Who has time to pay attention to politics in July? Primary season over => checkout => wake me in November.
I agree with Mandark. Obama was always this weak a candidate; it's only, now that he has a less powerful opponent people are starting to remember how crappy he is.
Maybe he'll give us a lecture on building people up in our minds only to be struck by reality :hyper
I agree with Mandark. Obama was always this weak a candidate; it's only, now that he has a less powerful opponent people are starting to remember how crappy he is.
Maybe he'll give us a lecture on building people up in our minds only to be struck by reality :hyper
I agree. Let's vote for Ann Coulter instead.
stfu triumph. She is a TRUE PATRIOT. Like Solid Snake. She even has her own eye rollingly terrible graveyard scene:if only she fell into the grave upon which she stands
(http://www.anncoulter.com/photos/grave_bg.jpg)
True story: the Congressional Cemetery in DC is also a dog park. Which means that you can take your pooch to piss on J. Edgar Hoover's grave and it's totally legal.
stfu triumph. She is a TRUE PATRIOT. Like Solid Snake. She even has her own eye rollingly terrible graveyard scene:if only she fell into the grave upon which she stands
(http://www.anncoulter.com/photos/grave_bg.jpg)
True story: the Congressional Cemetery in DC is also a dog park. Which means that you can take your pooch to piss on J. Edgar Hoover's grave and it's totally legal.
I'm pretty sure you have to have a special permit for your dog and that it costs money (as either an official fee or a wink-wink donation system).
CHICAGO—According to witnesses, a loud black man approached a crowd of some 4,000 strangers in downtown Chicago Tuesday and made repeated demands for change.
"The time for change is now," said the black guy, yelling at everyone within earshot for 20 straight minutes, practically begging America for change. "The need for change is stronger and more urgent than ever before. And only you—the people standing here today, and indeed all the people of this great nation—only you can deliver this change."
"I've already seen this guy four times today," Chicago-area ad salesman Blake Gordon said. "Every time, it's the same exact spiel. 'I need change.' 'I want change.' Why's he so eager for all this change? What's he going to do with it, anyway?"
After his initial requests for change, the black man rambled nonstop on a variety of unrelated topics, calling for affordable health care, demanding that the government immediately begin withdrawing troops from Iraq, and proposing a $75 billion economic stimulus plan to create new jobs.
"What a wacko," Schaumburg, IL resident Patrick Morledge said. "And, of course, after telling us all about how he had the ability to magically fix everything, he went right back to asking for change. Typical."
"If he's really looking for change, he's got the wrong guy," Morledge added.
Reports indicate that the black man has been riding from city to city across the country, asking for change wherever he goes. Citizens in Austin, TX said they spotted the same guy standing on the street Friday, shouting far-fetched ideas about global warming. Cleveland residents also reported seeing him in a local park, wildly gesticulating and quoting from the Bible. And last week, patrons at the Starlight Diner in Cheyenne, WY claimed that the black man accosted them while they were eating, repeatedly requesting change.
"I saw him walk in and I knew he was headed straight for our table," said mother of three Gladys Davies. "He just stood there smiling at us for a while, and asked how our food tasted. Then he went and did the same thing at the next table over. The nerve of some people."
Those who encountered the black man Tuesday said he engaged in erratic behavior, including pointing at random people in the crowd and desperately saying he needs their help, going up to complete strangers and hugging them, and angrily claiming that he is not looking for just a little bit of change, but rather a great deal of change, and that he wants it "right now."
"I'll be honest, when that black guy said he would 'stop at nothing' to get change, it kind of scared me," local mechanic Phil Nighbert said. "Just leave me alone."
Though many were taken aback by the black man's brazen demands, some, such as Jackson, MS's Holly Moser, sympathized with him. She gave the black man credit for boldly standing up and asking every last person around him for change.
"I told him I'd give him some if I saw him later, even though I probably won't," Moser said. "Very nice man, though."
Most, however, ignored his requests.
"I'm a hardworking American who pays his taxes, and the last thing I need is some guy on the street demanding change from me," said William Overkamp, a Springfield, IL gun-shop owner.
He added, "What he really needs is a job."
100% agree with the above.
I'm just happy a lot of people are coming around to where I was months and months ago re: Obama, shallow and meaningless rhetoric, dancing in the wind, etc; I don't know why I get so much crap for being pretty on point, but only much sooner than everyone else.
I'm just happy a lot of people are coming around to where I was months and months ago re: Obama, shallow and meaningless rhetoric, dancing in the wind, etc; I don't know why I get so much crap for being pretty on point, but only much sooner than everyone else.lol not really
i'd rather have Romney running the economy than McCain!i'd double Guantanamo!
i'd rather have Romney running the economy than McCain!
