The Princess has a reputation to take care of (don’t we all), and Obama is not all too keen on having the show blown apart by Bill and Hillary. Lined up for padgent is a who’s-who of the political game. Kicking of proceedings is Michele Obama, Nancy Pelosi and maybe a guest appearance from the Lion King himself. Tuesday brings on Hillary paired with Mark Warner, Wednesday Bill takes the stage and we’ll be waiting with baited breath to see if he can finally pull his thumb out of his mouth. Thursday the media does its midnight scramble and we go for the all star platform with Al Gore, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden.
However, back on the previous thread the inimitable Kirribilli Removals made the following comment …
This is the last call for Princess Hillary, and if she doesn’t pull a dastardly trick at the conference, it’s all over for her. Sure, the Republicans would be the only winners, but that’s never stopped her in the past. It must be hard having your earthly form inhabited by an Alien ego, just busting to burst out and terrify the adoring crowd.
You have to ask the question – “Will the Princess be wearing a blue dress?”
Bring it on – round one “The Federation Offensive”
UPDATE: 26-AUG-08 00:30
Last night, in a temporal euphoria induced by a cocktail of morphine and assorted amphetamines KR managed to punch out an email contributing to this post. It contained the following URL http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/08/22/republicans_dnc/index.html
UPDATE: 26-AUG-08 02:16
Calendar updated to include a gazillion speakers on Monday night.
Click on the following link for the full agenda which kicks off about 7.30 AM our time …
Democratic National Convention Calendar.
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Back again, they said an old farmer dying in Briagalong in 1967 doesn’t interest them.
Photo Gallery, mainly of Michelle Obama, but Oprah Winfrey gets her head in a shot.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-michelle-obama-fashion-aug292008-pg,0,7518329.photogallery?1
http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/27679499.html?elr=KArksD:aDyaEP:kD:aUnc5PDiUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU
A ripple effect of 40 million people watching Obama, will take place over the next week. People talking about it with their neighbours and workmates. All good.
399 Chris B We’ve got one of those doctors around here, his names Doctor Daysoff.
This is what we like to hear.
http://www.startribune.com/opinion/commentary/27634829.html?elr=KArksc8P:Pc:U0ckkD:aEyKUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU
Northern Exposure:
The following segment is dedicated to Alaskan GOPper Senator, Ted “Fingers” Stevens, whose corruption charges are due to be heard in D.C. September as Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 2008 cranks into overdrive.
How can we ever thank you enough, Senator Fingers. What in the world will Sarah say when asked if she’s ever been a big fan of yours.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSt0NEESrUA&feature=related
“Gaming the vote”
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/08/palin-more-follow-up-comments.html
Shielded by Wolverton Mountain, Demogro Mountain has been the ruin of many a Beast in search of his electoral Beauty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gncoiIUeUs
Registration needed for the rest of the story.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2008/08/mccains_faith_in_the_surge.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
Maybe I’m being just too cynical but the thought just occurred to me that maybe John McCain has just announced his fall guy.
My, what big links she has. Click pic to enlarge.
Isn’t this an absolutely fabulous shot of Sarah kicking back after “all that guvrinmint stuff” is done and dusted? Sarah has always been fiercely proud of her ability to demonstrate her superiority over unarmed animals designed less intelligently than herself.
Lurking beneath that superficial folksiness lies lashings of unrequited alpha.
Be mighty surprised if Dick Cheney agrees to any pre-election “hunting” publicity shots.
http://images.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=http://bp2.blogger.com/_5QejQ4yGcos/R8a_bnwMEqI/AAAAAAAABGY/XzY0Q9ytsFA/s400/Palin%2Bgams.jpg&imgrefurl=http://benningswritingpad.blogspot.com/2008/07/repost-sarah-palin-for-vp-maverick.html&h=267&w=400&sz=20&hl=en&start=3&usg=__R1HMFmNQJ7u_x9r3agoSyUO6BaQ=&tbnid=SowHxjCp4cGdIM:&tbnh=83&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsarah%2Bpalin%2Bgrizzly%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG
EC at 410
Try this link:
http://bp2.blogger.com/_5QejQ4yGcos/R8a_bnwMEqI/AAAAAAAABGY/XzY0Q9ytsFA/s400/Palin+gams.jpg
http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoon/display.cfm/58311
With Sarah now a fully committed Veep wannabe-come- lately, Team GOPper have nixed their former No1 stike weapon (The Kid’s alleged experience deficit).
