Wonkette
- Oh noes Sarah Palin really is like John McCain: rash, impulsive, nasty, and not very interested in details. [Los Angeles Times]
- The U.S. government just took over the two biggest mortgage providers in the country, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. [New York Times]
- The rest of the world seemed to approve of the bailout, as markets rallied today. [Guardian]
- And now Washington Mutual has replaced its CEO. Any bets on how soon the government will take over this latest failed financial entity? [Reuters]
- Sarah Palin has given pro-lifers reason to hope again. [Washington Post]
- American missiles took out a couple of Taliban buildings in northwest Pakistan, but failed to kill the Taliban commander they were after. [Washington Post]
Traveling in Utah the last few days, and a local paper in a Salt Lake suburb had a pro-Obama editorial. I’m not sure if that means the Big Love crowd are into unicorns, but they don’t seem to live mean, vindictive, and Alaskan.
Sarah Palin like McCain? Naw, she’s George Bush’s even more stupid sister. Basically, Cheney et al.’s wet dream.
Fannie & Freddie: Privatizes profits and solialized losses. What a scam.
That has to be the first time that the “Number 3 Man in Al Gaeda” got away. He’s usually toast.
I assume this will blow up any minute now…
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/04/georgia_gop_congressman_calls.html
Botswana Meat Commission FC: yeah, dude, like last week. Colbert even did a whole segment about it.
If you liked Dick Cheney’s unaccountable “Fourth Branch of Government,” but thought it needed more fundamentalist crazy, then you’ll love Sarah Palin.
Is “Al Qa’ida’s #3″ like being the unknown red shirt guy in Star Trek?
People, we’re fucked. Seriously. Just look at the polls. And the reason is quite simple: Democrats don’t know how to be cutthroat ruthless bastards on the campaign trail. I fear it may be too late for that now, also. But its’ worth a try. Obama’s going to have to use a big part of his $$$ to rip McCain/Palin to shreds. If he doesn’t, not only will he lose the elections for sure, but Democrats will not see the gains in the House and Senate that they were expecting. Palin is the new “Gay Marriage amendment.” She’s completely peripheral to the party’s goals, but drives the snake handling, speaking in tongues, reality-challenged, GOP base wild: “Finally! A God fearing Christian to guide our nation through the coming tribulation.” John McCain will see to it that the Middle East is in flames (as predicted by Nostradamus, the Book of John, Tim LaHaye or whatever the fuck nonsense these retards are reading these days), and Palin will welcome Jesus back again and clean his feet with her tears and wipe them dry with her hair, and Jesus will use his holy magic tricks to send all the Mexicans back to Mexico, castrate the gays and convert the Jews.
Barry, I know you’re a new kind of politician and you reach across the aisle and you like to keep the conservation focused on “the issues” but if you don’t get some of your subordinates to convince some of your “allies” run the dirtiest campaign this planet has ever seen against your opponents, then you’re more fucked than a hentai comic book heroine bound by a slimy space monster with a tentacle in every orifice. Because believe me: Sarah “community organizers are the new communists” Palin will not hold back. If there’s one thing you need to know about beauty queens its that they’re shallow and vapid but also vindictive, ruthless, merciless.
…and CEOs STILL walk away with multi-million dollar severence packages!
I’ll admit to being pretty damned nervous right now, but, the Democratic Convention was a bit over a week ago and the Republican Convention was a few days ago.
I know it seems like an eternity ago, and that nothing BP (Before Palin) matters, but there are 2 whole months left, and I don’t really know how much average people are going to retain from the conventions 2 weeks from now.
Serolf Divad: You said it better, cuz’ I was just thinking “how in the fuck can we let abortion and gay rights decide another presidency, how stoopid are we as a nation?”
REMEMBER THE LAST EIGHT PEOPLE!
“Everything is constantly collapsing”… yeah, that pretty much sums it up.
Man, even the snark is depressing today.
Serolf Divad:
I agree with you on every point.
I still have a secret hope that Barry learned a few things in Chicago, a city whose politics tend not to be defined by gentleness and rainbows. My other secret hope is that African-Americans turn out to the polls in unprecidented numbers and turn a few southern states blue.
