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ABC News just now:
EXCLUSIVE: GOV. SARAH PALIN WARNS WAR MAY BE NECESSARY IF RUSSIA INVADES ANOTHER COUNTRY
Is there anything Sarah Palin can say or do that will make people realize that she is too crazy to be vice president? A quick rundown of the atrocities so far:
- As mayor, her town charged rape victims for their medical exams.
- As mayor, she inquired about banning books and then subsequently tried to fire the town librarian for not showing sufficient loyalty.
- The constant and shameless lies about the Bridge to Nowhere.
- She supports teaching creationism side-by-side with evolution in science classes.
Anything else? Could she do anything else that would just make her beyond-the-pale crazy for most people?
UPDATE: OK, so the whole quote is apparently this:
“I mean, that is the agreement when you are a NATO ally, is if another country is attacked, you’re going to be expected to be called upon and help.”
Which is why Georgia and Ukraine probably shouldn’t be brought into NATO. But hell, since Obama has stupidly endorsed the same position, I don’t see this getting all that much traction.
Gavin adds: On the other hand, here’s what Pam Atlas got out of the story:
ABC EXCLUSIVE: GOV. SARAH PALIN WARNS WAR MAY BE NECESSARY IF RUSSIA INVADES ANOTHER COUNTRY
G-d bless this woman. This is exactly what America has been lacking. The era of a foreign policy driven by an impotent and dhimmi State department is over.
I can only pray it’s a McCain/Palin presidency like Bush/Cheney.
Well really, why not attack Russia? After the lesson of Iraq, it’s just obvious that we’d win the wars against Iran, Syria, Pakistan, and North Korea that the neocons have been spoiling for. A quick invasion of Russia China… No wait, I mean China — no, Russia. I mean Russia. An invasion of China Russia might be just the challenge that America needs.
Maybe a ground war in the winter or something — we’ll figure it out as we go.
dAVE said,
September 11, 2008 at 23:31
The Poor Man’s got the goods on her quoting from some dude who was so anti-Semitic that the John Birchers’ said he was too far out for them.
Righteous Bubba said,
September 11, 2008 at 23:31
She might go so far as to speculate about arugula prices.
comsympinko said,
September 11, 2008 at 23:34
She could shoot somebody in the face.
Oh, wait…it’s been done.
Tommmcatt said,
September 11, 2008 at 23:34
Put lipstick on a pig maybe?
kentm said,
September 11, 2008 at 23:36
don’t forget the classic, using the power of her office to investigate and personally terrorize a public employee, opening private files and firing their superior when objections were raised…
El Cid said,
September 11, 2008 at 23:39
Why is she not willing to go to war with China too? Are they not godless and atheistic? This is so not fair.
noen said,
September 11, 2008 at 23:39
Wrap it up, this campaign is over. If Obama can’t win with this gift something is terribly wrong.
handy said,
September 11, 2008 at 23:45
noen,
You haven’t been paying attention lately, have you? (And when I say “lately” I mean at least the last sixteen years).
PeeJ said,
September 11, 2008 at 23:50
Zowie. I never, ever, nenevneverevrever imagined that McSame’s VP pick would be evev more of a warmonger than himself. My mind is now thoroughly boggled.
Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
September 11, 2008 at 23:51
Well, I have a lot of foreign policy experience, so I can safely say that if Huckashe wants to use the Alaskan National Guard to invade Kamchatka, she’d best use three offense dice!
dBa said,
September 11, 2008 at 23:52
It’s good to know while everyone was preoccupied with pig lipstick and rotting fishes the Russians were playing war games in Venezuala amd the Bolivians expelled our Ambassador and A-Quida was making some progress in Afghanistan.
The next four months better go by fast, because shit is hitting the fan, I suspect in honor of Bush’s descent into a madmans quest for a legacy.
Anyone thinking Palin is up to the tasks of the latest developments are out of their minds…
Serious issues being overrided by Americans thirst for tits, dead wolves and hey…being a beauty queen can’t hurt.
I won’t be one of the shocked ones when President McCain is sworn in in January.
t4toby said,
September 11, 2008 at 23:54
She’s the 2.0 version of the Cheney model.
They figured the first one was too abrasive, so they made this model.
The most improved feature is the bionic Kegel muscles capable of holding a baby, after the water has broken, for up to 12 hours.
Rightwingsnarkle said,
September 11, 2008 at 23:54
Why is she not willing to go to war with China too?
Two words - Chinese food.
Can you imagine a world with no good Chinese food? Not me.
Rusian food? Pfft - it’s all just moldy potatoes and cheap vodka.
noen said,
September 11, 2008 at 23:54
I have no idea what you’re hinting at Handy. Everything is a conspiracy is that it? Sorry but that nonsense won’t get anywhere with me.
Even with the updated point that she was talking about an attack on a NATO member this is still a gift. Tact and discretion go a long long way and she has none of those. She is reckless and frankly, out of her f*cking mind. But the Obama campaign knows what they are doing. They should have no trouble tearing her and McCain to shreds now.
Arky - Chuthuhlusexual said,
September 11, 2008 at 23:55
Christ. Seriously, read her statement. Woman has a fetish for the verb “to be,” and she didn’t say anything.
Jay B. said,
September 11, 2008 at 23:56
But hell, since Obama has stupidly endorsed the same position, I don’t see this getting all that much traction.
Brad, here’s a rat, spread eagle on the bed with a come-hither look — the exact kind of rat you believe needs the grudgefuck of a lifetime — hell, it’s all but said it wants you to spitefully pound her while swearing at the top of your lungs, and you….think about the policy.
So after all that. All the angst and the Need for Spite and the hectoring that Obama’s playing too nicely and cerebrally, you find yourself using logic and rationale. Liberal.
She’s a buggy warmonger. After 8 years, can we really afford another?
Rightwingsnarkle said,
September 11, 2008 at 23:58
The most improved feature is the bionic Kegel muscles capable of holding a baby…
Anything else?
t4toby said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:00
Nonsense? We know they have a political team in place to game the vote. we know that corporate media wants McCain to win. And the American electorate is a proven lot of dumb-asses. (Bush in 2004? Are you kidding me?)
No conspiracy there, noen. Just simple facts.
Jay B. said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:02
Here’s what she said. Fuck context Brad:
“And we’ve got to keep an eye on Russia. For Russia to have exerted such pressure in terms of invading a smaller democratic country, unprovoked, is unacceptable,”
Even if there was the “NATO blahblah” thing there, can’t someone — anyone, a single guy on a bus, maybe a skywriter working freelance — point out what’s the difference between that and Iraq?
Anyone?
Shit, this isn’t even ratfucking. it’s asking what these fucking lunatics mean when they say things.
J— said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:04
Anything else?
She doesn’t believe in anthropogenic global climate change.
Jay B. said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:04
oh — ‘democratic’…Got it.
So in short: Nominally democratic countries like Russia and Georgia shouldn’t invade other nominally democratic countries. But “republics” like ours can bomb the fuck out of autocratic countries for no reason at all.
