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2008

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September 218
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The Important Difference Between...

Robert Reich: Sarah Palin has been a governor of state inhabited by more moose than people for...
Aug 31st
change vs. more of the same — bush and mccain...
Aug 31st
“She’s good looking.”
— Joe Biden, on the differences...
Aug 31st
Palin = Eagleton?
Aug 31st
Warch Watch
what to do with the convention?
Aug 31st
me: god mccain sure made this election alot funnier
Zac: yeah
I love the GOP reaction too
it's like the reaction to a Conan O'brien joke
first, dismay
then, nervous applause
then full on support
hahaha
me: hahahahahahah
that is such a great analogy
Aug 30th
“She’s going to learn national security at the foot of...”
— McCain adviser Charlie Black
Aug 30th
Wonkette gives us our first look at the new campaign posters
Aug 29th
Obama's speech seen by 38 million viewers
Aug 29th
mrs vice president (pictured here as 1984 miss wasilla)
Aug 29th
“The only similarity between [Sarah Palin] and Hillary...”
— Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
Aug 29th
me: you know whats really remarkable though, and really great is that what we're talking about, mainly, is how this is a nobody moran from BFE, totally unqualified for this post. no one is talking about how insane it is that a woman would be selected as a runningmate. imagine if bush or gore woulda picked a woman, or even kerry. like hillary clinton really did no shit tear down a giant wall, and i don't think i fully understood that until now.
Zac: Right, but the thing is that Hillary doesn't hunt and eat moose burgers. She's politically a strong candidate. This isn't a good thing for women everywhere. It's like, if you're hot, girls, you could be picked by an old man. haha.
me: hahahaha no that's absolutely true. i don't mean to say that palin is a sucess for women -- but the fact that the shock over her is not related to her gender is truly remarkable
Aug 29th
“Given Sarah Palin’s lack of experience on every front and on...”
— Congressman Rahm Emanuel...
Aug 29th
Andrew: I would palinate her
Zac: I would bristol her until she's trig
right in the piper
by the willow at the track
Aug 29th
Andrew: once you get over how hot she is
and you look at the situtaion
its pretty wtf
like seriously?
me: i still think its a decent choice
people are underestimating her
because she's a moron nobody
but ppl will love her
she is lovable
and they will sell the shit out of her story
Andrew: yeah she's lovable
its hard not to like her
or want to do her
Aug 29th
Gallup Daily: Obama Stretches Lead to 8...
Aug 29th
“John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with...”
— Obama spokesman Bill Burton,...
Aug 29th
me: her eldest childs name is track
and the youngest
the downsie
is named trigg
Zac: she named a retard trigg
i hate her so much
Aug 29th
OMG SARAH PALIN FOR VEEP I think it’s a good pick...
Aug 29th
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN MCCAIN YOU ARE 72 72, HOLY CRAP THAT IS...
Aug 29th
kim: i only work half a day today
and then i am buying a car
me: ooh a new car
kim: well a used car
me: whenever i say a new car
i always imagine it in bob barker's voice
you are going to buy.....
kim: ME TOO
me: A NEW CAR!!!!!!!!!!
kim: a
new
car!!!
Aug 29th
“The Republicans can’t seem to get a break when it...”
— Karl Rove, on how Katrina and...
Aug 29th
is our children’s learning? ‘
Aug 29th
“You know I’ll been criticized for saying that inspired...”
— Chris Matthews, on the Obama...
Aug 29th
Aug 29th

Remarks of Senator Barack Obama: The...

[ full text | video ] With profound gratitude and great humility, I accept your nomination for the...
Aug 29th
“Eight years ago, some said there was not much difference...”
— Al Gore, earning my respect at...
Aug 29th
Warch Watch
a hilarious commentary on john mccain playing the pow card too much
Aug 29th
Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson was “the most popular...
Aug 28th
new mexico moves from toss-up to solid obama.
Aug 28th
Gallup Daily: Obama Moves Ahead, 48% to 42%
Aug 28th
“The next president of the United States should sign an...”
— John Goodman, who helped craft...
Aug 28th
“I think he’s perfect.”
— MN Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R),...
Aug 28th
The economy and, like, such as?
Aug 28th

