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Sarah Palin as McCain's running-mate
George W And Bill Clinton were both born in 1946 - doesn't that make them boomers? So yeah, the boomers skipped the Presidency, other than those 16 years.
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at 11:04 PM on August 29, 2008
Has Palin ever been to Washington, D.C.?
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at 10:40 PM on August 31, 2008
That pic of her pregnant looks old, like 1980s-old with the big frizz hair and big glasses.... Recent pictures showing her pregnant.
It's time to drop this ridiculous, distracting story and focus on real reasons she is not a good VP candidate.
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at 11:05 PM on August 31, 2008
The lawyer who conducted the vetting for McCain is on record (yesterday) as saying:
Arthur B. Culvahouse Jr., the lawyer who conducted the review, told The Associated Press in an interview Monday that Palin underwent a "full and complete" examination before McCain chose her. Asked whether everything that came up as a possible red flag during the review already has been made public, Culvahouse said: "I think so. Yeah, I think so. Correct.... [more]
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at 11:58 AM on September 2, 2008
Earbucket's link to McCain's campaign advisor's comments is astounding:
"This election is not about issues," said Davis. "This election is about a composite view of what people take away from these candidates."
Davis generally dismissed the controversies surrounding McCain's vice presidential pick -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin -- as a media creation but did acknowledge that her acceptance speech,... [more]
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at 12:44 PM on September 2, 2008
Even Rupert Murdoch is throwing in the towel, it seems.
Rupert Murdoch helped broker a "tentative truce" between Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and key News Corporation lieutenant Roger Ailes, the boss of Fox News Channel, earlier this year, according to the media mogul's biographer.
Murdoch, the News Corp chairman and chief executive, was forced to court Obama after the rising star of US politics rebuffed his... [more]
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at 1:26 PM on September 2, 2008
I'm really looking forward to Palin breaking cover and giving an interview. They can't hide her forever. or can they?
tkchrist --- sorry, but your daughter's pregnant with Reverend Wright's baby.
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at 1:54 PM on September 2, 2008
if you disable MeFi navigator, this page renders much quicker
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at 2:09 PM on September 2, 2008
Sarah Palin is Your New Segway
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at 2:15 PM on September 2, 2008
Steve Bell on Sarah Palin.
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at 8:47 PM on September 2, 2008
Lindsay Lohan responds.
surely a good note to end this thread on....
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at 11:49 PM on September 2, 2008
Why such a downer on teen pregnancies?
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at 11:31 AM on September 3, 2008
With McCain's history of (choose one) maverick / erratic decision making and his known short-fuse temper, I have to wonder (and haven't seen this brought up anywhere, so maybe it is off limits): does he have PTSD as a result of being a POW?
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at 1:43 PM on September 3, 2008
Funny how Peggy Noonan can spend an entire article talking about the subtle nuances and shades of Palin, yet in a frank, candid conversation on ths subject, refers to her pick as the VP candidate as "bullshit".
I know it shouldn't come as a surprise that these partisan hacks are just repeating their assigned talking points, but it is infuriating nonetheless when the veil is dropped, as it just was. Would it be so hard to have... [more]
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at 1:55 PM on September 3, 2008
I'd really like to see a transcript of the before-and-after of Noonan's comments, just to make her mendacious bullshit crystal-clear.
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at 2:19 PM on September 3, 2008
The first part is politics, and it's kind of the point (depending on what the falsehoods are and how truly 'false' they are).
See, I don't really get this -- well, I do, a little -- it's spin. But what we are now witnessing is simply, blatant lying and saying things one does not believe at all -- and not by paid employees like Press Secretaries (and even they have their professional ethics) but by complete hacks. It's not politics... [more]
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at 2:26 PM on September 3, 2008
Fellow Navy P-O-W speaks on the experience as preparation for being President.
spoiler: it's not a good one
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at 2:49 PM on September 3, 2008
Re: the WSJ piece and its comments: clearly they are cherry picking the comments, but not very thoroughly. Here is a choice one that slipped through, note the dissonance between the first sentence and the rest -- some little drone in a cubicle is only reading the first few words, methinks.
Posted:Wed Sep 03, 2008 2:45 pm Post subject:Re: Declarations: A Clear and Present Danger to the American Lef
Another excellent piece full of good... [more]
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at 3:03 PM on September 3, 2008
PEGGY NOONAN: The most qualified? No! I think they went for this -- excuse me-- political bullshit about narratives --
CHUCK TODD: Yeah they went to a narrative.
