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

Anybody know if Joan Didion's written any essays about this election?

"have you ever played baseball?" "if by play you mean drink deep the aura of the field..."

piffle or not piffle

Anybody know if Joan Didion's written any essays about this election?

I don't. Another voice I miss, for comment on this election: Mailer. Nothing to be done about that one, alas.

There were some great Doonesbury strips about Will in the early 80s with a similar spin...

Didion spoke on a panel at the Brooklyn Book Festival about the election:
http://ephemerist.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/joan-didion-discourses-at-the-brooklyn-book-festival/

George Will's Sports Machine is probably my fav SNL sketch of all time

xp Oh, and the audio is here:
http://media.nybooks.com/092408-didion.mp3

Didion will publish an essay in a collection of essays devoted to discussing life after Bush.

CONVENIENCE VOTING FTW

g*d damn that's amazing. amazing george will.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/3519/saturday-night-live-george-f-wills-sports-machine

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"Well, I was reading my copy of today's New York Times and I was interested to read about Barack's friends from Chicago," Ms. Palin said at the fund-raiser in Englewood, Colo. "Turns out one of Barack's earliest supporters is a man who, according to The New York Times, and they are hardly ever wrong, was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, 'launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol.' Wow."

lolololol

You need to hear that speech with the hoots and laugh track.

bitch knows she totally borrowed her copy of the NYT and should fess up

As someone who has written critically of John McCain on a host of issues, including the Keating Five, none of it compares to the life that Barack Obama has led and his belief system. Obama is not merely associated with domestic terrorists, Palestinian radicals, Marxists, and black liberation ideologues — he was their favorite candidate. They groomed him. They befriended him. He befriended them. He socialized with them. In other words, these people saw Obama as representing their views and aspirations and he saw them the same way. I am not among those who raise Obama's associations but add "of course, it doesn't mean Obama shares their views." Oh really? These miscreants include Obama's former pastor, political mentors and allies, and friends. Obama attempts to downplay and distance himself from his own circle of allies now that he is running for president. But he is one of them. Obama is getting a pass that no other candidate in my memory has ever received.

who is that??

The Venerable Mark Levin

hes thought this the entire time, and just brings it up now that making this point if the current mccain strategy by sheer coincidence

making this point IS the current mccain strategy

They groomed him. They befriended him. He befriended them. He socialized with them. In other words, these people saw Obama as representing their views and aspirations and he saw them the same way.

amazing.

I HAVE IN MY HAND A LIST...

Who are all these people who never disagree with friends/acquaintances?

They groomed him.
http://jewagainstobama.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/obama-barber.jpg

also lol at http://jewagainstobama.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/birds-of-a-feather-flock-togther/

Check out the sign in the back of the photo, which I am told, says “Allah.”

OHHHH NOOOOOO

all those corner folks have the hardest time hewing to anything approaching reality when writing about obama OR palin.

xp haha nice url on that shit

WAIT WAIT WAIT

http://jews4huckabee.blogspot.com/

it's like, mccain and biden have established political characters and so are loved or hated accordingly, but lookee here it's a black dude and a woman, let's believe whatever we feel like believing gree hee hee!!

xp is that like jews for jesus?

all those corner folks have the hardest time hewing to anything approaching reality when writing about obama OR palin.

actually no: i think the right wing drew a bead on john mccain pretty accurately and early: he's erratic and unreliable as a conservative, vain, willing to compromise on anything at a moment's notice if it catches his fancy to do so, only to switch back later...

i do think there is some kind of cognitive problem those dudes have, and inability to sort out the facts surrounding a public figure who isn't a white dude, and so resort to bizarre flights of fancy (announced as though it were distilled truth, of course)

an inability, not "and"

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/10/06/suffolk_poll_obama_crushing_mccain_in_virginia.html

McCain adviser: Expect cuts to Medicare and Medicaid.

no shit

http://punditkitchen.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/political-pictures-john-mccain-officer-black-man-stole-thunder.jpg

yglesias has a line over the past few days that an obama win will mean an increase of crazy racism from base conservatives and probably more GOP campaigns using it overtly, not the reverse. it seems obviously true to me, but there is a lingering idea out there that it will be the final climactic victory for civil rights or something...

Meantime, while all this is going on:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/presidentbush/images/2008/10/06/bush_2.jpg

who's that

Wavy Gravy should not rock the red shorts / black shoes combo.

on left: http://l.yimg.com/img.tv.yahoo.com/tv/us/img/site/50/21/0000035021_20061021050341.jpg

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/10/06/opinion/06opchart.950.gif

link

I thought W. would be around 5'8" not 6'0"!! dude looks small on telly

http://media.tumblr.com/hLyH2DZIneqremijVWCdNu44o1_500.jpg

http://media.tumblr.com/ipTHaxTAYeqp6vdakWoI6PRKo1_500.jpg

Ha Carter's teeth are showing.

bush is 5'10.5" at best gtfo

During the Presidential campaign, much has been made of Barack Obama’s slender physique, with some commentators going so far as to argue that he is too black thin for most Americans to relate to him. Does candidate height and weight play a role in electoral success? With Mr. Obama and John McCain set to square off in the second of three presidential debates tomorrow, it seemed worth taking a look through recent history.

I'd like to see what that paragraph would read like if there were a Taft fatty in the mix.

Palin: Cutting Taxes Obama’s “Phoniest” Claim Yet

Associated Press

The Alaska Governor keeps up her rough attacks against Obama at a fundraiser in Florida’s Naples Beach Hotel Monday, pushing him on taxes.

Tells donors: “I think that the phoniest claim yet, in a campaign that has been full of phony claims, is that Barack Obama is going to cut your taxes.”