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

ilxors be candid

their stump stops get crazier and crazier; that winking shit was like their version of the queen of diamonds card, right? except setting off 100k crazy murderous psychos instead of one.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3050/2929305147_19e6e88f89.jpg

lol

More Palin funnies:

http://community.adn.com/adn/node/132548

Andree McLeod just stopped by the Legislative offices, after the hearing this morning on her lawsuit against Gov. Sarah Palin and the state.

Looks like McLeod won at least parts of what she’s asking for – to force the governor to retrieve or preserve any e-mails she’s written on private accounts that deal with government business.

She carried a copy of the order signed by Superior Court Judge Craig Stowers.

“Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and the office of the governor of Alaska … are ordered to preserve all e-mails (including attachments thereto) sent between December 4, 2006, and the resolution of this litigation…”

But the judge didn’t approve another of McLeod’s requests, which would have forced Palin to stop using private accounts to talk about state business.

I would like to hear the educated opinion of the Secret Service agents tasked with shadowing McCain and Palin to hear what they have to say about the pitchfork-wielding mob who gets all frothy at the collective mouth when they hear the word OBAMA

^^ the "palin 2012" pic turned up in this amazing post:

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/10/on-road-dueling-rallies-ohio.html

On a day when the Dow plunged another 678 points, we had the opportunity to cross paths with another Barack Obama rally and another Sarah Palin rally here in west-central Ohio. Obama did five rallies here in two days: Dayton, Cincinnati, Portsmouth, Chillicothe, and Columbus, while Palin did events in Wilmington (home of the DHL plant closing that David Plouffe promised to highlight in local radio ads) and Cleveland. The events were a study in contrasts.

Barack Obama spoke to a crowd of approximately 8,500 in Dayton's Fifth Third (Eighth?) Field for 40 minutes, and immediately launched into a detailed discussion of the economy. Titled the "American Jobs Tour Rally," Obama managed the subtle stagecraft of physically morphing from a suit-coated politician to a coatless, sleeves-rolled-up problem-solver.

Palin's rally featured the more impressive entrance, with giant video screens showing the crowd the slowly turning campaign bus as it approached the cavernous inside venue. Finally, the fog machines hit high blast, the huge blue curtain parted, and the bus drove right inside the hall. As "Eye of the Tiger" blasted over the loudspeakers, Palin bounded on stage to a full-throated roar. It was some pretty sweet stagecraft, (even if had Obama tried it he'd have been ridiculed for behaving as a "celebrity").

sarah palin is your new monster truck

why does putin even need a tiger anyway

wait wrong thread

no, it's cool

would have beers w: obama
would get drunk w: biden
would smoke up w: monster truck palin
would go to country kitchen buffet w: mccain

would kick ass w: judo putin and his amazing tiger

they're going after michelle:

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/mccain_campaign_goes_after_mic.php

palin pleased crowd "like a tiger"

i think that would only work for her if by 'smoke up' you mean 'do meth'

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/mccain_campaign_goes_after_mic.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAHT

attacking Michelle will not bode well for the McCain campaign

I do like the idea of Palin emerging from a dense stage fog like a methed-out Andrew Eldritch xposts

lol @ wikiWAHT

The attack? Bernardine Dohrn, Ayers' wife and fellow former Weatherman, went to work in 1984 for the major Chicago-based national law firm of Sidley & Austin, and three years later, Michelle joined the mega-firm as well.

That's the entire attack. We wish we were joking. But we aren't

I mean, come on now.

Palin *is* becoming Diane of V!

Hamster Bobbing in Montana rally next week!

I'm beginning to think she didn't realize what she will be getting herself in for by agreeing to appear on SNL.

"...wait, you're not laughing WITH me."

they finally realized that the parodies aren't as funny as the real thing

so does that mean obama has to appear on snl as well for equal time?

though i guess it would be biden who would

He can be the surprise guest star.

PALIN TO PLAY HERSELF

LOL I <3 U, NY POST

Poll results fun, explanations more fun:

"It feels like 1996."

"O.J. (Simpson) has a better chance of getting community service than McCain has of winning this thing."

