While the Republicans are re-igniting the culture wars in St. Paul while begging for four more years, Jack Abramoff is in a courtroom begging for mercy:
Jack Abramoff, once a top Republican lobbyist on K Street, is asking a federal judge to show mercy when she sentences him Thursday in an epic corruption case that continues to rock Capitol Hill and the GOP establishment.
Abramoff, who is already serving a 70-month sentence stemming from his fraudulent purchase of a Florida casino-cruise ship company, will go before District Judge Ellen S. Huvelle to be sentenced in a scandal that resulted in a prison term for one former member of Congress, a dozen other guilty pleas by former Republican aides and officials, and new ethics legislation enacted at the start of the 110th Congress.
Barack Obama worked on that ethics legislation. Sarah Palin worked with an Abramoff lobbyist.
Discuss (and no, I did not watch the speeches tonight. Was reading Nixonland and watching BSG).
Bostondreams
You missed nothing. Except that apparently Palin has huge balls, because she repeated that ‘bridge to nowhere’ crap that has ALREADY been proven to be false the FIRST time she said it.
They really are going to make this all about the culture wars and the evil media, aren’t they?
flavortext
It appears that Palin is unfazed by facts. She repeated the “I was against the bridge to nowhere” crap and claimed that Obama did not work on a single piece of major legislation, something you just refuted without even trying. She flat out lied several times and took a below-the-belt jab against Obama (He’s only trying to become President to advance his career? Good lord…) but since she did it with a smile and a happy voice the media are declaring this a win.
Stuck in the Fun House
It was a great speech in it’s delivery as I kind of expected. She has a certain charm that some will latch onto, disregarding actual facts about her nutbaggery. It came thru clear to me this is one ruthless and tough woman who shouldn’t be taken lightly. There is a whininess about her voice though, that would work wonders as an alternative to waterboarding, IMHO.
gbear
I blame Obama. and your server.
Wini
Lucky
zzyzx
Be glad you didn’t. I would mind the praise if she were competent. As it was it was just depressing.
cain
The way cindy McCain was beaming and shaking her head so proudly, you’d think they had won the election and that all was right in the world.
Tomorrow begins the scandals and more domination of the VP pick. Peggy Noonan is recanting, the whole party is on the retreat with a big waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahh!!!
cain
rob!
symbols of Republicanism past and Republicanism future.
Martin
If anyone talks to you about the importance of experience, never forget one thing: The most experienced person to be president, by a landslide, is Dick Cheney.
8 years as VP.
Secretary of Defense.
WH Chief of Staff.
Minority Whip in the House.
Cheney should trump anyone if experience mattered. Even half of the 28%ers would disagree with Cheney in the top slot. Experience means fuck-all after you’ve gotten to know the candidate.
Kevin
I watched a rerun of Good Eats (Beer!), am watching Jeopardy, and am recording Bones.
Oh yeah, and I listened to The Kinks.
Gold Star for Robot Boy
DAMN YOU, SCOTT BEAUCHAMP!!!
Tsulagi
Didn’t miss much. I only watched for the Palin speech. Like her speech, pretty sure the patriots have already prepared the script she knocked it out of the park.
She had one or two good lines, but most of it was a speech by the numbers. I started paying more attention to the floor audience wondering how all those albinos escaped from their nursing homes or fat farms.
Hope RedState’s intrepid flag counter was on duty to give us the patriot count because other than the graphic one on the podium screen, I didn’t see any. But then I guess they’d be optional for Repubs as by definition they set the bar for patriotism no one else meets.
dmsilev
I’m just waiting for the next GOP mouthpiece to scream “sexism” whenever someone questions whether living several hundred miles away from Russia counts as foreign policy experience.
She gave a very aggressive, very partisan speech. Which is fine, but that means that her views and positions, such as they are, are now thoroughly fair game.
-dms
Dug Jay
Suuurrreee he did. And he got on the job training in the field while making his bones as a working member of the Daley Chicago political machine when he wasn’t busy with his close personal friend, newly indicted felon, Tony “Ducks” Rezko.
Ned R.
Me, I was mostly bumming out over the fact that Bill Melendez died. (And you know his work even if you don’t know the name, trust me.)
Joshua Norton
We should definitely thank the good Governor for reminding us all that she is just a pit bull with lipstick . . . I knew she reminded me of something! :)
Tina Fey will have lots of work on SNL thru November. Lorne Michaels must be jumping for joy.
Seanly
I didn’t watch it either. The lies & hypocrisy piss me off. I was watching Daily Show & wanted to throw a brick at that cocksucker Newt Gingrich.
Incertus
Fuck the speeches. Watch the Daily Show. It’s like this is everything that Jon Stewart has been waiting for for the last five years. He’s on fire.
cain
arrrgh.. firefox identifies BJ as “Network Error” these days :(
cain
Bostondreams
Good point, DJ. Though of course, after being a POW, John McCain got HIS on the job training in ethics through the help of his VERY close personal friend, Charles Keating.
Try again.
Texas Dem
It was a very effective speech. Frighteningly effective. It’s clear from tonight’s torch light parade that the GOP is going to match the Dem’s focus on economic populism with cultural populism. And it just might work. As an aside, I’ll note that Palin is going to make one hell of an attack dog. She’s smart, attractive, and ruthless as hell. And anyone who questions her qualifications can now expect to be labeled a sexist.
r€nato
that was one of the best TDS’s I’ve seen in a while. You can tell they’ve been honing that bathroom sketch for MONTHS. Classic.
blogreeder
Afraid you’d revert back to a decent human being?
reid
Just watched Andrea Mitchell interview Giuliani on MSNBC. He was being his usual snake self. I think (wishful thinking, maybe) Mitchell was actually a little digusted by it.
It’s sad how so many people can outright lie so easily.
Will Hunting
O/T – why the f*ck are we giving $1 billion to Georgia???
Note: I realize this is insignificant relative to the sum down the Iraq rathole…
Kevin
The parrot is heard from, yet again.
Spencer
Nixonland, huh? So do you think tonight will be the last time railing against Franklins works, or are we in for a permanent Orthogoniam majority?
Ned R.
If it’s down to money versus self-martyrdom, I think I’ll go with the money.
cain
It was full of lies. Her timing was a bit odd and there were some parts were the crowd weren’t sure if they were supposed to clap or not. She delivered it “ok”. Probably better at talking than McCain is.
