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

haha

Imagine asking for transparency when you're too good to accept subpoenas. Now imagine her saying 'subpoenas' in THAT ACCENT.

YESSSSSS

tom rapidly becoming my favorite poster on this thread

malkin fans getting v. excited that the anon's dad is evidently an obama backer BUSTED!!!1!

what are you on about?

The father of the guy who h@xx0r3d Palin's email is a TN state Dem.

(or so the story goes)

I'm sure his southern democratic upbringing has everything to do with his terrifying criminal nature

The father of the guy who h@xx0r3d Palin's email is a TN state Dem.

that isn't surprising at all, who gives a shit

what are you on about?

the internet, Shakey

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/09/obama-pulls-ahead-in-electoral-college.html

sirens ahoy

palin's "privacy" in using a secret yahoo account to conduct state busines: sacrosanct

some kid's "privacy" and that of his family after he breaks into said account: what?

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2008/09/i_am_proud_of_b/

(did we do that already?)

pace glen greenwald, let's pause for a second to consider the republicans' attitude toward communication privacy generally.

god hannity sucks

Kuttner poked some holes in the gasbag fairly well: "You fool.. you idiot."

Kuttner is my hero

i guess "you idiot" was Hannity. next 8 years gonna suck for that dude.

haha waht

This is the first time I've ever wanted to watch Hannity & Colmes.

haha inside edition just did a piece on the EVIL HACKING OMG and 80% of the segment was just them replaying that terrifying tom cruise scientology cackling video from the beginning of the year -- good job, hard-hitters.

TOM CRUISE HACKED SARAH PALIN, PASS IT ON

hahahaha waht

you can say goddamn on TV now?

in a world with that pom ad where a sheep clearly says "what the fuck" anything can happen, shakey.

what, what?

damnit the video is not up on their website yet. so i'm just gonna watch that cat that walks on its front paws again instead of showing you all the amazing tom cruise-sarah palin connection.

lol at McCain attacking Obama for being too "cozy" with investors and big donors. I thought Obama was a Communist who believed in wealth distribution?

That just shows how sneaky he is.

thought that said ...i_am_proud_of_/b/

^^ this

thirded

being proud of /b/ is kind of like being proud of venereal disease, guys

http://miklasnjor.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/dabitch_pregnant_biohazard.jpg

*taps chin thoughtfully*

*applauds*

being proud of /b/ is kind of like being proud of venereal disease, guys

better to have flunked your Wasserman test than never to have loved at all

Might have been linked already but HILARIOUS:

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who was to star at two major California fundraisers and an Orange County rally for 15,000 next week, has canceled her two-day swing through the Golden State, campaign sources said.

The change is a shocker, because Palin's presence had electrified the GOP base in California. Party insiders were distributing 15,000 tickets to her Sept. 26 rally in Orange County -- and fundraisers reported an almost instantaneous sell-out of her two $1,000-a-head Sept. 25 fundraising events in Orange County and Santa Clara.

Both fundraisers had generated such high ticket sales that the OC Lincoln Club event was moved to the Orange County Performing Arts Center, and the Bay Area event was moved from the Woodside home of Tom Siebel to the huge Santa Clara Convention Center.

The change comes in the same week a new Field Poll showed that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama still leads Republican presidential candidate John McCain in California by a whopping 16-point margin.

So Palin's pullout from her Western state swing is sure to ramp up chatter that the GOP ticket -- which has insisted it will compete here -- may be reassessing its Golden State presence. (Team McCain says it's just a scheduling issue.)

On a resource/electoral-vote level question, not wasting time here makes sense, but only if they'd not planned on doing anything like this in the first place. And Orange County would have been perfect for her as a place for a quick visit if they did want to do seriously do something like this.

They've got to start over shoring it up in Indiana. They are so fucked.

Looks like they ended up rescheduling -- right after the debate with Biden. Read into that what you will.

I doubt they pulled out because they can't win CA; they never thought they'd win CA. A Californian Republican's vote may be worthless but their money is still worth something.

Oh it's all about some easy green with the dog and pony show, for sure. The cheap seats for the fundraisers are $2300 each, at least down here. In exchange Palin will get to be among her kind -- said it before, will say it again, she'd be a *perfect* county supervisor in OC.

Eh. Generally you're right, but in the newspaper scenes I suspected that, for Simon, shit happens = truth. You know, that old canard about how sad songs say so much.

Er, wrong thread!

Alfred I love it when you do that

We should talk about The Wire in every thread

every political thread is at a "Wire" level.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/13/in_anrchorage_an_anti-palin_pr.html?hpid=sec-politics

In Anchorage, an Anti-Palin Protest

By Karl Vick
ANCHORAGE -- A couple of hours after Gov. Sarah Palin returned to the Outside, as Alaskans call the Lower 48, her local critics swarmed an Anchorage intersection to correct the widespread impression that the whole of the Last Frontier endorses her candidacy.

The midday protest outside a city library drew a crowd in the high hundreds -- perhaps surging past a thousand -- from the city's relatively liberal environs, who seemed very happy to see one another and be reminded that they are not alone.

"The whole thing grew out of frustration," said Charla Sterne, one of the organizers, who like several people at the rally declined to say where they worked (several said they were state employees and feared retribution).

"Last week this was just ten women sitting around talking about this perception that all of Alaska supports Sarah Palin. We apparently hit a nerve and started a movement," Sterne said.

A sense of festival obtained. There was a woman in a polar bear suit representing "Polar Bear Moms Say: No Palin." Drivers on 36th Avenue saw a little girl waving a sign "Don't Ban My Books."

Maia Nolan, 29, wore a sticker reading, "My Mom for V.P."

"My mom is from Alaska. She's a working mother. She's good looking," said Nolan. "So she seems to be qualified to be vice president."

There were also a few score Palin supporters in the mix, most of them alerted to the event by a conservative talk show host.

Eddie Burke of KBYR-AM showed up in person, but while there was no evident friction between the two camps, cheerful chants of "O-bam-ah" effectively drowned out whatever he was saying to the cameras in the center of a mini-media scrum.

The din did not prevent reading the signs, pro and against:
Bush In A Skirt
Palin: She Be Failin'
I Love My Alaska Girl
Jesus Was a Community Organizer
We Luv Our Lady Guv
Palin: Thanks But No Thanks
Smearing Alaska's Good Name One Scandal @ a Time
Candidate To Nowhere
Rape Kits Should Be Free
Voted For Her Once: Never Again!
Community Organizers are the Real Patriots
Barbies for War
I Shall Not Be Pandered To
Give Palin Your Vote AND Your Draft Age Child
Sarah Palin: So Far Right She's Wrong
Sarah Palin Is My Hero
Alaska Is Not Frisco
Gun Rights
Coat Hangers for McCain
Sarah Palin, Undoing 150 Years of American Feminism
Hockey Mama for Obama (on a hockey stick)

last one is my fave

holy shit, the hannity video. i've never watched the guy. wow.