrick Healy?