I didn’t really see a lot of enthusiasm in the crowd. Maybe that’s just me? Anyways, McCain is toast as the scandals continue. She’ll be too busy defending that than attacking Obama.
cain
tomjones
Poor Dug Jay. Trying to impress us, and can’t even get it right that Rezko is a newly convicted felon, not indicted.
tBone
Good one! With stinging, sarcastic wit like that, you should be writing speeches for Sarah Palin or something.
Fern
I’m not sure most of the audience bought the speech. I noticed in the crowd shots – a lot of people looking at each other with expressions that said “we are so fucked”
Conservatively Liberal
I am hearing the counting from the TV in the other room, and it sounds like ten people are cheering at a time.
zuzu's petals
I just found out my brother is at the convention.
I shouldn’t be surprised, he held a fundraiser in 2000 and is on his state finance committee, but still…
Eccchhh.
Joshua Norton
Brian Williams read off the litany of the lies. Lied about raising taxes, the bridge to nowhere, all the places where everyone else cringed. She gave them permission to open a ginormous can of whoop-ass on her as a politician – because she proved that’s exactly what she is.
Wow. McCain must have really pissed off his true base, the media.
4jkb4ia
I am glad that Venus and Serena kept playing so that I could listen to all of the Nadal match without stopping for the speech. Yes, they brought them out at 11:30. The speech showed that Palin can fulfill the VP candidate functions of attacking the opposing candidate and reminding us that McCain was a POW. She delivered it formidably.
I finished “The Lost”. I am now ready for Elul. I think.
Will Hunting
When does McCain speak tomorrow night? How is he going to compete with this?
7AM Eastern kickoff. Super Bowl Champs. The 20 second part starting at about 19 seconds in just puts a spring in my step.
FLILF Hunter
Oh, man. Best Christmas show ever.
Jim
Can we have the contribution button again please. My credit card is out and I’m itching to contribute some more money to Obama.
Kevin
I have it on now with the sound off, and my god, I used to joke about people who look like Republicans, but HOLY SHIT!
Hey, I just thought I saw that PUMA tool Will Bower in the background of one of the states’ delegations.
4jkb4ia
I forgot to say that McCain may have dissipated any good will he got for insisting that Lieberman come out there and give a relatively classy speech.
AkaDad
Did Anne Coulter write Palin’s speech?
Martin
Good luck with that. With the war against the media, they’ll help with the charge that any question of Obama’s qualifications can be labeled as racist. What goes around comes around, and the racist label will stick. The sexist label won’t.
Palin can give speeches, I never doubted that. Let’s see what happens when someone asks her about Pakistan or health care.
pseudonymous in nc
John, if Obama’s elected, I’ll cheer when you re-register as a Republican and start kicking at him from the right. That’s healthy.
If not, you’re not going to re-register for a while. These people are crazy.
that was one of the best TDS’s I’ve seen in a while. You can tell they’ve been honing that bathroom sketch for MONTHS.
I heard John Oliver talking on the podcast he does for the UK TImes, and he sounded like he was going to enjoy the RNC much more than the DNC.
Conservatively Liberal
I hope the media don’t fall for the questioning her qualifications equals sexism or misogyny trap. With all of the hyperventilating from the Hillary camp and crowd, you can bet the Republicans are going to flog that horse to death.
I think it will have a limited effect if people are as sick and tired of hearing it as I am.
Touchy question for McCain? POW! ! !
Touchy question for Palin? Sexism! ! !
I think it will wear thin quickly.
7AM? Boy, there are going to be some early drunks tomorrow morning! ;)
I bet the righties will say they Tivo’d it but do you think they would really take the time to watch it?
PC
Is Wolf Blitzer really saying “the liberal elite mainstream news media?” Wolf Blitzer?
reid
Floor interview: Kelly Randall, a moderate, pro-choice Repub from California, had her doubts about Palin, but after this speech, she’s convinced. She’s more concerned about safety and security these days than pro-choice. She’s a mom, she gets it.
Conservatively Liberal
Here is John’s ActBlue/Obama link.
grumpy realist
No surprise that Palin was able to read a script off a teleprompter well. Journalism major, etc.
Smoke and mirrors, smoke and mirrors.
FLILF Hunter
Yup. I’m up to fucking HERE with the POW crap.
From now on, touchy response: The last time John McCain faced off against one our country’s enemies, they shot his ass down and took him prisoner.
Just Some Fuckhead
I turned it off when they brought a huge black cowboy out that they had captured. Sorry, I draw the line at exploitation.
Kevin
Are they pumping laughing gas into the XCel?
Conservatively Liberal
Those who are willing to give up freedom for security…
No, she doesn’t get it. Not even close.
PC
Holy Shit! So now that McCain is facing another of America’s enemies, Barack HUSSEIN Obama, he’s going to get his ass shot down again?
AkaDad
Some people don’t appreciate it when you mock community organizers.
Walker
There is no such thing. The Overton Window just means that a moderate Republican is someone who does not believe we should execute Democrats for the treason they are supposed to have committed.
PC
I just had someone tell me she sounded like the Cindy Sheehan of the far right.
reid
Hm, turns out you can’t use less-than/greater-than symbols here…. It filtered out my ending colorful vomity effect. In any case, I was unclear; Kelly proclaimed that Palin, as a mom, “gets it”. The Repubs will protect us from all those nasty brown people! Cripes I can’t stand people that are so cowardly and fearful about every little thing that might affect their precious children. Kelly probably has 12 “baby on board” stickers on her minivan….
jaime
My father is a community organizer.
I am insulted and furious.
f.u.r.i.o.u.s.
Kevin
John has that shit clamped down like a <vise>
L. Ron Obama
Although I think the media is just going to cower in the face of attacks, there is a small, small mote of hope.
Kevin
heh, as you can see. Cross-site scripting attack and all that, or something.
AkaDad
I can’t believe Palin mocked Jesus, the most famous community organizer.
Ned R.
You know, I was wondering what Halcro would say…
(It’s all about the final line in context.)
r€nato
Noun, verb, 9/11 = Guliani sentence
Noun, verb, POW = McCain sentence
Noun, verb, Hockey mom = Sarah Palin Sentence
I MISSED MY PERIOD!! = Bristol Palin sentence
Just Some Fuckhead
John, could you post the connection string to the datebase? I got the tables, field names and query strings already. I want to build my own frontend.
Kevin
LOL!
Just Some Fuckhead
Mitt Romney came in a very distant third to Ron Paul. Does this mean Ron Paul is next in line, 2012?
r€nato
How many jobs did Jesus create?
All he wanted to do was redistribute income and reward the poor for being lazy and shiftless.
john b
am i the only one who’s really troubled by the implication that we not read rights to suspected terrorists?
isn’t this about as unamerican as you can get?