EnBuenOra: Serolf Divad: We know, we know. But will they? They have got to gut this woman and her walking, talking dwarf before November4. What is wrong with the American people? WHY don’t they want leaders who are smarter/better informed than they? Jeebus! I think I still have my immigration papers from 2004. Vancouver, here I come if this lot gets in.
McCain may not be able to move his arms very well, but he was able to mop the floor with that brillo-headed-Osama last week.
Serolf Divad: I agree and would amplify your point - the BS I hear that Obama should “ignore Palin” and focus on McCain is a very bad idea. I really do believe that all of McCain’s upside comes from Palin.
There are a lot of morons in this country who know less about what the President/VP do - and I have already heard the monumentally crazy line (from a non-evangelical republican female) “she’s so great at juggling things, it would be wonderful to have a mom as president”.
Serolf Divad: Barry is sitting down to lunch with Bill Clinton on thursday. You may just get your wish.
Serolf Divad:
1) The Walnuts bounce is means he’s now up 4% among registered voters.
2) The economic news is not getting any better with higher than expected unemployment and the collapsing fiscal system. People vote with their wallets. Unless Palin’s god can miraculously cause sub prime debt and fiscal insolvency to turn into sunshine and rainbows, a recovery isn’t coming soon. People vote with their wallets more than their bibles.
3) The National Enquirer’s been digging.
4) A US America friend of mine’s volunteering at one of O’s call centers. Apparently the money is pouring in.
Look, Palin has energized people who were never going to vote for Obama in the first place. The race has not fundamentally changed. People leaning Democratic are not rushing to support a George W. Bush Jr. “with lipstick”, suddenly drawn to anti-abortion and creationist lunacy.
Get a grip, people. Please tell me none of you ever, ever thought this would be a walk. Did any of you ever really think that after 8 years of wacked-out Republican election-theft and authoritarianism, it would be easy to beat them with a liberal black guy Democrat with Muslim heritage and a funny name?
Really? Really? Some of you thought this would be easy, just ’cause it ought to be?
No offense, but I think you guys need to relax. Barry might possibly have a clue about what he’s doing. Like me. You couldn’t tell by looking at me but I am the mistress of butsecksery.
Serolf Divad: There are no rules in a knife fight. The Dems need to learn a few sucker punches.
ITT we forget that the Electoral College determines who wins.
Now relax.
Mo MoDo: There are rules; the Democrats are partisan and shrill and the Republicans are tough.
Serolf Divad: Palin is Bush/Rove in a dress.
EnBuenOra: my I present my paranoia principle? Does it seem like some people are just promoting fear? Have we lost touch with the facts? Did we forget that opinions are like assholes: we all have one and they all stink? Discuss…
Serolf Divad: And don’t give up on the church folk. The AME Zion Church speaks in tongues too!
I’m going to take comfort in what Chuck Todd was selling on The Today Show and Morning Joe this morning. The Gallup Daily Poll is like a heart monitor. It records every momentary spike in interest. He’s waiting for the weekly polls completed following the end of the GOP convention. Dailies are good for recording trends, but they are too reactive to the news of the day. Everything is too amplified to presume that it speaks to more than that day’s mood.
As long as Palin stays near the top of the news cycle she’s going to help Walnuts. I don’t know how, but Barry has to upstage her and get people focused on his campaign again. It doesn’t matter that she is a nasty, power grabbing, lying user. In a country where superficiality is a cultural trait, people will only look at the superficiality of Miss Wasilla until something shiney takes their attention off her. Biden ripping her a new oriface at the debates would help.
This old stock market bromide is offering comfort today:
You can’t put lipstick on a pig.
EVERYBODY! RELAX! Deep breath. The GOP will gloat endlessly about meaningless polls, but never address the public’s concern over real issues. Yes, Obama needs to let out the thunderous, Marine drill instructor voice, but they understand the GOP’s chronic foot-in-mouth disease and are giving the voters quality face time. People will grow increasingly tired of Captain Brag and his trophy VP which will trigger high levels of frustration at Camp McCorpse and, ultimately, his massive stroke in October.