MIKE MURPHY: I totally agree.
PEGGY NOONAN: Every time the Republicans do that, because that's not where they live and it's not what they're good at, they blow it.
That's the part I don't get, because I would have... [more]
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at 3:09 PM on September 3, 2008
An interesting WTF titbit from the text of Romney's speech scheduled for tonight:
We need change all right -- change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington! We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington -- throw out the big government liberals and elect John McCain.
Words are starting to fail me here now....
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at 3:32 PM on September 3, 2008
New polls in three key states:
TIME / CNN / ORC
8/31 - 9/2/08
Mode: Live Telephone Interviews
Iowa (828 RV, 3.5%)
Obama 55, McCain 40
Obama 51, McCain 38, Nader 4, Barr 3, McKinney 2
Minnesota (742 RV, 3.5%)
Obama 53, McCain 41
Obama 51, McCain 37, Nader 4, Barr 2, McKinney 1
Ohio (685 RV, 3.5%)
Obama... [more]
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at 3:38 PM on September 3, 2008
WTF Romney? The elites looking to the East? I guess Cheney isn't from Wyoming and Bush from Texas after all.
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at 6:08 PM on September 3, 2008
Romney take home message: "McCain is to the right of George Bush."
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at 6:12 PM on September 3, 2008
Note to Rudy: don't recycle your own speeches without doublechecking first.......
Giuliani, who never served in the military, said McCain “has never run a city, never run a state, never run a government. He has never been responsible as a mayor for the safety and security of millions of people, and he has never run a law enforcement agency, which I have done.”
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at 7:11 PM on September 3, 2008
So one thing I keep hearing is how she is a "reformer" who took on her "own party". But it was the Republican Party that needed cleaning up. I sense a new ad in the offing ...
'Vote Republicans: We scoop our own poop"
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at 9:40 PM on September 3, 2008
Linda Grant in the Guardian:
So clear is the divide between big-city and small-town America that one American friend said to me: "These whitebread Republicans are like children - someone has to tell them what to do and what to think, they're incapable of independent ideas."
The conviction by the left that the right is stupid is one of the defining and least attractive characteristics of contemporary politics. Assuming that... [more]
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at 12:21 AM on September 4, 2008
This comment is my gift to the overseas nightwatch as they campaign their way towards #3,000
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at 12:29 AM on September 4, 2008
Thanks for all the links, ericb.
dawson: not everyone is out looking at every blog and news-site. ericb bring relevant links here is entirely within the spirit of metafilter.
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at 10:10 AM on September 4, 2008
Ben Stein: "I believe in Intelligent Design but ..... Sarah Palin is the most peculiar VP pick there has ever been .... she is going to need Henry Kissinger babysitting her...."
Heh, awesome smackdown from the far-ish right.
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at 11:18 AM on September 4, 2008
Is Cindy McCain wearing glittered contact lenses?
No, she's just stoned out of her tree.
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at 7:00 PM on September 4, 2008
Has there ever been a candidate who has so cravenly tried to steal the platform of his rival?
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at 8:05 PM on September 4, 2008
Oh goodie, they are playing Barracuda, how apt...
So this aint the end -
I saw you again today
I had to turn my heart away
Smiled like the sun -
Kisses for real
And tales - it never fails!
You lying so low in the weeds
I bet you gonna ambush me
Youd have me down down down down on my knees
Now wouldnt you, barracuda?... [more]
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at 8:11 PM on September 4, 2008
Has there ever been a candidate who has so cravenly tried to steal the platform of his rival?
..........Satan?
Good point. OK, have there ever been TWO candidates who have so cravenly tried to steal the platform of their rival?
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at 8:18 PM on September 4, 2008
A fundraising letter that Sarah Palin's camp sent out Thursday afternoon tells potential donors, "Unfortunately, as you've seen this week, the Obama/Biden Democrats have been vicious in their attacks directed toward me, my family and John McCain. The misinformation and flat-out lies must be corrected."
