Give us our bread and circuses, O!
This race would be far more interesting with a conservative on the ticket, I think. But then, what do I know. I’m not part of the GOP elite establishment and Beltway pundit’s circuit — where McCain is seen as a “viable” candidate while Sarah Palin is viewed as “a cancer” on the party.
Must be all the clinging I do to my guns and my religion.
David Brooks and cancer in the same sentence is the most cheering thing I’ve read all day.
Brooks is a putz for calling Palin a cancer on the party. I don’t understand how someone who worked for Bill Buckley could be so antagonistic against someone so Reagan-esque…
I’ll bet he voted for Carter…
Hillary come back.
Ignore the instruments; Use the Force, Jeff…
Obi-Wan is trying to show you that all is alright…
Released: October 08, 2008
Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby Poll:
Obama 47%, McCain 45%
The telephone tracking poll shows neither candidate with a clear advantage in the national horserace
(In the voice of Alec Guinness)
Soooon Jeff, large trees will grow out of the ACORNS planted years ago by the dark lords Ayers and Obamus…
I denounce myself for #6
I thought about denouncing myself for #1 but it would have been phony. David Brooks is a tool. A prissy tool.
Who knew George Gallup was a fan of Spinal Tap?
Brooks is bad, Parker is bad, Frum too.
Who else is bad , delusional partisans?
Matthew Cuntinetti
Yes that debate would have been much more interesting with a conservative on the ballot. You know one that would have had something like my reaction when I heard “Yes, health care is a right”. Well without the thrown drinking glass and the yelling. I for one can not believe that jackass sat there taking freakin notes. This guy just rewrote the Constitution you are running to defend right in front of you and you sit there???? Boggles the mind.
Bolsheviks like sashal are bad.
Sashal, I thought you didn’t like neocons. To put it mildly.
JD, my friend,
you have no fucking clue what the Bolshevik is.
But I have seen this crap before.
You, brainwashed blind partisans, look to me like Bolsheviks, big time…
Our bread will be free shitty healthcare that makes Tricare look like visiting Dr. 90210.
Our circuses will be O!bamalot. Complete with glowing portraits of Mrs. O! and her beautiful kids. Follow that with a splash of the MSM crowing “oh wow all of a sudden look we won in Iraq yayyyyyy!!!!!”
Mark, what’s your point, my friend?
I hate them,- anti-American scums they are…
But even they(some of them at least) see what the atrocity Palin’s choice was
anyway
I am off to Yom Kippur.
I will read your snarky comments later…
Rick Brookhiser
JD, my friend,
you have no fucking clue what the Bolshevik is.
…says the Russian that doesn’t know what a fascist looks like.
O!
No, Mr. Pink, you misunderstand the meaning of “circus” in this context.
The circuses will be the endless hearings and auto-da-fes, all on the theme of “I know damned well there was money there, and I was gonna take it and give it to the Poor and Deserving, but now it’s gone. Where are you hiding it, you greedy criminals?”
Regards,
Ric
#15
Quack!
When McCain announced Palin, angels wept.
Well, not real angels, because they don’t exist. But, like, Katie Couric.
Which of Palin’s choices were atrocious, again?
Oh, that’s what he meant. It’s an ESL thing, I guess.
Big hand’s on 120,
little hand’s on E
Grassroots is apparently the way to go. I’ve organized a little playgroup for neighborhood three-year-olds. The mommies drop them off so they can go play tennis and I time them as they disassemble and reassemble AK47s. Later we have goldfish and listen to Atlas Shrugged. They’re so cute when they’re widdle.
Gallup? All they do are push-polls for the Commiecrats. I wouldn’t sweat it. Indeed, what this poll means is that most likely McCain is gaining on Obambi and it’s making them nervous.
I’m running out of reasons not to ‘hammer the Seashell.
You ran out of reason a long, long time ago I’m afraid.
I already ran out of reasons, McGehee.
then you’d only have two seashells left, mcgeehee
…and if I held either one of them up to my ear they’d have nothing more sensible to say than the original does.
I’m holding off on the ‘hammering to see if he regains what senses he ever had, after the election.
Comment by thor on 10/8 @ 5:05 pm #
“You ran out of reason a long, long time ago I’m afraid.”
One could throw out the old standby “Pot, meet Kettle” at this point. But somehow that does not seem to apply here, mainly because the notion of HammerBoi commenting on ANYONE’S reasoning abilities is so ludicrous as to be beyond belief.
Given that his (thor’s) are so lacking, I mean, geeeez….
