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

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

if Palin doesn't lick her finger on Thursday like she did with Couric the other night, she will have surpassed all of my expectations.

Bush has never come close to the "everywhere like such as / boom goes the dynamite" heights Palin has regularly achieved.

palin makes bush look like the captain of the debate team - in fact if there was a debate team and bush and palin were the only two members bush would be the captain

of course he would, he's the man

I think she needs to seem competent enough to be president (i.e. have a rudimentary grasp of national/international politics.) That is a low bar, but it's worth mentioning she's manage to duck well under it in her only two interviews. I've gotten the impression that the format will contain almost no interplay between Biden and Palin so all Biden has to do is not make a ridiculous gaffe and he should be okay.

who else could be on the debate team and still have bush be captain?

suggestions:

deeznuts
CaptainLorax
a deer
some kind of parrot (?)

biden should just start asking her questions

any woman

bidens gameplan: attack mccain, ignore palin

palins gameplan: fake a tummy ache, go to the nurses office

The Couric interview was frankly bizarre but having just checked out a few minutes of her 2006 Alaska debate, she doesn't sound so bad. Not great, but not scarily incompetent either. If she can manage that in the upcoming debate, she'll be considered to have done OK.

i'd like to see palin debate a parrot

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she can talk abt alaska and wingnut things in an almost convincing manner - when shes asked abt important things she never thought or knew anything abt until a month ago thats when the wheels come off

I'm hoping it's Biden vs. someone in a Palin costume.

biden v some kind of parrot

like Jim Bunning

(xpost)

yeah she's almost convincing when she talks about alaska, but if she starts talking about Russia . . .

COURIC: Have you ever been involved with any negotiations, for example, with the Russians?

PALIN: We have trade missions back and forth. We-- we do-- it's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where-- where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border. It is-- from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there. They are right next to-- to our state.

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Where do they go? It's Alaska! should really be alaskas new tourism slogan. they can use those pictures of putin hunting w/his shirt off in their print campaign.

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sounds like a nice little shop project for you, eh? eh? xpost

also putin rearing his head over alaskan mountains, etc