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FIVE AND A HALF DAYS, PEOPLE
I missed Clinton’s speech warmup.. have a direction to point a motherfucker in?
Better than McCain’s upcoming late night infomerical on the success of ExtenZe.
Here’s a clip of Jesus of America on the Daily Show:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/29/obamas-daily-show-intervi_n_139123.html
more important than a 30 minute infomercial, the endorsement of pablo:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3145/2984749979_1dc5158e43_b.jpg
I’m glad he got that out of his system.
Now, Go Negative! Yay!
(kidding)
Bit of a threadjack here, but a fun game to play…On politico, one of their open questions was whether the media coverage of WALNUTS! is biased or is just driven by the poor management of the campaign…
“Gary L. Bauer, President of American Values:
The very fact that this question is being asked suggests there’s a problem with media bias.”
In that case, here are a few questions that, according to Gary’s logic, should also be indicative of real problems:
Is Gary Bauer a tiny, hateful man?
Will WALNUTS! want to lay down in traffic when he looks back on this campaign?
Does Sarah Palin think that she will ride this country into the apocalypse like a pony?
Is Joe the Plumber the missing member of Bear Force One? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twQlpFrm5iM
Why did Obama’s campaign waste all that money filming poor, sad people who need hope? They should have just paid to put Bill’s speech on all the stations. Bill rocks when he gets in front of a crowd. (And did you see him checking out women while Hopey was talking?)
Empathy? As Reagan has taught us, if you are poor, you deserve to be.
I thought only John McCain considered 7 o’clock to be late-night.
[re=155664]donotronix[/re]: Thanks for this.
“Sara Paline belives in the bible but it says there was no dinosaurs so WHERE IS THE STUPID OIL COMING from?”
It definitely helped me not chose McCain. I’m done with this, too.
Wake up white people.
R-E-S-I-S-T
C-O-M-P-L-A-C-E-N-C-Y
Call a bitter today.
No dumb as mud bricks oil monkeys (or tycoons)!
Volaric/Kennedy 2046!
Hey, some of my money helped pay for that Infomercial.
I’m WhatTheHeck. And I approve that message.
Hopey makes me so sad for the po’ people.
I can’t wait until he makes it illegal to be rich.
Thank you for the live blogging.
Checking it out as we speak!!!
[re=155677]DoctorCulturae[/re]: I woke up. Checked that I still had a spot in hobo camp. Complacency.
I already voted or I would vote right now. I guess I could vote again next Tuesday. That’s what the republicans will do.
[re=155664]donotronix[/re]: hahahaha
[re=155664]donotronix[/re]: Pablo makes more sense than Palin.
[re=155683]TheeFauxhemian[/re]: Illegal or, as McNuggets says, greedy? Nah, nah, nah, you have no friends between the two major candidates.
Of course, you could pencil in Alan Greenspan, mister buccaneer freemarket capitalism, shocked, shocked though he might be at its recent collapse. Stupid antique.
After finally watching this, it is fair to say that this fucking guy is gonna be our next overlord terrorist messiah.
[re=155691]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: You forget the ultimate arbitreur of our national elections, Scalia.
See you in re-education camp. The first cup of gruel is on me.
[re=155691]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: In other words, Congress, regardless of political makeup, will have a hard time saying no to this man, because his motivation is something we haven’t seen in quite some time: genuine caring, genuine concern, all wrapped up in calm reasoning and logic. So, yeah, if there’s a “messiah” quality – a human one – it’s good enough for me to believe in.
All I know is that you lazy college students better put up or shut up. If we lose, Imma find each any every one of you fake Rastafarians and put my entire foot in your ass. Imma flush your Facebook account, I’ll tell your Dean you are a pedo and then make it my life’s mission to make sure you smell like hot garbage.
Barry’s pretty good at being a Presidential Hopey. TOO BAD HE IS A TERRORIST FROM MARS WHO WILL FUCK THE ONLY WOMAN OR MAN THAT YOU LOVE AND THROW HIM INTO A GAS CHAMBER OF SOCIALIST FREE MARKET MUSLIM CANADIAN CONSERVATIVE HMO’s.
And http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GzTYAD6epA will be your awesome for tonight.
That half hour just zipped by. I call it a win.[re=155700]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: You are one seriously twisted motherfucker, but I’m sure you already knew that.
[re=155700]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: Thnaks for that. I wanted to grab my melon-baller and remove my clitoris. Since I am an American, I would be without anesthesia and *with* a soldering gun – Krazy Glue in hand. Truly, it was a repulsive vid, but I laughed, too.
[re=155667]ivenson[/re]: Bring up Gary Bauer on an Obama’s Thirty Minutes of Princely Goodness post is akin to splicing in a animated Goatse GIF in the middle of a Vaseline-lensed diorama of frolicking baby unicorns nuzzling their mom.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go and share my peanut butter & jelly sandwich with the rest of my class…
point 43 minutes in I realized why i never want to ever fucking go back to the US. Sienna waves of grain ‘n oboe music, tiny flags, closeups of fat people and kids nosepicking, shitheads in their old military hats. It’s like a freakin McDonald’s commercial.
