Barack Obama Is Our Next President
… and the Republicans are lost at sea. Obama comes out of the DNC validated, vetted and formally introduced as a leader to the American people. The RNC is shaping up to be more about Palin than the presumptive nominee. Think about the hole that puts the GOP in.
Break up the remaining days before the election into three blocks — the convention season which finishes Thursday, the debate season that follows, and the GOTV season that occurs over the last couple weeks before Nov. 4. Obama’s still got plenty of work to do, but his own historic, inspiring candidacy emerges from his convention stepping stone as his side’s overarching narrative, whereas McCain’s is playing second fiddle to Palin’s. That’s just incredible at this stage of the process.
The two campaigns are positioned very differently at this point, and the advantage is easily Obama’s. Whereas the the GOP, as they wrap up their convention and approach the debate season, will be looking to make this thing close and tight again, the Dems are looking at a legitimate window to accelerate into ‘inevitability’ territory.
Will that happen? Who knows — there’s two more ‘seasons’ to navigate. But Obama’s absolutely in the pace car, which raises two crucial questions:
1. Can he, and we, keep up the energy to drive home to victory, and,
2. When will the night gremlins stop beaming Formula 1 analogies into my head?
I’d hate to be lost at sea in a Formula 1 car.
When will the night gremlins stop beaming Formula 1 analogies into my head?
When a Schumacher stops winning races.
This has been another edition…
My latest e-mail from TownHall guided me to the emerging scandal of Obama REJECTING BASING ALL OUR LAWS ON LEVITICUS!
I like my metaphors pureed, not just mixed.
You flag-hating liebruls are falling into our trap! HA! Palin is a decoy. Soon she will bow out for “family reasons” and McCain will unleash his TRUE VP pick — DICK CHENEY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ahahahahahaha! Cower before his black, flaccid heart!
McCaño’s has as big a shot at the presidency as Ayrton Sena has of winning this years f1 cup.
what, is it too soon?
I’d hate to be lost at sea in a Formula 1 car.
What if it was James Bond’s amphibious Aston Martin, wise guy?
Er, Lotus Esprit.
Barack Obama Is Our Next President
Fuck! Don’t jinx it. Write one of these hand-wringing lumps instead.
Not so fast! The Boston Globe just reported that Palin hired Snake Plisken to make pay-offs to Ahmadinejad to cover up her involvement in an international American flag bikini smuggling scheme designed to raise money to enable Alaskan secessionists to purchase weaponized anthrax with which they could blackmail North Korea into providing funds for a covert operation in which Larry Craig was going to abduct Jeff Gannon in order to brainwash him into taking the rap for the murder of the Chicago city comptroller who had been instrumental in hunting down polar bears connected with Jack Abramoff’s plans to launder Tom DeLay’s drug profits through the Wasilla Public Library.
That changes everything,
The Boston Globe just reported that
I believe you.
The National Enquirer has already gotten to Levi whats-his-name. They claim they have the dirt, though how it can be any dirtier than the shit we’ve already been treated to is anyone’s guess.
When the Enquirer’s got you, it’s fucking over.
Seriously though, the only thing Obama has to do now is not fuck up. I don’t think he’s as great a debater as he is a speaker, so I want to see him demolish McCain, but if he’s only so-so I think he wins.
There’s no such thing as dirt. It’s just matter in the wrong place.
To answer:
1: Fuck yeah! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!
2: Do not question the night gremlins and their superior head-beaming technology. Just. Do. Not.
There’s no such thing as dread. It’s just mother in the wrong place.
There’s no such thing as republicans. It’s just hemorrhoids in the wrong place.
Wow, RB, that just creeped me right the fuck out. “No dread, just mother in the wrong place…” I can hear someone going mad in the dark, muttering that to themselves. Nice!
As far as the election goes, I’m becoming optimistic. But after decades of watching the public inexplicably voting hideous turdbiters into positions of power, I’m never inclined to become too optimistic.
While I was a POW those angry Leftist Viet Cong Democrats wouldn’t let me watch Formula One racing.
That’s why I am qualified to be President.
Two words:
Paternal uncertainty.
The horses are on the track. Anything’s better than another horse race analogy innit.
I really think the Republicans are deliberately throwing the election this time around, and that big business has already lined up behind Obama. The Republicans do best when they’re sitting on the sidelines complaining while the Democrats tie themselves in knots with their own compromises. The feces-flinging during the Obama administration will make the Clinton years look like a Teletubbies episode in comparison. All of our legitimate complaints about Obama (oh yes, we will have much to complain about, make no mistake) will be drowned out by the nonstop Stupidfest the right and the “liberal” media will be serving up come 2009.
John McCain?!!!! ZOMG!