On the columns

The Democrat-running-scared types are saying the campaign should have been wiser in planning this....
Aug 28th
“Democratic officials said, ‘Last time we got drunk at...”
— Conan O’Brien, on why...
Aug 28th
check the polls, which color should we go with guys
Aug 28th
Time: There's a theme that recurs in your books and your speeches, both about putting country first but also about honor. I wonder if you could define honor for us?
John McCain: Read it in my books.
Time: I've read your books.
McCain: No, I'm not going to define it.
Time: But honor in politics?
McCain: I defined it in five books. Read my books.
Aug 28th
epic
Aug 28th
“Joe Biden is right: We need more than a good soldier, we...”
— John McCain, failing at a...
Aug 28th
“You think there’s a little time delay in this circuit,...”
— DNC Chairman Howard Dean,...
Aug 28th
“These times require more than a good soldier, they require a...”
— Joe Biden, earning his...
Aug 28th
“On the two great questions of this election, how to rebuild...”
— Bill Clinton, earning our...
Aug 28th
“Candidate McCain now supports the wartime tax cuts that...”
— John Kerry, earning our...
Aug 28th
look guys bush had a greek temple too!
Aug 28th
young people really need to show up this year
Aug 27th
“The Gallup Daily is the worst thing that’s happened in...”
— Obama Communiations Director...
Aug 27th
“One of the things I’ve never tried to do is exploit my...”
— John McCain of 1999, on John...
Aug 27th
“This is not the time to have somebody with no executive...”
— Rudy Giuliani, on Senator John...
Aug 27th
Media Matters Tears Apart the "Rift" BS
Aug 27th
They keep saying the Obama stage is like a “Greek...
Aug 27th
“It was the same way with Ronald Reagan in the last few years...”
— Senator Pat Leahy, on...
Aug 27th

Putting the "rift" in perspective

The Hotline: Obama’s actually doing just as well among the base than the party’s last...
Aug 27th
Aug 27th
“If I think Hillary Clinton is a bitch — and I...”
— Tucker Carlson, not helping...
Aug 27th
Aug 27th
“They’re asking for another four years — in a just world,...”
— OH-10 Rep Dennis Kucinich, in...
Aug 27th
“John McCain has no problem hitting the snooze button on the...”
— OH Gov Ted Strickland
Aug 27th
“Senator McCain came to Michigan, and he told those who had...”
— MI Gov Jennifer Granholm
Aug 27th
“John McCain calls himself a maverick, but he votes with...”
— PA Sen Robert Casey Jr
Aug 27th
“We simply can’t drill our way to energy independence,...”
— MT Gov Brian Schweitzer
Aug 27th
“No way, no how, no McCain.”
— Clinton, laying down the...
Aug 27th
22.3m+ watched Michelle Obama's speech Monday
Aug 27th
“Can we drill your brains?”
— Nancy Pelosi (PELONSKY!) to...
Aug 27th
Chris Matthews tears apart a PUMA
Aug 26th
Aug 26th
“Not defending, but explaining how her patriotism is...”
— Some dipshit on FOX News,...
Aug 26th
“Not Barack Obama, not Joe Biden, not Ted Kennedy, but...”
— Joe Biden, on what will...
Aug 26th
Aug 26th
Aug 26th
“Hello, Girardeau family!”
— Sasha Obama, cutely putting...
Aug 26th

Sasha and Malia Obama just delivered...