Got it.
Lesley said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:06
Palin seems to be equal parts Cheney and Pat Robertson. She’s off the charts kooksville.
http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2008/09/10/is-sarah-palin-an-evolution-denier/
t4toby said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:06
Three words:
Laser Beam Nipples.
noen said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:09
t4toby - We just “know”? Sorry, we know no such things. Besides I was replying to Handy and asking simply what it is that I am supposed to just know. Ninety percent of the time when someone tells I am supposed to just know that something is true it turns out to be wako conspiracy BS. But I am reserving my judgment until I actually, you know, know.
Ritt Momney said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:10
Overheard on the straight-talk express:
What’s the difference between and Alaskan hockey mom and a pitbull?
- A pitbull won’t bite your nuts off if you ask it to be your running mate.
handy said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:10
Forgive me if my point wasn’t plain enough, but Republicans make the message. They drive the media narrative. They’ve done that as far back as I can remember, right around the time when a guy named William Jefferson Clinton was inaugurated. So in reality, Obama has two opponents he’s campaigning against, the McCain ticket and the media.
If you think that’s nonsense, then I have a few questions for you:
Did you know Al Gore invented the internet?
Did you know that some people saw John Kerry shoot himself in the foot, and was rewarded a Purple Heart for his effort?
Did you know that Sarah Palin is a reformer whose only crime is that she was “for the bridge to nowhere” before she was against it, but eventually she came around and did the right thing so all is forgiving?
The Truth said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:10
My God, you liberals are Freaking Out about Sarah Palin.
This is fascinating to watch. Every liberal hate website is spewing its bile on a successful working mother who happens to be (and this is her real crime) a Republican. I mean, it is all Palin all the time.
I think we’ve hit a nerve ;). I am truly enjoying this. The historians are going to look back on this as the beginning of the end for lockstep feminist identity politics. This is great!
D. Aristophanes said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:12
Somerby’s got the juice on the Bridge to Nowhere lie and it needs to get hammered relentlessly. It’s the part about ‘I told Congress’ in the ‘I told Congress thanks but no thanks on that Bridge to Nowhere.’
When did she tell Congress? Who did she tell in Congress? Does she have any record of telling Congress this?
The chronology, of course, shows that Congress had already stopped offering a ‘Bridge to Nowhere’ while Palin was still supporting it. So by the time she cancelled the project, there was no reason for her to say ‘thanks but no thanks’ to Congress for something they weren’t even offering.
Unless, of course, she’s literally insane and makes a habit of rejecting things that nobody is actually offering to her. Maybe she also told Congress, ‘thanks but no thanks on that shipment of purple cheese’.
I’m not ruling out that she’s just nuts, but I’m leaning towards the only other explanation, which is that she’s a big fat liar.
OB-GYN Kenobi said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:12
She makes my uterus hurt. And my wife’s, too.
Blue Buddha said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:12
– As mayor, she racked up a $20 million debt in six years. Even if we go by the very generous estimate of ~8,000 people in Wasilla, this is $2,500 for every man, woman and child.
I’m surprised she was even elected governor (though she did fail her first bid for gov). I guess the previous guy was a real fuck up.
PS said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:12
Sometimes when I listen to politicians I get annoyed because they are talking down to us — oversimplifying things they know perfectly well just so us rubes will be able to keep up.
This is not like that.
This is like … the local sports reporter filling in at the top of the show because the news person is ill … oh wait …
bliekker said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:13
Jay B.,
Don’t you know democracy is the new buzz word. McCain wants to form a league of democracies to defend each other (read, US protects Israel).
OB-GYN Kenobi said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:13
“a successful working mother”
So far, I have seen absolutely no evidence of this whatsoever.
Righteous Bubba said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:14
http://obama.senate.gov/press/080303-obama_statement_128/
t4toby said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:14
I see, noen.
I am certainly worried about the Ace they have up their sleeve.
I just can’t imagine Cheney/Rove willingly giving up power. Unless they want to lose, to dump the mess they made, in the lap of the Democrats so their brand might get some traction in 2012.
But that would be assuming that Rove/Cheney do anything other than seek instant gratification. But with their weight/health issues, who can blame them? Fascist
It must be tough knowing that
IslamofascistsMr Massive Coronary could be lurking just around the cornerBlue Buddha said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:16
Well, if you set the bar really, really low, like say, she’s not pimping herself on the streets, living under a bridge, and so strung out on drugs that her kids wander around aimlessly, then yes, she’s “a successful working mother”.
t4toby said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:17
Weird. that ‘Fascist’ thing just slipped in there. Subliminal typing?
Tagg said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:17
Link to first video clip here. http://www.tagg-lines.com/2008/09/be-afraidbe-very-afraid.html
noen said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:17
oops, should be “when someone tells me”. Sorry
here’s a rat, spread eagle on the bed with a come-hither look
Damn that’s a nice looking rat. All wrapped up with a nice shiny bow too. Oh! and here’s a note: “Dear Obama, I want to lose in every state and be completely humiliated (I get off on that) . Can you help me out? Love McCain.”
You Can't Put Lipstick On A Repig said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:17
Dear The Truth:
Nobody is freaking out over Mooseburger.
We are just freaking out about how many America-haters are lurking here in America and endorse such a Titanic - in the sense of the ship - Mooseburger.
MaineMan said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:19
Here’s the thing about Palin that I thought conservatives would really get a kick out of. As Mayor of Wasilla, she tripled the size of town government and left the previously balanced budget $22 million in the hole.
As I’ve said before, the town I live in is almost exactly the same size as Wasilla. If our town manager ran up a $22 million debt for us, we’d be using his body parts as lobster bait. AFTER he was rat-fucked. And this is a fairly liberal, Democratic town.
You Can't Put Lipstick On A Repig said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:19
The amazing thing is that the questions were submitted in advance.
All the repigs are whining cowards. They need their questions in advance.
Perfect for helping in the Real Goal of the repigs: Destroy America at all costs.
Maddog said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:21
But hell, since Obama has stupidly endorsed the same position, I don’t see this getting all that much traction.
Uhhh, you know that NATO’s mutual defense clause is the entire point of the alliance right?
It was the legal underpinning for the multinational invasion of Afghanistan after 9/11 for instance.
Still, it doesn’t apply in this case. Palin’s just mentioning war because it always appeals to the right to have an angry Russian bear to wrestle with.
Kevin
noen said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:21
Handy
They drive the media narrative.
Sure, to some extent. I’m sorry but when you hinted that I was supposed to “know” something I made a leap to some extreme conspiracy. My mistake. I ought to have known that sadly No was better than that but… I guess I didn’t.
Ritt Momney said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:22
Says a lot about John McCain that he lets his running mate run away with his campaign.
He just can’t control her. Looks like the Daddy party had Mommy issues.
