Apart from Bob Bauer’s conference-call crashing, we’ve got:
Let the campaign controversy begin
Posted by nbye March 05, 2008 06:29AM
Categories: Top Story
The Obama campaign claimed ballots ran short in predominantly black Cleveland precincts. Cuyahoga County voters complained that the ballots secrecy was compromised.
Take a look at the controversy surrounding Tuesday’s primary:
• Obama campaign claims ballots ran short in some Cleveland precincts
• Cuyahoga County voters complain ballot secrecy was compromised
» Everything you ever wanted to know about Tuesday’s election
For some reason, that ballot shortage link doesn’t work. It will be interesting to see if the Obama campaign put the kibosh on that story. But, all in all, it is to laugh.
UPDATE: Oops! Almost forgot: Rove, you magnificent bastard!
The words “NAFTA SNAFU” sound pretty good together. If I expected to have any more children, I’d put the name on my list. But I have the feeling that the writer of this article doesn’t know what SNAFU means. Or maybe he does and he’s just throwing objectivity to the wind.
Comment by Martin on 3/5 @ 8:21 am #
“UPDATE: Oops! Almost forgot: Rove, you magnificent bastard!”
I’m still laughing over this!
Comment by Pablo on 3/5 @ 8:38 am #
Related, but with a somewhat broader focus, you never hear about this kind of stuff in Republican contests (Paulnuts notwithstanding), but it comes up nearly every time there’s a D on the ballot.
Comment by Pablo on 3/5 @ 8:40 am #
Sounds an awful lot like Nosferatu.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 3/5 @ 8:49 am #
/begin transmission
Greetings Pastpeople from the Shortlifes of the Level III Branching Path Multiverse
It is with sorrow and trepidition that we contact you…for the Life States of America is no more.
Once again we are tumbled on the timewinds of the consequences of your whims.
In your year of 2008 the Theocan (once republican) party was engaged in brutal deathmatch with the Democratic Party over the presidential election.
A shadow conspiracy of guerilla bloggers and neurolinguistic hackers including the phenomenal Jeff Goldstein and the legendary Allahpundit formed a loose conspiracy to elevate the percieved weaker democratic candidate to the democratic nomination, under the premise that this would increase Senator McCains chances in the general.
Alas…they succeeded only too well.
Their neurolinguistic attacks on Barack Obama reduced him from near godlike invicibility to a bitter, petty, whiny hasbeen…..kinda like Al Gore but black and thinner.
Hillary Clinton was sworn in as president and immediately seized absolute power in a military coup and declared herself Queen Hillary the first.
But that is not the worst…in an attempt to curry favor with Kim Jong Il inorder to rehabilitate Bill Clintons diplomatic record in the annals of history, Queen Hillary gave North Korea 2 more nuclear reactors, preffered trading partner status, and the state of california.
The North Koreans used California as a beach head for their conquest of North America.
We now have zero unemployment since anyone without a job is immediately sent to the deathlabor camps.
Now we send you this message in a desperate appeal…..please stop fuckin around with our future.
Sincerely,
the Shortlifes of the New Juche Territories of the Level III Branching Path Multiverse.
/end transmission
Comment by LiveFromFortLivingRoom on 3/5 @ 8:53 am #
He was for NAFTA before he was against it, then he called Canada to tell them he was just full of shit.
Comment by jdm on 3/5 @ 9:06 am #
Don’t know if these have been mentioned, but over at Gateway Pundit, there’s not just
one but
two posts about Obama.
Thank you, Democrat voters in Ohio and Texas - and supposed Republican crossovers in Texas as well. The entertainment is back.
Comment by mojo on 3/5 @ 9:29 am #
Personally, I think it’s FUBAR.
Comment by apotheosis on 3/5 @ 9:43 am #
So what’s the deal with this li’l nishi critter, anyway?
Comment by Ric Locke on 3/5 @ 9:54 am #
Nishi is a True Believer, verging on fanatic, in Obama the Messiah, come to save us all from Politics, and particularly from the Satanic Bushitlerburton-Rove Conspiracy. Her Faith is syncretic, consisting of large chunks of Teh Narrative™ mixed with hopeychangitude and the Words of the Chosen One. It is impervious to reason; don’t try.
Regards,
Ric
Comment by LiveFromFortLivingRoom on 3/5 @ 10:06 am #
nishizonoshinji do me a favor, hope in one hand and shit in the other and tell me which one fills up faster.
Comment by Davyd Bowen on 3/5 @ 10:28 am #
And if you’re happy and you know it clap your hands.
