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

I'll get the scrap metal.

Oh my god socialism in America AND gay marriage too- this will be the best Christmas EVER!

and the best war on Christmas yet!

Betty White FTW:

Christopher Buckley endorses Obama.

During a stop in Grand Rapids on Thursday, Lincoln Chafee, a former Republican U.S. senator from Rhode Island, said he's voting for Obama and urging others to do likewise.

Chafee is RINO anyway (in fact, he isn't even a registered Republican now). he's more liberal than a fair number of democrats.

As someone who HATES doing the absentee ballot because I've always gotten satisfaction from nailing my vote at the voting booth itself, I'm already planning to do absentee voting once the ballots come this election. (Oct 15th in Washington state), because I'm sensing some scary shit planned to sabotage voting booths on Election Day itself all across the U.S. Moreso the battleground states.

But if the last decade taught me anything, the post office is a better catalyst for protecting my vote and has far stiffer punishment for would-be infiltrators than at a voting booth (relatively speaking)

betty white is a national treasure

someone plz explain why the name of the palin porno isn't "drill baby drill"??

Meanwhile Florida's Amendment 2 looks like it might pass.

Fuck, those rally-attending republicans are scary and creepy.

good post on ubl's politics http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/10/guest-column-will-bin-laden-strike.html

apparently the new attack line on obama re: ayers that he is the victim of AMBITION. because john mccain is a total stranger to ambition. didn't even want to run for the office of president but did so because everyone begged him to. yes. precisely. AMBITION.

Ha ha! Hearing a ticket with McCain and Palin on it talk about ambition is hilarious.

I thought republicans were supposed to be fans of ambition. Or is ambition in this context supposed to be a codeword for "ideas above his station"?

Meanwhile Florida's Amendment 2 looks like it might pass.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, October 10, 2008 12:20 PM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark

this sucks

california is closer but still not looking good

Or is ambition in this context supposed to be a codeword for "ideas above his station"?

DING DING DING DING

well they can't exactly play the "remember when they used to wear suits" angle can they

maybe the AYERS AYERS AYERS bullshit is a brilliant flood-the-zone move to keep the press off stuff like this:

http://www.slate.com/id/2202046/

look at what Petraeus—not just the architect of the Iraqi counterinsurgency strategy but also Sen. John McCain's demigod—said on Oct. 8, toward the end of an hourlong address to the neocon elite at the Heritage Foundation.

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Asked about a British officer's recent statement that at some point, we'll have to strike a deal with the Taliban in Afghanistan, Petraeus said, matter-of-factly, "You have to talk to enemies."

He added that the British know this especially well, as they've "sat down with thugs throughout their history, including us, I suspect."

Petraeus quickly added that, of course, you have to go into the talks with an agenda, and you have to know what your objectives are. But his point and these particular caveats are consistent with the distinction that Obama has repeatedly made between "preparations" and "preconditions"—the former being common sense and the latter being an insistence that the other side satisfy our demands before we so much as sit down with them (a position that even President Bush, its most dogmatic advocate, has recently begun to reconsider, especially in North Korea).

looooooooool

obama won't ignore and and i bet he brings that up next week

I can't believe I was ever concerned about this election.

Well, "concerned" is maybe too strong, "disbelieving about what I thought I was perceiving" is probably more accurate.

the ayers shit is meant to mobilize more than convert, i suspect. the problem with that strategy is i think it will also mobilize the left.

california is closer but still not looking good

even if Prop 8 passes, courts can still strike it down. Ultimately this is all gonna come down to a Supreme Court decision.

Re: Petraeus, this was mentioned in an interview with him in a Dutch newspaper as well yesterday.

Desperation in GOP-land: my mom still wondering why ACORN voter fraud isn't being reported and why Obama won't answer questions about Ayers. LOL. Also: "All the stuff you're bringing up is coming from bloggers. You ought to know better, being a journalist." LOLOLOLOL. This mere moments after she went 'wow, cool' to news that Nick Currie now blogs for the NYT. Disconnect?

Me: "Most of the things you bring up aren't getting any traction anywhere but Fox." Also LOL you don't understand what ACORN even does and YO Annenberg Foundation.

suzy, send yr mom this:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/09/acorn.fraud.claims/index.html

It's being talked about.

i just don't understand how the fox talking heads can claim the polls are showing a clear obama lead due to voter fraud. do they not understand what polls are versus elections?

^^^ this very salient point is also made in the linked CNN article

The forms included registrations submitted in the names of the dead -- and in one case, the name of a fast-food restaurant, Jimmy Johns.

lol I thought about Jimmy Johns for the first time in forever today

they registered the whole dallas cowboys football team :/

I'm officially disconnecting myself from my mom for good, after i got this gem in an email from her.

"God Brian, it would be so much easier if someone could just kill both Obama and McCain and we could elect Sarah Palin."

Sent to Block list.

Unless I hear she's getting the help she needs, she's out of my family (which basically leaves me with no one left on my maternal side. Makes things easier.)

WOW

uh waht

That's terrifying.

Again, thank god she votes in California, where her vote would mean nothing anyway, and she's illiterate when it comes to armed weapons.

tell her to move to Alaska

i ate jimmy johns two days ago!

Phew. Damn. So sorry to hear that.

(To Mackro, rather than gbx, but you never know.)

what the hell is jimmy johns

it's too bad we can't kill all four of them and elect http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/WidowOfDestiny/Jiggle_Panda.gif

^^ truth bomb

xp lol, momz wants to move to

a) the boonies of Ireland (I kid you not)
b) Washington state

in that order.

She won't do either. She's never had a life of her own, nor had to struggle to do anything in her life ever.

(The sad part is that I'll probably won't be visiting L.A. nearly as often anymore. :( But that's for another thread. )

jimmy john's is a midwestern sub chain with 10/10 commercials but only 6/10 subs

Sorry, Brian.

well, maybe things will be better 28 days later...

(pun intended, lol)