I hear OPEC bunch has banded together to drop supply in order to prop up prices. Elsewhere this is called antitrust or price fixing or something illegal.
Something similar will be called changey progress under O! Without freaking question. I mean, McCain virtually competed with the O! monkey in the debate to see who could spread the biggest table of Washington’s goods and services.
The problem with these damn comment spaces, Goldstein, is not enough room to expose the full measure of artificiality both parties embrace these days. You could write encyclopedias on the hundreds and hundreds of thousands of pages of laws and policies and programs in the Socialist States of America and barely get started. Doesn’t this blog come with 40″ widescreens with 1080 vertical lines?
So what happened? I mean, this was all predictable (and predicted) so when exactly did we, collectively, get this so blitheringly stupid?
Ironically, I think it was a bad idea to ever entrust civilians with representative government and with it, free markets, progress, prosperity, and civilization. Because when it vanishes, it hurts like hell.
I think I’d rather been born Russian or something. And I see that even ‘feets is miffed.
I’ve never been this unproud of America.
You could use a hug from Michelle Obama.
Axshully, thor, you would…
Willingly.
…and I think I know why…
Maybe we can run a REAL Conservative in 2012. There would have been no Reagan had we not had Jimmy Carter. Obama is Carter with a TAN..
Oh, and Hotline/FD tracking has a one point diff:
Hotline/FD Tracking 10/05 – 10/07 904 LV 45 44 Obama +1
Not that this means anything… other than who the fargin’ knows what a poll means in the first place.
Other than that, I went long the market today.
And, though it pains me that dear old Mac is a bit squeamish, I’m still working on getting out the McCain/Palin vote, unsqueamishly.
Cheers!
one if by land
two if by feet
Governor Palin is a good choice what John McCain made. Even an idiot can see what she’s done is obliterate any distinction between Baracky and his media. They can kill now because they hate now I think. Creepy fucks.
Maybe we can get the oil sheiks to cough up some cash to stabilize the markets and all. complete sell outs, just own it already. I’m sure Baracky can get us a good deal on that.
y’know-iffn’ the torturers of the Jonny had worn glasses
[titanium glasses]
we wouldn’t hav the problems now
[made from downed USA aircraft!]
This is more what the Oil sheiks have in mind.
O! No
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/10/07/politics/fromtheroad/entry4507703.shtml
Completely OT — have you guys seen this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG4uppI_ttc
Jeff, you know that something like 80% of the people called in telephone polls hang up without being polled, right?
Panic or despair is unwarranted. Stiff upper lip, roll up the sleeves.
The O! crowd is puching the meme that the race is over on the strength of flawed polling because they know that it is not. The purpose is to depress opposition morale.
machosauce person should come here and no bannings would happen I bet and he could be our new friend even if that name is sort of stupid
IGNORE THE POLLS. They are not right. They’re weighting by party (and lop-sided, at that) Haven’t you guys seen the info on how these polls are being calculated?
And on a side note:
THE MALE PHOTOGRAPHERS are starting the get on my freaking nerves. I didn’t mind all the gratuitous Sarah-Palin-leg-shots, because at least I could see what kind of cute shoes she was wearing. But this crap is now out of control. Do you think these photogs might have some PERSONAL ISSUES they are struggling with?
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g225/P1nkcadillac/legs.jpg
Alec is right and also despair is of the devil anyway.
We don’t have to worry about OPEC under an Obama presidency…he’s going to sue them…
That will surely work. In addition to show them, we’re going to, on our own, kill our supply of oil by not allowing us to make any more of it.
That will show them.
I was on a plane once-kinda stunk- thank god they let that RON BROWN guy off
“Comment by sashal on 10/8 @ 4:42 pm #
JD, my friend,
you have no fucking clue what the Bolshevik is.”
Look who’s talking.
The ignoramus with no knowledge of history.
What a fucking joke you are, sashweight.
Hey Brownie….look out for the…
47
That was fun!
Say.. isn’t Bill supposed to be stumping for Baracky ‘after the Jewish holidays’ for the cracker vote?
I didn’t mind all the gratuitous Sarah-Palin-leg-shots, because at least I could see what kind of cute shoes she was wearing.
Umm, PC…Where did you find all those Palin gratuitous leg-shots?
I have a…friend, he’s interested in photography.
The reason the polls read like they do is because Democrats are more likely to respond to polls than Republicans in this election.
Nuh-uh. It Yom Kippur and Morty down in Flahrida won’t p/u the damned phone!
And I lie to them.
you know that something like 80% of the people called in telephone polls hang up without being polled, right?
