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Oh goodness, Barack Obama might talk about a “new kind of politics,” but he said John McCain was old and he beat Hillary Clinton. That’s not ch-change we can be-elieve in! It is like this Obama fellow is a professional politician, or something. [New York Observer]
10:52 AM
on Wed June 18 2008
By
Sara K. Smith
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Is this the last stage before Republicans just sit down and start crying and moaning about how unfair it is that the black guy and the commie liberals are getting ready to beat them, beat them bad.
EnBuenOra: …Republicans seem like the type that will throw a temper-tantrum in Wal-Mart, knocking shit over and shrieking at the top of their voice!
“They are not the virginal angels they presented themselves as.”
Another practitioner of hymenorrhaphy busted!
Since McCain’s mother is still around, is it safe to assume that WALNUTS has already gone back to her crying?
THE BLACK MAN IS PICKING ON ME MOMMY! GO BEAT HIM UP!
Having seen the worst of Lee Atwater and Karl Rove — not to mention the entire existence of a “Southern Strategy” that’s plagued this country for more than a generation — I think the RNC has earned a shiv or two. Because however well-intentioned McCain’s orders might be to lay off some of the uglier racist politics, he’ll certainly reap the benefits of RNC and Fox surrogates constantly pumping race-baiting dog whistle words into the conversation. No, he’s earned a well-placed kick to the nuts while he’s down.
A smooth, silky, elliptical kick to the nuts.
Chris Lehane, one of the Democratic Party’s fiercest operatives, who worked in the Clinton White House and left John Kerry’s campaign, reportedly, because it wasn’t aggressive enough, said he saw “parallels” between Clinton’s war room and the Obama campaign.
Both, he said, believed “that if you got into a knife fight in a telephone booth, you made sure you brought a gun.”
Real Clear evidence that Lehane is a secret McCain operative. There are no more telephone booths!
I thought Cons were tough and mean and don’t take shit from those fucking pansy assed whiny libs.
Way to shatter my image of you, Cons. I guess I’ll just have to accept the fact that your leaders are a bunch of whiny marshmellow hearted/brained cry babies who get upset that Senator Hopey just called your candidate old, but not feeble. Walnuts is doing his plain best to add that description with his awesome flip flopping and answering “Huh? Whatzat?” to questions.
EnBuenOra: That would be great, but probably not. Methinks there will probably be several stages in between; the Loud Yelling Stage, the Fervent Prayer Stage, The Gumming Your Food Stage (WALNUTS! only,) and finally, the Crying and Masturbating on Reagan’s Grave Stage.
Pleeze. Only wingnuts would say it was bullying when all Hopey is doing is saying ‘This is what we’re going to do,” and then getting it done. It’s the same common sense midwestern logic he used on the southside of CHI and the same thing that the DC weenies find so confounding. So he drives to the paint and throws it back for a three? He preempts the Repubtards, who are surely preparing a racist onslaught, by sneaking in the age card before they even know what hit ‘em. It’s called being smarter than your opponents (Hilz: caught in hubris, McSlow: caught in the mud).
Time to break out a case of pacifiers.
Is Hopey going to try and take Walnuts’ lunch money every day on the Senate floor next?
Because, if so, that would be awesome. Oh, and give a swirly to Lieberman while you are at it.
Yeah, what kind of bully is he? Kicking a not-old-at-all guy before he can get to his walker.
DoctorCulturae:
Exactly. I want this Chicago organizer kind of politics he’s selling.
Oh, sorry, RNC. “Street organizer.” One step away from “gang leader”, right?
Surely this is another excellent occasion for John Boehner to stand up in the House of Representatives and weep, weep for the horrors done by the Democrats and their terrorist allies.
It makes me so happy to see the Repubes on their heels. So, so happy. My question is, who the eff is taking them seriously when the bitch like this? Old people?
jjgittes: If not a kick, then a well placed Terrorist Fist-Jab? I’m sure it can be put to offensive purposes, no?
