Official 2008 Election thread part II, sponsored by biblical prophecy (tm)

[Crushed]

http://www.hillaryis44.org/?p=650#comments

Our movement must stay strong to keep Hussein out of the White House .. him and his ugly ass wife,.

I wonder how many people there are plants for Obama to ensure there is any clapping for him.

She is laying the groundwork for 2012. She knows he will not win.

NObama: the illegitimate nominee

18 million hands - send them to the DNC
1. trace your hands on an 8×11 sheet of paper
2. write your name and city/state in the center of your hands.
3. above the hands, write: “These hands are on the front lines of democracy and they continue to work for Hillary.”
4. below the hands, write: “I am one of 18 million. Hillary for President 2008″

put it in an envelope and send it off to the DNC.

[siamesedreamer]

 

Huck is fucking awesome.

[MrAngryFace]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/05/jon-stewart-mocks-hillary_n_105386.html

haha good ol daily show

[Phoenix Dark]

From NBC/NJ’s Carrie Dann
NASHUA, N.H. -- It looks like McCain is not worried about losing the occasionally inaccurate-economist vote.

At a town hall here today, McCain sought to steer his message toward high gas prices, the issue-du-jour being debated by both campaigns today.

Noting that economists almost universally panned his support for a summer gas-tax holiday -- one that was shared by but ultimately unfruitful for Hillary Clinton -- McCain had some uncomplimentary words for the egghead-y money maestros.

"You know the economists?" he said. "They're the same ones that didn't predict this housing crisis we're in. They're the same ones that didn't predict the dot-com meltdown. They're the same ones that didn't predict the inflation that's staring us in the face today."

Cracking a joke, he added, "I'm reminded of the old line that if you took all of the economists in the world and put them end to end, you wouldn't reach a conclusion."

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/

I had hoped this type of blatant pandering and anti intelligence would disappear from the race when Hillary exited. Truly shows how stupid McCain's lobbyists/advisers/puppet masters think the American people are...and it seems like it's working to a certain degree

[FlameOfCallandor]

Mccain

[Fragamemnon]

"You know the economists?" he said. "They're the same ones that didn't predict this housing crisis we're in. They're the same ones that didn't predict the dot-com meltdown. They're the same ones that didn't predict the inflation that's staring us in the face today."

Cracking a joke, he added, "I'm reminded of the old line that if you took all of the economists in the world and put them end to end, you wouldn't reach a conclusion."

Comments like that put piping hot rage into reason-minded Obama supporters and remind moderates that McCain is on the same anti-science insanity train that Bush conducted. He's still pandering to his base, thinking that he can win with 2004 math in 2008. He should have lurched to the middle weeks ago, he's rapidly getting himself framed by the Democrats and the media is buying into it.

At this rate the race will be over in September, seriously.

[Mandark]

McCain might really believe that stuff.  He's never had a reputation as a wonk and he seems to trust his own righteousness to the point of arrogance.  And hey, Phil Gramm is his main economic advisor!  Just what we need in the face of asset bubbles: more deregulation of the financial sector!

On the other side, here's New Republic story on Obama's policy people.  Apparently he puts a premium on them being credentialed experts in the specific field they're advising on.

[Fragamemnon]

I've been saying for like forever that Gramm is a very weak point for McCain, and that Democratic surrogates should go after him, calling him the "architect of the credit crunch and housing collapse". Forcing McCain to purge Gramm out of his campaign would piss off  a lot of conservatives.

TNR article is good, though this gave me the creepz:

Just before the Iowa caucus, I saw Goolsbee approach New York Times columnist David Brooks in Des Moines and gush when the quirky conservative agreed to pose for a picture.

  :'(

[Mandark]

Yeah, I felt a strong urge to swat Goolsbee with a rolled up newspaper at that part.

Since we're talking about McCain's crew, I might as well point out that his Latin America advisor is Otto Reich, who's been involved with Reagan-era support for the Contras, the attempted coup against Hugo Chavez, and the tightening of the Cuban embargo.  It's like a greatest hits of right wing American foreign policy in the hemisphere.

[Phoenix Dark]

el mavericko

[MrAngryFace]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/us/politics/13split.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1213362252-Kig5UO5yAB/JR2VSw2VYbQ&oref=slogin

[Eric P]

so do i mention my political contribution in the what did you buy thread or in here?

me and my girl combined our money to buy one morning's coffee for a room of elitists

[FlameOfCallandor]

uh...

[Phoenix Dark]

he's got a che poster?! omg obama better fire him and tear up his voter card so he can't besmear him in november

[FlameOfCallandor]

he's got a che poster?! omg obama better fire him and tear up his voter card so he can't besmear him in november

And you dont think there is anything wrong with a politician having a che poster up? I think it's pretty telling that a public official has one up right next to Obama.

[Van Cruncheon]

the days of socialist witchhunts are long over, foc. socialism is the new cool in america. don't worry; when the elites take over, promising a grand new vision, we'll make sure that even a subpar monkey like you is employed. how do you feel about driving a tractor?

[Phoenix Dark]

he's got a che poster?! omg obama better fire him and tear up his voter card so he can't besmear him in november

And you dont think there is anything wrong with a politician having a che poster up? I think it's pretty telling that a public official has one up right next to Obama.

It's at an Obama head quarters in a local election branch in a state. Should Obama dictate the decor in every election station that works for him? We already know he has nothing in common with that murderous asshole, so what's the problem unless you're apart of the "what do we REALLY know about that black man" crowd. I know you're not that stupid.

