Wonkette
This is our Part III, of this painful debate between Gwen Ifill and Joe Biden. Meanwhile, sprightly snow clown Sarah Palin is reciting notes and folkisms from her podium. It is weird. Whether it’s weirder than any other part of this freak two-year-long presidential campaign, we won’t know until … the next freak event. Agh, she can’t pronounce “nuclear” either. Well, hey, our pre-liveblog is here, our Part I liveblog is here, our Part II liveblog is here, and now let’s get to drinkin’, stoppin’ the brains from gettin’ confused with our freedoms, our democracies, and etc. Ugh.
10:05 PM — Sorry, the massive traffic seems to have sunk your Wonkette.
10:06 PM — Luckily, Palin is just repeating the same stuff from her notes.
10:06 PM — Palin: “John McCain knows how to win a war.” And what war was that, exactly, that he won?
10:07 PM — Ifill: “How would a Biden presidency differ from an Obama presidency, if McCain killed Obama?”
10:10 PM — “Coupla mav-racks!” Oh that Sarah. JESUS WHY IS OUR SITE DEAD OH I GUESS IT’S THE TRAFFIC.
10:11 PM — Oh shut up Sarah Palin: “Oh say it ain’t so Joe you talkin’ ’bout dog-gone-erit, extra credit….” God what is this.
10:13 PM — Is it liveblogging if it’s not live, and the Wonkette is dead?
10:14 PM — Good christ, did Palin just say she wanted to AMEND THE CONSTITUTION to give a vice president more powerl?
10:14 PM — Ugh, Palin just said “John tapped me.” That’s not going to be a pretty baby.
10:17 PM — Biden: “Vice President Cheney has been the most dangerous vice president in American history.”
10:21 PM — This would be fun, to liveblog this part, especially Biden’s bit just now about his family and being stuck with being a widower and not knowing what the hell to do, etc., and how this Obama administration is going to have actual policies to cover health care and help people who are in the shrinking income class.
10:22 PM — Palin: “Maverick, change, McCain, maverick.”
10:23 PM — Biden: “Can we talk about this ‘maverick’ bullshit, please. He is just a Bush follower. He votes against health care for kids, tax cuts for middle class people, he has not been a maverick for anything that affects people sitting around the kitchen table.” This is not an exact quote, but it is the gist of it. “Maverick he is not, on the important issues.” Yikes. Both the Men & Women wiggly deals on the CNN graph went up up up for that.
10:26 PM — Can we count how many times she said “John McCain” tonight? Ugh.
10:27 PM — Argh, still offline. Thanks, people who promised we would not be knocked offline again by a SURGE in page views caused by Palin, as happened on Aug. 29, when Palin was announced as Veep nominee.
10:30 PM — Palin said something, reading stuff.
10:30 PM — Biden is saying stuff. Who knows when this blog post will appear. Maybe everyone will be dead by then.
10:33 PM — All Palin said, teeth clenched, was “Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you,” and it is over!
10:33 PM — Quick review: Palin didn’t suck terribly, but she wasn’t doing a debate. She was reciting some stuff and constantly referring to it, on her podium. She was just vaguely engaged with the actual debate. But other than the dropped g’s and such, she survived. Uneven, etc. But she didn’t stare dumbly at the camera for 30 seconds.
10:35 PM — Biden did very well, cool, seemed human, certainly knew his shit, and treated Palin with LOTS of respect, which is the main thing some people were watching for.
10:49 PM — Oh that is curious, in this Ohio Voter thing on CNN, where this mixed-party crowd overwhelmingly say Obama is going to win, even though only about half of them say they’re going to vote for him.
11:22 PM — CNN polls show Biden winning … uh, 51%, vs. 21%? Oh it is hard to keep track, of how much she lost. There is a blizzard of poll numbers.
Worst. Debate. Ever.
Hey! Youre back! Okay, Here’s the joke I waited TWO HOURS to tell… ahem….
Darn! My Mom’s Sarah Palin Debate Card looked like this, and she won in about nine minutes!
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anger. don’t ever do that to me again.
Buchanan was right: Biden was a bore. You’d think at this point in his career he’d have learned to nail a point or two. Palin was scary nuts and refused to answer any questions. Watch America give her a pass anyway. After all, she was PERKY! Amazing
Is it just me, or did Bristol did not look pregnant at ALL?
