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

btw did anyone else see this? was fwd'ed to me yesterday:

http://blurt.publr.net/dzbF8ze2LGDP_m.jpg

Fake. I think it was posted Monday (i.e. ~10,000 posts back)

holy shit

xp awww say it ain't so

that would explain why i missed it. hard to keep up here.

it's a Stranger feature, that Heart letter. The celebrities change every week.

that said, Roger Fisher from Heart said he would donate his portion of the royalities of the RNC's use of "Barracuda" to the Obama campaign, acc. to snopes.

http://www.thestranger.com/binary/b77e/GrabBag-570.jpg

So are any Dem senators going to call McCain on his shit before 5 pm?

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=677548&c=ms&ms

I think that looks like a weekly fake piece that The Stranger (free weekly Seattle paper) does.

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it's a Stranger feature, that Heart letter. The celebrities change every week.

― Mackro Mackro, Thursday, September 25, 2008 3:40 PM (7 minutes ago)

Isn't that Heart thing from The Stranger?

guys it's a fake from the stranger

(xp - the article i mean)

So are any Dem senators going to call McCain on his shit before 5 pm?

Frank already has, by the looks of it...?

i dunno, it could be a fake.

anyone seen this hilarious letter from heart to john mccain?

http://blurt.publr.net/dzbF8ze2LGDP_m.jpg

I think it's all real, fuck the haters.

wait, does anybody know what paper that fake Heart column was in?

Who knew Camus did comedy?

i heard that the girls from heart actually wrote all the fake songs on this album

http://music.download.com/i/bto/20080527/BillyJoel_StrangerCD.jpg

Heart are a fake band anyway

http://www.theateroobleck.com/StrangererCard_FRONT.jpg

Someone told me it's from The Stranger.

You guys were being pretty funny until someone decided to bring Billy Joel into it.

http://img.skitch.com/20080925-djtpk21rkk665fsy3i3k9i4ruc.jpg

would

i just noticed that john mccain does this thing when he's standing at a podium, like he goes up on his tippytoes every once in a while, like a little kid. it's actually kind of endearing.

At least no one Photoshopped Billy Joel's head onto Doctor Casino's friend's body.

lol, xxxp

So are any Dem senators going to call McCain on his shit before 5 pm?

Barbara Boxer: "I don't just say, time out, I need, you know, to crawl up into the corner with my blanket, 'cause life isn't that way"

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=10131

Point/Counterpoint: Who named The Stranger

hahahahaha that's my girl

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"I'm delighted that John is expressing himself on this issue," said Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. "I have heard form Obama numerous occasions these last couple days. I have never heard from John McCain on the issue... I'm just worried a little bit that sort of politicizing this problem, sort of flying in here, I'm beginning to think this is more of a rescue plan for John McCain and not a rescue plan for the economy."

wau The Stranger does HTML like me circa 2000

so did his campaign actually suspend anything? doesn't look like it

it suspended participating in the debate, which McCain is still refusing to appear at. So lame.

and the letterman thing, which worked out well

Haley Barbour was still counting on it at least an hour or two ago.

i'm even more convinced now that this 'suspension' was a play to keep any further davis/freddie/fannie stories below the fold, and it's working

that won't work indefinitely. anybody smart will sit on the story until after the bailout package passes and then its on.

I'm more convinced than ever that Matt Millen was fired from the Lions so he could spend more time working for the RNC and helping out McCain/Palin.

I mean if there was any question as to whether John Boy has any fucking clue at all what he's doing in this race it's been pretty decisively illustrated that hell no

this suspension is playing like mccain and palin have the fear of actually coming up with answers to debate questions, whether or not it's actually the case. i saw some poll numbers that seem to indicate this mccain move is a bad idea.

pretty sure 'keeping davis below the fold' is a very bad strategy, since thats exactly the kind of 'scandal' that can be turned into a political ad for the rest of the campaign

i only note that because it was a poll that went with an aol newstory of all things and those poll numbers are usually one-sided in favor of anything mccain/palin does xp

(I am way, way over my fear that the GOP machine is somehow still a hyper-competent portrait of cunning and PR sleight-of-hand mastery)

the GOP machine didn't get much done in 2006, and now they've subbed in the B team

^^^more like the Z team