2008 Primaries Thread 2: THE QUICKENING

i dont believe republican reps are aware enough of wu tang clan to have this be a ref. to obama's blackness. i think he literally meant it as a reference to the old movies

http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/3277/weetangclanjl0.gif

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/02/29/acmecagle.jpg

lolz

awesome

*BREAKING* HIGHLY INFLUENCIAL SUPERDELEGATE SWITCHES TO OBAMA'S SIDE:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe0BPwWAxnk

-- The Brainwasher, Saturday, March 1, 2008 12:07 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Link

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yeah well

Rolling US Economy Into The Shitbin Thread

carter ii at best?

huckabee 12?

oh no, will.i.am does it again. one of the people appearances was good for a lol, at least.

meanwhile, hillary wants you to know that she's gone off the deep end.

http://thepage.time.com/2008/03/01/dueling-videos-for-dueling-candidates-hit-the-web/

http://thepage.time.com/2008/03/01/ny-times-finds-no-meaningful-anti-clinton-pro-obama-bias-in-press/

Doesn't a montage of Nicholson villains seem...lazy?

I would love it if the Obama campaign responded with a William H. Macy montage.

It was funny but thousands of people have just been left with unappetizing mental pic of what Jack's 'morning salute' might consist of.

Yeah I love Nicholson but I think the fact that they've got "Col. William Jeffords" endorsing them speaks volumes.

"You snotty bastard..."

http://www.worldinprogress.org/wip/images/few_good_men.jpg

http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/13446/thumbs/r-CLINTON-STRATEGY-large.jpg

http://althouse.blogspot.com/2008/03/why-are-letters-nig-on-childs-pajamas.html

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3/2/105441/9335/675/467139

That blogger is an university professor, and she still believes in "subliminal messages to stimulate racist thoughts in the unsuspecting viewer"?! Doesn't she know the whole idea of subliminal messages had been proven invalid like decades ago?

Clift: She's running the testosterone campaign, he's running the estrogen campaign, and only a man can run the estrogen campaign.

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Btw, I wanted to ask a question about that Will.i.am Obama ad... Don't you think it's a bit scary, all those background voices constantly chanting "Obama", and the people in the ad joining them? To me it feels like there's a touch of something akin to religious fanaticism in it. Maybe it's just a matter of diffence in political cultures though? In here political ads tend to be more dry and matter-of-fact, and overt emotionalism is not usually seen as a good thing. Is that a typical American political ad?

It is a bit over-the-top even for American politics, Tuomas. And that's also been one of the Clinton campaign's favorite points of attack on the Obama campaign, with Clinton presenting herself as the more *rational* politician, although it doesn't seem to have worked that well.

Admittedly, I'm a bit put off by the Obama campaign style, but I like Obama and I just see his campaign as a necessary evil that's not really all that evil.

Although, to be fair, the Will.I.Am video is not an official campaign ad.

I just finished watching the last part of Century of the Self, which goes a lot into the transformation of American and British political campaigning from Reagan and Thatcher on, where political campaigns come to look much more like other forms of modern marketing, as opposed to the old model of trying to make what at least seems like rational argument for particular policy choices. Interestingly, Obama seems to have followed more in the footsteps of Bill Clinton in embracing that new style than Hillary Clinton has.

omg @ that pajamas thing

yeah. The first thing that comes to my mind when I see "N-I-C" is "Nice"

aw

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/8781.html

oooh, substantive

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/an-american-president-my-friend-barack-obama-790330.html

Falling Hillary

http://www.planetdan.net/pics/misc/hillary.htm

That's weird.

will.i.am needs to go the fuck away from that campaign, he is unaware of how bad these things come off (to me). I mean, I'm willing to believe that not all of the US are haughty music snobs who find his work tedious and smug, but I'm not willing to belive that the rest of the US, taste aside, agree with that assessment

See also: Falling Hillary in a Bikini!

no thanks

er, disagree, I meant

will.i.am vid is a Gap advert set to music.

