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PoliGAF General Election Thread of Conventions (Sarah Palin McCain VP Pick)

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woeds

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Macam said:
What exactly do you mean by "looked into"? If you just mean numbers, yes, those numbers have been reported and it's nothing a few seconds of Googling should be able to turn up.
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Well, I'm no expert on polling, so I don't know what influence 100.000 extra voters in a certain state would have. I meant that I wanted to know if someone had done the numbers on the expected effect the new registered voters would have.
 
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Hootie

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Dax01 said:
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I'll be able to get on GAF during my sports and entertainment marketing class (computers access), so it's not all bad!
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Lol WTF is that shit class. I'm going to be taking all Honors/College classes my last two years.

I figured I'd have approx. 32 college credits by the end of my senior year.
 
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The Librarian

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Hootie said:
Lol WTF is that shit class. I'm going to be taking all Honors/College classes my last two years.
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I only take honors in math and science courses (since I know science and math are going to be heavily involved in what I want to do). If I take honors in anything else, it's just extra work (well, besides Latin III honors), so that means English III regular, and US History regular. I'll be taking AP Physics/AP Calculus AB in my senior year, though.

Jesus, Pat, you do really love Hillary.
 
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Mike M

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Can someone explain to me WTF these protests going on in Denver are supposed to be accomplishing? They want to pull out of Iraq and not to go to war with Iran, so they're *protesting* the convention where they're officially naming their candidate who wants to pull out of Iraq and not go to war with Iran?
 
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reilo

learning some important life lessons from magical Negroes
RUSSERT'S SON HARDBALL! You go young man. Follow in your dad's footsteps.

EDIT: Oh shit, is that Norah?
 
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reilo

learning some important life lessons from magical Negroes
Agent Icebeezy said:
Yeah, she always looks good :D
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Her face was always her greatest feature. Especially those eyes. Those damn baby blues.
 
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The Librarian

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Hootie said:
My weiner says yes.
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maximum360

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http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0808/Rendell_Obama_coverage_was_embarrassing.html

Rendell: Obama coverage was embarrassing

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell was supposed to give “closing remarks” during this afternoon’s Shorenstein Center-sponsored panel discussion with all three Sunday show moderators — NBC’s Tom Brokaw, ABC’s George Stephanopoulous and CBS’s Bob Schieffer — but instead, he opened up a can of worms about bias in 2008 election coverage

"Ladies and gentleman, the coverage of Barack Obama was embarrassing," said Rendell, in the ballroom at Denver's Brown Palace Hotel. "It was embarrassing."

Rendell, an ardent Hillary Rodham Clinton supporter during the primaries, now backs Obama in the general election. Brokaw and Rendell began debating campaign coverage, including the on-air comments by Lee Cowan, and when MSNBC came up, Rendell went after the cable network.

“MSNBC was the official network of the Obama campaign," Rendell said.
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Again, democrats eat their own.

Somebody should tell these people that the primaries are over. I'm hoping that the convention will be the final nail in the coffin for all this divisive nonsense.
 
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Tyrone Slothrop

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i really don't think you can argue that msnbc isn't the obama station. but it's whatever. that's just how things work.

i just saw those rioters attack fox news :lol sean hannity's going to be in denver, right. i won't say that i hope he gets killed but i do hope he gets roughed up a little
 
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Jonm1010

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Mike M said:
Can someone explain to me WTF these protests going on in Denver are supposed to be accomplishing? They want to pull out of Iraq and not to go to war with Iran, so they're *protesting* the convention where they're officially naming their candidate who wants to pull out of Iraq and not go to war with Iran?
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Well considering the only substantive thing the democratic congress has done on those fronts behind all the rhetoric is give Bush the funding for the Iraq War and, if Seymour Hersh is to be believed, funded covert operations in Iran - Well they may have a point and be right in thinking that congress and the democratic party doesn't "get it" and might be lying again.
 
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reilo

learning some important life lessons from magical Negroes
Anyone want to make a Luke Russert for President Facebook group?
 
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Tyrone Slothrop

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mckmas8808 said:
That's BULL FUCKING SHIT! MSNBC was never the Obama network. If it was why were most people on that channel saying that Hillary would win the NOM?
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maybe you missed keith olberman's abidication of hillary's "dark soul"
 
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APF

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mckmas8808 said:
That's BULL FUCKING SHIT! MSNBC was never the Obama network. If it was why were most people on that channel saying that Hillary would win the NOM?
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Is that what Chuck Fraudd said?
 
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reilo

learning some important life lessons from magical Negroes
soul creator said:
another potential awesome VP pick for McCain? Alan Keyes

black folks would be so conflicted!
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That would be hilarious.

Dude thinks that the constitution served to protect Teri Shiavo.
 