So that would leave 25% who answer?
http://tinyurl.com/4fg8ag
The “my religion” link is pretty interesting. If the dems and their multi culti morally relativistic masters get their way, they may not like some of the things that the bio sciences are saying. See Larry Summers among others. That could be funny. Fucking progressive cudlips! Ha, that felt good.
Any one hanging their hat on the polls forgets 4 years ago.
It is a different feel this time, though. ’04 was more grim determination.
And 8 years ago. I distinctly remember, before election day, discussions about how the Republicans should/would react if Bush took the popular vote (as seemed likely) and lost the electoral college (as seemed likely).
yeah, it’s probably cause we’ve always been told it’s rare for the same party to hold the White House for more than eight years.
This election has to be a referendum on Soros if there is to be any hope:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/how_allies_of_george_soros_hel.html
Sucked anything lately thor? Good boy.
I, like RTO, lie to them.
No one ever polls me. Maybe because I speak spanish back at them. Really bad spanish. They hang up.
This is just precious:
How FDR Prolonged Great Depression
http://liberalfascism.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MzEyNjFiNzNmNDkwMDcyY2FkMjZiNDJkYjBjMDc0ZDg=
Reminder: On 9/22/2008, thor, CFJ (Certified Financial Jeenius) said:
Glad I shifted a bag full of dollars into them Euro coins.
Heh.
Thor’s probably too busy sucking Daddy’s dick for an extra allowance check to suck anything else.
Ha. Had a really bad cold once and did my answering machine in french. Messages from them guys were stuff like ‘whoaaaaaa. never mind’
I sent Jonah something the other day. He ignored it.
These guys all ignore me. They’re taking Ace’s and Patterico’s calls now, though. So some progress.
I. Love. TrollHammer. It’s like rolling up the car windows to shut out the noise of screeching monkeys.
RTO and PC… To me personally this is not a matter of polls or who it looks like will win this election. I do not fuckin care. I care about our country standing as it is now, with it’s founding principles intact. I swore an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States to defend it against all enemies foreign and domestic and in a Presidential debate I saw one candidate rewrite our Constitution in one sentence. The other candidate sat there taking notes.
I find it really hard to care who wins anymore is what I am saying.
Mr. Pink: I think McCain-Feingold pretty much proved that Johnny Mac doesn’t mind playing fast and loose with the Constitution.
#58 – Lee:
Ace picked up on this too, so here you go – a whole bunch of porno Palin leg shots. From Reuters, of course.
http://minx.cc/?post=275175
I don’t give a shit about McCain.
I’m voting for Sarah Palin. :)
Eh. He ignores most of what I send him. I think I’ve gotten once response from him, ever. Reynolds has quoted me three or four times, though.
Never about my Jetta, though. I mean, he seems to pass along every damned story about the diesels, but when he gets first-hand reports from an owner…
Jonah put one of my jokes on the Corner.
Without attribution.
Cool Negro (by half) beats Crotchedy Whitey.
/thor
*time for a shower*
oh. If I wrote for a stale pusillanimous self-styled elite old-school paper magazine thinger I would be all about not ignoring, being you are the future and all. You think I just say these things but I have the eye.
I met Jonah face to face at one of those NR fundraisers in DC four years ago. Still doesn’t know who I am. Shocking.
You think I just say these things but I have the eye.
Jeff G.:
“These guys all ignore me. ”
I think you and Eric & Simon over at “Classic Values” should get together. Don’t rely on PJ to do something.
>>I think you and Eric & Simon over at “Classic Valuesâ€Â
A series of bloggingheads thingers?
I wish Palin was the top of the ticket. She ain’t no cancer….the cancer is Washington DC and she’s the cure. No one who has been in Washington more 5 years and can live with themselves can I trust. The problem is Washington DC not DC is the solution.
Thanks PC, I’ll let my friend know.
Probably the funniest part of pw.com these days is the embracing of Sarah Palin simply because she irritates Democrats. Conservatives with their shit together realize the black hole of populism she represents. If her national political career isn’t destroyed by this campaign, I don’t think you’ll like her policies.
could you perhaps enlighten us as to what you think those are?
She’ll always be McCain’s vice president, hoot. Until she’s not.
mind you I’m not holding my breath. but, I bet PHIL GRAHAM *snort* would be able to tell us.
“Comment by maggie katzen on 10/8 @ 8:02 pm #
I don’t think you’ll like her policies.
could you perhaps enlighten us as to what you think those are?”
He doesn’t think.
humore me, N.O’Brain… I’ve still got, um…. a half hour to pedal.
