Wonkette
- Barack Obama’s campaign is reportedly “struggling” to meet its ambitious fundraising goals. Is this an actual sign of distress, or a chance for the media to craft an “Obama comes roaring back!!!” narrative when fundraising numbers are eventually released? [New York Times]
- David Plouffe points out that Obama just needs to hold the Kerry states and win Colorado, Indiana, Florida, Virginia, Nevada, or Nebraska. [Politico]
- Here’s one thing Barack Obama isn’t winning: white women voters, who have takken a sudden and dramatic liking to the Republican ticket. [Reuters]
- A six-year-old article mistakenly posted to Bloomberg yesterday caused United Airlines to lose 75 percent of its value in half an hour. Whoops! [Washington Post]
- Here is a nice long article that explains why and how the Fed decided to bail out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. [WSJ]
- Oh goody the real estate market sux in other countries too! [Times Online]
Republican David Brooks says “Republicans are intellectually unfit to govern,” but of course this doesn’t mean you shouldn’t vote for Jesus H. Maverick McCain if he says the right pile of bullsh*t.
Also, you must vote Republican because they saved us from 9/11 unlike those fag arugula Democrats who wanted to catch the people who did it instead of blowing up other countries, and since we’re going to get a city blowed up with an atom bomb, you know we need Republicans.
Oh. I’m really depressed.
I should probably stop looking at Gallup…
The EMPEROR is desperate. He is now resorting
to the politics of personal destruction and
character assassination to claim, what he
believes is, his throne.
Now I can go back to sleep. It was only a
nightmare.
Why does Hopey hate America?
Aren’t the summer interns done? First the Jobs obit and now this?
Sometimes it works out nicely. White House accidentally emails that Maliki supports Obama’s Iraq withdrawal plan. . .
What the hell is wrong with my fellow vagina Americans? I’m ashamed that they are actually following for the Palin ploy and basing their vote on a similarity of lady parts.
So, what does Bloomberg do now? Send the CEO of United a tasty cookie bouquet and a card that says “My bad! Sorry!”
Buck up, motherfuckers. Bring the UNICORN OF PAIN! FEEL THE HORN!
Go down swinging, grandma used to say. If Hopeccino wins, good for us. If McPouchpants wins, then fuck all the dumbasses and unprotected sex for everyone.
Surely the numbers on the white women voters will drift back to their natural place once they start to learn Miss Teen Alaska’s actual views on issues that matter to them.
White women are retarded. (Sorry, mom.)
Serolf Divad: Surely not, but you can dream.
According to the Ketchikan Daily News, in August 2006 Palin said: “We need to come to the defense of southeast Alaska when proposals are on the table, like the bridge, and not allow the spinmeisters to turn this project or any other into something that’s so negative.”
Spinmeisters? Maverick? SarahLiarMcBacacaCuda?
How I loath thee Palin.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-09-08-adwatch_N.htm
Dear “White Women”:
Please enjoy your new coathanger abortions, paying for your own rape kits, lack of access to contraception, ruined environment, proudly ignorant children, and if were lucky enough, global nuclear holocaust. You deserve it.
In Christ,
President Sarah Palin
Speaking as the white owner/operator of working ovaries, I took heart in what Chuck Todd said about that shift among my brethren: it makes no sense. A shift that dramatic among a key demographic should put McCain up by a zillion points. Something else is going on in that poll. In Todd’s words, something that nothing else in that poll explains. He’s not jumping on the “OMG HOPEY’S IN FLAMEZ!” bandwagon without an explanation for that. Neither am I.
Oh, and to white women everywhere: stop letting your children answer the phone for you. They like the pretty lady with the crazy eyes.
Bush=McCain
My dear Wonketteers: do not lose hope. The wingnut base is merely energized. They’ve always been there. They now just have excited private parts. (Someone should do a study of the children born in red states June 09 and wide stance activities during Sept 08). The Rovians have always done this. This is what they do. Hopesman has expected this. Since they can do nothing else, what would we expect?
