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

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20081005/pl_politico/14283;_ylt=AqpI93pZkF5AiItaBOMjyYJh24cA

o should go george jefferson on that fool tuesday

VP debate parody on SNL, very lol

lols at "marriage is a sacred institution between two unwilling teenagers."

obama should draft an appropriately nebulous 'next step' economic plan including adjustments to his platform. a month is too long to ride it out letting mccain hang himself obv. obama's trusted by default on the economy but i don't know that voters see his fiscal ambitions properly overlaid on the current economy (lehrer tried to get at this and and i thought both their answers were perfunctory and small, excusable in the last months dizziness); beating congress and the president to the punch shouldn't be hard at any rate, not that i'm enamored of all his economic advisors.

biden did say that the ticket's commitment to doubling foreign aid would have to be scaled back but yeah even without the current crisis i think most skeptics' trad challenge to democrats is always "sounds great but how ya gonna pay for it" which is a fair enough q

Better news in Minnesota.

Love the comments on that.

You are full of B.S and you wonder why your newspapers sales are down. I laugh when I walk past your paper stand at Walmart trying to give out free papers. I spit on your newpaper and your so call journalism. You might as well change your name to ObamaTribune.

John Hinderaker's come down in the world, then.

who was playing gwen ifill in snl??

Queen Latifah.

Keenan Thompson would have been better.

remember when she used to be scary? xp

SNL makes Palin seem too likable. What bugs me most about her is that Bushesque hubris, and willingness to say pretty much anything about their opponents. Frank Rich's op/ed from yesterday said it best.

Good bit, though.

on the iPhone here, but someone should fwd the story where john McCain's brother just called NoVA "communist country". It's just what the bwahaaaha doctor ordered

McCain's brother says N. Va. 'Communist country'

I don't know why, but the one blurb from this campaign that's really been cracking me up lately is "I've got a pen...this one's kinda old."

McCain's brother says N. Va. 'Communist country'

huh, interested in hearing my father's reaction to this since he's a military veteran McCain supporter who's lived in Northern Virginia for 17 years.

I like this guy.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20081005/pl_politico/14294

Okay, so this is pretty bad-ass -- and just damned cool:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/5/183340/309/352/621029

The swooning tone of the piece is pretty lol.

Also, remember this was 1988, when 100 dollars was quite a bit of money, compared to today's value.

Maybe I'm just cheap, but that's still quite a bit of money to me.

yeah, i'm not saying i don't believe it's possible but it's not something i'm gonna forward to my mom until it comes from a source a little more reputable than foxsucks81 or some norwegian newspaper.

Obama Hagiography! I love it!

http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2008/10/connections.html

Palin's supporters are, for the most part, evangelical Christians, which is to say these are my people. She feeds my people lies, with a smile on her face, convinced that they are too stupid or too lazy to know or to care that she is feeding them bullshit and calling it chocolate. These people that she is treating with such contempt and inordinate condescension are my family -- both figuratively and literally.

Plus, as a general rule, when you're trying to land a below-the-belt smear it probably shouldn't include having to point out that your opponent has a long history of raising funds to help poor schoolchildren

When it finally was Mary's turn and she had bags on the tape, she got the message that would tear away the bubbles happy feeling.

Yeah, you might want to avoid forwarding the Google-translated newspaper article:

"Mary turned up and there was a high and dark man she had never seen before."

CNN debunks Palin's claim, noting that they're a bit late to the party what with the Times and every other news outlet -- "Several other publications, including the Washington Post, Time magazine, the Chicago Sun-Times, The New Yorker and The New Republic ..." -- having already staked and dusted the claim before Palin repeated it.

I couldn't help thinking "if only she read any of those..."

What are you talking about? She reads ALL the newspapers!

When she said "all of them," I thought she was probably just referring to Vogue, Allure, and possibly an Alaskan's women's magazine that features low calorie moose recipes.

Also, remember this was 1988, when 100 dollars was quite a bit of money, compared to today's value.

Maybe I'm just cheap, but that's still quite a bit of money to me.

I predict the republican attack line for this story will be: Barack Hussein Obama is not like you, he could afford to give $103 (in 1988 dollars!) to a random stranger.

A random furriner no less!

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Story?id=5948944&page=1

don't know if you guys seen this

has Sarah Palin told the truth about anything ever?

I've no doubt she's really shot moose.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41AJM3fzoRL._SS500_.jpg

anyone read this? kpcc had a thoughful conversation with the author today regarding the increasing religious inclusiveness of the democratic party and where obama fits in.

http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/

http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20081006/pl_bloomberg/am6wsrkwniy4

Wolfson says it's over

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/10/05/electoral_map_now_favors_obama.html

I would not trust Wolfson's word on anything, considering the stellar work he did for HRC. Only Mark Penn seems more incompetent.

"And/But" Denver Post poll: CO tied at 44

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Gwen_Ifill_Conservatives_used_me_to_1005.html

http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=8c130fe3-adab-4cb3-8443-c363f085cf13

wow. what a terrible person.

The city had traditionally put up part of the purse for the Iron Dog competition--the grueling, 2,000-mile snow machine race that usually starts in Wasilla--and one year the council considered upping its ante. (First prize could be tens of thousands of dollars.) When a colleague pointed out that Palin should recuse herself because her husband was a perennial Iron Dog contender, she protested, "I don't think I have a conflict of interest here because Todd won it last year. There's no guarantee that he's going to win it this year." As others chimed in to explain the problem, Palin dug in her heels. "Well, it could be perceived that way, but it isn't," she harrumphed.

tracking

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14312.html

ew.

http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/zwecker/1203739,CST-FTR-fey05.article

ew EW

ew

A wonderful allocation of resources and time on her part in this, the easiest campaign the GOP has ever had.