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

no shit -- like "we're winning! but you should feel nervous and bad about being in the lead. you are a bad shiftless democrat and you don't deserve victory even if you win." FUCK RIGHT OFF

lol at the pic of Martina Navratilova, tho

lol nader:

I've had a lot of hummus.

Hummus is nutritious.

And delicious.

It makes you stronger and healthier.

So, Bloomberg's report on the Lebanese claim to hummus got me to thinking about an idea that would help us raise funds to push our substantive agenda onto the front burner of American politics.

Here it is:

If you donate to Nader/Gonazlez by midnight tonight an amount that has the number three in it (three being the number of lemons in my mom's hummus recipe), we'll e-mail to you Rose Nader's hummus recipe tomorrow.

http://www.votenader.org/blog/2008/10/09/my-moms-hummus-recipe/

im seeing biden in like 3 hours so look for me on cnn after i call for the death of john mccain

kill him!

don't say it, biden might laugh!

(I say we let him goooooo.)

Start a "say it to his face" chant.

^^^ yes

early Palin days

Again, this makes me laugh.

anyone see the video of the harpie at fox news freaking out at http://ohcrapihaveacrushonsarahpalin.blogspot.com/

"THIS IS MORTIFYING THIS IS MORTIFYING!!!!!"

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/robert-schlesinger/2008/10/9/barack-obama-will-defeat-john-mccain--this-ones-over.html

god, i hope he's right. sorry if this was already posted.

kinda dumb to call the election more than 3 weeks out but hey a pundit's gotta make a living somehow

I am loving this "say it to his face" meme. McCain loses either way, because if he just keeps avoiding confrontation he looks like a pussy and if he does it he won't be able say it convincingly to anyone (including himself).

Also, if he "says it to his face", it'll sorta be on Obama's orders, right?

pretty much, yeah

yeah, as soon as he does it, O can come back with "oh yeah i was waiting for this..."

"Say It To His Face" FTW.

even if McCain doesn't address the topic directly, it'll go over just as bad. "I just want to take a minute and I wanna clear the air here. John, do you have anything to say to my face?"

"... my attractive, cancer-free, presidential mein which I call... my face?"

today at this lol town hall in wisc. everyone in the crowd was telling mccain to his face to say it to obama's face

Oh man, if McCain can be goaded into making some sort of "Oh I'll tell it to his face alright..." comment, next Wednesday's debate could bring classic lulz.

It's a great meme, but it could easily be dodged by McCain saying "I'll say that to your face once you say to MY face blah blah blah blah" or Sarah Palin can just say "sorry, I don't speak directly to those loony pals of terrorists. *squeee* :-D "

xp a neatly chiseled well groomed drop dead handsome face

although if Obama does say "blah blah blah blah blah" to McCain, figuratively or verbatim, that will definitely raise the game.

http://www.artdollguild.net/artists/pcuthbert/marty_full.jpg

NOBODY calls me yellow!

http://blogs.tampabay.com/breakingnews/2008/10/under-the-watch.html

Constantly under the watchful eyes of security, the media wasn't permitted to wander around inside Coachman Park to talk to Sarah Palin supporters. When reporters tried to leave the designated press area and head toward the bleachers where the crowd was seated, an escort would dart out of nowhere and confront him or her and say, "Can I help you?''

in light of that Parking Lot Mob video upthread, this makes a lot of sense for them to do. but is it even legal?

not in a public space it's not.

if they were trying to get in to the four seasons or some shit then yeah, but no right to privacy in a puclic space, etc

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Barf.

Barf.

could easily be dodged by McCain saying "I'll say that to your face once you say to MY face blah blah blah blah"

but what would be the equivalent charge that Obama is airing out in ads and on the stump but wouldn't say in a debate? I think Obama would have noooo problem talking Keating 5 in a debate. most of the other Obama attack ads are "voted with Bush 90% of the time" and "doesn't care about health care."

a neatly chiseled well groomed drop dead handsome face

XD

It really freaks them out if you go 'no, but thank you' (rule one, always answer rhetorical questions to be a snark) and give them a shit-eating grin on your way to completely blowing them off. It makes the flack have to be the one who gets aggressive and it looks VERY bad if you have a camera or a last-word opportunity. Also, any journalist doing vox pops is free to do so in any public place, so any flack telling a blogger or journalist is stepping over the line. It's probably illegal on 1st Amendment grounds if pursued.

Save us from grinning flacks trying to intimidate with pleasant menace.

unless I'm forgetting something.

the ad linking McCain to Limbaugh on immigration was pretty unfair but that's practically ancient history

xpost to myself

I think people are missing the point that most of our founding fathers would be considered terrorists today.

this is really gross and unpleasant:
http://www.timeout.com/newyork/tonyblog/?p=7431 (link itself is SFW but links to really horrible not-safe-for-anyone content)

specifically the biden one

Obama buys primetime half-hour block on CBS for Oct 29.

A querent from the town hall debate dislikes being talked down to:

How did I feel about Sen. McCain stating “You probably never heard of Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac before this"[?]

Well Senator, I actually did. I like to think of myself as a fairly intelligent person. I have a bachelor degree in Political Science from Tennessee State, so I try to keep myself up to date with current affairs. I have a Master degree in Legal Studies from Southern Illinois University, a few years in law school, and I am currently pursuing a Master in Public Administration from the University of Memphis. In defense of the Senator from Arizona I would say he is an older guy, and may have made an underestimation of my age. Honest mistake.

However, it could be because I am a young African-American male. Whatever the case may be it was somewhat condescending regardless of my age to make an assumption regarding whether I was knowledgeable about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

via ben smith

keep it up, guyz

http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/7788/obdemcxr2.jpg

i see a lot of eggs getting counted here.

i think that's a shop

No, that's an actual photograph from 1948.

They hadn't learned how to center headlines yet.

those aren't eggs we're counting, bro, they're tracking poll results

also fuck this sentiment that we have to shit our pants with worry until the final vote is tallied, why can't we just rejoice in our lead in the polls and use that enthusiasm to further our determination to crush the opponent and run up the score???

(and other half baked sports analogies)

Just sayin' you shouldn't high-five anyone in the dugout when your pitcher is throwing a perfect game.

e.g. buying 30 minutes of time on CBS!

my guess is mccain doesn't "say it to his face" in debate 3, ends up looking even weaker and more directionless. he seems to like stunts that look risky but don't carry much risk for him.

i havent changed my underwear since obama regained the lead in the gallup daily poll

i'd say im doing my part!!