Apparently D. didn’t see all the”young folk” at that RNC tonight.
Engaged, enervated, & energized !
The fact is, that RNC convention kicked ASS tonight !
did anyone watch Daily or Colbert tonight ?
priceless. great writing.
” When will the night gremlins stop beaming Formula 1 analogies into my head? ”
When Lewis Hamilton starts driving again.
Needs fixing:
http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/090308.jpg
My wife is watching CSPAN in the bedroom, and I can hear that whiny little shit Lieberman pontificating at the Republican convention. Can we kick him out of the party NOW, please?
Finally. I was getting a little sick of coming in here and seeing you guys talking about a different country than the one I was experiencing.
Welcome back to the fight. I know this time our side will win.
Victor Laszlo said that.
Not Enzo Ferrari.
That word, enervated — I do not think it means what you think it means, as the kids say.
You’re all totally missing the point! McCain is playing you all for fools! It’s the old “rope a dope” strategy again. Here’s how it works:
1. Turn the entire week of the multi-million dollar RNC, which would be expected to be a huge PR extravaganza, into an unmitigated fucking train wreck.
2. I’m a little fuzzy on this part, but you should check with Karl. I’m sure he has it in hand.
I humbly request either a caption contest or an Internet improvement initiative:
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/POLITICS/09/02/rnc.day/t1wide.bush.screen.bnr.gi.jpg
While I was a POW those angry Leftist Viet Cong Democrats wouldn’t let me watch Formula One racing.
Yes we did, but you were always stoned on opium or watching porn instead.
3. Profit!!!
Speaking of Formula One and Murika:
Phil Hill, RIP this past week.
Our first Champion.
Via TPM:
http://www.washingtonindependent.com/4027/palin-on-running-wasilla-its-not-rocket-science
Enervated (adj.). Filled with enervy.
See also
Salivated (adj). Filled with c’est-la-vie.
The building was closed for enervations.
The building was closed for enervations.
Damn. Now where will I get my ennui?
“enervations”
Hey, I spelled and used it correctly you motherfuckers !
When will you realize I’m a liberal socialist ?
And one of you ?
stupid elitist site.
I feel optimistic, but I’m not counting McCain & the campaign out, and I think it’s likely his speech may go over better than anyone can rationally explain. Similarly with Sarah Palin — she may yet derive some sort of backlash boost if she delivers her speech well.
And given that McCain just hired the guy who hit him in 2000 with the “black baby” push polling calls in SC, this race has only begun to get dirty.
Obama has pretty clearly picked up the straggling Hillary voters, which probably means McCain is well and truly fucked. Those votes ain’t comin’ back, folks. Palin may help turn a few red states redder, but she’s not going to siphon off any of the Hillary vote. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Obama surge ahead by several points in Florida and Ohio when the next wave of state polling comes out.
McCain should have just picked Mittens for VP and gone balls-out negative until election day– he might have been able to pull out a squeaker. Instead he pandered to the fundies, 99% of whom would have happily pulled the lever for him anyway in the long run.
Boehner actually may prove correct — I think that Palin may have a lot more ‘culture war’ appeal than liberals & Democrats may yet perceive.
But, which neighbor of mine does she sound like? I’m pretty sure she doesn’t sound like me, but I guess I’m an elitist & sh*t ’cause I like, you know, don’t fear arugula.
How anybody could vote for that party after he last 8 years, is beyond me. The smoking ashes of your democracy would surely warn anyone, who is even vaguely sentient, away. But I guess anything is better than terrorist fist jabs in the Oval office or signs of intelligence in the President.
In new zealand the tv is so bad that we all just read sadly no.
That sure was one big, sloppy blowjob coming from a whore what just got kicked to the curb.
Jesus fistfucking Christ on rye with mustard, and they had the balls to call Obama pretentious for having a couple of columns. “I R UR JUMBOTRON BOZO LORD!!! KNEEL AND WORSHIP IN MAH GLOW!!!”
Crap. How in the hell do you ass-auger a town with a $6M budget $22M into the hole? That’s impressive.
Nah, they just figure it’s BBQ and grab another Schlitz.
Saw video of Obama & Biden making a surprise stop in Iowa – they both looked relaxed & confident, & they really do an awesome job of connecting with people one-on-one. What little I’ve seen of McCain looks downright surreal: from his wooden reiterating of the day’s talking-point du jour to that godawful thing he does that’s supposed to be a smile, he does NOT look like a trustworthy or likeable person. The contrast is sharp & telling.
