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PoliGAF Interim Thread of USA General Elections (DAWN OF THE VEEP)
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Deus Ex Machina
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In satirical payback, Obama camp denies New Yorker writer plane seat
There's probably no connection whatsoever.
But the New Yorker writer Ryan Lizza, whose long, long article on Barack Obama's early political days in Chicago's ward politics (available here) was the reason for the magazine's controversial cover by Barry Blitt depicting Obama as a Muslim, has been barred from traveling with Obama on his foreign field trip this week.
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More than 200 media folks applied to fly in Europe with the freshman senator. But, alas, the Obama campaign said it simply was not able to find a seat for Lizza.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/07/obama-newyorker.html
There's probably no connection whatsoever.
But the New Yorker writer Ryan Lizza, whose long, long article on Barack Obama's early political days in Chicago's ward politics (available here) was the reason for the magazine's controversial cover by Barry Blitt depicting Obama as a Muslim, has been barred from traveling with Obama on his foreign field trip this week.
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More than 200 media folks applied to fly in Europe with the freshman senator. But, alas, the Obama campaign said it simply was not able to find a seat for Lizza.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/07/obama-newyorker.html
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Fuck. That was a really good article. Poor guy.Deus Ex Machina said:
domokunrox
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Both candidates need to pick their VPs already.
It'll pretty much the deciding factor in voting Obama or sitting on my hands this election.
It'll pretty much the deciding factor in voting Obama or sitting on my hands this election.
Mercury Fred
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Wait, is this Obama's camp or the Bush administration we're talking about here?Deus Ex Machina said:
Tamanon said:
Obama's piece is about Iraq. McCain's piece is about Obama.
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With regards to the New Yorker plane story, they fail to mention how many people got rejected out of the 200 applicants. If 199 got accepted, there might be a story. If 150 got rejected... not really.
mckmas8808
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StoOgE said:
So why do I still hear people on TV saying that Obama still hasn't laid out a plan when his NYT article was more than anything McCain has said?
Nazgul_Hunter
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He does have a plan; stay the course and do whatever Petraeus saysmckmas8808 said:
3/4 of the applicants didn't get in. Doubt the article had anything to do with it.Mercury Fred said:
It's shaping up to be a very good day for Obama. The Prime Minster has unambigiously reiterated a 2010 timetable for withdrawl from Iraq (in line with Obama's plan). I don't see how McCain recovers from that. And PPP (yeah) has Obama up 8 in Ohio.
Oh, and Gallups, doing the roller-coaster thing.
And:
Bu-bu-bu-bu.....
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/21/1212392.aspx
Frank the Great
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Tamanon said:
Probably when his name started getting tossed around as a potential VP.
polyh3dron
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siamesedreamer
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Mercury Fred said:
Barack Obama is on his way to Europe, where an adoring public awaits. But I wonder if the reception would be quite so enthusiastic if Obama's fans across the Atlantic knew a dirty little secret of his remarkable presidential campaign: Although Obama portrays himself as the best candidate to engage the rest of the world and restore America's image abroad, and many Americans support him for that reason, so far he has almost completely refused to answer questions from foreign journalists. When the press plane leaves tonight for his trip, there will be, as far as I know, no foreign media aboard. The Obama campaign has refused multiple requests from international reporters to travel with the candidate.
As a German correspondent in Washington, I am accustomed to the fact that American politicians spare little of their limited time for reporters from abroad. This is understandable: Our readers, viewers and listeners cannot vote in U.S. elections. Even so, Obama's opponents have managed to make at least a small amount of time for international journalists. John McCain has given many interviews. Hillary Clinton gave a few. President Bush regularly holds round-table interviews with media from the countries to which he travels. Only Obama dismisses us so consistently.
This spring Obama allowed at least one foreign reporter on trips to Ohio and Texas. But as the campaign has progressed, access has become more difficult for foreign correspondents. E-mail inquiries get no reply, phone calls are not returned. My colleagues and I know: We are last in line. We don't matter.