Not that she’s under any pressure to deliver or anything.
Cat, don’t think it’s in the GOPper character to quit without giving it an all-in the. These bastards don’t quit. They have to be taken out. That’s why I was delighted and relieved to see Baz show a bit of mongrel to 38 million Americans yesterday.
McCain has gone all-up on a bluffing hand one card before The River. Pros can smell a jailbird ploy a mile away.
They call it.
Palin a bad choice imo: headline on cnn is Palin’s office under investigation
sure she’s a female but shes very inexperienced (2 year governor) and shes under a cloud
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/29/palin.investigation/index.html
Hi Guys
Does anyone know how we here in Oz (being non-American citizens) can get involved in Obamas campaign? I just visited the official website and you got to be either a US citizen or a permanent resident to donate.
SJP at 413
You must be an American national to donate. But you can do other things spreading the word, calling potential voters, push information about policy positions via the web, connect up with any of the hundreds of special interest groups, etc. etc.
Thx Catrina.
Any links? Can we get Obama bumper stickers & badgers here in Oz?
This is who you’re looking for, SJP.
http://www.democrats.org.au/campaigns/australian_democrats_abroad/
SJP at 415
First off, setup a blog for yourself at my my.barackobama.com
1. go to http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/hqblog
2. click on the link on the right “Log into MyBo”
When you create the account just use the zipcode 00000. When click to confirm the details you will be taken to you account admin page from which you can do things like managing your own blog, join communities, etc. For things like purchasing Obama stuff – I’m not sure, haven’t tried.
http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoon/display.cfm/58313
http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoon/display.cfm/58332
Fri Aug 29:
http://news.yahoo.com/edcartoons/jeffdanziger;_ylt=An4kLB6vjGy8IzvqSCKRxJbmcLQF
Andrew at 413, released from Spamton, Ohio.
EC at 419
Given John McCain’s track record for keeping planes in the air – that last link is a total hoot!
Enemy combatant,
Im not looking for “The Australian Democrats” who went from “keeping the bastards honest” to “keeping the bastards happy” and are now politically extinct.
SJP at 422
You could try linking up with this group …
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/group/AustraliansandfriendsforObama/
Once you have you MyBo account created you can join different groups. Joining a group gives you access to group emails and the potential for cross-listing you blog posts into the group’s blog.
well i a am dumbfounded. Palin I say PALIN for fercs sake?while i stll believe obama wont win because the us is still a racist state picking this looney just stuns me. Romney sure even drag back powell or condi rice but this?? whoever is advising mcain is either v smart or total idiot. guess we will see come nov.
Ecky, as for McCain trying to tar Obama with the brush of inexperience:
His campaign now needs to convince the public that it can imagine in the Oval Office a candidate who has spent just two years as governor of a state with a quarter of the population of Brooklyn.
NYTimes
…kinda looks like a lame argument, and as for pulling some of Hillary’s PUMA’s, I can’t see Ms Palin having much in the way of appeal for them either.
In fact, apart from her looking good draped over a bear (not closely related to the Puma! LOL), skin rug, I just cannot see what her supposed appeal is for the McCain campaign.
By the way, I just watched most of Hillary at the DNC (before being moved over by the kids and a Winnie the Pooh movie! LOL), from Lehrer the other day, and I have to say it was pretty powerful oratory.
Talk about exit with grace while pulling the party together! It’s also hard to see McCain using any of the Clinton anti-Obama primary stuff after a performance like that.
It’s been a great week for the kid, you’d have to say.
i think the choice of palin, though sure to have the conservative media in raptures, reflects how much trouble the mccain camp is in. they wouldnt do something this risky unless they had to.
and isnt it just slightly insulting to female voters to think they will vote for a candidate simply because she is a woman??
