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The hottest ticket in America tonight is Barack Obama’s all-star oldies concert at Denver’s Mile High Stadium, during which he will sink a thousand three-pointers from downtown Ancient Athens. But don’t feel bad about missing history or whatever, because John McCain is also having some sort of sporting facility event, on Friday — he will appear with his veep pick at “Wright State University’s Nutter Center” in some little town in Ohio. Ha ha, it is called “Nutter Center.” Anyway, there are only 10,000 tickets available, and they’re all pretty much still available. Cindy McCain may pay you a hundred bucks and a vicodin just to keep a seat warm for an hour. [Political Wire/Dayton Daily News]
I love the mouse over!! Sad Mac.
I wish I was as wealthy as WALNUTS!, then I’d buy naming rights to every venue he appeared at.
“Wolf Blitzer here at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, at the John McCain Called His Wife A Cunt Arena.”
Sorry, Cindy baby, it’ll take more than just one vicodin to numb me enough to make me sit through one of Walnut’s dynamic emotional speeches.
I guess there aren’t as many Wright State Nutters as there used to be.
Cindy is a cunt. Did I say that already?
Ken’s awake! Let the smart assholio-fest begin!
So Obama is like the Rolling Stones playing to a sold out crowd at the Astrodome and McCain is like Survivor playing for a share of the cover charge at Heebie Jeebies.
Serolf Divad: more like Nancy Sinatra, living off her one hit for 40 years….
…why doesn’t he just fill the stadium up with PUMA’s? Oh yeah that right, you would still need to to fill 9,990 seats.
I wonder how many WALNUTTERS will show up.
Serolf Divad:
Or being the under card for a saucy puppet show.
I’m beginning to feel sorry for the old coot. All those lies his campaign has put out is taking a toll on the ol’ boy.
He’s now doing 40 mph in the fast lane.
On second thoughts, I don’t feel sorry. Move over old-timer.
Doglessliberal: Isn’t she dead? Wait, good comparison…
Did you all hear that Leahy is going around saying the press doesn’t call McCain on his… senior moments… just like they didn’t call Reagan.
I knew he was cool when I saw him stand up to the Joker.
If my name were Nutter and I donated alot of money to a University, I’d put name on a building too.
By the way I’m not familiar with “Wright” State - what’s the capital, what states does it border, is it full of bitters or McTards??
Poor John — even his cheek tumor looks sad in that pic.
Pick me! For $100 clams and a vicodin, I’ll show up about anywhere.
Nutter Center, WALNUTS! ?
Has…has WALNUTS! been reading Wonkette?
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PICK LIEBERMAN! LIEBS FOR VEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP
AngryBlakGuy: And you’d have to buy plastic seat covers.
People are going snatch these up and sell them for inflated prices right before the show. Normally called “scalpers,” with McCain’s events they’re called “pouchers.”
Could we please get a week of stories about the tepid support and lack of enthusiasm being felt by the Republicans for this angry old has-been?
Godot: I think it’d be the Cunt Center.
It’ll be fuckin’ crickets!
Ah yes, making a big political announcement the Friday afternoon of a 3-day-weekend. With age comes wisdom…. or not.
RuperttheBear: and pass out Stadium Buddies (TM) for those with older bladders.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadium_buddy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBdymtyXt8Y
A hundred bucks and a vicodin! That’s great!
Where do i sign up, again?
Nancy Sinatra is the pick for V.P. for McCain!
And yet he will still miraculously/fraudulently win the presidency. Yay/fuck you America.
kudzu: you and John McCain.
He needs to pander his POW status more. I’m almost convinced to vote for him. He should start showing off his injuries and what tortures were involved. The next mccain ad should show a diagram of his body with torture injury pop-ups.
“Union members and progressive groups plan to protest outside at the south entrance…”
Shouldn’t they just get tickets and protest in the front row?
It’s a good move on McCain’s part because cause according to the pundits, having 70,000 people buy tickets to attend your speeches means you’re a presumptuous arugula eating celebrity. Therefore, it’s better politically to be unpopular than popular.
Cape Clod: Do you believe in freedom?
…if people wanted to see a Mummy they would go to a museum!
