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[Nibelung Valesti]

OMG, Gina Gershon as Sarah Palin :lol :lol :lol
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/61410aa4ff

 

[sprsk]

Fuck that, and fuck liberal guilt over feeling better than others when you genuinely have a better, more informed, point of view. I'm getting really fucking sick of this celebration of mediocrity.

We all are, but you gotta use your head. Especially when so much is on the line.

 

[Branduil]

If McCain loses(he probably will), I think Huckabee will be the leading candidate for the next election.

 

[JayDubya]

Bill Maher was once awesome when he stood outside the party structure and sniped both sides. I enjoyed watching Politically Incorrect on Comedy Central.

LINO Real Time Bill sucks ass.

 

[Cloud]

Bill Maher was once awesome when he stood outside the party structure and sniped both sides.

LINO Bill sucks ass.

When Bill Maher was sniping both parties the GOP wasn't run by lying sacks of shit who destroyed our country. Btw I agree with mamacint, enough with the liberal guilt. If they're ignorant and stupid to vote for a party that lies to them we should treat them like that. I'm not smug towards everyone I'm smug towards morons.

 

[Branduil]

When Bill Maher was sniping both parties the GOP wasn't run by lying sacks of shit who destroyed our country. Btw I agree with mamacint, enough with the liberal guilt. If they're ignorant and stupid to vote for a party that lies to them we should treat them like that. I'm not smug towards everyone I'm smug towards morons.

There you go again...

 

[Xisiqomelir]

Bill Maher was once awesome when he stood outside the party structure and sniped both sides. I enjoyed watching Politically Incorrect on Comedy Central.

LINO Real Time Bill sucks ass.

Well, you know why this happened, right? They got him fired just because he made comments that weren't lockstep with the "GOD-damn turrists!" national sentiment after the WTC attacks. I'd say he has a justifiable modicum of anti-Right hostility to work through.

 

[Barrett2]

Well, you know why this happened, right? They got him fired just because he made comments that weren't lockstep with the "GOD-damn turrists!" national sentiment after the WTC attacks. I'd say he has a justifiable modicum of anti-Right hostility to work through.

This. Bill Maher's current show is the product of him being railroaded by the angry & moronic version of the GOP, which hasn't always been the way the GOP operates.

I don't fault Maher for being so angry towards Republicans, I consider myself a conservative, yet even I have been filled with white hot rage towards the Republicans for the last eight years. Anyone with a brain should be... the party has completely abandoned its principles, and is now little more than a pack of lying, disingenuous, fear-mongering jackasses. Other than humping the leg of Ronald Reagan, it seems the party collectively hasn't come up with a single idea to help America in about ten years.

 

[Farmboy]

Bill Maher was once awesome when he stood outside the party structure and sniped both sides. I enjoyed watching Politically Incorrect on Comedy Central.

I get the sense that Bill is still an equal-opportunity offender and will remain so. It's just that he's not (or perhaps: no longer) going to go out of his way to balance jabs aimed at the GOP with jabs aimed at the Dems when he honestly feels the GOP's idiocy far outweighs that of the other side. In general, that brand of fake evenhandedness is going the way of the dodo, and rightly so.

I think Maher is one of few people who can certainly be depended upon to start blasting the Democrats (again), should they descend to the utter uselessness of the Bush administration or the disgraceful level of conversation of the McCain campaign. Don't confuse him disagreeing with your positions with him snapping in line for the Dems. He's still outside the party structure, calling 'em as he sees 'em.

 

[mckmas8808]

I think production aside (where McCain's have a similar specific theme (don't trust Obama), Obams's change randomly) Obama's are generally the same message (BUSH TWO) while McCain's keep bringing up new doubts. While Obama is right now seemingly like he's throwing everything at McCain and hasn't looked up any of it. (e-mail charges! "Bridge to Nowhere" while Obama and Biden voted for it, etc.)

I'm extremely disappointed in the Obama campaign lately. They seem to have absolutely zero clue.

