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I didn’t know a lot of the theater stuff examples folks are bringing up in this thread, which would also make for an interesting article. Don’t forget the fake turkey, the fake soldiers photoshopped into his TV ad, and the scripted “townhall” meetings.

This is an excellent idea. It should be one of the Sadly’s first book-length publication.

It all started at the beginning, when The Paper of Record (NYT) ran a photo of the inauguration which showed the president walking on a street, presumably walking the route of the inauguration parade, a tradition started by Jimmy Carter.

But Bush did no such thing. If you recall, he drove through a gauntlet of protesters. He stayed in his limo, which was egged by Angry Americans.

The picture was a staged fake. The president lied, and the newspaper repeated the lie.

Pants on fire, motherfuckers. (There’s your working title right there.)

Liberals, what do you make of the fact that Obama is running neck-and-neck in the polls with McCain (the latest shows him with a +5 lead, statistically a dead heat)?

I’m not sure where Truthy’s getting his numbers. I’m guessing he’s using the Clintonista favourite Real Clear Politics which has Obama nationally at +5.4
What he fails to mention is that RCP’s Electoral College prediction right now is Obama 304. Based on his performance through the primaries, I personally like Poblano at 538. He has Obama at 312 Electoral College votes. When Clinton dropped, it was a dead heat, but then Barack got the nomination bump, which is levelling out now. So, it looks like that +5 rating is worth 60% of the electoral college.

… is worry that the long campaign season can only tarnish Obama’s reputation, as his shady Chicago background and racist, extremist associates come to light.

Well, that plan certainly worked well for Hillary.

But let’s go back to my first point – why is that if Republicans are so hated and discredited, that McCain is statistically tied with Obama? Don’t kid yourselves, liberals, I know what your answer to this question is. I’m going to really enjoy reading it, though, because you can’t help yourselves.

Umm, right. Your first point is that McCain is losing – I have to say that I’m not terribly upset with that. Oh wait, your saying that McCain should be getting slaughtered and because he isn’t then the country is really full of neo-cons.

Say, haven’t you been trolling here for months telling us that the black muslim corrupt racist has no chance against the mavericky war hero? And now your precious JiSM3 is going down the drain with a projected hundred point electoral college vote defeat.

We know the story already. The guy who’s held the Chair of the Senate committee in charge of media mergers gets fawning treatment by the press. So sure, it’s an uphill climb. But in case you haven’t noticed, old man JiSM3 is such a lousy candidate, and GOP positions are so outrageously retarded, that America does actually prefer the racist corrupt black muslim empty suit with no experience and might be the Anti-Christ.

Is that the answer you were looking for?

Huh?

Bush and the Republicans have become a monstrous hate figure in this and other liberal echo chambers, but this hatred isn’t translating to the general population. If I were an Obama supporter, the first thing I’d do is look for myself on this page and wonder why I’m not listed. The second thing I’d do is worry that the long campaign season can only tarnish Obama’s reputation, as his shady Chicago background and racist, extremist associates come to light.

But let’s go back to my first point – why is that if Republicans are so hated and discredited, that McCain is statistically tied with Obama? Don’t kid yourselves, liberals, I know what your answer to this question is. I’m going to really enjoy reading it, though, because you can’t help yourselves.

Remember? Remember how the Clinton staff had left obscene graffiti and had stolen all kinds of fixtures and cut hundreds of wires and destroyed a bunch of keyboards in a fit of pique?

Who’s got money down on whether or not all the “O”s on the computer keyboards will be gone the morning of 01/20/09?
I want odds.

It seemed as if BushCo was merely dragging its feet at first, but that seemed to evolve into a principled stand against helping the victims that Faux had deemed undeserving. The longer the Administration went without helping, the more hateful Faux became.

Sadly, at that time being a loyal Republican Bush meant ignoring any media not owned by Rupert Murdoch and the Reverend Moon. Those who strayed over to see Brian Williams and Anderson Cooper saw real human suffering the likes of which the most steely of corporate-sponsored cogs could not shrug off.

It was a prop he grabbed, a real turkey roasted for show, and it was as much theater as the rest of his presidency.

Yeah. Cuz there were totally WMDs over there, and Saddam was totally a threat to global peace, etc. etc.

Tell you what. We’ll let you have your turkey fact. You’ve just got to admit that we were right about, let’s say, everything else.

Thanks for playing.

An article last Sunday about surprises in politics referred incorrectly to the turkey carried by President Bush during his unannounced visit to American troops in Baghdad over Thanksgiving. It was real, not fake.
But why let facts get in the way of mental breakdown.

That was pretty awesome. So was Ace’s meltdown on TBogg’s comment thread the day the new Congress was sworn in.