Palin made the jump from mayor of a community of 7000 to Gov. Alaska on a platform of gov. reform. Here is Ted “Fingers” Stevens endorsement …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nTX-oJUCaU
424 lilprawn
You need to check with your wife.
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I figured this place would be pumping by now. But… (sat Night syndrome?)
Spam Inbox at 429
What we need is another cunning contributor to write the next post – are you up to the challenge?
Oh god no!
I’m so full of shit I don’t even understand, let alone believe, half of the crap I write. 🙂
whimp!
Evening all you John west salmon munchers.
Scroll down a bit and check out the video on this link.
6000 emails in one hour and after about hour and a half 11000 odd and he reads a cross section of them.
All about the fence Palin of course.
http://www.usaelectionpolls.com/
Gaffy, I hereby appoint you holder of the Worst Pun Pennant of the campaign to date. Dead-set groansquirmer! The perils of over-training should never be underestimated:)
http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoon/display.cfm/58363
http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoon/display.cfm/58343
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hail_Mary_pass
http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoon/display.cfm/58229
De-fence
http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoon/display.cfm/58318
Of-fence
http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoon/display.cfm/58319
http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoon/display.cfm/58329
http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoon/display.cfm/58330
http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoon/display.cfm/58340
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Catrina
It’s his last ditch chance of him joining his version of the “mile High” club without a joystick!
I pinched this from Diog over the wall:
McBomb bomb and The Fence first official photo:
http://wonkette.com/402363/your-first-look-at-mccain-palins-america
“For eight years, we’ve had a President who has a faith-based relationship with his own “gut,” a serene confidence undisturbed by reality. Obama, emerging as a candidate to succeed him, has demonstrated distinct evidence of a first-class intelligence and a first-class temperament. That seemed to leave experience—the length of Obama’s résumé—as a Republican angle of attack. Then came Friday morning. On his seventy-second birthday, John McCain selected as his running mate Sarah Palin, a social conservative who spent the nineties embroiled in the civic affairs of Wasilla, Alaska (pop. 6,715), won the Alaska governorship only two years ago, and has zero experience in national politics and world affairs—a baffling rejoinder to the assuring nomination of Joe Biden and to the historic achievement of Barack Obama. ♦
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2008/09/08/080908taco_talk_remnick
“For eight years, we’ve had a President who has a faith-based relationship with his own “gut,” a serene confidence undisturbed by reality.”
Yeah, like it a lot.
“Johnson’s Dream, Obama’s speech”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/opinion/28caro.html
“What a McCain victory would mean” ….
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/082608.html
As late as Wednesday night, McCain’s inner circle didn’t realise that JMc would pick Palin. With The Fence’s recent shock selection as aspirant Veep, McBombster has attempted what the horse racing crowd refer to as , “getting out of jail on the last”. Every once in a while they get lucky, but most of the time they do their arse.
“Someone turned up the volume on a monitor broadcasting Fox News. Fred Barnes, the conservative writer, was enthusiastically reciting the McCain campaign’s talking points about Obama’s lack of experience. Porritt watched and nodded his head. “Fred Barnes!” he said. “God, I love that guy.”
36 hours later, Beauty and The Beast faced the music.
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2008/09/08/080908ta_talk_lizza
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The consortium news article’s a real downer, megan.
I have a hunch that the GOPpers are not going to have a good convention. They move edgily like cattle before the first peals of thunder. Eyes widen, nostrils flare. Gustav is hovering, ever willing to conjure ugly memories.
Catrina, with your indulgence you limb hanging thingy you, the dwalfy land update…
Re Palin, the sniffer GH @ LP: “NT with Snow”. So Wicked. He Nose Something…
The terminally excited Ron & Finns are on e-bay buying huskies and swim suits as we speak (look out U tube); GG is penning his USual texta panageric of crosby’s I’m dreaming of a White Xmas If Not House…etc…
ESJ was last seen with rope, damp pajamas & a tree…alas BB is catatonic!
Oh interesting times.
Putin on the ritz…
“Why did the senior US leadership allow their citizens to be present there when they had no right to be in the security zone? And if they allowed it, I begin to suspect that it was done intentionally to organise a small victorious war.