Barry: Sorry, John, but you’re too old.
Walnuts!: Eh? Whazzat, sonny boy?
Barry: The American Public thinks you’re too OLD.
Walnuts!: What? What about a Puerto Rican pubic jello mold?
Barry: Oh for fuck’s sakes, gramps, get an ear trumpet, why don’t you?
Walnuts:! Cindy? CINDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! *soils self*
Whiny children become conservatives. It’s science.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=67745
Daddy drinks because you cry.
EnBuenOra: “Worked” well enough for Clinton, I guess.
Correct me if I am wrong, but Walnuts did spent years in the Hanoi Hilton - yet cannot deal with an obvious charge that he is old? At least Reagan handled the age issue with humor. Geez!
RuperttheBear: WIN.
And on November 5th, Lieberman will be tarred and feathered.
@rupert the bear Whiny, insecure children grow up to be whiny, insecure adults, i.e. conservatives.
Also, I think the study may have mixed up cause and effect. Maybe those kids were whiny and insecure because they had rotten home lives, being raised by parents who were not so liberal.
If by ‘bullies’ they mean ‘effective campaigners’, then most likely they are correct. Hey, guys on McCain’s staff, sucks to be you! Enjoy handling your dithering, divisive, divot-repairing candidate.
“Vote John McCain: Because even divots need a chance”
O.K., reptilians, if you don’t like confused, what would you suggest? Frequently mistaken? Occasionally off? Not thoroughly briefed? What would be, to you, acceptable terminology for us to use in pointing out that your candidate is so full of shit he can barely walk a straight line?
mothermaven: Exactly. The guy is almost 72 yrs. old. Most people regularly retire around 65. Of course no one now will be able to do that. So, logically, the guy is old. I don’t really care about old-ness as an important criteria for Preznit, but having a nimble mind IS a prerequisite. And in that department he is…old, less than functional, he gets confused, he forgets what he said to whom, he’s whacky, befuddled. And when you remind him of it, he’s defensive.
He’s a codger pretending to be man-o-the-wild-west. He’s like Walter Brennan only without amphetamines.
http://bp2.blogger.com/_nlc_CHp_9QE/RqewEcEg2oI/AAAAAAAABWQ/9MUymPEx9Go/s1600-h/brennan.jpg
On the jump page of the Observer it looks like John Kerry has grown some cojones. Maybe Barack can walk on water.
The headline asks - Is BO a Bully? So I went to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Take A Stand. Lend A Hand. Stop Bullying Now! (http://stopbullyingnow.hrsa.gov/) website to assert, No – he isn’t.
Okay, time for the truth. Or at least time to consider if you have a confession to make! Take this quiz to find out if you’ve ever bullied someone. Put a check in the boxes if you’ve done these things before.
There’s a boy or a girl (or maybe more than one) whom you’ve repeatedly shoved, or punched or physically pushed around in a mean way just because you felt like it. (A big black guy could do a lot worse shit to Joe Lieberman, so I wouldn’t go overboard with this.)
You had someone else hurt someone you don’t like. (Hey - he’s on record. She is likable enough NOT to assassinate or have maimed.)
You’ve spread a nasty rumor about someone, in conversation, in a note, or through email or instant messaging. (Samantha Power’s interview with international news should not really count as conversation but more as global public vilification.)
You and your friends have regularly kept one or more kids from hanging out or playing with you. (But, if you only met them — I mean, they are so fucking old and bitter!)
You’ve teased people in a mean way, calling them names, making fun of their appearance, or the way they talk or dress or act. (I personally find being called “NOT-Annie Oakley” a compliment.)
jjgittes: Gopherit v2.0: XOMuffintop: i believe the exact quote (over used though it may be) reads:
‘he pulls a knife, you pull a gun. he sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. that’s the chicago way…’
which pretty much sums up the primary and i can only hope the general.