Tight Race?

Is the race getting tight? Nationally, kind of, sort of. But if you follow the current trend lines, it will be a tied race by about November 15th. Awwww, too late! Sorry Johnny Boy. Sorry Sarah Plain and Stupid.

Where's Joe?

If I never have to hear about Joe the Plumber again after Tuesday, I will be very happy. Gag!

Dr. Suess' Take

This is terrific.

"I'm Joe the Plumber"

This is the dumbest ad I've ever seen.

Painful

He really IS like Bush!

Go Phillies!

Yes McCain, relying on Pennsylvania is a GREAT idea! Forget about Colorado.

This race is so over.

Roast

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/16/the-last-laugh-mccain-oba_n_135454.html

From the roast tonight. These are both pretty dang funny.

They sure are quick with these ads...

McAngry

The First Debate

Yeah, yeah, foreign policy. We're good, terrorists and Iran and our economy are bad. Obama A-, McCain B.

Someone mentioned a VP debate next Thursday? Sarah Palin vs. Joe Biden? That is something I might have an interest in, please tell me more...

Palin will not have a prompter or Rovian speech writers and won't know the questions going in you say? Like in her wonderful, delightful prime time interviews? Yes, this is definitely must-see TV! It will preemt both 30 Rock and The Office on Thursday, but I boldy predict this debate will be TWICE as funny as the two shows combined.

In fact, my current "Favorite TV Comedies" list is currently in this order:

1. Sarah Palin dry-heaving out "answers" to "tough" questions in prime-time.
2. The Office
3. 30 Rock
4. The Daily Show
5. Late Show with David Letterman (this one jumps back onto the list this week for obvious reasons; sorry Colbert, you'll make it back here soon.)
   

The View

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/12/mccain-grilled-on-the-vie_n_125972.html

The View women: apparently the ballsiest interviewers out there! Thank goodness someone is confronting his lies.

McCain vs. McCain

One of the most interesting things that has been pointed out in this campaign is how McCain seems to be in constant value with himself.



Skip to the 6:00 minute mark. It is really quite funny.

Maher

Lipstick on a Palin...I mean Pig.

Yeah, I said it.

The problem with fighting in the mud with pigs is that everyone gets dirty and the pigs like it.

Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig. - Robert Heinlein





If it is okay for McCain it is okay for Obama. ENOUGH of the BS!

Lies and the Lying Liars

WARNING: This post is going to be slightly longer than I think a typical blog should be, but I couldn’t sleep last night and I need to get this off my chest. I know that I should be focusing my rage on John McCain and how to make sure that he is not going to be the next President but quite frankly, I am more worried about the right-wing extremist Sarah Palin. As Alec Baldwin so eloquently wrote at The Huffington Post, McCain isn’t Bush, Palin is.

Not only does Sarah Palin lack any foreign policy, economic, and legislative experience, she also lacks the ability to tell the truth. She has been off-limits to the press for almost 2 full weeks because the McCain people are worried about a gaff. I think this plan has started to back fire. Because she has not been subjected to being interviewed, all the press has been able to do is research and if you are a ‘typical’ republican politician, the last thing that you want to happen is have your past researched. More and more trash continues to pour out of her sorted political history.

As highlight to her complete lack of experience and knowledge in economic issues, Sarah had spewed this gaff just yesterday:



Unfortunately for these straight talking mavericks, the government has only been running Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae since about 8:00 eastern on Monday. So tax money hasn’t been used until yesterday. These two companies were run as if they were autonomous businesses and received profits in good times, but they also enjoyed federal protection in bad times. I understand that this is a small mistake but two things strike me as interesting. #1 – She is reading this speech which means that is was PREPARED and #2 – I understand Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and I am an idiot. I don’t want someone only as smart as me helping make financial decisions in a time that can/should be compared to the great depression.