You have zero clue. It's obvious that you don't pay attention to what's going on. Take a look at their townhalls. And how is the lobbyist ad bad?

 

[Choabac]

Well, you know why this happened, right? They got him fired just because he made comments that weren't lockstep with the "GOD-damn turrists!" national sentiment after the WTC attacks. I'd say he has a justifiable modicum of anti-Right hostility to work through.

Ah, so that was him. I remember hearing about some show back then called Politically Incorrect, which got dumped because the host levelled criticism against invading Afghanistan. His sponsors such as Pepsi withdrew their support overnight.

Of course history favours him in the end.

 

[mckmas8808]

I watched the new Biden video where he mentions there are 42-44 field offices currently in Virginia and it made me think about if the polls are taking that type of thing into account.

Does anyone know if anyone has done an indepth study of how much Obama's ground game may skew the current state polls in his favor? I mean more than just speculating it could add a couple percent.

I've been volunteering in CO for Obama for the last 3 days and I noticed we have 25 field offices with likely more opening and McCain only has 9. We also have a constant stream of new volunteers daily. Also, Denver and the surrounding area has over 50% of the CO population and Obama has 6 field offices in and around Denver for Obama while McCain only has 2 and both of his are actually outside of Denver. Last weekend the Obama campaign registered 5500 voters in CO.

I really hope that these polls are underestimating Obama's ground game by a significant margin but I'd like to see something supporting it besides idle speculation.

Guys like you keep me full of hope. 5,500 registers in one weekend is crazy. Was that for all of CO?

 

[mckmas8808]

You know, I'm also starting to think that Obama should slowly shift a theme of his campaign. Palin and McCain are tainting the "change" moniker. I'm thinking Obama should maybe chance it to, "the change we NEED." Acknowledge that McCain and Palin will change the nation, but will change it in a negative direction.

"John McCain and Sarah Palin have recently taken the change moniker. Anyone notice that? Well, let me tell you. They'll bring change. Change is inevitable. They'll bring you change alright. More wars. Palin doesn't believe in global warming. With the increased disasters you've seen, it's obvious that how we treat Mother Earth is how she treats us. The economy is having a rough time. McCain doesn't think so. Well, it's kind of hard to feel the downpours of a rough economy when you have the shelter of your seven houses.

Now, my fellow friends and citizens of this great nation, we're on a forked road in American history, and the path we choose today will have drastic effects on the future of our nation. We can choose to say no to tolerance, we can say no to keeping America technologically saavy, we can say no to ending the war in Iraq, we can say no to avoiding future wars that we don't have to fight... wars based on a lack of facts and erroneous judgment My friends, we can say no to a future in which we leave our children better off than we were, something good, honest Americans have been doing since the inception of this great nation. If you are ready to say no to the future, vote McCain and Palin. However, if you are ready to say yes, yes to REAL CHANGE, if you are ready to say YES to the change we need... a rebuilding of our critical infrastructure, a leader who will use sound judgment before engaging other nation, who will keep us relevant technologically and who will work hard at rebuilding our crumbling education system, then Joe Biden and I are your men. We are the team that will bring you not just change, but the Change you NEED! Thank you and God bless!

It IS the new theme.

Watch this video. And look at the sign behind Obama.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR1VruSYu7c

 

[Confidence Man]

Just read this, I don't know if it's been posted already:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080913/pl_politico/13412

Obama camp should be hammering the shit out of McCain for this kind of stuff instead of putting out weak nonsense about McCain being computer illiterate. Make him look like the guy who compromised his values for attention, same old attack dog politician, etc...

 

[hokahey]

This shows the polls on Gallup for the past week. It's been wild, but there is an upturn on Obama's part

Nicely done.

It's very clear where the convention bounces are and that things are returning to where they were before both conventions.

 

[mckmas8808]

Just read this, I don't know if it's been posted already:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080913/pl_politico/13412

Obama camp should be hammering the shit out of McCain for this kind of stuff instead of putting out weak nonsense about McCain being computer illiterate. Make him look like the guy who compromised his values for attention, same old attack dog politician, etc...

