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

Gallup is 49-42 as of today.

ha, I wonder if Palin's accent alone is worth a couple of points in Minnesota. She sounds exactly like my aunts (all of whom are DFLers tho btw).

I would think the more she sounds like you the more of an insult it becomes

I don't think it's very common for someone who has a heavy accent or dialect to ever be comfortable with it, especially women.

People avoid tape recorders more than they avoid mirrors.

So, ergo, someone who share's Palin's accent might be turned off from her.

I only wish I had Bill Clinton's accent, but he was raised in the southern part of the state while I was raised by Yankee puppets on "Sesame Street".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7651249.stm

so

how come the "John McCain isn't a maverick, he's a sidekick" line didn't get picked up as a stump line? That's one of the few lines I really remember from the DNC.

Any body check out Sean Quinn's remarks on Missouri on 538 today?

That's an interesting post. The interesting thing is that Obama showed everybody how to do it on a national level in the primaries, but McCain's people didn't learn the lesson for the GE.

ok what??

Old flame cited as part of McCain's Latin experience

http://www.miamiherald.com/americas_conference/story/711991.html

Sen. John McCain's senior foreign policy advisor cites a steamy romance 50 years ago with a Brazilian babe among the things that illustrate the candidate's decades-long interest in Latin America.

Speaking at an Americas Conference panel discussion Friday on the next U.S. president's Latin American policy, McCain advisor Richard Fontaine started out by mentioning an old Brazilian flame of McCain's, who recently emerged in the press.

''Talking a little about his personal experience, he was famously born in Panama and has traveled all over the hemisphere for many years.'' Fontaine said. ``In fact, I saw, I guess it was last week, that his old girlfriend in Brazil has been found from his early days when he was in the Navy and was interviewed. She's a somewhat older woman now than she was then, but it sorta speaks to the long experience he has had in the region -- in the most positive terms.''

Fontaine was referring to former model Maria Gracinda Teixeira de Jesus, who recently gave an interview to O Globo saying the former sailor was quite the kisser. According to McCain's memoirs, `Faith of My Fathers,` they met in 1957, when his ship, the USS Hunt docked in Brazil.

''I called him John but also my darling and my sweet coconut,'' she said. ``He was a great kisser. I liked it so much that I bought a book to learn how to kiss myself.''

via tpm

UGH GOD THIS FUCKING GUY

this campaign cannot actually be happening

of all the stories to get out in front of, and of all the ways to get out in front of a story...

"uh there's some old brazilian model the senator balled way back, she wrote a book."
"foreign policy? can we go with that? ok, let's go with that."

McCain knows Latin America...biblically

I wonder if he supported early withdrawal back then. . .

wait how did I miss that mccain had a dude on his bus named Dick Fontaine

For her part, Teixeira said McCain wasn't just good at smooching. She recalled details of their Rio romp and how she'd pick him up in her turquoise blue Cadillac El Dorado convertible. McCain's book remembers it being a Mercedes Benz.

''He was not only a good kisser, he was good at everything,'' she said.

The former beauty queen recalls

MEME MEME MEME MEME

I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry at that story

McCain knows Latin America...biblically

lol

"''He was not only a good kisser, he was good at everything,'' she said."

He knew how to win a war even then.

''He was not only a good kisser, he was good at everything,'' she said.

http://www.tlntv.com/sopranos/cast/castimgs/JuniorSoprano-.jpg

hahahaha

remember how wacky it seemed that a guy like gwb was gonna be president

i cant believe the degree to which this election has surpassed 00 on every level

You misunderestimated the Maverick.

Unless there is either a) electoral tie or b) a crazy recount which goes on forever, this election cannot surpass 2000 for sheer insanity.

wau

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/8750/torussiawithlovexg0.jpg

click for big:

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/1381/sarahcudapagerr0.th.jpghttp://img527.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif

i need a sarah-cuda

The NYT digs into the Ayers-Obama connection.

McCain wink meme pls, o wait

btw about that bullshit that blue-state votes don't count?

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/10/in_the_event_of_an_electoral_t.php

Sorry if this is a repost (couldn't find it upthread), but just when you were afraid that the debate would provide absolutely no trademark Palin nonsense incomplete google-translate talking point mashup babble, there's this:

she is pretty ridiculous. i feel like she looks like me when i snuck into a seminar my first year of college... always had a very surface-level idea of what was going on, and would make comments, get lost in the middle, and finish lamely. & then look around at other people to see if what i'd said made any sense at all.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081004/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_iran_no_deal
wow, you know you're a bad president when your make your foreign policy decisions based on how they might affect an election you're not even in.

Obama has called for unconditional direct talks

thanks, associated press, for being full of shit.

I have come to understand "unconditional" to mean "everybody gets a chair."

The horror.

It means that tea is served.

Chamberlain had tea with Hitler, you know. TEA WITH HITLER.

Andy Zaltzman on The Bugle this week (which was especially killing, especially Andy): "Sarah Palin has had sex with a man. If it's not true, sue us, lady. Is that the kind of woman you want conducting high-level negotiations with male heads of state like Ahmadinejad, Chavez, Mugabe, Sarkozy, and Kevin Rudd of Australia? Is it, America? Those are the facts."

Hey, anybody have Dish Network?

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1008/The_Obama_channel.html

Apparently channel 073-000 really is the Obama Channel now. Campaign vid, adverts, & other sundry on a loop.

http://i37.tinypic.com/2rxcnz8.jpg

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

see also:

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080909/capt.c785d9beb8ae4c32b76fbcf80b474455.obama_2008_micc118.jpg?x=400&y=284&q=85&sig=.VUBw_GBoUeWOg7GtwQv7Q--

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080909/capt.e1c7d550608243a19de036f333be9834.obama_2008_micc119.jpg?x=400&y=324&q=85&sig=j6WLGoEprD3MNwHqSAxk2g--

^_^

*dies of cuteness*

I'll bet you he's whispering SEX EDUCATION into that boys ear!

http://i37.tinypic.com/2rxcnz8.jpg

IF THESE THINGS COME TRUE... WILL YOU BELIEVE ME?

http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/scenes_from_a_blue_oasis_in_a_red_state/

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2029/2908127576_f5e5cefc7e.jpg?v=0

...Unable to just snap and run, I decided to engage, and be friendly so as not to frighten them and lose access to the photo op. On went the redneck switch. “Hi, y’all! Lovely day! Mind if I take a picture of this display you got here?”

Permission was granted and I was asked who I was voting for. I demurred, as people did in my childhood but don’t much anymore. I asked the old man who was doing all of the talking who he was voting for.

“Palin!” he said. I thought I misheard him.

“Did you say McCain?”

“No! Palin! She’s got more sense than the lot of them!”

I thanked him and hopped on my bike and rode off.

That Obama pic reminded me of this one from 2004:

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/05/06/hug.jpg

When I saw that the first time, I thought, uh-oh. There goes Ohio.

from here

http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/8502/fredericksburgdm0.jpg