D. Aristophanes said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:22
Wait a minute. Sarah Palin doesn’t know that Georgia isn’t in NATO? That’s some serious gaffe-type shiznit.
Ritt Momney said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:23
…We should have expected it from a man who lives in his wife’s seven houses, though.
OB-GYN Kenobi said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:24
“her kids wander around aimlessly”
So having a knocked-up teenage daughter doesn’t disqualify one from being “successful?”
Huh.
Ritt Momney said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:24
Sarah Palin knows nothing about nothing - except that she’s the one declaring the wars now.
comsympinko said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:24
I’ve finally got it!
McTheusalah/Huckashe ‘08: A Bridge To The Stone Age
handy said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:25
No sweat. I don’t touch that voting malfeasance stuff…there’s this part of me that just doesn’t want to even believe it’s close to the truth, because if that ever came to light I’m not sure I would ever bother voting in an election of any consequence ever.
Ritt Momney said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:25
Overheard on the McCain campaign bus…
Sarah, Sarah Palin!
King of the wilder frontieeer!
Jrod said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:26
Anything short of a total screaming meltdown on live television will pale in comparison to Obama being caught without his flag lapel pin.
My hopes in this election are pinned on two things: the likely record breaking Dem turnout and the American people finally tiring of our media force-feeding us petty pseudo-scandals while our world crumbles to the dust. It’s not my nature to be hopeful, but it’s a fact that the last six months of fake-ass bullshit flung at Obama had a negligible effect on his polling.
Note that I have absolutely no faith in our media to actually cover the issues in any meaningful way, despite some hopeful progress in that direction. Just as it happened with the Olberman/Matthews debate flap, their corporate overlords will put the smack down on any trouble making.
Let’s not forget that Amy Goodman, along with many others, was arrested for practicing journalism not a whole two weeks ago.
Ritt Momney said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:27
Did you hear Sarah Palin’s qualifications for VP?
She shot an old moose in the face.
Ritt Momney said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:28
Overheard on the Straight-talk Express:
What’s the difference between Cheney and Palin?
Cheney likes to run the show from behind the scenes.
handy said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:29
I think Obama should have picked Ritt as his veep.
The Truth said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:31
Noooooooo! I woke up this morning and my micropenis had been replaced by…nothing!
Hey, Fake Truth…in case you haven’t noticed, no one gives a shit. You’re a fucking pathetic gasbag pussyfarting sack of vile pigshit who likes to go down on Karl Rove’s scaly cock. Fuck off and die, you belching idiot.
JF Sebastian said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:32
Ummm, what do you mean this isn’t gonna get any traction?
Let’s all pretend like we’re Republicans:
“Oh my dear god, Sarah Palin wants to invade Russia!”
Scream at the top of your lungs. Repeat. Appear all over the media. Repeat. Send out an army of pundits. Repeat again. Post ad feature a vulture attacking a small child with the words “She Wants to Invade Russia” superimposed, followed by the words “And Destroy the World!” superimposed over the most scary picture of Palin in the archives. Repeat. Repeat Again.
Visit every conservative blog you can find and first post messages saying “I’m a huge Republican, but I’m very worried about Sarah Palin’s plans to launch a nuclear attack on Russia and destroy the world.” Then post under a different name (in all caps) “PALIN IS A SLEEPER TERRORIST AGENT WHO’S GOING 2 START A WAR WIT TEH SOVIETS SO BIN LADEN CAN RULE TEH POST-AP4OCLYPSE.”
Call all the networks and demand to know why they aren’t giving enough coverage to Sarah Palin’s plans for a nuclear holocaust (even though it’s by this point pretty much 24/7 on the news rotation). Call again. Repeat. Start online petitions and blog-centered letter writing campaigns demanding more news coverage of Sarah Palin’s plans to sacrifice the earth to Satan in a violent nuclear bloodbath and insist that any news anchor that doesn’t spend the entirity of his or her show on the subject should immediately be fired. Repeat.
Repeat all of the above ad infinitum.
OB-GYN Kenobi said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:33
SOMEONE’S run out of their lithium prescription.
dBa said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:33
She did praise the end-product of some of George Soro’s work as making Ukraine and Georgia a good fit for NATO, I wonder how the right wing will ignore that.
The Truth said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:35
Also, Turd, you haven’t given one iota of a reason why you actually like this corrupt moron other than the fact that you like to stroke your baloney nipples at the thought of pissing liberals off. That’s it. That’s all you got. How fucking pathetic you are. How absolutely pathetic your shit life must be. Go kill yourself.
Jrod said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:35
So is not knowing the difference between Sunni and Shi’ite, yet our press puppy-dogs assured us that McCain really does know which is which, he simply misspoke eight times. We haven’t heard about that in awhile because McCain took care of the problem. No silly, he didn’t learn his mid-eastern politics, he just stopped talking about it. Let’s face it, if a Repuke isn’t blast-faxing about something, it doesn’t exist.
Naturally, had Obama made that error it would have been the top story for a month straight. Lucky for us that he’s not a drooling fuckwit, which uncivilly forces our press corpse to focus on his use of a phrase that was old when McCain was in potty training and has probably been used by 90% of this country’s politicians at one time or another, yet they just can’t seem to remember what it means. Lipstick on a pig? Never heard that one, it must be some sort of sexist attack!!!
Now if you’ll excuse me, my head isn’t going to just bash itself against that wall.
The Truth said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:35
And I mean that. Off yourself. Do it. Do the world a favor.
rotten mcdonald said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:36
Well, BB, she hasn’t been shot dead for the heinous crime of consorting with maybe-drug-dealers (unspecified) while holding one of her ‘litter’ in her arms.
So by Republican standards, that’s successful mother. That and being rich, white and Republican, of couorse.
comsympinko said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:37
“My God, you liberals are Freaking Out about Sarah Palin. This is fascinating to watch. Every liberal hate website is spewing its bile on a successful working mother who happens to be (and this is her real crime) a Republican. I mean, it is all Palin all the time.”
Ah, Troof. Shitting out our mouth again. I guess with an asshole for a face it’s inevitable.
As is so often the case you are so fucking catastrophically stupid you have no idea what the real issue is, you mouth-breathing troglodyte.
Sarah Palin’s crime is to be crazier than Pat Robertson when it comes to matters of religion and government.
Palin believes religion should have a place in government. The primary place in government. Americans do not.
Palin is also a revelation, a nobody whose Stone Age policy positions were unknown before McTheusalah plucked her from total obscurity.
You would never have seen this outpouring of shock and dismay over Kay Bailer Hutchison or Olympia Snowe, two Republicans who would have made far better choices on any number of different levels than Paleolin.
What is always missing from the neocon narrative is reason. Hutchison or Snowe would have been reasonable people as reasonable choices
Paleolin is nothing but a giant hunk of babealicious red meat thrown to misanthropic douchebag Cro-Mags like yourself. By any other reasonable measure she is a cipher who brings nothing but theocracy to the table.
Now will you please just fuck off? The adults are talking.
