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The Watercooler for 09/07/08 9:00 AM
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Dean is the alpha and the omega...and all points in between? Sir Dean assumed his Alpha status upon the decease of Billy Martin (I refer you to Billy's own: "Billy Martin #1"). Whereas the former Yankee skipper was the apodictic numero uno, to be revered forevermore in that constellation of other late, great be-all, end-alls, Dean presently has attained his rightful echelon, an echelon non plus ultra, an echelon where he resides with no other inasmuch as he, Dean, "is first." Billy was replaced by Dean as King; ergo, the correct chronology runs: Billy Dean King. Bonjour.
she has the ballz to go on the attack but runs and hides from the press and America at large. The McCain camp KNOWS that if folks get to know the real Sara they'll flock to Obama like a scene from 'The Birds'.
I'd call her a pussy, but that might be considered sexist, so let me just cut to the chase - she's a BULLY and a COWARD. we've had almost 8 years of that so I expect her glow will fade once folks have a chance to learn more about her. CNN is airing profiles on Palin and Joe Biden next weekend, like the ones they did for McCranky and Obama - those were well done so I hope these, too, give a good overview of the VP choices.
Obama just spoke the line,
"they like to throw rocks, and then hide their hand."
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yup, they behave like children.
Hilarious - thanks so much for your humor. I swear my next trip to New England I'm coming to see you.
but her hiding from them is gonna piss them off and they'll start serving the red meat soon enough, I think.
steponmyhogalot
supports the republican attack
with all the tools at his disposal.
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I want media reform. I don't know about you.
Why is the media reporting nothing on the police brutality at the RNC?
Portland Street Medics describe police brutality and arrests at RNC
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3475000
All the fluff pieces being written about Palin makes me ill.
I totally agree with Imn2Paine, we need media reform.
I was reminded that he's an old man - close to the end of his days
and Mrs Palin is a not a person I would have take over the watch.
Let's do away with the electoral college
and by doing
release the stranglehold the south has on the United States.
we seen Palin before the rest of the world. The first time we saw her my husband stated she is a b***h.
With her stance on the slaughtering of animals how can she call herself pro-life? I call her against women's rights not pro-life.
They are PRO FETUS! once that life actually enters the world. they have NO MORE USE FOR IT. Until it's old enough to "serve their country" and be slaughtered so they can sell some more weapons.
Bizarrely enough, the change McCain calls for -- he did mention the C-word more than a half-dozen times -- would mean biting the political teat he has suckled blissfully for his long, dusty congressional career. As the veteran television critic Tom Shales put it, that's "like staging a revolution against yourself -- saying that the Republicans have got to go so the Republicans can move in and clean up the mess."
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/jamieson/378035_robert06x.html
From Jack and Jill Politics
So when you hear or read someone, such as former mayor of Wasilla, Alaska Sarah Palin stating that Obama has not authored “a single major law or even a reform”, send them this list:
In eight years in Illinois, State Senator Obama sponsored 820 bills that became law. The Illinois Times, in a cover story, labeled Obama as “Head Of The Class” for his legislative abundance.
And in just four years as a U.S. Senator, Obama has sponsored 427 bills, and authored 152 bills.
total list:
George Stephardwivesapolis has morphed into a clone of John McShame. In interviewing Obama this morning, George repeatedly said:
"John McCain said ..."
I guess the media grant a greater Democratic majority in the House and Senate...maybe the State houses as well
and they know that the best they and their Republican/fascist (IMO) task masters can hope for
is
a Republican Administration to block the grassroot CHANGE America wants.
The Best Sound-Bites and Brief Quotes from the Democratic Convention in Denver
http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2008/09/the_best_soundbites_and_brief.php
- "...surprise. John McCain is just more of the same say-one-thing-do-another crowd in the White House today.”
By Imn2Paine on Sep 7, 2008 10:06 AM EDTGov. Deval Patrick
“Now, John McCain says he believes in education, too. But he is against fully funding No Child Left Behind, against fully funding Head Start, against hiring more teachers and wants to abolish the Department of Education. This should come as no surprise. John McCain is just more of the same say-one-thing-do-another crowd in the White House today.”
