Wonkette
- Obama’s big speech last night was a success, as he compared McCain to Bush and it included a number of good burns. The subsequent fireworks also indicated success. [Politico]
- Putin blamed (who else) President Bush for the Georgian conflict, and explained that this whole thing was created just to drum up support for a certain unnamed person running for President who is not Barack Obama. [New York Times]
- Today is McCain’s 72nd birthday, and he will celebrate by choosing a vice president, maybe 73 vice presidents (one for good luck). [Washington Post]
- New Orleans prepares itself for Tropical Storm Gustav with their old FEMA friends, while Gustav prepares for New Orleans by flooding Jamaica. [Times-Picayune]
- Oil prices will probably have their biggest weekly gain in two months, thanks to Gustav and all the rig evacuations in the Gulf of Mexico it is causing. [Bloomberg]
- The audience at Invesco Field last night was very pleased with Obama’s speech, and cheered and stayed silent at all the appropriate times. [New York Times]
- In his speech, Al Gore compared Obama to Lincoln and said that if the 2000 election had gone differently, Osama would be dead, Iraq would be not be such a mess, and we would be working towards solving global warming. [The Hill]
We need a “wildly speculating about the GOP VP” thread! Or whether McCain will die of old age while on camera, today. One of those.
You know, old Al does have a point there.
>>Gustav prepares for New Orleans by flooding Jamaica.
MY WEED! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo
Cogito Ergo Bibo: I completely agree. Juli, can you swing that?
Also, “The subsequent fireworks also indicated success.” Heh.
I think, in the spirit of the fine GOP VP choices of the recent past, McCain should select Dan Quayle.
I’m just in mourning right now that the pick is not Romney. I volunteer to photoshop the head of whoever the VP pick will be (Palin? Really?) onto the ubiquitous Fudge snapshot.
Pleeeeease be Lieberman! Or Carly! Either would amuse me to no end.
Who should i trust more W or Putin? At this point, I think Putin has more credibility…
A lot of “news” organizations are speculating that it’s going to be Alaska’s own sex-pot governor Sarah Palin… which is not good for Obama considering that he directly set women back 2,000 years by beating Hillary in the primaries.
Apparently the GOP is considering delaying the start of the RNC because of Gustav, and even if they do not Bush may well skip out on attending Monday night. It would appear that his word-of-the-day calendar recently explained “decorum” to him.
Al totally stole that from Family Guy.
…who stole it from SNL.
HIROHITO99: Who does Sarah Palin think she is? Everyone knows that Hillary Clinton and Gerry Ferraro were the first women ever to hold jobs, drive horseless carriages, and use the Hitachi Magic Wand to achieve manlessness.
Successful women are a disgrace to the legacy of these pioneering suffragettes.
Godless Liberal *: I’ve been praying for a hurricane to devastate New Orleans during the RNC. At appears God is a populist.
That, and he fucking hates New Orleans.
(Way to take one for the team, gulf coast!)
Borat: And Putin is something called “competent.” Like him or not, he gets shit done.
Palin is pro-life, which means she’s more of a tranny than a woman, when you get down to it. Fail.
ForTheTurnstiles: For the record, and from my experience late last night/early this morning, “Fuck Hillary and the coattails she rode in on” is not a good pickup line for former HRC staffers, no matter how many beers you buy.
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is John McCain’s VP pick - CNBC
rubybuckaroo: At least she’s a friend of foreign oil companies:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=acNe2vW46POk&refer=canada
TransCanada Gets Alaska Governor Palin’s Approval for Pipeline
By Eduard Gismatullin
Aug. 29 (Bloomberg) — TransCanada Corp., the nation’s largest pipeline company, won approval from Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to build a $27 billion pipeline to carry natural gas from the Arctic to U.S. markets.
Palin on Aug. 27 signed a bill authorizing the state to award Calgary-based TransCanada a license to build the 1,715- mile (2,744-kilometer) link from Prudhoe Bay to the Alberta Hub in Canada, according to a statement. The license will be granted in 90 days.
Borat:
Stirring up fear in an election year? Me smells a rat!
from wiki (which means it might be made up, by Mitt Romney):
“Sarah and her father would sometimes wake at 3 a.m. to hunt moose before school, “
rubybuckaroo: Ruh-roh. They really are saying Palin. Stop trying to pander to the Hiltards, McWhitey! I’m pretty sure they see through your clever ruse.
rubybuckaroo: Won’t McCain be surprised when he finds out it’s not Michael Palin.
no Sarah Palin post yet?
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Alaskan lady governor Sarah Palin was made vice president in her Alaska home this morning. There weren’t any more details. I’m sure everyone in the Wonkette community will be excited - even if you didn’t enjoy her work, there’s no denying her contributions to Eskimo culture. Truly an American icon.
Elitist Republican Tard: And?
Considering the prodigious incompetence of the Clinton campaign, would you want those staffers on your team?
I’m interested in finding out how Patti Solis Doyle is doing, running the Biden Project.