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, the winner of the 2008 Iowa Caucuses, is the keynote speaker at today's Iowa Republican Party state convention. A few moments ago I got to chat with Huckabee and he made a point of revealing the title of his next book -- due in bookstores in November -- is titled "I Love Iowa." The first question I asked was about being presumptive GOP nominee John McCain's running mate, concluding with a direct: "Have you been vetted?"http://learfield.typepad.com/radioiowa/2008/07/huckabee-2012.html
"Oh, I think I have through the process. Once you've been a candidate and have gone as far as I did, your vetting was by about 300 members of the national press corps and every publication in the country. If you're asking me have I had an official contact from the McCain campaign, no I have not. In all candor, no. No one has said, 'Hey, I need your tax form.' I mean I think if a person has been a candidate, they have already been scrutinized. Most everything they want or need to know is in some public record somewhere.
"....I don't expect to be asked. I really don't. It's pretty clearly obvious that what I'm doing -- I'm not sitting around waiting on the phone to ring and right now it would really mess up a lot of things I have going," Huckbee concluded, with a laugh, "so I'm clearly not living with any expectation that (being the GOP's 2008 vice presidential nominee) is going to happen for me."
I'm just happy a lot of people are coming around to where I was months and months ago re: Obama, shallow and meaningless rhetoric, dancing in the wind, etc; I don't know why I get so much crap for being pretty on point, but only much sooner than everyone else.
I knew that Obama would not roll back a lot of spying legislation. In the US, we're going to see an increase of militarization and spying.:usacry
:RonPaulCry
There is a good chance that Obama may very well be the 2008 version of Dukakis.
McCain hasn't even put in an ounce of effort and the numbers are practically neck and neck. That is hardly optimistic and I am an Obama supporter.
I do not have any doubt that the Democrats will be making large gains in Congress but Obama should be slaughtering McCain.
No one cares about politics right now. Heck, even people like we have in this thread don't care.
McCain hasn't even put in an ounce of effort and the numbers are practically neck and neck. That is hardly optimistic and I am an Obama supporter.really ??
I do not have any doubt that the Democrats will be making large gains in Congress but Obama should be slaughtering McCain.
You guys should listen to APF more. He has opened my eyes to the Hitler-Stalin 08 campaign. So many great things about it. That Hitler, he sure is a, uh, snappy dresser, and boy, Stalin, he's got, er, a really unbelievable mustache.
You guys should listen to APF more. He has opened my eyes to the Hitler-Stalin 08 campaign. So many great things about it. That Hitler, he sure is a, uh, snappy dresser, and boy, Stalin, he's got, er, a really unbelievable mustache.
Maybe Mussolini could head the Department of Transportation.
i'm voting for feminist-communist 08 just to piss apf off
solana-guevara '08!
in highschool civics we had to present our own party and platform and try to argue for it in the class to win.
other people chose lame-o's. We ran Dick Gregory and Pigasus, but then my teacher told us it had to be a real person, so we chose Dick Gregory and Kurt Vonnegut.
Yeah I saw that yesterday and thought the New Yorker's sense of irony will implode from the fact that their parody will end up exploiting the meme they wish to quash. Reminds me of the "Saddam planned 9/11" meme that I still think breathless defenses against both created and perpetuated the erroneous idea more than anything the Bush Administration really said.
Reminds me of the "Saddam planned 9/11" meme that I still think breathless defenses against both created and perpetuated the erroneous idea more than anything the Bush Administration really said.
APF and FoC, the two people evilbore doesnt really wanna talk politics with CAUSE THEY SOUND CRAZY
APF and FoC, the two people evilbore doesnt really wanna talk politics with CAUSE THEY SOUND CRAZY
FoC is god awful. Even if he is correct about something, he goes about it the worst possible way. So he sets it up on purpose to where you can never agree with him, regardless of your views on just about anything.
APF and FoC, the two people evilbore doesnt really wanna talk politics with CAUSE THEY SOUND CRAZY
FoC is god awful. Even if he is correct about something, he goes about it the worst possible way. So he sets it up on purpose to where you can never agree with him, regardless of your views on just about anything.
The sun shines, what you don't believe it? Just because Ron Paul agrees the sun shines you disagree? Or don't you?
Yeah I saw that yesterday and thought the New Yorker's sense of irony will implode from the fact that their parody will end up exploiting the meme they wish to quash. Reminds me of the "Saddam planned 9/11" meme that I still think breathless defenses against both created and perpetuated the erroneous idea more than anything the Bush Administration really said.
The New Yorker's circulation -- particularly among those who believe that Obama is a Muslim and his wife a militant -- is nowhere near great enough to exploit the meme.
Its not that liberals are Irony challenged like the photo suggests, its just that humor par of their brain is dwarfed by their Politically Correct Lobe which overrides all functions of a liberal brain when activated.
I didnt say it the political cartoon that APF posted did.
I didnt say it the political cartoon that APF posted did.
That cartoon says literalists, not liberals.
I didnt say it the political cartoon that APF posted did.
That cartoon says literalists, not liberals.
I didnt say it the political cartoon that APF posted did.
That cartoon says literalists, not liberals.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here, and bare with me cause this might be a stretch. But I would assume, correct me if I am wrong, that the majority of people that were outraged by the cover are liberals. Shocking, i know.