Garsh, if he wasn’t such a jurrasic, surly, old Republitard I’d almost feel sorry for him, but he is, so, I don’t.
…he could always outsource the audience to China! Not only would they fill every seat but they would throw in a cute lip syncing Chinese girl to say “I love you daddy!” a la Sasha & Malia!
Doglessliberal: thank you. the sedaris clip made my day.
Dientes: just finished his new book and had many laugh out loud in public moments while reading it on the Metro.
OMG the commercial McCain is running during the Dems’ convention. The very cheerful but fairly dimwitted woman talking about why she’s voting for McCain now. Seeing that after Bubba talked was priceless. Clinton asks folks to support Obama, gives a great speech, then you see a ninny saying it’s ok to vote for McCain. Awesome juxtaposition.
Did you say I’d get $100.00 and a Vicodin to keep “Her” seat warm?
I’d hit it, I mean it most likely hasn’t seen very much use in the last
“FIVE AND A HALF YEARS”.
Sorry, that just slipped out.
Jerry w
http://www.boskolives.wordpress.com
Obama is the greek hero of chutzpah: Testicles.
McCain is the greek hero of torture: Manacles.
RuperttheBear: Freedom is only good on rye with arugula and a pickle.
I’m going to go ahead and accuse Wonkette of lightening this picture of John McCain. There’s no way a human being could be that pale without being a vampire. I know that John McCain is not a vampire. He proved it with that heartwarming cross in the dirt story about the FIVE AND A HALF YEARS he spent in captivity for crashing his plane into Vietnam.
Terry: The best part about that ad is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG9eb9J3IKo&eurl=http://rumproast.com/
jerryw: You didn’t see the backstage pics from the Miss Buffalo Chip pageant…
Ah, no, *not* the ‘Nutter Center’. God. Doesn’t anybody in McCain’s campaign have an ounce of sense?
grendel: I could go for a freedom and meatball hoagie, too.
You want to feel sorry for someone? How about the guy that put
out $10,000 to rent a booth space to sell “Depends (TM)”?
And a short note to “Yankee Daddy”: Adios Pendejo!
I’m sure John McGringo will translate that for you.
Jerry w
http://www.boskolives.wordpress.com
$100 perhaps, but there is no way in hell Cindy’s giving up a vicodin.
grendel: Again, she’s got a pulse and her body temperature
is above ambient (nice but not deal breaker features), I’d do her just for
bragging rights for being able to break in near-new territory.
Jerry w
I’m presuming said arena is not named after Philly mayor Michael Nutter, as he is a negro and that would keep the old white men away. Is it named after Alice Nutter? Either one will do, although as a former resident of Lancaster, England I prefer the Pendle ‘witch’ Alice Nutter who was hanged locally. The Chumbawamba member of the same name would probably work equally well in terms of frightening the xtian right, though — they are of the opinion that witches are trying cast spells on them at all times, corrct?
I heard they’re moving the RNC convention on the final day too. It’s not to the Metrodome, but to Gordon Bombay Regional High School gymnasium. It’ll pack in all the McCain supporters with enough space left over for the PTA bake sale in the corner and it’ll give John-boy a chance to rap with the kids in their natural habitat.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
jerryw: And I’m telling you that the bikers left her rode hard and put away wet…
jerryw: at first I thought you said you wanted to break in her rear, new territory
Was the Dumbass Center booked that night?
Guess they’ll be shuttling busloads from the local nursing homes to fill up those 10,000 seats. That should make ole Walnuts feel right at home, hangin’ with his peeps and all. And the guy at the Depends booth will make a killing too.
Besides having a Nutter Center, Wright State has a sculpture called “Big Ass Red Thing” and the word “penis,” for some reason, fearlessly stands alone near the bottom of its Wikipedia page.
As a venue, this outshines even Mt. O-lympus.
Truck Nutterz.
Please, please, please LET IT BE WILLARD ROMNEY!!!!
WALNUTS!!!/MITTENS ‘08 FTW!!!