Posting it here for the lazy people.

It’s hard to imagine a more unlikely perch for John McCain to be shamed for his increasingly hard-edged and truth-stretching campaign than the middle seat on “The View.”


Yet on Friday morning, there sat the Republican nominee – a politician who has built an all but saintly reputation for “straight talk” over the years – caught in a vise between Joy Behar and Barbara Walters and getting a lecture from each on honesty.

“They’re lies,” Behar said of two recent lines of attack from the McCain campaign

“By the way, you yourself said the same thing about putting lipstick on a pig,” interjected Walters as a defensive McCain struggled to respond.

The two daytime talk show hosts are hardly alone.

McCain’s tactics are drawing the scorn of many in the media and organizations tasked with fact-checking the truthfulness of campaigns. In recent weeks, Team McCain has been described as dishonorable, disingenuous and downright cynical.

A series of ads – ranging from accusations that Barack Obama backed teaching sex education to Illinois kindergartners to charges that Obama called Sarah Palin a lipstick-wearing pig – have provoked a cascade of criticism of McCain’s tactics.

The furor presents a breathtaking contrast to McCain’s image as a kind of anti-politician who plays fair, disdains politics as usual and has never forgotten how his 2000 presidential campaign was incinerated by a series of loathsome dirty tricks in the South Carolina primary.

The defense from the candidate himself — heard only on “The View” because he hasn’t held a press conference in over a month — is to essentially claim he’s savaging Obama because the Illinois senator wouldn’t agree to the series of town hall meetings McCain proposed at the end of the Democratic primary season.

“If we had done what I asked Sen. Obama to do, because I’ve been in a lot of other campaigns where I have appeared with the opposition with the people and listened to their hopes and dreams and aspirations, I don't think you'd see the tenor of this campaign," he said.

That’s the candidate’s public answer - and one that a former adviser suggested that McCain may have convinced himself to believe is true.

Current campaign aides and other Republicans who’ve closely watched the race, however, have a very different response to the media elites and good-government scolds: we don’t care what you think.

McCain seems to have made a choice that many politicians succumb to but which he had always promised to avoid - he appears ready to do whatever it takes to win, even it if soils his reputation.

“We recognize it’s not going to be 2000 again,” said McCain spokesman Brian Rogers, alluding to the media’s swooning coverage of McCain’s ill-fated crusade against then-Gov. George W. Bush and the GOP establishment. “But he lost then. We’re running a campaign to win. And we’re not too concerned about what the media filter tries to say about it.”

Rogers, who hung tough with McCain through the dark days of the primary and has lived through every high and low of this turbulent and unpredictable race, argues that they tried to run a high-ground campaign and sought to keep the candidate in front of the media in the fashion he enjoys. His point: No one paid any attention.

“We ran a different kind of campaign and nobody cared about us. They didn’t cover John McCain. So now you’ve got to be forward-leaning in everything.”

Rogers concedes that they were understandably overshadowed by the historic Democratic primary through June, but contends that even after the general election began they could only get attention when McCain committed a gaffe.

“When he’s sitting in back of bus and getting questions about Viagra, I think we understand at that point you’ve got to make some tactical adjustments,” he said, recalling a particularly awkward gotcha-of-the-day moment on McCain’s bus in early July.

A senior adviser to the campaign echoed Rogers’ point: “Some of the traditional tactics we did for a long time weren’t working, so we adjusted.”

So instead of doing things the traditional McCain way, they tried out the Steve Schmidt way.

Turning to the playbook of a campaign manager who’s been running take-no-prisoners campaigns for years brought immediate changes. It meant ending McCain’s anything-goes sessions with reporters on his bus that had become politically untenable in the Internet and cable news-dominated, 24-7 modern media age. And it meant embracing, rather than fighting, the notion that Obama was the star of the race.

When the August “celebrity” ads cut through the clutter and, for the first time in the campaign, put Obama on defense, McCain aides felt they’d got their answer about whether tougher was smarter.