Comment by TmjUtah on 3/5 @ 10:36 am #
I am laying in a shipping container of pop corn kernels and ordering a pony tanker trailer full of evil hydrogenated palm oil in which to pop said corn. I will take any advice offered on which digital TV recorder is best to buy because I intend to capture the moments on live TV (sure to occur
with increasing frequency as the months and months pass between now and November) when Obamajama or Hillary! get real, tough questions that are simply impossible to answer in a coherent manner for both the moonbat Left and normal Americans.
Neither Dem can afford to lose any delegates from here on out. The fringe base rules the primaries and will decide who wins… in the white hot glare of media just waiting for the next gaffe.
Rove, you … what Dan said!
Comment by Jeffersonian on 3/5 @ 10:38 am #
Wow, #6, it doesn’t look like Paul Reyes missed too many meals due to the injustices of the capitalist system. Musta been on that pre-revolution bulk-up.
Comment by McGehee on 3/5 @ 10:40 am #
Every so often it reboots (must be running Windows) and that I think is its POST message.
Comment by irongrampa on 3/5 @ 11:05 am #
After a bit of analysis, this nishi poster comes across as scary intelligent, but dumber than a barn door.
Comment by Carin on 3/5 @ 11:06 am #
So, I really love how nishi blames PW’ers for Hillary.
Comment by daleyrocks on 3/5 @ 11:09 am #
So what’s the deal with this li’l nishi critter, anyway?
It claims to be a sushi muslim and sometimes regurgitates it’s hate America pablum raw onto this site instead of running it through a filter or microwave.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 3/5 @ 11:49 am #
well…..if ur ONLY choice was bilary or O…who wud u choose?
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 3/5 @ 11:51 am #
carin i was once a PW guest blogger…..now im just a pariah i guess.
with O takin hits, bilary will offer him the vice.
:(
i will have to vote mccain.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 3/5 @ 11:52 am #
but he will lose against a bilary/O ticket.
he cant beat O alone right now.
Comment by Carin on 3/5 @ 11:52 am #
No - honestly - how can you blame 1)Republicans or 2)PW commenters for Hillary?
It’s kinda like blaming the victim.
Comment by MayBee on 3/5 @ 11:54 am #
This explains nishi in a way words never can.
Comment by Carin on 3/5 @ 11:56 am #
I think many conservatives have come to the astonishing conclusion that Hillary is a lesser evil than Obama. The only slight edge O has (in my mind) over Hillary is the hope that he is just so far left (and inexperienced) NOTHING will be accomplished. But, his agenda - what little one can glean from his past and his speeches - is frightening.
Hillary is at least reigned in by her ego. Poll-driven-opinions and what not.
But, overall, I think most Rethuglians have rooted for Hillary these past few weeks is that we just don’t wanna see the show end just yet.
Comment by Pablo on 3/5 @ 11:58 am #
Hell, I voted for her for just that reason.
Comment by MayBee on 3/5 @ 12:04 pm #
Wow. If you look at my video at the :57 mark, you can even see where Obama got the inspiration for his “O” logo.
Comment by TmjUtah on 3/5 @ 12:06 pm #
I don’t pretend to measure evil in somebody that I only know at a remove. Judge the merits of their records/politics/agendas? You bet! I’ll make a best-guess at electability without blinking, too.
FWIW, I believe that Obama will be even less electable than Hillary (on policy issues) by the time November comes around.
I strongly dislike the POLITICS of the Left. The people… they get one-by-one treatment. But if their politics don’t work for me, I don’t vote for them.
Where’s teh Hate there? From where I stand, that’s been the single most puzzling thing about those folks since I’ve been politically aware. They always hint that conservatives have to create enemies to instill hate and fear, as a unifying tool.
HELLO? WTF have you Lefties been about, with the starving schoolkids and seniors and CIA crack trade,
the homeless that pop up whenever a Republican gets elected…
I know the enemies of America. They aren’t Republicans.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 3/5 @ 12:20 pm #
“But, overall, I think most Rethuglians have rooted for Hillary these past few weeks is that we just don’t wanna see the show end just yet.”
Who’d want this to end? It’s been fabulous! The sets, the costumes, the story-line, the songs, watching them decide which guilt trip they want to take!
This ought to have a longer run than ‘Phantom’!
Comment by McGehee on 3/5 @ 12:27 pm #
Eight months is a long time. If history is any guide, the Omentum would be about dissipated by August.
Comment by thor on 3/5 @ 12:54 pm #
New PW word of the hour - “Omentum”. Rich in snarky.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 3/5 @ 1:26 pm #
u an rush are so not-smart, wid the crossover voting.
O wud never take bilary as his veep, but bilary has already opened overtures for taking O.
mccain cant beat O alone, and a bilary/O ticket will until the dems.
there are more dems than repubs, and right now each candidate gets half.
carin, try this thot experiment.
can u think of a situ, any situ at all where bilary wud put the interests of the country over their own?
my mocks all have a basis in truth.
bill clinton gave kim jong il the two nuclear reactors that form the base of his weaponized uranium program in 1994 over the protests of congress.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 3/5 @ 1:27 pm #
unite the dems.