[re=155695]Mojopo[/re]: Rastas, i “HOPE” you’re a white girl so i can take you to the hill of Jamaica.
[re=155712]OhFuckThis[/re]: nice avatar
1:58 She capped those punks with her truck, right? WW2 Fighter pilot ace mom. Solving the world’s population boom problem one Ethan, Nathan, Gabrielle and Grace stick figure at a time?
2:28: I’m all for moldy puttying your eight kids and buying a house to send them to good schools, but look at that kid there. At 2:28. pause and look..
2:41 Okay shopping carts and a husband sitting on the sofa and mood lighting… seriously , we put up with two fucking years of “running for president” and this is the grande finale? I just can’t watch the rest. Let it be over already, take my firearms and collectivize my children into backyard steel production, bring on the race wars, load the Portland hippies into polar bear suits and send them out to drown, strap Olmberman and Orielly into a steel-cage dancing-with-the-stars american-idol steel-cage death-match,load up Heston’s basement of guns and shoot everyone, just fucking let it be over.
[re=155716]hobospacejungle[/re]:
Thanks. Yours is equally wonderful.
2:10 You know, all across the world I’ve met people who would be damn happy to have Rebecca’s life and can’t quite figure out why she is such a crybaby. Other than, well she’s a spoiled american.
4:42 Thank goodness we passed that. meh.
5:22: 9-11!!!
5:47: Who’s the old dude in the prison orange? Aren’t old people supposed to be smart enough to protect their retirement money- greatest generation and all?
6:25: good god this is awful tearjerky stuff. Lets face it, there are too many tired old farts hanging around all teary-
eyed hoping their grandchildren will cover their sorry asses in their old age. I’ll bet that orange suited old man voted for Reagan back in the day and now he’s wondering were the trickledown went.
Hi, I’m Barack Obama, and not baseball. Let me tell you a tale of adventure on the open seas. A sea we call…America.
Once upon a time there was this lady, and she was hella poor. She had every type of disease and needed some serious pills.
My prescription? ISLAMOCIALISM! Goodnight, Cleveland!
I cried when he talked about his mommy. Admit it, you did too.
[re=155730]Darehead[/re]: Can’t deny I has wet eyes. God, I’m such a puss.
Okay. I watched the whole thing. Gad that is pathetic, bunch of overweight whiners with 3 new cars in the driveway and a kitchen full of junk food and an extra hundred pounds about the waist and 7 kids whining about how awful their lives are.
People in Sierra Leone are happy to have arms you spoiled pukes.
Things are gonna get tough. You’re gonna have to give up your new cars and sell your kids into white slavery. Old people are just gonna have to die. But there will always be a place on the porch for an old black man to play the blues.
Am I the only one who thinks Barry sounds like the ketchup Industry spokesperson from “A Prairie Home Companion?” What do you want to bet he developed that non-threatening, empathetic tone by listening to those very sketches?
[re=155733]Serolf Divad[/re]: Well, I see your point, Professor. But ketchup is what you need to add zing in your life when you have the prairieland blahs. So the more analogous item, perhaps, would be Powdermilk Biscuits, since Barry is trying to sell the Undecidedtards the strength to get up and do what needs to be done. Vote. For the real hot item, Obamamilk Biscuits.
I sheepishly admit to watching “Pushing Daisies” instead. I hope Barry sold lots of Oxyclean.
[re=155735]dano[/re]: It was an Obdominal machine.
He’s become the Popeil Pocket President.
I had no idea that ‘Hope’ could bring you to full orgasm…All hail the coming of the Panda Unicorn Shark God!!!
Sara, just wanted to let you know you aren’t alone. I was trying to snark on this through a lump in my throat the whole goddamned half hour. Plus, I got super choked up dropping off my ballot last week, trekking all over mother-lovin’ Madrid with a sick baby in the freezing rain for 3 hours till I got it all done. This bastard better be worth it.
[re=155732]OhFuckThis[/re]: “But there will always be a place on the porch for an old black man to play the blues.”
Not if he’s working 10 hour shifts at Walmart. GObama!
Posting from Australia. That was just Teh Awsome. Watched it twice. You bastards need to get out the vote. The rest of the world cannot stand another eight years of Bushite crap.
Landslide, please.
I’m sorry, but my sympathy for these people is limited. How many of them will sincerely admit their part of the blame? I heard a lot of “We thought…”. They didn’t think. Nobody asked “What would happen if…?” when they purchased a mcmansion, started a family or a business. Too many assumed that the party would go on forever and they turned a deaf ear to the voice of reason. What changes or sacrifices did they make when the storm clouds began to loom? How many of them still maintained a few cell phones, 3rd tier cable, or huge SUVs when the crisis was at their feet? Is it really necessary for empty-nesters to have a huge, vacant house?
Some of the happiest people I’ve met in my 40+ years of existence have a fraction of what these people own. They didn’t have a glamorous lifestyle, but a humble and stable one.