Kevin
13, I believe.
anne
This could go two ways. One everyone just is in awe about how “tough” she is, or two it opens up the flood gates of really tearing her apart. How in the world can they say Biden should have to go easy on her now? The woman is nasty and mean. I think we should not underestimate her now, not to be a concern troll. But seriously, I saw a dark soul there.
Kevin
No.
Yes.
DougJ
Not such a great speech: more sarcasm than an Elvis Costello album.
Conservatively Liberal
I heard Brian Williams read this bit from JoKe Line on the air awhile ago:
I agree, wholeheartedly. Open the floodgates and let’er rip.
Just Some Fuckhead
Fixed. Inside she really shines with the love of Jesus. You just couldn’t see it because of all the convention lighting.
Joshua Norton
Those were unpaid internships.
blogreeder
Wish I could. Who wrote Obama’s speech?
Mike P
John,
If you were reading “Nixonland” tonight, then you basically got everything that came out of Rudy and Palin’s speeches.
It’s going to be and ugly 8 weeks.
gbear
He really needed 15 but then he would have had to provide health insurance benefits.
Brian J
I didn’t see the speeches tonight, but I recorded them. I got home after midnight and turned on cable news and watched three Democratic women with Larry King talking about Palin’s speech. A clip of Rudy! speaking was presented, and if I recall, he was shouting in a ridiculously overwrought tone, “How dare they? HOW DARE THEY?” Apparently Rudy!, whose own children don’t seem to care for him, is now at the forefront of the debate on families.
But what struck me the most from the clips and the discussion of the speech was how much they tried to portray themselves as the victims of an unfair media frenzy. Several bloggers have said that this was part of an intentional strategy. That comment looks more and more accurate each day.
Just Some Fuckhead
John, are we still fighting because I totally ripped up a colored pencil drawing I did of what I inagine you must look like and now I feel bad and want to scotch tape it back together but not if you’re gonna still be mean to be because I have my dignity, ya know.
J. Michael Neal
Mitt Romney attacking East Coast elitists makes me laugh. Sarah Palin makes me angry. She went on and on about small town values, and implying that that’s the source of Real Americanism.
Well, fuck you, Sarah Palin. I’m from big cities. As a kid, I could see the John Hancock building in downtown Boston from my front yard. I went to high school in a town where the only real industry was a major university, and the businesses that it incubated. For the last twelve years, I’ve been able to see the IDS Center in downtown Minneapolis from my doorway. (There’s a tree in the way if I try to see it from the yard.)
You know what? I am a real American. I am every bit as much a real American as Sarah Palin is. The community organizers she, and the whole GOP crowd openly mocked are real Americans. Of course, they try to help people who live in big cities, so you think they deserve ridicule. You want to make a big deal out of the fact that Barack Obama said that small town Americans are often bitter? Again, fuck you. You lost whatever standing you had to make that an issue when you decided to attack everyone in the cities, without even doing so as an expression of sympathy, as Obama did.
Apparently, the Republicans think they can only win this election by denigrating large numbers of Americans. It makes me angry. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that it is disproportionately brown people you’re making fun of.
Kevin
By the Republicans, they count as “employed”.
Mary
Holy fuck. AP still has journalists who fact-check?
Teak111
Tried to have an open mind, but three minutes in I was toast, gag me with a spoon. That down home, Jesus is my savior sheet was too rich for my blood. Man, what a train wreck this is.
Just Some Fuckhead
So when they’re doing exit polling after an electiom, do they really have to ask old fat white people in giant cowboy hats and matching outfits who they voted for?
Kevin
Sarah Palin was born in Sandpoint, Idaho (aka Home of the Aryan Nations), and moved to Wasilla (aka Government Giveway), Alaska, before really hopping on the Gravy Train in Juneau, Alaska.
blogreeder
And another thing. This site has been non-stop Palin since last week. You might as well change the name to Palin-juice.
And yet, you don’t bother to listen to her? You’d rather get your opinion from others. You’re just a mouthpiece, John. A lot like your criticism of Palin. You don’t write your own stuff either.
Kevin
Oh, the irony. How many McCain points did you get for that?
Brian J
My comments are waiting for moderation? Is this something new, or just something I hadn’t noticed before?
Jeff
Looks like canceling that interview was a great move by McCain. The media smell blood and want someone’s head on a platter.
Just Some Fuckhead
A “Democrat” just called in to CSPAN and said she’s totally voting for McCain-Palin because Sarah Palin seems like a very real person. We’re at the point now where good animatronics can decide an election?
blogreeder
I can get points??!!
L. Ron Obama
blogreeder:
Reeding comprehension ftw.
blogreeder
You might have forgotten to fill in your e-mail address or something.
LiberalTarian
Yer kiddin’ right?
Kevin
You’re doing it for free? Uh, okay.
J. Michael Neal
Also, I’m now being bombarded by advertisements from The Israel Project asking what I would think if the city of St. Paul started launching missiles into my Minneapolis front yard.
Jesus Christ, they’re from St. Paul. The missiles would get lost trying to leave the launchers.
Jeff
So you do know how most Israeli’s feel.
Kevin
LOL, what?
Conservatively Liberal
Yes! And with those points, you can get your hands on McCain’s balls! That ought to get you really excited.
This place is a sum of its posts, and yours is one voice among many who are not being silenced or oppressed here. I know you fRighties are scared shitless when people can actually express themselves without threat of rendition (or post deletion) if they don’t spout the wingnut talking points but hopefully you people will grow a pair and actually listen to what people have to say without freaking out.
I cruise the wingnut blogs and when anyone posts anything that offends their tender sensibilities they cry and whine until the blogfather comes along and smites the impertinent American who dared to voice an opinion contrary to conventional right-wingnut theology. Not this place. John lets us talk and people like you just can’t handle the conversation. Too bad bub.
Get over yourself already. The world does not revolve around you and your kind, and if you can’t take listening to free expression then get some cheese to go with your whine. Us elitists luvs us some good cheese to compliment a fine right wing whine. Good for the soul and digestion, but watch out for the cheese farts.
We generally aim them to the right.
CharlesF
I loved the crowd shots. I can only hope this is the last gasp of the resentful, sneering, fat, white Christo-Nationalists, and not the last gasp of democracy.