At least Hillary's folks stayed away from the opening monologue of The Departed.

Current site graphic:

[img src="http://www.barackobama.com/images/sitedown_traffic.jpg";]

dammit

http://www.barackobama.com/images/sitedown_traffic.jpg

See also: Falling Hillary in a Bikini!

Ha! She's still wearing sensible shoes.

But in recent days, Clinton campaign officials have suggested that if Obama doesn't win all four Tuesday contests — which also include races in Rhode Island and Vermont — it would signal "buyers remorse" and be reason to continue the campaign to the next major primary, Pennsylvania on April 22.

Don't you think it's a bit scary, all those background voices constantly chanting "Obama", and the people in the ad joining them? To me it feels like there's a touch of something akin to religious fanaticism in it.

to be fair, i think we can partly attribute this level/variety of fervor to 8 years of pretty rough going (for almost everyone but especially Democratic adherents). But no, I don't think I've ever seen what could be called a rationally presented campaign for federal office.

and of course he's not rare in trying to bottle and nurture this type of following, just rare in succeeding, and with such disparate constituencies.
This type of stuff is usually confined to such a narrow bandwidth that a Nader 2K or a Ron Paul scenario is about the ceiling of it.

oh lol, senator clinton: "As far as I know" Obama is not a Muslim.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHFREDHB-nQ

oh my fucking god

WORST SURROGATES EVER

http://www.observer.com/2008/stumping-clinton-steinem-says-mccains-p-o-w-cred-overrated

http://pwconservative.blogspot.com/2008/02/exclusive-pornstars-for-obama.html

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2008
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"Actor " in Obama ad, Appears in Softcore Porno
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In the "Yes We can" Video for Obama, One of the "Celebrities" (Eric Balfour) pictured here:

Has appeared in several extremely explicit films, A quick imdb.com search shows up one particular NC17 movie "Lie With Me", One of the only modern films to contain unsimulated sexual material.

http://imdb.com/name/nm0050156/

This is a slap in the face to all decent Americans, The type of content in these so called "Films" is degrading the entire moral fabric of this nation,

After all of the evangelical outreach Obama has attempted, I Find it astounding that he would want to risk it all.

Now while I understand that Sen. Obama cannot account for all endorsements, I Would appreciate if his campaign would apologize for this Ad, Given it's disrespect for Christian Values
(Thanks for the tip jocie)

Posted by PWConservative at 8:49 PM
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[for extra lolz, count the number of comment he deleted in response to this post]

Hee:

More Supporters Barack Obama Needs To Denounce and Reject

[...]

Incidentally, the "Yes We Can" video is directed by Jesse Dylan, whose father Bob Dylan wrote "Subterranean Homesick Blues," which included the lyric "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows," which is where the violent, radical, left-wing group the Weather Underground got its name. And this is not Obama's only association with the 1960s terrorist organization. Obama once went to a party at the home of Bill Ayers, who was once a member of the Weather Underground and is now a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Does Obama endorse the Weather Underground's plot to foment a violent overthrow of the U.S. government? And how does Obama feel about Dylan's betraying thousands of very sincere fans of folk music by going electric? Why didn't Tim Russert ask him about that?[...]

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Brendan said...

I have another question: How did you recognize this guy in the first place?
February 28, 2008 11:40 PM

PWConservative said...

It came from an anonymous source, probably chelsea clinton

Eric Balfour, also a former cast member of 24...a show the right loves to love. So, um...yeah, that's pretty much what some actors do. Work where they can find jobs.

"As far as I know" Obama is not a Muslim. <- sue her for defamation

FFS, these two are supposed to be on the same side! McCain must be enjoying this battle

One of the only modern films to contain unsimulated sexual material.

Yes, the mere existence of NC-17 movies is a slap in the face to all decent Americans, The type of content in these so called "Films" is degrading the entire moral fabric of this nation, and it's all Obama's fault.