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

is there video of this yet?

SO FUCKING DUMB

ugh

there are so many jokes to be made about that sentence but frankly even trying is depressing me right now

K-Lo Laugh-o-Gram of the Day:

Photo of the Day [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
I think the most important thing to remember at moments like this is we are paying much more attention here than many Americans who are way too busy to have scorecards (or are just not yet addicted to "The Corner") on candidate press conferences and keep track of travel schedules.

They'll be a picture by day's end with McCain and Obama standing with President Bush. Obama's gotta love that. Any serious person will look at Bush, and see, whatever you think of the plan, a leader who lead — he said we needed this and he got it. They'll look at McCain and see a man with a record of service and legislative accomplishment (again, for good or ill!). They'll see Obama and see such prospect, but wonder: What has he done? Can he really be PRESIDENT?

Strikes me as a bad photo op for Obama.

well y'know in alaska it's really cold up here, and russia's right over there, I mean why do you think they called it the cold war

the scare quotes around The Corer are so cuet.

a leader who lead

that last response of hers is so incomprehensible

led the country right off the fucking cliff

as Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America

I'm getting a hilarious visual from this.

― jaymc, Thursday, September 25, 2008 2:30 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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does she actually think there will be a shooting war between russia and the US?

if there is, does she really think that it will involve "putin" coming into the airspace of Alaska?

if that did happen, does she think her position as governor of Alaska has anything to do with that defense?

even if she doesn't believe any of these things, does she expect anyone else to believe them? it's not, how stupid is she, but, how stupid does she think we are?

it's worth watching the video of that palin alaska stuff. it's so much worse than you can even imagine:

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/palin-on-russia.html

and gabbneb, that analysis of jfk/lbj is totally true. just like how if anyone other than richard nixon had gone to china, the right -- and nixon himself -- would have called him treasonous.

omg Couric looks like she's trying desperately to suppress a giggle.

every time I think of putin coming into the air space of the united states of america I get so angry. it's like he's defiling our friendly skies with his russian sputum.

putin has been doing his kegels

I agree with the Bush administration that we take the fight to them,” she said. “We never again let them come onto our soil and try to destroy not only our democracy but communities like the community of New York. Never again. So yes, I do agree with taking the fight to the terrorists and stopping them over there.”

"The community of New York?" What the fucking fuck?

I think our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan will lead to further security of our nation, again, because the mission is to take the fight over there. Do not let them come over here and attempt again what they accomplished here, and that was some destruction, terrible destruction on that day. But since Sept. 11, Americans are uniting and rebuilding and committing to never letting that happen again.

Maybe she HAS been in a goddamned coma.

if that putin knows what's good for him he'll stay the hell out of georgia AND alaska

oh wow @ the video

what's in the atmosphere on her planet? xxxxxxxps

Shorter Palin: "Alaska's proximity to Russia has given me foreign policy experience, because Russia is close to Alaska." That's basically the sum of what she said, right?

http://vimeo.com/1808434?pg=embed&sec=1808434

also canada, with the land boundary on the other side xp

Mock?

sarah is the only one in this campaign strong and brave enough to say "mr. putin, tear down this ice bridge" and I salute her for it

http://img5.allocine.fr/acmedia/medias/nmedia/18/65/34/33/18854331.jpg

what the fucking fuck, is she actually putting forth the possibility that Russia would invade Alaska? i'm trying to parse it differently but she's really really saying that, huh

"foreign countries that are our neighbors"

I'm sure McCain will stand up to Mexican invaders, too.

this is like saying you have law enforcement experience because there is a mafioso who lives next door

That Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and on our other side, the land-- boundary that we have with-- Canada. It-- it's funny that a comment like that was-- kind of made to-- cari-- I don't know, you know? Reporters--

Uh, takes one to know one.

sound it out with me, sarah: CAR-I-CA-TURE

Have we remarked on the bit where she talks about how we can't retreat from Iraq, never actually mentions or even seems to be dimly aware of the fact that we agreed to split in 2011 or so?

Also, what's the consensus that they're trying to cancel this debate just to set up a precedent they can then use to cancel the VP debate?

sarah never said the russians would invade alaska. we're just keeping an eye on them, that's all.

I SEE YOU PUTIN! YOU SEE ME WATCHING U?

Haha guys, Katie Couric is not a softball interviewer! I have watched both her and Matt Lauer put the screws to people on Today and it's always been hilarious, as the target has invariably had this expression on his/her face like "wtf, this is The Today Show, not 60 Minutes".

both she and john mccain are clearly people who grew up with a deficiency of people telling them NO. from very different circumstances, obviously, but they have the same mentality all the same. they seem to not grasp what the rest of the adult world understands, in common, to be true. i don't even think they know they're violating social rules. they'll say whatever they want from one moment to the next, without any consistency or comportment with basic facts, because it doesn't really matter.

to most of us it would seem insane to stick to the story that being next to russia means fuck all, or that suspending your campaign while running out your ads and attack dogs meant a damn thing.

I don't know, you know?
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fucking airhead

would stab

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/3496/putinheadou3.jpg

YESSSSSS

basically, we're dealing with a mental midget who thought she could just go as far as she could through sheer sticktoitiveness and people skills and managed to get far in a small, backwater pond, and now, after being thrown into a huge ocean by a guy who's not the brightest bulb himself, is realizing that she has no idea how to swim

what the fucking fuck, is she actually putting forth the possibility that Russia would invade Alaska? i'm trying to parse it differently but she's really really saying that, huh

i imagine there are people who cling to the notion that we will one day have to confront godless Russians on the battlefield, just as they insist that a war in Iraq keeps terrorism off or soil. And I'd wager these people are going to vote for McCain/Palin.

omg @ Putin float xxpost

http://www.rudde.se/spies%20like%20us.jpg

you liberals are always hiding behind your smarty pants internets and mocking people, good brave people like john mccain and sarah palin. you want to hear something really funny, ask yourself who barack obama is going to call at 3am when russia attacks alaska.

^^ rocked that single hard when i was 7

House Financial Services chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said the agreement should calm the markets, and noted, "Some of us have been invited to the White House to try and break a deadlock, and I'm glad that well be able to go and tell them that there isn't that much of a deadlock to break." He paused and added, "But I'm always glad to get to go to the White House."

I would totally vote for Barney Frank right now. Frank/Dodd 16!

^^^ this

dude's only 68, obama could at least throw him a cabinet post

you can see her getting really testy at having to explain to ENEMIES what she feels to be true or has been told is true: "Well, it certainly does because our next door neighbors are foreign countries, there in the state that i am the executive of."

very defensive in environments requiring self-presentation, negotiation, contested ideas, etc. this is lack of qualification bordering on sociopathy.

Ladies and gentlemen, the William Burroughs cut-up method of answering questions:

COURIC: Why isn’t it better, Governor Palin, to spend $700 billion helping middle-class families who are struggling with health care, housing, gas and groceries? Allow them to spend more, and put more money into the economy, instead of helping these big financial institutions that played a role in creating this mess?

PALIN: That’s why I say I, like every American I’m speaking with, were ill about this position that we have been put in. Where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy. Um, helping, oh, it’s got to be about job creation, too. Shoring up our economy, and getting it back on the right track. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions, and tax relief for Americans, and trade — we have got to see trade as opportunity, not as, uh, competitive, um, scary thing, but one in five jobs created in the trade sector today. We’ve got to look at that as more opportunity. All of those things under the umbrella of job creation.