I am absolutely sick of hearing how McCain and Palin are reformers and Mavericks and running for change. Disagreeing with someone 10% of the time is not dissention nor does that separate you from your party. To run on a reform ticket and anti-pork barrel spending, you better not have hired a lobbyist that helped your town of 10,000 earn over 27 million dollars in earmarks. That is the definition of pork barrel spending! Although, since both GOP candidates are so familiar with how to get earmarks, they would both understand how to spot an earmarked bill. I wonder if John McCain would veto Palin’s 27 million earmarked bill? Even FauxNews gets it:



There are so many lies, half truths, and delusional speeches that it is hard to pick my favorite, I do happen to enjoy the “She sold it on eBay” bit. However, Palin only stated that she ‘put’ it on eBay. She had to do this more than once and it never sold. That is a minor lie I guess, but it is the pattern that makes me the most fearful. McCain on the other hand, knows the truth (unless he didn’t properly vet Palin) and he still lies. I stand by my statement that he will do and say anything to win:



The more I see the more disgusted I get. I can’t even imagine another four years of this economic strife, unemployment, and energy crisis. Something has to give. I am glad that McCain, if elected, will tell the lobbyists “a change is coming.” The only problem that I see is he is literally SURROUNDED by lobbyists. At one time he had nearly 60 lobbyists that were feeding him information (including the lobbyist from Georgia). Most of these lobbyists have clients that a vested interest in securing that alternative energy is not part of McCain’s energy policy. Sure, he states in his speech that alternative energy is necessary, but he has included exactly ZERO dollars in his plan. This is a plan that is published on his website. He talks about clean coal but he isn’t going to help us get it.





I love Obama. I must admit that I voted for Hillary and even donated to her campaign but I am convert. I am inspired by this man but I want Obama to stand up and stop allowing the GOP to slam him. He needs to start shitting on McCain unapologetically and without refrain. Run ads that show how McCain has flipped. Hell, I can find them on YouTube. Start showing how Palin was for it and then against it. I know you are saying these things in your speeches but damn it start running some GD ads. The mainstream media is not doing what they should be doing. They need to be challenging McCain at every turn and they are not. They are more interested in applause lines like the dog wearing lipstick BS.

The GOP won’t hesitate to step on your throat and Obama shouldn’t hesitate to step on theirs. Democrats have been on defense since Palin’s speech. ENOUGH! Start kicking Palin and McCain in the balls. This has to end and it has to end now. This country can not afford another four years of W.

Polled

I know it doesn’t matter that much at this stage, but it still makes me physically ill that McCain could have received a bump out of the convention and that he could actually be leading in some polls. Our country is ridiculous sometimes. I can’t wait till the debates though- then people will see how ridiculous their policies are and that half of the things they said in the conventions were lies.

I loved all of the comments by people who watched another Palin speech at a campaign stop yesterday. NPR asked a couple of them what they liked about her- "I like that she's a mother of 5..." "I just love that "pitbull with lipstick" line!"

I guess Palin appeals to the sitcom crowd out there, she gives them one stupid joke with a laugh track and they will love her forever! YOU IDIOTS KNOW NOTHING ABOUT HER!!!!!!!! Not one of them said "I like her stand on ___________" Ya know why? Because they don't know her stand on __________ because she hasn't given her stand on __________.


All I have to say is ______________________!!!! (You can fill in your own words for that one.)

How dare you....

This interview has sparked quite a controversy. I had sent it to a few people before but this is really uncomfortable to watch. If you couple this speech with the New York Times article about what McCain learned about Sarah Palin AFTER he had picked her as his running mate.

According to NPR, this interview is what has sparked the McCain campaign to fight against the media which again is in stark contrast to what McCain used to call the media, "my base." Remember when this whole thing started and he was having BBQs and invited them on the "Straight Talk Express?" Well, Candidate McCain has change again. Now the media is evil. In retribution to the above interview, John McCain pulled out of the Larry King Show and has started on this crusade of how the media is 'liberal' and out to get him and poor Sarah.

Question of the day: If Chelsea Clinton would have been pregnant as a teenager, do you think the GOP and conservative would have given her the free pass the Palin has received? This whole situation kind of reminds me of how we can't ask McCain hard questions because he was a POW. So we can't challenge McCain on anything because he was a POW and we can't challenge Pallin because she is a woman and her daughter is a pregnant and yet there wasn't a single piece of policy in McCain's address last night. What can we challenge them on? Hair color or cut?

