I am no psephologist, but as the owner of one of those V-thingies, I have had a particular interest in the women in this election. Sadly, with one exception, they have shamed my gender and behaved in general as if they have one of those P-thingies instead.
Hillary – the Great White hope. Before this election got interesting I hoped and assumed that Hillary would trounce the republicans and we would see a woman in the White House. As an avowed feminist this was pleasing indeed and seemed to make this election a trailblazer for that reason alone. Anything to see the end of George the Imbecile, and what better way to turn the tables on neo-conservatism than to see a democrat woman as POTUS.
She is charismatic, confident, assured and knowledgeable. It turns out she is also rabidly ambitious and prepared to play dirty to that end. I was amazed at some of the stunts she pulled , the fake accents, the lies about her foreign affairs experience and worse, her preparedness to smear Obama when the Primary race got tight. Hillary believed that she had an entitlement to be back in The White House and she dragged it out to the bitter end, which was damaging for the party, and ultimately herself.
Then there’s the Stepford wives. Cindy McCain who has behaved like a handbag: an attractive accessory (if you like plastic), with not much content. She has conducted herself like all good wives from the 50’s should – well groomed, and silently supporting her man. Who knows what she really thinks? She represents a thankfully bygone era where a woman’s only public role was to be seen to support her man. Even when he has publicly humiliated her and called her a “Stupid C-nt”. If she had divorced him and spoken out against abuse of women she would be deserving of admiration. Instead she relies on his success for her identity. Not the kind of role model I want for my daughters.
And the First Lady – Laura . I actually feel sorry for her – after all she sleeps with George every night, so she is punished enough and in an act of sisterly solidarity I shall harm her no more.
My favourite anti-hero of this election is of course Sarah Palin. Not much I can say that hasn’t been said, and nothing anyone can say that betters Tina Fey. She will become a symbol of all that is loathed about the American Character – an arrogant, brash, ignorant, fundamentalist who does not have the intelligence to know that she isn’t. But she is also frightening – a juxtaposed “I can do anything” feminist persona overlaying a basic narrowness that is determined to undo some of the rights that women have fought and even died for – most particularly the right to choose whether to proceed with an unplanned pregnancy. This in my view makes her one of the most dangerous female politicians in the public arena today. Whatever your personal view on abortion is, it is not her right to impose hers on all American women. It’s bad enough that she’s doing it to Bristol.
Then onto the stage strides Michelle Obama. A woman of intelligence and style. A woman who clearly supports her husband but has her own views on matters of public policy. A mother and partner who has a successful career. A woman who can talk and think for herself. And an African American who must know first hand what it means to live in a country which has not reached it’s potential, but may in fact be about to. This is a role model for my daughters, and for all of us who aspire to see women in public life reflect the best of us.
Frankly – I wish she was VP.
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Out of interest, can anyone come up with even ONE scenario where the Repugs could win this thing?
1166 Enemy Combatant Thanks for the fix!
Sent it to my kids. They have good taste too!
1201 jen I suspect anything they come up with will be dismissed as Republicans dirty tricks, and it will backfire badly!
All news services will be an the watch out for it. Whether it is true or not it will get the thumbs down.
Just for something different, here is a map of a gerrymandered district from the New York Senate:
Abraham Lincoln Riding On A Vacuum Cleaner
GhostWhoVotes @ 1206
It would do Governor Gerry proud – my high school teacher of American History said that the may of original “gerrymandered” electorate looked like a fish (I wonder if that is actually true).
ChrisB – I mean ANYTHING- not just political stunts.
National/ internationl/ global events- anything , no matter how awful that could see a turn around back to the GOP.
Jen,
This is about as good as it gets for McCain – even his supporters can’t think of a scenario where he wins:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122479936986464521.html
Good add via wonkette
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlkeGzm-FQo
“Out of interest, can anyone come up with even ONE scenario where the Repugs could win this thing?”
After deep and meaningful consideration, jen, only “ONE”, but just 4 U!
After a hard day on the campaign trail, a GOPper fifth columnist who has infiltrated Obi’s inner circle, slips The Kid a Mickey Finn; a cocktail of elephant tranquilizer, crack and ibogaine.
The Candidate goes stir crazy a la Incredible Hulk and has brutal and repetitive carnal knowledge of a large barnyard animal despite the frezied pleadings of his wife and daughters whose attempts to physically restrain the Democratic Nominee prove fruitless.
