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

Oh right, Harry Caul's place.

In Chicago I've seen a bunch of newly-built or newly-rehabbed apartment buildings, all completely empty, with McCain signs in the windows. Seems about right.

I wonder if all the White House keyboards will be missing their 'O' buttons come 1/20/09.

Since when is the shadow due to the dimple just above one's upper lip analogous to mustache stubble?

From Alfred's link: "For the first time, the government will also conduct background checks on potential transition officials before there is a presidential election." Sounds like setup for a future ratfuck, but we'll see.

I was out at my sister's in Lake County, OH this past weekend, and was really surprised to see a number of Obama signs in her neighborhood. This is about 50 miles outside of Cleveland, and pretty strongly Republican. Keeping my fingers crossed that Ohio doesn't give in to its racists.

Does anyone have any non wingnut shit about the "new party"? Is this essentially the Chicago version of the Working Families Party?

Right-click "view image" for the real fun.

http://media.washingtontimes.com/media/img/photos/2008/06/23/20080622-220738-pic-187804383.jpg

yeah I don't see any mustache stubble

I gotta say the preponderance of Obama gear in SF is kinda approaching obnoxious levels. the 15 yo hoodlums on the block are even getting into it.

i asked this girl last night where she was from and she said "ohio... that's a swing state" and it was all i could do not to blurt out "i'm married!!"

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in Seattle, there are "McCain/Palin bumper sticker dares" in the Pine/Pike corridor of the Capitol Hill neighborhood. Whoever keeps a McCain bumper sticker the longest wins the betting pool. The risk is getting your car keyed. IT HAS COME TO THIS.

so obama saying "he won't say it to my face" is his yahh trick yahh moment right?

The risk is getting your car keyed. IT HAS COME TO THIS.

haha

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A telling moment at the end of this story about the battle over the Branchflower investigation:

Clarkson acknowledged he's also working with, though not receiving payment from, the McCain-Palin campaign.

"Have I talked to them? Sure. Do they tell me what to do? No," he said, adding: "Sometimes they don't know what they're talking about."

I gotta say the preponderance of Obama gear in SF is kinda approaching obnoxious levels.

This is Shakey baiting I can believe in!!!

World's Most Popular Hockey Mom Sarah Palin to Drop Puck

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, the nation’s most popular hockey mom, will join the winner of the Philadelphia Flyers regional search for the “Ultimate Hockey Mom” contest and drop the puck at the ceremonial opening face-off as the home team Flyers host the New York Rangers at the Wachovia Center on Saturday, October 11 at 7 p.m.

http://flyers.nhl.com/team/app/?service=page&page=NewsPage&articleid=385526

this is funny bcuz at this point they can't turn down any photo op but they are unleashing her into a place where she could get mercilessly booed

omg philly THEY BOOED SANTA

psyched!

Oh man, I hadn't thought of that one.

and oh man oh man, the reaction from the Corner-types to when/if she booed

Wachovia Center

oh the irony

obama's "say it to my face" response to the ayers shit-stirring is a good stance

meanwhile, via politicalwire:

Two additional polls confirm the instant polls that showed Sen. Barack Obama winning his second debate against Sen. John McCain:

USA Today: Obama 56%, McCain 23%

Rasmussen: Obama 45%, McCain 28%

lol @ joe scarborough on colbert saying that if its a 1-2 point race, palin would make mccain win, but because its a 6-7 point race, she isnt helping enough

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hey jon, here's an article about the new party from 1993 in the left business observer:

http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/New-Party.html

xp Palin being Palin.

McCain made a verbal flub during his speech. After laying out his policy goals, he said: "This is the agenda I have set before my fellow prisoners."

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-mccain9-2008oct09,0,2682547.story

From Alfred's link: "For the first time, the government will also conduct background checks on potential transition officials before there is a presidential election." Sounds like setup for a future ratfuck, but we'll see.

