- If Barack Obama wins in the fall, it will probably not be by a landslide. [Politico]
- Despite a ceasefire in Georgia, it appears that the firing has not ceased. The city of Gori has fallen under Russian control. [New York Times, Wall Street Journal]
- The presidential candidates seize on the situation in Georgia to have a little contest about who can talk the toughest about a problem we can do pretty much nothing to resolve. [Washington Post]
- Everybody wants to go to Exclusive Parties at the conventions in Denver and St. Paul. [The Hill]
- The Chinese women’s gymnastics team won the gold medal in the team event. They all seriously look like they are about 10 years old. [New York Times]
- Why are so many swimming records being broken in Beijing? Maybe it’s the new suits. [Reuters]
DAILY BRIEFING 8:23 am August 13, 2008
So Much For Vacation
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The latest reports on Gori are confusing – there are so many different accounts of what may be happening.
Meanwhile, if there is very little that the US can actually do, that’s not such a bad thing! Supporting Sarkozy’s plan would probably a useful contribution from the US, and that’s about it.
Apprently the Russians are operating on the Georgian definition of “cease fire,” which involves a sneak attack soon after its declared.
The situation in Georgia is like a domestic disturbance and the he did/she did reports taken by the police.
I heard that if those Chinese gymnasts do not get a gold medal, the Chinese government puts them and their families in slave-labor camps and then worked till they die.
The US has been doing foreplay and heavy petting with Georgia for a decade, doing pajama parties with each other’s militaries, hoping to score all the bases (former Soviet bases), and ultimately penetrate that fabulously wet vaginal pipeline to Nirvana.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7556215.stm
And oh, have we mentioned McCain’s aide was also in on the gangbang?
Then Russia got more and more jealous, which only made its own erection get bigger. (oh hey, are you reading this next to the American Apparel Essentials X3?)
So, what with the wars in Iraq and yadayada, the US still doesn’t have permanent bases in Georgia to guarantee its whore diamonds with just about the longest trollop oil cunt in the world. And…oh wait, this post is too long already. Only Canadians are allowed that.
Can I be the first to say how refreshing it is that after a half-dozen presidential elections in which the candidates competed as to who could sink the country furthest in debt, now we’ve finally got an election in which candidates compete as to who will get us into more wars the fastest!
[re=58376]Darehead[/re]: Fuck you.
Short enough for ya?
Aw, shit – if this election comes down to a few questionable decimal places like the last couple ones have, the Paultards may actually have an outcome on the election.
[re=58376]Darehead[/re]: By all means go on, all of us have already got a semi from reading that.
In five of the six post-war landslides (defined as a victory of 10 percentage points or more) the eventual winner was ahead by at least 10 percentage points in the polls at the close of August, according to a Politico analysis of historical Gallup polls. Over the past week, however, Gallup’s daily tracking poll pegs Obama ahead of John McCain by a margin of 2 to 5 percentage points.
The one exception to the August rule was 1980. Ronald Reagan was trailing slightly in the August polls before surging forward to win by roughly a 10-point margin.
By comparison, the biggest post-war landslides—1964, 1972 and 1984—were signaled by a large, double-digit advantage held by the eventual winner at the close of August.
So, can I write an article that says, in the last 30 years, only one landslide winner held any lead in August? Fucking stat retards. I hate journalists. The guy’s using an incredibly limited data set (only 4 actual ‘landslide victories’ in the postwar era) over such a massive amount of time (since John McCain hit puberty), and then trying to draw inferences about daily tracking polls that use ‘likely voter’ weighting that even the pollsters admit are just guesses this time around.
The statistics clearly show that David Paul Kuhn is a fucking idiot.
[re=58382]Serolf Divad[/re]: I think it’s because the candidates have realized that getting into wars sinks the country into debt faster than just letting millionaires and corporations not pay taxes. You see? It gives you more bang for your buck. Which is, of course, borrowed from Saudi Arabia and China.
[re=58376]Darehead[/re]:
In all honesty, I can’t fault Russia in this situation. They stressed the importance of that region’s resources ( oil ) in the brutal defense of Stalingrad against an incredibly determined German army in WWII. Likewise on the Crimean. After the Cold War, the salt was rubbed into the wounds of the collapsed Soviet Union when their former states were lining up to join NATO, an organization they loudly protest as unnecessary in the post-Cold War world, especially after the diplomatic road paved between Russia and the West by Gorbachev and Yeltsin.