Are you talking about vetoing the Republican ban on same sex partnership benefits, hoot?
From what I’ve seen and read, she governs like a libertarian / federalist. There is no necessary friction between holding social conservative viewpoints on certain issues and realizing governing requires one to set those opinions aside at times.
I realize this seems like crazy talk to a progressive — after all, to them, the personal IS the political, and one cannot divest oneself of oneself in order to govern — but to the rest of us, it is how things are designed to work.
Jeff, you gotta use smaller words for teh genius. He doesn’t know Federalism and that stuff.
Lest we also forget, there is a corruptable human being asking the poll questions, who may or may not properly record the responses.
hoot, you can do bet..oh wait, no you can’t. Never mind.
Conservatives with their shit together….
How hard were you giggling when you typed that, hoot?
Where can I get trollhammer?
if you guys don’t quit making so much noise, the fish will never bite.
I keep rememering an old story about the stars going out one by one. Maybe Issac Asimov?
It is like the trolls are not even trying anymore. They are already gloating about their victory.
Nevermind, I found it!
maggie – Thanks for the email. I figured that the Leftist were lying, and they were.
More fun from the reactionary left (via http://dummiefunnies.blogspot.com/)
“The New Complacency
Democrats relearn how to take the presidency for granted.
By Timothy Noah”
A sample:
“I think Karl Marx had some valuable insights into capitalist economies!
I think abortion should be safe and legal. Rare is fine, too, but the way to achieve that is contraception, baby!
I think Mormons are kooks!
The Second Amendment does too allow government to ban handguns!
Let’s standardize the federal age of consent at 16!
Promiscuity between consenting adults is good exercise!”
http://www.slate.com/id/2201760
Does anyone take this fucktard seriously?
Hoot has no freaking idea what a federalist is. None.
“From what I’ve seen and read, she governs like a libertarian / federalist. There is no necessary friction between holding social conservative viewpoints on certain issues and realizing governing requires one to set those opinions aside at times.
I realize this seems like crazy talk to a progressive  after all, to them, the personal IS the political, and one cannot divest oneself of oneself in order to govern  but to the rest of us, it is how things are designed to work.”
And that Jeff, is why I read you til the day you hang it up. It was so simple and so concise. Prog’s just don’t understand that one can have personal views on an issue, but still live by the constitution and not enforce those views on others. Bravo, Jeff.
I’d look for more confirmation, JD. That pic could have been taken from the middle of the debate…
okay, I was kinda tipsy, who knows!?
Without my Raoul Vaneigem quotes and wang jokes with semicolons in them, you’ll die.
Without my Raoul Vaneigem quotes and wang jokes with semicolons in them, you’ll die.
I laugh in the face of death, ha-ha!
The reason the polls read like they do is because Democrats are more likely to respond to polls than Republicans in this election.
Yeah, but then they just might stay home. Along with those feckless “independents”. So dont’ miss the opportunity to strike.
Maggie – McCain shook his hand immediately after the debate. The Leftists were lying.
well, yeah, JD. which seems kinda silly. oh well, I left a link to the youtube back in the debate comments.
Maggie – You know damn good and well that there is nothing too silly for a Leftist to lie about.
Geez, such yokel wit.
Yeah, kelly, I did. I completely sucked Sister Palin’s nipples off only to find, as I suspected, that they were much, much chewier than Milk Duds. Likely you’re waiting for the line where I say they tasted like chicken, but no, kelly, they didn’t. Sarah’s nips tasted like marinated alligator tail, which tastes very similar to smoked panda tongue. And they were huge; damned things took five minutes of chewing to breakdown.
Sarah just sat there staring blankly and open-mouthed while I reminded her that owning such big nips was the devil’s mark meant for those who secretly hate God. Only Godless misanthropes like Mencken and unspeakable Europe-loving intellectuals would dare sport suck mammalian nozzles. Once convinced they were an intolerable insult, she eagerly paid me $50 per teat for the work.
Any other questions, dumfock?
Wow, Trollhammer is fucking great! Batter up!
suck = such
Freud.
Shorter tHOR:
I broke my Miss Magic Mouth.
108- You missed a really big one, NO:
I don’t support the troops. I support some troops, depending on whether or not they’ve committed war crimes!
That shit needs to get some attention, right there.
Thor, you are a charming and interesting person.
*rolls eyes*
Probably I’m the only one that read that insightful and classy comment, but strangly, I don’t feel enlightened by it.
It’s ‘cuz you’re a dick…
cynn @104.