I don't know how many people have read Angler but this sounds like a very bad idea as Cheney used background checks to crush his perceived enemies.

can someone explain to me why this douchebag has a job?

the 'prisoners' bit is a pretty o_0 gaffe that won't be mocked openly because it goes directly to mccain's POW experience, but a part of me thinks he's a little touched in the head and flashes back to those POW days at the most inopportune times

OH SHIT i just realized that mccain is actually patrick macgoohan and that this changes EVERYTHING

http://www.oldmanmccain.com/uploaded_images/Angry-McCain-738591.jpeg
I AM NOT A NUMBER

lol glen beck is so by far the best right wing radio nutjob luv that guy

Really? I think he's yet another blowhard cretin. He makes me change the channel when he's on.

if it's in re our national debt, "prisoners" may be a pretty apt description

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just palin being palin!

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/08/fact-check-did-obama-say-subprime-loans-a-good-idea/

In a campaign speech Wednesday, October 8, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain questioned Democratic opponent Sen. Barack Obama's foresight on the role of the troubled subprime lending sector in the recent financial crisis. "As recently as September of last year, he said that subprime loans had been — quote — 'a good idea,' " McCain said.

McCain is citing a statement Obama made during a September 17, 2007, speech in New York. While the words he quotes are technically accurate, McCain is taking them out of context from a statement that actually was criticizing abuses in the subprime sector.

"Subprime lending started off as a good idea — helping Americans buy homes who couldn't previously afford them … ," Obama said. "But as certain lenders and brokers began to see how much money could be made, they began to lower their standards. Some appraisers began inflating their estimates to get the deals done. Some borrowers started claiming income they didn't have just to qualify for the loans and some were engaging in irresponsible speculation. But many borrowers were tricked into glossing over the fine print."

Corner laff of the day--is he calling Palin an Einstein/Frederick Douglass hybrid or is it just me

Obama and the Clock [Jay Nordlinger]

There are reasons not to talk about Ayers, Wright, Khalidi, etc. — not to talk about Obama and radicalism. But there are reasons for doing so, too. And I ask this: If not now, when? (If not us, who?!) After November 4, it will be too late. Isn’t now the time to talk about it, discuss it, air it? Let Obama address it? What are campaigns for?

And where’s the media’s love of “vetting” (a word we heard a lot in early Palin days)?

It could be that Obama’s past radicalism, or tolerance of radicalism, has nothing to do with his present self. It could be that he has come a long way. I am ever mindful that about half of NR’s founding editors and writers were ex-Communists. But the thing is, they were really ex: and they were leading anti-Communists. To change one’s mind can be glorious. But where is Obama now?

I have a feeling that, once Obama is elected — if he is elected — the media will have a new candor about him. For now it’s, “Isn’t Sarah Palin stupid and racist?” (To be a conservative is to be called stupid and racist, even if you’re a combination of Albert Einstein and Frederick Douglass.)

And I ask this: If not now, when? (If not us, who?!)

nice job

BODY OF LIES

dig the shoulder-sized Palin!

AND I ALSO ASK THIS: WHO WILL CALL OBAMA A DIRTY SNEAKY ISLOMMUNIST IF WE DO NOT DO SO OURSELVES

even if you’re a combination of Albert Einstein and Frederick Douglass

Man, think of the 'fro on that dude!

i am bemused at how RADICAL ISLAM is apprently compatible with BOTH fascism AND communism. SO SNEAKY.

early Palin days

Man, think of the 'fro on that dude!

hahaha I was thinking that, too!

I am ever mindful that about half of NR’s founding editors and writers were ex-Communists. But the thing is, they were really ex: and they were leading anti-Communists. To change one’s mind can be glorious. But where is Obama now?

this sounds like mussolini

It's funny, Nordlinger posted something a couple of weeks back feeling shocked that a coworker of his (he doesn't work at the NRO, but is a professor on Long Island, I think) would be so open about hating Palin to his face. Now I'm wondering more and more just how he comes off in these encounters with his coworkers and whether they simply got tired of his droning.

correct version b4 ice cream butchered:

http://www.adamriff.com/images/postseason_cs.jpg