“And if that failed, they wanted to create an enemy out of Russia and unite voters around one of the presidential candidates. Of course, a ruling party candidate, because it is only the ruling party that has this kind of resource,” he said.
http://news.theage.com.au/world/putin-in-fresh-attack-on-us-over-georgia-20080830-45xy.html
Game on?
‘But hasn’t anyone realised that Obama has chosen for his advisers two of the most lamentable failures of US Middle East policy-making?’
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-new-actor-on-the-same-old-stage-883270.html
Per Mr. Lowenstein.
3 2 1 0…
GH sticks…even? 🙂
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Go for it!!
Meanwhile – over in the real world, the NYT has an article out titled “The Saturday Word: Assessing Palin”.
TMP have an interesting note about Palin’s foreign policy training strategy “Top McCain Adviser Jokes: Palin Will Learn National Security From McCain Before He Keels Over”
People Magazine got a chance to interview McCain and Palin with some deep probing questions and insiteful answers:
Another NYT article details a couple of New Obama Ads tying McCain (and Palin in one) to GWB and a failed economy. Over on MSNBC they have this interesting video clip of Palin reporting the sports news – ummm …
A rather moving article from the NZ Herald…..
” The day the US found it’s soul”
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10529754
I seem to think that there is surely a lot of media buzz over The Fences’ VP nomination and it has taken away some of the press re BOs’ good convention.
Whilst it has achieved the GOP intentions to do that it appears that most of this press is very negative about The Fence and is working in the Kids’ favour.
What is McCain Thinking? One Alaskan’s Perspective.
http://mudflats.wordpress.com/
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Codger
Have been reading with amusement. Will be interesting to see who gets first yellow card.
I am starting to think that Palin is a bit more of a positive for McCain than I first believed. Obama’s only real method of attacking her is on her inexperience. But everytime he raises that issue, it points a finger straight back at him. The Democrats also have to be careful about the sexism angle. If they are seen condescending or bulling, then there could be a backlash. Further, she is the underdog in the VP debate. Therefore, even a loss can be spun into a victory for the McCain camp.
In any case, looking at RCP, my estimate is that all the other polls could be bumped up by six, giving an average of around an eight per cent lead to Obama – so roughly a seven-point convention bounce. That is above the fivethirtyeight average of six, so not too bad. With the stormfront approaching the GOP, I wonder if the bounce will fade as it usually does?
Given stories like the ones in the press today about 9 polar bears setting off on a desperate but likely doomed (without human intervention) 600km swim to try to get to the next piece of disappearing Arctic ice cap and Ms Pallin involved in the Alaskan legal challenge to the Bush Administration decision to declare polar bears a threatened species and a human influenced climate change skeptic – one wonders if the Yanks will learn to love this example of “not a Washington type”.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/30/rnc.gustav/?iref=mpstoryview
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/simon_jenkins/article4642035.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article4641662.ece
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=a1nHh6ocKM64&refer=home
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/big-spike-convention-viewership-obama/story.aspx?guid={F957E37E-EC58-4342-85AA-9252A55E2307}&dist=msr_36
The ratings bonanza is creating more publicity in its own right.
Hurricane Gustav interupting the Repug convention shows that God must be a Democrat. 😈
http://de.eonline.com/uberblog/b26648_obamas_ratings_touchdown.html
SJP @ 414 – Re getting involved in Obama’s campaign.
Democrats abroad has chapters in every state and territory of Australia. Check out the website.
http://www.democratsabroad.org/group/Australia
SJP @ 414 Find Obama and Democrat You Tube video’s. Give them a 5 star rating and save them in favourites. This makes them rank higher and helps get more people to see them. You can also make your own You Tube video’s for Obama. Then link them to other pro Obama websites etc, this again helps boost the rankings and attracts more visitors for them. Email friends (put political cartoons in the email first) asking them to help. This becomes a viral email, which will more than likely reach the USA as well.
If you don’t know how to make a video, it’s easy, just ask your kids.
The jump in Gallup and Rasmussen’s polls don’t include Obama’s speech. Considering the 40 million viewers I am expecting a big jump.