It was Madeline L’Engle’s Time Quartet (Wrinkle in Time, Wind in the Door, Many Waters, and A Switfly Tilting Planet).
It’s even better than Log!
Jeff, you’re on fire today.
Ok, so I think the media has become especially interesting lately, not least because of the dichotic polling, but the timing of these poles. Obama up by 11? Really? The most recent debate has been, I think objectively, quite boring b/c of Brokaw’s truncation of reposnses/follow-up to q’s, et. al. CBS/Zogy has McCain down 3, bordering margin of error on others as well, which is not terribly distinct from the RCP avg. But the release of this poll comes after CNN does a special on Ayers and Palin goes for the jugular on same topic. We’ve acknowledged media bias, but the underlying question for most voters now is whether its, in a gestalt sense, conscious or unconscious bias. In essence, I question the timing.
Same thing happening in Minnesota now. Al Franken (D-EU) up by 9 points in Minneapolis Star-Tribune days after N. Coleman (R-Mn) up by same margin in different pole. Both estimates unreasonable, but N. Coleman had consistent lead.
Thor, pass me the bong, this month could get interesting.
cynn, I need my bong back, babe.
NO @ 108
This one:
America isn’t the greatest nation in the world. We think it is only because it’s our country. Duh!
This is the product of thousands of educational leftists, pounding into pliable, young minds that all cultures are equal, that “good” and “evil” are not objective- they’re just someone’s opinion, that nothing is worth fighting for …
Life, she’s a bitch.
Gallup is full of shit I think. But NPR cited that poll like 16 times in half an hour. Like flies on shit.
thor is one tough guy. Bareback tough, brokeback tough, but tough nonetheless.
Grit your teeth tough, you are, thor…..
Politico’s mewling about how boring the debate was should be seen in context of a remarkably supine, incurious and narratively predictable press I think.
I can’t remember where that comment was supposed to go.
cynn @ 104:
Arthur C. Clarke.
The Nine Billion Names of God
cynn @ 104;
Nightfall by Isaac Asimov
Jeff,
Jonah doesn’t read his e-mail, so don’t take it personally. He’s got the Ignatius J. Reilly vibe going.
Brooks, for one, is welcoming our New York Times overlords.
rancid creampuff
Like Sean Hannity on a Cialis and Wild Turkey binge. Grrr!
No, 136. Nightfall is when the stars come out by the thousands, after all six of a planet’s suns go into total eclipse, making all those stars visible for the 1st time in 2000 years.
135 has the right story.
And both are in the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. I. (Robert Silverberg, ed.)
You know, with all thee people being polled, it would seem that at least once in my 30+ years of being over legal voting age that I would be polled. Doe anyone actually know anyone who has been polled?
I sure don’t, not in all the years, neither me, nor any of my friends or family, that stretches from Texas to VA ha EVER gotten one single call. Interesting!
So, just who are thee people being polled?
Of course, even if I ere, I’d give false answers, just to screw with them!
were
these. Damn, I really need to slow down on my typing
“The Nine Billion Names of God” has the line about the stars winking out one by one, true.
Since cynn mentioned Asimov, the thread and cynn’s comment was about impending madness and chaos and since suns are stars too I figured “Nightfall would also be relevant.
From story synopsis,
“Soon the suns will set and the terrifying splendor of Nightfall will call forth a madness that signals the end of civilization.”
Fitting for a thread about the doom of an Obama regime.
If the polls serve to reduce the left’s get-out-the-vote effort a bit, all the better… good for a future conspiracy theory for them anyway…
The anti-science left, eh? Wonder if ni…erm, Kate realizes she’ll get shut down…
#142
I can’t get em to quit calling me. Caller ID is a good thing.
Bill Burton just shouted down the Fox Friends. “ASKED AND ANSWERED! ASKED AND ANSWERED!”
something is irritating the Ayres nerve.
“Any one hanging their hat on the polls forgets 4 years ago.
I thought dubya held the lead after the conventions. Electoral-vote.com has a neat feature where you can look at today in 2004. Sometimes they show a slight kerry lead by a few points in OH or something. Mostly I saw bush leads.
“The reason the polls read like they do is because Democrats are more likely to respond to polls than Republicans in this election.”
Why is news to me. But I think most pollsters weigh for party ID.
ASKED AND ANSWERED! ASKED AND ANSWERED!
Gergen and Carville: Prepare for race riots.
I particularly like the “This doesn’t help the people worried about losing their job” answer as if no one should talk about anything but the economy and doing so is a distraction from the only thing anyone should be talking/thinking about. As if Baracky, or McCain for that matter, is going to keep anyone employed. The American people, like the guys who wanna be President, must be able to deal with more than one thing at a time. Or so I’m told.