Yep – I think Maliki endorsing Obama’s plan (as if he was ALREADY president) was the kiss of death for the GOP, & Palin is just the cherry on the Grim Reaper Sundae for them. Obama has wisely told his staff to “back off” the sweet little Barracuda, because he knows she’ll do his job for him by being such a major liability for her running-mate. “Gift that keeps on giving” is right. Her fail-factor has only begun to punch holes in their balloon. They can NOT afford to lose Florida, & her sucking up to Pat “Rah, Rah, Adolf” Buchanan will not be forgiven there, so, just like Clinton before them, they’re left playing catch-up from behind.
I’m also suspicious of the assumption that born-agains will merely shrug at the idea of a woman (whether she’s one of them or not) being a possible succesor as POTUS. Their level of sexism is the stuff of legend, & their religion is explicitly patriarchal. Women in ruling positions is directly contrary to Biblical doctrine.
Creepin’ Jesus – that daybyday guy doesn’t need a fundraiser, he needs an alibi – HE should pay to have anyone read that slop.
Good good good
good enervations
she’s givin’ me palintations…
Hey, it ain’t over ’til the fat catcher has deja vu.
Didn’t Schumacher retire a couple of years ago?
My friends, we have been held in the sway of the Formula 1 sex Nazis for too long!
Vote McCain, and I will fund a full upgrade to Formula 5. Now that’s change we can believe in!
They did shoo 9i11ani off the program at the last minute …
The most fucked up thing about this is the NATIONAL FUCKING ENQUIRER is doing actual investigative reporting. True, it is slimy, sleazy investigative reporting but shit. We’re down to a handful of people at the Washington Post who are willing to do the slogging required to dig up anything and who knows how often a lot of that gets buried in an unmarked file before it moves past the notes and possible sources stage.
Every single editor at every “real” paper in this country should be left alone in a room with a pistol.
/Rant
AP referred to Slobberman as a “Former Democrat.”
UK bookies are offering 8-1 that Palin is asked to pull out, down from 20-1 yesterday, it just gets sweeter & sweeter.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20080902/pl_bloomberg/azjwbcginwsg
Rumor has it that Obama has fathered two black children though. Could be the October surprise.
you know, all of this uncivil attacking of Palin and McCain does not bode well for the Democrats. My party left me it seems.
Blind squirrel. Nut. Platitude.
Yes, it’s conflict coming up on the last quarter for the fundie Republicans.
She says all the right things… but she’s a wimmin!
Running with a 72 year old multiple cancer survivor with a heart condition, who-knows-how-many daily meds, and anger issues.
Oh yeah, this is a tough call for small brains.
The fact is, if Obama is elected, there will be rioting here in the heartland. He can only win by cheating. We will march to DC and have the results overturned. Obama as a President puts our nation in danger.
The number of summer job cut anouncements reached its highest level since 2002, according to a report released Wednesday.
From May through August, employers said they would cut 377,325 jobs, according to employment consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. That’s nearly 30% more than during the first four months of the year.
This is good news for Republicans…
Not so fast, guys. Remember, I am a black Muslim.
Formula 1 analogies? Well, Lewis Hamilton does look a bit like a young Barack Obama..
Mcain would have to be David Coulthard. Been around for years, and never won. Also has a funny shaped jaw.
A warning to the reality-based community: don’t get hubris. Don’t think the election of Obama is automatic. Remember he has to win by 8 to 10 percent to overcome the rigged voting machines and voter caging that the republican criminals will be doing at full power this year.
With that in mind, a great antidote to the lying narrative about Palin that the criminals are trying to get America to believe is this:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132×6890920
A highly recommended read.
Gawd! Even after she’s been revealed to be the kind of neighbor who brings scandal and unnecessary drama into the lives of everyone she meets, they’re still pushing this shit.
David Said:
Gotta love the Big Brother-esq feel to that photo.
As a caption though I’d humbly suggest ‘Is this thing on?’. Or “WWE Announces Republimania ’08 ‘Great Success!'”.
I thought that and I still think that’s a hurdle for the rank and file, especially after Bush failed to deliver the death penalty for being gay or performing abortions. For the head TalEvangelists they know McPOW wouldn’t piss on them if they were on fire, but they might hope having her in ye olde executive building would give them an “in.”
Keep in mind this is all about power for them and they’d fuck the Baby Jesus on a pile of Bibles if that’s what it took to get and keep it. The real problem will be Palin herself. She seems to be a power hungry little critter herself. If she gives signs that she isn’t amenable to sharing her power, they’ll drop her.
middle-class voters want to vote for somebody that sounds like them
I would be reluctant to vote for a candidate who ranted drunkenly in an almost incomprehensible Danish accent and shouted ‘Feck!’ at unpredictable intervals.
Having seen pictures of her daughter and her soon-to-be son-in-law, I think I’ll drink with my own friends, thanks. I’ve had my fill of rich, pretty right-wing tools who can’t hold their alcohol.