SJP Here are some important You Tube sites that you can help Obama and the Democrats with.
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq30lapbC9c
http://au.youtube.com/user/Politicstv
http://au.youtube.com/user/BarackObamadotcom
http://au.youtube.com/user/BarackObamadotcom
Your effort in rating and farouriting these videos is of far greater use to the Democrats than donations.
The polling does include Obama’s speech. The third day in their series of polls released Saturday morning US time (Sundy here) would have been Friday, the day after Obama’s speech. Any such bounce would be already evident.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
“The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday is the first to include reaction to both Barack Obama’s acceptance speech and John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin to be his running mate. ”
The Palin selection likely starved Obama of a bit of oxygen.
458 Not according to Votemaster.
These are three day averages and all the interviews were done before Obama’s acceptance speech. We could see more bounce tomorrow. But with the Republican convention starting Monday, it might fade fast.
http://www.electoral-vote.com
Then he could be wrong on Rasmussen.
Registration needed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/opinion/31rich.html
Registration required for the Washington Post.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/08/30/party_unity_on_display_at_tubb.html
As a distraction from Obama’s speech it may work, but long term, all the negatives will come out.
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/08/30/worst_pick_ever.html
“Why CIA veterans are scared of McCain”
http://www.motherjones.com/washington_dispatch/2008/08/why-cia-veterans-are-scared-of-mccain.html
The more theses stories surface surely it must mean the fairer will be the election! Hopefully.
http://www.miller-mccune.com/article/646
http://www.bradenton.com/196/story/845970.html
It also wouldn’t do for the hurricane and peoples plight to take all that attention away from John McCain.
http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docid=news-000002942777
This is a better link for MoveOn
http://au.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=karinmoveon
Moments ago surfed the cartoon sites for something Fencey(ok, Gaffy, you win) but nothing up yet.
Wonder who’ll picture Sarah as a kid in Creation Science School sitting at a desk looking wide-eyed flummoxed while teacher Condi(who we all know is extremely strict)resplendent in tangentially fetishistic attire gives a lesson in International Realpolitik. And variations of the above. Oil derricks with bold crosses aloft pump outside the classroom alongside a dead family of withered polar bears.
Sat Aug 30:
http://news.yahoo.com/edcartoons/billschorr;_ylt=AqNpnRpm.dL.jvl8v8AbKAFN_b4F
Sat Aug 30:
http://news.yahoo.com/comics/nonsequitur;_ylt=Aq20CrAgIAUYIeja3exWiehL6ysC
Sat Aug 30:
http://news.yahoo.com/comics/thequigmans;_ylt=AkpFKQKvUt2WkkXWgNKjceMl6ysC
If you have seen the lie detector test from the 2004 election. Here it is again. Give it 5 stars and favourite it.
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=tB7dKez3qcg
I have rated over 100 Democrat related video’s today. How many have you done?
It helps get more votes than letter boxing and not as much hard slog.
Here is the Red Handed TV commercial used in the 2006 campaign. Rate it 5 star and favourite it.
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=S_tqkyoAd2U
And Gouldie’s having a bit of a worry again. How unusual.
–“I wonder if the bounce will fade as it usually does?”
–“I am starting to think that Palin is a bit more of a positive for McCain than I first believed”.
–“The Palin selection likely starved Obama of a bit of oxygen.”
Maaate….. we all know how much you want The Kid to get POTUSed-up come November. You remind us of it on an ongoing basis. All the freakin’ time as a matter of fact. Let me show some empathy here. It’s perfectly OK for a bloke to feel anxious about events particularly with so much at stake. But don’t sweat the small stuff. Think Big Picture. Think Lloyd Fullerton.
Were he observing recent events my dear departed granddad, a politically astute vulgarian with a heart of gold, would have said:
“Son, Barry’s not gunna win, he’s gunna shit in!”
Perhaps these words of comfort will allay your concerns.
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/08/30/worst_pick_ever.html
can someone here please explain to me why i can only read the first 200 comments on any post on 538.com.
Does this problem occur for others? is there a trick i’m missing?
For example, if their are 430 comments to an article i can always only get the first 200.