LiberalTarian
Shoot. Better prepared comment eaten by John’s Hellmouth server. :(
Alicublog made a great observation:
Yup, package looks different, but McCain/Palin are all about the same failed policies as GW Bush.
blogreeder
I didn’t catch that in John’s post. Was it written in a liberal font I don’t have? MS sans sense?
michelle
JKFS
baby
Chuck Butcher
I thought I’d watch SP, but after Mittens and Huckleberry I’d had all I could take and went back to work. Work was more satisfying and more fun from the descriptions of RNC. To understand that reference you’d have to be on your 12th hour of construction work standing on an 8′ step ladder wedged into a 21″ x 47″ hole 48″ tall trying to paint the sky light tunnel you installed the day before. The 8 hr portion of the day involved trying to put back together the eves on an 80 yr old house the power line had ripped off and make it strong enough to let the power company re-attach the power. That and mud-in the sky light tunnel and texture it. All that beat the hell out of being lied to a watching old white people/cretins get pandered to.
Cripes all winter, spring, and early summer I couldn’t buy a job, now everybody wants something yesterday – I’m a week behind after a month of 7/week & long hours.
blogreeder
I wouldn’t call a lot that goes on here a conversation. It’s more like blather. The only time that conversation goes on is when someone disagrees with the group think. Don’t you agree?
KRK
Meanwhile, over at TalkLeft, Jeralyn is reaping what she sowed. How shocking that her commenters would rather chuckle over the digs that Palin took at Obama than engage with Jeralyn’s concerns about the attacks on Miranda?
No one could have expected…
LiberalTarian
No kidding. So was I. Turns out she is 3 months older than me–I bet we were born in the same hospital. My mom came from 90 miles away over the border to go to the nearest hospital.
Horseshit. Those people formed somewhere else and moved to Idaho, a lot like the Freemen and the ever infamous Unabomber who moved to Montana. Those folks are from the midwest. Sandpoint is a fine artsy-fartsy town. Butler and his group were in Hayden Lake, and finally got run out of town when they shot at a mom and her kid because her car backfired.
And members of Charles Manson’s family lived near where my dad’s family was raised–doesn’t make everyone from Heron a serial killer.
Sheez. I gotta go get some solvent and get the tar from your wide brush off me. Goofball.
Just Some Fuckhead
Shorter Blogreeder: I deserve your pity, not your scorn.
Martin
Obama wrote Obama’s speech. What’s more, Obama knew who was actually going to give the speech when he wrote it.
And don’t lose sight of the shitting on ‘community organizers’ in the GOP speeches. MLK was a community organizer. This is going to be racism/sexism jujitsu for the next 2 months by the GOP.
Time to turn Biden loose. The GOP crossed a few lines tonight, in my view.
Just Some Fuckhead
Ummm.
blogreeder
Prove it.
NonWonderDog
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LiberalTarian
Heh. Oliver Willis.
NonWonderDog
(satisfied, post-evacuatory grin.)
LiberalTarian
Wow. This troll is so much more lucid, and incisive, and, well, just more entertaining than most, eh?
Here sweetheart, have a cookie. That’s a good baby. Now, you just go run along, and say hello to your mama for me.
Just Some Fuckhead
lolz
This from the earth is flat, 6000 years old and ruled by an invisible spirit clowns.
L. Ron Obama
It was written in what the liberals call the ‘previous post’. Liberals came up with this liberal concept when they were liberally inventing the blog. I guess you are new at the internets.
Also, liberal.
Just Some Fuckhead
Your “Hmm… the preview window is kinda weird” didn’t show up, so I call FAIL.
Conservatively Liberal
What are we having? Fuck you are dense.
You stupid fucks will gladly shew and swallow any right wing shit as factual, without question or pause, but if anyone says anything that disrupts your little world you demand proof because you are too intellectually dishonest to go find out for yourself. Then when someone quotes a source, you ridicule it as a lefty source and as such you can easily dismiss it.
Fuck you are dense and stupid.
No pity for shit eaters. Nope, not here. Scorn? Oh yeah, no problem at all.
blogreeder
Psst. Martin look here.
Conservatively Liberal
shew = chew
Unless I am coining a new term for how republicans like chewing on the shit they are fed.
Then ‘shew’ works. ;)
NonWonderDog
…or WAS it? Obviously, it showed in the preview window, only serving to showcase the weirdness of the preview window!
San
Just went to Act Blue Balloon page and donated.
NonWonderDog
Or the ampersand codes for less-than and greater-than are interpreted before the post is published, therefore proving me to be an ass. One of the two.
L. Ron Obama
blogreeder, why did you link an 8-month old article favorable to Obama? Whose second sentence says that Obama himself “[wrote] the 2004 speech that catapulted him onto the national stage”, among others, and hired this guy to help him edit?
You’re supposed to make this difficult for us.
blogreeder
C.L., that’s my point. Unless I disagree, all I’m doing is adding to the group jerk that usually goes on here.
I thought Palin delivered the speech very well. In fact, great. She turned to the McCain side. Quickly. Strong in the force. You know, I always thought Bill Clinton gave great speeches as well. Great delivery, timing. Obama does too but I liked Clinton’s better. Maybe because Clinton had executive experience before going to the White House.
Jeffrey
Did you even read the article?
L. Ron Obama
Maybe Romney has liberal Tourette’s.
Martin
It’s staggering.
(Just to finish the previous thought – Obama writes most of his major speeches. His regular speechwriter is Jon Favreau (no, not that Jon Favreau) who certainly would have helped with this one, but these are the speeches that Obama takes time out to do himself. Compare this speech to his 04 Convention speech which he wrote before he hired Favreau.)
Now I think it is incumbent on blogreeder to prove that he doesn’t blow goats. Turnabout, and all that.
Chuck Butcher
People have talked endlessly about a Hillary problem, this has been about the McCain problem – the mouth foamers have been short of rancid meat and not pleased. This addresses their concerns that McPOW might be a reasonable human (sorta). You know that McPOW can’t go to the mat, he’s stuck with “jokey” snarky stuff – no demonstrations of temper allowed, so Ms Palin gets the job.
Running against the media may be a mistake, they’ve been McPOW’s best friends up until now, lots of kid gloves when he’s been stupid. These folks figure they’re professionals and mocking them when they’ve been nice could provoke a reaction.
Where’d we inherit Frogbreeder from? The quality of trolls is declining, that’s just plain mediocre. DugJay has the redeeming factor of endearing stupid going, at least.
PC
I think I figured out why McCain picked Palin. They have the same jaw line.
/yeah, I went there.
Just Some Fuckhead
Dumbass, please note my earlier comment on Palin. I said she read her lines well. So you agree with me which means you are helping to jerk me off. Make sure your thumb rubs my peehole each stroke. I like that.
blogreeder
Sometimes you people as so dense. Really. Now I’ll explain is slowly. I asked Martin to prove it. All he had to do was a short google to come up with that. Notice I said “Psst.” You know, like I was whispering? Only in text? Like a hint? Geez.