Obama isn't able to visit every single election center in his name because, unlike Ron Paul's, his centers can't be counted on one hand

[FlameOfCallandor]

I bet you jack off to Che poster at night, while your wife wears an Obama mask and reams you from behind with a large black dildo.

 

It probably makes you feel less bad for being so evil and white.

[FlameOfCallandor]

It's at an Obama head quarters in a local election branch in a state. Should Obama dictate the decor in every election station that works for him? We already know he has nothing in common with that murderous asshole, so what's the problem unless you're apart of the "what do we REALLY know about that black man" crowd. I know you're not that stupid.

The fact that it's even up just tells me how fucking stupid alot of his supporters are. I'm not saying that it's telling of Obama. Obama probably does know better. But his supporters at this head quarters don't.

[Van Cruncheon]

mmmm, che posters. ironically, i don't jack off to them because of what he stood for, but because their very presence turns erstwhile libertarians into red-faced blubbering bundles of twee.

[FlameOfCallandor]

Che posters don't bother me it's just a good sign that whoever has them is either misinformed or an idiot, and considering this is a campaign head quarters I highly doubt they are misinformed.

[Phoenix Dark]

some of the judgment calls on Obama's friends are justified (Wright) but most (Ayers, etc) are so stupid. They're manufactured to create doubt about his Americanism.

obama has said he listens to jay-z. jay once said of women "beep beep and I'm pickin em up,
Let em play with the dick in the truck." could those be obama's true feelings on women? perhaps it's due to his black father having intimate relations with a white woman, and the leaving her that obama feels the same way toward women.

it's 3AM, do you want your daughter playing with obama's dick in the truck?

[Himu]

pd: get on aim

[Phoenix Dark]

After his public conference call with Clinton supporters (covered extensively by Jonathan Martin) Saturday, John McCain met privately with some 75 of those supporters in his Virginia headquarters, two people who were there said.

McCain's staff extended the last-minute invitation to Clinton die-hards, including a founder of a group called "Party Unity, My Ass" (PUMA), and substantial numbers came from Washington, D.C., and New York. They represented passionate campaign volunteers and supporters, but they're essentially a marginal group in Clinton's orbit, including no one with a prominent campaign role, public office, or close relationship with the candidate.

"He stayed for a good almost half hour afterwards shaking hands, listening to our concerns, talking to us," said PUMA founder Will Bower, who said he thought many of the people there would vote for McCain.

Former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina also stayed to mingle with the crowd, whose members also included Cinton backer Harriet Christian, made momentarily famous on YouTube for getting ejected from the Rules & Bylaws press area.

Bower said he'd liked McCain's answer on judges, in which he "pointed out that he supported Bill Clinton with both Ginsberg and Breyer."

Another person who was present, but asked not to be named to avoid conflict with fellow Democrats, said he'd pressed a McCain staffer on McCain's position on same-sex marriage.

The staffer "said it was the same as [John] Kerry's position," he said.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/

wow.

[Phoenix Dark]

Whats best for the country is to get Obama elected. To do that he needs votes. Whoever the VP is that gets even a single extra vote than another should be picked IMO.

Be it Biden, Selebius, Clinton, or Hitler.

God forbid something should happen to Obama if he were to become president, but it's a possibility.

In the event that a President Obama did die or become incapacitated, I would prefer -- nay, strongly prefer -- not to be ruled by a president Hitler.

He'd have the democrat congress keeping his antisemitism in check.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=307802&page=85

...............

[AdmiralViscen]

I'd really like an RSS feed or something for Cheebs' posts. The ones I glimpse in movie topics here and there are very amusing.

[MyNameIsMethodis]

Selling my vote for $5 paypal.

I voted for Barack in the NH primary because I didn't know who he was and figured he was some local douche running for president. How wrong I was.

[The Fake Shemp]

Cheebs' post make me angry.  You wouldn't like me when I'm angry!

[Phoenix Dark]

Cheebs is a smart guy but like myself he shows a pattern of speaking in authority on things that are out of his element, to use the parlance of our times. Perhaps we should stick to accounting

[Phoenix Dark]

Obama's speech on fatherhood

Long Version
[youtube=425,350]Hj1hCDjwG6M[/youtube]


Short Version
[youtube=425,350]rN2VqFPNS8w[/youtube]

[Mandark]

The Next Big Bling

Lately I've been wondering what an Obama White House might mean for the future of bling. For the fate of heavy gold, medallions, below-the-butt denim, the whole hip-hop gangsta fashion habit. What if January 20, 2009 turned out to be not just a cultural and clothing pivot point for adults -- a return to the minimalism of sleek, 60s-era sharkskin suits, the containment of golf-ball sized Barbara Bush costume pearls -- but a watershed fashion moment for teenaged boys? Picture it. On Inauguration Day next year, thousands and thousands of young men and boys from city street corners to suburbs, look up from their X-Boxes and catch a glimpse of the impeccable President Barack and First Lady Michelle Obama climbing the steps of the Capitol and suddenly feel... unfashionable. Out of it. Old. What if they are overcome by the same stunned, something's-happening-here feeling that teenagers in the early 60s, their closets full of sock hop regalia, felt when they first laid eyes on The Beatles in 1964, on the nationally televised Ed Sullivan Show. For adults, this kind of moment is, at most, something to take note of. To a teenager, it's a gale force warning of imminent social tsunami, an urgent prod from the eyeballs and the amygdala that to everything there is a season, and now is the time to change, change, change. Ask not what you can do for your closet, but what your closet, if ignored, can do to you.

Suddenly I think we need to add this to the roster of weeping flags.

[AdmiralViscen]

George [Harrison] at least lived a long life. Russert's death was sudden and far too early.

...George died at 58 too.