Except, when questioned by reporters, Palin's team could not name a single member of the Obama/Biden team who had indulged in such attacks.... [more]
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at 8:44 PM on September 4, 2008
I'm still not sold on the surge being a success
Yeah, I agree .... the first Mission Accomplished was the textbook Pyrrhic victory as the Iraqi army and radical elements melted away or played possum, only to live to fight another day. Which, really, makes complete sense rather than running straight into US firepower. I am not so sure the apparent success of the "surge" is not just the same pattern repeated, on a smaller scale.... [more]
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at 8:51 PM on September 4, 2008
For example, a NC politician I know (who shall remain nameless-not that most of you would be familiar with him) is well known for having his opponents literally destroyed by lies and innuendo-case in point, one poor soul wound up falsely accused of having been a child molester-lost his marriage, wrecked his life, accusations NOT TRUE
Straight out of the Rove, Bush et al. Republican dirty tricks playbook.
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at 11:22 AM on September 5, 2008
These two cartoons made me laugh 1, 2.
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at 4:11 PM on September 5, 2008
A sloppy, poorly labeled graph of the hourly comment activity in this thread so far.
Now we know when ericb sleeps.....
Though since the graph shows the thread started in 1999 I'm not sure that's a fair deduction.
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at 9:19 AM on September 6, 2008
MeFi post:
Talibanistan
Clearly Bush and the neo-cons in general are the greatest thing that ever happened to the so-called "extreme Islamicists" so it does worry me that they may try to influence the upcoming US election to get some more hot-headed Christian crusaders in office as a recruiting tool.
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at 11:26 PM on September 5, 2008
MeFi post:
Green Behind The Ears
I don't think a blue screen is something you want to associate with a guy who's unable to understand email or even log into his own website.
Sheesh guys, I think Matt knows how to logon to Metafilter.
unless pb does it for him each morning
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at 11:17 AM on September 5, 2008
With the weird RNC screen projections and the Peggy Noonan open-mic fiasco, I wonder if there is a secret cabal of left-leaning monkey-wrenching techies out there messing with stuff.....
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at 2:37 PM on September 5, 2008
MeFi post:
Election Fever!
Yes, Gary Lunn is an offensive, stupid, dickhead.
And yes, Dion has been an absolutely maddening disaster - not because I would vote Liberal this time (we have a pretty good NDP MP) but because it is really hard to imagine him running a decent campaign and I am afraid the Liberals will cough up enough of their seats to give Harper a majority.
I am ok with Harper so long as his hands are tied with a minority but the moment he gets a majority I... [more]
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at 9:14 PM on September 4, 2008
Having the Governor General get actively involved - regardless of her constitutional power - is really unappealing to me. It would have to be a last resort. The Australian example of how rocky a road that can be is instructive.
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at 12:03 AM on September 5, 2008
Well, yes. But the deliberate flouting of laws that he himself caused to be enacted would appear to be a very good reason to get involved.
Well, flouting anyone's laws for that matter. But, apart from not wanting to see it happen unless the country really is in extremis, I also think it would be an excellent campaign issue for Harper once the election did come: the conservatives could be blah blah appointed Liberal hacks blah blah and in the interim... [more]
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at 1:12 AM on September 5, 2008
Oh, and my fucking heart is just breaking for Toronto. So many people, such little influence.
Every rural area is Canada is over-represented, get over it, almost to the same extent Ontario is over-represented in the Senate.
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at 1:15 AM on September 5, 2008
Sorry Rumple, those millions of us in Toronto don't like being ruled by Alberta fucktards who would have ridden into Iraq on shiny white horse if they could have. Give all those newfs in Fort McMurray a vote in Alberta and we'll see how that goes.
Albertans have been solidly sending Conservative MPs to the Commons for years now, I don't think you can blame them for the current government - they may be the base but they aren't the swing... [more]
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at 2:04 PM on September 5, 2008
MeFi post:
The Mutual Tattooed Penis Admiration Society
Wasn't Karl Rove's father part of this early scene?
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at 11:47 AM on September 4, 2008
heh, nickyskye, yeah, jaw-dropping it is. I've never done wikipedia, but I suspect it would be most appropriate to put it on Karl Rove's father's page, if there is one, arguably he is notable because of family connection as well as cultural importance in an emerging subculture?
Mind you, googling "karl rove's father" brings this topic up as the top kajillion hits, for the curious.... [more]
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at 1:24 PM on September 4, 2008
OK, I see there is discussion on Rove's wikipedia page already (scroll down).
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at 1:25 PM on September 4, 2008