Elitist Republican Tard: It is made up because moose do not exist. They are imaginary creatures invented by Canadians to scare their children.
Sarah Palin:
First, Miss Wasilla!
Now, like Lieberman, Ferraro, Kemp and hundreds before her: Loser VP pick!
Even though 72 is now the new 69.5, whoever is chosen to be the VP is guaranteed to be the next president. As soon McCain crashes from his Metamucil, Centrum Silver, Ensure and whatever Cindy puts in his morning mush fueled high his face will fall off and his brain will become oatmeal.
She and her husband Todd have named their kids:
Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper and newborn son, Trig.
Moose burgers are a family favorite.
“New Orleans prepares itself for Tropical Storm Gustav with their old FEMA friends, while Gustav prepares for New Orleans by flooding Jamaica.”
Heh. That was worth the price of admission.
Happy 72nd birthday, L’il Johhny McCain!
Now please pick Lieberman for your VP. Please please please.
Just for the snark.
McCain continues to age, prepares to name imminent Heart Attack Replacement Candidate
Fixed.
VILF! is http://www.vilf.com taken?
And to think that McCain was one of Sewards detractors…
Does the GOP think that anyone outside Alaska will rally around a young woman with old ideas and children with stupid names???
Oh, good grief. Found the “tug at your heartstrings” angle on Palin: last child has Down’s Syndrome. Pro-life + Down’s Syndrome baby +NRA member = fundie wet dream. They’re all soiling themselves, right now.
cal: Vinegar Joe could be so sweet.
Elitist Republican Tard: New Orleans doesn’t need any more misery, but hey, they’re all Black Democrats, so who cares? And it would be outrageously appropriate…maybe just a litte flood that doesn’t destroy civilized society.
Sarah Palin, what a burn for Tim Pawlenty, who worked tirelessly for McCain, and who has a finer ass in the opinion of many Repubs.
Shit, she’s not in Dayton? http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/08/mccain-vp-conte.html
Well, anyway, here’s a photo from Sarah Palin’s visit to a fudge factory!
http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/2254/palinfudgebr3.jpg
I was talking last night at 538 about how Palin would be a masterstroke for McCain, never thinking that she would actually end up in serious contention. This is the single move from the McCain campaign that I fear most, outside of a dogwhistle call for Obama to be gunned down - which might still happen.
larz:
Palin is better off where she is. I disagree with her opinions, but she’s honest (well, except for trying to get her ex-brother in law fired) and Alaska needs to hang on to any honest politicians they can get.
“But the possibility of a surprise pick also looms as the McCain camp remains mum at this hour about just who will be joining their candidate on stage in battleground Ohio.
But one person who will not be there: Palin. The Governor’s spokesperson, Sharon Leighow, tells ABC News she’s going to the State Fair in Anchorage, Alaska.”
that was ABC, by the way
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/08/mccain-vp-conte.html
I’m sure everyone on this site will immediately decide she sucks, but I for one think Sarah Palin pick= awesome and fun. Guaranteed to make this the most exciting election ever. And if it really is her, they did a hell of a job keeping it under wraps- I had totally given up on her.
It is official. CNBC now confirms: Eskimo lady-governess Sarah Palin is McCain’s VP.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Wonkette community when Sarah Palin confirmed that Sarah Palin is McCain’s veep, now that all other contenders are all out of the running. Coming on the heels of a recent Gallup survey which plainly states that Obama has failed to get his anticipated 15 point convention bounce, this news serves to reinforce what we’ve known all along. The Obama campaign is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by the most recent CNN/Time poll.
You don’t need to be a Kreskin to predict Sarah Palin’s future. The hand writing is on the wall: Sarah Palin is veep. In fact there won’t be any “hot speculation” at all for Sarah Palin because Sarah Palin is already veep. Things are looking very certain for Palin. As many of us are already aware, Palin continues to have a vagina. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
I don’t like the Palin pick for one reason: I soooo wanted to see Joe lay the smack down during the VP debate and as we all learned from the Dem primaries, if you stand up to a woman then you’re a big ol’ meanie.
If all the also-rans are at their state fairs today, has anyone checked the funnel cake stand in Connecticut for Lieberman? Or does Rove still have him handcuffed to the radiator?
Lieberman got a late-night telephone call from WALNUTS and has rushed to Dayton to service him, accoridng to the wire services.
Tybalt: oh, PLEASE let this happen
See, now McCain won’t have to fly out to get a cake from Bush while a hurricane destroys a city adn they both ignore it. They’ll be able to have the cake ceremony on stage at the convention while the hurricane destroys another American city and they ignore it. It saves on co2 emission from jets. Liberals like that kind of thing, right?
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
Ohhhh, thank God above, Palin will keep things interesting AND be fun to masturbate to!
Gustav is clearly a vast left wing conspiracy and absolutely no fun to masturbate to…
plowman: Hey, if she needs a secret undisclosed location to hide out in, I’ve got a spare room and WIFI.