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maximum360

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/opinion/24dowd.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin

Too Much of a Bad Thing

By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: August 24, 2008
WASHINGTON

My mom did not approve of men who cheated on their wives. She called them “long-tailed rats.”

During the 2000 race, she listened to news reports about John McCain confessing to dalliances that caused his first marriage to fall apart after he came back from his stint as a P.O.W. in Vietnam.

I figured, given her stringent moral standards, that her great affection for McCain would be dimmed.

“So,” I asked her, “what do you think of that?”

“A man who lives in a box for five years can do whatever he wants,” she replied matter-of-factly.

I was startled, but it brought home to me what a powerful get-out-of-jail-free card McCain had earned by not getting out of jail free.

His brutal hiatus in the Hanoi Hilton is one of the most stirring narratives ever told on the presidential trail — a trail full of heroic war stories. It created an enormous credit line of good will with the American people. It also allowed McCain, the errant son of the admiral who was the commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific during Vietnam — his jailers dubbed McCain the “Crown Prince” — to give himself some credit.

“He has been preoccupied with escaping the shadow of his father and establishing his own image and identity in the eyes of others,” read a psychiatric evaluation in his medical files. “He feels his experiences and performance as a P.O.W. have finally permitted this to happen.”

The ordeal also gave a more sympathetic cast to his carousing. As Robert Timberg wrote in “John McCain: An American Odyssey,” “What is true is that a number of P.O.W.’s, in those first few years after their release, often acted erratically, their lives pockmarked by drastic mood swings and uncharacteristic behavior before achieving a more mellow equilibrium.” Timberg said Hemingway’s line that people were stronger in the broken places was not always right.

So it’s hard to believe that John McCain is now in danger of exceeding his credit limit on the equivalent of an American Express black card. His campaign is cheapening his greatest strength — and making a mockery of his already dubious claim that he’s reticent to talk about his P.O.W. experience — by flashing the P.O.W. card to rebut any criticism, no matter how unrelated. The captivity is already amply displayed in posters and TV advertisements.

The Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell, the pastor who married Jenna Bush and who is part of a new Christian-based political action committee supporting Obama, recently criticized the joke McCain made at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally encouraging Cindy to enter the topless Miss Buffalo Chip contest. The McCain spokesman Brian Rogers brought out the bottomless excuse, responding with asperity that McCain’s character had been “tested and forged in ways few can fathom.”

When the Obama crowd was miffed to learn that McCain was in a motorcade rather than in a “cone of silence” while Obama was being questioned by Rick Warren, Nicolle Wallace of the McCain camp retorted, “The insinuation from the Obama campaign that John McCain, a former prisoner of war, cheated is outrageous.”

When Obama chaffed McCain for forgetting how many houses he owns, Rogers huffed, “This is a guy who lived in one house for five and a half years — in prison.”

As Sam Stein notes in The Huffington Post: “The senator has even brought his military record into discussion of his music tastes. Explaining that his favorite song was ‘Dancing Queen’ by Abba, he offered that his knowledge of music ‘stopped evolving when his plane intercepted a surface-to-air missile.’ ‘Dancing Queen,’ however, was produced in 1975, eight years after McCain’s plane was shot down.”

The Kerry Swift-boat attacks in 2004 struck down the off-limits signs that were traditionally on a candidate’s military service. Many Democrats are willing to repay the favor, and Republicans clearly no longer see war medals as sacrosanct.

In a radio interview last week, Representative Terry Everett, an Alabama Republican, let loose with a barrage at the Democrat John Murtha, a decorated Vietnam War veteran who is the head of the House defense appropriations subcommittee, calling him “cut-and-run John Murtha” and an “idiot.”

“And don’t talk to me about him being an ex-marine,” Everett said. “Lord, that was 40 years ago. A lot of stuff can happen in 40 years.”

The real danger to the McCain crew in overusing the P.O.W. line so much that it’s a punch line is that it will give Obama an opening for critical questions:

While McCain’s experience was heroic, did it create a worldview incapable of anticipating the limits to U.S. military power in Iraq? Did he fail to absorb the lessons of Vietnam, so that he is doomed to always want to refight it? Did his captivity inform a search-and-destroy, shoot-first-ask-questions-later, “We are all Georgians,” mentality?
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demon

I don't mean to alarm you but you have dogs on your face
I guess in order for a network to be 'neutral' on a candidate they need to give as much excessive airtime to negative coverage on him regardless of how bullshit it is. Thanks for enlightening me.

And somebody give Chris Matthews a fucking comb, please.
 
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Suikoguy

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polyh3dron said:
Thank GOD.. Hillary is releasing her delegates.
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To be fair, I think the only reason she held them so long, was she was waiting for a major fuck up from Obama, and it never happened.
 
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