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

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The Chosen One

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Also the VP anticipation is "Beltway" hype. Outside of journalist and political junkies no one else is freaking out over the timing of Obama's VP pick.
 
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Deus Ex Machina

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Alcander said:
so doesn't that make it nearly 100% Biden? Unless something changes, of course ;)
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reilo

learning some important life lessons from magical Negroes
Olbermann: "We can confirm NOW, that it is Obama ANND... not Obama. Yeah, sorry about that."

:lol
 
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Particle Physicist

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remember the big stink just a few days ago about obama's long lost brother being ashamed and living in a shack!!???? remember how certain people on here were badmouthing obama because of his supposed treatment of his brother? well... turns out it was crap:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/22/bts.obama.brother/index.html


HURUMA, Kenya (CNN) -- We found Barack Obama's half-brother living in a Nairobi slum.

George Obama, whose birth certificate shows that he is Barack Obama's half-brother, lives in a small house in Huruma that he shares with his mother's extended family, far away from the presidential campaign circus.

In his memoir, "Dreams for my Father," the Democratic presidential candidate describes meeting George two years ago as a "painful affair." Barack Obama's trip to Kenya meant meeting family he had never known.

In the book, which is popular in Nairobi and can be found in almost any supermarket, Obama looks back at his personal story and his struggles to reconcile with a Kenyan father who left him and his mother when he was just a child.

Barack Obama Sr. died in a car accident when George was just 6 months old. And like his half-brother, George hardly knew his father. George was his father's last child and had not been aware of his famous half-brother.

"I think I wanted to learn about my father the same way he did," George Obama told me about why he read the book. "He came hear searching for his roots, and I was also trying to find my roots."

Unlike his grandmother in Kogela, in Western Kenya, George Obama had received little attention from the media.

But reports surfaced in the past few days, springing from an Italian Vanity Fair article saying George Obama is living in a shack and "earning less than a dollar a day."

The reports left him angry.

"I was brought up well. I live well even now," he said. "The magazines, they have exaggerated everything.

"I think I kind of like it here. There are some challenges, but maybe it is just like where you come from, there are the same challenges," Obama said.

Obama, who is in his mid-20s, is learning to become a mechanic and is active in youth groups in Huruma. He said he tries to help the community as much as he can.

At least one of his neighbors feels that perhaps the candidate should help the brother.

"I would like Obama to visit his brother to see how he is living, to improve his way of life," said Emelda Negei, who runs a small dispensary near Obama's house.

But George Obama will have none of it. He draws inspiration from his famous half-brother. He acknowledges that he is biased but said he knows that his half-brother will be the next president.

"Because he wants to be [president]," he said. "I think in life, what you want is what you are supposed to get."
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so doesn't that make it nearly 100% Biden? Unless something changes, of course ;)
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reilo

learning some important life lessons from magical Negroes
quadriplegicjon said:
remember the big stink just a few days ago about obama's long lost brother being ashamed and living in a shack!!???? remember how certain people on here were badmouthing obama because of his supposed treatment of his brother? well... turns out it was crap:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/22/bts.obama.brother/index.html
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"He came hear searching for his roots, and I was also trying to find my roots."
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Wtf. Was that article written by a GAF member?

EDIT: Lots of activity around Biden house.
 
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reilo said:
Wtf. Was that article written by a GAF member?

EDIT: Lots of activity around Biden house.
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according to some dkos diary (which attributes Biden's office) and olbermann (unsourced), his family is flying in tonight
 
Xisiqomelir

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Jason's Ultimatum said:
BREAKING NEWS: SOURCES SAY KAINE AND BAYH WERE INFORMED THEY WERE NOT THE PICK.
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This PoliGAFfer has the right idea!
 
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Agent Icebeezy

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As if McCain wasn't already seen as a puppet. He's a clueless puppet. Can one really be this aloof?

Brother: Wives handle McCain finances

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12730.html

John McCain tripped over a question about how many houses he and his wife own because growing up his mother – not his father – handled the family finances, according to McCain’s younger brother.

Likewise, John McCain’s wife Cindy McCain takes the lead when it comes to the couples’ finances, confirmed Joe McCain, after an interview with NewsChannel 8, a Washington 24-hour local cable news station owned by the same company as Politico.
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McCain Didn't Know What Car He Drove Last Year

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/22/mccain-didnt-know-what-ca_n_120685.html

In our News interview, he was asked what kind of car he drove. As with Politico’s question about home ownership, he didn’t know and had to ask a nearby aide. “A Cadillac CTS,” she told him.
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How can he handle the country's finances when he's clueless to his own? :lol :lol :lol
 
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TDG

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Hmm... and who said that you were all getting your hopes up for no reason, and that the announcement would be much more likely to come an hour or so before Saturday's event? Oh yeah, ME.