I also find it odd that Palin has not given a single interview yet. She is officially 'unavailable' to the press because she doesn't know anything yet. She has to be primped and preened by McCain's people and they have to have her ready for the debates. They don't want her to go on TV or in the press and say something stupid.

Stewart

Sarah Palin is a Jerk

Good God! Way to introduce yourself Sarah! Are you always so condescending, sarcastic, divisive, and shrill? I was happy to see that the exact words that came to my mind when hearing her were echoed by a few others, including Harry Reid. She belittled everything Obama has ever done in his life.

Did the DNC speakers belittle McCain for thinking that being a POW qualified him to be president? NO, they didn’t! Here is a quote from the e-mail that was sent out from David Plouffe, Obama’s campaign manager:

I saw John McCain's attack squad of negative, cynical politicians. They lied about Barack Obama and Joe Biden, and they attacked you for being a part of this campaign.
But worst of all -- and this deserves to be noted -- they insulted the very idea that ordinary people have a role to play in our political process.

Both Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin specifically mocked Barack's experience as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago more than two decades ago, where he worked with people who had lost jobs and been left behind when the local steel plants closed.

Let's clarify something for them right now.

Community organizing is how ordinary people respond to out-of-touch politicians and their failed policies.

And it's no surprise that, after eight years of George Bush, millions of people have found that by coming together in their local communities they can change the course of history. That promise is what our campaign has been about from the beginning.

Also, two unrelated people, Keith Olbermann and Andrew Sullivan, BOTH compared Palin to Tracy Flick from the movie Election, especially when she does that little nose wrinkle thing when she is saying something really nasty. Voters can’t really buy this crap can they? (Oh wait, the same voters RE-ELECTED the worst presdent in history in 2004, so I guess anything is possible.)

Will somebody please tell me...

I have been giggling like a school girl since Friday when he announced that his running mate would be a school girl. Don't get me wrong, I am very pro-woman and would love to have a qualified woman in the white house. This is not a qualified woman by any stretch of the imagination. What if they actually win and McCain dies? Our nation would be handed over to Gov. Palin. A person who has had 20 months of governing the least populated state per square mile. Lest we forget her extensive foreign policy experience by keeping the Russians from storming across the Bering Strait. Maybe she is the reason that we haven't had a full scale Russian invasion.

I am not questioning John McCain's patriotism, I am questioning his judgment! Besides the fact that neither McCain nor Palin even know what a VP does.



(the whole thing is interesting by check out 2:53.)

Couple this with: "The only job of the Vice President is to check on the health of the president daily and attend funerals of foreign diplomats". - John McCain

Sucks for the GOP. They are going to lose more seats in the house, senate, and now the white house. Oops. Eight years of skull flucking the American public into submission won't pay at the voting booths.

I know that the 'Rank and File' republicans are fully behind John McCain's choice for VP. I get that. What I don't get is why the republicans are self-deprecating. They are allowing John McCain to champion the fact that he voted against the republican party nearly 10% (whoopee) of the time and both McCain and Palin are constantly talking how they are willing to go against party lines. Does that seem strange to anyone else? "We don't agree with you people and we are willing to not do what the party wants!" From the crowd: "Yea! Woo! You are right, we kind of suck!"

Palin is a reformer, I will give you that too. As a mayor of BF-Alaska, (population just shy of 10,000....which is nearly 1/3 of the employees at the University of Utah BTW) she went to Washington and 'reformed' for earmarks of nearly 27 million dollars or nearly $2700 per resident of her little town. She has also 'reformed' the hell out of programs for unwed mothers and comprehensive sex education. What a reformer!

In all seriousness, McCain's selection for the Vice President does more harm than good for woman of our nation. He is using her and I believe that he is setting her up for failure. McCain's strategy has been clear..."anything to win." He will literally change his stance on anything and everything depending on who is asking him the question and who is in the room. Anything to get a vote. Oh, and by the way, if you question him on anything, remember that he spent 5 years in a POW camp and nothing else matters.

I do not believe that being a POW or having 5 children make you qualified to go to the White House. John McCain has extensive experience as a senator but his judgement must be cloudy or the Palin pick is simply an old desperate man trying to make it into the White House. My concern is that he cares so little for the American people that he would give us a VP candidate that would hurt us as a country.