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

Palin: I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news, too. Alaska isn't a foreign country, where it's kind of suggested, "wow, how could you keep in touch with what the rest of Washington, D.C., may be thinking when you live up there in Alaska?" Believe me, Alaska is like a microcosm of America.

Lol, no, I'm not implying that Alaska is disconnected from what's going on in the world, I'm implying that you are.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ohio_early_voting

Misc bits from Ohio. Includes the phrases:

Obama got shellacked here by Hillary Rodham Clinton

Also, fun codewords still at play, 6 months later: the many blue-collar workers

Outside the Franklin County Veterans Memorial in Columbus, Republican lawyers apparently concerned about voter fraud snapped photographs of vehicle license plates.

PALIN: Also, I know all songs.

http://omg.yahoo.com/blogs/goddess/is-elisabeth-looking-for-a-new-view/109?nc

"The View's" Elisabeth Hasselbeck is reportedly "really upset" about the recent political discussions (i.e. the upcoming presidential election) that have been taking place on her daytime gab fest. As the lone Republican on the talk panel -- not to mention the youngest -- she just can't seem to win against her loud, liberal counterparts Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg.

While tensions are high on set, a "View" staff member told the Chicago Sun-Times that things aren't as bad as they were during the Rosie O'Donnell era. Still, it's bad enough that Barbara Walters has set up a "cooling off" meeting for her ladies.

Rumor has it that Elisabeth may even be leaving "The View" to host her own program on the FOX News Channel, where she can be with her own "kind" ... and not have to face off with Joy and Whoopi on a daily basis! That sort of makes me sad. Although I think Hasselbeck often comes across as being out of touch, uninformed, and immature, I must admit that the outspoken 31-year-old makes for some good television!

Fortunately, Elisabeth got to take a break from all of her work drama over the weekend with her little girl Grace. (Doesn't the 3-year-old look a lot like her daddy, NFL quarterback Tim Hasselbeck?) The mother-daughter duo attended a special screening of "Sleeping Beauty" in NYC, celebrating the Disney flick's 50th anniversary. Maybe she's not so bad after all.

Would you like to see Elisabeth Hasselbeck leave "The View"?

* Yes, I can't stand her!
* No, she's the only reason why I tune in.
* I couldn't care less.

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o god did u guys see her arguing about THE N WORD on the view

i dont get why she didn't just say "time and newsweek are the magazines that i read"

she can't be that uninformed and unprepared

Believe me, Alaska is like a microcosm of America.

if we counted the mosquitos

http://www5.jcpenney.com/jcp/GR2_RegistryList_View.aspx?storeRegNo=01233857&

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looks totally legit

dammit, somebody's already blanked it out

Wedding date = election day?

http://savingbristol.com/page2.html

make sure you put in the ampersand

MAVERIQUE

Oh man, someone on Team O better grab a baton and RUN with this shit:

http://www.youtube.com/v/i7Hcf7Q1Q9A&border=0&rel=0

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from 2001 google

first hit for barack obama

looking young!

http://web.archive.org/web/20011215150456/www.senate.gov/~mccain/images/rudy&jsm2.jpg

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081001/ap_on_el_pr/campaign_battlegrounds

goodlooking poll news - but ends by saying that in Pennsylvania Obama has trouble with 'working-class voters who question his liberal voting record and, perhaps, his race'.

They question his race? ... I can't find the right words to comment on that.

they're just not sure he's really black

^ don't joke about that

mccain crazy grampa style just gets better

When he was asked if he had enjoyed taxpayer-backed health care throughout his life, McCain made abundantly clear what he thought of the question.

"You know that's an interesting statement, isn't it?" he observed. "And I have never been an astronaut, but I think I know the challenges of space. And I have never done a lot of things in my life that I think I am familar with."

? he could have picked almost anything

private health insurance: the final frontier

wtf John why not just say you stayed at a Holiday Inn?

mccain was on the phone with npr this morning about the senate bill. he sounded REALLY tired and was super rambly. plus he called it a 'fiscal' crisis again and not a financial one, one of his gaffes from the debate that would never be permitted a democrat.

does McCain NOT UNDERSTAND that he HAS taxpayer backed health care?

of course he understands that. he had it as a veteran and continues to have it as a public official. what he's saying, though, is that just because he's never had private health insurance, he can understand the struggles of regular Americans who do.

just like he understands the stresses of being outside of the earth's atmosphere, despite not being an astronaut.

yeah.

Pew: Obama 49-42
R2000: Obama 51-41
Rasmussen: 51-45
WaPo/ABC: 50-46

and, as per pinefox' link, Quinnipiac thinks he's up 8 points (!) in Florida and Ohio

i kinda want it to be closer to feel like i didn't waste my money, lol. not that i didn't think he'd basically won in march.

I mean, I think he was getting at this:

"You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables."

but (i) why on earth would you pick something incredible that a tiny, tiny fraction of the population will ever do rather than, y'know, carpentry (ii) YOU DO NOT GET TO BE AN ARMCHAIR CRITIC WHEN YOU ARE PRESIDENT.

lol confusing armchair critic metaphor there. I should have said peanut gallery.

Why did Gabbneb think that Obama had won in March? He hasn't even won in October.

yes he has

i thought he had it won when he was on oprah before he declared

^^^ kinda!

http://thepage.time.com/why-mccains-party-is-terrified/

Oh man, someone on Team O better grab a baton and RUN with this shit:

http://www.youtube.com/v/i7Hcf7Q1Q9A&border=0&rel=0

― jane hussein lane (suzy), Wednesday, October 1, 2008 7:06 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is not something he should run with
ugh if this campaign was kerry bush all over again

And I have never been an astronaut, but I think I know the challenges of space. Is that a pizza place? You know that song, right? Bomb-bomb-bomb, bomb-bomb Iran.

plus he called it a 'fiscal' crisis again and not a financial one

I'm not trying to sound like a McCain spinmeister here but the financial crisis could soon become fiscal pending approval of the bailout. I think the idea of the bailout has intertwined the private sector and the federal gov to the point where the words could be used interchangably and it wouldn't be totally incorrect.

Sarah Palin Interview Generator: http://interviewpalin.com/

o sure "I'm not trying to sound like a McCain spinmeister" except im admittedly john mccain's illegitimate black child

conflict of interest much?

what is the basis for the claim that Obama has won the election, in October or earlier?

because mccain cannot win

because obama is awesome and mccain sux obv!

also the fundamentals of the campaign were tilting so far democrat before it even began obama had a ridiculous head start

More Wright-Ayers ads comin'up.

total desperation flailing - if they thought wright/ayers was actually a good idea they wouldve done it before now

Yeah, but the McCain campaign is stupid.

troo

my feeling is the wright thing has played itself out and ayers never had any traction to begin with

Obama chose as an associate a man who helped to bomb the Pentagon and said he "didn't do enough."

oh nicely done with the ambiguous wording assholes.