Ritt Momney said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:38
Overheard on the Straight Talk Express:
Why does McCain call Sarah Palin his soul-mate?
He can’t remember her name.
Five of Diamonds said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:38
How fucking stupid do you have to be to threaten Russia with war?
The Truth said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:39
What kind of fucking assclown does a damn emicron while talking about politics? Kill yourself, shitbag.
comsympinko said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:40
“And I mean that. Off yourself. Do it. Do the world a favor.”
After you, of course…
comsympinko said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:41
“Kill yourself, shitbag.”
Again, I’d like to follow your example…you first.
D. Aristophanes said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:41
I think Obama should have picked Ritt as his veep.
Clearly, Obama should have picked Hillary Clinton as his veep. Had he done this, he would be polling strongly right now and would have many ordinary Americans on his side. Also, in this proposed strategy, ‘Hillary Clinton’ is named ‘Sarah Palin’. And Barack Obama is named ‘John McCain’. Such a principled electoral calculus would truly demonstrate that Obama is serious and prepared to assume the presidency. But alas, he did not take this sound advice when offered to him by the Beltway concergnoscenti.
The Truth said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:43
Cornsympinko, I’m talking about the other crapclown in here who calls himself “The Truth.”
Jrod said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:43
Emicron? Wasn’t he destroyed by Optimus Prime?
handy said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:43
D.,
Yeah I’m sure it would go down exactly as you said.
ahem said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:46
There’s a reason why NATO generally doesn’t allow a country to join if it’s likely to be invaded or suffer civil war in the near future. It’s to keep apocalyptic wackos like Palin quiet.
Ritt Momney said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:47
Overheard on the Straight Talk Express:
Why did Sarah Palin accept the nomination?
John McCain’s injured arm makes a nice handbag rack.
comsympinko said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:47
“I’m talking about the other crapclown in here who calls himself ‘The Truth.’”
Gotcha.
A world without The Truth is a flag we can all rally to, regardless of how we get there.
It’s hope you can believe in..
Ritt Momney said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:48
Overheard on the McCain campaign trail:
Why did Sarah Palin theaten war with Russia?
She likes to press John McCain’s buttons!
handy said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:50
That’s cold, man.
The Truth said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:51
Overheard in The Truth’s mom:
Ohh…fuck me harder, garbage man Bob!
Bomb Shelter Salesman, Amalgamated Bomb Shelter Sales, Inc. said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:51
Theocons in charge? Wooooooohooooooooo!!!!!!
Threatening to bomb Russia? W00000000000000t!!!!!!
Maybe I’ll put that in-ground pool in after all.
I’ll need a good shit moat to protect it, though.
Anybody here know a guy?
Ritt Momney said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:53
Overheard on the McCain Campaign Bus
Why did McCain choose Palin as VP?
She threatened to show Cindy the photos of their illegitimate daughter.
D. Aristophanes said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:54
ha ha ha … the Malkineers over at HotAir are sweating bullets over this Gibson interview:
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/11/open-thread-palin-on-abc/comment-page-1/#comments
ie:
‘Yep- this going to be hit piece on Palin- no doubt about it. Agreeing to an interview like this is far too risky.’
‘Ohhhh how important is this 30 minutes? I will pray for Sarah and that she is able to effectively put forth who she is without it being misinterpreted and blown out of context! Errrr wait we are talking about the MSM arent we?’
Gonna ‘pray for Sarah’ to not completely fuck up when she’s staring down Putin, are you?
purvis ames said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:54
The question isn’t Palin. She fielded the scripted questions like the not very bright trained seal she is. The question is McCain and his enthusiastic support of all of Bush’s failed policies. To focus attention on this trailer park, white trash bimbo is missing the point. McCain is the one who’s going to destroy this country.
JF Sebastian said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:55
You know who Obama should have named as his V.P.?
The Statue of Liberty.
I mean, think about it: she’s a woman, and (much like Sarah Palin) she won’t respond to questions from the press. But everyone will know they can trust her because, literally, you can easily get inside her head. She’s even older than John McCain (I think) which wins the geriatric vote. She’s big on welcoming minorities, so she’s got their vote. She looks good on t.v. and anyone who doesn’t like her is unpatriotic.
(The only drawback is the GOP would have used the “she looks French” sh*t they pulled on John Kerry.)
I just don’t know about the campaign signs: would they read “Obama/Statue” or “Obama/Liberty”?
mikey said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:55
Some important data points.
Russia did not invade Georgia “unprovoked”. There were negotiations on an agreement on the status of South Ossetia, and Georgia violated it by massively crossing into that region under air and artillery support. Now sure, nobody was negotiating in good faith, but they were NEGOTIATING. Let’s be clear here - russia no more wants NATO fucking around on her doorstep then america wants russians in cuba or venezuela - when presented with an opportunity to make the nations comprising her “near abroad” recognize the risks of becoming too friendly with the west, she didn’t pass it up.
Mutual defense alliances between small, weak states and large powerful states are, and always have been, foolhardy. The weak states can provoke their neighbors all they want, because they know they have serious military capability available without having to develop it on their own. If Georgia and Ukraine are admitted to NATO, it is the perfect shortcut to a nuclear exchange. Which is why, ultimately, the european members won’t stand for it.
You think a ship and two bombers constitute “war games” in venezuela? Well, hold on to your tinfoil beanie, my friend, because the big bad bear knows exactly how to counter aggressive american moves in eastern europe. And that is aggressive russian moves in latin america. And with oil and gas wealth and advanced weapons, she is a counterweight in our hemisphere all out of proportion to her global relevance. Look for additional military assistance programs with other latin american nations, including mexico and cuba…
mikey
comsympinko said,
September 12, 2008 at 0:57
“Which is why Georgia and Ukraine probably shouldn’t be brought into NATO.”
Remind me why NATO even exists anymore?
Oh, right! It’s the security apparatus of the Western Military-Industrial Complex.
Just because you don’t have an actual enemy doesn’t mean you don’t need a kick-ass army to spread democracy and capitalism and shit.
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
September 12, 2008 at 1:00
Lehman Brothers
At the same time, The Washington Post reported that the U.S. government, including the Federal Reserve, are helping broker a deal to sell Lehman that would be completed this weekend. Bank of America Corp (NYSE:BAC - News) is said to be one possible suitor, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Good thing the evil socialist liberals aren’t in charge, people.
Rightwingsnarkle said,
September 12, 2008 at 1:02
The historians are going to look back on this as the beginning of the end for lockstep feminist identity politics.
Dude, you’re in the wrong thread. Camille Paglia is over there, in aisle four.
paul said,
September 12, 2008 at 1:02
Question: if NATO is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, why are countries half a continent or more away from the Atlantic considered for membership? Why don’t we just call it the “Everybody but Russia Club?”
Ritt Momney said,
September 12, 2008 at 1:03
Overheard on the Straight Talk Express:
Why did James Dobson force McCain to choose Palin as running mate?
Terri Schiavo was unavailable.
