Wonkette
Today in the exciting world of horse race politics: Obama lawyer tries to sneak into McCain lawyer conference call, gets rejected, is called sexist — and obvious political motives glue each development together! Jesus, this must be “Friday Night At The Movies” for Mark Halperin ‘n’ pals.
Barack Obama is still dealing with criticism for breaking his “pledge” to accept public financing in the general election. And of course that’s fair. It was a moronic “pledge,” or at least very strong statement, to make in the first place, and the reasons he’s offered for choosing private financing — principally that conservative 527s will raise trillions to Swift Boat him, when in reality they have little desire to fight for Liberal John McCain — are, well, “flimsy.” But hellllllllls yeah it was the right choice to make! He’ll now raise $300 million and run in every state, and within three days no one will care about him “breaking his word” except Robert Novak, Lanny Davis, and possibly John McCain.
But Obama must shut them up as much as he can, so his campaign asked McCain’s campaign if its counsel, Bob Bauer, could participate in a conference call with McCain’s counsel, Trevor Potter, to at least pretend that the two camps have been negotiating re: finance.
THE GENERAL ELECTION HAS BEEN VERY EXCITING SO FAR.
Not only did the McCain campaign reject the request, but it called on lady communications director Jill Hazelbaker to denounce them all as Sexist:
“This type of boys club bullying embodies an arrogance better suited for a frat house than a serious campaign about serious issues,” she says.
There is too much irony in that sentence to break down, and it’s Friday afternoon. Now we will watch old YouTubes of Republican primary debates and eat our way through mourning the Death of Fun.
Obama camp tries to get in on McCain finance conference call [Jonathan Martin]
huh, what a cunt. Probably wears too much makeup.
The day is not far off when McCain calls Barry a sexist directly for opposing him on some issue, and everyone will laugh and laugh.
WALNUTS! can afford a campaign lawyer and a communcations director? The price of Geritol and Prune Juice must have gone down.
Calling someone an “ageist” just doesn’t have the right cachee.
Well, at least McC*nt didn’t ask his mom to call Obama names.
AxmxZ: The debates between them are going to be very interesting. You have to wonder if WALNUTS! will lose it at some point and just blow up.
And Jim, I look at the picture with this post, and I have a strange urge to buy Time-Life books.
You know the best thing about this race? These guys hate each other. Thank God we won’t be seeing any more of that chummy “No, after you” style bipartisan asshattery in this election.
AxmxZ:
3rd debate. McCain is getting outraised/outspent 3 to 1 & he’s losing ground in the polls, especially among the independents that are a must have if he is to win in November.
Barry: “I just don’t believe that Senator McCain’s plan for Iraq represents anything more than the flawed Bush/Cheney policies that have failed us for the past 5 years.”
Matthews: “Senator McCain, your response… ”
McCain: “Fuck you, friend! You’re a sexist race card playing trollop full of cunts! Gook! Nigger! FRIEND!”
The picture is inaccurate. The actual McCain conference center:
http://www.wchm-tx.org/3029.jpg
Doglessliberal: She’s only a cunt if McCain is sleeping with her. Or if she won’t sleep with him. PRetty simple really.
And she probably puts it on with a trowel.
Gopherit v2.0: ah, OK, I need to get the rules right.
Doglessliberal: And check her out:
http://www.glamour.com/images/news/2007/12/near02_powerwomen.jpg
Blond, lithe, not as cunt-ish as some. If McCain’s not hitting it, it ain’t because of his morals.
AxmxZ: To be fair, McCain is a giant vagina, so perhaps the accusations of sexism aren’t entirely off base.
jagorev: that is an insult to vaginas everywhere.
Gopherit v2.0: The joke goes, “What’s the difference between a slut and a cunt? A slut sleeps with everyone. A cunt sleeps with everyone except you.”
And, I read that joke in the Janice Dickinson autobiography.
jagorev: He has a neck vagina.
Wikipedia notes that Hazelnutcracker was in on the fraudulent attacks on Menedez in the 2006 New Jersey Goobernutorial race. Yay!
Doglessliberal: Surely you kid. I’m running a sweep on which minute of the which debate McCain calls Obama a “fucking asshole.”
nhunter: Are these things time-delayed?
Could you imagine if Hilz had won? It would be wall to wall lynching analogies by the whitest man on earth.
Woo-hoo. Methinks Wonkette will have a larger than usual buffet of idiocy to feast upon this campaign season.
Gopherit v2.0: Wow. He is a one-type-of-woman man, isn’t he?
I am genuinely curious how they expect claims that Obama’s campaign is “bullying” them will help. It kind of undermines the whole “Obama’s not tough enough” business, doesn’t it?
The whole thing has an air of, “Yeah, Obama may be beating the crap out of us now, but you just wait until the Commies/Mooslims/terrorists show up! They’ll show him!”
obfuscator: Or else he trips, Barry automatically extends a solicitous hand, and McCain bites him, leaving his dentures in his sleeve.
Well, now he has offended asshole fratboys. That pretty much kills the Republican vote.
“This type of boys club bullying embodies an arrogance…”
Where have I heard that before? Hillary, help me out here.
As a lesbian trapped in straight man’s body, i find this whole line of discussion OFFENSIVE. FOR SHAME MCMANN
…McCain’s entire campaign will go down in history as the biggest and most expensive EPIC FAIL ever! Actually maybe not, see below list of bigger and more expensive EPIC FAILS!:
-Iraq
-Trickle Down Economics
-The Big Dig
-George Bush’s birth and/or conception
-Iraq
-NAFTA
-Marc Penn
-Pepsi Clear
-The XFL(the failed football league, remember that?)
-oh yeah and IRAQ!!!
…oh yeah, and WALNUTS! playing the sexism card only works when you are a WOMAN! Whats next, him claiming that Barry is trying to keep the black man down?!
AngryBlakGuy: Barry does have the white man’s overbite, so his jaw, at least, is attempting to disguise his blackness.