Aug 26th
“It is clear to all Americans that something is out of kilter...”
— Former GOP IA Congressman Jim...
Aug 26th
“The work begins anew. The hope rises again. And the dream...”
— Kennedy, putting it all in...
Aug 26th
“Yes, we can — and finally, yes, we will.”
— Senator Edward Kennedy, making...
Aug 26th
Zac: “People felt an attachment to him,” Vilsack said. “And I kick myself for not being more curious about their canvassing. His volunteers went out into the neighborhoods in the summer of ’07 and asked people: ‘Can we spend a few minutes of your time?’ Two weeks later, the people got a phone call, four weeks later they got an invitation to a speech, and six weeks later they got invited to meet Obama at the airport. We didn’t do that until fall. It’s a reflection of what he did as an activist. He knocked on doors.”
Just how they avoided the people that edwards had and went for people that didn't participate
and how they ignored shit like the regular democratic parties where all the candidates show up
he ran such an elegant campaign
me: well the magical thing, the key element that made it work, isn't the organizing or the approach
but him
you take that same machine and put hillary clinton on top of it or john mccain and young people are not showing up
while his way of organizing was revolutionary in politics and he deserves to be credited for it, the conclusion should not be that he ran campaigns the way they should be run
instead, he ran a movement instead of a campaign, and he ran a movement the way it should be run
in an america that was ready for a movement and not a campaign
Zac: that's a great way of putting it
me: and that is why, at the end of the day, mccain doesnt have a snowballs chance in hell, no matter what the polls say
Aug 25th
“We’re going to give them the devil!”
— Joe Biden, to supporters.
Aug 25th
seen on convention-goers in Denver
Aug 25th
“Barack Obama could cure cancer and they’d figure out a...”
— Jon Stewart, on FOX News
Aug 25th
Obama Ad Watch: Lollercaust Ad on Economy
Aug 25th
“You know if I set my clock to the polls, I would have jumped...”
— Barack Obama campaign...
Aug 25th
In Minneapolis
Aug 24th
Aug 24th
Anti-War Protesters Menace Intrepid Fox News...
Aug 24th
“Your kitchen table is like mine, you sit there at night...”
— Joe Biden, being awesome.
Aug 24th
Aug 24th
Obama Ad Watch: Class Warfare At Its Best
Aug 24th
“This is a guy who lived in one house for five and a half...”
— McCain spokesman Brian Rogers,...
Aug 21st
Obama Ad Watch: McCain Is Rich And Old
Aug 21st
“I think — I’ll have my staff get to you. …...”
— Jes’ folks John McCain,...
Aug 21st
HERE'S TO JOE BIDEN FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
Aug 21st
“I want them to say, this is somebody who’s gonna fight...”
— Obama, finally shifting...
Aug 20th
“A successful dump.”
— Joe Biden, shouting from his...
Aug 20th
The Inherent Advantage of Caring More About...
Aug 19th
“I’m not the guy.”
— Joe Biden, leaving his house...
Aug 19th
Veep Watch: Fineman Says It's Biden
Aug 19th
“Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Democratic vice...”
— The Associated Press, with the...
Aug 19th
“We Sell Guns! No ID required. No background checks....”
— Billboard on the MA Turnpike...
Aug 19th
SPACE!
Aug 19th
“The same people who brought you George Bush are now trying...”
— Barack Obama, on John...
Aug 19th

VP Watch: Tomorrow Morning

Obama’s staff leaked late yesterday that they would probably announce Wednesday morning,...
Aug 19th
“Sen. Obama was urging you to go out and enrich Big Oil by...”
— Newt Gingrich, through the...
Aug 19th
Zac: Maybe he will choose The American People like when Time selected You for Person of the Year.
Aug 18th
VP Watch: Drudge Says Announcement Soon
Aug 18th
Does McCain Have a Woman Problem?
Aug 18th
VP Watch: Biden Back from Georgia Today
Aug 18th
“Next up, Baghdad!”
— John McCain, months after 9/11
Aug 18th
“The insinuation from the Obama campaign that John McCain, a...”
— McCain spokesman Nicolle...
Aug 18th

The Calendar and VP Picks

Looking at the calendar, I think McCain has gotten himself into a bit of a tough spot. Obama is...
Aug 17th

Campaign Surrogates: Pawlenty and Bayh

I just listened to the C-SPAN radio replay of Face the Nation, which featured Sen Evan Bayh and Gov...
Aug 17th
The YouTube Campaign
Aug 16th
Obama raises $51M in July to McCain's $27M
Aug 16th
McCain Ad Watch: READY TO TAX
Aug 16th
and i vote
Aug 15th
“We have reached a crisis, the first probably serious crisis...”
— John McCain on Georgia,...
Aug 15th
Obama Ad Watch: Going Negative in Ohio
Aug 15th
“Gotta keep your sense of humor.”
— John McCain, on the Obama...
Aug 15th
War On Terror board game seized by police
Aug 15th
This is so blatantly Photoshopped that there are no hateful...
Aug 15th
So the Red Cross doesn’t allow any “male who has...
Aug 15th
not exactly windsurfing, is it?
Aug 15th
FIVE AND A HALF YEARS, ALAN
Aug 14th
Why Obama Will Dominate
Aug 14th
rer176: Putin and Medvedev are at a restaurant. The waiter asks Putin "What will you be having?" Putin says he'll have the steak. The waiter asks "And the vegetable?" Putin replies "He'll have the steak, too"
Aug 14th
me: troops give more money to obama than mccain, 6 to 1
thoughts
Nishad: we have terrorists in the army
Aug 14th
Deployed Troops Gave 6x More To Obama Than...
Aug 14th
Obama Ad Watch: At the Olympics
Aug 14th
“I think Hillary Clinton has been very gracious. I think some...”
— Speaker of the House Nancy...
Aug 14th
Cindy McCain is weak
Aug 14th
“$23,157”
— The amount John McCain...
Aug 13th
Obama Ad Watch: Drawing More Contrasts
Aug 13th
“Oh, war. It just God’s way of teaching Americans...”
— Jon Stewart, on Abkhazia
Aug 13th