Similar affirmation came when Obama first suggested McCain would bring race into the campaign – and the Republican side smothered the tactic by countering that it was Obama who was playing the race card.

McCain strategists now have became even more sure of themselves following the picture-perfect reaction – in the GOP’s view – to the decision to put Sarah Palin on the ticket. The choice provoked derision from elites, jubilation among conservative voters long skeptical of McCain and uncertainty from Obama about how to respond. If you are a McCain staffer, it doesn’t get better than that – so who cares that the candidate had only met her once and her chief foreign policy credential seems to be living nearer Russia than other Americans.

With polls moving in their direction and a unanimous view in the political world that the fundamentals of the race have changed dramatically in the last few weeks, McCain aides aren’t about to drop a flood-the-zone approach that they believe has worked. “Most people would have been afraid to have called him out on race,” boasted an adviser. “And we’re not going to let sexism or denigration of her go unchecked now.”

On all three counts - their portrayal of Obama as a celebrity, outrage at his purported use of race and his flat-footedness and confusion on how to respond to Palin - McCain aides saw weakness and indecision.

It adds up to a campaign that is now unapologetically aggressive and aimed almost entirely at keeping Obama off-message, even if it means hitting him below the belt in the process.

“Clearly we intend to stay on offense,” said Rogers. “That’s what we need to do because the campaign is fundamentally about him. We feel comfortable about the ads we’re running and arguments we’re marking.”

And, given their surge in the polls and Obama’s uncertainty about how to respond to the Palin phenomenon, they’re going to keep it up.

“Every day not talking about the economy, the war and how to fix a broken system is a victory for McCain,” said John Weaver, a former top strategist to the nominee who left the campaign last year. “They’re going to ride it as long as they can and as long as the mainstream media puts up every ridiculous charge.”

The negative and often exaggerated or misleading claims being made about Obama and Delaware Sen. Joe Biden, especially those playing on Palin’s gender, are just too irresistible for the process-consumed online and cable news media that now drives the campaign conversation, Weaver said.

“Unless there is a hurricane, they’re going to cover it,” he observed.

Adds Terry Nelson, McCain’s former campaign manager: “It works in part because Obama responds to it.”

The question now, though, is just how long McCain can keep riding the wave of process and Palin.

“If they don’t attack her, she’s going to go back to being the vice presidential nominee,” said Nelson of the Democrats. “And in the natural scheme of things, the focus will go back to McCain and Obama.”

At that point, “the biggest burden for the McCain campaign will be to convey a compelling, positive vision for the country’s future."

A top McCain adviser said they’re hoping to keep the still-flowing momentum from their convention going as long as they can.

“But we’ve always been planning to get back on the economy, jobs and energy,” said this strategist.

And even if they weren’t, the campaign calendar would demand it.

McCain and Obama face off in three debates, beginning on September 26th at Ole Miss - events that will force a focus, at least temporarily, on issues rather than pigs, lipstick and the sex lives of kindergartners.

If you read the BOLDED parts you can get the gist of the article. I think this is a losing strategy for McCain. I mean Hillary tried the same burn and fire campaign and she lost too.

 

[Frank the Great]

If you read the BOLDED parts you can get the gist of the article. I think this is a losing strategy for McCain. I mean Hillary tried the same burn and fire campaign and she lost too.

She started doing that way too late. Her poll numbers were pretty high towards the end and she did have momentum.

I think this is a winning strategy if they keep it up. The ball is in Obama's court to somehow get on message again.

The Obama campaign is pretty clearly just waiting for the debates. They started to change things for Kerry, let's hope they will provide boosts for Obama.

 

[bob_arctor]

I think that response is pretty powerful as far as coming back at the technology thing. The Hurricane will probably spare the Obama camp a controversy though so they should count their blessings. This has the potential to be another multi day controversy and thus multi day loss of issues talk

No, it really doesn't. Nobody give a flying fuck. It's a stupid ad not because it's easily quelled but because it's just plain stupid. But if McCain wants to get his nipples in an uproar, sure, let him. He'll just cement his pettiness and his whining will backfire, which I think is already beginning. The View as harbinger of doom? Maybe so. And, please, for the sake of your own intellectual honesty, stay the hell away from Jonah Goldberg. Ugh.

