Wonkette
- For years, Barack Obama romanced a network of high-dollar fundraisers by sending them birthday cards; those efforts are now bearing fruit. [New York Times]
- Does anyone honestly believe that Carly Fiorina still has a shot at being John McCain’s VP? One reporter does! [Los Angeles Times]
- Harry Sargeant, a fundraising bundler for John McCain, manages to raise piles of money, repeatedly, from the same people, several of whom one would not imagine have a lot of spare cash hanging around or care about politics. [Washington Post]
- Well, that didn’t take long. Obama’s Muslim-American and Arab-American outreach adviser quit after a week and a half on the job because he didn’t want old brief tangential associations with a Muslim fundamentalist to become a distraction. [Wall Street Journal]
- Congress will probably approve a federal apology for slavery in the fall — a measure that is sure to incense some southern white Bitters whom Democrats have been trying for years to win over. [The Hill]
- Neither Barack Obama nor John McCain appear to be making any progress in national polls, but this is worse for Obama because he has “favorable winds at his back.” [Politico]
That’s a tough job to fill.
“I need a Muslim outreach adviser who really, deeply knows the community and its issues, but has pretty much never had anything to do with anybody who might be in the slightest connected to weird people.”
Yeah. Good luck with that.
Good thing no fundamentalist Christians with weird connections are ever found among the ranks of candidates’ advisers.
Remember the old stories about amoral insurance salesmen? They’d go to the porch of a house, talk with the homeowner, all the while lighting matches and dropping them on the porch. It’s be a shame if something happened to your house.
I have this mental vision of McCain’s bundler doing the same thing. Walking up to these folks who probably don’t have the spare cash and saying things like the old insurance salesman. “Be a shame if the foreigns took your job.” “Obama, Muslim name isn’t it? Wonder what it will be like with one of them in the White House. Be a shame if your kids were put in a madrassa and all…” “Obama, now he’s done well for a black man, hasn’t it? His minister is an interesting fella. I wonder if he’ll be there on the stage at the inauguration?”
The only wind at McCain’s back is old man farts.
I’m all for the slavery apology. First and foremost, because it’s long been owed to Black America. But it’s also such a great Democratic wedge issue. Force southern white republicans to take a stand on it and they have no good option.
/sorry for getting all daily kos-ish on you
Sargent, the white Repub’s Norman Hsu.
Terry: I don’t think you have it quite right. The people he’s getting the money from have names like Ibrahim Marabeh, Nadia and Shawn Abdalla, Nader and Sahar Alhawash, and Abdullah Abdullah. Many of them aren’t registered to vote, or are even quite aware of who John McCain is.
There are really only two possibilities I see: (1) Guantanamo-ish threats/insinuations popped the money out; or (2) they never even gave the money to begin with, just signed their names on a paper. Of course, these two are not mutually exclusive.
Terry: The Walnuts Street Urinal is IN on the very scheme of which you speak:
Mr. Asbahi tendered his resignation after he and the Obama campaign received emailed inquiries about his background from The Wall Street Journal.
WSJ harasses Asbahi, then gets to write a story about it when they get him to quit, too! And gee, what might those “inquiries” have asked? Hmmmmmm…….
Carly describes herself as a ‘change warrior’ in that article; she certainly changed HP from a company with money and employees into one without pesky things like that - I couldn’t even get a working printer by the end. It was always exciting coming in every day during her reign, since you never knew which department would have disappeared overnight.
I think that’s change we can all believe in.
The balancing act for McCain is finding a veep who’s not gay (Crist, Graham), nuts (Jindal, Huckabee, Palin), incompetent (Fiorina, Pawlenty) or totally corrupt (Romney and everybody else in the Republican party.) It’s not going to be easy and, whoever it is, it’s not going to be pretty.
this is worse for Obama because he has “favorable winds at his back.”
So does McCain… of course it could just be his old man farts.
“Neither Barack Obama nor John McCain appear to be making any progress in national polls, but this is worse for Obama because he has “favorable winds at his back.”
