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

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."

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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

same insider: "suspend your campaign, and youll unquestionably win the support of every american"

lol yah everyone accusing mccain camp of gimmickry will feel prettttty stupid when a sham shotgun reality tv-style wedding turns around mccain's futures!

this episode of maher is a riot. ralph nader as dr. morbius, lisa schiffren saying goldman sachs investors are the 'smartest people in the room' and then getting shut down by nader when she tries to discredit CRA, and this maher quote:

"This used to be the joke about prostitution, you know, whats the one thing you can sell over and over again, you still have it? Apparently, mortgages."

maher is still an A+ herb but he really has gotten better since he dropped his faux dennis leary schtick.

lol @ chris rock on the debate: "it's like my dad always said (about boxing). you can't beat white people, you gotta knock em out. there's no, like, decision from the judges. mccain - was he still standing at the end? then yeah, i guess he won."

maher is still an A+ herb

i do agree btw
his bits on rap music are some of the worst shit in the world

BTW how can Sarah Palin shill for fossil fuels when she doesn't believe in fossils themselves? Lady is having cake, eating too.

Jesus made the fossils, silly.

maher is still an A+ herb but he really has gotten better since he dropped his faux dennis leary schtick.

Agreed. You should revisit a little film he starred in ages ago called DC Cab. He's still a douche, just less of one.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/images/2008/09/27/earmarks_6.gif

this DOES look like a smart thing to center an economic debate around then

haha

Yeah, it's just billions of dollars... who give a fuck?

kerm is not feeling the $ being spent on montana bears

Yeah, I mean montana bear studies are just science. Who gives a shit. You can prove anything with facts.

Is this the gay thread?

http://scienceblogs.com/principles/2008/09/earmarks_and_the_ridicule_of_s.php

obama plans to spend more than mccain, with a net tax decrease, who gives a fuck
but technically isn't that worse than bush?

Suggest this user to be banned.

ha, I'm a obama supporter but, his spending doesnt seem any better than bush at all.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v48/w1nt3rmut3/tinafeypalinreversewink.gif

OOOH, ABSENTEE BALLOT PAPER ARRIVES IN HOUSE OF EXPAT, YAY!

Being from MN05 gives me an impressive straight DFL ticket to vote for.

OMG help ^^^^^ I cannot bear that nasty mauve/'dusty pink' jacket whether worn by Palin or facsimiles.

"Pew! Pew! Pew!" is instant classic but the rest of the sketch is a total snooze - agreed with everyone above, the original interview is kind of impossible to top.

http://images.dailykos.com/images/user/3/Putinsheadrears.jpg

looool

“She's very skilled and she'll be well-prepared,” said Barack Obama’s chief strategist David Axelrod Sunday night, flying with Biden back to Delaware to help him get ready.

“As you saw at the convention she can be very good. So, I think it would be foolish to assume that this isn’t going to be a really challenging debate. We're preparing for that, on that assumption.”

Taking it one step farther, Biden spokesman David Wade later added, “He's going in here to debate a leviathan of forensics, who has debated five times and she's undefeated.”

hahahahahahha

for real

Palin will do well. She doesn't have to be better than Biden, she has to be better than people's expectations of her. And that's a very low bar indeed.

The entire 2006 Alaska Governor debate is on google video, including "what if your daughter was raped?" abortion stance questioning of all candidates. weeeeeeee.

Fox just gets funner this season

http://thepage.time.com/gibbs-on-fox-and-friends/

Palin will do well. She doesn't have to be better than Biden, she has to be better than people's expectations of her. And that's a very low bar indeed.

― Zelda Zonk, Monday, September 29, 2008 10:32 AM (58 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you mean if she manages to string together cogent sentences 50% of the time she wins - clearly even the august "exceeding expectations" media meme has its limitations

Well it worked for Bush!

Palin will do well. She doesn't have to be better than Biden, she has to be better than people's expectations of her. And that's a very low bar indeed.

― Zelda Zonk, Monday, September 29, 2008 2:32 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark

Hence incredible attempts to inflate her prowess.