 

[mckmas8808]

She started doing that way too late. Her poll numbers were pretty high towards the end and she did have momentum.

I think this is a winning strategy if they keep it up. The ball is in Obama's court to somehow get on message again.

The Obama campaign is pretty clearly just waiting for the debates. They started to change things for Kerry, let's hope they will provide boosts for Obama.

No it didn't start to work. She won 2 of the last 5 or so states because Obama didn't give a fuck. He didn't care about winning West VA at the end. It was obvious. He turned the money off and stop campaigning in some of those states.

And delegates wise she lose more in the end than in the middle of the campaign.

 

[AniHawk]

She started doing that way too late. Her poll numbers were pretty high towards the end and she did have momentum.

I think this is a winning strategy if they keep it up. The ball is in Obama's court to somehow get on message again.

The Obama campaign is pretty clearly just waiting for the debates. They started to change things for Kerry, let's hope they will provide boosts for Obama.

I think a lot of people forget what actually happened in the primaries. Anywhere Obama campaigned, despite Hillary's attacks, his numbers went up. He was always expected to lose places like Pennsylvania and Ohio and even Indiana. He wound up losing PA by less than 10 points (he was down by 20-30 a month earlier), faced similar odds in OH (can't remember specifically right now), and even the best bet was that IN would go to Hillary by at least 5 points. She won it by less than one. This was during wave after wave of negative campaigning. It didn't work.

 

[grandjedi6]

“Every day not talking about the economy, the war and how to fix a broken system is a victory for McCain,” said John Weaver

and with that, democracy cried.

 

[GhaleonEB]

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/pub...da/election_2008_nevada_presidential_election

Rasmussen has McCain up by three in Nevada. Unchanged from last month. And the past four months, actually. I mention this because this is the second state poll they've done where McCain didn't get a bounce over previous polls (Missouri was yesterday). I think it's an indication that his bounce may have peaked or receding in some states.

 

[AniHawk]

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/pub...da/election_2008_nevada_presidential_election

Rasmussen has McCain up by three in Nevada. Unchanged from last month. And the past four months, actually. I mention this because this is the second state poll they've done where McCain didn't get a bounce over previous polls (Missouri was yesterday). I think it's an indication that his bounce may have peaked or receding in some states.

And with that, I'm sending this info out to all SoCal PoliGaffers:

Tomorrow from 1-5 (PM), there will be a phone bank thing to call people in Nevada.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/phonebank/gs7dsf

It's in West Covina. Link is above (have to be signed in though).

There's also going to be a drive to Nevada the last week before voter registration ends. I'm a little more iffy on that (since it's with random people instead of a camp obama thing).

 

[bob_arctor]

and with that, democracy cried.

Amazing, eh? To think people will vote for someone essentially spiting them.

Yep. You're independent. An independent asshole.

Stoney Mason...cursed?? Stop the presses! Between him, Jay Dubya and Gaborn, I thought such low-brow tactics only suitable for the dirty masses. Perhaps he ran out of big words and long sentences at just that very moment. ;-)

 

[mckmas8808]

I think a lot of people forget what actually happened in the primaries. Anywhere Obama campaigned, despite Hillary's attacks, his numbers went up. He was always expected to lose places like Pennsylvania and Ohio and even Indiana. He wound up losing PA by less than 10 points (he was down by 20-30 a month earlier), faced similar odds in OH (can't remember specifically right now), and even the best bet was that IN would go to Hillary by at least 5 points. She won it by less than one. This was during wave after wave of negative campaigning. It didn't work.

Thank you man. Facts are something I can see are becoming second fiddle to some folks. I'm not trying to jump down that other guy's back, but it pissed me off when Wolf Blizter on Friday said that "if Hillary had 2 more months worth of primaries we wouldn't know if Obama would have received the nomination."

And that's complete bull.