I don’t think Palin will be a huge disaster tonight as long as her speechwriter switches message. The whole She’s got more executive experience than FDR, baby! line…yeah, no one’s buying that, and no McCain surrogate has been able to not make an ass of him/herself while peddling it. The She’s REAL change still might work for now, but you’re really setting up for a huge letdown once each and every one of these scandals comes to Middle America(TM). If I’m writing her speech, I make it relative light, a little funny, a little self-depreciating, and stick to this Service message they apparently are so fond of now. All she wants to do is serve America, all she’s ever wanted to do, no matter what happens to her and no matter what happens at home, country first, or whatever. I think that might work. All the other shit- showing her as the new Churchill, showing her as the new Elliott Ness…fail, fail, fail.
I think the GOP may come to regret holding their convention right after the DNC. Seemed smart for a few minutes when they picked off Obama’s speech for the VP announcement, but you’ve really just successfully made people ignore a successful rally for a time while paying attention to your train wreck. All news is good news, but c’mon. Plus, it seems like all of their talking points- energy independence, service, the end to old politics- was covered in full by the Democrats last week. Not to mention the absurdity of the incumbent party running against itself. Nah, this whole affair needed a lot more seasoning, a lot more planning.
Palin can change that tonight if she succeeds off low expectations. I think she might. McCain, on the other hand…not exactly a guy I’d love to have as my headlining speaker.
Listen to me, you evil LIE-bruls.
You should see the convention bounce that McCain is getting in the polls! He is up by -6 points!
Isn’t Michelle – oops, Sarah – dreamy?
A very good piece. Thank you for pointing it out.
The whole She’s got more executive experience than FDR, baby! line
please tell that’s a joke. When he became President he had been governor of what was then the most populated state of the union for 2 terms (4 years) in very difficult times. (Plus Asst Secretary of the Navy for 8, which was a very active position at the time).
Dreamy in a B\W June Cleaver kinda way? Only if June was a sexadict and the Beaver had 3 brothers and 2 sisters and Wally was impregnating his high school sweetheart. That kinda way? God you Cans really do SUCK you can’t even fine a VP that isn’t corrupted. You douche-pops will be lucky if Palin is VP by the end of the week! So it will be back to Mittens and you know you can pack it in then you dirty little Cans.
Teeheeheehee. “Boehner”.
I used to work for a corporate magazine that regularly featured two excutives whose surnames were Boner and Balls. Unfortunately, they never had much to do with each other. I waited and waited for the day when I could write a headline along the lines of “Boner Rises Above Balls” or “Balls Left Hanging While Boner Stands Firm”, but it never came.
Huh. Yeah. Like there’s some other way to fuck the Baby Jesus.
“I humbly request either a caption contest or an Internet improvement initiative:
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/POLITICS/09/02/rnc.day/t1wide.bush.screen.bnr.gi.jpg”
My suggestion for caption (for bush)
“Wow! This is just like in movies where the evil genius speaks to his loyal brainwashed minions, right before their plans go straigh to hell.”
followed by a smaler bubble.
“Except I’m no genius, and you guys are not loyal.”
Did anyone see the staged group photo of the GOPer delegates last night? They all stood there motionless, smiling, and looking in the same direction when a voice from above told them to.
Any questions, America?
ALL YOUR LEVITICUS ARE BELONG TO US!
I was kidding. Just pointing out that they have heavily, heavily, heavily, HEAVILY overstated her “executive experience” at what was a relatively irrelevant position. FWIW, I was head of my department at my job in college and in my first post-college job. I’m also head of my one-person department now. I don’t think that makes me fit for, say, COO of anything.
We are ALL Sarah now.
Look, nothing is going to tear the 29 percenters away from the Republicans. Nothing. They love Sarah Palin, just as they would have loved Caligula’s horse – because she’s one of them. That’s a fruitless tactic. Let them have their 29%, because we aren’t going to get them and there’s no sense wasting time or money trying to.
Go after everyone else instead. Ridicule their “being a mayor of a small village = international experience” bullshit, because, well, it’s ridiculous and it’s bullshit. Ridicule their idea that the election is about personalities, not issues – remind everyone that they told us this 8 years ago too, and for some reason it didn’t turn out too well. But most of all, stick to the narrative Obama laid out in his epic smack-down last Thursday. The one about how our mutual interests are more important than our differences and disagreements.
