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You are here: Home / Elections / Election 2008 / Headline Double-Take

Headline Double-Take

by Michael D.|  May 19, 200811:29 am| 48 Comments

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When I first saw this headline, McCain addresses economy in Obama’s backyard, I actually had to read the story to assure myself that McCain didn’t hire Michelle Malkin and company and, you know, really set up shop in Obama’s actual backyard.

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  1. 1.

    dslak

    May 19, 2008 at 11:34 am

    I demand funnier jokes.

  2. 2.

    bub

    May 19, 2008 at 11:37 am

    Git off ma lawn!!

  3. 3.

    Tax Analyst

    May 19, 2008 at 11:40 am

    So how is the economy of Obama’s backyard? Could McCain (aka “Straight-talk McFlawed” and his doppleganger, “Babble-hooey”) see Obama’s counter-tops from the backyard?

    Can he run with Obama in the Belmont, or is a mile-and-a-half just too far for the old fart-faced gasbag?

    This is important stuff, so Inquiring Minds wanna know.

  4. 4.

    Billy K

    May 19, 2008 at 11:43 am

    Obama: Lawn Jockey or Lawn Gnome kinda guy?

  5. 5.

    Barbara

    May 19, 2008 at 11:45 am

    I went to graduate school with someone from my hometown who later ran for Congress. For some reason he decided to stake out his opponent’s house with a helicopter, at night. Maybe he suspected that the person was growing marijuana, something strange like that? The reaction was not good.

    Needless to say, the move backfired rather badly and he was not elected.

  6. 6.

    Punchy

    May 19, 2008 at 11:46 am

    I’m now wondering if my dad is there at the speech. I’m dead serious. I know he dislikes Yawn McCane, but let’s just say that Obama’s “D” isn’t the worst thing about Obama in my dad’s opinion.

    Sigh.

  7. 7.

    Tax Analyst

    May 19, 2008 at 12:00 pm

    Billy K Says:

    Obama: Lawn Jockey or Lawn Gnome kinda guy?

    I’m thinking a little statue of Dick Cheney with a shotgun in an Elmer Fudd-esque pose.

    I guess that would be the “Lawn Gnome” thing…kinda…

  8. 8.

    ThymeZone

    May 19, 2008 at 12:01 pm

    Mister Magoo on the economy:

    My friends, every American has the opportunity to marry an enormously rich woman as I did.

    As for the current economy, I promise that I will make President Bush’s Tax Cuts for the Enormously Rich permanent, if not retroactive and permanent. And fun. And steeped in family values. If we fail in this endeavor, Al Qaeda will have won, and there will be chaos.

  9. 9.

    mrrichardfeder

    May 19, 2008 at 12:01 pm

    Theirs –

    Barack Obama:            •   Out of touch.

                •   Not ready to be President.

    Ours –

    John McCain:            •   Hard of hearing.

                •   Not ready to be institutionalized.

  10. 10.

    jake

    May 19, 2008 at 12:04 pm

    I actually had to read the story to assure myself that McCain didn’t hire Michelle Malkin and company and, you know, really set up shop in Obama’s actual backyard.

    No way. Obama is a big angry scary islamanegro.

  11. 11.

    Billy K

    May 19, 2008 at 12:12 pm

    No way. Obama is a big angry scary ATHEIST islamanegro ELITE.

    FIX’D

  12. 12.

    Dulcie

    May 19, 2008 at 12:12 pm

    Obama: Lawn Jockey or Lawn Gnome kinda guy?

    Lawn Jockey painted half black and half white

  13. 13.

    Jen

    May 19, 2008 at 12:16 pm

    “If they think that they’re going to try to make Michelle an issue in this campaign, they should be careful, because that I find unacceptable — the notion that you start attacking my wife or my family,”

    Y’know, I’m startin’ to like this Obama guy…

  14. 14.

    joe

    May 19, 2008 at 12:21 pm

    No way. Obama is a big angry scary ATHEIST islamanegro ELITE.

    Not only is he an atheist, Muslimist elite, but he attends a scary ghetto church.

    Hmm, that doesn’t make any sense.

    I know: we don’t know who Barack Obama really is!

  15. 15.

    joe

    May 19, 2008 at 12:23 pm

    Ever see Michelle Obama speak at a live event?