She’s more annoying than a hangnail.
Glad to see you back up Ken.
Palin: “John McCain knows how to win a war.” And what war was that, exactly, that he won?
Haven’t you learned anything Ken? You win a war by being a prisoner for FIVE AND A HALF YEARS!
A hell of a lot of people must’ve been Googling sarah+palin+truck+nutz+Bible+spice because our Wonkette was down like a gutted moose.
Over under on some wingnut using the crying against him?
I’m just thankful to Sarah Palin for teaching me at the end of the debate that it was Ronald Reagan that said “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.”
fix your series of tubes madame!
Biden started off boring, but I thought he delivered in the 2nd half.
Little off the debate topic-a-reeny, but I just remembered the video from the Busch Regime I want to see remade with Palin:
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=SxHsiA7Zawo
Welcome back, my beautiful wonkette. I [misty-eyed] missed you.
Sarah did OK compared to her previous jousts with “the mainstream media.” (WTF?) Still shallow, over-programmed and sort of moronic. I’m glad to hear she didn’t play so well in Perrysburg (Ohia)…but of course Ohio’s been suffering from globalization for a long long time. People there have sunk greatly in their wealth and opportunities in the past 30 years.
So, admit it, Wonkette went down so that Ken could fly to DC and pretend to give birth to Jim’s love child.
Side note - Repubs put this out today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFLr8XI4XS0
Glad to be back. I thought it was just me and my stalker…
Destonio: Biden wasn’t a bore, he was just trying to be somewhat Presidential and sober. In comparison to Caribou Barbie and her winks and weirdly awkward homey-style delivery, I guess you could say that was boring.
I think I’m ready for the Rapture now.
Unbelievable. I don’t think I can watch her anymore.
Webmaster? Paging Webmaster. Please meet Mr. Layne in the parking lot. You don’t need to bring anything.
Palin: Cheney good, Admenajobby bad. Me good. Obama bad. Me nervous. Eek eek.
Tina Fey won, goshdarndiggity! Biden DIGESTED her soundbites.
Who broke the internets? Was that the General McClellan character?
I don’t think she said she wanted to AMEND the constitution, I think she said it was just sort of open to interpretation so she could “create her own job description”
She is one scary freakshow…
It was fucking boring. ZZzzzzzz. At least with the first presidential debate we got to see McCain go ape shit and throw his poo at Obama.
But Palin is great at reciting memorized talking points! …except her god damned voice. I had to set my mid-range down to -100 on my TV’s EQ.
Oh and Biden won? No shit. He better have.
Oh, whew! I thought Wonkette had died.
Welcome back Wonkette. Your lack of existence forced me to tune into my beloved Cubs being raped, anally and painfully, by teh Dodgers.
When she winked at the camera I was hoping my blinding hatred would choke her, thru the teevee. Fucking bitch making vagina Americans look bad.
graceless: When Wonkette went down, but Drudge would still pop up, I figured it just meant that Dick Cheney had finally launched his coup.
By the way, I wonder who hit the “Biden will be the one to effectively play the gender condescension card” bet at the sportsbook.
wonkette, never leave me again.
The good news is that I was able to control myself and not throw something heavy at the TV.
In all honesty, the Vice President of our PTA is a more coherent speaker than Sarah Palin is…
NUKULAR WEPONNREE! FIGHT FUR FREEDUMB MERICANS! PUDDIN MERICA FURST!
Second that. I had great pithy commentary during the debate that is now lost to history because Wonkette was down and also I was drinking. However, I can say these: 1) “bosniaks” really is a word, and 2) Barbie actually stopped winking and shaking her hair and saying gosh darn it during the middle and actually tried to debate a bit, IMO, and as a result was not as cringe-ificating as I expected. Clearly still batshit crazy on policies as well as waaaaaay out of her league, though, while OTOH Joe did very well and I am now in love with him. Buenas noches.
secretagentgirl: It’s sad really… The Army is so sort of good officers, they are sending 180 year old Civil War generals to Afghanastan.
Sarah Plain and dumb.
