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

it's a metaphor

Sometimes a bagel is just a bagel.

I mean, I don't eat potato chips or drink Coke because (a) they don't taste good (b) they make me gain weight, and I like to get laid too.

some potato chips taste good Alfred! maybe you just haven't found the right potato chip for you

or the right man! Maybe the problem is related.

I do like fried plantain chips. I need to find a guy as savory as a fried plantain chip.

no bagels in Florida? ;-)

i'm not a big fan of potato chips either, alfred!

no bagels in Florida? ;-)

I prefer English muffins.

Andrew Halcro:

After reading my opinion column in the Anchorage Daily News this morning, fellow Alaskan blogger Tom Lamb, asks "Why is it that Andrew Halcro who is so critical of Palin, wanted to be on the same ticket with her."

That's an easy answer; because I believed Sarah Palin had the qualifications to be a terrific Lt. Governor. And watching her struggle to give coherent answers on the national stage, I believe more today than ever before she has the qualifications to be a terrific Lt. Governor.

SNAP

snap xp lol

hahaha!

I've been in many, many debates," said McCain. "And a lot of the times I don't look at my opponents because I'm focusing on the people and the American people that I'm talking to. That's what the debate's all about."

this debate would make lots more sense if mccain thought he was debating us!!

A couple of things:

1) lol Andrew Halco
2) Ally, if you can't get behind the "PEW PEW PEW!" thing, I don't know how else to convince that that Palin skit was funny. I will agree that the later sketches were great because they were so arbitrary and random, and also because they featured Kenan Thompson.

Actually Palin's MO is total post-feminism, but there you go. Aspire to influence, money and power using all the same venal tricks that men do, call sexism when judged/subpoenaed on it in the same way a man would be.

I love you and want to bear your children

also because they featured Kenan Thompson

Deep House Dish needs to finally die, c'mon!

ber-kay!

The less funny that skit is, the better it is!

That skit is the epitome of "wtf this is completely nonsensical" awesomeness that will make you crack the fuck up 3 days later, kind of like the best Tracy Morgan sketches.

yes! also bear force

the wedding dress one was the best though. "shiiiii-yeah"

"You don't talk abrout someone while you are still in their aural area!"

after the scores skit i was like, uh didn't scores just shut down and has to reopen as a juice bar because it lost its liquor licence? no champaigne room for anyone lol

New York Women Republicans President was just on Fox News and was discussing "former Hilary Clinton supporters now proudly wearing their Democrats for McCain shirts throughout the city." Anchor asks "What are their motivations for crossing party lines to support Senator McCain over the standard bearer of their own party?"

Answer: "I've talked with dozens of these women and they tell me that it has nothing to do with the issue of being a Democrat or a Republican and everything to do with getting a woman into the White House. Let's keep in mind that it's the year 2008 here."

Essentialism v. Racism FITE = win-win.

"throughout the city" -- i have never seen one person doing this?

in fairness, there are about 7,000,000,000,000,000,000 ppl in nyc

yeah but i mean i work by penn station and i live in downtown brooklyn so i see 5,500,000,000,000 of those people every day.

maybe it's ppl in staten island.

this skit wasn't as funny because the interview kinda spoke for itself

yes, this is what i'm saying: if your satire comes off as more reasonable and lucid than the actual subject of your satire then it is a fail and i have no idea how you fix that, in this situation. though the blinking was pretty amusing.

the blinking sort of drove 'the interview speaks for itself' home

That's why SNL hasn't done any Biden skits.

http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2008/9/6/1/charlie-rose-green-room-with-sarah-palin

more wows

heres where i sound like o nate - what if her terrible debate performance was merely genius-level expectations-lowering for the debate???

lol

terrible interview performance i mean

then we will have to reconsider all the rest of our assumptions about reality because it will have turned out that things really are exactly like the movies

So, like, there IS a spoon?!

Family of Fallen Soldier Asked Obama Not to Wear Bracelet...

In February 2008, Ryan's mother Tracy and his sister Jessica traveled to Green Bay and waited in the cold for 45 minutes to give Obama her son's bracelet. A campaign staffer arranged it so they could meet him.

She said she was honored by Obama mentioning her son in his stump speech.

"I couldn't believe it. It was such an honor, such an honor," she said. "To know that he does know his name. It means a lot."

**

But a month later, Ryan's father Brian -- who is no longer married to Tracy -- told Wisconsin Public Radio that his ex-wife had misgivings about Obama wearing the bracelet and mentioning their son on the campaign trail. It seems as though just as Tracy Jopek supports Obama and wants to end the war, Brian Jopek has a different take on what should happen in Iraq and may be more inclined to support McCain.

lmao @ last rule

that is a quality bit

For those of you who like this sort of thing.

I prefer this lolicious morsel:

In an election campaign notable for its surprises, Sarah Palin, the Republican vice- presidential candidate, may be about to spring a new one — the wedding of her pregnant teenage daughter to her ice-hockey-playing fiancé before the November 4 election.

Inside John McCain’s campaign the expectation is growing that there will be a popularity boosting pre-election wedding in Alaska between Bristol Palin, 17, and Levi Johnston, 18, her schoolmate and father of her baby. “It would be fantastic,” said a McCain insider. “You would have every TV camera there. The entire country would be watching. It would shut down the race for a week.”

link?

Link

oh god

The ice-hockey player wrote on his MySpace page he was a “f****** redneck” and stated, “I don’t want kids.”

I'm going to go to hell for typing this, but now I'm imagining Bristol having an unexpected early delivery at the wedding.

loool the fact that a mccain insider thinks that the palin wedding would "shut down the race for a week" is exactly why the dude is losing