“Republican Lyda Green, president of the Alaska Senate, who has clashed frequently with the governor, said: “It has been very difficult for her to accept ‘no,’ and after a ‘no’ was spoken, going forward after that amicably was very difficult. After that, you didn’t get in. No conversations. She would very much slam you in her next press conference.”"
That’s not change, that’s more of the same.
Serolf Divad: What he said. Looking into international schools for my kids in Spain…
Terry: …only to be turned away from the polls or kept waiting in line for 6 hours by Republican dirty tricks… Don’t forget the past. If they can’t win an election fairly, they’ll rig it.
Want to read something that will make you puke?
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/a_feminists_argument_for_mccai.html
Good.
Twinkle Twinkle Lil Star:
Gah. You’re right. I must have been in some kind of news-coma last week.
lilblackcorvette: I’ll need to see a picture of you in normal clothes and one of you engaged in the buttsecksery to verify this claim.
SuperRounder:
Oooooh, they could send Bill out as a pit bull. He’s already got the reputation for shooting his mouth off a bit. He could do the slicing and dicing, then Barry could stand back and cluck his tongue, suggesting that we keep a civil tone.
Serolf Divad:
I agree with your point about how elections actually get won.
But Barry is winning where it counts, the electoral collage.
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/
Serolf Divad: I don’t know that Barry really can rip into her himself - America never responds terribly well to an Angry Black Man, particularly when the subject is a woman. That the woman in this case is a nasty, vindictive authoritarian doesn’t really matter.
That said, some enterprising 527 should be putting something together right now to rip both her and McCain to little bloody shreds.
loquaciousmusic: she’s a Faux news correspondent. Who gives a fuck what they think.
“I’m pro-choice but she’s a vagina so I’m changing my position?”
As Barry said yesterday ” They think you’re stupid” !
grendel: “Normal is a setting on a dryer”.
grendel:
True on the tactics at the polls. The dems need to make sure every poll that has the potential to see black voters turned away has an elegant and dignified minister there and a camera crew. Start turning voters away make sure the highlights on the news all day long are of little elderly ladies saying that they are being discriminated against, with a bible holding minister(hopefully grandfatherly to evoke the Civil Rights era)praying at the door of the polling place. Make sure that hits the news hours before the polls close, to anger everyone who was still wondering if they should bother voting.
Conservatorship. Credit Event. Oh, yipeee!
Terry: …and that will do exactly nothing. Show me that last election where the results were not certified due to election fraud, etc.
lilblackcorvette: And, as he has been in damned near everything else, Barry was right.
Cut the military a break. You can’t spell missles without “miss.”
Johnny Zhivago: I smell the putrid, fetid reek of the perennial Democratic handler slash consultant in all this, urging caution, circumspection, and some headache-inducing nuanced message. Hopey’s advertising has been, frankly, lousey. Mooshey message, no visceral impact. Looks like I picked the wrong time to quit sniffing glue.
Terry:
What scares me is fundies in buses.
What gives me hope is Barry’s unparalleled organization, GOTV, and party-building apparatus.
What scares me is ongoing Republican voter caging efforts.
What gives me hope is booze. Sweet, sweet booze.
Bah, Barry will triumph in the end.
Also, I need an alternative to joining the Foreign Legion (except without the part about killing people), just in case of the reverse. I’m too old for the Peace Corps, I think. Religious orders leave me cold, so Trappist monkhood is also out.
jjgittes:
I agree. There’s no hope in dope… but booze? Oh yeah, baby! Make mine a grape MD 20/20. When I need to get fucked up because I’m feeling so depressed I want it to be as low-rent-cheap-corner-liquor-store-drink-it-in-the-paper-bag-nightmare-hangover-inducing piss water as possible.
Serolf Divad: Don’t freak out on those gallup polls. As I recall (from some news story) the major portion of Obama’s “bounce” was due to Gallup switching its most publicized pols from those of registered voters to polls of “likely” voters and back again. I don’t do work like research because it’s too, ya know, worky, but the last Gallup poll I saw that had the huge spread was again…”likely voters”. According to this mystery story that I can’t back up, there’s never any real movement in polls like the amount made to appear to us without moving the goal. But it keeps people reading, and scared as a bonus.