You people are so dense. I thought the liberal font was MS sans sense, It’s more like MS Dense.
L. Ron Obama
Rubbing the peehole burns.
Now if you want to post a useful article about speechwriters, you could start here.
blogreeder
Not the same. Reading is not delivering. Good is not Great.
Richard Bottoms
So, are you ready to decimate these fuckers? Or are going to listen to two months of bellyaching about reaching across the aisle and not seeming to be mean or anything?
You want to reach across aisle? Make sure you’re reaching across with a rhetorical sledgehammer.
Fuck the politics of hope, how about the politics of kick their asses?
Just Some Fuckhead
Just shut yer pie hole and jack it, bitch.
Ned R.
No, I think the book was called God Is Not Great…oh.
LiberalTarian
Martin–here you go.
L. Ron Obama
Roger Simon is vexed.
God dammit, this is why I should not argue on the internets. I have to get up in 4 hours.
Just Some Fuckhead
Yeah, me too. Why does someone always have to be so wrong so late?
YellowJournalism
Anyone notice the way her husband practically threw the baby at the younger daughter when Palin started talking about what a wonderful husband he was? I was watching that sleeping baby’s head bob around in the little girl’s arms, and wondered if anyone took the time to fill his ears with cotton to deaden the sound of the huge crowd of cheering people. As the mother of a little guy, it really bothers me when I see parents forgetting about a baby’s sensitive ears, and that goes for people who bring babies to loud rallies, concerts, and wedding receptions.
I also loved how bored the boyfriend/fiance looked during Palin’s speech. He kept looking out of the corner of his eye as if he were checking to see if the camera was on the couple. He looked very nervous. Poor guy.
Mary
I think this is the start of some ass-kicking from the Obama campaign: Palin versus Reality.
It’s a data dump that the media may or may not pick up on, but I am damn impressed this came across the transom so quickly. Let’s hope it gets broken down into talking points, commercials, and debate zingers soon.
Just Some Fuckhead
Hooboy, I dunno BBQ is gonna fix this. McCain may have to send Omaha steaks this time.
PC
Holy fuck. The establishment media is snarking? What the hell is going on?
Just Some Fuckhead
He did seem very nervous. Prolly the trait that caused the little accident in the first pl- uhh, ah. Thanks blogreeder, you can go.
drag0n
Who The FUCK are you to judge us Palin?
blogreeder
L. Ron, that wasn’t so hard. Good link but the only thing I found about Obama was.
This doesn’t prove that Obama writes his speeches. If it did then it proves that McCain does too. And I know you wouldn’t want that.
PC
STOP TRYING TO USE THE PALIN FAMILY FOR POLITICAL ADVANTAGE!
handy
LOL blogreeder is TEH AWESOME. Man, keep it up. This place could use a few trolls after all the Hillbots (well, most of them–hi myiq /wave) took the group jump off the pier.
LiberalTarian
Like the man said–same shit, different costume.
ThymeZone
Okay.
blogreeder
Compare:
Contrast:
Lovely.
LiberalTarian
g’night.
Just Some Fuckhead
Not the same. We’re on the same side, remember?
blogreeder
Great job Thymezone! Exactly what I wanted. I’ve got some McCain points I could give you.
ThymeZone
Better and less obvious dumbass trolls, please.
ThymeZone
By the way, it took me exactly two minutes to find the article describing how Obama wrote his speech.
Don’t waste any more of our time, asshole. STFU.
PC
Just because you LIEberals disagree with us doesn’t mean you need to be insulting.
Just Some Fuckhead
Yer kidding, right? Someone on the interwebs did as he commanded. He’s prolly shadowboxing the wall right now.
L. Ron Obama
God, I hope for his sake that McCain doesn’t write his own boring speeches. I just thought that was an interesting article which points out a fact that the media is conveniently glossing over in re the Palin speech.
Also, Helvetica.
rawshark
I could see the old Hancock building from my front yard, that’s how close I was. :)
blogreeder
I’ve got no more McCain points to give you but that comment was on the link to which I was referring.
Not your link.
handy
Yeah! And how dare you criticize John McCain! Don’t you know he was a P.O. effing double U?! Dontcha?
rawshark
I could see the old Hancock building from my front yard, that’s how close I was. :)
You do not have McCain points that you could give to him. You just don’t so drop it.
L. Ron Obama
You know, this ridiculous collection of speeches has prompted me to go donate again. And what better time than 3am?
Just Some Fuckhead
I hope he talks about his time as a POW because I heard he never talks about it and I bet he has some stories to tell, if he’d ever open up.
CharlesF
The piggies were squealing their approval, but does America really want a creationist who thinks the Iraq war is God’s mission? Can things have devolved that badly?
Martin
Wait, why are we doing research for the troll? Where am I and what’s happened to Cole’s blog?
Oh, look, he’s trolling more. Someone, do more research for him, quick – because that will make him stop.
disappointedGOPer
Palin looked pathetic today.
Moderates are abandoning this train before it wrecks.
CharlesF
If there is a troll here, just shut the fuck up.
CharlesF
Let me be clearer, all trolls, shut up, you have nothing worth listening to.
blogreeder
I’m hurt. Even after giving up my McCain points. Did you ever think maybe I wanted you guys to do some work too? There’s a lack of thinking that goes on here. It’s just one hateful comment after another. So here, I got you people conversing, I think it’s a great first step.
There’s probably 11 more steps to go.
Just Some Fuckhead
Prolly not but when the alternative is a negro commie muslim terrorist ivory-tower elitist bastard product of miscegnation wealthy drug-dealing kid from a broken home, whats good white folks to do??
blogreeder
Thanks, Handy. What’s a hillbot?
CharlesF
You make some good points there. Blugfeeder, go research that for us and report back.
L. Ron Obama
It’s one scornful comment after another. Hate, you have to earn.
Just Some Fuckhead
I totally called that one. Me from earlier:
I could totally be making some coin right now trolling for McPowlin.
PC
This place is a breeding ground for trolls. :sigh: How quickly we have fallen.
Just Some Fuckhead
Maybe myiq will show up and take him under his right wing.
CharlesF
I think yet again McCain made a tactical mistake and let Palin go pig-doggish, instead of sweet and sexy moosegirl. Now she’s fair game, and it will be pretty easy to take her apart and hand her over to the late night comedians to finish off.