Maureen Dowd on Hillary Clinton

“Obama also allowed Hillary supporters to insert an absurd statement into the platform...
Aug 13th
While Chief Aide Advised McCain, His Firm...
Aug 13th
also, this and this and this and this and this and this and...
Aug 13th
Aug 12th
Another Crisis Developing in Georgia
Aug 12th
“That’s a pretty lady over there. I don’t know...”
— Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV), not...
Aug 12th
700-pound Mexican man makes rare trip out of...
Aug 12th
“I know I speak for every American when I say to him,...”
— John McCain, on what he told...
Aug 12th
“He shouldn’t be our president. He should be our...”
— Jon Stewart, on Bush’s...
Aug 12th
“Save it for 2050.”
— Mark Penn, in 2007, on...
Aug 12th
The Front-Runner’s Fall
Aug 12th
Zac: I mean swimming...
come on
just admit you're gay
you don't have to go to the olympics to try to cover up that fact
Aug 12th
bullshit: “I’m having a real hard time finding my...
Aug 12th
Focus on the Family pulls "pray for rain"...
Aug 12th
“I for one would like to go back to the good old days when it...”
— Forum poster “Vladimir...
Aug 12th
Aug 12th
“What’s up, pops?”
— LeBron James, to George HW...
Aug 11th
After bikini-clad beach volleyball star Misty May-Treanor...
Aug 11th
Obama Ad Watch: It's On
Aug 11th
i am kind of an advocate of class warfare
Aug 11th
me: man this russia georgia thing is bad
i hope they dont burn atlanta again
Matt: do you think russia has a general named shermanizky
me: hahahahaha
Sent at 14.51 on Friday
Matt: i hope this russia shit doesnt effect the falcons season
Sent at 09.16 on Monday
Aug 11th
McCain and Obama fire shots on Russia and...
Aug 10th
Clinton told to portray Obama as foreign
Aug 10th
hahaha
Aug 10th
Aug 10th
“It is inadequate to say to the people who believed in me...”
— John Edwards, admitting it....
Aug 8th
On Tax Policy
Aug 8th
How Obama prepped world for the Antichrist
Aug 8th
McCain Ad Watch: Still Dirty
Aug 8th
Obama Ad Watch: 'Hands'
Aug 8th
Bush at War
Aug 8th
michelle obama is awesome
Aug 7th
glorious
Aug 6th
i want one
Aug 6th
yes, that is an obama bumper sticker on mccain’s bus
Aug 6th
McCain Ad Watch: More Attacks
Aug 6th
“Vote for Weiner - He’s on a roll.”
— A new campaign slogan Rep....
Aug 6th
www.gayrepublicancards.com
Aug 6th
Cobra II
Aug 6th
“I’m no historian.”
— Mitt Romney, on why he...
Aug 6th
Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad
Aug 5th
“It’s like these guys take pride in being ignorant.”
— Obama, on GOP jokes about the...
Aug 5th
Poll: Just One In Five Women Said Sexism Sank...
Aug 5th
hahahahha
Aug 5th
“John McCain is looking for someone for vice president who...”
— John Kerry, discovering a...
Aug 5th
“I encouraged Cindy to compete.”
— John McCain, on on how he...
Aug 5th
Obama Ad Watch: Going Negative, Part Two
Aug 5th
“I’m less concerned about what age folks are than what...”
— Barack Obama, on old people....
Aug 5th
McCain Ad Watch: Going Positive - Sort Of
Aug 5th
beautiful
Aug 5th
Unmasking a Gun Lobby Mole
Aug 5th
The Tire-Gauge Solution: No Joke
Aug 5th
“Sammy Davis, Jr.”
— TPM’s Josh Marshall, on...
Aug 5th
“I’m strongly encouraged by Senator Obama’s speech on...”
— T. Boone Pickens
Aug 5th
Oil Execs Give Huge to McCain After Offshort...
Aug 4th
awesome
Aug 4th
Robert Novak announces immediate retirement
Aug 4th
The McCain campaign’s latest childish stunt.
Aug 4th
Obama says he will protect NASA
Aug 4th
“A strategic blunder.”
— The 2008 Democratic party...
Aug 4th
Obama Ad Watch: Going Negative
Aug 4th
“A complete waste of the country’s time and attention.”
— McCain supporter Kathy Hilton,...
Aug 4th
The Case for Israel
Aug 4th
McCain Ad Watch: Going Negative, Part Five
Aug 3rd
McCain Ad Watch: Going Negative, Online Only...
Aug 1st
“It wasn’t a terribly huge amount of money.”
— Chamber of Commerce Chief...
Aug 1st