2008 Primaries Thread 2: THE QUICKENING

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

The 24-minute ILX news cycle.

CNN texas poll:

Obama 50% (+2)
Clinton 46% (-4)

margin of error 3.5%

Clinton camp now unequivocally denying they had anything to do with Obama turban photo:

"I just want to make it very clear that we were not aware of it, the campaign didn't sanction it and don't know anything about it," Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson said in a teleconference with reporters. "None of us have seen the e-mail in question. If anybody has independent reporting that they've done on it I would welcome it."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080225/ap_on_el_pr/obama_photo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_limited_hangout

Also, according to that AP article, that's an AP photo, so it wasn't exactly secret.

Here's a fairly level-headed evaluation of the claims on both sides:

Breathe. Relax. The Drudge 'Dressed Obama' Photo, in Perspective

What's more, I'm reluctant to believe Drudge's account of the picture's provenance until I actually see the "circulated" email; it's totally possible that some anti-Democrat operative is attempting to tarnish both Clinton and Obama, bank-shot-style. As the New Republic's Jason Zengerle wrote when the Muslim-madrassa story first surfaced, "I suppose this information about Obama could have originated with people in Clinton's orbit. But let's not forget where this information appeared. And let's be on the lookout for who goes on the cable shows and wonders whether "Barack Hussein Obama" is "The Manchurian Madrassa Candidate." Something tells me it isn't going to be Hillary, or any liberal for that matter." Drudge isn't exactly a Hillary fan, or a reliable fact witness--to put it mildly.

initial non-denial is still o_O

I hope no one here is under the impression that Hillary wouldn't give something to Drudge.

http://wonkette.com/assets/resources/2008/02/HillRI1.jpg

ha that's pretty great actually

they be like YEEEAAAAH when they song come on

is there any existing pic from her current campaign where's she's not looking like that

http://www.snappedshot.com/uploads/Parody/deanScream.jpg

"YAHH TRICK YAHH"

^^^lol

o nate that is not an unequivocal denial

McCain Withheld Controversial Abramoff Email

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/25/mccain-withheld-controver_n_88304.html

recently going not so smooth for senator mccain

seriously.

McCain seeks to retract 'I lose' statement

On Monday morning, McCain had told reporters that if he can't convince the American people the United States is succeeding, "then I lose. I lose," according to the Associated Press.

"We quickly retracted that," McCain later said of the comment. "I was not allowed to retract it, obviously. I don't mean that I'll quote ‘lose.' I mean that it's an important issue in the judgment of the American voters.

Now is the season of a thousand lazy zings masquerading as political commentary.

http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/12845/thumbs/s-BUSH-PATRIOTISM-PROBLEM-large.jpg

A 27-point increase in Obama's support nationwide since January 13. Astounding.

I havent heard any more than soundbites from either candidate and dont really follow US politics very closely but that is amazing.

I find it hard to get past the voice + wild bug eyes +sour lemon face+ pantsuit appearance of hillary, while Obama is the master of the soundbite. Personally he leaves me a little cold in a clinical way, I want to like him, RACIST maybe but theres a feeling I dont like about the guy, oddly Hillary feels more sincere and warm.

Dodd to endorse Obama

Another reason Hillary can't win: she's not left-handed.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08056/860162-294.stm

^haha THIS^

British R4/World Service going APESHIT over the Somali ceremonial dress photo and how it might have got to Drudge. Also somewhat amazed to hear BBC naming Drudge at all. What I find properly hilarious is that Obama even manages to rock that look, or at least look less silly in ceremonial dress than every politician I can think of. Hillary does not appear to be able to make friends with textiles of any kind and it's like she's still stuck with some Color Me Beautiful book from the '80s.

It is funny to read the Obama autobiography with 20/20 hindsight. I recommend. Obama actually worked for a Nader offshoot in NYC for three months in say '83, trying to implement recycling programmes. Nader is turning into the Harold Stassen of C21, a quarter-century hence.

As to Hillary, feminism and man-management, and why women mark her down for 'standing by her man', if my mother is anything to go by, she would have LOVED it if HRC would have divorced the Screaming Lobster of Hope before embarking on her career in elected office. She might have even considered voting for her in such a scenario, and so would lots of women on the working to middle-class spectrum who are a similar age to Hillary, basically a whole generation of women who have raised families etc. in the fallout of divorcing men who didn't measure up.

I too want Americans to benefit from universal health care FREE AT POINT OF NEED and to have this necessary part of life somehow not dependent on a negotiation with a potential employer or if self-employed, or paying mega playground-bully money to some insurer in exchange for a $5K deductible. The NHS was set up in the UK when there was fuck-all money to do it but there was a collective will to make it happen, so the excuses people make for it being impossible in the current climate are pfffft, really. All I know is that one candidate can't make it happen whoever they are, it has to be bigger than an individual.

Obama is no Blair - I think he's more like a Kevin Rudd type.