Look, the writing is already on the wall for this pathetic convention of theirs – it’s the same old playbook. Last night featured the chimp in chief demonizing teh Liberals and Fred the-only-guy-in-the-party-who-looks-older-than-McCain-Thompson waving fetuses over his head like red meat. They’re going with the same old divide-and-conquer by demonizing everyone who isn’t like us hand they always go with. We push back by repeating, loudly and often, that only people who don’t love their country would seek control of it by denigrating and demonizing citizens who merely disagree with them. That voting for people who promise to make sure the people you don’t like are worse off than you is not the same as voting for people who promise to make sure that YOU are better off in the future than you are now. Those are very different things. Hammer them on their incompetence at governing – ask people if they themselves would still have jobs if they bankrupted their employers, if their actions or failure to do their jobs caused people to die, if they knowingly and willfully violated the law. Ask them why they would hold their LEADERS to a lower standard than their own employers expect of them.
Remind them that only punks enjoy getting punk’d. Sure, they can have people in the White House who promise to keep hating the fags and denying the poor (read: black) healthcare and a decent education. They can have that as long as they accept that they aren’t going to get healthcare or education for their kids, either. And they can put government to work against their fellow citizens as long as they’re ok with someone reaching into their pocket and stealing from them on a daily basis to make sure that the have-mores have even more. It won’t keep them from losing their homes, or their jobs, or their life savings to a medical crisis, but it will allow them to maintain the illusion that they’re better than others until it happens.
Ask them if their standards for themselves, their families, and their country are truly that low. For the 29 percenters, we already know the answer to that question…they are punks who enjoy getting punk’d. They’ve fully embraced their role as punks. But the rest of us – are we that pathetic that we’ll just lie down and let them continue to walk all over us, based only on the promise that they’ll walk harder on someone else? Are you, dear undecided voters, really that lacking in self-respect?
Engaged, enervated, & energized !
Well, they were one of those things, anyway.
From now on I’m getting all my convention coverage from The Daily Show and the Colbear Repor. And from second-hand live blogging comment exchanges here at S,N.
But Obama’s absolutely in the pace car which raises two crucial questions:
1. Have you ever watched racing?
2. Seriously, do you know what a pace car does?
What’s the over/under on Sarah Palin calling Obama a sexist tonight? 2 to 1?
Whoops!
http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/1126/cover2xc3.jpg
There goes the checkout line crowd. Say goodnight to your “reg’lar folk” supporters, Sarah.
But, which neighbor of mine does she sound like?
When The Spouse asked this morning if I wanted to watch Palin tonite, my first thought was: Here in this corner of the glorious border state I can hear trashy loud-mouthed Rethuglican hypocrites yellin’ their fool opinions at everyone any time, so why would I willingly expose myself to it on national TV during prime time? I think not!
Jennifer is right:
1. Forget the 29%ers.
2. Obama’s surrogates need to be out 24-7 smashing McMaverick over the head with everything (they have more material daily), while Obama and Biden go out in the country, talk to people, and ignore Mandy Mooseburgers.
3. Come debate time, Obama mops the floor with McBBQ and Biden smiles while Palin demonstates that she doesn’t know what she’s talking about.
4. Landslide
5. Lieberman is booted from his chairmanships
6. Everybody gets high
I keep wanting to call her a “Not Ready for Prime Time Palin”, but I guess I’ll have to wait until after the speech.
No matter what happens, it will be the bitchinest partay evar for the Ole Perf:
Wooooo!
There goes the checkout line crowd. Say goodnight to your “reg’lar folk” supporters, Sarah.
Why did US Weekly photoshop John McCain’s awkward grimace onto her face?
What Legalize said, especially the part about Jennifer being right about the 29-percenters.
Oh, and if it’s okay, I’d rather get drunk than high. But to each their own, no?
2: Do not question the night gremlins and their superior head-beaming technology. Just. Do. Not.
To me, the Palin pick is heavy duty head beaming. And dog wistling. She’s not going to get dropped from the ticket. She’s a christianist dream candidate in the way she thinks and speaks. The fact that her actions don’t jibe doesn’t matter; actions never have mattered with that crowd as long as the ideology is in the right place.
The evangelical/christianists have shown over the last decade that they’ve got an incredibly powerful GOTV movement and I don’t think that we should take for granted that McCain/Palin is such a gawdawful ticket that they can’t get pushed into the white house. We cannot afford to spend time marvelling at the obvious superiority of the Obama/Biden ticket. We can’t spend a moment thinking that this election will proceed in a way that makes sense.
1. Have you ever watched racing?
Yes! No! What’s your point?
2. Seriously, do you know what a pace car does?
No, do YOU know what a pace car does?
Legalize: I vote we all go straight to No. 6. Now. Well, wait, it’s only 10 a.m. here.
So.. Then where is Mcain’s convention bounce? Where are the 5 or 6 points Walnuts should be getting?
Oh wait.. His “convention bounce” is about as high as the attendance at his convention.
