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

"... 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!!

dude, the guys in the press box are calling the game but the team isn't exactly gonna send in the second string at this point, right?

fans might be leaving the stands early, but I'm willing to bet it's mostly the other team's fans who are bailing early

you know, to "beat the traffic"

yeah, seriously, can one negative nancy point me to a case in history where being like "oh our candidate is ahead!" cost the candidate the election? what the hell? and don't pretend it happened to john kerry, because it didn't.

yeah, Kerry was never ahead

please credit people with a little more intelligence guys

you mean besides dewey?

Kerry was also mad boring and was in windsurfing pictures

way to misunderstand (or not bother to read?) the fucking question, velko. you think that ppl stayed home on election night because members of the media called the election for dewey after the counting had began? use your brain.

kerry was just not liked by ppl. i didn't have beef with him he seemed like a nice enough bro.

my dad's been saying "WHEN obama's president" for a month now and i always say it more like "an obama administration would.." - it's the red sox in me (ew)

hey can someone here school me the meaning and origin of this phrase "tire-swinging" which I see everywhere despite lacking even a single clue as to what the fuck it means???

like, yeah, i want an actual example of what we're specifically talking about here, which is supposed complacency in voters whose candidate is ahead, not about how one newspaper fucked up calling a tight race on election night. but whatever let's just keep being hilarious!

xpost that is so you tracer

there's hot dogs and beer for everyone, but the man with the paper hat is stumbling home through deserted evening streets, dragging behind him his popping-corn machine, whistling the songs his father whistled once, so long ago now...

forget it, i'm a CUBS fan ffs so i'm not saying shit

talking points memo coined it I think - xpost

that one episode of the simpsons where martin wins

http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/3waybig.jpg

hey lookit that: bush was way up over kerry in september, it narrowed a little bit in october, and then bush won. astonishing! lots of liberals believed kerry was going to win it for reasons i have trouble remembering.

"tire-swing" is slang for reporters shamelessly riding mccain's dick. don't know the origin.

I think this is the first tire swing post

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/209662.php

origin = tpm