"I love my crazy uncle. I don't like anybody else's."

(Plz to note -- said opinions all from GOP insiders, listed at the bottom of the page.)

http://i34.tinypic.com/2yzg774.jpg

my friends, our friends

LOLOLOLOLOL

haha no way

"There is just no juice in the Republican effort--and no wonder: We failed time and again to provide appropriate leadership for our country and the world. We don't deserve another chance--at least for a while. And the American people agree."

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/fox_poll_ayers_not_hurting_oba.php

fox news runs a poll on attitudes about obama re: bill ayers, what did they find?

Less Likely 32%
No Difference 61%

among independents: less likely 29%, no difference 64%

51% say mccain is running negatively, 21% say the same of obama.

my friends, our friends

― mccain's friends (jeff), Friday, October 10, 2008 5:56 PM

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Waiting on the Palin report:

http://community.adn.com/sites/community.adn.com/files/images/hallway.preview.jpg

Still nothing ... We haven't even seen the legislators pop out for another bathroom break.

Reporters are sitting along the hallway & and filling a nearby conference room, eating sandwiches and staring at laptops. Palin spokesman Bill McAllister is talking to a BBC reporter, while local bloggers have returned expecting the closed-door meeting would have ended by now.

A guy in a chair across from me, with a wireless microphone sitting on his chest, has fallen asleep.

jesus christ guys get a life

Palin's rally featured the more impressive entrance, with giant video screens showing the crowd the slowly turning campaign bus as it approached the cavernous inside venue. Finally, the fog machines hit high blast, the huge blue curtain parted, and the bus drove right inside the hall. As "Eye of the Tiger" blasted over the loudspeakers, Palin Nugent bounded on stage to a full-throated roar.

your words echo feebly in the great halls of the blogosphere xpost

lol 538 comment post (no idea if genuine or bullshit -- is McC in MN now?):

Watching McCain at a rally in Minnesota --- for the first time, he looks and speaks as if he is defeated. He is backing down from the rhetoric from the foaming crowd. It appears he may be trying to finish with dignity...he actually calmed the crowd down and reassured them that if Obama was elected, he would be a fine president!

"Oulu knives, anyone? Bear jerky?"

http://thepage.time.com/2008/10/10/stop-the-presses/

I think that's called a "white flag of surrender"

!

guys, he's not an arab, He is a decent family man.

a decent family man of the streets

Now imagine if McCain had been like this back in spring 2008...

Thank frickin god for that climbdown. Now here's hoping he sticks to it.

It's like McCain realizes he's sick of being a shopping mall Santa for freaks.

But then something weird happens: He acknowledges the "energy" people have been showing at rallies, and how glad he is that people are excited. But, he says, "I respect Sen. Obama and his accomplishments." People booed at the mention of his name. McCain, visibly angry, stopped them: "I want EVERYONE to be respectful, and lets make sure we are."

The very next questioner tried to push back on this request, noting that he needed to "tell the American the TRUTH about Barack Obama" -- a not very subtle way, I think, to ask John McCain to NOT tell the truth about Barack Obama. McCain told her there's a "difference between record and rhetoric, and I plan to talk about his record, respectfully... I don't mean that has to reduce your ferocity, I just mean it has to be respectful."

And then later, again, someone dangled a great big piece of low-hanging fruit in front of McCain: "I'm scared to bring up my child in a world where Barack Obama is president."

McCain replies, "Well, I don't want him to be president, either. I wouldn't be running if I did. But," and he pauses for emphasis, "you don't have to be scared to have him be President of the United States." A round of boos.

And he snaps back: "Well, obviously I think I'd be better. "

Of course, this is kind of the best of both world: Crazy base-world gets to bring up Ayers and whatever else, really, and he gets to say, "Be respectful." But I think he means it.

UPDATE: Indeed, he just snatched the microphone out the hands of a woman who began her question with, "I'm scared of Barack Obama... he's an Arab terrorist..."

"No, no ma'am," he interrupted. "He's a decent family man with whom I happen to have some disagreements."