Eventually Hopesters’ Team Fact will have to take it directly into the face of the Fakers, not avoid the fear-mongering and bait-n-switch shenanigans. If the Repubnuts want fear I say take it to them: describe exactly what the world of the last eight years will look like with four more years of the same. Raise the ante on them. Take it to the hoop Hopey.
My guess is this election will come down to a couple of as yet unspoken passionate comments. For the Demtards the best ones will be ‘zingers’ about how the past will lead us to a horrific future, NOT about some foible of McDumpy or Simple Sarah. That only continues to excite teh wingnut sexiness.
Keep the faith. Snark on! Snark on! Snark on!
McCain=Bush
When is the swimsuit competition for this election? Sarah’s already shown us business attire and given her speech on how to make the world a better place (have lots of children, don’t do community service, and put lipstick on bulldogs).
This is the thread for nonsequiters? More Community Organizer losers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons_of_Liberty
[quote]While the officers and leaders of the Sons of Liberty “were drawn almost entirely from the middle and upper ranks of colonial society, they recognized the need to expand their power base to include “the whole of political society, involving all of its social or economic subdivisions.”[1] Prominent leaders included Paul Revere, Thomas Young, Joseph Warren, Alexander McDougall, Patrick Henry, John Hancock, Isaac Sears, John Lamb, James Otis, Marinus Willett, John Adams, and his cousin, Samuel Adams, who was a leader of the New England resistance. [/quote]
Screwage flow.
Every month we get these stories about how Obama is not meeting fundraising expectations just before the monthly totals are announced. Every month the total is higher than the story suggested it would be. If the Obama campaign isn’t planting these stories they are at least working to its advantage. It brings in extra funds and it gives the campaign a ‘good news’ story when the fundraising is announced.
Would it be sexist of me to ask what Sarah Palin’s breasts are like? I mean, we know what Hopey’s look like.
Cogito Ergo Bibo: Chuck Todd and Nate Silver are the only reason I am not curled up in the fetal position somewhere. They may seriously be the last sane men in America. Or at least that is what I am telling myself. Also, Gallup is an instrument of the devil and must be avoided at all costs.
OffTheRecord: win
Dear White Women,
You are fucking stupid.
Sorry to those white women stuck in this demographic who have brains. You should really slap the rest of them until they wake the fuck up.
Sincerely,
The rest of us
McCorpse doesn’t raise much of a stink about his new celebrity. Hypocrite. As long as it benefits him in meaningless polls and distract the lemmings from real issues, he’ll play it like a Billboard hit. However, every trendy song quickly starts to grate nerves after hearing it over and over and over. The debates will show their incompetence and Caribou Barbie’s shine will tarnish at a crucial time.
RuperttheBear: Rupert — you da man. I couldn’t agree more. It took me a long time to get on board with Hopey. I thought, “OK, he won’t cum in my mouth. I believe HIM. He’s different”. Christajesus if I didn’t fall for it again. No ball-havin’ Dems are making me puke. Jesus, could this get any worse? Biden flashing that smile as Odious Moosewoman just chews his nuts right off.
Don’t fear the white women. When they hear their husbands scream out “Oh Sarah Palin!!!!” while cumming during their once a week sexy fun time , they will be shocked back into reality and the Palin bounce will settle down.
I’m donating to Obama - and I invite anybody who has had the best intentions for the Obama/Biden campaign, who has not yet donated, to do so as well.
The path to 4 More Years of Hell is paved with good intentions.
“A recent e-mail message to McCain fund-raisers unveiled new incentives to spur them in their final push. For the primary, anyone who raised $100,000 or more earned the title of Trailblazer, while those who raised $250,000 or more became Innovators. Now Trailblazers who raise another $100,000 for the party for the general election can become Super-Trailblazers, and Innovators who raise another $250,000 earn the title of Super-Innovators.” WaPo
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
and,
When was the last time that a presidential candidate skipped Pub financing? Do we fully know the possibilities here? It may allow Obama to constantly increase his ground-game like he did in the primaries, taking district by district using covert-ops. (I was going to say black-ops, but you might think I’m a racists.) Seriously, let’s lower expectations, motivate the (ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY HUGE) intertube base and then chuckle all the way to the bank, er, whitehouse.