When you’re deciding who to elect for Leader of the Free World, it’s OK to think of things other than and in addition to how much cash is in your wallet.
Damn you, Pablo (@ 124)! I’m going to have that stuck in my head all day now!
It’s big, it’s heavy, it’s wood.
It’s Law-awg, it’s law-awg,
It’s better than bad, it’s good!
Takes me back to my Meh-fuh days and townie beatings…
Salt Lick, I don’t disagree with Carville. But I don’t expect there to be race riots, and I don’t think he does either. I predict lots of bandannas over pasty faces (with the occassional brown one tossed in for authenticity) and a pervasive scent of patchouli. Oh, and then blood and tears.
It should be a lot of fun. If it’s televised in real time, I say we live blog it.
All in a day’s work, AFS. :)
By nature, I’m inclined to agree with you, Pablo. But the shine on my optimism has been dulled a bit by spending the last 8 years working on a major university campus, where I’ve daily encountered the rage generated by BDS. It’s not a joke when you are staring it down after an argument in a gym locker room. White radicals believe they’ve been cheated in the last two elections. And now the figure of Bill Ayers, respectable as Chicago’s “Citizen of the Year,” sings that old siren song of the 60’s, “Helter Skelter.”
And of course we have the example of Los Angeles after the Rodney King verdict. Was that more fun than painful for them, happyfeet? Enough fun for a repeat?
So I’m not sure.
Oh, I think we might well have riots.
They just won’t be race riots. Race will be invoked but these will be about political hate, not race.
Well, I’m not predicting anything. I’m not dismissing anything,
either.
I gotta run out for a bit.
Brooks is a melanoma while Palin is an anti-carcinogen.
I hate it when we have to go beat down hippy-kid protestors attempting to riot. I mean, its not even sporting.
I sent him an e-mail congratulating him when he got married, because I used to know his new father-in-law.
He may have ignored it. Or he may have put it in his “If this guy shows up at the office, EVACUATE!” file.
The great majority of Americans are not radical. The truly radical are now reduced to being rad chic. I mean, even Ayres lives in a multi-hundred-thousand dollar home. It doesn’t make them less toxic, intellectually, but I doubt they will mount barricades in obedience to to the dialectical moment of an Obama loss. Might get splinters or something. Besides, the rest of us might finally get really pissed off.
Not literal ones, certainly. But have no doubt their ilk will be watched by millions on some award show deploring the loss of free speech rights under the McCainhitler-Palinburton regime.
The economy, destroyed by crooks and leftards, is killing us all and the voters are about to reward the biggest culprits. Here in Canada, we’re screwed as well and we’re already socialist even under a Conservative government. Since the only raise (big enough to notice) that I’ve received in the last several years was because of tax breaks from Mr. Harper, how do we say, screwed, blued and tattoed in American? Me too?
Baracky lurvs the sacrifice thing or maybe NPR just is super excited about it to where it’s their new leitmotif thinger for the week. Hard to tell which. Me I remain a lot flaccid at the invocation of sacrifice but it gives Steve Inskeep bad priapism to where he might could lose function. I mean you want I could recycle something or whatever but I’m just not feeling all in with the socialist sacrificings. Maybe I can just watch at first and join in later maybe.
11″!
RACIST!!!
Excerpt, Shirley Jackson, “At the Sacrificing”
“May we have another volunteer from the audience?”
ohnoes. What is this?
… Google, where publishers were embraced as partners by Google CEO Eric Schmidt. “Narrative sustains the [media] business,” said Schmidt, “…but the future of high quality journalism is a huge problem. A reasonable prediction is that there will be fewer voices… blah blah blah
There is a danger, Schmidt exclaimed, of the Internet “becoming a cesspool,” adding it is in need of high quality content of the type provided by magazines. “In a world of disinformation, which is the future,” he said, “brands are the solution. Brand affinity is hard wired and fundamental to the human condition – who you trust and who you don’t. People want real value, real information, real leadership and messages of hope.” Schmidt’s recommendations resonated not only as a business model but as an appropriate foundation for political campaigns.
Does anyone here actually believe Palin is a Federalist or Libertarian? The jackass couldn’t even name a USC verdict she didn’t like or a newspaper she reads. How the fuck is she supposed to even know enough about the tenets of either governing style if she doesn’t know the basic rules of the game? That is unless you also believe the natural perfection of her soul will magically guide her to Libertarianism. In which case, good luck with that. No, I’m sure you believe her ACTUAL qualification is not being a Democrat.