These letters of support aren’t gonna write themselves, people.
Can he, and we, keep up the energy to drive home to victory?
We all have to imagine Inauguration Day. How beautiful will it be to watch George W. Bush hand over the Presidency of The United States to Barack Obama? If that’s not motivation enough to keep up the energy, I don’t know what is.
I’m just a poor, mis-understood mommy. I’m just like ALL of you.
Doesn’t everybody here have a team of lawyers? I know that all of you have unwed teenage children who is pregnant!
My expertise about foreign affairs comes from the way I face down Putin every day across the Bering Strait.
And my environmental qualifications stem directly from tasting the blood of all the endangered species I have slaughtered. Hey! They had a chance! My gun, and my backup gun, and its backup gun, might’ve misfired. It is all in the hands of God.
And God is in charge of my entire life. When I fired those a-holes for opposing me, it was God whispering in my ear. Not my fault.
God told me to take those payoffs and agree to shill for that foreign Oil Company. Not my fault.
And God put that wicked boy’s sperm into my virginal daughters party hole. Not my fault.
“They saw Reverend Wright damn America and they thought, “Wow, Obama’s black pastor sure is scary.”
Really, Twoofie. I wonder what Jewish voters in the Fla. are gonna make of Mandy Mooseburger’s Israel-hating-preacher problem:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13098.html
Judgment matters, dumb ass.
Rightwingsnarkle – posted:
Gov. Palin,
You’ve got more executive experience than Obama, Biden, or heck even McCain! You faced down the Soviet threat while Governor of the great state of Alaska, which is something no other governor of any state would claim to have done. You single-handedly cleaned out the corruption of your state and made drilling for oil a possibility again.
Now you’re going to be a grandma! I am so happy for you and how you raised your children to do the right thing.
Do not listen to the angry left. Face them down like you faced down the Russian missles and migs that you are sworn to protect Alaska from. You will be our next VEEP and our next POTUS after that!
Funny you should say that, Troofie.
Obama himself has said that Bristol Palin is off-limits, so he can’t really be faulted here. You can cry and moan about mean liberal bloggers all you want; we’ve heard it before. Hillbots told us all that the more we mocked Hillary, the more people would turn away from Obama, and, um, no.
The same scandal-driven media that brought down John Edwards is doing the same to Sarah Palin. Sucks, but don’t act like you’ve never delighted in it.
I’m sure you spent the better part of the 90s decrying the right’s attacks on Chelsea Clinton.
Yes, yes, everything’s bad for Obama. Got it.
Troof, just so you know, you’re facing this electoral projection with a little over two months to go. Good luck.
And you know what? As I’ve said many times, you suck as a troll. At least get an awesome catchphrase. Gary gave us “The fact is,” Saul gave us “Shalom,” Iris gave us various riffs on “Reagan Democrats” and “Appalachia,” Coach Urban Meyer gives us Poochie-styled “Badoodle Boo-Yeah” or whatever. What do you bring to the table?
Apropos of nothing, why is the Obama team not shooting down the Palin executive experience argument by pointing to the example of George W. Bush? He was governor of Texas and see where that got us. Every time they mention Palin, governor, and experience in the same sentence the response should be, “See George W. Bush for an idea of how little that means”.
Some great rants here, especially loved Jennifer’s reference to Caligula. The reference to Thompson waving fetuses over his head was very ‘Hunter S.-esque”. I’m one of those “dear undecided voters”, but I can’t help applying that age old theme; Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll to the state of American politics so far this century.
I stumbled into a political cartoon that, in a twisted sense, kind of expresses the hopelessness I feel with our political leadership as the first decade of the 21st century draws to an end. Thought you might appreciate the cartoon, compliments of Cafe Press.
http://www.cafepress.com/usa21stcentury
> Read this article
Not an article. It’s an opinion piece.
An opinion kinda like “Heckuva job, Brownie”, or “Mission accomplished”, or “Americans are whiners”.
All of which came out of proven-to-be-lying repiglican pieholes.
Yep, Palin really connects with the Average American, who should be placed on a pedestal and cherished forever. The Soviet threat. Got it.
I remember a few years after Reagan tore down the Berlin Wall with his bare hands, PBS did a special on people living in the far, far outskirts of Siberia. These weren’t exiled non-persons, but the peoples who had always lived there. They asked one woman (they had a translator) fishing off the Bering Strait what she thought of the the fall of communism and the rise of a democratic Russia. To which she replied, natch, what’s communism?.
Yeah, big honkin’ threat there.
“Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll to the state of American politics ”
For republicans, Sex is OK as long as you are unmarried and the daughter of an indicted republican politician.
At the convention last night, the biggest cheers coming out of the crowd came whenever anyone brought up Palin’s name.
