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

GENIE OUT OF BOTTLE

"Find out what happens when elections stop being polite....and start getting real."

"...MAD real."

it's almost sort of inspiring to see them just cop to it, though...like not even the usual half-hearted psuedo highminded rhetoric to disguise it...just pure, evil resentment.

One more time

LOL at Mr. "Make it Stop!" on the left...

Oh come on. That last video... please don't pick on the retarded. It's just not nice. I'm like 7/8ths serious about that.

The "he's an arab" lady was posted before, but dmr's longer clip gives a little more context -- McCain's been putting out fires like that a lot lately. The town hall setting is great and all, they all say McCain is good in the town hall setting, you heard that a millions times before the second debate, but that poor old man... what do you do when half your supporters are dumb cracker lugnuts? Don't hold town hall meetings anymore, that's what.

I think he's about to lose an election Mondale-style. I'd feel bad for him if he'd retained even a shred of his dignity.

lolamerica.jpg

Lugnut is the strongest of the four main Decepticons, with a sense of absolute loyalty to Megatron to the point of religious fanaticism. Unfortunately, his devotion annoys even Megatron and is mocked by the other Decepticons.

woah some chick just held up a WAR IS OVER poster w/ john & yoko's picture on it to the camera at a mccain rally!!!

"now, my friends, there's a perfect example of people who just don't get it" says mccain

He may be on to something there.

My friends.

So McCain's a Paul fan - nothing wrong with that.

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_h2X2aRjjgd4/SEx9Hg_3pWI/AAAAAAAAAXg/jdJ0TBRr0mw/No+Drama+Obama.jpg

at least she's not picking on spain

old, but good

xp

yeah, i think cnn took the clip down though

many xposts

1:30 - 3:40

i do enjoy the chickens-coming-home-to-roost aspect of GOP fear mongering

whoever it was that said they liked how the election of obama would air some of this shit out, otm

obama up 3.8 in florida

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/fl/florida_mccain_vs_obama-418.html

thats damned good

538 gives it 3.9

just looking through the flickr set linked upthread.

this:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brett538/2929554981/in/set-72157607920789303/

<3 <3 <3

cute!

i knew you would be the only person to reply to that post

nsfw: http://media.tumblr.com/u69Ix9iWTepeo5wkddUHi8D9o1_500.png

Oh boy: Andy McCarthy wonders whether Obama even wrote his first book:

There has been speculation about this which I've ignored, no doubt because there are enough policy reasons to oppose Barack Obama and I don't want to feed into what sounds, at first blush, like Vince Fosteresque paranoia. But I've finally read Jack Cashill's lengthy analysis in The American Thinker. It is thorough, thoughtful, and alarming — particularly his deconstruction of the text in Obama's memoir and comparison to the themes, sophistication and signature phraseology of Bill Ayers' memoir.

There is nothing in Obama's scant paper trail prior to 1995 that would suggest something as stylish and penetrating as, at times, Dreams from My Father is. And when Obama speaks extemporaneously, one doesn't hear the same voice one encounters in the book. Now maybe Obama has a backlog of writing fom Columbia or Harvard that signal great literary promise, but he not only hasn't shared it, he's assiduously hidden traces of it. And, to be sure, writing is different from speaking — in fairness, some of Obama's off-the-cuff bumbling when he speaks is certainly due to the rigors of the campaign which would cause even the most gifted communicator to faulter from time to time. But it's not unreasonable to expect more similarity between Obama the writer and Obama the orator.

looooool

continue grasping at those straws gentlemen

I wonder if Andy McCarthy says things like "But it's not unreasonable to expect more similarity between Obama the writer and Obama the orator" when he's speaking out loud.

from the article McCarthy cites:

Obama's memoir was published in June 1995. Earlier that year, Ayers helped Obama, then a junior lawyer at a minor law firm, get appointed chairman of the multi-million dollar Chicago Annenberg Challenge grant. In the fall of that same year, 1995, Ayers and his wife, Weatherwoman Bernardine Dohrn, helped blaze Obama's path to political power with a fundraiser in their Chicago home.

In short, Ayers had the means, the motive, the time, the place and the literary ability to jumpstart Obama's career. And, as Ayers had to know, a lovely memoir under Obama's belt made for a much better resume than an unfulfilled contract over his head.

For simplicity sake, I will refer to the author of Dreams as "Obama." Without question, he contributed much of the book's raw material, especially the long-winded accounting of events and conversations, polished just well enough to pass muster. The book's fierce, succinct and tightly coiled social analysis more closely matches the style of Fugitive Days, a much tighter book.

For simplicitt's sake I will refer to the author of this article as "tool."

For the Record [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

I do fear an Obama presidency. And not because he's a terrorist or I'm a racist. I fear a President Obama because he's a liberal, who has taken the counsel of radicals (and yes, a domestic terrorist). He's inexperienced and has bad judgment. We're at war and can't afford to play around.

Why can't John McCain say something like that instead of what he said yesterday?

Please, Senator McCain, help us help you!

10/11 09:43 AM

oops rong thread

i knew you would be the only person to reply to that post

;D

oops rong thread

― joe 40oz (deej)

Does it matter anymore?

lolpie

K-lo for president. In fact, let's have her and Palin run against each other in the primaries in 2012.

what thread was that supposed to go in?

xxp

your fav the corner poster thread

that's some soul power in that clip

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brett538/2930372334/in/set-72157607920789303/

o_0 at the button.

>:(

http://www.flickr.com/photos/indywayne/2730808124/

Just caught up on some Daily Show from last week.

"Fox News: The world's unfair, and we're becoming mentally unbalanced."

how is it that republicans always seem to pick the most obnoxious stances on everything? finally got them to agree about the less dependence on foreign oil thing, and their solution is to drill off of our shores, and be as obnoxiously anti-environment as possible about it.

conservatism since FDR has pretty much always defined itself by chanting the opposite of whatever the liberals want.

I assume it's because most Republican constituents aren't Republicans because of positions but because they define themselves against a 'liberal elitist' strawman. So they feel they need 'obnoxious' positions in order to stick it to the man.