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

can't fucking wait

Uh deej HE IS/WAS OPPOSED TO THE WAR. That was something Obama actually believes. Do you think he has that point of view because of Howard Dean?

CHANGE IS CUMING

soo I guess we'll wait for the NRO explosion by placing bets on when Alex and deej break down and kiss...?

Uh deej HE IS/WAS OPPOSED TO THE WAR. That was something Obama actually believes. Do you think he has that point of view because of Howard Dean?

― Alex in SF, Thursday, October 9, 2008 4:57 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

no, im just saying that using it as a central tenet of your presidential campaign was a smart move - he could have downplayed it and run as a moderate or something but it was a call to rally the activist side of the base

im sure he believed the war was a bad idea, but im sure hillary did too

http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/News/PressReleases/96557315-1694-4d8f-9b0a-c29f0f0872e6.htm

Economists Statement on Barack Obama's Risky Economic Proposals

featuring such luminaries as

John Cogan, Hoover Institution
Kathleen Cooper, Southern Methodist University
Marvin Kosters, American Enterprise Institute
Bill Niskanen, Cato Institute

and

Ike Brannon, McCain-Palin 2008
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, McCain-Palin 2008

OH - 20
FL - 27
VA - 13
CO - 9

I hope he wins all of these but you really want to have OH or FL. The way I see it right now, if Obama wins NM, CO and all of MN, WI, MI, and IA it doesn't matter if he loses FL, VA, even OH, not to mention NC.

theres def similarity between deans 50 state and obamas map stretching 08 strategies - theyre different in that deans is a multi year attempt to build up dem fundamentals in traditionally weak states - where as obama is just trying to win a campaign

a big argument in deans approach is expending resources as a loss leader - obv this makes no sense if yr just trying to win a single campaign - which is why obama pulled out of s dakota etc

i do think btw fyi lol that deans 50 state idea is totally otm

deej I'm going to stop there, because basically you seem to be saying Obama being smart and playing to his strengths is because of Howard Dean (which is patently nuts). It's not good arguing about this. Let's kiss instead.

The pictures below are of a recent Orgasmic Breathing workshop that Destin led at Burning Man with a packed dome of 120 people. If you were part of this experience, than you are well aware of the power of the large group energy. Now imagine if it were 1,000 people!

(semi-nsfw)

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u91/destingerek/-6-1.jpg
http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u91/destingerek/-7-1.jpg

uh xp

Economists Statement on Barack Obama's Risky Economic Proposals

featuring such luminaries as

John Cogan, Hoover Institution
Kathleen Cooper, Southern Methodist University
Marvin Kosters, American Enterprise Institute
Bill Niskanen, Cato Institute

and

Ike Brannon, McCain-Palin 2008
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, McCain-Palin 2008

I was roffling even before you got to the staffers. Shit you had me at Hoover.

Let's kiss instead.

http://osforobama.com/in/

out of office autoreply =(

no hand on the tiller after 5pm eastern it seems...

boo

The defining thing that made me cross over to Obama (from front-runner HRC) was the enthusiasm. His fund-raising and the ardor of his supporters have made McCain have to compete all over the place in states that he may have expected to take for granted.

i think i'm going to sign up to volunteer on election day..i got an email about it from the obama campaign, but i dunno if anyone else is interested here's the site:

http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/givebarackaday

seems like i would feel better if i got off my ass instead of just fretting on the internet and in front of the TV.

Also, I think the week point of Rove's and the evangelicals' strategy is that it tends to make California, a state that voted for Republican presidential candidates for a generation until '92, more solidly Democratic in terms of the EC. The eastern part of the state may be soldily 'red' but the move away from centrist Republicans has meant that there are lots of them who will vote for a moderate Democrat over a wing-nut flat-earther here.

(xpost)You don't have a job to go to?

i have a lot of vacation days that i don't ever use.

Good for you, Matt.

Gotchya. I'm going to work. Nothing's more fun than finding out that some of my co-workers are nutjobs (real quote from 2004: "You do know that if Kerry wins the entire military is just going to quit. They won't serve under that guy.")

Sadly that doofus is gone now.

"sadly"

I'm voting the weekend after next. I can't wait till election day.

I'm sure Alex would have been a real source of solace to the doofus on Nov 5.

Also, I think the week point of Rove's and the evangelicals' strategy is that it tends to make California, a state that voted for Republican presidential candidates for a generation until '92, more solidly Democratic in terms of the EC

Yes. California is #2 in Starbucks-to-Wal*Mart ratio!

Well now that he's not working full time, he has more resources to devote to that militia thing he's got going.

I plan to devote my resources to getting really fucked up on election night.

should i organize poll return watching/dance party on election nite? it would be at the club i dj at.

absolutely

Yes. California is #2 in Starbucks-to-Wal*Mart ratio!

Hey, at least Starbucks offers health care to all its workers. ;)

btw i will need suggestions for "funky president"-type shit to spin next time i dj, strictly in a soul/funk vein.

"Paint The White House Black" - George Clinton

btw i will need suggestions for "funky president"-type shit to spin next time i dj, strictly in a soul/funk vein.

― omar little, Thursday, October 9, 2008 6:27 PM (8 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

blowfly - the first black president
fred wesley & the jbs - you can have watergate just gimme some bucks and ill be straight

honeydrippers - impeach the president

wow. news networks showing some angry ass fired up people at the mccain rally today.

I plan to devote my resources to getting really fucked up on election night.

*high fives*

btw i will need suggestions for "funky president"-type shit to spin next time i dj, strictly in a soul/funk vein.

this calls for its own ILM thread

One way or another. It's either celebratory or consolatory.

xpost

If North Carolina goes blue I'm blasting "Raise Up."

yes we can by lee dorsey kinda runs away with that one

Say you're DJing on election night

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

wtf

that is some serious "not taking anything for granted" shit

I hope that doesn't backfire... He should be like, "I'm going to step aside, and give you a commercial-free episode of CSI!"

already covered upthread (well, someone linked it and no one responded)

More detail: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i69c4daba6cf2b7e55aaa2e183edee52d