2008 Primaries Thread 2: THE QUICKENING

think its safe to say that none of McCain's wives ever wrote a thesis about black people. please keep that in mind when you are voting. for great justice.

xpost: at this point, I doubt anyone in the rest of the world really cares as long as someone else takes over in November - it can't possibly be worse than Evil Dick and his cowboy clown sidekick.

The wars in other countries are always near, never far away. The president is only the man who can get immunity, never plan ahead. Barack, gangs are permanent, wars are imminent, and the future is only bleak for us out here, never in there. When we turn on the television, or like my brother read daily in the news paper about political issues, we see change never coming. The president changes every 4-8 years, but lobbyist, judges,system makers, and rich people who contribute to their own change still remain. Every campaign is the same Hilary, when does it change. When are you going to see that every country, every person, every leader, lives by a greed that their own people can and will always understand, and that they see democracy not even working in the United States. There is no hate, only frustration and action on that feeling. So I ask, What will you do, that Bush couldn't do, that the last presidents decades after decades could not do? Comment on that!

"the rest of the world" is unanimous in holding the republicans responsible for george w. bush and assuming that their time is now over - there would be genuine incomprehension if any republican won, almost even more now than in 2004

actually although I posted that comment for its unintelligibility it kind of makes sense to me now!

meanwhile, the left wing conspiracy grows only larger: http://dlisted.com/node/24138

Tell me why:

Kathleen Sebelius
Wes Clark
John Kerry
Bill Richardson

should and shouldn't be veep.

No one ever wants to see Kerry again.

Kerry is a failure, Clark is a non-entity, Richardson is a bozo. Sebelius is best option but kinda stilted and perhaps unsuited for the trad VP attack dog role...?

Also - see separate VP speculation thread

JOE BIDEN!

NO?

OKAY :(

i hate to be the asshole that says it but something tells me that if obama wants to win over independents and even some republicans, hes going to need an older white male VP

like Clooney.

Your 2008 Vice Presidential Candidate Speculation Thread

you mean an older white male "centrist" guy, DONTCHA? that'll boost Nader nicely, kidz...

Kerry is a very good and decent man who is death warmed over as a politician

I like Kerry, I don't get the "kerry is stiff and has no personality" criticism

did you sleep through the last election?

compared to, say, al gore he really wasn't that bad

I had the bizarre experience yesterday of watching an Obama event that took place in a lifeless void. Why? Kerry was the main attraction, acting as surrogate. I like him too, but come on.

Kerry might be more macho than Algore, but he's also way more boring

al gore has done a good job remaking himself, I don't think anyone regards him as boring and stiff these days. but I don't think kerry is ever going to get over that perception

apparently Hilary's campaign has been circulating this pic around:

http://drudgereport.com/oa.jpg

*SMH*

you are slow

yeah it was posted upthread already along with their shrugging off of the accusation

hay I just got home from school I can't keep up with this thread.

Al Gore on Futurama = funnier than anything Kerry's ever done in his whole life

"I have ridden the mighty moon worm"

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/muppet/images/thumb/b/bd/3136t.jpg/300px-3136t.jpg

Obama campaign has been circulating this picture.

http://cbs3.com/local/Political.Stabbing.montgomery.2.662239.html

Authorities said brother-in-laws Jose Ortiz and Sean Shurelds

paging safire

Ortiz was jailed on $20,000 bail. If convicted of a felony crime, he will not be able to vote in the upcoming election.

will the clinton campaign stop at nothing

a knife, yesterday:

http://llnw.image.cbslocal.com/175x131/WBBM1005stabbinggeneric.jpg

http://i30.tinypic.com/zvs8i0.jpg

Cheshire Cat to thread!

latest dnc email blast

http://www.democrats.org/page/-/images/buttons/20080225_mccain_fec_button.jpg

mccain and bush look like they have a forcefield

Y'know, guys, I'm down with taking on McCain about the campaign shit, but "WE ARE FILING A COMPLAINT" isn't exactly the best rallying cry.

WE ARE WRITING A STRONGLY WORDED EMAIL

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mfL5zECvBJQ

http://www.236.com/news/2008/02/22/thought_process_flowchart_hill_4644.php

o the bold lameness of the internets

http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/news/2008/2/25/McIlwain_says_Clinton_Veering_Close_to_Stereotypes
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f312/Tonito44/ThatsRacist.gif

Ted Kennedy Does Something Obnoxious But Kind Of Likeable Part One Billion

In her speech following the Wisconsin results, Clinton articulated several contrasts between herself and Obama. The first was a contrast of style versus substance, speeches versus action. With this alleged contrast, she comes dangerously close to the line of evoking a long-standing stereotype about black men: that they are "slick."

Just like her black husband, Slick Willie.

stretching_it.jpeg

ew

I have a theory that, even though it would have been justified a few times already, Obama is going to hold off on the campaign equivalent of thatsracist.gif until the inevitable glaring attack on him, and then give a really nice "That's it, the American People and I are sick and tired of this blatant RACISM, and we're not going to take it anymore" speech at just the right time which will work wonderfully to his advantage. And, y'know, be a pretty nice moment in politics in general.

I tend not to read a lot of commentary/op-ed stuff, so this might be obvious or well-tread territory already.

you are slow

-- Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 25 February 2008 19:36 (2 hours ago) Link

yeah it was posted upthread already along with their shrugging off of the accusation

-- ciderpress, Monday, 25 February 2008 19:37 (2 hours ago) Link

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