The Dayton Daily News is reporting that tickets are still being given away for free to see John McCain announce his VP choice at the Nutter Center on the campus of Wright State University, in Fairborn, OH. I went to Wright State from 1982-1986 and completed my first degree there. The Nutter Center was built after I left Dayton, but it is directly across the juncture to I-675 (the loop around greater Dayton, also connecting I-70 to I-75 and I-71 in a roundabout way), which makes it extremely accessible.
“Tickets are being given away at county GOP offices in southwest Ohio and in Indiana and Kentucky.”
I called some friends who have contacts at the Nutter Center and they tell me that, as of one half hour ago, more than 3/4 of the tickets are not given out yet.
This is not good news for John McCain.
WSU is in Fairborn, OH, which is a GOP leaning city in a generally more democratic leaning county (Montgomery Co.). WSU is around 6 miles from Wright Patterson Air Force Base, which is one of the largest, if not the largest inland AFB’s in the world, with the largest tunnel system in the world. So, the area immediately surrounding WSU itself is much more conservative than most think. On a campus with 30,000 students and 4 large communities right there at WSU’s back door, it should be no problem to get those tickets gone in about 5 hours.
Just to test that out, I called the GOP HQ at 369 W. 1st St in Dayton - it took a while to get through and finally a nice woman took my call. I asked how one gets a ticket and also asked how many tickets are available and she said “too many, do you have friends you can bring with you?”. So, the call confirmed what my contacts are telling me.
According to the McCain website, they are trying to pass out tickets in 20 locations, most of them close to WSU, but 2 or 3 in KY and 1 in IN.
So, the fact that the GOP is practically trying to hand them out as far away as Indiana is indeed a bad sign.
Too bad for Mitt Romn…er…the GOP candidate that will be named tomorrow. Rumor has it an idea was floated for the Billionaire Boys Club to drop large amounts of their money from the ceiling to help draw “the folks” to the event. But the idea was scuttled by the team on the principle that the money would be better utilized on those making more than $5 million a year.
mememaw: I love all this web2.0 shit. 2394 years after Aristophanes’ fart and dick jokes and we’re still going strong.
Maus: Too true.
Barry should have something like this engraved on his massive O-lympus column:
DIKaiopolis: What’s he saying? He says us Ionians are a bunch of butt-fucks, if we’re expecting any gold from barbarians!
Ambassador: No, no, no! He’s saying “buckets”! “Fucking BUCKETS of gold!”
He doesn’t need the press as at least one of the allegedly PUMA sites are putting forth his strengths (http://pumaparty.com/puma2008/):
Six Reasons Why Former Hillary Supports Should Vote McCain
Posted in Uncategorized on August 27th, 2008
As you talk with your friends, you may find the following reasons helpful in discussing why they should support McCain:
* McCain’s wants to fix energy problems, just like Hillary. He will focus on domestic oil production, and expand the extraction of coal from US wilderness. Alternative fuel is too risky… Let’s stick with what we know works.
* McCain is willing talk talk straight on foreign policy. He knows that America will probably never be able to disengage from the Middle East, and isn’t afraid to say it. He won’t be afraid to maintain a presence in Iraq, or to expand hostilities to Iran, Syria or any other nations that stand against America.
* McCain knows the economy is basically strong. Yes, we’re in a rough patch right now. The economy will always have ups and downs. The last thing the economy needs is someone meddling with it.
* Like Hillary Clinton herself, McCain is extremely wealthy. This is America for godsakes… Massive wealth is to be respected. It’s everyone’s goal. Despite years of bookwriting, speaking, etc., Obama has saved less than a million dollars at age 47. How can he know anything about businesses if he can’t save for himself? We need a president who knows how to make the cash-register ring. McCain and Hillary are virtually identical in this respect–and it speaks to who is really ready to be president.
* McCain is pro-life. I think we all know that Hillary only talks a pro-choice agenda because she’s been forced to by the party leadership. In fact, most Americans agree that pro-choice is basically evil…McCain has the guts to tell it like it is.
* McCain left his wife while she had cancer. He’s shown that he’s part of the post-feminist period, where women are no longer dependent on–nor should they expect–support from men. This is a key part of his character.
They’re having to bus people in to fill the place, apparently. I bet they’re all hurricane evacuees too.