Gary Ruppert
The fact is, your blog and all the hot air cannot deal with criticism of any kind of your Obamessiah who wants to reintroduce shania law in America.
We in the Heartland are not fulled, and we will gladly pull the level for Palin and McCain because they are true USA patriots who understand freedom.
blogreeder
You’re right. Scornful is a better word.
handy
Now there’s a troll I can believe in.
blogreeder
No, I think you’re wrong. The pit-bull image is exactly what he was going for. That’s why he picked her. Saracuda. Did you see her snarl during her speech?
Just Some Fuckhead
Keep at it. You don’t just go out and incite hate. You have to build to it.
CharlesF
Don’t hate the troll, hate their ability to type.
Martin
They don’t give a fuck about America. They just want to win. These are the cheerleaders. The folks in the Pepsi center really aren’t that different, to be honest. And what the pundits say matters for nothing – they’re pundits. They’re paid to agree.
Talk to your neighbors and start to watch the polls. America doesn’t want this and the more they see what’s going on, the worse it’ll get. A month ago, I would have thought the public wouldn’t have a chance to see it, but the media seems to be cluing in that the GOP isn’t running against the Democrats now – they’re running against the media. I don’t think the media will give McCain the cover he wants.
Conservatively Liberal
I know. For some reason common sense and snark are breaking out in the media. Maybe the powers that be in the media and the world of big business are a bit afraid of what McCain and Palin would do to the country/world if they win? I am hearing more and more commentary that is taking McCain to task for his stupidity and calling Republicans on their lying bullshit.
Maybe McCain is confused because he can’t figure out why the media aren’t licking his balls like they did for Bu$h. It probably pisses him off that Chimpy was able to use the media as ballwashers for all the years he has, but now that it is McCain’s turn the ballwashers are out of order.
Literally.
More please. Much more!
And if you take his suggestion seriously, you only have yourself to blame. Thick skin is required when you engage in open discourse.
Especially when you are engaging someone who thinks that you are a moran.
Just Some Fuckhead
Prove it.
blogreeder
With that recommendation, I certainly will.
CharlesF
Yes, bugfeeler, I saw the barracuda’s teeth. Think that’s attractive in a self-trumpeting Christian? Not having cognitive dissonance? As Murphy and Noonan said today, McCain just pissed away his image as non-hypocrite with this bitched-up ‘gimmick’.
handy
“That luxury jet…I put it on e-Bay!” Oh yes, and of course you won’t be using this “private” jet if you’re elected.
L. Ron Obama
Well, we should know by this weekend if there is a convention bump. But do not underestimate the Republicans’ ability to work the refs. It worked pretty well for Clinton (the press went somewhat overboard on Obama after that “why you always gotta call on me first” stuff in the debates); but on the other hand, Hillary never lobbed nuclear artillery at the media like the McCain campaign appears to be suddenly doing.
I have to assume their internals looked really bad and now we will see if their scorched earth strategy works.
CharlesF
borgreefer, go research that murphy/noonan interview for me.
Just Some Fuckhead
Yeah, I’m still puzzling that one. Sarah Palin sells her state jet through McCain’s national co-chair Meg Whitman’s company and somehow that makes her, uh, what?
Conservatively Liberal
Shorter blogreeder: duuuuuh… /drool
blogreeder
(I don’t think I did that embedded quote right)
Sure, I can prove it. If you watched, you saw. Q.E.D.
Just Some Fuckhead
I dunno, I think America is going to prefer ’em over the guys they’re running against, the Republicans.
CharlesF
McCain is out of control now, a bull with ptss in a china shop. He’s making enemies left and right, even now his base the media whores. He’s jumped the barracuda this last week.
blogreeder
What do you mean?
Just Some Fuckhead
FAIL
MsIndependent
i was turned on to political blogs a few years ago. One of mu lefty friends mentioned that I should check Balloon-Juice out.
Wow,I thought Daily Kos was bad, but this place is an inferno of hate. Women are only ok, if you they agree with you? Apparently so, as I’ve been reading for a month or so and have never seen such vile comments about a female candidate in my life.
Tou disgust me.
Jeffrey
Off-topic: Protest at the RNC, and you get charged with terrorism. Conspire to assassinate Barack Obama, and you’re off the hook.
I’m at a loss for words.
PC
My best guestimate is the media were apoplectic when McMaverick chose an unknown and totally fucked any sort of chance they had at responding. While that’s all good and mavericky, even the fucking GOP had no idea how to respond. Tie that in with the subsequent shit storm as the media tries to do its job (like background) and all of a sudden McLecher has an adverse media when they start asking questions about his fucking running mate.
Given the deluge of info, rumors or otherwise, that have come down on a cursory review of Palin in the last five days…well fuck. Even the heads of the media companies have to be wondering what the fuck he is thinking. Sure, the GOP pays a lot of lip service to far right wing dominionist wing of the party, but no one really believed there may be someone that drinks that kool-aid a half heartbeat away from the presidency.
clust. er. fuck.
CharlesF
bugbreeder, go research hillbot. and we need to see your footnotes.
Just Some Fuckhead
Did you see the way Palin recoiled from McCain when he tried to hug her? He smells like death, they say.
Conservatively Liberal
That might explain why he is so fucked up. Borgreefer sounds like pot laced with PCP or something.
Smoke this, it’ll turn you into a borg!
No, he has wanted to jump the barracuda since last week but Cindy kinda has his nuts in a vice with that pre-nup. If he makes her his veep though, maybe he can send Cindy overseas on some junket and have a Bill Clinton Oval Office cigar moment in her absence. You know, pull out the trouser worm and go fishing for barracuda. ;)
Just another day in Republican led Amerika! We have become what we have always feared, and our fellow citizens have led the way. The right is the party of hate and intolerance, and they wallow in it like the pigs they are. They look down on the rest of America and they don’t think of what they can do for the country but rather what they can get out of it for themselves.
Lets hope that the idiots who voted them in have tired of this shit and are ready to join us and end the nightmare.
blogreeder
Boy, you are so clever. Ha Ha. Show us your FOOTNOTES! Ha ha ha ha. Whew. He said Footnote!. Ha. Whew.
Now. Getting my breath back. Hillbots are usually Hillary Clinton supporters. But that would mean you had infighting.. Here?… Between Obama supporters and… I don’t get it.
Just Some Fuckhead
So I hear Bristol Palin has a little eskimo in her…
Conservatively Liberal
In more ways than one?
Rome Again
Actually Jesus employed many more than 13 (Judas’ replacement was chosen from the extras that traveled with Jesus and his 12 disciples, there were others); and while they didn’t receive an actual wage, they received kickbacks in the way of fish, bread, wine and other daily subsistence. I think they even sat down to eat these meals.