    She is an ass-kicking good speaker, and not in that “brilliant orator” sort of way, like her husband, but like a neighborhood type who makes the whole room feel like she gets them.

    They need to get her out there MORE, so that people already have an image of her before the GOPers try to paint their picture.

  16. 16.

    Tax Analyst

    May 19, 2008 at 12:23 pm

    Jen Says:

    “If they think that they’re going to try to make Michelle an issue in this campaign, they should be careful, because that I find unacceptable — the notion that you start attacking my wife or my family,”

    Y’know, I’m startin’ to like this Obama guy…

    Well, he’s no Michael Dukakis, that’s for sure.

    Thank our Hokey Smokes for that.

    Yes, I’m liking the Senator from Illinois more and more as events occur and the candidates step forward and reveal more of themselves. Especially when compared to Senator McLame’s borderline psychotic ramblings and temper-rants.

  17. 17.

    nightjar

    May 19, 2008 at 12:34 pm

    That well known KKK’er Robert Byrd has come out to endorse Obama. Take note wingnuts, demonizing Senator Byrd will never be the same. I do love it so.

  18. 18.

    J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford

    May 19, 2008 at 12:36 pm

    dslak Says:

    I demand funnier jokes.

    May 19th, 2008 at 11:34 am

    Visit Hillaryis44.

  19. 19.

    Dennis - SGMM

    May 19, 2008 at 12:47 pm

    From the article:

    “In a time of uncertainty for American workers, we will not undo the gains of years in trade agreements now awaiting final approval,” McCain said.

    Huh? How did they get years of gains from trade agreements that haven’t been approved yet? Dodderer.

  20. 20.

    Punchy

    May 19, 2008 at 12:50 pm

    What the hell is “arugula”? I saw it in a comment over at S,N, and dont get it. And I dont trust those yuks to give a straight answer.

  21. 21.

    Halteclere

    May 19, 2008 at 12:55 pm

    Ever see Michelle Obama speak at a live event?

    She is an ass-kicking good speaker, and not in that “brilliant orator” sort of way, like her husband, but like a neighborhood type who makes the whole room feel like she gets them.

    They need to get her out there MORE, so that people already have an image of her before the GOPers try to paint their picture.

    Can we have a presumptive First Lady debate?

  22. 22.

    Tax Analyst

    May 19, 2008 at 12:56 pm

    Dennis – SGMM Says:

    From the article:

    “In a time of uncertainty for American workers, we will not undo the gains of years in trade agreements now awaiting final approval,” McCain said.

    Huh? How did they get years of gains from trade agreements that haven’t been approved yet? Dodderer.

    Well, “Duh”, Dennis. Didn’t you know McClame was a Time-Traveller?

    He’s already been to the future and determined we will be victorious in Iraq in 2013 and all sorts of other good stuff.

    In the year 2525 that old Zager & Evans song will be credited to John McCain, 44th, 77th and 132nd President’s of the Nation formerly known as the United States of America, but now (in 2525) known as “McCainamericanistan”.

    American workers will no longer work in America. They will work in China and they will aspire to the standard of living of the Chinese worker, which will still be abysmal.

    Or maybe not.

  23. 23.

    nightjar

    May 19, 2008 at 12:57 pm

    http://wvgazette.com/latest/200805190255

    Lettuce. More accurately, elitist, bitter, appeasing, liberal, sissyfied, Muslim loving lettuce.

  24. 24.

    nightjar

    May 19, 2008 at 1:00 pm

    Wow, wee I sure screwed up that comment, or WP did.

  25. 25.

    Barbara

    May 19, 2008 at 1:09 pm

    It’s the Italian word for a kind of lettuce that the Italians translate into English as “rocket” lettuce, because its leaves are long and narrow and shaped like rockets. It’s ubiquitous in Italy, where they serve it raw on pizza, and it’s extremely easy to grow. It’s not more expensive than any other kind of lettuce so I don’t know what the fuss is about, most likely the foreign name.

    If you want to be elitist, ask for “microgreens” or even better, watercress soup or mache (with a carat over the a). Those are way more elitist than arugula.

