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

RUN!

This election has been like the TV movie Earthquake... gawdy, often funny, nauseating, and endless

John McCain IS Chris Webber in the 93 finals

"If he's insisting, I might hug," Zardari said. Palin smiled politely.

Palin replied that she could see Zardari's erection from her house.

John McCain IS Chris Webber in the 93 finals

― hmmmm, Wednesday, September 24, 2008 7:50 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark

LOL

I have a feeling this came about after someone in McCain's campaign did the math:

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/24/pres-bush-invites-mccain-obama-to-white-house/

Letterman, edited a bit:

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hey!

oh well, here: http://www.youtube.com/v/XjkCrfylq-E&hl=en&fs=1

And here's the entirety of Chris Rock from last night:

um, wow - total public humiliation

oh, wow.

It's All About Sex!!! [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

This is silly — Campbell Brown accusing the McCain campaign of sexism against Sarah Palin. But, heck, Palin should do Brown's show too when she's done with the others. Maybe sometime after she just walks up to a press pen in the Big Apple and takes them all off guard for a few questions.

then after the inauguration me & sarah will do each others hair and talk about boys!! it'll be awesome!!!

that woman, wtf

Maybe sometime after she just walks up to a press pen in the Big Apple and takes them all off guard for a few questions.

Yeah, THE PRESS is going to be off guard.

Uribe Was Tutoring Her? [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

From the New York Times:

Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska completed Day 2 of her foreign policy tutorials on Wednesday, meeting with the leaders of Georgia, Ukraine, Iraq, Pakistan and India and engaging in small talk about her looks and New York City.

By contrast, when Obama — he, too, of little foreign-policy experience (and no executive experience) — went to the Mideast and Europe, it was described by the same paper as "high-stakes" and meant to "bolster" his creds, he was not being tutored by foreign leaders.

09/24 10:34 PM

All this clamoring for 'executive experience' is right; they need a more experienced team. Y'know, like if the presidential candidate had been governor of a large state for six years and the vp candidate had been in charge of a big corporation for years. That'd be enough, right? There's no way that _that_ much experience could ever fuck things up, is there?

Onion:

Kissinger Instructs Palin On Finer Points Of Clandestine Carpet Bombing

September 24, 2008 | Issue 44•39

WASHINGTON—In preparation for her debate with Sen. Joe Biden next week, Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin met with seasoned statesman and Nobel Peace Prize–winner Henry Kissinger yesterday to take advantage of his extensive foreign policy knowledge and expertise in carpet-bombing innocent civilians in nations with which the U.S. is not officially at war.

"Dr. Kissinger has given Gov. Palin thorough instructions for launching deadly covert military operations in tiny Southeast Asian countries in blatant disregard for human life and international law," said McCain campaign spokesperson Tracey Schmitt of Palin's brief consultation with the Nixon and Ford administrations' former secretary of state and national security adviser. "In addition, the governor now feels completely confident that, if she is ever required to step in for Sen. McCain to mastermind the toppling of a democratically elected but left-leaning South American government without congressional consent, she will be fully prepared."

Sources close to the campaign said that Palin's meeting with Vice President Cheney about how to claim executive supremacy for the purpose of bypassing constitutional limits on torture has been canceled since advisers feel she already has enough personal experience with the subject.

McCain cancelled the first day of the GOP convention so Bush and Cheney would stay home he could save the hurricane victims, so it makes sense he'd cancel the first debate so Palin could stay home next Thursday he could save the economy.

who's super amped to watch olbermann go the fuck in on mccain's slot on letterman?

That Letterman stuff is pretty fantastic, at least the way it's edited in that clip. From outrageous reverence for his character slow burning into barely disguised disgust. Fantastic.

Wow, he's pissed

"You heard it here first: somethin doesn't smell right."

He might just suspend being president. We got a guy like that now!

HAHA!

"Do you think you'll come back, Paul?"
"Not after the drumming you've just delivered!"

"he'll"
"drubbing"
learn 2 listen 2 things big hoos

"Did he suspend the campaign because of the economy or because the poll numbers are slipping?"

xp i have never in life heard the word "drubbing"

Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, who is leading House Democrats in negotiating the bailout deal with the administration, was dismissive of Senator McCain’s announcement. “It’s the longest Hail Mary pass in the history of either football or Marys,” Mr. Frank told a group of reporters outside the House chamber.

lol b/c Barney Frank is gay

"Time moves, as you know"

What are Dave's ratings these days? I hope enough people are watching this.

i have never in life heard the word "drubbing"

kids today

that palin/couric interview is so painful

wow letterman openly mocking mccains heroic mythology

ded horse, kicked

omg, xp

the letterman thing has little impact. that interview is devastating.

that chipper "and I'll bring 'em to ya"... yikes. Hard to miss the "and shove 'em straight up yer glamorous little rich and famous ass" inflection.

Jesus, letterman isn't letting up. Every single segment so far has him just hammering away.

palin looks like she's going to cry during that interview. if she can't stand up to katie couric...

i haven't heard anyone on tv bring up the point that if the foreign policy debate-- theoretically mccain's most winnable debate-- goes on as scheduled, it's going to have little to no impact on the election at this point. but if they were able to postpone it to next week after this bill gets done, the mccain people would be able to swing the talk of the race back towards something that he is really strong on, and i think that's as much of a motivation as looking "presidential"

man barney frank is hilarious, i've been completely enjoying his increased presence on the networks this week

today on cnn he said that the senate didn't need mccain "air-dropping" into the proceedings which is lol + unintended o_O

i haven't heard anyone on tv bring up the point that if the foreign policy debate-- theoretically mccain's most winnable debate-- goes on as scheduled, it's going to have little to no impact on the election at this point.

Gergen brought up that exact point with Anderson Cooper, and it's a good one. All panelists agreed it seems pretty calculated.

Good grief... Palin is so unrehearsed that she makes Couric look positively Cronkitean

When she started reiterating her first question back to Couric, some 30 seconds in, I could take no more...

Wow, Palin is now officially a liability.

fuck yeah

more barney frank today:

"We're trying to rescue the economy, not the McCain campaign," Frank said.
however
"On the executive compensation thing, it went to the core of their (the Bush administration's) being," said Frank. "It was like asking the chief rabbi of Jerusalem to eat bacon on Yom Kippur. It was the most unthinkable thing they could think of."
my ass

if you're voting for nader or mckinney because of gay rights you might as well write in paul lynde
― and what, Friday, September 19, 2008 2:27 PM (6 days ago)

Best post of this election.

I too laughed at Frank on his discussion of Marys, miss thing.

during the first part of that segment, i was confused: was her voice cracking because of her folksy-down-home pioneerwoman way-o-speakin' - or was she near tears??

during the last part, i think the twang-laden quote of "i'll try to find you some (examples) and bring 'em to ya" actually plays better on tape than it will on print, since she tries to counter Couric's questioning with folksy down home pioneerwoman "ya know i dont know this shit, who cares?" comes across as self-knowingly comedic!

in print it's even more cringeworthy

kaus jibes with my mccain-as-less-than-adult take

Expectations for Palin are now so low that if she can string a noun, verb and object together in the VP debate she'll be hailed as a genius. Since the debates are more about bettering expectations rather than winning the argument (cf Bush/Kerry), she could actually do well out of them.