“The same folks who say they believe in small government and fiscal restraint are responsible for the biggest expansion in the size of government and the size of the federal deficit in American history. The same folks, with John McCain leading the charge, who say they support seniors, want to privatize Social Security and put corporate pension funds up for grabs. The same folks who call themselves “compassionate conservatives” are the folks who abandoned all those people not only after Katrina, but before that storm. The American people have had enough.”
we should be shouting that as much as 'yes we can'!
Matthews just compared Palin to Norma Rae - what a f'in idiot he is sometimes!
http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn09062008.html
Being well schooled in scripture, Sarah Palin is certainly familiar with the Book of Kings, Chapter 1, verses 1-4 and I’m sure they have crossed her mind in recent days:
Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.
Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat.
So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
And the damsel was very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered to him: but the king knew her not.
It has been Palin, Palin, Palin everyday now since she was announced the day after Obama's acceptance speech. I'm just as guilty as everyone else.
It is the media that is keeping her in the news. For hell sakes one day she is the Gov of AK that no one has hardly heard of, and now she is a heroine? She sucks, bigtime, take this from a person from AK. She is an opportunistic leech. I'm not surprised she is popular in AK, she is dirty like the majority of the politicians there. The only thing most Alaskans care about is how much their annuity check will be. If it takes dirty politics to get it, so what.
Also she is sexy? Hell Joe biden is one hundred times sexier than her.
I think progressives have had their fun with Palin and now it is time to bring John McCain out of the darkness and start to put the focus back on him and his more of the same Republican ideas and his poor judgement in selecting a running mate.
I thought Biden did great - in fact Aced - MTP this morning. Couldn't watch both so didn't see Obama. Biden knows all the answers and knows how to debate but is doing a good job of keeping his cool. Is there something wrong with his right eye?
I think the press is ticked at Palin and will act accordingly. On Matthews they kept saying she would do the 'slicks' like Us (but not Us) but not the regular media.
Looks like Newsweek has Palin on the cover - they usually email their stories so if anything looks good, I will link it.
The Obama ad showing pix of McCain and Bush together and a voice over of how it's just more of the same I thought was extremely effective.
my wife has been dealing with rag weed pollen counts through the roof, and has mornings like that
benedryl to the rescue?
look, there are three superficially attractive candidates and one tired old man but we need to be careful not to be ageists
the crushies for John might run over us with their walkers (jokingly said by a man who spent much of last year with a cane in hand due to my knee pains)
Biden did well with Tom Brokaw
all it takes is for rational moderate Republicans to come to their senses and we win 40 states
I wasn't aware that there were that many mod Repubs left but maybe they were the 2006 deciders in dumping many of their own who had become useless against Bush Cheney Rove in Congress.
- Obama was very direct, and I liked the way he would answer the premise of an original question and not be thrown off track.
By Phil Specht on Sep 7, 2008 11:13 AM EDTWe have a great ticket and we need to let them define themselves and not let America buy the lies from the Republican spin machine.
I want to tie Conyers probes to the kind of Mayor and Gov. has been, firing people on the basis of litmus tests.
Just the facts. Cheney ... ties to oil, win at any cost partisanship ... how does Sarah Palin differ from Dick Cheney ... hopefully with her marksmanship since she carries a moose gun instead of birdshot
name one thing
The Republican platform hasn't changed in decades, look where that has gotten us.
the name is the one thing
Thank you Howard for your 50 state strategy. Also a shout out to all those doing voter registration.
I wanted to go to NM and do voter registration on the Native American reservations, but it did not work out.
I have a feeling the Mountain West is going to come in play this election. I think Obama will win CO, NM, and NV. I know it is a long shot but I think he can win Mont and ND too.
- I have a feeling the Mountain West is going to come in play this election. I think Obama will win CO, NM, and NV. I know it is a long shot but I think he can win Mont and ND too.
By Phil Specht on Sep 7, 2008 11:23 AM EDThe can win Mont and ND too.
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the GOP had that fear so they picked a VP who could relate to people with a gunrack in their pickup (disclosure, I don't have one in my new truck yet, but will by hunting season)
The ticket better use Schweitzer as a surogate because he gets it and knows that Obama does too.