The Judas guy captures “sensitive moments” of the unseemly spectacle on his cell and relays them instantly to Matt Drudge.
Failing that, jen, The Kid’s gonna bolt in! So kick back a little, relax and enjoy the spectacle as the GOPpers rend themselves asunder.
🙂
1206
From Wikipedia:
A picture from 1812 depicting the district as a dragon.
So Ferny – according to Peggy he could just about do it IF all the elderly and infirm voted on the day, if Obama didn’t perform well on election day (!- like what- he doesn’t get out of bed?), and the financial crisis fades (yah)- McCain might pull it off.
Oh and if a special Democrat voter-only strain of the ebola virus kills off all his supporters of course. 🙄
Seriously deluded.
Ecky!!
Did NOT think of carnal knowledge of a barnyard animal (better still an elephant, just to complete the symbolism for the photos.)
1208 jen I am really sorry jen I can’t think of anything to stuff the election, unless the Jehova’s day of atonement is due before then or the Appocolypse, but other than that. Nah!
OK- well if you’re all that sure I’m off to get hair extensions.
1214 jen But jen they would think it was faked by the Republicans.
No Chris- not if Michelle was on Fox sobbing and rueing the day she married an elephant-fcker. 😈
I can see the net 10 days degenerating into some very unseemly discussions if we’re not careful. It’s the pheromones kicking in.
Perhaps we should borrow Willim’s new Snip policy (appears to be working wonders I must say).
So- I’ll Snip myself and depart to bed.
Cheers all.
even less hours now.
Well…one thing is certainly true Jen.
The elephant is seriously fucked….by the ass.
…er….donkey
Spooks for Obama
http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=hsnews-000002979071&cpage=2
1221
The elephant is seriously fucked….by the ass.
Cough….Splutter….Spray…..buggered keyboard!!
1222
…er….donkey
Damn……There goes the monitor as well.
Keep your bloody farmyard animals under control Ferny. 🙂
1211 EC
That might reduce it to say….320 EV or something lol
Seriously the only thing that could help the Republican Party is a friggin time machine.
burning money…..this is from nakedcapitalism…..the tumultous end of Bretton Woods II…..get your fear and trembling online….this makes the subprime fiasco seem like losing your lunch money…
“…..the analysis penned by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is what really caught my eye. He makes the case for us to worry about a full-scale currency crisis worse than the 1931 currency crisis of the Great Depression. The link: Bank credit. You can think of Sweden in the Baltics, Austria in Central Europe, Spain in Latin America — and you begin to picture the interconnectedness that will imperil Europe’s banking system much more than either Japan’s or America’s:
The financial crisis spreading like wildfire across the former Soviet bloc threatens to set off a second and more dangerous banking crisis in Western Europe, tipping the whole Continent into a fully-fledged economic slump…
Experts fear the mayhem may soon trigger a chain reaction within the eurozone itself. The risk is a surge in capital flight from Austria – the country, as it happens, that set off the global banking collapse of May 1931 when Credit-Anstalt went down – and from a string of Club Med countries that rely on foreign funding to cover huge current account deficits.
The latest data from the Bank for International Settlements shows that Western European banks hold almost all the exposure to the emerging market bubble, now busting with spectacular effect.
They account for three-quarters of the total $4.7 trillion £2.96 trillion) in cross-border bank loans to Eastern Europe, Latin America and emerging Asia extended during the global credit boom – a sum that vastly exceeds the scale of both the US sub-prime and Alt-A debacles.
Europe has already had its first foretaste of what this may mean. Iceland’s demise has left them nursing likely losses of $74bn (£47bn). The Germans have lost $22bn.
Stephen Jen, currency chief at Morgan Stanley, says the emerging market crash is a vastly underestimated risk. It threatens to become “the second epicentre of the global financial crisis”, this time unfolding in Europe rather than America.
Austria’s bank exposure to emerging markets is equal to 85pc of GDP – with a heavy concentration in Hungary, Ukraine, and Serbia – all now queuing up (with Belarus) for rescue packages from the International Monetary Fund.
Exposure is 50pc of GDP for Switzerland, 25pc for Sweden, 24pc for the UK, and 23pc for Spain. The US figure is just 4pc. America is the staid old lady in this drama.