Truck Nutz!!
WaMu has a new CEO? I hope they promoted the nice black man in the blue polo shirt who deals so hilariously with the dumb ol’ honkies.
Serolf Divad: If it’s lasting brain damage you are after, then get a square of Moosehead Ale. It works for The Todd.
ManchuCandidate: I never thought I would say this, but the National Enquirer is a ray of hope in otherwise cloudy news day - Man, that NYT article is frightening. And like the first 10 comments lead me to think she’s got everyone fooled.
Serolf Divad: Nice rant. Now take a deep breath.jjgittes: As Homer Simpson so eloquently stated it, “To alcohol, the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.”
Borat: If she had an affair it will only prove she is human and has already been forgiven. If it’s shown she strangled a moose while panning for gold under a crescent moon it will only prove something else.
These people can self justify any behavior.
The better story on Palin is that she’s an incompetent, tax raising, deficit generating flip-flopper.
5.4 trillion buckaroonies added to debt.
the spin is they’re helping you.
thanks.
ronald reagan and milton friedman live.
SAVE THE EMPTY SUITS!!
y’know i look good in a suit. i’m qualified. hire me. i’m as empty as the next guy.
*** BONNIE AND CLYDE, 2009 ******
Special Agent Jack Mehoff: According to a poster on fivethirtyeight Gallups *likely voter* makeup brokedown 40% Rep vs. 28% Dem. So I don’t think that the 10% spread is an accurate take on the matter. This is actually the same criticism of their poll a month or so ago where their likely voters gave McCain one of his few leads at the time. When the registered voters who didn’t make the likely voter grade were looked at they bromke 70-30 for Obama. But the 4% spread in the poll is probably much closer to reality and isn’t all that good news either. But this is also way too early to panic about polls. Save your sweat until early October.
Johnny Zhivago:
But the double standard works against her. It’s okay for men to spread their seed, blah blah blah. Not so much for women. No so forgiving of Jezebels (original sin blah blah blah.)
Serolf Divad:
In 2000 I just sort of sat there, watching the TV, sort of amused, but not escaping the dawning realization that something really bad was about to happen for a while.
In 2004 I sat there and facepalmed in disbelief.
In 2008, if Senator Adult Diaper pulls this off, I’m gonna get tore up, because it’s the ONLY SANE RESPONSE LEFT.
How can Palin be exactly like McCain if the Huffington Post told me she’s already exactly like Bush? Wait a minute……….MCCAIN IS EXACTLY LIKE BUSH! TRANSITIVE Z0MG! CALL TEH NEWZ!
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
The Administration and John” A plaque on all my Houses” McCain insist that the economy is “fundamentally sound.”
However, what that means is that they have a lot of Fundamentalists praying for it out loud.
Courage, wonketeers. I know things seem bad at the moment but I think it will all pan out OK in the end. Hopey and Joe need to just stay on messsage. They need to stick rabidly, unrelentingly and unashamedly to blatant fear tactics with the message that “You think the Bush years were bad, wait til you see what Mccain/Palin have in store for you.” They need to hammer home the terror-inducing idea of how far down the toilet a WALNUTS administration would sink this country. People are already scared to death about how fucking quickly things are falling apart and Barry needs to keep telling them about how much worse it could get if they choose to vote in another Republican administration that differs from the current one in NO WAYS AT ALL. Bill Clinton delivered what I think is the best line of this entire suckfest when he said that Obama is on the right side of history. Even dyed in the wool Republican voters know that their party sucks.
Oh and buttsecks. Lots of buttsecks.
Ok, all, I’m as nervous as the rest of you, but I’ve also decided that unlike 2000 and 2004, I can’t just rely on good campaigning by our candidate and party. We have to get out and do it ourselves this year. Please, volunteer to make some calls or go door-to-door. That’s how the fundies won it the last two times - a successful ground war, with neighbors convincing neighbors. We can’t complain about the results of the election if our only contribution is voting on Nov. 4th.