To the Russians, the NATO gang is helping themselves to Russia’s oil tit…without even asking. So the slap in the face was inevitable.
[re=58385]Canuckledragger[/re]:
Puck You.
We must be ready to fight whereever the aggressors show. Like those human/dolphin hybreds that are showing up at the Olymic Swimming Venue.
Also on Wednesday, Ben Affleck will take part in a panel discussion on international relations, moderated by NBC anchor Tom Brokaw.
Might not be the toughest ticket to get.
I saw on CNN last night that Josef Stalin, who was born in Georgia, is still considered a hero there (probably because of all the ethnic Russians he killed).. why does John McCain love Stalin, the greatest mass murderer ever.
I saw the gymnastics competition on TV and those Chinese girls, with the exception of one, definitely look like they’re 10 years old. The one that doesn’t, looks like she’s 14. Bur regardless, they’re very good. All I could think of when I saw our team was “Why do we suck so much nowadays?” and that question actually went beyond gymnastics.
Christ, even the Walnuts leaning Politico has to admit that Obama has a pretty good shot to win this year compared to Walnut McFumbles. The polls they’re using are the MSM’s polls which are fucked up (as the MSM’s already been caught trying to keep this a horse race.)
[re=58395]icedog[/re]:
Actually, Stalin slaughtered a greater number of Georgians as a percentage of populace than pretty much anyone else. And it was his idea to move ethnic Rooshins into areas where there were none while shifting around other ethnic groups (which explains a healthy population of ethnic Koreans near Volgograd aka Stalingrad.) Stalin was the greatest Rooshin nationalist of them all. The only reason why the Georgians love the guy is because it was either that or counting trees in Siberia.
The only thing that Saakashvili did last week that was dumber than sending tanks into South Ossetia was assuming that he would get any help from Bush and the boyz when doing so.
[re=58376]Darehead[/re]: yeah, the WaPo had a story about that aide today, but it was buried inside:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/12/AR2008081202932.html
[re=58388]Cape Clod[/re]: Also shows why it is important to keep oil prices up–at least $100 per barrel–so that the Saudis can have plenty of dollars to buy our increasingly worthless Treasury paper.
[re=58391]JamesMichaelCurley[/re]: there was a photo of Phelps I saw in some Post online photo gallery today where his fingers are clearly spatulate, and his hands like paddles. I don’t want to cast aspersions on his mother, but did anyone see her hanging around an aquarium about 9 months before her son was born?
[re=58410]donner_froh[/re]: somewhat related issue–we have noticed in DC the past few times we have been in to a museum that at least 75% of the conversations we hear are in foreign languages (more so than is typical in the DC area, which is a high % anyway). Lots of French and German, but plenty of Japanese, too. Obviously, them durn furriners are spending their money on our hotels and restaurants this summer. Also, the local GAP in Old Town Alexandria has been packed lately with foreign tourists, one recent group was Italian, which I find quite funny. They come here to buy mediocre goods that have been shipped from the Phillipines when their countries produce far better clothing. Oh well. We’ll take their $.
[re=58385]Canuckledragger[/re]: Actually what happened (truth) is there was an earthquake while I was typing that and I thought, ruh roh, better turn off the Mac! And just then, I was remembering that Newell said he didn’t read long posts, and I thought, wait, someone has a free pass on that, cuz I hope I snark for everyone here, that we dig your long hard stimulating ones. So do show us your dildo again, sir. We want it (pant, pant…)
[re=58389]Servo[/re]: So the slap in the face was inevitable.
I agree, actually. ‘Murican and Georgians were being a little too cozy and leaving making the other guy feel less manly. Although, a war in which 1500+ people die is not my definition of a slap in the face.
[re=58417]Darehead[/re]: forgot to delete “leaving”
[re=58414]Doglessliberal[/re]: It won’t be long before the US of A joins remittance nations like Mexico and the Phillipines. Our currency will be kept (barely) afloat by the funds sent back to the homeland from emigrants who work in countries where there actually are jobs–India, for example.
I want everyone to go out today, find an “undecided voter,” and kick her square in the nuts.
UNDECIDED = GONADS A’POPPIN.
Any one who remains “on the fence” should have it jammed.
So if Nixon won a landslide because Sammy Davis Jr. hugged him, who will have to hug McCain for him to win?
[re=58417]Darehead[/re]: Bro, it’s all good. Brevity is the soul of wit. I have no soul. We’re on the same page.