Amazingly, Spanish banks alone have lent $316bn to Latin America, almost twice the lending by all US banks combined ($172bn) to what was once the US backyard. Hence the growing doubts about the health of Spain’s financial system – already under stress from its own property crash – as Argentina spirals towards another default, and Brazil’s currency, bonds and stocks all go into freefall.
Broadly speaking, the US and Japan sat out the emerging market credit boom. The lending spree has been a European play – often using dollar balance sheets, adding another ugly twist as global “deleveraging” causes the dollar to rocket. Nowhere has this been more extreme than in the ex-Soviet bloc.
The region has borrowed $1.6 trillion in dollars, euros, and Swiss francs. A few dare-devil homeowners in Hungary and Latvia took out mortgages in Japanese yen. They have just suffered a 40pc rise in their debt since July. Nobody warned them what happens when the Japanese carry trade goes into brutal reverse, as it does when the cycle turns.
When the markets open on Monday, I expect the crisis in Emerging markets to take top priority. Iceland was the first victim of this crisis. The dreadful events there should be a warning to policy makers to address this now or else we could see some awful writedowns at European institutions in the very near future — not to mention the potential economic destruction this turmoil could cause.
This Zogby outfit are quite inventive. They have gone from about plus 5 for Obama a week ago to plus 12 Obama and now back to plus 5. Thats only about 20 million people changing their votes in a few days and then another 20 million or the same 20 million changing the other way??
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE49J0LF20081026
1226
blindoptimist
And Alan Greenspan now considers he’s found, after carefully noticing the implosion of the US mortgage then financial markets, a little ‘flaw’ in his previous thinking! LOL
The carnage out of the US subprime is the classic example of chaos theory and the butterfly flapping in the Brazillian rainforest cascading into a hurricane in the Caribbean. US subprime mortgages were the butterflies to this cataclysmic collapse of a world bloated on derivatives with no counterparties remaining solvent enough to pay out.
It’s really financial Armageddon, and as you point out, we’re in for a pretty rough ride. There’s nowhere on the planet to hide from this perfect storm.
1227 Wakefield Yeah, did you see the joke though? It’s because McCain is talking about the economy!
Well how’s that for synchronicity? I’ve just read this:
John Lonski, the chief economist at Moody’s Investors Service in New York, said: “It’s the old cliché of a butterfly flipping its wings somewhere in Africa and eventually changing the air pressure so that we get a nasty hurricane in North America. It is hard to argue that if the developed economies, which are the principle markets for their products, slow sharply, emerging market countries won’t be adversely affected.”
…we really ARE all connected, in more ways than one.
1226
Well blindoptimist, that’s the second time today you’ve laid out the scenario of what could be worse than a Republican victory.
A total economic meltdown.
Unfortunately, it’s much more likely than a McCain victory. 🙁
I really hope the G20 and the IMF can get their game together toot sweet.
The world doesn’t really have the time to wait till Jan 20.
The leaked story about Bush not knowing what the G 20 was when talking to Rudd on the phone on Oct 10th is fairly worrying.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24549090-5013871,00.html
Mind you, the Bush administration’s economic illiteracy is hardly a secret. It’s just the sheer level of incompetence that’s remarkable.
Sort of hurricane Katrina, but for finance and extending around the world. 🙁
Electoral-Vote.com: House Republicans Were Right on the Bailout
I just saw the best confirmation that this is gonna be a landslide.
Fox News just put up a poll result they just ran.
Q: How are you going to vote this year?
A) In Person
B) Absentee
C) I forget what this option was
D) NOT VOTING AT ALL = 48%
That’s right…48% of Fox News viewers AREN”T GOING TO VOTE.
The Republican Party and the McCain/Palin campaign has self destructed.
If nearly half the Fox watching wingnuts aren’t going to vote then this is gonna be a tidal wave.
Hat tip to ChrisB
Moning, Gang,
E-Day minus 9 and the pillars of GOPperdom are crumbling fast.
Having already begun to eat their own, the feast continues with cannibalistic abandon……..
“SEE WHAT YOU MADE THEM DO!?”
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=QDWYQ9nQeHs&eurl=http://thinkprogress.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy
http://www.oldamericancentury.org/karl_rove.htm
William Kristol is Co-Founder and Chairman of Project for a New American Century(PNAC).
Karl Rove is a foundation member.