The same religious values that moved the right to pray for biblical-level rain at the Obama speech will move them to pray for the ‘passing on’ of John McCain should Palin/McCain make it to the white house.
The Duvall-narrated video highlighting a vague, fatuous version of the “service” theme was surreal. Complete silence for stills of Rosa Parks and MLK, resounding applause for Barbara Bush. Priorities, baby.
Claire Voiant – you totally read my mind! I’ve never seen a “newbie” to this “website” fit in with the “zeitgeist” of this hip group of people so easily or so fast! Especially loved the very “Lippman-esque” reference to the “Hunter S.-esque” reference of the great rant by Jennifer!
“Complete silence for stills of Rosa Parks and MLK, resounding applause for Barbara Bush. Priorities, baby.”
That is progress. In 2004 and before, all of the republicans would’ve been firing guns at those images and holding up nooses.
D.N Nation is right, da twoof doesn’t have a decent catchphrase, and that just sucks.
I suggest he ends every post with “so there”. It fits my mental image of him as a petulant, whining child. Okay, right now that image is applicable to the entire right wing at the moment.
The Duvall-narrated video
I am out of the loop. I thought he was respectable.
How McCain *could* win
I think middle-class voters want to vote for somebody that sounds like them, sounds like someone that lives next door to them.
Well, I can’t argue with that, since I have the honor of living next door to Edie McClurg.
Are these Redoublechins really coming right out and saying that people will vote for someone based on the sound of their voice and not the words they’re saying? I guess they’ve worked it that way since Reagan. Hell, even Cheney sounds pretty sharp if all you listen to is tone and rhythm.
Can we vote on possible Da Twoof catchphrases?
> I suggest he ends every post with “so there”. It fits my mental image of him as a petulant, whining child. Okay, right now that image is applicable to the entire right wing at the moment.
I want him to end every post with “And look at the polls!”. And if he is truly devoted to Conservatism and its stunning record of endless failures, he can dazzle us with a quote from a noted Conservative or Republican. Here are a few samples he can use.
“Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.” – Rudy “911” Guliani, 1994
“Victory means exit strategy, and it’s important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is.” – George W. Bush, 4/9/99
“These capitalists generally act harmoniously, and in concert, to fleece the people.” – Abraham Lincoln, 1837
Oh yes, and caption for the Bush jumbotron image:
“Freeze me outta yer convention, willya? Are you all forgettin’ that ah can have you tortured?”
Has Larry Johnson forwarded the Michelle Obama hates whitey tape to Rove and Schmidt yet?
-GSD
My guess is that Obama will do much better in the polls than he’ll do in the electoral vote. He’ll make headway in the south and the west, but not enough to pick up a single state other than maybe, but not very likely, Virginia.
Unless some earth moves, Florida is out. I wouldn’t trust Ohio voters to tie their own shoes, so forget that. But I think Obama will carry NM, Colorado, and Iowa…which, assuming he doesn’t lose any of Kerry’s states, will be enough for a narrow win.
Can we vote on possible Da Twoof catchphrases?
RIDE THE WHITENING.
As I was perusing political quotes, I came across the full text of the HL Mencken quote that is often given in an abridged fashion in reference to chimpo. Here is the whole thing. It is even more apt for Republicans and the Palin coronation. Just substitute “woman” for “man” where appropriate. It is ESPECIALLY accurate in light of the fact that a Republican spokesman admitted yesterday that they want this election to be about emotions and not about issues.
“When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental–men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost… All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre–the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
-Baltimore Sun, July 26, 1920
I think the Palin nomination is an attempt to see just how stupid and sheep-like Americans are. We already know how stupid and sheep-like Republicans are…
F1? You effete Euro-elitist! NASCAR is the preferred privately-owned motorsports franchise here, if you please. They have pace cars too, ya know–no need to bring Europe into your metaphor. Or if you must go open-wheeled, what’s wrong with Indy?
There are no pace cars in F1, and if there were, they would be holding up the field of actual racers, so…no cigar for you.
Also, Schumacher the elder quit two years ago (thank gawd – he wouldn’t know sportsmanship if it kicked him in the crotch, and don’t we all wish it had). And his little brother with the big head got kicked to the curb at the end of last season. Thankfully, F1 is now a Schumi-free sport, except inasmuch as he shows up to help Massa from time to time – but as yet he hasn’t incited the lisping Brazilian to cheat like he used to.
Kubica FTW.
Given the nature of this election season, maybe a banger racing metaphor would be better?
Mcain would be the guy in the pinto.
> Mcain would be the guy in the pinto.
Before or after it gets rear ended and self-ignites?
“Can we vote on possible Da Twoof catchphrases?”