President Beeblebrox: agree 100%. Biden was very good and to the point — a hard job for him but he did it, by gum
Wonkette needs a tube-oscopy
jeez, that was depressing, wonkette being down. i think nick denton musta snuck in and unplugged the internets.
Yeah, stop living in the past (8 years) Joe Biden! Some of us regular folks hadn’t even heard of John McCain till 2 months ago, when he crashed his plane into Wasilla Lake. After we rescued him, he offered me the Vice Presidency in exchange for his freedom. And a pound of moose jerky.
I got super emotional when Biden talked about his wife & kids. And I have a lump of coal where my heart should be, and yet…..
CBS Flash poll of undecideds:
Biden: 46%
Palin: 21%
Tie: 33%
CNN Poll of debate watchers:
Biden 51%
Palin: 36%
Did wonkette jump the snark? Or did those zealots that prayed for rain pray for technical errors in the liberal blogosphere?
Since when does dumb-fucking-snowbilly-bitch = folksy/perky? The only bullshit, I-can’t-swear-cause-I-love-jesus, word she forgot was “crimeny”. Do people really buy this shit?
Bramlet Abercrombie: “OTOH Joe did very well and I am now in love with him.”
You know, he’s not half bad for a guy of 65. I wonder if he’s an active bottom.
1. She can deliver a rehearsed line.
2. She can look in the camera and connect, goshdarnit.
3. She uses her kids as props. Why can’t Tusk just get a nap, for Christ sake?
4. Now that she’s proven herself as “capable,” how about some real media access (with followup questions).
5. Miss South Carolina was better looking and more funnier.
Johnny Zhivago:
LMAO! I was thinking the same thing. Send in the Grand Army of the Potomac, led by our wonderous General and national hero George B. McClellan.
That’s what the Hockey Monster will do.
I think this debate will go down in memory as introducing the world to the one person who thinks that after Dick Cheney that the Vice President needs more power.
Ms. Wonkette, I too am nearing a stroke from the rise in my blood pressure. The debate has been over for well more than an hour, and 4 Advil later, my temples are still throbbing. Nothing Palin said made any sense–just pick a random set of English words and mix them up. As long as she includes the phrases “Maverick,” “Washington outsider,” “executive experience” and the like are spewed with that folksy smile and a bat of eyelashes, Republicans will get a hard on and run to the polls for relief. Does anyone know where I can get a tranquilizer or something? My BP may not go down for days….
Wonkette FAIL tonight.
Basically Palin delivered a prepared speech tonight. If were mcCain , that’s what I would have told this dumbass to do.
LifeOnQ: Jerking off helps immensely. Try it, you’ll like it.
LifeOnQ: Don’t forget the little winks. I’ll have a bad case of the howling fantods tonight.
Ugh! Had to watch liveblog at huffpo. Boaring! To serious and no swearing. Please wonkette don’t ever die during a liveblog again!
why is it that every time palin opened her mouth, i wanted to shoot myself in the face? oh my god, she couldn’t have been more annoying if she tried… also, and so, maverick, reagan, energy, wink wink. oh, and biden clearly won, regardless of what faux news says.
President Beeblebrox: at least three (maybe four) winks and lotsa “maverick”s
Ok, can someone explain to me why people insist on saying nuke-u-ler? I mean, they know it’s wrong… right? It’s passive-aggressive. These are the same people (and it cannot be coincidence) who say I-rack and I-ran?
Lionel Hutz Esq.: Meh…those polls are just the ones where Walnuts’s fans couldn’t contribute, you know–being in bed & all after 5 p.m.
Hey. I have an Amiga 1000 that you might want to borrow. It’s very reliable. Clocks at 2MHZ and has 500K of RAM. No hard drive. Cheap.
Talibani? Did I hear that or was I drunk already?
I’m not gonna maybe answer your questions but….
Biden keep his cool for the most part and LOOKED AT HER…Good Lord, she looked like she could’ve been delivering the weather….
All in all, a win for the Hobo Nation we will become.
LifeOnQ: You’ll be awright… this over load thing happened to all of us… maybe wonkette can use this as an example to sell more ads, to make more money, to increase its capacity…
Was McClellan a Maverick too?
Hate to say it, but I heard Biden refer to Osama [bin Ladin] as Obama. Or was I just overexcited?