 

["God's Beard!"]

Russian opinion piece on Palin

And have you not forgotten, you pith-headed little bimbo from the back of beyond, that small detail about the slaughter of Russian citizens by Georgians, which started the whole debacle? So next time suppose you keep your mouth shut and while you’re at it, make sure the members of your family keep their legs shut too. Your country has enough failed mothers as it is.

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

DAMN IT, GOD.

Obama Cancels SNL Appearance
By JIM RUTENBERG

As Hurricane Ike lashed the Texas coast Friday night, Senator Barack Obama announced he would not appear on the season premiere of “Saturday Night Live.”

The Obama campaign released the following statement:

In light of the unfolding crisis in Texas, Senator Obama has decided it is no longer appropriate to appear on “Saturday Night Live” tomorrow evening.

 

[bob_arctor]

...but it pissed me off when Wolf Blizter on Friday said that "if Hillary had 2 more months worth of primaries we wouldn't know if Obama would have received the nomination."

And that's complete bull.

:lol He really said that shit? It's not only bull if you bother to break it down, it's bull as in we would have to go back in time and warp reality altogether. Maybe Wolf's packing some sort of Zeta Beam that rends dimensions and common sense all at once.

If Hillary were Obama, we wouldn't know if Hillary would have lost the nomination.

I like that one. At least it's tinged with fantastical of the interesting kind. The kind Philip K. Dick probably would scribble on the side of a note pad.

 

[infiniteloop]

Russian opinion piece on Palin

"Sarah Palin, Mrs. Nobody know-it-all shreiking cow from Alaska"

:lol

 

[Tommie Hu$tle]

DAMN IT, GOD.

Ok, dude is a dumb ass. He is starting to take himself too seriously. He need to realize that Americans want to see him period. This would be a good vehicle to get aid to those in need. Good god, spontaneity motherfucker! Do you speak it?

 

[giga]

Russian opinion piece on Palin

love russia.

 

[Saint Gregory]

and with that, democracy cried.

I have complete respect for the views of others and I can understand why some people may be against where they think Obama is trying to steer the country but how in the name of all that's holy can anyone enthusiastically support the Republican party right now :/

 

[AniHawk]

Ok, dude is a dumb ass. He is starting to take himself too seriously. He need to realize that Americans want to see him period. This would be a good vehicle to get aid to those in need. Good god, spontaneity motherfucker! Do you speak it?

I think this is the appropriate response.

I mean, Obama's response is appropriate. Not yours.

 

[mckmas8808]

Russian opinion piece on Palin

Is it true that Georgia killed some citizens before Russia got involved?

 

[bob_arctor]

Ok, dude is a dumb ass. He is starting to take himself too seriously. He need to realize that Americans want to see him period. This would be a good vehicle to get aid to those in need. Good god, spontaneity motherfucker! Do you speak it?

'Course, if he did do it, here comes Capt. Shameless swooping in for the kill:

While hard-working Americans struggle to stay afloat during this horrible time, Barack Obama sees nothing wrong with drowning us further with his celebrity.

 

[giga]

Is it true that Georgia killed some citizens before Russia got involved?

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0819/p12s01-woeu.html

 

[laserbeam]

Is it true that Georgia killed some citizens before Russia got involved?

The truth is that Ossetian Seperatists were launching attacks in the weeks prior to georgia cracking down. It was pre planned stuff. I mean Russia magically had hundreds of tanks and APCs just waiting to move in.

China condemned Russia over the situation and when Russia asked for Chinese support they said no. That should speak volumes

 

[Odrion]

If McCain loses(he probably will), I think Huckabee will be the leading candidate for the next election.

ditto

hopefully in these four years the republican party gets an enema

 

[Door2Dawn]

Russian opinion piece on Palin

This is a joke article right?

 

[The Blue Jihad]

Russian opinion piece on Palin

Interestingly, the author isn't even Russian. He's British. But he's a peculiar kind of Russian nationalist or something. Maybe extreme leftist.

Either way, what he said in that article...I expect Putin to say, in public or private.

