Wonkette
- Iraqis are inclined to like Barack Obama, even if they’re not all superpsyched about his troop withdrawal plan. [New York Times]
- The U.S. and Great Britain may be weathering tough economic times, but countries like Kenya and Russia with emerging economies are going like gangbusters. [Washington Post]
- People are making crazy cash producing and selling dumb/weird posters about Barack Obama. [Wall Street Journal]
- Southern California home prices have fallen nearly one-third from June 2007, disaster and ruin loom, etc. [Los Angeles Times]
- Youngsters under the age of 30 harbor a particularly bleak outlook on our nation’s economic situation. [Politico]
- After early reports suggested Barack Obama raised as little as $30 million in June, the official figure is … $52 million. [New York Times]
The new favicon is freaking me out.
The Hope train only got a mere %52 Million? And what did Walnuts raise? Mere peanuts. Only $22 million and he had to squeeze real hard to push that pebble of dough out.
Of course, the MSM praised John for being such a good boy and learning to raise money the proper way and not throw it around like ole Unicorn.
Dear Wall Street Journal:
Choke on cock.
Sincerely yours,
David Axelrod
Having read a whole lot of these kinds of stories where U.S. news publications give a sense of “what people think”, you have to remember: this is not a poll or a random sample.
You have to pay very, very close attention to whom the NYT reporter spoke, and whose responses get prioritized and emphasized.
What a legacy is left to the youngest Americans.
ManchuCandidate: But when you add in the cash buckets from the RNC and the DNC, McCain comes out a solid $20 million ahead. Or in other words, he could have not raised a dollar and been very close to Obama’s total cash on hand.
Oh My God, I NEW it. Al-Obama is in the bed with the Iraqis. You know he is secretly going there on vacation soon. He will get his orders and distrying us all. Hilliry would never ever do this to us. 9/11 NEVR FOGET! Whn it all ends the WMDs will B found!
ManchuCandidate: Don’t foget all the Obama donors are secret McCain supporters trying to get Obama to win so Hillary will be the true victor. That’s why he’s making so much money, only Republicns have that much
EnBuenOra: Boy, you are the font master, yes?
As for Hopey’s numbers, well, it’s a good thing tickets to Denver should only be $50 million come August.
Which reminds me…do you think Barry’s prodigious fund-raising is why Dubya thinks the economy’s doing well? Cause I just can’t think of any other reason he’d come to that conclusion. Oh right, he’s batshit insane, not to mention an oblivious douchenozzle.
Never trust anyone under thirty. They are all bitters.
Godless Liberal *:
True, but the RNC’s supposed advantage is negated by the needy broke assedness of the NRCC and NRSC. Even if McCain wins, he THEORETICALLY faces a hostile Demrat dominated congress.
The DNC’s has limited funds, but I’ve read that they don’t hoard cash like the RNC and have spent it building up party “infrastructure” in 50 states which will help both Barry and down ticket races.
“Every time I see Obama I say: ‘He’s close to us. Maybe he’ll see us in a different way,’ ” Mr. Sultan said. “I find Obama very close to my heart.”
Mr. Sultan must have seen The New Yorker cover.
EnBuenOra: Wait a minute–are you saying a ‘tough general’ in the military the US set up, speaking on the record, ‘the political elite’, and ‘many in the middle class’ aren’t (italics–how the hell did you do that?) typical Iraqis?
Is that a recent picture of Al Gore up there? If so, he looks like he lost 50 pounds. All that sweating, heavy breathing and farting could not have been helpful in solving global warming.
Yea, that So. Cal. home price thing has everyone worried. 700,000$ homes are only going for 600,000$ now, and if you are like me and owe the bank like 60,000$…well, it aint pretty. But seriously, I know there are people that are in real trouble because of buying overpriced real estate. A home is a home, and if they throw you out of yours it’s very disconcerting, regardless of the circumstances. Still, you have to question the wisdom of paying so much money for so little, and then not being able to afford the commute so that you can continue to pay too much for too little. It isn’t simple to solve and (I suppose) it isn’t funny, but it was easy to see it coming.
They ask an Iraqi general and some kind of “banker” - both of whom are probably up to their eyeballs in sucking up to the occupation - whether it’s a good idea to leave.
“Hmmm…The Americans can stay and keep paying me wheelbarrows full of dinars…or they could *leave* and I get righteously lynched by my neighbors for collaborationism…Oh man this is hard!”
Good thing the Times learned their lesson from Judy Miller!
Thank god Wonkette is here to read the front page of the NYT so I don’t have to go to all the trouble.
Problemwith LA home prices falling a 1/3 from June 2007, is that June 2007 was peak pricing in the housing market bubble- basically the height of the biggest financial ponzi scheme ever unleashed on the modern world.
You still have to be damn-near Ron Burkle to afford to buy a shack out here…