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

props to sarah heath for clawing her way from 39th-percentile american all the way up to average american

fuck i didn't realize i was posting to a board full of rhodes scholars jeez

I'll bet you not one person who regularly posts to this board got a score even close to that low.

i'm a little disturbed that suddenly, after months of her basically being a vapid zombie at his side saying nothing at all, cindy is in the spotlight saying really borderline things alongside crazypants mcmoose.

That New Yorker piece on Cindy really made her seem like a cruel person, so I'm not surprised she's turned so nasty now.

Yeah Adam, for sure. There are only two scores you can get on the SATs. Rhodes scholar quality, or idiot quality. There's no in between.

yah whatever theres plenty of brilliant successful people who were shitty students

sarah palin: brilliant, no; sucessful, yes.

✧✧✧@k✧✧.e✧✧ got a higher score

lol tim at kfc dot edu

well the SAT scores are shitty yeah but the actual class grades seem fairly normal

I'm hardly a brain, but I didn't get a C until my senior year and never got a D.

this has a lot to do w/you know how hard you try

How long had she been at it though? Like, five years.

re: her SAT score, I always thought that SAT scores were done in increments of 10?

how do you guys know that's a real report card? did i miss something

It's completely unconfirmed and I wonder about the SAT scores not ending in zero, but why spoil an afternoon's fun...

eh maybe 25 years ago they scored em like that

they hadn't invented rounding up back then

wtf drudge
WASH TIMES Friday: Obama secretly tried to sway Iraqi government to ignore Bush deal on keeping troops in Iraq... Developing...

pretty weak october surprise if that's what they're trying to push

its funny how drudge switched from new magnanimous drudge right back to old nutjob drudge - guess that expand the readership idea wasnt working out

That shit was already brought up in one of the debates or some bullshit McCain book-burning rally or something. WHERES THE 411 MAV

It's completely unconfirmed and I wonder about the SAT scores not ending in zero, but why spoil an afternoon's fun...

― my sweet coconut (rogermexico.), Thursday, October 9, 2008 8:51 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark

I think there's some normalization mumbo jumbo going on… I think my PSAT ended in a 5?

THE MICHELLE OBAMA WHITEY VIDEO WILL BE RELEASED ANY DAY NOW

PALIN/ASTLEY 2012

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kudos

haha

Mods not being able to see images SUX...I had to log out to see that triptych then log back in. (It was worth it.)

nIce

ayo hardy just hav 2 accounts

Mods can't see images? Bizarre admin choice.

Palin: Obama not telling ‘total truth’
By ANDY BARR | 10/9/08 2:28 PM EDT

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin attacked Barack Obama Thursday for not being honest about his association with 1960s radical William Ayers.

“Barack Obama hasn’t told the American people the total truth about that, about his association with Ayers,” Palin said on conservative radio host Laura Ingraham’s show. “Doggonit, he fails to tell the American people with candor and with truthfulness what his associations are and we have to know.”

Mods can't see images? Bizarre admin choice.

There's some security reason why it has to be that way, not so much a choice.

WASH TIMES Friday: Obama secretly tried to sway Iraqi government to ignore Bush deal on keeping troops in Iraq... Developing...

pretty weak october surprise if that's what they're trying to push

― velko, Friday, 10 October 2008 00:59 (1 hour ago)

so can we confirm this is nothing worth worrying about then?

To paraphrase SNL tonight, "I had a close personal relationship with Bill Ayers. And I'm telling you this because there's absolutely nothing at this point that can keep me from winning."

But likely, if the Ayers thing doesn't pan out, NRO will start screaming about this tomorrow.

Doggonit

get doggonit
get doggonit

Welcome to a month ago.

According to Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Obama made his demand for delay a key theme of his discussions with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad in July.

TPM jumped on this, and did a little digging of their own.

But (Amir) Taheri doesn't exactly have a reputation for care and precision in his work. In May 2006, he published an explosive story in the Post (since removed from the paper's site), as well as Canada's National Post, about an Iranian law that forced Jews to wear a yellow stripe, stoking fears of a second Nazi Germany. Only problem: it turned out to be a complete fabrication.

were the story true hoos drudge would have a better source than the wash times

so why would the times blow it up now? just cause they're the times? xp fair enough

Both liberals and conservatives often refer to the Times as politically conservative. Liberal critics have cited it along with, most notably, the Fox News Channel and talk radio, as epitomizing conservative media bias.[8][15][16][17] Salon.com[18][19] The Daily Howler[20][21][22][23] and Harper's Magazine[24] have published analyses of what they believe are serious factual errors and examples of bias in the paper's news coverage. Conservative-turned-liberal writer David Brock, who worked for the Times' sister publication Insight on the News, said in his book Blinded by the Right that the news writers at the Times were encouraged and rewarded for giving news stories a conservative slant. In Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy Brock wrote "the Washington Times was governed by a calculatedly unfair political bias and that its journalistic ethics were close to nil."[25] According to the Columbia Journalism Review, "Because of its history of a seemingly ideological approach to the news, the paper has always faced questions about its credibility."[26]

right

big hoos you gotta relax some, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar: the mccain campaign really is as hapless as it looks

There is even a daily newspaper—the Washington Times—published strictly for the movement’s benefit, a propaganda sheet whose distortions are so obvious and so alien that it puts one in mind of those official party organs one encounters when traveling in authoritarian countries.

http://harpers.org/archive/2008/08/0082132

nate five thre eight suggests the ayers chant may be showing up in the polls:

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/10/ayers-attacks-piquing-curiosity-but.html

...but the effect is somewhere between non-trivial and basically insignificant. plus to make it really stick they'd have to repeat it and repeat it to the point where they'd look more boring/insane than they already do. plus it seems the more people see obama the more they like him. mccain, not so much, so...

Obama's best strategy may simply be to appear before a national audience as frequently as possible, as voters have always almost reacted favorably to Obama when he has had such opportunities. Obama's favorables ticked upward in all three trackers in today's release, suggesting that his strong performance in Tuesday night's debate may cancel out or exceed any traction that McCain had been able to make on Ayers. This may also be the impetus behind Obama's decision today to make a 30-minute, prime time ad buy in the week before the election, as candidates have few opportunities to reach a mass audience once the final debate has come and gone. If it so desired, the Obama campaign could probably also drive a decent amount of attention to the Keating Five, as the traffic metrics on the story essentially matched that of Ayers for the 48 hours or so that Chicago was pushing it.

aside from my basic level of political worry, i am officially Not Worried about bill ayers.

I'm more worried about:
a) Mass election fraud
b) Obama being much more centrist than leftist
or
c) A militant rightwing response to victory

Than I am about Obama losing this election fairly.

LOLOLOLOL at Palin grade transcript and SAT scores. Most of the people at her rallies probably did better than that.

Palin clears Palin in Troopergate probe

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=5990499

here's the washington times story. it's the same as the ny post story, and no kind of scandal. basically obama suggested that iraq might want to not strike some long-term deal with a lame-duck administration, they said, yeah we get it, the next administration will have a free hand to reopen the deal. horrors.