Lionel Hutz Esq.: Yep, although there’s no need for her to git all official about it. She’ll just take John McCain up to her cabin in Alaska, break his legs and make him write the ending she wants…
She was good. Damned good. The “White Flag of Surrender” is going to be on teeshirts all over shit-kicking country. Don’t underestimate the power of stupid people, and they got their fill tonight. She was America’s sweetheart, damn her eyes.
ruby!: I work with a guy who says nuke-u-ler. I pointed it out. I showed him the spelling. We practiced, “say ‘new’…okay now say ‘clear’…now say them together”. He called his dad ’cause “my dad worked on a nuke-u-lar sub and he’ll know how to say it”. His dad says nuke-u-lar. I told him he sounds like a fucking idiot. He doesn’t care. He says it just “sounds wrong the other way”. So who fucking knows?
I’m still trying to get someone who goes by “Dick” to explain why.
how can people think she won the debate? were we watching the same debate?
Damn what’s with all this “Palin won because she didn’t lose” bullshit in the medias? So she exceeded expectations that put her somewhere between a rock and a goat? So she’s a goat with a diversified family who can quote Reagan, so she wins? We are living in Green Acres, Mr. Haney for Secretary of Defense.
ruby!: Stupid people pronounce it nukeular. It’s an affectation to appeal to ‘non-elitists’. I think in one of the Couric interviews she pronounced Iraq as ‘IROC’, which is probably the car in which Track was conceived.
ShoeTrouble: I know! When I comment on Kos or HuffPost or the NYT, I have to be so careful not to let Strappo be Strappo — can’t post “cunt” or “jizm” or anything. But that’s who I am! I’m genuine!
I already wrote today that wonkette is a bastion of the !st Amendment! It is! It’s changed my life, literally. I waste more time here than on wine blogs, and that’s a good thing, because most of them bite the big one. (That’s a tumescent pecker reference, no-no on the NYT. West Side fascists!)
http://tdh46.typepad.com/mondosapore/2008/10/i-am-feeling-co.html
Strappo: Woo Hoo! Big wanks all around!
Looking forward to the wild spinning we all shall be subjected to tomorrow.
Oooh, wild spinning!
Strappo: I certainly hope not (as I am girl)
How is it a good thing that a candidate ignores the moderator’s questions?
What is so appalling is that the standard for the vice-presidential debate was: “Could Palin ARTICULATE her (fucking) arguments?” How pathetic. We are on the verge of evolution in humanity, and we’re deceived into believing this kind of trite is valid. Obama, Biden (who not so incidentally has weathered far more than freakin’ Palin), is being held accountable for a standard that has never, EVER, been met by either McCain or Bush. I’m so sick and tired of the American public who support this absurd façade! Palin feaks should vote FOR THE PEOPLE, not for their own personal vendettas! Biden kicked Palin’s ass and the clear vote for a “new” America is: OBAMA. And in FACT, the “new” America is a place where we’re not cow-towing to the gawdamn BS spin. McCain will lose, and we’ll have to work through Obama to move past all this primeval BS.
Bramlet Abercrombie: Well, you can *touch* yourself. Isn’t what the wymmyn call it?
OMG this deeeeebate sucked so much ass. I drooled on my favorite tee shirt. Who got their ass swayed by this bull?
ALIVE!: Duh! It’s mavericky!
forgracie: Got the bindle and barrel-with-suspenders all dusted off and ready to go!
Got a call from my brother after the debate… he watched with his buddies at Bible Study… he now has “cover” to vote for Walnuts b/c Palin spoke in complete sentences. My brother and Pat Buchanan are of the same ilk it would seem. Well, look what we have here, I just found another $20 to send to that nice Mr. Obama.
Wonkette needs some shakin’ and a fixin’.
primarywatcher: I’m a fan.
Strappo: Hmmm. . .I was replying to your Biden “not bad for 65″ comment. Thanks for the encouragement, though!
You know, when Sarah Palin took Remedial Math from little Jamie Lynn Palin, she had this look on his face like, “oh, give the little bastard to me so I can pose for the cameras with him.” It reminded me of this episode of this CSI where this little kid accidentally killed his baby brother and the parents were trying to hide the fact and Catherine Willows figured out that the killer was the kid because the mom recoiled whenever she had to hold the kid.
ellie: Amen ellie, time to RAMP IT UP!