That’s fantatsic HarryH – 40 percent of Americans can’t quite bring themselves to vote fro the Black Guy (” I’m not racist but…”) so they’re going to stay home and sulk. 😆
A crowd of over 100,000 at the Obama rally in Denver, Colorado earlier today!
It’s sad to watch the conservative commentator David Brooks squirming in his seat as he writes about what a good president McCain would make if only his party was not totally out of touch with reality! LOL
McCain? Good president? If his campaign has not made it abundantly clear, even to partisans like Brooks, that McCain is NOT even capable of running a coherent chook raffle, then they’re simply incapable of rational thought.
1236
Progressive
Nice numbers Prog. The kid is on a roll all the way to Pennsylvannia Avenue, and even a 1000pt rally on the Dow (which will NOT happen this week, BTW) cannot change that.
1234
EC
I was only two sentences in to the first half of that post and was already picturing The Fence standing up to the mike and saying;
“I resemble that statement”,
you betcha.
Wonder what the good Christians (fundamentalists and others) think when McCain says that Obama’s statement saying sharing the wealth around is a good thing is proof that he is a dangerous leftist. My understanding of the Christian Bible is that is is fairly supportive of such views. I call for McCain and Bible Barbie to prove that they have read and understood their Bibles. Otherwise they could be in for some well deserved time out to improve their comprehension.
Gosh, things are definitely going to get ugly for the Repuglies after Nov. 4, especially when Sarah Palin is being hailed as not just the new messiah for the party, but as the next Ronald Reagan:
“Jim Nuzzo, a White House aide to the first President Bush, believes this election is not a re-run of the 1980 Reagan revolution but of 1976, when an ageing Gerald Ford lost a close contest and then ceded the leadership of the Republican Party to Mr Reagan. He said: “Win or lose, there is a ready made conservative candidate waiting in the wings. Sarah Palin is not the new Iain Duncan Smith, she is the new Ronald Reagan.””
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/3260074/Republican-fears-of-historic-Obama-landslide-unleash-civil-war-for-the-future-of-the-party.html
McFuckwit is even struggling to win his home state!
A new poll shows Obama is only 2 points behind in Arizona
43 McSlime
41 Obama
I note also that pollster.com has just put Georgia into the tossup column!
Kirribilli: Hey Buddy! Only one week to go until the forces of good triumph – fingers and toes all crossed! The Republican Party deserves nothing else but total electoral obliteration!
1236 Progressive
HuffPo have put up some pictures of the Denver crowd. Truly awesome. What strikes me is the fact that thousands of people at the edges of the crowd can’t even see Obama, yet they turn up anyway, just to be part of the moment.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/26/obama-draws-100000-at-den_n_137951.html
Note the contrast!
Obama gets 45,000 to his rally in New Mexico yesterday
McCain holds a rally in the same state, on the same day, and draws a crowd of 1,000
LMFAO
1243
Progressive
There will be dancing in the streets, all around the world too!
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14951.html
[‘Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he can “guarantee” a win on Nov. 4 in a squeaker victory that won’t be clear until late that night.
McCain spoke amid signs of a tightening race, and reports of renewed determination among his staff, which is badly outgunned in both money and manpower.
“I guarantee you that two weeks from now, you will see this has been a very close race, and I believe that I’m going to win it,” McCain told interim “Meet” moderator Tom Brokaw. “We’re going to do well in this campaign, my friend. We’re going to win it, and it’s going to be tight, and we’re going to be up late.”’]
Well at least McCain will have a good shot at the role of Iraqi Information Minister when this is all over.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Saeed_al-Sahaf
[‘His last public appearance as Information Minister was on April 8, 2003, when he said that the Americans “are going to surrender or be burned in their tanks. They will surrender, it is they who will surrender”.’]
asanque…everyone will be up late alright…celebrating the annihilation of the GOP! LOL
Jen
43 to go!
Wonder if Ecky is in the background urging on the Don?
I often hear people say that the Republicans are up against it – no Republican could win, because of the financial crisis, and peole’s general loathing of Bush.
I’m having none of this crap. Sure, the financial crisis has focused attention on how badly the Republicans have damaged the economy, but Obama is simply the best candidate, and he’s run an amazing campaign. But also, McCain’s been a poor candidate, and has run an embarrassingly bad campaign.
I like this blog on Daily Kos…
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/26/25411/444/269/642493
1235 jen They are Repugs not voting for their own party. That’s good.
