2008 Primaries Thread 2: THE QUICKENING

who was it who remarked that McCain is pissed that it took this dude like 5 years to get where it took him 25.

Obama wasn't 894th out of 899 in his class, I'm guessing

that michelle obama comment is gonna be coming back around again and again dudes, i can see the avalanche of right wing strips now ... its another way to get at race w/out talking about race

OTM

maybe it answers my silent question why we hadn't seen more of the fam and heard more from her - i think she can give an amazing speech, but she may not have the best political instincts.

Also, WOW @ "I'm not running because I think it's owed to me"

Obama said this? That sounds like a swipe at McCain's line, delivered after the last round of primaries, that he (McCain) isn't "running because I think I have been delivered here to solve the nation's problems."

He said it during his rally in Houston tonight (that's still going on as of 10:15 pm EST). I totally took it as a dig at Hillary's inevitable nomination.

Whatevs. How did McCain sound tonight, i.e., was he as listless and flat as he has been lately, or does he have renewed energy?

(xp)

at this point, who cares what mccain sounds like? it's a marathon not a sprint etc. for the same reason, if'n mccain tries to make michelle obama's comment as a major thing it will backfire, and if cindy mccain tries to inject herself into this then her record is wide open and that ain't good.

too early for worry, is all i'm saying.

i like obama on the civil rights tip @ houston

I'm curious, Dimension.

oh man, bring on the michelle obama vs cindy mccain debate

And wrestling match!

oh god, i'm myspace messaging with the dude who forwarded me that ignorant bullshit.

so obama started his speech before hillary was done with hers on purpose? kinda telling. it's a way of saying you are OVER. same with the way McCain just took on obama and didn't bother mentioning hillary. stick a fork in her already.

i hate to admit it but david brooks made me laugh today:

"They see her campaign morosely traipsing from one depressed industrial area to another — The Sitting Shiva for America Tour. They see that her entire political strategy consists of waiting for primary states as boring as she is."

from this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/19/opinion/19brooks.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

also laughed at "Ian McEwan-centered book clubs"

hey, i gotta call the funny when i see it.

WHERE'S YOUR SMUG SMILE NOW??
http://www.pnhp.org/images/photos/krugman.jpg

david brooks > krugman

it's really something that he can not look like a dork in this picture, but someone he doesn't:

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e164/bobgeiger/obama_cowboy_hat.jpg

heh. "*nod*...Ma'am."

what was that about the Secretary of Lookin' Good?

wow, dude looks rad

omg he looks sexy in that hat, how is that even possible

barack obama: america's next top sherriff

'scuse me while i whip this out.

two weeks out:

A new CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll suggests the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination between Sens. Hillary Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois is a statistical dead heat in Texas, which holds primaries March 4.

In the survey, out Monday, 50 percent of likely Democratic primary voters support Clinton as their choice for the party's nominee, with 48 percent backing Obama.

But taking into account the poll's sampling error of plus or minus 4½ percentage points for Democratic respondents, the race is a virtual tie.

"out monday" wow i am eons behind in this thread

lol cosmo

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e164/bobgeiger/obama_cowboy_hat.jpg

Where the white women at? I only got 47% of you.

if'n mccain tries to make michelle obama's comment as a major thing it will backfire

Sounds like a job for... surrogates!

phew its a good thing there are no surrogates in american politics

obama in hat = morgan freeman in Unforgiven

brokebarack mountain

It's always good to have upper-crust conservatives around to remind us about the unabashed patriotism of the Rest Of America. You guys really keep me grounded. Thanks.

blackbloke mountin'

ps That picture is awesome on so many levels.

hillary clinton: solutioneering new paradynamic concepts for the post-y2k millenium, for america, forver

he is quite good-looking, he looks surprisingly convincing in cowboy gear, and it reads, to me, as a subtle jab at Bush

hillary clinton: solutioneering new paradynamic concepts for the post-y2k millenium, for america, forver

-- elmo argonaut, Tuesday, February 19, 2008 9:51 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

is lol

hillary clinton's campaign is the new dot com bubble, pass it on

hilarious champagne dot cum bubble pass it on

bah, two more weeks of drawn-out shenanigans 'til Hillary's Florida.

Why can't Oregon's primary be NEXT week so there's something to do, and we can have the lolz of being ignored by the clinton campaign while attending michelle obama events?

early voting started today and I forgot.

Texas Dem fuckers won't let me vote for D-Ku, so I guess it's Obama time.

meanwhile, the ol' huckster is jus' gunna keep on huckin', it's all he know how to do:

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Mike Huckabee said Tuesday passion for his beliefs — not his ego — was the reason he remains in the Republican presidential race despite near-impossible odds. Rival John McCain collected another primary win in Wisconsin and moved closer to the 1,191 delegates needed to clinch the nomination. Huckabee hasn't won a contest since Feb. 9.

"Let me assure you that if it were about ego, my ego doesn't enjoy getting these kinds of evenings where we don't win the primary elections," Huckabee told reporters at a Little Rock hotel. "So it's got to be about something more than that, and it is. It's about convictions..."

Waller County (redneck shithole near Houston) decided to have a total of two voting machines for early voting... located in the county seat, nowhere near the predominately black Prairie View A&M.

So the PVAM students marched the ten miles and got in line, forcing the county officers to let them vote, two at a time.

whoa

FUCKING GOOD FOR THEM! That's awesome.

found it!

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5554045.html

Feb. 19, 2008, 6:58PM
1,000 Prairie View students march to courthouse for right to vote

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas — About 1,000 students from Prairie View A&M University marched seven miles from campus to the county courthouse on the first day of early voting Tuesday to bring attention to voting problems in Waller County.

Students, joined by civil rights attorneys and local leaders, carried "Register to Vote" signs and wore shirts that said "It is 2008 and we will vote." The total crowd was estimated at about 2,000 people, police said.

Prairie View Mayor Frank Johnson praised the student protesters as "wonderful kids."

"Until they spoke up, there was only one early voting place in the entire county," Johnson said in a story for the online edition of the Houston Chronicle. "They spoke up but everyone is benefiting from what they are doing."

In January, county officials decided to eliminate all but one early voting site in the county. Last week, under pressure from federal officials, the county decided to open three early voting sites.

The county has a history of voting problems. After the 2006 elections, the state attorney general's office seized county election records after complaints that black voters' rights were violated. About 300 students at Prairie View, a historically black school, said they had to wait three to four hours to vote and ended up casting provisional ballots because their names were missing from election rosters.

vid of the KHOU story