  26. 26.

    cleek

    May 19, 2008 at 1:20 pm

    What the hell is “arugula”?

    it’s a leafy green vegetable so exotic that you can get it at McDonald’s. it’s a component of every “mixed green” salad you’ll ever find.

    it’s every bit as exotic as that elitist Italian coffee drink, “espresso”, which you can also get at McDonald’s.

  27. 27.

    Billy K

    May 19, 2008 at 1:24 pm

    Punchy Says:
    What the hell is “arugula”? I saw it in a comment over at S,N, and dont get it. And I dont trust those yuks to give a straight answer.

    Google is your friend.

    (Me, not so much.)

  28. 28.

    Punchy

    May 19, 2008 at 1:32 pm

    Google is your friend.

    My point was deeper; i.e., what it had to do with politics. I saw it w/r/t to Obama. Lemmie guess: he ate lettuce, reporters ref’d it as “arugula”, and The Confeddy Patriot blew a sphincter over it as elitist?

    Or am I way off?

  29. 29.

    peach flavored shampoo

    May 19, 2008 at 1:37 pm

    My point was deeper; i.e., what it had to do with politics. I saw it w/r/t to Obama. Lemmie guess: he ate lettuce, reporters ref’d it as “arugula”, and The Confeddy Patriot blew a sphincter over it as elitist?

    And McCain’ll use it in the Northeast as “arugula” to paint him as a snob, and then it’ll become “collard greens” when he’s stumping in Mississippi to paint him as a Poor Scary Negro. And to think a friggin’ salad could determine this election.

    Where has Tim F. been lately?

  30. 30.

    Dulcie

    May 19, 2008 at 1:42 pm

    My point was deeper; i.e., what it had to do with politics. I saw it w/r/t to Obama. Lemmie guess: he ate lettuce, reporters ref’d it as “arugula”, and The Confeddy Patriot blew a sphincter over it as elitist?

    Obama was talking to some arugula farmers in Iowa in the run up to the primary, and he asked them if they’d seen the price of arugula at Whole Foods. This caused the Hillbots and the wingnuts to have a hissy fit (mostly about his Whole Foods reference), and they started calling him an elitist shortly afterward.

  31. 31.

    Jen

    May 19, 2008 at 1:44 pm

    And to think a friggin’ salad could determine this election.

    It won’t. When people are working and their hospital bills are paid, they might have time to fret about lettuce. Even the mainstay cultural wedge issues that make all rational people bang their heads in frustration — stem cells, flag-burning, prayer in schools, teh ghey@!! — have been airbrushed out of the platform in a desperate attempt to focus on something voters might actually care about. Note to NRCC: 5 months before the election, and 7.5 years after Bush, might be just a smidgeon too late to retool, as it were.

  32. 32.

    Jen

    May 19, 2008 at 1:46 pm

    Note also: ghey at !!-have is not a real email address. Overenthusiastic typing, I’m amused that it hyperlinked it.

  33. 33.

    mellowjohn

    May 19, 2008 at 1:56 pm

    arugula?!?!?

    c’mon, people. can we stick to what’s really important? like flag pins!

  34. 34.

    SamFromUtah

    May 19, 2008 at 2:02 pm

    …a desperate attempt to focus on something voters might actually care about.

    Well put. I’m having a good time with this Republican “change” branding. I think the slogan should be:

    Everything is just fine, and we’re the only ones who can fix it.

  35. 35.

    kid bitzer

    May 19, 2008 at 2:14 pm

    say, has everyone seen the great column by kathleen parker in today’s chicago tribune?

    it’s a lovely example of the smiley-faced racism we’re going to be seeing more and more of!

    without actually saying, outright, “don’t vote for obama! he’s black!”, she instead tells us that opposition to obama is the natural outcome of the fact that he is not “full-blooded”, and that real americans won’t vote for people like him who do not have the right “bloodlines” and the right “heritage”.

    it is really one of the most charming aryan screeds i’ve read since goebbels put down his pen. and it’s in the trib!

    jebus. it’s going to be a long campaign. and a lot of deep-seated american ugliness is going to bubble up before we’re done.

  36. 36.

    joe

    May 19, 2008 at 2:20 pm

    Well, “Duh”, Dennis. Didn’t you know McClame was a Time-Traveller?