I thought it said Uterists and the cartoonist was a neologism-spewing misogynist.
oh burnI didnt say it the political cartoon that APF posted did.
That cartoon says literalists, not liberals.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here, and bare with me cause this might be a stretch. But I would assume, correct me if I am wrong, that the majority of people that were outraged by the cover are liberals. Shocking, i know.
I don't think that is necessarily true. I think the people that would be "outraged" or buy into a literal reading of the cover are those that are unfamiliar with the magazine in general, regardless of political affiliation. But the point here is that you can't read.
I didnt say it the political cartoon that APF posted did.
That cartoon says literalists, not liberals.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here, and bare with me cause this might be a stretch. But I would assume, correct me if I am wrong, that the majority of people that were outraged by the cover are liberals. Shocking, i know.
I don't think that is necessarily true. I think the people that would be "outraged" or buy into a literal reading of the cover are those that are unfamiliar with the magazine in general, regardless of political affiliation. But the point here is that you can't read.
I didnt say it the political cartoon that APF posted did.
That cartoon says literalists, not liberals.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here, and bare with me cause this might be a stretch. But I would assume, correct me if I am wrong, that the majority of people that were outraged by the cover are liberals. Shocking, i know.
I don't think that is necessarily true. I think the people that would be "outraged" or buy into a literal reading of the cover are those that are unfamiliar with the magazine in general, regardless of political affiliation. But the point here is that you can't read.
You really think that non-liberals are offended by this? :lol :lol Dude get a grip on reality.
They might be confused by it, but offended. Even you know better than that.
Naomi Klein gets the whole hour on Democracy Now to do her thang.
Klein has long been the premiere journalist (with her book No Logo and
her documentary The Take) of the anti-globalization movement and her
last book, The Shock Doctrine, gave us some great new language for
talking about crisis and the global system. She spend the entire hour
going piece by piece through the energy, food, and housing crises and
putting them all together in a really solid coherent picture along
with a pretty radical critique of Obama.
http://www.democracynow.org/shows/2008/7/15
Why is the implication it's irresponsible to publish irony that may be misinterpreted, but not direct attacks that won't be misinterpreted? The New Yorker has done outright political covers many many times in the past, as have many many other publications.
Cuz Obama's like the Messiah and shit...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/opinion/16dowd.html?_r=1&oref=slogin (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/opinion/16dowd.html?_r=1&oref=slogin)
TVC: I think part of the problem is (aside from the question of whether the cover is tacky or whatever), people really feel this is a genuine vulnerability of Obama's for some reason, and get extremely defensive because there's some undefined quasi-racist quality to the accusation / misapprehension.
TVC: I think part of the problem is (aside from the question of whether the cover is tacky or whatever), people really feel this is a genuine vulnerability of Obama's for some reason, and get extremely defensive because there's some undefined quasi-racist quality to the accusation / misapprehension.
I think it pretty much is an arguable vulnerability. Much of America does not inspire me with confidence.
Naomi Klein gets the whole hour on Democracy Now to do her thang.
Klein has long been the premiere journalist (with her book No Logo and
her documentary The Take) of the anti-globalization movement and her
last book, The Shock Doctrine, gave us some great new language for
talking about crisis and the global system. She spend the entire hour
going piece by piece through the energy, food, and housing crises and
putting them all together in a really solid coherent picture along
with a pretty radical critique of Obama.
http://www.democracynow.org/shows/2008/7/15
TVC: I think part of the problem is (aside from the question of whether the cover is tacky or whatever), people really feel this is a genuine vulnerability of Obama's for some reason, and get extremely defensive because there's some undefined quasi-racist quality to the accusation / misapprehension.
I think it pretty much is an arguable vulnerability. Much of America does not inspire me with confidence.
Exactly. Double digits in all polls think the dude is a Muslim.
TVC: I think part of the problem is (aside from the question of whether the cover is tacky or whatever), people really feel this is a genuine vulnerability of Obama's for some reason, and get extremely defensive because there's some undefined quasi-racist quality to the accusation / misapprehension.
I think it pretty much is an arguable vulnerability. Much of America does not inspire me with confidence.
Exactly. Double digits in all polls think the dude is a Muslim.
And what though?
The Obama campaign has tried to cloak the Illinois senator's trip in some measure of secrecy for security reasons. The White House, State Department and Pentagon do not announce senior officials' visits to Iraq in advance.
"I believe that either today or tomorrow -- and I'm not privy to his schedule -- Sen. Obama will be landing in Iraq with some other senators" who make up a congressional delegation, McCain told a campaign fund-raising luncheon.
TVC: I think part of the problem is (aside from the question of whether the cover is tacky or whatever), people really feel this is a genuine vulnerability of Obama's for some reason, and get extremely defensive because there's some undefined quasi-racist quality to the accusation / misapprehension.
I think it pretty much is an arguable vulnerability. Much of America does not inspire me with confidence.
Exactly. Double digits in all polls think the dude is a Muslim.
And what though?
Feigning ignorance, APF? If Obama is thought to be Muslim by >10% of the electorate, his electability is undoubtedly going to take a massive hit.