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

lol @ Drudge: PAPER: Could Hillary still come back?

lol Hillary should volunteer to be the Republican nominee while McCain is off grandstanding!

just grab the crazy guy from the nearest bar and prop him up

(probably not, of course, but I like the image of him swiveling uncomfortably in his chair a little, before he just gives up and starts calling on random students. 'You there, in the SEC sweatshirt!')

I have never seen any human being on the planet earth whatsoever wear an SEC sweatshirt.

let's start a rumor that Palin is going to replaced with H. Clinton. Maybe we can get on snopes!

HOT POLITICAL RUMOR: McCain/Clinton????

btw GIS for "sec sweatshirt" takes 9 pages to get NSFW. That's about as "long" as I've seen to "get that far".

I have never seen any human being on the planet earth whatsoever wear an SEC sweatshirt.

Really? Michigan/Ohio has plenty of Big Ten shirts, I figured that other conferences would have the same.

I mean, there might be SEC sweatshirts for sale out there, but ain't nobody wearing them.

Well for one thing people actually care about the Big 10 as a gestalt entity; no one cares about the SEC en masse.

http://www.secstore.com/COLLEGE_SEC_Gear_Sweatshirts_And_Fleece/Reebok_Ash_Heisman_Hoody_Sweatshirt

lol this is the only sweatshirt in the SEC store

http://www.extrememortman.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/Chris%20Cox%20from%20New%20York%20Times.jpg

http://wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/mcainboehner.jpg

Now, if Leher leans back and says, "Yes, you in the Dixie Outfitter apparel..." the whole room might stand up.

no one cares about the SEC en masse.

ah there ya go. Learn something new every day.

it's pronounced bay-ner, fyi, xxp

I hardly do anything en masse!

xpost

If Michigan plays against Tennessee or Alabama, I'm rooting for Michigan.

it's pronounced bay-ner, fyi, xxp

― gabbneb, Thursday, September 25, 2008 5:02 PM (57 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

is that a regional thing

This guy would never never never wear an SEC sweatshirt:

can't keep your boehner from my regions, huh, deej?

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=47
yr fantasies go here

Guys, guys, this is a politcal thread. Get a room.

Boehner: the family who lived in the next block from me growing up pronounced it the way gabb cites.

xpost GAH NO.

deej already has a room and is very upset that i refuse to come by

http://punditkitchen.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/political-pictures-sarah-palin-family-russia-background.jpg

I know a guy named Boehler who pronounces his name like Baylor.

PALIN: 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--

COURIC: Mock?

PALIN: Yeah, mocked, I guess that's the word, yeah.

damn, Katie

we have to keep an eye on gabnebb because, you know, he might rear his head and come into our airspace

i think she was starting to say "caricature" but she wasn't able to remember the word halfway through. the couric interview is hard to watch.

Now, if Leher leans back and says, "Yes, you in the Dixie Outfitter apparel..." the whole room might stand up.

― ☑ (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, September 25, 2008 4:54 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

aw c'mon, it ain't Starkville

Meine Freunde, œ (in old spelling and now ö) should be pronounced a bit more like the e in meh, I think.

I can't get more than 30 seconds into the thing without having to turn it off. It could be Pavlovian aversion therapy in a glorious multiplicity of ways.

so is this the strategy? stonewall the passage of the bailout package to make it look as though mccain had a hand in the negotiations? fucking fucker.

Btw, Gabb, you misspelled 'bi' in your response to me.

We run the risk of getting played here. But this is the big time, Obama, show your stuff.

so is this the strategy? stonewall the passage of the bailout package to make it look as though mccain had a hand in the negotiations?

that's the backup strategy and will hunt about as well as John Kerry.

I think Obama should retain as much as he can his cool, statesman-like attititude and allow attack dogs to show that this is gamesmanship on McCain's part, pretty lame gamesmanship at that and essentially due to his campaign's fear that his VP will become an even greater embarrassment. The VP that Senator Experience picked all on his own.

He's gotta make sure that McCain looks like the crazy, off-the-cuff dude; the angry old dude. Obama can't look too angry 'cause America only likes their black folks funny or wise and he'll lose some of his traction from his position that he's cooler and has better judgment.

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http://homepage.mac.com/jonodrs/mccain-left_right.gif

The thing of real interest to me is if McCain bungles this so much that even the base can't continue to back him in public without everybody tittering, his entire campaign may flame out by next week. I doubt it, but you never know with him.

o thats fucked up xp

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THISSSSSS

maybe this dude should retitle his mccain is a genius post

When I first heard the news earlier today that there was an agreement in place for bipartisan support of the massive Wall Street bailout, I initially thought that John McCain had overreached in suspending his campaign. After all, he comes back to D.C. and yet the bill is largely hammered out without him. Then comes word from Richard Shelby and House Republicans that they aren't on board with this agreement. Both candidates have met with the President. Here is what Obama briefly said.

I'm going to tell him we're going to have to get something done," Obama said. "And that it has to include something for Main Street, not just Wall Street."

Here is the score. Obama will do a press conference and then his entire contribution to this process will be over. He will go back to prepping for the debate and he will watch the rest from the sidelines. Meanwhile, despite what some have reported, the legislature is nowhere near reaching an agreement. In fact, many Republicans are diametrically opposed to the bailout entirely.

On the other hand, there will be a deal in place by Monday morning. There has to be a deal because there will literally be a financial meltdown if there isn't. These financial services companies deeply leveraged in these Mortgage Backed Securities. Without a deal, there will soon be a meltdown.

What will happen now is down and dirty politicking, horse trading and legislating. John McCain will be in the middle of all of it and Barack Obama will be watching all of it. Because he is the Presidential candidate, he is the de facto leader of the Republican party. That means that he is in a leadership position in all of these negotiations. As lawmakers update the media, his name will be mentioned in most every important meeting that is taking place all around the Capitol.

It's unlikely a deal will be reached tonight, and if it is, it won't be until much later this evening. It may not even be reached tomorrow. It may take until the weekend for a deal to be reached. Meanwhile, as updates come in, McCain's name will be prominently mentioned in each and every meeting.

If Obama insists on going forward with the debate, then McCain should insist on another master stroke. He should send Sarah Palin to debate Obama. She can make it clear that John McCain is involved in serious negotiations trying to hammer out an agreement to save our financial system. If Obama insists on debating, it will have to be with her. In that case, either way Obama loses.

Finally, once an agreement is reached it will be John McCain that will figure prominently in ironing it out. Keep in mind that most every single important piece of legislative business over the last decade has had McCain's fingerprints on it. He will look like the dutiful statesman while Obama looks like the talker. Furthermore, since he will be working nearly non stop for several days it will even put to rest any fears that he is too old to serve. McCain took a big gamble in suspending his campaign. It's not his first big political gamble. He gambled on the surge and won. He gambled on comprehensive immigration reform and lost. McCain is not afraid to put his political career on the line for a bold move, and this time it, in my opinion, will lead him right into the White House.

http://theeprovocateur.blogspot.com/2008/09/mccains-master-stroke.html

The bold stroke pays off for John McCain

By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial page columnist

Americans love the bold stroke. That's why John McCain's dramatic I'm-suspending-my-campaign announcement was met by a nice bump in his daily Gallup Poll numbers.

It's like watching football. Way more fun to watch the long pass than the grind-it-out-on-the-ground game we're being subjected to these days in Kansas City.

But do we want the leader in the White House trying out the long pass? The ground game is usually safer. That's something voters will have to weigh in November.

barb

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