Considering the size of Nazareth, that’s a pretty good accomplishment for a community organizer. ;)
Blue Raven
1/10.
I’ve seen better trolling from the statue under the Aurora Bridge in Seattle.
blogreeder
Yes, that’s the joke. “Just Some F*head” can’t follow a simple Obama instruction. Some supporter. People like that are going to make Obama lose. It’ll be a shame.
Conservatively Liberal
Maybe Palin flew back to Alaska to have the baby just for the simple reason of plain old greed?
The Alaska dividend checks only go out to natives. Five kids equals $10,000.00 a year.
I think that may have been the reason, so he would be considered a ‘native’ born Alaskan and not miss out on the cash.
I know that you are used to getting your daily marching orders from the GOP, so you may have problems understanding this fine point. We support Obama, and we listen to what he says. If we agree, we agree. If we disagree, we disagree. We don’t walk in lockstep like you righties like to. We march to the beat of our own drum.
If we wanted to be mindless morons, we would be on your ‘side’.
Palin is clearly exploiting the children, and bringing Levi to the convention was nothing more than more exploitation. The campaign announced the pregnancy and tried to blame it on the left when it was the Enquirer who was breathing down their necks. How convenient.
Amy Carter was shredded by the right, as was Chelsea Clinton. They were kids and the right did not leave them alone or respect their privacy. McCain even cracked a sick joke at Chelsea’s expense (and for his gain, as usual).
No what was this about the kids being left out of it? What a quaint notion!
zuzu's petals
I’m watching the streaming video, and have to say I’m unimpressed.
I really thought she’d be better. But she’s flat, not great articulation, and misplaced inflection. She’s reading the thing.
Not a speaker. But I wonder if she’s wearing peekaboo shoes tonight too.
Rome Again
Pay no attention to blogreeder, he gave up freedom for security. Poor thing.
Rome Again
You know I really have to feel sorry for Levi. They say there is nothing new under the sun, but I wonder, how many times did a young studly teen screw his girlfriend, get her pregnant and then have to be paraded out before the Republican National Convention (and the entire country on tv) while his new to-be mother-in-law shows off her perfect little family. OMG! How terrifying. And he said he didn’t want to have kids, I wonder if he regrets it now.
Rome Again
Your party is split too, don’t think it’s not. Our party has mended most of it’s fences, with only those who would vote for a woman simply because she’s a woman (and because she’s not a black man) refusing to come back to the fold. We’re better off without those few who choose to vote for “McCain and a Woman” (and a woman , I might add, who doesn’t agree at all with Hillary’s political stance).
You can have them, we are receiving many more votes from your party then you are receiving from ours. Keep tissues handy on election day, you’re going to need them. ;)
Rome Again
Interesting how media is finally beginning to do its job, but, at the same time, the AP is running scared because several papers are dropping their service because of their heavy handedness and bias, and if they don’t shape up, within two years (that’s how long of a notice of intent to drop service is for the AP) they will lose their livelihood. They are only doing this to enrich themselves.
Marshall
I saw (well, mostly heard) Sarah Palin’s speech, and thought I was listening to Legally Blonde III. All sound bites, no substance.
Marshall
Look, the establishment (media and otherwise) will put up with a lot of things, but they are very classist. They didn’t like Jimmy Carter, for pete’s sake, because they thought he was a cracker. They had a visceral dislike of Bill Clinton for basically the same reason. Remember when the Monica scandal exploded and all of those pundits said things like “It’s our place, and he is trashing it ?” It confirmed all of their prejudices about him being a low class Southern hillbilly.
The establishment thinks Sarah Palin is white trash, and she can expect no mercy, as being low class is one sin they cannot forgive.
Rome Again
One interesting point to make:
If the right thought the media was liberal before, their heads must be exploding now. ;)
AnneLaurie
Palin reminded me of the nasty little third-grader who makes the special-ed kids cry by telling them there’s no Santa Claus. And when she’s called on her bad behavior, her thuggish parents try to get her teacher fired for “disrespecting Little Sarah’s deep religious convictions.” She started at Roseanne Rosannadanna and drilled back thru pop-cult history to Dennis-the-Menace’s bitchy sidekick Margaret, whose personality was so universally loathed that Pixar recycled her in LILO & STITCH.
If President Obama really wants a grand gesture of reconciliation, he can start by offering young Bristol and Levi spots in the federal witness protection program… probably in different states.
4tehlulz
The Church Lady with nuclear weapons.
Enjoy the apocalypse.
Xenos
The idea of bringing Levi to the stage just boggles the mind. The kid lacks legal competency to sign a contract, but he is brought in to show… what? That Bristol is really a good girl? Like she would not be a good girl if her boyfriend’s parents protected him from this whole circus?
They don’t even go through the whole fundie process of confessing outrageous sins and getting forgiven. It is just a matter of parents dominating their teens, forcing them to fit into normative roles. And now we get the whole Levi Johnston celebrity industry as we get reminded about every bar brawl, adultery, marriages and divorces and half-baked businesses and marketing schemes from the joker for the next forty years.
grandpajohn
and especially that the major part of the speech other than the personal stuff was written before the speechgiver was even selected
The Grand Panjandrum
I didn’t watch Joe Biden’s speech. Why would I watch the Republican speech?
I am acquainted with several people who vote strictly on the issue of abortion. They are convinced that Palin their god’s response to fervent prayer. What I don’t understand is why Gustav wasn’t also a sign that Jesus is pissed and taking anymore Republican bullshit. I guess its all in the reading of the signs, eh?
BTW Bourdain’s No Reservation rocks. He visited that crazy wingnut Ted Nugent out at his ranch in Waco. It was hysterically funny. Nugent may be crazy but he is very entertaining if only a mediocre musician.
jake
Her speech included that little zinger about not caring if she had the approval of the reporters and the commentators.
Like most GOP speech writer cleverosity it was very, very, dumb. Sure it got Das Base excited but she (to be fair, the speech writer) assumed that the press would be just as eager to suck her dick as it is to blow Bush.
She ain’t Bush. She ain’t Cheney. She ain’t even Huckabee.
Prepare to hear a lot of screaming about sexism in the near future, followed by decreased media access followed by them media types talking about McPalintine amongst themselves while the cameras roll.
harlana pepper
Soooo many delectible repube-morality-gone-awry tidbits in this story. But, for some reason, because we are Dems and they are repubes, we are not allowed to delve even toe deep into the Palin family waters. The delicious thing about it is, we don’t have to.