    It’s true. He’s come here from the past.

  37. 37.

    Sirkowski

    May 19, 2008 at 2:23 pm

    Didn’t you hear? McCain totally dissed Malkin.

  38. 38.

    cleek

    May 19, 2008 at 2:30 pm

    it is really one of the most charming aryan screeds i’ve read since goebbels put down his pen. and it’s in the trib!

    she’s quite the piece of shit… here’s how she smelled in 2003:

    [Zell] Miller is not alone, though some are more sanguine when it comes to evaluating the roster of contenders. Here’s a note I got recently from a friend and former Delta Force member, who has been observing American politics from the trenches: “These bastards like Clark and Kerry and that incipient ass, Dean, and Gephardt and Kucinich and that absolute mental midget Sharpton, race baiter, should all be lined up and shot.

  39. 39.

    Tax Analyst

    May 19, 2008 at 2:33 pm

    joe Says:

    Well, “Duh”, Dennis. Didn’t you know McClame was a Time-Traveller?

    It’s true. He’s come here from the past.

    And with any luck we can help him find his way back in November.

    Anybody remember the old “Willoughby” episode of Twilight Zone?

  40. 40.

    Garrigus Carraig

    May 19, 2008 at 2:41 pm

    that incipient ass

    FAIL. I got no problems with Delta Force, but mebbe they should stick to deltaforcing.

  41. 41.

    Billy K

    May 19, 2008 at 2:49 pm

    c’mon, people. can we stick to what’s really important? like flag pins!

    Barry has been wearing his flag pin, so we’re struck with arugula for now.

  42. 42.

    Dennis - SGMM

    May 19, 2008 at 2:51 pm

    Anybody remember the old “Willoughby” episode of Twilight Zone?

    “Willoughby! Next stop Willoughby!”

    I have personally traveled forward in time from 1948.

  43. 43.

    calipygian

    May 19, 2008 at 2:58 pm

    Kathleen Parker also writes at K-Lo’s House of Crazy. I can only conclude that NRO supports Kathleen Parker’s blood and soil platform.

  44. 44.

    Calouste

    May 19, 2008 at 3:01 pm

    More Republican stupid: (via the GOS)

    Columbus — Georgia Republican Party chairwoman Sue Everhart said Saturday that the party’s presumed presidential nominee has a lot in common with Jesus Christ.

    “John McCain is kind of like Jesus Christ on the cross,” Everhart said as she began the second day of the state GOP convention. “He never denounced God, either.”

    Everhart was praising McCain for never denouncing the United States while he was being tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.

    “I’m not trying to compare John McCain to Jesus Christ, I’m looking at the pain that was there,” she said.

    Now, except for the minor facts that a) McCain DID denounce the US under torture, b) Jesus DID ask on the cross why God had foresaken him and c) this is pretty much blasphemy, it is a brlliant statement.

  45. 45.

    Tax Analyst

    May 19, 2008 at 3:08 pm

    Dennis – SGMM Says:

    Anybody remember the old “Willoughby” episode of Twilight Zone?

    “Willoughby! Next stop Willoughby!”

    I have personally traveled forward in time from 1948.

    The “forward” part works pretty easily, at least for most folks (not sure about McCain, though).

    1950 to present para mi.

  46. 46.

    Face

    May 19, 2008 at 3:15 pm

    “John McCain is kind of like Jesus Christ on the cross,”

    PLUS

    “I’m not trying to compare John McCain to Jesus Christ

    EQUALS

    Fail. Serious Fail.

  47. 47.

    cbear

    May 19, 2008 at 3:15 pm

    Anybody remember the old “Willoughby” episode of Twilight Zone?

    Anybody remember the old “Mayberry” episode where Barney was begging Andy to let him have a bullet for his pistol?

  48. 48.

    Tax Analyst

    May 19, 2008 at 3:43 pm

    cbear Says:

    Anybody remember the old “Willoughby” episode of Twilight Zone?

    Anybody remember the old “Mayberry” episode where Barney was begging Andy to let him have a bullet for his pistol?

    John McCain as “Barney Fife”? Sir, you do Mr. Fife a grave injustice if you are making such an assertion.

    Oy vey! If McCain were somehow to be elected he would have TONS of bullets at his disposal.

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