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
September 12, 2008 at 1:03
Gonna ‘pray for Sarah’ to not completely fuck up when she’s staring down Putin, are you?
Come nao, D.A.
Putin’ on the Ritz!
Blue Buddha said,
September 12, 2008 at 1:03
Yep… exactly. The entire purpose and mission statement of NATO was to counter the Soviet Bloc. Since the Cold War had ended over 15 years ago, it’s no longer necessary and should’ve been disbanded long ago.
J— said,
September 12, 2008 at 1:08
Did you all read ole Billmon on Georgia and Russia and S. Ossetia and Ukraine? I’ll quote the tail end.
Whee!
Tinfoil Hat Salesman, Tinfoil Hat Sales, Inc. said,
September 12, 2008 at 1:08
“Well, hold on to your tinfoil beanie, my friend.”
Wait a minute. We don’t sell beanies!
We sell balmorals, berets, bowlers, chupallas, cloches, cowboy hats, engineer hats, fedoras, fezes, kepis, kufis, newsboys, pork pies, skull caps, ski masks, Tam O’Shanters, tagiyahs, trilbys, tuques, turbans, ushankas and yarmulkes, but no beanies.
Are you getting your custom metallic surveillance deflectors from other vendors?
ARE YOU?!1?!?1?
I’ll set the building on fire…
D. Aristophanes said,
September 12, 2008 at 1:09
JF Sebastian - I like it. You know, the Dems could go with this. Forget about Obama entirely - they should nominate the Constitution for president. Constitution-Statue of Liberty 08.
The cabinet would be:
Secretary of State: The Liberty Bell
Secretary of the Treasury: Fort Knox
Secretary of Defense: The Unknown Soldier
Attorney-General: The Declaration of Independence
Secretary of the Interior: The Washington Monument
Secretary of Agriculture: The World’s Biggest Butter Sculpture
Secretary of Commerce: The Mall of America
Secretary of Labor: Mt. Rushmore
Secretary of HHS: The Hippocratic Oath
Secretary of HUD: The Boston Tea Party
Secretary of Transportation: The Whiskey Rebellion
Secretary of Energy: The Lightbulb
Secretary of Education: The Lincoln Bedroom
Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Semper Fi
Secretary of Homeland Security: 9/11
Secretary of
handy said,
September 12, 2008 at 1:14
So do you think TEH CRAZY! will come through over the TV? Can the cameras pick up that kinds of thing? Will it be obvious enough to people? Would watching the broadcast in HD sell it better, make it more obvious? I am genuinely interested.
Ritt Momney said,
September 12, 2008 at 1:15
A new joke from Sarah Palin’s stump-speech:
What do Russian ICBMs call Alaska?
Fly-over country.
JF Sebastian said,
September 12, 2008 at 1:20
Palin is anxious to declare war on Russia because Boris and Natasha are her main rivals in bagging that pesky Moose.
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
September 12, 2008 at 1:21
Paul Begala - Why attack the monkey when you should be attacking the organ grinder?
HoneyBearKelly?GoGiants | Homepage | 09.11.08 - 6:51 pm | #
It is sheer insanity to imagine that there are a significant number of U.S. citizens willing to vote for these two.
After all this.
Insanity.
Barack Obama Fucked The Truth's Mom said,
September 12, 2008 at 1:21
What do they do for fun in Alaska?
Be fucking morons.
JF Sebastian said,
September 12, 2008 at 1:24
D. Aristophanes, I like all your choices except “Secretary of Education: The Lincoln Bedroom” as I’m sure the McCain campaign would find some way to turn the education/bedroom connection into a sleazy ad that implied President Constitution would be a child molester.
Barack Obama Fucked The Truth's Mom said,
September 12, 2008 at 1:24
Why won’t the Army accept The Truth?
No, the answer isn’t “because his baloney nipples are big targets.” It’s a trick question- Pathetic pecklerless is too chickenshit to enlist!
Blue Raven said,
September 12, 2008 at 1:29
What’s the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull?
A pit bull knows it’s not qualified for Federal office.
D. Aristophanes said,
September 12, 2008 at 1:30
From those HotAir comments:
“I didin’t watch, but I get the impression from the comments that it may have been a tougher interview than Obama has ever been subjected to by the MSM - is that true?”
Man, I haven’t seen the Palin-Gibson thing yet, but how predictable was it that the wingnuts were going to say that Palin, in her first-ever fucking press interview as a national candidate, on her own home turf, with a pushover of a questioner, who her own team selected, has now faced down tougher media scrutiny than Obama has in 18 months on the Sunday douchebag circuit?
Barack Obama Fucked The Truth's Mom said,
September 12, 2008 at 1:33
She was as we expected, DA. Sounded like a Wikipedia-parroting moron on foreign policy.
El Cid said,
September 12, 2008 at 1:33
I still need to know why John McCain & the Republican Party are on the side of pedophiles & child molesters, when Barack Obama was trying to make our vulnerable youth more able to detect sexual predators and seek help? Why do John McCain and the Republican Party oppose making our children safer from molestation?
Ritt Momney said,
September 12, 2008 at 1:35
Overheard on the Straight Talk Express:
Why did John McCain need a woman in his campaign for the White House?
It’s worked seven times before.
D. Aristophanes said,
September 12, 2008 at 1:38
What’s the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull?
Has anyone else noticed that Palin didn’t even tell this joke right? She weirdly made it into a half-declarative half-interrogative mush job: ‘Do you know they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick.’
Not well executed.
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
September 12, 2008 at 1:39
D. Aristophanes said,
September 12, 2008 at 1:30
From comments on another blog (atrios, coff coff), I see mention of the Loud Obbs response: Biden is going to have to brush up on his homework.
That’s putting lipstick on the hagfish!
Ritt Momney said,
September 12, 2008 at 1:44
Overheard on the McCain campaign trail:
What’s the difference between an Alaskan Hockey Mom and a pit bull.
You can neuter a pit bull.
OneMan said,
September 12, 2008 at 1:45
I’m steeling myself for the poutrage among the wingnuts on how unfair all the questions Big Bad Charlie asked were.
And that, my friends, will be the content of tomorrow’s blast-fax: “The Liberal Media is Out To Get Poor Sarah.”
I weep.
Barack Obama Fucked The Truth's Mom said,
September 12, 2008 at 1:47
Like everything the dumbshit does.
J— said,
September 12, 2008 at 1:54
Anything else?
She claimed executive privilege for emails sent through her Yahoo! account (gov.sarah@yahoo.com) and copied to her husband.
Ritt Momney said,
September 12, 2008 at 1:56
Overheard on the McCain campaign trail
What’s the difference between an alaskan hockey mom and a pit bull?
A pit bull knows who’s in charge.
SamFromUtah said,
September 12, 2008 at 1:59
What’s the difference between an alaskan hockey mom and a pit bull?
Pit bulls have a reputation worse than they deserve.