Strappo: be careful, i love a strap-on…and now, you.
Dreadful Gate: Really? It’s a pretty standard, stupid line.
Bramlet Abercrombie: I’m getting confused. But you know, it’s well-known in teh gay circles that these take-charge guys with the adoring wives are so often 1) switch hitters and 2) are tired of having to do all the work (they want to be fucked).
Just performing my duty to inform and enlighten.
Strappo: be careful, i love a strap-on…and now, you.
in 3rd grade they told me not to look at note cards when speaking in front of people…
Michelle Malkin is having an orgasm right now…I think she was watching a different debate. Or perhaps one of those late night cinemax movies.
primarywatcher: i blush, darlin’.
as to the men-who-like-to-be-fucked-by-men comment, maybe Drudge can confirm it for us.
Strappo: I’m female. And madder than hell there’s a Palin in mix! Biden’ must’ve bit his tongue when she said she represented “the rights of women” !!!!!!!!!!! damn near cut myself!
Strappo: Isn’t active bottom a bit of an oxymoron?
grevillea: LOL!! who’s said I was bottom??? lol
grevillea: no. it has a very specific meaning. i.e., you just don’t lie there like a typical jewish wife. you PARTICIPATE, you SHAKE YOUR BOOTY.
primarywatcher:
1. if i were straight i’d be stalking you right now
2. sarah palin is satan’s revenge for betty friedan
I really, really hate Michelle Malkin. She is a disgrace to Filipina-Americans everywhere (and I AM one). She is… santorum after one of them fake anal-rape scenes I see on boysfood.com sometimes.
Strappo: Oh, then, well done. Thanks again. lol
primarywatcher: OK, confession: I played the “whenever Palin fucks up - take a drink”… I no longer can read, or think. In the infamous words of Palin, “period!”
Die Gelbe Gefahr: Don’t ask Michelle about ping-pong ball shows.
primarywatcher: god i love a girl who wears a strap-on AND gets shitfaced. a real menschette.
primarywatcher: Palin fucked up by being born.. Hey-O!
It astonishes me that any non-total-wingnut could’ve watched that debate and not been completely offended by that wretched, awful person; it was as bad as expected and it’s kind of pathetic watching teevee people say anything positive at all about it. That was worse than the Couric videos because you had to watch it for 90 minutes straight. Rating by “expectations” is a way for teevee networks to make the race look close. He destroyed her, and now we will go back to not caring about the vice presidential nominees.
PHEW, ha ha ha. DECOMPRESSION. Sorry our blog broke tonight, wtf.
good night, wonketteers. the amphetamine’s wearing off and after some downers (vodka) it’s up the wooden hill.
good night, good night, dream hard for Barry and Joe & soon the enemy will be crushed under OUR irreligious boots.
ARG! I’m sitting in a hotel in a RED state with only FOX news to watch and thought the Wonkette liveblog would be the perfect offset, and no go.
Should have just watched in online, but my Facebook pet needed a bath, bad.
Anywoo, Fox says Palin won with 86% of views votes and that she spoke off the cuff, without a prompter.
Jim Newell: yeah huffington post didn’t crap out and they’re on typepad too. watsamatta U?
I felt sorry for Biden. I could tell he was just itching to burst out with “THIS BITCH HAS NO FUCKING CLUE WHAT SHE IS TALKING ABOUT” everytime she opened her mouth. They should have had a format more like the 1st pres debate so Biden could have had more of a chance to call all her bullshit out. But lets give her credit, she sure memorized every fucking canned line Davis rammed down her throat.
Die Gelbe Gefahr: I take heart from the fact her readers are eating up all the “doggone it” and winking and ‘outsider’ crap with a spoon. Surely that has to mean Palin didn’t win any undecided voters tonight? Now about your disgusting surfing habits, young lady…
check out the youtube remix of the wink! i don t want no vice president winking at me ok!! now get outta here!!!
“Anywoo, Fox says Palin won with 86% of views votes and that she spoke off the cuff, without a prompter.”
no prompter because she had her 5 subject notebook with the cover pasted over with a pic of todd palin stroking it on a moose rug.