The Repug infighting is on Fox News. That’s REALLY GOOD. Can things get any better?
Dick Morris must have some money swinging on this election and the stock market bailout. He wants McCain to win by attacking Obama on his capital gain tax increase, Rev Wright and impending socialist takeover.
But independent groups who want to prevent a leftist takeover of the government should not let liberal organs dictate their campaign tactics or their message.
By stressing the tax issue and the potential of an Obama regime to subvert our free enterprise system, McCain can harness the crisis and warn voters of the impact of a decision to elect the most radical candidate for president in our nation’s history.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10252008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/the_truman_show_135232.htm?page=0
And this is the man who did his best to give prostitutes a bad name.
They’re drowning in their own bile, Wakefield. And when they disappear beneath the surface and their last bubbles of air pop into nothingness…
Then I will rejoice.
Pass the champers!
Obama, McCain Face Most Pressure Since FDR to Speed Transition.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aFyM0BoK72AM&refer=home
A spectacular slide show of the Denver rally here.
http://photos.denverpost.com/photoprojects/galleries/cologalleryV6.html#id=album-3955&num=1
Endorsements: Anchorage paper picks Obama.
Some analysts see Dems winning filibuster-proof majority of 60.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/6078415.html
U.S. Senate race in Kentucky now national title fight.
http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20081026/NEWS0106/810260461/1008/NEWS01
A crowd of 100,000.
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE49P2U520081026
With the Obama campaign showing seven TV advertisements to one at the moment. The full effect of this advertising won’t show up in the final polls. It will show up on election day.
CAMPAIGN FINANCE WARS
Obama’s Huge Haul Should End This Fight.
Registration may be needed.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/23/AR2008102302077.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
Ironical isn’t it?
Registration may be needed.
Same article as above.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/23/AR2008102302077.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
From the same article again.
All Obama’s groups have mastered the Internet. The Internet is the greatest socialist invention ever!
Registration may be needed.
Same article as above.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/23/AR2008102302077.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/10/globe_poll_obam.html
Catrina, as the top blogger on this site, I think it is only fair that you should send me on an all expenses paid trip to cover this event for Politic 101. 😈
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/tv-throws-the-highdefinition-kitchen-sink-at-the-us-election-973508.html
Great blog about the grwoing divide between rich and poor in America.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/26/202810/29/701/643078
Arguing Politics During My Vasectomy.
😈 😈 😈
http://watchingthewatchers.org/news/1478/arguing-politics-during-my-vasectomy
Senate Democrats eye ‘magic 60’.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/26/senate.majority/?iref=mpstoryview
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14943.html
That $5.10 on Obama I had in February is keeping me happy.
Joe the labourer strikes back!
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=XLmm9Lo19P8&eurl=http://phillyimc.org/en/node/76931
100,000 Greet Obama in Denver.
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/10/26/politics/fromtheroad/entry4546324.shtml
No one is calling Todd Palin cheap or anything, but Todd…. 35 bucks for a wedding ring?
This on the Christian Science Monitor.
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2008/10/26/palin-wardrobe-controversy-heightens-todd-is-a-cheapo/
Republicans fear the loss of their only weapon left: the filibuster.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/republicans-fear-the-loss-of-their-only-weapon-left-the-filibuster-974412.html
Uh-oh. Looks like we are all wrong…
“US Republican presidential nominee John McCain says he can guarantee a win in next week’s election, but says the result will be very close.”
http://bigpond.com/news/breaking/content/20081027/2401677.asp
McStupid waffling at his ultimate best on meet the press. video!
McCain Totally Losing It: Palin Is Qualified To Be President Because She’s Married To An Oil Facilities Worker:
http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/26/mccain-totally-losing-it-palin-is-qualified-to-be-president-because-shes-married-to-an-oil-facilities-worker/
Jen
14 to go!!!!
This from the same article in 1274
Is it true that McCain went to New Hampshire, unleashed the ol’ fella (that is, the ol’ fella’s ol’ fella) and proceeded to piss in the cornflakes of the entire state??
I mean, shit! He’s 15 points behind in NH and only those with a bizarre taste for ol’ fella juice are voting for him!!!
How else do you explain it???
Gay Groups Use Donations to Become a Force in Elections.