I doubt they [the intellectuals] will mount barricades.
Not literal ones, certainly. But have no doubt their ilk will be watched by millions…
No, the profs with tenure won’t risk their comfy lifestyles on literal barricades. What they’ll do is feed into a media frenzy like in the Duke Hockey Team “rape” case, as well as pump their most impressionable students so full of crap they might do something.
Also, university towns contain lots of hangers-on who don’t have as much to lose on the barricades as the profs. These folks have part-time staff jobs, or “community organizer” jobs, fed with tax money controlled by… (drum roll)… profs like Bill Ayers. I know lots of these people and see them at all our local political demonstrations.
Again, I’m not predicting violence. Just addressing Gergen and Carville’s hints.
Oh. No big deal. Schmidt just wants to preference narratives of hope over “disinformation.” I bet if I ran Google I could make a big impact making sure people mostly just got the correct narratives I think. That’s very savvy for quasi-authoritarian thought control. Very very savvy. Google is our friend and really cares for us.
Wow, hoot, you seem to know Palin very well from just a few gotcha interviews. That’s an amazing skill you’ve got there.
Or maybe you’re a dick.
Which one is it, do you think?
“gotcha interviews”? Sure, pal. She asked Biden the same shit and he didn’t seem to have a problem with it. Must be that known liberal bias of reality.
I’m pretty sure he’s just relying on what PHIL GRAHAM told him.
mmmm, yes, the one where FDR was on TV in 1929.
The question remains. Have you researched her prior record and made an assessment of her political philosophy based on that, or are you a left-wing sock-puppet dick?
Hey maggie, your capslock key is still sticking. Might want to take a time out from right wingtard blogs and have it checked out. The circle jerk will still be here when you get back.
Sam, have you done anything else besides read Jeff’s blog?
just wanted to be sure nobody missed you stupidness. ;D PHIL GRAHAM IS MY MASTER!!!!!
Oh, and a prediction – when McCain and Palin lose, both will be tossed over the side and derided as not being true conservatives. McCain is already getting that treatment here, soon it will be Palin.
I had a bagel.
Still waiting to hear what informs your assessmnet of Palin’s politics.
oh maggie, I hope I’ve brought some lightness to your dreary and vapid rightwing blog filled days and nights. The echo chamber gets kinda dull sometimes, eh sweetie.
Biden showed no understanding of the Constituition despite being a lawyer. Funny that! Biden imagined a US/French intervention in the Israeli/Hezbollah war despite chairing the Senate Foreign Relations Committee! More funny that!
Sam – her record and actions. What do you use? Besides weak ad hoc justifications posted on rightwing blogs?
The echo chamber gets kinda dull sometimes, eh sweetie.
Especially when the echo chamber is between your ears, eh hoot?
only in the humor sense. info wise not so much as you can’t tell anyone who Phil Graham is and why we should care about him.
Baracky is a lawyer too. Lawyers are natural leaders I think because they are so smart and know what’s best for us.
Stand up, Chuck!
The echo chamber gets kinda dull sometimes
hoot, you’re always dull!
Sam – her record and actions.
Now we’re getting somewhere. What in her record or actions leads you to believe she is a popuist rather than, say, a federalist or libertarian. Since you’ve studied her record, an example shouldn’t be too hard to provide.
Well, gotta go. One last piece of advice – get a job. Spending all day in places like this will only lead to misery. Plus, you probably need the money.
Sam – sorry, gotta go. Can’t do your homework for you, dipshit.
hoot knows shit, literally!
Good series of articles about the possibility that Ayers ghostwrote for Baracky.
Maybe you should tell Joey Hairplugs to do his homework…oh wait, I mean copy someone else’s homework.
What about Ronnie Spector? Does she have anything to add?
LOL…another fling and run by hoot. Seriously, people. I’m looking at you sam. You will get nowhere with hoot. He/she is pretty fucking dumb. Even batting him/her around is useless. Where’s the sport in it?
Liberals are always so proud when they got jobs. It’s like a real triumph for them or something.
“so proud when they got jobs”
Look mommy, I made it in the potty this time!
Just one comment before it’s back to work (yes, hoot, you fucking moronic talking-point bot, most of us DO have jobs – real ones, too, unlike more of your leftard buddies): the quality of trolls on this site has reached the bottom of the dumpster, I’m afraid.
Never thought I’d say I miss alphie.