[re=58423]RuperttheBear[/re]: Rupert, honey, calm down. I am not on the fence anymore. I’ve decided. I’m not voting for anyone. Fuck Obama, that loud mouthed nincompoop. Fuck McCain, that alzheimered old pickle. There ain’t no one to vote for. How about you? Can I vote for you?
In other more important news, I hate the new Olympic swimsuits. They’re so 1890′s. Let’s see some skin, boys. Pooch that little pouch out for us.
[re=58417]Darehead[/re]:
You’re right.
[re=58414]Doglessliberal[/re]: US = shopping mall of the universe!
Foreign goods bought by foreigners in foreign countries tend to be more expensive than same things in the US, when purchased by foreigners with US money purchased with foreign currency. Get all that? In other words, when I go to the US I get a lot of people asking me to pick up things for them, and all my time is spent shopping instead of body surfing and visiting my grammy.
speaking of vacations, what’s with the lackluster coverage of barry’s campaign ending, elitist visit to foreign lands? what, no incriminating pictures of barry osama frolicking and having an orgy with some white chicks on the beach? that’s not journalism i can believe in; i guess the national enquirer truly is the last great hope of journalism.
[re=58470]sarcasticusername[/re]: He and Michelle wear black and white everyday and they can’t get lei’d cuz it would look too exotic. He played basketball at his alma mater with old classmates and went to see Dark Knight and had some outrageously elitist fundraiser din-dins. in which he raised millions.
[re=58429]Canuckledragger[/re]: You got soul. And I got no appendage, but thanks anyway. And who is the page?
@Darehead: that’s not a kick ass vacation i can believe in, being a presidential candidate sucks. please tell me some local PUMA crazies have at least thrown dead bunnies at his motorcade and gotten arrested, otherwise i pity barry and his boring ass vacation. no michelle in a bikini? such a let down.
[re=58456]Darehead[/re]: the mind boggles.
[re=58470]sarcasticusername[/re]: here you go–a nice pic of Barry on vacay (sorry, no naked chest):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/12/AR2008081202883.html
[re=58436]Makeithurt[/re]: So you just fuc*in’ decided to make it hurt for everyone?
Because NOT voting is a inevitably a vote of support for McNasty. As you well know.
disgusting.
mind boggle.
[re=58530]sati demise[/re]: not to go all serious, but I am going to go all serious: I was remembering recently when the first South African elections took place after Apartheid and the people waited FOR DAYS in lines miles long to vote. I cried when I saw the news reports about it; it was just so beautiful and powerful. Compare that to voter participation here, and it makes you somewhat nauseated. We do take what we have for granted.
[re=58436]Makeithurt[/re]: Seriously? Please. Why don’t you go all-out and write in your boy Ron Paul. Obviously nothing matters other than taking a ‘principled’ stance.
[re=58547]CivicHoliday[/re]: Hilltard. Makeithurt is a die hard Hillary beater.
Word is they outnumber the Dodd, Biden, Kucinich, Richardson, Edwards and Gravel diehards who will not vote for the ;black’ guy or support the Democratic PLATFORM.
I guess it is true that ‘women’ do not get treated equally, like the men.
Now just watch fat retards with hairy pot bellies purchase those speedo suits in the hope that they’ll float around the pool faster.
Whoa! Latest is that Shmuckassvilli is demanding that McCain “move from words to action.” Watch for a mammoth airlift of Panzer divisions of electric wheelchairs to be pooshin out the Rooshians anytime now.
I think that they should all swim naked. the great …um …equalizer.
Wonkette,
Yesterday you ran photos of our national mascot, George Junior, collapsing in an alcohol and cocaine induced semiconscious swoon at the Pekin Olympics, surrounded by people propping him up again, including someone of the African persuasion. One of your readers pointed out that the black man was, again, feeling up the president for his woodie.
Now today you link us to an article about presidential election landslides and again run a photo of a black man molesting a Murkin president. Both presidents happen to be Caucasian and Republocrat, their attackers both happen to be Negroid and semi-cool dudes.
I’m not clear what is your intent here, unless it’s to signify that even a Jihadist born in Indonesia who runs barefoot across elitest country club golf courses in exotic foreign lands like “Hawai’i” can become president. If so, I don’t like it, not a whit.
Please behave.
Thanks.
[re=58436]Makeithurt[/re]: I’M KICKING YOUR BALLS! NOW I AM SMASHING THEM BETWEEN TWO BRICKS!
But, alas, other folks already have dun it. I cans relzax with chez burgher.
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