 

[laserbeam]

This is a joke article right?

It's Putins puppet media organization. Its of course serious. Pravda has been a puppet group for the Soviets,KGB etc since 1917

 

[Tommie Hu$tle]

I think this is the appropriate response.

I mean, Obama's response is appropriate. Not yours.

What's wrong with him getting on SNL and making a statement about we need to have our thoughts and prayers with the people of SE Texas. If he is going to be a celebrity then fucking own the term and do some good with it. It's called leveraging, this is how he can keep the focus on him in a positive light. He can get a jump on the Sunday talk show circuit. I think it is easy money.

 

[Cloudy]

DAMN IT, GOD.

Cmon, it's the right thing to do. ALso, SNL is gonna go after Palin hard and if he's there somehow he'll be OMG SEXIST!

I'm sure they can have him on next week if he wants..

 

[gofreak]

You can see a CNN article on Russian thoughts on Palin here (and also of Americans in Russia). It's a bit more measured/reasonable, I suppose.

http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/09/12/chance.russia.palin.perspect.cnn

(This report is from the same guy who did the CNN Putin interview that is yet to be fully aired by CNN, FYI)

 

[bob_arctor]

What's wrong with him getting on SNL and making a statement about we need to have our thoughts and prayers with the people of SE Texas. If he is going to be a celebrity then fucking own the term and do some good with it. It's called leveraging, this is how he can keep the focus on him in a positive light. He can get a jump on the Sunday talk show circuit. I think it is easy money.

Yes, agree entirely. But who can blame him considering it's either a genuine touch or a genuine touch laced with the fear of lil' baby McCain whining his way to the White House?

Maybe the media wouldn't fall for anymore faux outrage and indignation but somehow I don't think so.

 

[Loudninja]

DAMN IT, GOD.

Its a great move man ,because if he did go on SNL during the Hurricane, they would have use that against him in someway.

 

[Imm0rt4l]

Russian opinion piece on Palin

holy shit

 

[Stinkles]

IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID.


Just chant that ad nauseum til the Republican Party is forced to do a hard reset. A big loss for them this year will actually be really healthy for them - and for democracy in the US. Until that top down structure of neocons and coroporate oligarchs is moved, we have to suffer this gilded, cream skimming bullshit.

I'm sure even some gaf Republicans agree that the party needs an enema.

And let's ask Warren Buffett how he feels about the prospects of a McCain presidency.

 

[AndyIsTheMoran]

China condemned Russia over the situation and when Russia asked for Chinese support they said no. That should speak volumes

China doesn't want any stirring of the pot until they can cement themselves as a world power without our manufacturing jobs. They want a stable global economy so they can continue to invest and become self sufficient economically speaking.
China has expansionist plans, i have no doubt about that. They are waiting for the right time when they arnt dependent on us for growth...Taiwan be ready

 

[Particle Physicist]

has this been posted? mccain makes bullshit ad and actually gets called on it by the media: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.co...-slams-obama-senate-democrats-on-immigration/

(CNN) – John McCain’s campaign is running a Spanish language ad in battleground states that blames Barack Obama and Senate Democrats for the failure of attempts to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws — even though the Republican nominee and his Democratic counterpart cast identical votes in the key Senate showdowns on that issue last year

“Obama and his congressional allies say they are on the side of immigrants. But are they?” asks the announcer in the 30-second spot, “Which Side Are They On?”

“The press reports that their efforts were 'poison pills' that made immigration reform fail,” he continues. “The result: No guest worker program. No path to citizenship. No secure borders. No reform. Is that being on our side? Obama and his Congressional allies ready to block immigration reform, but not ready to lead.”

But Obama and McCain cast identical votes in the major congressional showdowns on the issue last year. Both men cast votes in favor of an unsuccessful early June effort to end a filibuster. Later that month, they voted again to end debate on the issue – but again failed to shut down the filibuster effort, led for the most part by Republican senators.

The ad will air in Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada, all crucial fall states with significant Hispanic voting populations.