Jim Newell: You know, I agree. I was not as disappointed as I had expected, but that is only because I expected to be so very, very disappointed. Helluva standard for an election.
Palin was so godawful that Biden beat her on the motherhood portion of the debate. And I never want to hear about Alaska again. Let Canada and Russia fight over it and the glorious oil supply we would probably exhaust in less than a year.
Jim Newell: Oh Great. Now you are in the Tank Jim!
Strappo: Apparently, Wonkette is too big to fail….
SloppyCronkite: Very astute. It’s the “October surprise” that will be unnecessary now: the retarded kid is actually Sarah’s, but Bristol had hers a couple months ago. Not kidding. It will be revealed after Palin’s back where she belongs, running her maverick little state government.
Lionel Hutz Esq.: wait — are you saying that huff post bailed wonkette out? shit. then they’ll want to institute “regulation” and force wonkette to “moderate” comments with a strict code of “ethics.” it’s a bleak future for freedom.
i really am going to bed now. just wanted to pass on to you something i wrote about the NEXT VICE PRESIDENT OF THE DIVIDED STATES OF EMBARRASSMENT:
http://tdh46.typepad.com/mondosapore/2007/10/america-needs-j.html
Strappo: And a micro computer was installed in her eyeglasses, which explains both the wink and the eyes moving from side to side as she read.
Please, Todd on the Moose rug? Think Levi with a strap-on, on a polar bear rug. You know, Levi, Trig’s daddy.
B’ — I really thought Todd WAS the little critter’s pappy? Anyway, I happen to think Todd’s kinda hot. But even my partner says I’m a horny old coot.
I’m really glad she kept her baby up late so we could see it on national tv. WTF? I honestly think that all Palin does is motivate the Joe Stoopids to get out and vote cause they thank theyd’b haves a chanse uh bangin hur if they dun vote fur her.
Maybe she dun be awnn tha tikit cuz dem cuntry fellers thank they be havin a chanse of bangin her if they votes fa hur.
Palin only comes across as a massive bitch to me. A massive bitch who would probly prefer to f out by the pool when she’s drunk at a party.
Yay. I love commenting at the end.
1. Anyone notice how when she was describing her “achilles heel” … that she talked about her strengths? Does she really not know what the fuck an achilles heel is?
2. When describing “what do you think the VP does” … how did “and I have a child with special needs” come into play?
DAMN YOU WONKETTE, DELAYING MY PRECIOUS COMMENTS!
heh
wine + debates = good
Thanks for getting me back into drinking, Wonkette!
Where are you MagicTitty? Where is the feminine outrage? I can’t stand this! Apocalypstick shook her ass as she said “Drill, baby, drill!” SHE SHOOK HER ASS! Angela Merkel never shook her ass. Madeline Albright never shook her ass. Condaleezza Rice never shook her ass, and she’s got a great ass!
How many times did Bible Spice wink at the camera? Hey, Palin, do you want America to vote for you or fuck you? This isn’t an audition for a shaving cream commercial. You are supposed to be convincing people that you are qualified to run the free world. This smilin’, jokin’, winkin’, g-droppin’ bullshit makes me puke.
And I wanted to beat her over the head with a dictionary every time she said nuke-u-ler, or I-rack, or I-ran. I don’t buy the fake folksy veracular. It’s just another part of the war on intelligence we’ve been dealing with for eight years. If she’s smart enough to understand the benefit of shreading the constitution a little further to follow Cheney through the senate to the unitary executive, then she should be able to pronounce words correctly.
And did she really close by saying she deserves the Vice Presidency because of American Exceptionalism? Sarah, do you want “Al Kida” to hate you specifically? You know, he will climb on Putin’s head and float over your house and blow Wasilla to Kingdom Come. Or maybe that’s what you want, all rapturey-like.
Every woman in this country should be furious. And every man should be ashamed that he secretly wants a tattooed lipstick job.
i’m telling you i smell conspiracy….wonkette goes offline right when tv ppl were forming opinions on the debate? cnn pulls alot of shit off wonkette so its kinda funny that they couldn’t read what was being said on here before they went live w/commentary. just seems fishy.
I’m so proud of Joe!!!!