DougJ
I hope Halperin had at least one wetsuit on last night for his journey into the tank:
Georgette Orwell
The past, the past, the past. What he did (or didn’t do) forty years ago, though they skip the Keating era. What she did all her life, not one bit of which (even the rare true parts) is relevant.
And I wouldn’t be surprised to see them win.
Carthaginian
Wolfslayer Barbie
Anything Wolfslayer Barbie wants is God’s plan. Wolfslayer Barbie knows what God wants.
God wants brave mighty hunters to chase wolves with airplanes until they drop from exhaustion.
Then God wants brave mighty hunters to shoot the adult wolves.
Then God wants mighty brave mighty hunters to leave the wolf puppies to die of exposure, God doesn’t want brave mighty hunters to waste ammunition.
Wolfslayer Barbie knows God’s mind.
God loves Wolfslayer Barbie.
Wolfslayer Barbie makes the Baby Jesus smile.
John S.
Nope.
As of this morning, they are right back to playing the complicit lapdog. Watching CNN for a few minutes this morning I learned:
– Palin is a fiscal consevative because she fired the butler and sold a plane on eBay
– Palin is a reformer because she does things differently
– The children just want to be left alone, if only the press would let them (as they show gratuitous footage of them being paraded around by the campaign)
These fucking clowns. This is going to be the election where they finally prove to the public that they are irrelevant and full of shit.
chopper
a solid speech to the base. real red meat, real negative. contrasts quite a bit with the more positive dem convention, but then again mccain has officially given up on running on actual issues and has decided to take the advice of the hard right and go with yet another ‘culture war’ campaign.
problem is, the whole ‘culture war’ thing only barely squeaks out a victory and only when the dem is a blah candidate, and only when the media is fully complicit.
i do like all her talk about how obama’s past as a community activist is worthless, yet at the same time saying he has no ‘small-town experience’. that was a funny one. i also imagined her, at the VP debates, asking aloud ‘name one community activist that ever accomplished anything’ and biden going ‘outside of martin luther king and most of the civil rights movement? nothing, nothing at all’.
harlana pepper
Given her choices and behavior, I feel pretty confident in saying that Palin sucks as a mom and will probably blow severely as a grand-mom. Plus, she is a vindictive, petty bitch and the facts support that.
Conservatively Liberal
I liked the fact that Rudy loved the sound of his voice so much that they couldn’t play the introduction video clip about Palin, they just went from Rudy straight to Palin.
Thank you Rudy!
Noonan and Murphy blew a couple of holes in the bottom of the S.S. McCain and the old wreck is taking on water fast. Palin is balin’ but the ship is swamping and may go under soon. I wonder when the rats will start deserting the sinking ship? Rats are smart, they find a way to survive, and these rats are no different. They know that the S.S. McCain is heading for the bottom and you can tell that they are nervous.
Good.
There is too much shit out there about Palin and they may be backing off for a moment to not look like they are piling on. But the media are like dogs fighting over a bone and they are not going to let this pass. This stuff brings in viewers, which means better advertising sales and income for them.
If they can be the one with the big steaming pile hot and in their hands then they are going to rush out to show it off, no doubt about it. But if they piss McCain or the right off too much they would probably lose (what they consider) valuable contacts. I think they should run with whatever is the truth and leave it at that but I am realistic enough to know that the world ain’t that simple though I wish it was.
Regardless, Palin is a non-stop train wreck and the press loves a train wreck, the bloodier the better. Things have been favoring Obama for the last week, and I am damn happy about that.
More will come, of that I am sure.
ksmiami
Who the FUCK does she think she is? I want her eviscerated and McLame too. They are unfit to lead our country, period.
gil mann
Hey, y’know what prefix and suffix go along nicely with the word “help?”
“un-” and “-ful.”
No, really, it’s cool, let’s keep talking about her personal choices and using the word bitch. I’d much rather spend all my time from now until November concern-trolling my own side than helping Obama get elected.
Stuck in the Fun House
Next up. Palin fires MCcain because she wants to and because it’s fun.
Just Some Fuckhead
At least you understand what you’re doing and that it isn’t helping. Lots of trolls aren’t that far along.
chopper
man, if al gore was a serial liar then this woman is like the green river killer of liars.
cain
How odd? Are they retirees or something? I would think that the economy the on-going war would be of a concern to them? If America goes to hell in a handbasket, guaranteed abortion is not going to be one of hte priorities. I guess none of this things have personally affected them. [shrug]
cain
handy
BTW Bourdain’s No Reservation rocks.
Meh, the guy’s a snob. I prefer Zimmern myself.
Gus
Where have you been for the last 30 years?
Grumpy Code Monkey
Gary Ruppert Says:
See, now this is how you spoof.
We have the silly spelling errors like “fulled” and “shania” (unless you think Obama’s going to force everyone to listen to Shania Twain), we have the appeal to patriotism and freedom, the obligatory “Obamessiah” reference.
I give it a 9.2. Bit of a wobble on the dismount, but otherwise a good imitation of a right-wing nutbar.
DonnaInMichigan
I can picture it now…
Palin first day on the job as VP…
YARD SALE signs on the front lawn of the White House, will read:
Auction at 10 am.
Everything must go! The remainder’s will be sold on ebay.
2 private Jets
2 private helicopters
Antique Furniture
Lincoln Bedroom Set
Fine Art/Sculptures
China
Silverware
Cash or Credit cards only!!
No early sales!
ThymeZone
No, sorry, the faux misspelling is a reveal. 6.0 is all I can give on this sorry troll display.
That’s one of the worst fake misspellings I have ever seen. “Shania” law was funny though, a witty wink to the other trolls out there. But, style points only.
Brachiator
Oddly enough, yes (Retirees, industries back McCain with their wallets)
A common theme of many of the speeches at the Republican Convention is that if you’ve got your pile, then everything is all right with America. And it is relatively easy for retirees to be pro-war: they aren’t going, and for the most part, neither are their grandkids.
The irony is that the Republicans successfully use an irrational fear of free-spending, tax raising Democrats to get many middle class retirees to vote against their own interests. So while Dubya throws billions at financial markets to rescue them from their own greed and folly, people don’t connect the dots and see this for what it is –a taxpayer funded subsidy for corporate pigs.
Benjamin Wright
John: E-mail records were central to the investigation of Jack Abramoff. Electronic records are profoundly changing our society. They combat all manner of corruption and abuse of authority or privilege. –Ben http://hack-igations.blogspot.com/2007/12/people-in-authority-sometimes-abuse.html