MrSparkle said,
September 12, 2008 at 2:03
Anything else?
This.
Thread over.
the_millionaire_lebowski said,
September 12, 2008 at 2:06
Dear Sadly, No!,
Please alert your readership on this article, and issue an appropriate Photoshop challenge.
Thank you
–the liberal blogosphere
Lesley said,
September 12, 2008 at 2:07
Rob Riggle’s take down of Palin last week is precious.
http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart/full-episodes/september-4-2008/#clip89338 (near the end of this clip)
Ritt Momney said,
September 12, 2008 at 2:10
Overheard at RNC headquarters:
What’s the difference between an Alaskan hockey mom and Catwoman?
Only John McCain likes being pussy-whipped by a hockey mom.
Anonymous said,
September 12, 2008 at 2:12
Sheesh! And I thought this was just parody. It’s starting to look more like a trailer for a Ken Burns piece.
The Truth said,
September 12, 2008 at 2:13
Delightful stuff, liberals. You are absolutely gobsmacked by Palin, and a well deserved comeuppance it is.
I particularly enjoy the fact that the excuses are already starting to be written. “We can’t beat the Repiglican attack machine… Rove will beat us again… Americans are too stupid to vote liberal”. All good stuff. I wonder which theme will predominate. My theory is that liberals will turn on the majority of Americans who vote for McCain, and thus begin a death spiral for the Democratic party.
I thought the Palin pick was solid, but watching you liberals struggle with it so mightily, I realize that it was sheer genius. Especially when you consider your VP is… Joe Biden. It is to laugh.
I think the Obama campaign can be rescued by putting Michelle Obama out there to sneer openly at white people. Do it, liberals, it’s your only chance! Ah, I kid, I kid, it’s just that this is turning out better than I could have dared to hope. Everywhere I look, liberals are panicking. I told you months ago - Obama is unelectable.
Is everyone excited about Nov 4? What ever will you all do on Nov 5?
Jrod said,
September 12, 2008 at 2:16
I’m sure Palin faced far tougher questioning from Charlie “Smiley” Gibson than Obama did from Bill O’Reilly. So very sure.
Gibson could have spent the entire interview licking Palin’s asshole and trying to guess what she had to eat the day before and the wingnuts would still whine that his lapping seemed somewhat combatitive. Nothing less than the sort of deference white suth’nahs once enjoyed from black people will satisfy them.
mikey said,
September 12, 2008 at 2:16
Yeah.
Sure.
‘Cause only a weak, helpless nation would choose to live in peace with her neighbors. The only way to create a healthy, prosperous nation with healthy, educated citizens and a strong economy with balanced global trade and a modern, safe efficient infrastructure that doesn’t poison the planet is to focus the vast majority of all available resources on fighting wars that could not only be easily avoided, but that everyone else WANTS desperately to avoid.
How did we get to this point? And can’t we at least TRY to make somebody fucking explain why weapons and armies and wars and bombers and submarines are better than schools and hospitals and jobs and roads and bridges and a working electrical grid and a modern air traffic system and science and a space program and hope and growth and a future?
‘Cause I’d really like to hear the answer to that…
mikey
D. Aristophanes said,
September 12, 2008 at 2:17
More hi-larity from HotAir:
“She will not blink….
What more do you want in a leader….when the call comes she did not blink…she answered the call to serve…she did not blink….I’m sorry but that phrase just keeps going around in my head…like a bee buzzing….It was so strong, steadfast, it raised goosebumps on my arms when I heard it….It soo captured her persona.
She did not blink…when faced with a life changing option she stood up to it and accepted the responsibility…when faced with a DS baby she did not blink…when her daughter was pregent she did not blink…when her son joined the army…she did not blink…when faced with a speech of a life time…she did not blink…when faced with a hostilepress she did not blink…when faced with a last second shot for the championship she did not blink…when faced with all of lifes challanges she did not blink…”
She’s the Clockwork Orange candidate!
purvis ames said,
September 12, 2008 at 2:20
McWetstart at Columbia right now. His idea of “public service” is “block watchers”. Welcome to Nazi America.
mikey said,
September 12, 2008 at 2:20
Know what?
I’d kinda prefer someone who blinks…
mikey
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
September 12, 2008 at 2:21
I particularly enjoy the fact that the excuses are already starting to be written.
That’s nice, teh troof.
But you already know that all of us are fascinated by everything you’re feeling and doing.
What did you have for lunch? How about your commute to work? Come, on share with your loyal fans.
Gary Ruppert said,
September 12, 2008 at 2:21
Maybe a ground war in the winter or something — we’ll figure it out as we go.
The fact is, now that was teh funny.
the_millionaire_lebowski said,
September 12, 2008 at 2:21
first entry
Judge Mental said,
September 12, 2008 at 2:21
I assume there are enough sane NATO countries to prevent the US from dragging us all into a war over overt US anti-Russian aggression (hello ‘Missile Shield’ to prevent apocalyptic Iranian nuclear war - hahaha, try saying that with a straight face). NATO members, particularily European ones, know what is potentially at stake if we were to accept Russian border states into the alliance and, I assume, would not be keen to find themselves backed into a fight with one of their major oil and gas suppliers. Look at the current NATO troop committment problems in Afghanistan.
Course if McInsane wants to get up his whole ‘League of Democracies’ (hello empire!!), I’m sure they would be glad to drag the world into World War III (or whatever roman numeral the neocons want to shoot for). Canada will hopefully just sit it all out on the sidelines and pick up some sweet deals on whatever is left of the US afterwards.
Lesley said,
September 12, 2008 at 2:24
My theory is that liberals will turn on the…Americans who vote for McCain
80% of the electorate turning on 20% would be…ungentlemanly.
Ritt Momney said,
September 12, 2008 at 2:24
Overheard at the GOP Convention:
What’s the difference between a squirrel and John McCain?
A squirrel knows where his nuts are stored.
D. Aristophanes said,
September 12, 2008 at 2:26
Mikey - yeah. Be nice to have somebody who blinks before launching global thermonuclear war, fr’example.
Jrod said,
September 12, 2008 at 2:26
Mikey, your post reminded me of one of my favorite parts of the Principia Discordia:
J— said,
September 12, 2008 at 2:26
Maybe a ground war in the winter or something — we’ll figure it out as we go.
And just think of the literature that will come out of it!
Gary Ruppert said,
September 12, 2008 at 2:26
The fact is, Hitler attacked Russia, and the results were spectacularly successful. We would have little problem dispatching their military.
alec said,
September 12, 2008 at 2:34
This might be a little off-topic, but:
http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2008/09/john-mccain-fri.html
http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2008/09/bad-touch.html
You know how a few years we were kind of wondering how the hell torture could be a political issue? Now teaching children to avoid pedophiles is a political issue.
I think his next trick will be to call the victims of the priest scandal faggots. You know: maverick stuff.