You people should listen to me, I actually make sense sometimes.
 
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laserbeam

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Agent Icebeezy said:
As if McCain wasn't already seen as a puppet. He's a clueless puppet. Can one really be this aloof?

Brother: Wives handle McCain finances

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12730.html



McCain Didn't Know What Car He Drove Last Year

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/22/mccain-didnt-know-what-ca_n_120685.html



How can he handle the country's finances when he's clueless to his own? :lol :lol :lol
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His wife handling the money is not new. hell they have a pre-nup that specifically said the money was to be handled by her. Money,Assets etc are all handled by her.
 
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Clevinger

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Rur0ni said:
Lame... Very.
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On the media's part, yeah. It was their "inside sources" that claimed it was today, and they have been pulling random "inside info" out of their asses for the past week.
 
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reilo

learning some important life lessons from magical Negroes
Qwerty710710 said:
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Reported that Obama's campaign paid the same company to produce various bumper stickers with a bunch of names to fool the press.
 
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Thunder Monkey

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laserbeam said:
His wife handling the money is not new. hell they have a pre-nup that specifically said the money was to be handled by her. Money,Assets etc are all handled by her.
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Yeah, but it's still pretty pathetic that he can't name how many houses he owns.

I can! Two. Both in the same tiny Kansas town. Letting my aunt and her son live at the other one.
 
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TDG

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Karma Kramer said:
So I just settled down after my flight. Whats happened? Could someone give me an update?
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As I repeatedly tried to tell all of you chicken littles, it's not being announced today. It'll be a few hours before Obama's event tomorrow. That's all we've learned.
 
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Karma Kramer

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the disgruntled gamer said:
As I repeatedly tried to tell all of you chicken littles, it's not being announced today.
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Alright you were right... but why is Obama doing this? Any ideas? Seems like enough already and he should just announce it.
 
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reilo

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Karma Kramer said:
So I just settled down after my flight. Whats happened? Could someone give me an update?
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The VP has been announced, it's..





















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polyh3dron said:
How's YouPorn, any good? :lol
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back then I thought it was cool...now it's meh. tube8>*

Interesting numbers
A new Greenberg Quinlan Roser survey finds unmarried women overwhelmingly backing Sen. Barack Obama for president, 58% to 29%, "but their commitment to voting lags behind the rest of the country."

Key finding: "It is almost impossible to understand the 'women's vote' without understanding the role marital status plays in political decision-making. Marital status not only drives how women vote, but whether they vote."
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http://politicalwire.com/

edit: 5 minutes
 
Xisiqomelir

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Karma Kramer said:
Alright you were right... but why is Obama doing this? Any ideas? Seems like enough already and he should just announce it.
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The Obama nation fills its collective tank with Wolf Blitzer's bitter tears.
 
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TDG

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Karma Kramer said:
Alright you were right... but why is Obama doing this? Any ideas? Seems like enough already and he should just announce it.
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It simply doesn't make sense to announce it so far before the event where Obama and the VP will appear together.

If they announce, oh say, right now, then we all say "Oh, it's blahblahblah," and tomorrow's event, which is the real deal, has diminished importance. However, if they announce an hour before the event, then that just ads to the hype. We find out, get excited, talk about it for a little while, then the next thing you know the two are up on the stage making their speech, and EVERYBODY's tuned in.
 
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Karma Kramer

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the disgruntled gamer said:
It simply doesn't make sense to announce it so far before the event where Obama and the VP will appear together.

If they announce, oh say, right now, then we all say "Oh, it's blahblahblah," and tomorrow's event, which is the real deal, has diminished importance. However, if they announce an hour before the event, then that just ads to the hype. We find out, get excited, talk about it for a little while, then the next thing you know the two are up on the stage making their speech, and EVERYBODY's tuned in.
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Wow excellent point. This is actually such a good idea.
 
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reilo

learning some important life lessons from magical Negroes
This montage on Countdown on the VP speculations is brilliant.
 
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reilo

learning some important life lessons from magical Negroes
:lol at Live cam of Biden's home.

It's literally a screen that is 85% just black with one lamp illuminated in the corner to show it's his home.
 
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Suikoguy

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So it's not going to announced today?
 
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Kusagari

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If it's one of the 'big 4' I'm betting on Sebelius now. This Biden stuff would be so anticlimactic if he is the pick and Kaine/Bayh are apparently out.
 
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reilo

learning some important life lessons from magical Negroes
The look on Richardson's face is priceless as he's listening to Hutchinson talk about that the solution to remedy our high gas prices is to increase supply and drill, while proclaiming that Obama has no solutions to remedy this problem.
 
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