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

caught a little bit of Letterman

"the Clinton Global Initiative blah blah blah ..... contributing to the crisis was the invention of a new type of riskier mortgage bundling called derivatives blah blah blah ... "

than I changed channels

i've seen chris rock's response! pretty funny.

Chris sits and exclaims, "I hope you don't expect me to be that smart! I thought I was watching Charlie Rose." Chris admits to not being all that smart and when he finds himself surrounded by people like Bill Clinton, he always tries to steer the conversation to sports.
Still talking about the Bill Clinton segment, Chris asks, "And did you notice how he couldn't bring himself to say ‘Barack Obama'? Hillary ain't running! Hillary lost!" I laughed, as I thought the same thing. What does Chris think of Sarah Palin? He's a bit confused how and why a governor of Alaska is a qualification to be Vice President. Chris exclaims, "There are pictures of her holding the head of a bloody moose that she shot! Michael Vick is saying, ‘Why am I in jail?!'"

there oughta be rules about linking to the same blog in the same day but the press is LOL GOING TO WARRRR with camp mccain over access to palin. (via ambinder)

lolz:

Who blinks first? UPDATE: A CNN pool producer was allowed into a camera spray of Gov. Palin's meeting with Hamid Karzai for all of 29 seconds. No other pencils, as they call them, were allowed in.

Now -- in an effort to build some good will, the McCain campaign has scheduled a press conference this afternoon -- his first since August 13.

Not to be outdone, Barack Obama, in Tampa, Florida for debate prep, will also take some Q and As.

juan cole gives up the o_O

I have concluded that Americans, who pretend in public to be straitlaced, are in fact rabid masochists addicted to whips, black leather and the application of fists. It turns out that large numbers of people throughout the world are accidentally asphyxiated every year because they need to be choked for maximum pleasure.

The diagnosis of national masochism is the only thing that can satisfactorily explain the poll numbers in the presidential race.

[several hundred words...]

And in the wake of the greatest and most sustained act of systematic plunder since the Mongol hordes appropriated to themselves the riches of everyplace in Asia from Beijing to Isfahan, the reaction of the supine and slave-like American voting public is to scratch their heads and have a hard time deciding if they would like more of the same.

Despite his aristocratic prerogatives and connections in high society, even the Marquis de Sade himself was brought down by a lowly maid, who complained to the police of his cutting her while having his way with her, leading to his arrest.

In contrast to that plucky domestic servant, the American public appears to enjoy being lacerated while being badly used, moaning with delight at each new act of abuse and abasement, while, blue-lipped, gasping for air.

One worries for our children, threatened with the fate of the homeless street children so common in the sort of third world country into which we are being turned by our managing committee.

But, well, if you are determined to bend over on November 4, at least I hope you enjoy pain. In that case, you are going to be ecstatic.

ô_Ô

"it turns out..."

This is kind of interesting to read in the waning days of Bush's presidency:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28784

wow

jesus

I do love that.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/09/23/us/politics/23palinkissinger.jpg

Kissinger looks like a septuagenarian's bunion.

Trading down from Mamie van Doren there, I'd say.

so gonna happen

that's not a foreign leader, palin.

ok that picture is hilarious

Q: what was it that you and henry talked about today?
A: foreign policy

:D

l: "of all the shitty things i've had to do for this country..."
r: "wow! the big time!"

have YOU ever met Kissinger??? well, HAVE YOU?

FACE

I can see Kissinger from my couch.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20080901/cvn-palin/images/3e5ef174-499e-42ff-9b28-82041c3f5b29.jpg

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20080905/palin-poll/images/071aba7b-b513-487c-8fc0-57d3bd9856f8.jpg

I can see Kissinger from as my couch.

http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h207/sakingsmore/Palin.jpg

http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/palin.jpg

^^ in the tank

http://programm.kurier.at/cont/upload/KINO/32248bambi2_1.jpg

http://cache.deadspin.com/assets/resources/2007/06/snorglady.jpg

http://i35.tinypic.com/2q9b8uu.jpg

ftw

how did we not figure that out before

we did, it just hadn't expressed itself

I'VE MET KISSINGER

ive met kissinger

well, shook his hand

I hope you've washed your hands.

gave him the wrist-tickler

George Will: John McCain kind of sucks - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/22/AR2008092202583.html

mccain lays out economic plan after obama says the exact same thing earlier this morning:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/23/campaign.wrap/index.html\
then accuses obama of stealing his ideas

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/09/23/mccain_to_run_ads_in_indiana.html

more palin pics, pls

http://blog.wfmu.org/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/09/21/palinnut.jpg

I hear her meeting with Kissinger lasted almost an hour

"When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'look, here's what happened.'"

-- Sen. Joe Biden, in an interview with CBS News.

how could anyone with a clue say this?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/oliverburkemanblog/2008/sep/23/uselections2008.sarahpalin1

ouch, joe

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a6/Sprad/6a00d83451c29169e2010534c19511970c-.jpg

And later, she went on to have her own failed talk show