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
September 12, 2008 at 2:35
So what does the Post say? Liz Spayd, editor of washingtonpost.com, told E&P an unedited caption was mistakenly posted on the Web site on Wednesday for a video. “It wasn’t intended to go on the site,” she explained. “We mistakenly published a caption to a video.”
Liz Spayd.
I know we’re evil people for being looksists already, so how can we afford to indulge in the sin of namesism. And she seems very qualified, she “helped edit the newspaper’s coverage of President Bill Clinton’s impeachment.”
But, Liz Spayd.
Lesley said,
September 12, 2008 at 2:35
The fact is, people who think they’re the second coming of Christ don’t need to blink.
alec said,
September 12, 2008 at 2:36
Know what?
I’d kinda prefer someone who blinks…
Damn right. If someone or the other hadn’t blinked in the Cuban Missile Crisis none of us would fucking exist.
I think the Republicans are using this as some kind of campaign strategy: making the world scary enough that fearmongering actually makes sense instead of being pathetic. Really, it’s not like it’s anything new - the devastation Bush inflicted on Louisiana for partisan advantage is at least a millionth of what a red-blooded nuclear exchange would do.
Gary Ruppert said,
September 12, 2008 at 2:42
Damn right. If someone or the other hadn’t blinked in the Cuban Missile Crisis none of us would fucking exist.
The fact is, that’s a good point. Probably most Americans think we got Russia to take those missiles out without doing anything in return. Most probably aren’t aware that they put them there in response to us putting ours in Turkey, and that we removed those partly in exchange for them removing the ones in Cuba.
At least, that’s the history that I’m familiar with about it.
alec said,
September 12, 2008 at 2:43
Russia did not invade Georgia “unprovoked”. There were negotiations on an agreement on the status of South Ossetia, and Georgia violated it by massively crossing into that region under air and artillery support. Now sure, nobody was negotiating in good faith, but they were NEGOTIATING. Let’s be clear here - russia no more wants NATO fucking around on her doorstep then america wants russians in cuba or venezuela - when presented with an opportunity to make the nations comprising her “near abroad” recognize the risks of becoming too friendly with the west, she didn’t pass it up.
See, my take on it is this: Georgia has pretty much done nothing with South Ossetia but low-level ethnic cleansing at any point it’s ever been a modern independent state.
You see the videos and the coverage, you’re looking at the Georgians blasting away at commercial and residential buildings on empty streets. It was the first act of a fucking genocide.
Anyone who keeps Georgia out of South Ossetia is a fucking hero; he could be the love child of Bin Laden and Hitler and he’d still in doing so avert unmeasurable human misery. The only way to come to any other conclusion is to (a) pretend the Georgian incursion never happened or (b) pretend that the Ossetians are the ancestral homeland of Judeo-Bolshevism.
Jrod said,
September 12, 2008 at 2:45
Speaking of namesism, isn’t it interesting that two of the leading members of McCain’s Truth Squad are Oliver Swindle and Jane Swift?
Those names just scream “truthiness.”
Charles Gibson, ABC News said,
September 12, 2008 at 2:47
…spent the entire interview licking Palin’s asshole and trying to guess what she had to eat the day before
Breakfast - whole wheat toast, no butter; bacon; grapefruit; tea with Splenda
Lunch - low fat cottage with sliced peaches (canned); melba toast; Nature Valley granola bar; spring water
Afternoon snack - GNC protein shake made with 1% milk
Dinner - Alaskan King crab leg cocktail; broiled chicken breast with Dijon mustard sauce; steamed broccoli florets; pan-roasted baby Yukon Gold potatoes; cardamon pound cake; Camomile tea
Neon Ovenlight said,
September 12, 2008 at 2:47
Truthiness…
“Especially when you consider your VP is… Joe Biden. It is to laugh.”
*headasplode*
“Is everyone excited about Nov 4? What ever will you all do on Nov 5?”
Whatever the outcome, come November 5, we’re all going to get totally faced.
alec said,
September 12, 2008 at 2:47
I’d like to quote Clark just to rub it in Troof’s face:
It seems as though there are only two possible reasons for John McCain to be taking this hardline pro-NAMBLA stance: Either he really dislikes children and wants them to suffer more sexual abuse, or else he really admires sexual molesters and wants to ensure that they remain free to carry on doing what they do.
Now, to be fair, it’s possible that John McCain is not the driving force behind the decision for his campaign to embrace the sexual abuse of children. Perhaps it was his campaign manager, lobbyist Rick Davis, or his senior campaign adviser, lobbyist Steve Schmidt, who insisted — perhaps for intensely personal reasons — that the protection of sexual predators become a key part of John McCain’s agenda.
Let me be clear: I am not suggesting that John McCain is opposed to teaching children about appropriate and inappropriate touching just because he is himself a sexual predator. I am sure he has other reasons for making children more vulnerable.
Nor am I suggesting that Rick Davis or Steve Schmidt is promoting such an agenda only because it would make it less likely that they will ever be indicted for touching small children inappropriately. I doubt either of them is scared of getting caught doing that.
It is strange, though, that all three of these men felt so strongly about this issue that they chose to inject it into the national campaign.
Now that the issue is out there, though, just remember what their ad says: John McCain promises to keep children vulnerable and to make life easier for sexual predators.
That, my friends, is change that NAMBLA can believe in.
El Cid said,
September 12, 2008 at 2:48
alec: I don’t know why John McCain and the Republican Party are trying to gain the pedophile & child molester vote, but it’s a question they should be made to answer.
comsympinko said,
September 12, 2008 at 2:49
“She did not blink.” Times eight.
As an eye doctor I can say with some authority than not blinking is a bad idea.
Punctate keratitis, band keratopathy and all forms of keratoconjuntivitis are just a few of the pathologies that can result from the exposure of never blinking.
It goes along with the whole “vision thing.”
No blink for no blink leaves the whole world’s eyes diseased.
Then they go blind. So it’s kind of the same thing as “eye for an eye,” only not as immediate.
Blink, you stupid fucker. BLINK!!!!
alec said,
September 12, 2008 at 2:49
broiled chicken breast with Dijon mustard sauce
Dijon mustard? That fancy elitist double Musl–
(Wait, who was it?)
Uh, Palin’s simply demonstrating her savvy experience with cooking. She’s a hockey mom, you know. Not like you can feed a hungry family with French’s served with whatever kind of spoon it is that isn’t encrusted with diamonds.
Ritt Momney said,
September 12, 2008 at 2:50
Heard at the RNC:
Why did James Dobson choose Sarah Palin as McCain’s running mate?
He heard she knew how to handle Johns.
J— said,
September 12, 2008 at 2:52
She doesn’t know what the Bush Doctrine is. She also has bad posture.
comsympinko said,
September 12, 2008 at 2:54
“G-d bless this woman. This is exactly what America has been lacking. The era of a foreign policy driven by an impotent and dhimmi State department is over.
I can only pray it’s a McCain/Palin presidency like Bush/Cheney.”
So I assume you’ll be carrying a weapon in the advance guard, then, right Pammy?