Gaba Gaba Huh?
Actually Alberto Ascari once ran his Ferrari into the Mediterranean during the Monaco Grand Prix (and someone else too but I can’t bother to look it up, so I think the metaphor stays unmixed.
F1 doesn’t have a pace car, but they do have a safety car which acts as a pace car during caution periods, so I might give you that one. Formula One Management believes, mistakenly, that they own the exclusive right to phrase “Formula 1” and you might expect to get an email soon. Schumacher wasn’t much of a sportsman, but then in F1 you win by ability and not by what others think of you. If that doesn’t shut off the analogy beam, I can’t imagine what else could. Seek help or watch a replay of the last race in Valencia. That will really put you right off the sport. Not me though, ZOMG!!11! I can’t believe there was actually a S,N! post that referenced F1.
She talks like a normal person
and
I think middle-class voters want to vote for somebody that sounds like them, sounds like someone that lives next door to them.
I’m not sure I agree 100% with you on yer detective work there, Lou.
Only if that middle-class person lives in the upper Midwest.
If you need a banger car metaphor for the race, we already have one:
Maverick!
>I do not think it means what you think it means, as the kids say.
“Most people think it means the opposite of what it means. But it doesn’t”
“Few words do.”
“Do what?”
“Mean the opposite of what they mean.”
“Few words do.” “Do what?” “Mean the opposite of what they mean.”
A lot of words do that in the Republican lexicon. Take, for example freedom and democracy.
Engaged, enervated, & energized !
One of those words does not go with the others.
Yup, mako rojo is right. Valencia was a snooze fest. Here’s to Spa this weekend!
Tom DeLay, via TPM:
Huh… that doesn’t say much about the political potency of Republican men, now, does it? It also makes it sound like Republican women weren’t really involved in the McCain campaign before this last week. Even I wouldn’t go so far as to stereotype Republican women as big, fat, lazy, disinterested citizens.
Way to sell the brand, Tommy!
Righteous Bubba said,
September 3, 2008 at 17:00
Can we vote on possible Da Twoof catchphrases?
RIDE THE WHITENING.
Your Nobel Prize – let me show you it.
While we’re on the Metallica theme, I’d also suggest ‘Fade To Crap’ or ‘Master of Sock Puppets’. ‘Trapped Under Lies’? ‘Disposable Zeroes’?
What do you [Troofie] bring to the table?
Oily, cheese-scented jizz?
the sleeping giant is Republican women
That’s no way to speak about Lynne Cheney!
Welcome to the Palindrome
Awesome. I love Metallica themes!
“DumbAss Inc.”?
“Welcome Home (Moronitarium)” ?
“Harvester of Stupid”?
…And Cheez Whiz for All.
Faaaaaascinating — there’s not one on there attributed to someone from Alaska. They didn’t even bother looking up a local paper and copying/pasting any of the letters to the editor singing Palin’s praises unto the heavens.
Also, I know I’m the only one that cares, but Wasilla’s not a village. It’s too big. It’s a small town; it’s nowhere I’d like to live or spend much time, but it’s not a village.
…and now I will shut up about it.
Of course, it seems that the Dutch have aborted a successful covert op to infiltrate the Iranian Nuclear Program.
Why would they do that, you ask?
Well, they actually told us why. Because they KNOW that the US has decided to launch missile strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities in the next few weeks
If we assume this is true, the entire discussion is about to change rather radically…
mikey
He looks like the cat eating spaghetti from The Soup.
I hate to break it to them, but scheduling a press conference to announce that your teenage daughter is pregnant? Not so normal. A normal mom would have turned the job down.
From the Lakoff article:
Like I said, shoving one’s pregnant teenaged daughter onto the national stage is not normal.
US has decided to launch missile strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities in the next few weeks
Holy shit! Link?
Candy and other concerned parties: Links are available at
http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=8982
but I’m a n00b here so I don’t know how to make the links work.
Oh look, the link worked. Huh.
If you can read Dutch, you can get to the original story in the Telegraaf from there. If not, read it in the Jerusalem Post link.
Obama’s in the pace car? Cindy McCain must be so jealous.
That Iran rumor is not in any way credible. If AIVD were really withdrawing its infiltration operations, the last thing they would do is announce that they were withdrawing their infiltration operations.
Maybe it’s disinformation, attempting to make Iran’s intelligence agency paranoid about people who recently left the weapon industry, but I think they’re probably too smart to fall for that too.
God dammit, now I’m going to be spitting over my shoulder for the next day to ward off the evil eye. Please refrain from saying things like “Barack Obama just won the election” until, you know, the day after election day.
Thanks, octopod.
That’s some scary stuff.
yup Obama just won