Hopey should definitely whip up an ad imitating the infamous Obama celebrity ad, substituting Palin and her adoring fundie throngs for Obama in Berlin and then top it off with Bush’s and Cheney’s starry-eyed endorsements of her.
Congratulations Sarah Palin. You have gotten me to do something that I have never done in my almost 20 years of voting. I donated money to a candidate.
I’ll make sure Obama rights you a thank you card.
4tehlulz: 4tehlulz: Americans are retarded and deserve what they get.
slithytoves: 4tehlulz: 4tehlulz: Americans are retarded and deserve what they get.Clearly, since you can’t use teh computer, dumbass.
Dear Chicken Little,
The sky while perhaps a bit cloudier today than yesterday is not yet falling. It’s not very helpful when you run around screaming that the sky is falling before it actually is. I suggest that you perhaps get under your desk with your head between your knees and rock softly back and forth until the weather clears up.
Or if the ups and downs of US politics is too much for you, you could try helping the Liberals win the election in Canada so that it will be easier to immigrate once the Republicans inevitably win in the States.
But seriously, don’t get freaked out by the Sarah-love just yet.
OffTheRecord: Seriously. I need more guys like that, settling things down and explaining why it isn’t time to light your hair on fire, yet. I do wonder what’s going on with that poll. If gains among such a key demographic don’t also dramatically shift the overall total, that means McCain is losing among some demographic (or group of demographics) they aren’t measuring. Sanity, intelligence and emotional maturity, perhaps?
Also, “David Plouffe points out that Obama just needs to hold the Kerry states and win Colorado, Indiana, Florida, Virginia, Nevada, or Nebraska.” leaves out the part that he expects Obama to win Iowa and New Mexico. And then he just needs to win one of the above states (or Ohio) to win the general. Actually, victory in Ohio or Florida even without Iowa or New Mexico would be enough (always assuming the Kerry states are held).
Mr. Dick Sprinkles: Not going to happen, nor is a lot of other good, sarcastic snarkiness that could be leveled at the Repubs. And 527s aren’t going to do it either. Hopey thinks he needs to make this campaign about issues, not personalities. He said so last night on Olbermann, where I thought he was very flat and mooshey. He was getting slow pitches in the wheelhouse and bunting them.
In 2004, white women voted 55% Bush, 44% Kerry; so don’t expect too much from this subgroup of the clitorati.
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/US/P/00/epolls.0.html
Where all the white women at!?!
That poll is the ONLY poll that shows such a dramatic shift; all indications show that Sarah Palin wasn’t actually received that well among women. Also, even with that 20-point shift, McCain is still LOSING. And Rasmussen is tied today, so it looks like the race might be where it was before the conventions: i.e. slight advantage to Obama.
(Also, I’m a white woman, and yet somehow ABC has ever tried to poll me, the sexists.)
Twinkle Twinkle Lil Star: I’d just gave $50 to Barack. I’d like to think it as 50 FUs loud and clear to Wallnuts and Moosehooter. Felt much better afterwards.
Serolf Divad: This assumes that there ARE any issues that matter to them (hint: there are not).
Okay, enough snark. This is serious. SEND OBAMA MONEY OR YOU’RE GOING TO GET MCCAINED FOR FOUR YEARS.
springfield_meltdown: Regrettably this would seem to indicate that vagina-Americans are sometimes as dumb as the penis-bearing-Americans who voted for Bush because he seemed like someone you’d like to have a beer with, whereas Kerry (or Gore) seemed like “elitists.” I expected more too. “Vote for me–I won’t make you feel stupid!”
WadISay: Good metaphor, that’s exactly how it came off. Thing is, you know Obama bin Laden’s got good snark to give — “You’re likable enough, Hillary” — and it must be so hard to keep it in check. I like to think that every time he says “Uhhh” or “ummm” or “Look, let me just say this,” he’s really thinking, “You have GOT to be fucking kidding me, I’m in a close race with THESE two idiots??”
WadISay: Do like I do and GO TO THE BIBLE:
“Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.” Song of Solomon 7:3
And then Sarah shoots the roes in the head and turns them into teriyaki roe-jerky.