No?
It’s just so easy to get behind other people fighting and dying without doing shit yourself.
Fuck you, Pammy. Fuck. You.
Ritt Momney said,
September 12, 2008 at 2:54
Overheard on the Straight Talk Express:
Why is John McCain like a polar bear?
Both feel threatened by Sarah Palin.
alec said,
September 12, 2008 at 2:57
G-d bless this woman. This is exactly what America has been lacking. The era of a foreign policy driven by an impotent and dhimmi State department is over.
Man, how unusually magnanimous of Pam Oshry, accepting a candidate who happily attended a lecture by the head of Jews for Jesus at her (deeply anti-Semitic) church, and who was one of the stauncher backers of Pat Buchanan’s run in ‘96.
Of course, it could be that Oshry doesn’t actually give a shit about any Jew who isn’t actively slaughtering the brown people she hates. Naw - how could that possibly be true?
Smut Clyde said,
September 12, 2008 at 2:58
If not blinking is now a sought-after leadership trait, isn’t it time to cut to the chase and put Hannibal Lecter on the ticket?
Ritt Momney said,
September 12, 2008 at 3:00
Overheard at the McCain campaign headquarters:
Why doesn’t McCain speak up at the McCain/Palin joint appearances?
He’s afraid she’ll cut him off.
alec said,
September 12, 2008 at 3:00
If not blinking is now a sought-after leadership trait, isn’t it time to cut to the chase and put Hannibal Lecter on the ticket?
Duh: McCain’s afraid he’ll look weak if he chooses a VP who has killed fewer people.
WereBear said,
September 12, 2008 at 3:02
Well, that’s all right for the Little People, but the Big Guns didn’t settle for a cash cow. They let their whackos loose and tore down everything they could get their hands on. It’s a smash-and-grab at this point.
No patience, that’s their problem. Unbridled greed is now bringing down the whole financial house of cards. Okay for the Little People, like Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers. Meanwhile, the big winners are making plans to go offshore and buy servants.
People who only think they are players, like Karl Rover? He’ll be left holding the bag. Whatever money he got out of this is chump change, and servants are only patted on the head while they are performing. Someone has to do the perp walk while their betters are cruising through customs.
I think the puppet masters are getting out of the whole schmeer. They’re going to go off and rampage through another country somewhere, since this one is no longer fertile ground for them. They will leave the party to the wingnuts, because no one, but no one, really handles wingnuts.
It’s just a matter of threatening people with that sweating dynamite while they empty the till, and then they get the hell out while the wingnuts are still waving their guns and frothing at the mouth. Leave them behind to slow down the authorities.
At least, that’s how it seems to me, right now, with some Pinot Grigio running in my veins. On black rum, I’m much more cheerful.
the_millionaire_lebowski said,
September 12, 2008 at 3:07
Cheers to this.
It’s amazing how fast the coverage of the event changed when it became clear that Russia would intervene.
The day it happened, and (the real) Josh Marshall noted this in TPM, the first CNN headline was something along the lines of “Georgia invades autonomous region.” By the end of the very same day, CNN changed the headline to read “Russia invades Georgia.”
No, you see, it says right here; firefighters are supposed to burn books.
Ritt Momney said,
September 12, 2008 at 3:07
Overheard on the McCain bus
What’s the difference between an Alaskan hockey mom and a pit bull?
You can call a pit bull a bitch.
stryx said,
September 12, 2008 at 3:08
Man, I thought this post was gonna be about Obama appointing Chuck D as his campaign spokesman.
I got so much trouble on my mind
I refuse to lose….
Barack Obama Fucked The Truth's Mom said,
September 12, 2008 at 3:14
Do yourselves a favor and just ban The Truth. I’d rather be ridden by Saul harder than Truth’s mommy took it up the ass from Barack Obama than listen to that shitlicker fart out the same four things, over and over, mantits a-jigglin.
Hey, Truth, you were told to kill yourself. Do it. Nobody likes you. You’re a witless titted asswhipe. Kill yourself. Or let me do it for you.
Barack Obama Fucked The Truth's Mom said,
September 12, 2008 at 3:15
Also, when Barack Obama was done tearing The Truth’s mommy a bigger asshole, I wonder if he then unloaded on The Truth’s pig face.
MzNicky said,
September 12, 2008 at 3:19
She doesn’t know what the Bush Doctrine is.
No, she didn’t. She bungled that one. Biden, whenever he comes out of hiding or whatever the fuck it is he’s doing these days, should totally push this stuff in their faces. She’s an amateur.
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
September 12, 2008 at 3:19
Settle down, d00d.
Teh troof is merely a particularly unctuous parody troll.
Picture Felix Unger, waving his neocon freak flag.
At best.
Barack Obama Fucked The Truth's Mom said,
September 12, 2008 at 3:20
Look, Truth! It’s your bestest friend in the whole wide world getting pimpslapped by fucking Charlie Gibson! Imagine when Joe Biden’s going to do. Almost as bad as Obama Obangin’ your mom.
comsympinko said,
September 12, 2008 at 3:20
Barack Obama Fucked The Truth’s Mom–
I’m worried about you.
They say that internalizing anger and not being fully forthcoming about your feelings is not good for your psyche.
I urge you to remove the restraints you’ve put on yourself and freely emote.
We’re here for you.
Dan Someone said,
September 12, 2008 at 3:20
TPM has a wonderful video of Charlie Gibson trying so very hard not to call Palin a clueless loser because she doesn’t know what the Bush Doctrine is. I’d post the link, but WP might eat me.
In fact, WP can eat me.
Dan Someone said,
September 12, 2008 at 3:21
Oh never mind. Somebody got the link up already.
Ritt Momney said,
September 12, 2008 at 3:21
Overheard at the GOP Convention:
Why are Palin and McCain campaign events like Abbott & Costello shows?
They can’t decide who’s on first.
J— said,
September 12, 2008 at 3:21
Teh troof is merely a particularly unctuous parody troll.
What? The Truth is a pay roadie? Why doesn’t anybody ever tell me these things!
Travis said,
September 12, 2008 at 3:23
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/11/biden-hillary-might-have-been-better-vp-pick/
And here I thought TalkLeft would have been the last ones at this particular party.
Barack Obama Fucked The Truth's Mom said,
September 12, 2008 at 3:24
The Truth’s a pay roadie for Air Supply, who is the only band in the world who doesn’t make his fatboy titties bounce while he’s rocking out. Pathetic sack of shit. He makes Larry Johnson look awesome.
Orange Tom said,
September 12, 2008 at 3:25
Ummm…….I don’t know if anyone posted this downstream but……people from the University of Idaho, where Palin supposedly graduated from (the last of 5 schools in 6 years) are saying no one there remembers her, not even the folks who would’ve been her profs. The local paper put out a notice looking for anyone who could recall her being there and came up empty. Geez, you don’t suppose a truth-teller like Palin might’ve padded her resume with a fake diploma, do ya?