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

“In the end, McCain blinked and Obama did not. The 'steady hand in a storm' argument looks now to more favor Obama, not McCain…My guess is that plasma units are rushing to the McCain campaign as we speak to replace the blood flowing there from the fights among the staff.” – Craig Shirley, a Republican consultant and former McCain adviser, shaping a dangerous storyline for his former boss in an interview with the Huffington Post.

yglesias dishes dirt on one of the dudes behind the crazy "cut taxes on rich people" solution being floated by the house GOP (the plan given sorta-maybe lip service by john mccain, his only contribution to the discussion yesterday)

indiana republican mike spence:

http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2008/09/mike_pence_2.php

There are very few members of congress with whom I’ve ever had the opportunity to discuss a substantive matter of public policy. But as it happens, one of them — the one with whom I’ve had the second-longest exchange — is Mike Pence (R-IN) who I’ve seen on television today repeatedly discussing the Republican Study Group’s “plan” for the financial crisis. And I can tell you this about Mike Pence: he has no idea what he’s talking about. The man is a fool, who deserves to be laughed at. He’s almost stupid enough to work in cable television.

Pence, sorry

http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/homepage/hp9-26-08c.jpg

This is 2008. Can we get a new stage designer plz?

the green chucks signify that his cargo pocket is in fact full of tasty drugs

will ye have a drug, democracy?

http://www.electiontaxes.com/

Put on a damn suit, vacuum boy. Jesus. I had to do camera work for the Italian prime minister's visit to the Rhode Island state house one time and I almost was told to stay home that day because of my scruffy look. I promised them I had some nice clothes and they warily OK'd me. I showed up and passed. By the way can I just say - Italian secret service guys wear some nice fucking suits.

dude their ITALIAN

I've never heard it called that before.

Let me also ask this: How many jobs have poor people created? Poor people don’t employ people. Rich people are the ones who create middle class jobs by investing and expanding businesses. Take away their money and you take away your job.

^^^some genius reasoning here

guys have you seen this? great stuff from cafferty but my favorite part is wolf blitzer. he is CHANNELING paul shaffer. cafferty as letterman, blitzer as shaffer

haha cafferty is great

whoa

i appreciate that CNN/our side's got its own exponent of that Brit Hume/Bill O'Reilly-style old-white-dude-paternalism, if in fact anyone pays attention to him, but I'm not exactly a fan of it no matter the partisan lean

Obama says "McCain's debating skills are unparalleled...and the expectations for him tonight are sky-high." The McCain camp doesn't launch into hyperbole but also tries to set expectations by calling Obama's debating skills "pretty good."

expectations-setting is the most surreal part of the election game imo

i mean, in any election except this one, it would be

tracer, did you see my question about what channel I should watch the debate on? i have bbc, sky, fox, cnn (and cnbc if they show it?).

If by CNN you mean CNN International I'd watch it on that in the hopes of possibly insightful commentary.. but won't it pretty much.. all be the same?

Don't they have intermission with pundits/lols? If not then yeah, CNN Int.

I think all the nets will draw on the same feed for the debate, so it won't matter what channel you watch it on, and this thread will have more entertaining pundits before and after than the tv will. (xxpost)

Esp. if we've all been drinking.

I like these guys whose job it has always been to shovel the day's C.W. finally cracking under the strain of McCain/Palin. Apparently even the MSM reach a limit where they can't play along with a phony "suspension" of a campaign, or the supposed "preparedness" of a dingbat.

i'm drunk btw, xp

debates thred?

"i mean, in any election except this one, it would be"

I was about to say.

debates thred?

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plz do

Okay, found a proper viewing spot. Once I fix a flat bike tire, off we go.

megawau at that cafferty bit, utterly awesome

I mean Palin really was 100% "some people are from countries that don't have maps" there

such as. south africa.

The Drunken Obama-McCain Debate Thread

Heh chart of the Palin economic fix:

https://blogs.portfolio.com/images/feeds/blogs/palineconom.gif

https://blogs.portfolio.com/images/feeds/blogs/palineconom.gif

How the fuck could anybody have diagrammed those sentences?

I haven't looked at any editorial cartoons in, uh, probably a couple of years, so I had no idea how awesome and vicious Tom Toles' caricature of McCain was.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinion/ssi/images/Toles/c_09262008_520.gif

Reminds me of Hunter Thompson's description of George Foreman: "a human hamburger...a man on the verge of death."

The best lol is that the name of that guy vacuuming the stage is ALAN JUSTICE.

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/6282/massdebatesd3.jpg

Okay what the fuck is that.

Rehearsal stand-ins.

I realize that, and yet. Something about the look of the guy on the left.

Since the McCain campaign (surprisingly) didn't ask for a different size podium or any phone books, the height differential should make for good lulz.

<img src="http://www.marriedtothesea.com/022406/never-reveal.jpg";>

FUCK!

http://www.marriedtothesea.com/022406/never-reveal.jpg

lol wut

"main street" - check. anyone else playing bingo?

is that the first "my friends"?

retroactive drinking game buzzwords:

senator obama doesn't understand
main street
bracelet
miss congeniality