Comment by Old Texas Turkey on 3/5 @ 1:33 pm #
Being a fan of the old school of “finish your enemy off while you have the advantage”. i have serious misgivings about rethug crossovers to vote for Hill. The clintons are like vampires and conservatives had Obama doing them a huge favor.
I fear that all this delicious glee may come back to haunt conservatives in the fall.
just my 2c.
Comment by Carin on 3/5 @ 1:50 pm #
Well, I suppose we could say that people just weren’t paying attention back in Bill’s day. Could he get away with something like that today? I would hope not.
To be honest, I think O and Hillary would both be horrible. The thought of either gives me night sweats. I think the BEST thing for Republicans is that the two Dem candidates ‘em keep tearing into each other for as long as possible.
Comment by Carin on 3/5 @ 1:51 pm #
A guys is making that exact same point on Rush right now.
I have gone back and forth as to who would be worse. Personally, I’ve focused on O lately because I assumed he was the frontrunner.
Comment by ThomasD on 3/5 @ 2:01 pm #
New PW word of the hour - “Omentumâ€Â. Rich in snarky.
Just one problem, it’s meaning is already taken.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omentum
Comment by MayBee on 3/5 @ 2:24 pm #
Well, I suppose we could say that people just weren’t paying attention back in Bill’s day. Could he get away with something like that today? I would hope not.
The last 8 years’ holiday from history hasn’t helped bring attention to the matter.
Jimmy Carter made Bill do it, by the way.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 3/5 @ 3:05 pm #
every single think billclinton did was for himself.
the reason he gutted our HUMINT programs was that field operative in tripoli didnt get him any votes.
he funded big gaudy satellite builds instead.
and after toricelli, we were death and blind in MENA in the run up to 911.
and a few $ worth of HUMINT cud have told us Uncle Saddams WMDs were fakes and window dressing for the Iranians.
/spit
if the clintons get back in the WH their prime objective will be to re-engineer history so that bill looks better.
the clintons are a malignancy on the American presidency.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 3/5 @ 3:05 pm #
deaf and blind
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 3/5 @ 3:07 pm #
the clintons are monsters of ego, selfinterest and ambition.
they will do watevah makes them look good and stay in power.
Comment by B Moe on 3/5 @ 3:24 pm #
I have become convinced the only hope is for Hillary to go full attack mode on Obama. The right can’t do it: http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=11329#comment-344146
If Obama gets the nomination, we are fucked, there will be no viable minority voice, it will be completely shouted down. If Hillary beats up Obama and prevails, her negative numbers will be high enough that real criticism would still be possible, and McCain could run a viable campaign. Otherwise, I don’t see McCain having much of a chance.
Comment by kelly on 3/5 @ 4:11 pm #
Omemtum is taken, huh? How about omerta?
Hey, don’t blame me for all this Obamassassination shit.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 3/5 @ 4:23 pm #
B Moes u dont unnerstand….O will be vice.
bilary/O will be unbeatable.
Comment by B Moe on 3/5 @ 4:26 pm #
O will be vice.
bilary/O will be unbeatable.
How is that going to happen, nishi? How is Obama going to give up the lead in normal delegates and total states and not send the nutroots and Black bloc into a screaming rage?
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 3/5 @ 6:12 pm #
the dems want the WH back.
bilary will take O for vice……..he wont take her.
if he is damaged enough, O will take the vice.
if he is powerful enuff on his own, he wont take HRC and her baggage.
her voters will vote for him, his wont vote for her, ur right.
the vice is a sop if she gets ahead in delegates.
either way mccain loses.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 3/5 @ 6:14 pm #
say..i heard O is reaching out to evangelicals!
such is my loathing of the clintons i wud even embrace the theocons to keep them out of the WH.
:(
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 3/5 @ 6:23 pm #
one thing i hadnt considered……the debates.
mccain will win in the appearance sweepstakes over HRC.
he is slightly taller and better lookin…..also more genuine and warm.
hmmm
brit hume jus ran down the electoral college map.
mccain loses to hilary by 6, loses to O by 10.
Comment by Tom Coughlin on 3/5 @ 8:59 pm #
brit hume jus ran down the electoral college map.
mccain loses to hilary by 6, loses to O by 10.
I’m taking McCain and the points.
Comment by TmjUtah on 3/5 @ 9:00 pm #
“How is Obama going to give up the lead in normal delegates and total states and not send the nutroots and Black bloc into a screaming rage?”
Send?
Rage, be it seething or screaming, is the at-rest state of those august demographics.
Comment by McGehee on 3/5 @ 9:11 pm #
My apologies, that should have been O!mentum®.
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