2008 Primaries Thread 2: THE QUICKENING

It's a vast left-wing conspiracy.

And he can't get it up far enou - wait, that's his arms, innit? Nevermind.

If the affair is true, and verifiably so, then kudos to the NYT for sitting on it until McCain had pretty much wrapped up the nomination.

apparently they were gonna run it in december but mccain lawyered up and started giving them shit

Romney must be kicking himself

l o l

But unless there's a Linda Tripp in the mix somewhere, McCain should weather this fairly easily. I mean, if he denies it and she denies it, how can anyone prove it?

John McCain is holding a press conference at 9 a.m. ET.

aka right now

hes v disappointed in the nytimes piece its not true

theyre just friends did not fuk

not particularly close saw her at events etc

"Like my illustrious predecessor Bob Dole, I could not have had sexual relations with that woman."

http://bp0.blogger.com/_Se19XAPwVi8/RbPNYwHY2hI/AAAAAAAAALA/bzZW5ZBu_2I/s400/dole69viagra.jpg

he should resign why cause it look excitin

his demeanor is pretty impressive this morning im enjoying it

http://www.hillaryclintonisyournewbicycle.com

so assuming this has salience in the campaign because of the wang, which democratic candidate draws the better contrast?

That's a rhetorical question, right?

as if it wasn't known already, Clinton's campaign having serious financial troubles:

January yields debt for HRC, cash for Obama

Hillary Clinton ended January with $7.6 million in debt – not including the $5 million personal loan she gave to her campaign in the run-up to the critical Super Tuesday elections, according to financial reports released Wednesday.

She reported a cash balance of $29 million. But more than $20 million of that is money dedicated to the general election. Her personal loan accounts for more than half of the remaining approximately $9 million, leaving just about $4 million in cash raised from donors.

But even that money is illusionary when measured against the reported $7.6 million in debts.

More than $2 million of the red ink is owed to chief consultant and adviser, Mark Penn.

it mentions that these numbers obviously don't include all the money that's come in since feb. 5, but you get the picture.

"illusionary"?

not "accounted for", because that would be an accurate statement

seriously, it's kind of astonishing how poorly managed clinton's campaign has been (and by contrast how smoothly obama's has been going).

i don't think "illusionary" is a word

woops:

Main Entry:
il·lu·sion·ary
Pronunciation:
\i-ˈlü-zhə-ˌner-ē\
Function:
adjective
Date:
1866

: illusory

for all the talk about the "clinton political machine" etc, she should've had this wrapped up by now

hahaha Tracer, that passed through my mind but then I went "so not gonna go there" because I figured I'd be wrong

i think "illusionary" is a less efficient attempt to remember the actually good and correct word, "illusory" -- just cause somebody whom everyone was scared of in 1866 got it wrong doesn't mean we have to listen

illusionary sounds more awesomely cosmic

i mean why is the dictionary so hellbent on force-feeding us these storylines????

"ladies and gentlemen... never before on stage has such an extravaganza of sensory delight been presented before a paying audience... behold! the illusionary grandeur of madame majestique!!!"

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/02/21/us/21sat.337.jpg

ta-da!

clinton could totally plagiarise the dictionary and be all "They say Obama is a visionary? MORE LIKE ILLUSIONARY, AM I RIGHT, EL PASO?"

http://jezebel.com/assets/resources/2008/02/mccainmashup0222108.jpg
wife, girlfriend

that my friends is evidence enough

trade that ho in for a newer model right?

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080220/capt.22cdb42a94e0451f902667b477a792c8.obama_2008_txrb106.jpg?x=285&y=345&sig=Opj1MTTvaxfJ_Kmh.izHYw--
HAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!!!!

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40967000/jpg/_40967138_breaking_news_203.jpg

he like em blonde and flinty don't he

uh xp

well he already did it once before when his old model broke down

xposts

Then again, even eight years ago McCain was pretty old. At that age, he probably just likes the female company rather than actually doing anything about it (if he still can).

4xpost: "Wipe your nose for us like you did in Texas!"

you don't need an erection to eat a lobbyist out

^^^sound advice

*blork*

bathtubs in the middle of a field people

you don't need an erection to eat a lobbyist out

T-shirt slogan of the year.

the nyt is tiptoeing around the sex stuff which is lolzy but kind of beside the point. here's the AP on what's really the problem here

The published reports said McCain and Iseman each denied having a romantic relationship. Neither story asserted that there was a romantic relationship and offered no evidence that there was, reporting only that aides worried about the appearance of McCain having close ties to a lobbyist with business before the Senate Commerce Committee on which McCain served.

The stories also allege that McCain wrote letters and pushed legislation involving television station ownership that would have benefited Iseman's clients.

In late 1999, McCain twice wrote letters to the Federal Communications Commission on behalf of Florida-based Paxson Communications _ which had paid Iseman as its lobbyist _ urging quick consideration of a proposal to buy a television station license in Pittsburgh. At the time, Paxson's chief executive, Lowell W. "Bud" Paxson, also was a major contributor to McCain's 2000 presidential campaign.

McCain did not urge the FCC commissioners to approve the proposal, but he asked for speedy consideration of the deal, which was pending from two years earlier. In an unusual response, then-FCC Chairman William Kennard complained that McCain's request "comes at a sensitive time in the deliberative process" and "could have procedural and substantive impacts on the commission's deliberations and, thus, on the due process rights of the parties."

McCain wrote the letters after he received more than $20,000 in contributions from Paxson executives and lobbyists. Paxson also lent McCain his company's jet at least four times during 1999 for campaign travel.

"Riding on the airplane was an accepted practice," McCain said Thursday, adding that he supported a change in rules since then. As for the letters, he said: "I said I'm not telling you how to make a decision; I'm just telling you that you should move forward and make a decision on this issue. I believe that was appropriate."

xp o jesus christ elmo

"you don't need an erection to eat a lobbyist out, but it helps!"

Cui boner