I’m flummoxed lol
Oooo, Cindy McCain is offended by Barck Obama’s comments about their wealth. You know, his comments on the fact that McCain doesn’t know how many houses he has. Oooo.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/08/cindy-mccain-te.html
Regarding “Yup Yup” Palin
Don’t mistake that this is a pander to women. It is not. That is only the narrative that the right wing media have been told to push.
This is purely a pander to the wingnut evangelical base.
If Possum could get a hold of the GOP version of the Crosby_Textor work last week , the glaring item would be “enthusiasm”. Obama enthusiasm is through the roof at the GOTV level whereas it is terrible for McCain.
Karl Rove’s whole GOTV operation is based around evangelicals. Without it, the GoPpers are looking at a wipeout.
Sarah Palin is an attempt at staving off 60 Senate Seats and a wipeout.
Obama and Axelrod and Plouffe are the new Rove(only with decency levels above that of a jackal). You can sense Rove’s awe of them all the time when he speaks. He is afraid. He knows how elections are won.
McSenile was an inch away from naming HolyJoe as his VP. That’s who he wanted all along. FFS he has met Palin once. Unbelievable.
Rove went ballistic behind the scenes and demanded McSenile not offer it to Joe and demanded Joe not accept it even if offered. “The great Repug disseminator” Bob Novak was even wheeled off his deathbed and out of retirement to publicly demand that Lieberman not be picked.
If Joe was picked there would have been NO GOTV. Rove knew this , but McSenile is clueless.
He was TOLD to pick Palin or all bets were off at the convention.
Obama’s team are SMART. They know the utter failings of Palin as a VP pick to Independants.
They will not attack her at all. Their narrative from now on, which has been handed to them, is to tie McCain/Palin to the failure of Bush Policy.
Palin is a shining example of ideology over competance.
That is the FAILING of George . W . Bush.
The election is OVER.
Obama passed the test this week and McCain failed it.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/13013.html
Enemy Combatant, to assist, I still think that because of Palin and the conference, Obama will do better than my previously predicted 298. I am just trying to look at Palin in the worst possible light. (from our perspective)
Chris B, electoral-vote, for whatever reason, is always a day behind realclearpolitics on putting the polling into his model. Gallup and Rasmussen both polled on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday for Saturday release.
To get the full effects, though, we need to wait until Tuesday morning our time, as that will be the last set of polling that does not include any Republican conference stuff. (assuming the GOP go ahead with it, what with storms looming.
As to bounces fading, according to fivethirtyeight, most convention bounces do in fact fade.
Hollywood at Democrats convention.
http://www.cbsnews.com/elements/2008/08/28/in_depth_showbiz/photoessay4392129.shtml
This is an excellent article on Michelle and the girls. As well as Hillary and Chelsea.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/28/eveningnews/main4394794.shtml
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/campaign-2008/story/666166.html
Still be afraid . Factory workers ,farm workers ,and most blue collar workers in the us. hate obamba for his elitist views. McCain will win because he is white ,and the us. is still a white, right leaning, god fearing, gun toting, mom and apple pie country, As i have said before enjoy your false dawn.
lilprawnRon at 482😛
Catrina you can belive in your mind that i am ron but belive me he is much more of a, i am right ,no prisoners taken than me. Maybe you sweethart should try being a bit more mature and not such a [nasty person].
And to follow up enjoy the false dawn.
Harry, great piece of analysis and writing. Can you remember where you got the skinny on Turd Blossom’s dummy spit. No doubt that Johnny Bomb-Bomb was all over Holy Joe like a toucher at an office xmas party before Sarah got his tap. Gee that’s too bad for Joey though, he was such a great side-kick recently to JMc in I-raq.
“From the moment Ted Stevens introduced us, I knew in my maverick gut that Sarah Palin would be my VP nominee”.
Yeah, right! Tell it to the marines, Fly Boy.
The New Yorker has an article up : Palin on Obama. It’s an interesting piece in that it’s current and shows Pain’s priorities re. energy independence related to Obama’s direction (which make sense with respect to her state of Alaska interests).
482 lilprawn Elitist, I thought you had to own 7 houses to be elitist?
lilprawn I thought you came from Ohio. How come you know what Ron is like?
