2008 Primaries Thread 3: The Rejecting and Denouncening

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2006/0609.larson.html

but i'd be surprised if lugar comes out and publicly supports obama or anything.

(lugar: one of like four republicans I like)

He can't, really, but good for Beltway shite I suppose.

My friend Leonard wrote this, and a Sadlyno! commentator put the gif together. I love it like greasy junk food.

<img src=http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/3411/dialogcf9.gif>;

YARG

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/3411/dialogcf9.gif

does it get funny though?

If you aren't laughing at "Why can't you people get your own dialog? Why are you always trying to take what belongs to us?" I don't know what I can do to help you.

http://manolomen.com/images/barack-obama-in-bowling-shoes.jpg

This aggression will not stand, man!

the map is blue in large part due to the variety of christian denominations - catholicism may not be that large a plurality.

Yes, I think that map is kind of misleading. The Catholic church may be the largest single church in lots of counties, but it's still probably outnumbered by Protestants, if you added up all the different varieties of Protestants.

that map looks almost identical to the pop/soda/coke map!

No Jews?

And gawddam is my state Baptist.

There's a pop/soda/coke map? Awesome.

http://popvssoda.com:2998/countystats/total-county.gif

I wonder what they call it up there in Lake of the Woods County. Some Indian name, I suppose.

my relatives on boston's north shore call it 'tonic'? they are also catholic.

Eazy, I have no idea, my Baudette-born grandfather said POP like every other Minnesotan.

Back to the topic at hand: Obama sure sucks at bowling.

No Jews?

the only place that would come close is Rockland County, NY, and the map says it's Catholic-majority.

this might not always have been true

Didn't Nixon have a bowling lane in the White House? I wonder if it's still there.

it's in the John Ehrlichman Memorial Wing.

Here's another map that shows the largest variation of each state from the national average in terms of religious affiliation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Religions_by_State.PNG

might be different if LA County weren't so hueg too

(Off-topic, but I've always wanted to see a Duck Duck Gray Duck map by county.)

Eazy, where in MN are you from?

I just find it hard to believe there isn't one county in the United States that doesn't have a Jewish majority.

lol, minority

in Manhattan, Jews+unaffiliateds almost tie Catholics, but I don't know what the unaffiliateds are

Burnsville as a kid and St. Paul as a teenager. My aunt teaches kindergarten in Moorhead, and they played gray-duck up there too.

in Queens, Jews+unaffiliateds beat Catholics, but there are fewer Jews

The top 50 - the BosWash corridor, South Florida, Atlanta, Denver-Boulder, Detroit, SF, LA, Philly, Vegas, Cleveland, STL, Aspen and a miniscule county near Lake Tahoe

let's wrap this shit up folks

It is taking place also in private entreaties by e-mail or phone — the modern equivalent of smoke-filed rooms

orly

the internet is a series of smoke-filled tubes

http://slog.thestranger.com/files/old/050228910-bong.jpg

let's wrap this shit up folks

-- Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, March 31, 2008 11:49 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

if folks shut it down too early it ends up hurting more than it helps

how so? do you really think all those Hillary voters are gonna go for McCain in Nov?

i think that if hillary voters feel like the decision was made prematurely then they will be pretty mad yeah

yeah but being mad now /= being mad enough in November to vote for Popeye's Pappy

we need more rappers' opinions on this race a la DMX and now 50:

During a recent interview with MTV at his Connecticut mansion, 50 Cent told reporters that he has switched from supporting Hillary Clinton for president to backing Barack Obama after hearing his speech on race.

"I heard Obama speak," said the rapper. "He hit me with that he-just-got-done-watching-'Malcolm X,' and I swear to God, I'm like, 'Yo, Obama!' "He threw his fist in the air. "I'm Obama to the end now, baby!"

But hold on, 50 also admitted that he's become bored with the overall race for the White House.

"To be honest, I haven't been following that anymore. I lost my interest," he said.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/31/barackobama.uselections2008

In today's news, Hillary under fire for not paying her bills on time, Klobuchar (MN) endorses Obama.

he-just-got-done-watching-'Malcolm X,'

Yeah, because Obama must first watch a Spike Lee Joint for focus when preparing an important address on race (?!).

"To be honest, I haven't been following that anymore. I lost my interest," he said.

where'd he lose it?

Just like the mob: http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/80787/

http://media.gallup.com/poll/graphs/033108DailyUpdateGraph1_ifar_0207notecnirp.gif

Despite pressure from some powerful Obama supporters and being behind nationally in the polls, Clinton said the race should not end before all votes had been cast. "I didn't think we believed that in America. I thought we of all people knew how important it was to give everyone a chance to have their voices heard and their votes counted," she said.

I love this kind of nonsensical logic - like the voters are going to be DEPRIVED of their chance to vote if she drops out. So should Biden and Dodd and Edwards etc all have stayed in until the final primary too? lolz

If they had wanted to, yes.

it's an ironic strategy, having to overcompenstae for not planning to campaign past Super Tuesday, i guess

you may notice that she didn't frame her statement in terms of what SHE wants, but rather in terms of voters' rights

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shakey mo is gonna turn me into tracer

He's going to turn us all into Tracer.