The jackass couldn’t even name a USC verdict…How the fuck is she supposed to even know enough about the tenets of either governing style if she doesn’t know the basic rules of the game?
Knowledge of specific Court rulings are not indicative of general, or basic, beliefs. I can’t rattle off the names of specific rulings, my brain doesn’t work that way, but I am very firm in my general belief of judicial intentionalism, and can make a pretty good case for it.
Well, since what I wanted to do was show you for the substanceless, trifling left-wing douchenozzle that you are, you ,have done my homework for me.
Done it well, too.
That is real nice, Cleo.
the quality of trolls on this site has reached the bottom of the dumpster, I’m afraid.
Don’t be afraid, it took me less that fifteen minutes to load Firefox, GreaseMonkey, and the spectacularly invaluable “Trollhammer”. One click, and hoot is no more.
Where’s the sport in it?
It’s a very human yet unhealthy facination with the ghastly, OI. Sort of like picking a scab.
Exactly like picking a scab, now that I think about it.
Urthshu, I was very skeptical about the link between the styles of the books until I read this last Cashill post, then looked at the books myself.
It’s not quite the feverdream it might appear at first blush. It is a line of inquire worthy of pursuit.
Hammer time!
McCain released his plan for securing mortgages that he brought up in the debate. I think maybe he could have just endorsed this effort
hoot, spits and splits!
oh wait, I have to comment on the “Ayers ghostwriting Barack’s book” thing – AH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! What a fucking joke! Good God the desperation is THICK in the air.
A festering puss filled scab, yes, Sam. However, one that comes up too quickly. Oh, did I mention that the scab was really and truly fucking dumb?
Nobody said it was dispositive, hoot.
Did you hurt your knee when it jerked?
hoot, great rejoinder! You are the joke.
Sen. Barack Obama has organized an elaborate well-staffed network
CNN?
UPDATE: hoot spits, shits, and splits!
hoot, your boss needs the bathroom cleaned. Chop, chop! He says you have to empty the bucket this time, and don’t eat the brown trout!
To what end?
>>hoot, great rejoinder! You are the joke.
Yes, indeedy. I think we’re, as a nation, possibly on the cusp of rejecting ideological vehemence, esp. in the wake of the financial crisis. We’re going to ‘get real’, real fast, and I think the populace will have little patience for his ilk – and for those of us on the Right who pursue the same kind of vehemence.
Campaign spokespersons did not respond to requests for elaboration. But one official with direct knowledge, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, expressed concern with McCain’s approach.
Must be the same one who said McCain was having an affair with a lobbyist.
Should say too that we’re, as a nation, going in the direction of holding corrupt politicians accountable, which is something I think will destroy present Congressional leadership, at the least. Bernanke and Paulson will almost definitely be dismissed, fired, etc.
Good God the desperation is THICK in the air.
You really think a major publishing house gave an unpublished college student a book deal and expected him to write it by himself? That isn’t desperation your are choking on it is naivete.
Oh wait, my bad! He had been published!
http://tinyurl.com/3b8p7e
How could you not offer a book deal for that.
That isn’t desperation your are choking on it is
naivetebrown bucket trout.Fixed it for you!
Did I mention two autobiographies?!
Two autobiographies from an unexceptional man who isn’t 50 yet. It seems a bit presumptious.
Having been treated to excerpts from both books, I would call them romance novels rather than autobiographies. He is both the bearer of and object of obsessive love.
Not to call Obama Hitler, but I didn’t know until last night that Hitler authored a second book, just as insane as the first but more explicit in terms of his plans for Lebensraum, ultimate victory, etc. Although, the whole “white people’s greed runs a world in need” thing channels the whole racism thing.
“white people’s greed runs a world in need”
Bumpersticker philosophy, and it rhymes! Genius!
“If the gloves don’t fit”…oh wait, wrong…nevermind!
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For Brooks to call Palin ‘a cancer on the party’ is like the tumor calling out a melanoma.
It’s faux conservatives like Brooks, it’s political nitwits like Charlie Black and the Beltway Republicans, who’ve been running the GOP like a country club that’s the problem It’s buffoons like Hastert, who didn’t police their own people. It’s liberal Republicans that have blocked conservative reforms and made people see no chance of progress from the Right, who are to blame.
The people out here, like me, have been begging the DC GOP to do the right thing for decades. Decades. And Sarah Palin is the problem? Look in the mirror Brooks.
Aw, Hoot came back, talked some shit, and left when asked for an actual argument? Man, I hate when I miss the good trolls.
Come back to us, hoot. Our leftard stereotypes need reassurance.
11? so sorry for you morons