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EC You lil ole mindreader you!
McCain’s Brain: The Truth Behind his VP Choice Sarah Palin
http://www.vpilf.com/
What a hoot!
One of the comments on one of the threads at vpilf:
Gaffy, vpilf site is either DOSsed out or censored. Would you mind C&Ping the bit about Rove going ballistic on Bombster? Merci.
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It was reported in various places last week about the insider panic that Joe would get the gig and that Rove had vetoed it.
I saw him asked about it on Fox Noise and he neither denied it or confirmed it. It was portrayed as a given by him and the Fox anchor that it was true.
Rove’s apprentice, Steve Scmidt, took over McCains operation about 2 months ago. Rove is still the Gatekeeper.
And they don’t wheel out Bob Novak unless they think it absolutely necessary.
If Lieberman were picked, it would have destroyed the Rove made GOTV. But there simply aren’t enough fundies to win it for the Repugs to cover all the desertions since 2004 and the additions to the Dems.
But it does save them from the decimation that Joe would have caused.
McSenile is the most reckless candidate a campaign will ever have the displeasure of trying to manage.
I was watching Obama’s speech live on CNN the other day.
After it, they crossed back to the talking heads to discuss it. One of the talking heads was Mitt Romney’s Campaign Manager Alex Castelanos.
His comment was: “Whoever doesn’t get the tap to be McCain’s VP is the luckiest politician in the country”.
It struck me as a very strange thing to say and immediately knew that it wasn’t Romney and that he knew who it was. He wasn’t impressed.
EC
Trying but so far have found these where he denies contacting Joe.
Will keep trying for a while
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/28/rove-lieberman-2/
http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0808/Rove_doesnt_deny_calling_Lieberman.html
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/08/28/rove-in-the-middle-of-mccain-veepstakes/
http://poligazette.com/2008/08/28/is-karl-rove-trying-to-influence-mccain-vp-selection/
Gaffhook at 495
Was just hunting around for the same thing (remember reading an article about the subject just in the last few days). In the process I came across this must watch YouTube video:
McCain’s Brain: The Truth Behind his VP Choice Sarah Palin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qUVQDmLf7s
EC at 492
Is this what you are looking for?
Rove tried to kill Lieberman VP pick
By JONATHAN MARTIN | 8/28/08 12:28 PM EST
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12922.html
Thanks Harry, Gaffy and Cat. Appreciate your cyber scurries. I should have been more specific. Was hoping that someone might have leaked the words that Turd B. used to JBB.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/30/late-night-jokes-of-the-w_n_122682.html
Tracking Gustav; suggest scroll down and enlarge jpegs. Mayor Ray Nagin wasn’t exaggerating when he ordered everyone out of NOLA. As someone on kos said, let’s watch the GOPpers try and exploit this disaster to make McBombster and his trophy Veep into good old fashioned American heroes. Maybe The Imbecile could lend them Air Force 1 so they can get a good over-view before they start handing out bottled water to devasted families.
Sarah weepily to camera while holding bedraggled and soaked Shirley Temple look-alike on her lap:
“These American kids are suffering…….(sob)….. they are all my children now.”
“Shirley” looks dreamily into “mommie’s” eyes, reaches up and hugs her.
http://butnerblogspot.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/tracking-gustav-hanna-and-potential-for-2-more/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hbtKpnpHig
EC said
“I should have been more specific. Was hoping that someone might have leaked the words that Turd B. used to JBB.”
I think the convo would have went something like:
“Hello John, this is Karl. WTF r u thinkin you senile ol f*ck. If you pick f*ckin Joe Lieberman i’ll have a few dark knights upend you head first in the toilet cubicle of your choice and introduce you to Larry “wide stance” Craig.
Got that…you senile old fool.”
Interesting video from October 2007 with Palin in which she’s stating that she’s undecided – citing issues of national security and energy independence.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbSlc4XGGnk
And on a totally unrelated subject, the NYT has an article up dealing with the Bush Legacy. It’s an interesting read (8 pages in total) that gets into psyche of President facing personal accountability.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/magazine/31bush-t.html