May need registation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/nyregion/26gays.html?em
Link for above NH cornflake poll
http://www.unh.edu/survey-center/news/pdf/bg_2008-oct26.pdf
Gaffers- not that I’m counting 😉
It’s my Inner Hillary coming out again. As much as ChrisB and I are on the same team did you know that he once went to a church where the preacher said that AndrewBolt’s site was the true way???
Heh Adam getting a history lesson on pollbludger.
Greensborough Growler
Posted Sunday, October 26, 2008 at 10:26 pm | Permalink
SNIP: Tedious bickering/offensive language deleted – The Management.
The snips are working well there at least. It can be applied to all the Green Grinch’s posts 😛
William Bowe has predicted 375 EV’s for Obama.
Same as Catrina.
And same as my prediction just put up today.
The Alaska and Oregon races could be filibuster busters.
They’re all claiming their state as the filibuster breaker.
http://crosscut.com/2008/10/26/2008-election/18595/
1278 Chris B
“And as America, by its standards, moves to the left, maybe “socialism” is exactly what they are looking for: a more activist government, higher taxes for the rich and a stronger social safety net for the poor, more regulations on financial markets and something that approximates to universal health care.”
I agree. I believe the U.S. (and Australia) has been shifting incrementally leftwards for at least a couple of years now. The conservative peak is over. So when McCain tries to attack Obama for wanting to “spread the wealth around”, he is actually do him a favour. This is exactly what an increasing number of Americans are wanting today. They are sick of neoconservative favouritism of the wealthy.
This shift leftwards is also what skewered predictions that Obama would not be able to beat Hillary and then would not be able to beat McCain. Many assumed the U.S. was still operating at its conservative peak, so drew on conventional wisdom that pretty much said that if you are a conservative and you appeal to base-level conservative instincts like racism, war-mongering, etc., you would have the recipe for winning. But the political landscape is changing, it’s moving leftwards, and will continue to do so into the foreseeable future.
So is it any wonder that McCain is losing worse than expected after he shifted to the right while the majority of the U.S. shifted to the left??
Howard did exactly the same thing here in Australia with WorkChoices and other policies while Australia took a little step to the left.
When Obama becomes president, expect a further shift to the left in the U.S. and here in the next couple of years.
Palin’s latest is spreading the false report that Obama has already written his inaugural address. Even for Repugs, their willinglness to freely spout lies is astonishing. Makes Johhnie Howard seem honest!
Obama Ties McCain to Republican Philosophy.
May need registering
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/us/politics/26cnd-campaign.html?hp
Judge dismisses juror in Sen. Stevens case.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5je6Pw1sViz24JRo9F0PNhoqMtzTwD942G1O80
Andrew @ 1288
Check out the response from Obama camp 😆
right at the end of this article.
http://www.theage.com.au/world/us-election-2008/republicans-fear-historic-landslide-defeat-20081026-58zs.html?page=-1
Chris
Where is your sparring partner DG?
1292 Gaffhook Yes, I had noticed. 😈
So lemme get this straight, John:
You can GUARANTEE:
* The fundamentals of the economy are sound; and
* Sarah Palin is ready to be president; and
* you’re gonna win this election.
Cool. Now gimme some of that weed you’re smokin’.
Oh…and John….
You’re FUCKED…..like your guarantees
1287 Noocat
Nice post.
I haven’t seen McDickhead on MTP yet but i read that he was creepily giggling about Obama wanting to “spread the wealth” and “wanting fairness”.
Yep…he sat there and said Obama is for “fairness” and implied that is a bad thing and he wouldn’t stand for it.
I agree with you that the drift back to the centre from the hard right has been under way for a while now.
Ecky, and others interested in the electric car plans of AGL and syndicate:
http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/WEEKEND-READ-Electric-blues-KQ5HR?OpenDocument&src=sph
…a first but important step to getting renewable energy boosted and oil dependence cut down.
1296
HarryH
That’s ‘spreading the wealth’ from the few percent who earn 30% of total income to the other 95% who get the crumbs, and in no way resembles the spreading of the ‘wealth’ that Wall Street has engineered for the nation and the world! LOL
And, um, I’d just like to thank my family for all their support throughout my blogging life, and especially Obama fro providing me with the inspiration to try an dovercome my typing disability (with limited success I admit). And Sarah for being such an amazing pain in the arse that it prompted me to finally post on Politics 101.
and of course, I want to thank The Lord Jesus for allowing me this great honour . I did it for him.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-campaign_mondayoct27,0,3731469.story