I think I’ll send a little wind toward Politico… from my back side.
The pack posing as journos is unworthy of membership in the commentariat. “Oooh… everyone wants the Republicans gone, so why hasn’t this translated into more votes for the unknown black candydate who acts all highfalutin’ and elitist?”
Why yes, this race IS gonna be a real nail-biter… for those who don’t know anything about how US elections are won. Maintaining focus on national polls, while ignoring state-by-state, keeps the audience hooked, but misdirects attention toward a shallow metric.
David Paul Kuhn and Carrie Budoff Brown and all the other dim bulbs at Politico, and elsewhere, might glean some actual “news” were they to stop slopping around in tea leaves and chicken entrails long enough to read pieace like this:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-nickolas/despite-media-narrative-o_b_116906.html
When this election cycle is over, I want to write an expose. The theme will be, “If Politico hacks are always on the TV, why does nobody give a shit about Poltico?” Exhibits A and B will be David Paul Kuhn and Carrie Budoff Brown.
So slavery was wrong. I’m glad we finally decided that.
Canuckledragger: You go, .. . guy? girl? The snark fairy says you get to be completely nonsubstantive for the rest of the week.
I very much want to hear from an expert on the nature, extent, and effect of the cell-phone gap in polling. I’m mid-forties, extremely immature (obviously), and never actually answer my land line unless it’s a call from a known number. I don’t need no stink’in pollsters, And there’s likely an entire cohort of youngsters behind me who do the same.
“I think slavery is a good thing. I’m gonna get me some mexicans”–Flip Wilson (remember him? I’M OLD).
RuperttheBear: “What you see is what you get!”
Geraldine Jones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCruefYl3FI
M E M O RIES!
I think Carly Fiorina is totally hot for McCain. I’d like to see her and Cindy in a topless/bottomless cage match presided over by dudes with long hair, beer guts, and greasy jeans who throw chicken entrails at them as they perform endless contorted variations on death grip choke holds upon each other. She needs to get in on that debauched Buffalo Chip action if she’s going to have any shot. Because everybody knows that to get on McCain’s short list, you are going to have to let him fuck you.
Botswana Meat Commission FC: Australia apologized to the Aborigines for years of mistreatment; the US owes Americans of African descent an apology for centuries of slavery (and then Jim Crow). Coupled with an Obama presidency, perhaps the healing really can begin.
I can’t imagine an apology being met with anything more than a big “so what”. Have you seen the schools?
NoWireHangers: And what about America’s aborigines?
That would be a wise choice, a woman who ran her company into the ground, burned through its cash reserve and spied on its employees. Sends a great signal that McCain is not going to be a replay of the Bush admin.
Darehead: That’s pending too: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91489003
I live in Central Florida, and have for the past 8 years. Prior to that I lived in San Diego most of my life. I can tell you for a fact African-Americans are owed an apology, if not for slavery, then for the way I see them being treated every day here and now. The South still has a long, long way to go before it joins the 21st century, that’s for damn sure. I only hope that with each successive generation, racist bullshit becomes less and less acceptable. I am very proud to say my sons are doing their part. My wife and I will take some credit for that, but I think having the kids in organized sports since before they even knew about race issues has helped as well. All the kids are team mates, and they are friends. It’s a start.
NoWireHangers: Thanks for the info. Just in time for the Lakota secessionist movement.
http://republicoflakotah.com/portfolio.html
From the HP/Carly parody of several years ago:
http://kumquatcomputer.com/fidora.htm
http://kumquatcomputer.com/oneonone.htm
http://kumquatcomputer.com/korner.htm
sham69: If the kids are united. . .
We Are the Ones (We’ve Been Waiting for)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Please tell people that this phrase did not originate from Obama’s Campaign. My friends have been using this as a sign off for years! Another false belief that is making me CRAZIER.
Carly Fiorina’s resume contains almost as many failed careers as Bush’s. And what’s up with those teeth? Is she Austrailian?