There’s a lot of blame to go around and doesn’t all rest on the banks and insurance companies.
[re=155743]Servo[/re]: I respect your right to be skeptical, but layoffs and rising food prices are not these people’s faults. I don’t think any of them (in this video at least) were living in McMansions or were ignoring the possibility of future hardships, they just got screwed on timing (having young kids or being retired is a shitty time for a recession). Even if you remain doubtful as to whether people brought this on themselves, I hope you’d still support policies to move us past all this.
OhFuckThis: Please get some sleep.
[re=155734]Darehead[/re]: Seems the me that late at night, he the one man. Searching for the answers to life’s persistent questions. Barack Obama. Presidential Candidate.
[re=155747]CivicHoliday[/re]:
Well you’ve gotta admit: in the case of Juliana Sanchez its her own damn fault. If she wanted to make ends meet she should have become a hedge fund manager instead of a public school teacher. There’s no room in America for public school teachers and other such useless riff raff.
[re=155758]WIDTAP[/re]: You WIN. good sir/ma’am. Guy NOIR. Private O.
[re=155747]CivicHoliday[/re]:
I would never blame anyone for problems beyond their control. What I was stating was that I heard a lot of “We thought…” in the ad, which indicates complacency and assumptions. Banks and insurance are leeches, we should use our intelligence to limit their supply of blood.
[re=155743]Servo[/re]: Indubitably, in some cases people were irresponsible, but in many cases not. Half of all bankruptcy cases are because of medical bills which people simply cannot afford. The story about Obama’s mother kicks my ass every time I hear it, because I know people in similar positions, and many of us, unfortunately do. At least in these cases there is no reason to limit our sympathy.
Oops, I forgot to include a joke: your mom.
[re=155785]facehead[/re]:
Uh, my Mom departed the same way Obama’s mother did, at a youthful 59 years of age.
[re=155808]Servo[/re]: So then you are sympathetic…
BTW, there is no chance in hell I’ll apologize for a momma joke (this is in the constitution); so you better just call my mom a whore and we’ll call it even.
[re=155827]facehead[/re]:
Indeed. Health Care for profit is high treason. Trying to live beyond your means is just moronic. The only mother I’ll give a Jack Aubrey broadside is Sarah Palin.
BB King wants Lucille back.
[re=155654]ms_mcgee[/re]: You’ve been waiting months to say that, haven’t you?
Why does the blues guy have to work at Wal-mart? Have they hit the doughnut-hole on Medicare? Do they have to pay for supplemental insurance to cover her R.A.? I’m confused.
[re=155764]Serolf Divad[/re]:
Yep, and the old guy who’s retirement check was cut from 1,800 to 300 bucks a month? He should have had the foresight to be the CEO of that company.
I’m passionate about this stuff to the gills, so I may be a little biased – but that ad was good. i was emotional all through. i wonder if i will cry while i vote too
[re=155855]Servo[/re]: So you’re for socialized medicine, against living beyond your means and momma jokes — bless your heart, but why do you hate America?
But seriously, I’d bet good money (i.e. yen) that you’re not American? Am I right?
[re=155693]S.Luggo[/re]: “The first cup of gruel is on me.”
Gruel? We get gruel? Oh wow, this is gonna be great! I have to call some people now…..
[re=155728]OhFuckThis[/re]: Stop whining, or NO GRUEL FOR YOU!
[re=155889]DemmeFatale[/re]: Sorry, all out of snarky wit for now. Here’s the deal. His wife didn’t qualify for Medicare coverage. Medicare only covers the one person. You have to qualify for Social Security to get it. A lot of people work jobs that don’t take out of your earnings for FICA. They live in a rural area, it seems. I do, too. There are lots of ways people earn a living in the country, and a lot of them don’t involve the “customary” paycheck with benefits thing. SO he went to work for Wal-Mart to earn the extra money needed to buy his wife her medicines. I doubt that he is able to afford the Wal-Mart group health policy, even if he qualifies to participate in it (being a part-timer), but if he had that, he could get her covered under it, although his own coverage would be reduced by his own Medicare. And these are people who are relatively lucky in this regard.
Since Healthcare seems to have taken over this trail: have you seen these new AMA ads… I think they’re pretty sure they’re under the Hopey bus, but “they have a plan… just ask them…
[re=155945]facehead[/re]:
Statisically, I should be a raving Repub lunatic. My travels and education allowed me to see the stark contrast between America and the rest of the world and have sharpened my weltanschauung.
[re=155743]Servo[/re]: HaHa! Freak! Why do you hate America?
Where were the amazing hoop-making shots?
[re=156288]TGY[/re]: the whole thing was a three point shot………
On Wednesday, when Obama has been elected, everyone who voted for him should wear or display an American flag. Let’s show them who the “real Americans” are! Let’s take back this country! Please pass the thought along to all your contacts and we can have a national display.
[re=155742]Rickets Nixon Gaaaggghh Palin[/re]: I will vote if you take back Rupert Murdoch!
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