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bob_arctor
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scorcho said:
Don't you get it? Obama is alternately shunning and alienating the rest of the world. Just like Bush.
siamesedreamer
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Just thought it was interesting.
And, just like that, Bob proves once again why its utterly pointless to post here.
And, just like that, Bob proves once again why its utterly pointless to post here.
maximum360
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Firstread is saying Reed looks like Obama's VP pick but I think Bayh is very high on the list. He could definitely help with Indiana and possibly help out with Ohio, MI, and PA.
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You don't seem to like it much, so, why do you keep punishing yourself? Masochistic much?siamesedreamer said:
Also, I distinctly remember Bush giving interviews to Jeremy Paxman and some apparently rude Irish woman, which would contradict the theory that he, uh, shuns foreign press or whatever you were getting at. ^_^
maximum360
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McCain is onb MSNBC sounding pissed. Obama is definitely getting under his skin. He's going after Obama big time.
Can't wait for the debates. He might drop an F-Bomb on live tv. :lol
Can't wait for the debates. He might drop an F-Bomb on live tv. :lol
maximum360 said:
"My friends, I was right on the surge. Senator Obama was wrong. It would be nice if he could admit that. Afterall, without the surge, Maliki wouldn't feel comfortable asking us to leave and Senator Obama wouldn't have been able to fly halfway across the planet for campaign rallies."
"You were wrong on the war. Voted for it. 'Greeted as liberators,' 'It'll be over pretty quickly,' Thinks that somehow, without removing troops from Iraq that we can up our presence in Afghanistan. Doesn't know the difference between Sunni and Shia and believes the only way to contain Iran is to bomb them"
"What the fuck you just say, my friend?"
:lol
Tyrone Slothrop
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maximum360 said:
i was thinking this. i think he'd either do that or just completely wig out
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domokunrox said:
because of a VP choice? for real? :/
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Yup. The elected official whose two constitutional duties are:quadriplegicjon said:
1) Tie-breaking votes in the Senate
2) Taking over when the boss dies
Important stuff, that Veep does.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/RubxQub said:
Debate schedule in the calendar on the right.
It sounds like Obama is going to announce his veep either right before the convention, or in the 10-day window after he gets back and before the Olympics start. I'm guessing the latter.
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Oh, and I guess the VP heads NASA, according to my space-nerd brother. So there's that.
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icarus-daedelus said:
yeah. but i doubt any of his choices would be so horrible that it would make someone sit out on an election. especially if you like the presidential candidate.. it just seems a bit foolish.
polyh3dron
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icarus-daedelus said:
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Already covered that in the title of my last post, poly. I doubt Obama's going to let someone else run the country while he's out on a ranch somewhere in TX.
You never know, though!
You never know, though!
bob_arctor
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siamesedreamer said:
I hardly post myself anymore so maybe you've convinced me of the same.
And forgive me for believing your post was a vague extension to Mercury Fred's question about what camp, Obama or Bush, we were discussing. Next time, try not using his own words to preface linking an entirely separate article that was meant only to spark interest and had nothing to do with the so-called media snub that led to Fred's apparent disgust.
or as scorcho put it:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0708/The_day_in_images.html#comments
While Obama looks cool playing Commander in Chief, meanwhile McCain...
:lol :lol :lol
While Obama looks cool playing Commander in Chief, meanwhile McCain...
:lol :lol :lol
GhaleonEB said:
Prior to the Olympics.. they want to get a double boost in the polls.
They want a VP bounce and they want a convention bounce. McCain will announce his VP right after the Dem convention to try and minimize that bounce.. 75K people in Denver will probably backfire and he will lose his Veep bounce.
Frank the Great
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The Todd says he has it on "good authority" that Obama will announce his VP soon after arriving from his trip, and I'm inclined to believe him.
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icarus-daedelus said:
oh. were you being sarcastic with that other post? its hard to tell sometimes :lol
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