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

It just makes me want to crush Mac harder and hear the lamentations of his women

lolz Obamaconan

we know Clinton never won a majority - what were Carter and JFK's majorities like...? Are we looking at the biggest Dem margin of victory since FDR?

What does anybody know about this source?

― Michael White, Tuesday, October 7, 2008 3:48 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

what do u think

we know Clinton never won a majority - what were Carter and JFK's majorities like...? Are we looking at the biggest Dem margin of victory since FDR?

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, October 7, 2008 3:52 PM (9 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i cant see him surpassing lbj

oh right duh *slaps forehead*

Michael, if you read that dude's other articles, you realize very quickly that he is a self-serving douchebag that is easily discredited. As much as I'd like to believe that article, I need to see it come from somewhere else.

xp: everyone likes El BJ

That's what I was thinking, Dan. I've just never seen or heard of them and my inbox is inundated with crazy leftist shit that I mostly want to eschew in favor of stuff that will stick/win.

xp: everyone likes El BJ

plz to post pic of LBJ pissin' outside the tent.

argh I have the best jpeg and it's a phucking photobucket...

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

only the very naive, the very deluded, and john mccain himself think that mccain has any shot at winning at this point

lol andrew sullivan just kicked an alabama newspaper off the internet. no good deed goes unpunished, anniston star!

Hahaha, I was just trying to find that page myself.

It appears to be this:

http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:http://www.annistonstar.com/breaking/2008/as-localupdate-1006-jflemingcol-8j06o5456.htm&hl=en&strip=1

http://thepage.time.com/2008/10/07/deej-is-mocking-our-patriotism

― David R., Tuesday, October 7, 2008 8:49 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

damn wtf deej

"What's crazy is this," he writes. "I was blown away by the outright racism, but these folks are f***ing undecided. They would call him a n----r and mention how they don't know what to do because of the economy."

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1008/Race_and_the_economy.html?showall

whatever dudes, Axelrod may not be sending people home, but it's the work going on locally that's gotta keep going. If people think it's in the bag then they may say fuck it. Even if it is in the bag for Obama, it's not in the bag for tons of other Dems---for instance we're working hard in my district for the state school board election, since the (popular) incumbent is anti-evolution. But a big turnout for Obama would help throw her out of office. And so on in every district. Just stay cool is all I'm saying. I trust Obama to do so.

Thank you for the warning.

Thank you for being a dick.

Thanks for the sad.

cindy mccain does some aggressive truth telling, aggressively.

"Thank you for being a dick."

My pleasure.

lmbo xpost

Just two of the youngsters in the room were close to voting age: Beatriz Zamora and her friend Anna Robertson. Both 17 and classmates in an AP government class, they’ve been following the race closely and wish they could have the chance to cast their vote.

Who would their vote go to? Beatriz cocks her head and stares intently.

“Barack Obama,” she said firmly.

Still, both girls were excited to meet the Republican candidate’s wife.

“We like the McCains too,” Anna explained. “We just like the Obamas better.”

aggressive cindy is aggressive

euler, no-one said that they should stop campaigning

except for deej, because he hates America

http://thepage.time.com/2008/10/07/deej-polling-ahead-of-obama-in-ohio/

^^ now we're starting to see the effects of obama repping for the cool kids

never too high, never too low

^^^ wisdom learned from being a Braves fan for many years

http://thepage.time.com/2008/10/07/dan-perry-john-edwards-sex-scandal

lol google

Gingrich and Beck make laughable claim that if McCain had opposed the bailout would be winning

(never mind the fact that Obama's support of the bailout does not appear to have hurt him at all)

Gingrich Launches '12 Run

the lol claim there is that if he backtracked he could save face, which would actually probably just serve to sink him further. i'm beginning to think the republicans are trying to throw this election.

Gingrich would be a funny campaign. Not a very likable guy.

in a way its not so hard to read this election as - um I think it was Tombot? - suggested, that the Repubs are basically sacrificing McCain. He was never a great party asset anyway, so they're cutting their losses and letting him have his moment in the spotlight while going down in flames. Problem with that reading is that the entire Republican brand and coalition are so hopelessly fractured and tattered right now, its hard to see this as part of some grandiose plan for survival when everyone in the party is clearly flailing really, really really hard

im pretty sure if there was a republican movement as organized and as powerful as you say they probably would've been able to get rudy elected or something

i think it's more likely that they want mccain to get elected bcuz they seem him as someone they can constantly move right (as he has already voluntarily) but are just flailing this time around

I kind of feel like now would be a good time for progressives to take over the Republican Party.

make it so

bull moose sounds too palin

McCain is Bob Dole, except not as funny and a disinclination to refer to himself in the third person.

preview of Palin administration

joe biden will take up part of that burden xp

BOB DOLE DOESN'T LIKE IT

bob dole knew he was bob dole

lol they have fucked up arms

McCain has a pen so you may have something there.

no party tries to lose an election, though certain people may decide not to run.

look we all know that the next president is going to inherit a country that has been monumentally fucked. there is very little room for a success story over the next four years. so, the thinking goes, obama could be a carter - one and done - blamed for everything. and (channelling talkingpointsmemo here) that's certainly possible. so why not let somebody else take the fall?

but the way i see it america NEEDS someone with the intelligence and wit and history of caring about the less fortunate in exactly these sorts of times.

secondly, no matter what happens, an obama adinistration is going to appoint untold numbers of good people with an actual belief in the agencies they work for. they're going to be able to put money into things that have been starved for it for years. all the invisible infrastructure of grant-making and outreach that has either withered or been forcibly slashed over the last eight years will start to grow back. (and that's not even to mention the supreme court.)

an obama adinistration is going to appoint untold numbers of good people with an actual belief in the agencies they work for.

^^^this. Whenever my leftier friends complain loudly about whatever foreign policy/executive power fuckup Obama has committed to (Zbiggy Brzinski, FISA, etc.) my default defense is "jesus christ can't we at least have someone in the Oval Office who will be dedicated to the idea of a functional government?" Like, somebody who's committed to actually trying to deliver basic services?