I’m so proud of Joe!!!
http://roschellenelson.blogspot.com/2008/10/mccain-is-no-maverick.html
Edward Bulwer-Lytton: OMFG. Well, let’s link singing “this my land, this land is our land”, “Kumbaya”, and other assorted childhood indoctrination songs
WTF was joe talking when he said something about Jesse Helms and an adopted kid with braces?
Anyone who played a drinking game is now in a fucking coma.
Redneck Pre-debate discussion. Hilarious! …no, seriously
It was hot when Biden called McCain’s health care tax credit a “bridge to nowhere” and warned people they would get dropped from their insurance.
As an immigrant to the US, it took me years to realize that many Americans stayed in shitty jobs because they were afraid to lose their health care.
Well, it’s almost 20 years later and I have had health care for about two of them, none recently, and I still won’t keep a shitty job over health care. In fact I have owned my own business for the other 18 years and … wait for it…..STILL DON’T have health care.
Why? Because it’s a bad deal. A sucker deal, because it’s not really health care, it’s insurance and insurance companies are money grubbing, fear mongering scumbags.
I used to have affordable product liability insurance, and then they tripled the price post 9/11, because…….terrorists were gonna, what, ummm, file frivolous lawsuits? Please, that was the last straw.
Insurance sucks. It costs a fortune, health, auto, liability, property, it’s all a bad deal, if you self insured on most of then or just absorbed your losses. On an actuarial basis 99 percent of people would come out ahead, vs. paying premiums their whole lives. That one percent? Well in my world, we have benefits and it seems to work out.
But, that’s too scary if you grew up with “The Fear” that every American gets indoctrinated with.
I’ll probably die of untreated cancer which is just a guess at this point, but the freedom I have now by not having to pay for all that insurance is worth it.
Don’t misunderstand, some I legally have to have, auto, workers comp, but the rest I let lie. In exchange for taking this risk, I have been able to pursue my not so lucrative dreams.
I would love to see nationalized health care, not so much for myself, but just to see my friends be able to leave “The Fear” behind and be able to follow their dreams.
I love America. Here’s to better times. Soon.
The creepiest thing about Winky Palin is that she can’t pronounce nuclear either!!! And not falling off of the stage does not win a debate. She wants to be Cheney when she grows up. Hooray for her. She is awful! She’s just dumb as a stump.
You may blame the traffic (sure - that’s what you tell all the advertisers) but I am positive that the Wonkette outage is all a plot by the Library of Congress to keep the truth about Gwen Ifil from our future overlord!
Damn You Library of Congress!
also, Palin says also a lot. If I had a drinking game based on how many times she says also, I would be sick and I would also have to have my stomach pumped. Don’t cha know.
Ok, forget about partitioning Iraq, let’s partition the United States. All the stupid people who like McCain and Palin would be in one part, the people that use their heads for more then baseball cap holders can live in the other. I like Alaska for the WALNUTS!/Caribou Barbie camp.
Regional query - does everyone in Alaska talk like they’re auditioning for
“Fargo II” or just the snowbilly milf? What the hell is that accent? My elitist ears cannot understand. I haz a confused.
Thank god i don’t drink anymore. I would be rotting in my bed at this point…my table-mates were at it, and when she said “holocaust” AGAIN i bought a round of shots, and screamed, “stop saying that fucking word beyotch!”
Thank god i live in god-hating whore-mongering liberal elite Manhattan…
This…was not her finest hour: http://tinyurl.com/3w5kp4
Also. Chagrined I didn’t think of binge-o card drinking, but got also segue to nowhere enough six packs in me on that word also alone.
Also, oxy moron. Team of mavericks. Twice you know.
Can I buy a gerund? That’s not what our troops need to be hearin’.
She shouldn’t trouble her pretty little head about how to pay for her kids’ college. Pretty sure higher education is not going to be a priority for most of ‘em.
Joe say it ain’t so, say it ain’t so Joe.
Sarah kicked our ASS didn’t she.
@ MargeSimpsonsBlackFriend: I tried really really hard.
Strappo: Todd’s kinda hot for a Palin, I guess.
Either way, I haven’t been able to hold down a meal in 24 hours, so that’s something.
So it DID go down. I’m so late to this party. But yes, thank you for confirming my reality.