I don't even have a pickup. I'm hopelessly out of touch.
- Tom you come from the epicenter of the Life/Choice battle.
By Phil Specht on Sep 7, 2008 11:38 AM EDTHillary Clinton is the one to speak for Obama in your neighborhood.
Our Party brand beats their Party brand and we need to show the full array of our team.
McCain is flailing in Michigan. There are wide swaths of the countryside populated by traditional, rural and hunting voting blocs, but the southeast quadrant of the state, from Detroit to Ann Arbor to Flint, is a giant blue orb that casts a long shadow over the state's election results.
Real Clear Politics Poll Average: Michigan: McCain vs. Obama
From the WA Post via a diary over at Daily Kos. Palin rec'd a complaint that she was holding her baby in her arms and he wasn't in the carseat... The guy who sent the letter was fired the following month.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/7/1161/33518/983/589896
Worse than Dick Cheney
Ron Paul is on the official ballot in Montana for November so Barack can and will take Montana. My prediction anyway. Paul beat McCain in MT during the primaries.
My most interesting political discussion in WI this past week was with a couple from Indiana at an Interstate rest stop who had been at the Paul event in the Twin Cities that drew more people than did McCain (who they will never support).
strongly anti-war Republicans, but more complexly populists, which was why the Palin pick which remember came after Biden and likely would have been Ridge had Obama picked Schweitzer.
that chess game is over
now it is everything we have against everything they have, team effort
- Democrats stand for what makes the lives of everyday people better.
By Phil Specht on Sep 7, 2008 11:35 AM EDTand Joe Biden and Brian Schweitzer are at the opposite ends of the "populist" scale but right there side by side when it comes to shared values of lifting people up through a government that cares
We have had eight years of kicking little people down with Bush and his tax policies and energy policies, and banking policies and the Democratic message has been one of a bottom up country and puts Obama/Biden at the side of Brian Schweitzer and his brand of progressive populism. There is a Democratic answer to Palin in the Mtn west (clearly the McCain fear in picking her) and we need to use all of those state and federal officeholders from the west who know what their electorate wants as witnessed by their wins to lead the way to victory as a Party combining that politics with the Obama new people and ethusiasm.
Yes we can ... win the Mtn. west.
vetting the GOP VP wannabe.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2008163431_palin070.html
Will the rest of the country please follow.
are going up in our neighborhood. We're not *allowed* to have them but too bad. We've had one up for months. Last night a few more neighbors meandered over to say they were waiting for their Obama yard signs to come in. The catalyst was Sarah Palin.
and a friend noticed yesterday that they were up in yards that typically lean republican. its all good! we have a primary for Lt Gov on Tuesday so I'm checking on some presence at the polls.
I think it will be the grassroots that win it for us.
I read somewhere where MT is changing. Not all gun toters anymore. Alot of people have moved there because they think it is a good place to raise their kids. Alot of people who are environmentalists. Also I cannot believe that the people who hunt support her aerial hunting tactics. It shows very bad sportsmanship. The Native American people support Obama strongly.
As for ND goes, I've read alot of blogs from people there who say Obama will win, that McCain is not popular there. Maybe she will make the difference, and tip it in their favor. Ugh.
- As the urban areas become more crowded and polluted
By Love White Castles on Sep 7, 2008 12:47 PM EDTWe'll see many people, including retirees, heading for these "red" states. They offer more affordable housing and a much cleaner and friendlier environment.
Okay I like this blogger's sense of humor - over at Daily Kos - he's offering *Free Levi* tee shirts. Levi, as in Bristol Palin's teenage bum of a boyfriend. LOL
http://www.zazzle.com/jackstorange
Kinda like those old *Free Martha* tees when Martha Stewart was in the pokey. Sorry folks I have a funky sense of humor.
Montana
By mary vb on Sep 7, 2008 11:28 AM EDT
Ron Paul is on the official ballot in Montana for November so Barack can and will take Montana. My prediction anyway. Paul beat McCain in MT during the primaries.
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Ron Paul would get six or seven percent on any ballot.
By Phil Specht on Sep 7, 2008 11:45 AM EDT
...the Paul event in the Twin Cities that drew more people than did McCain...
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Above is answer to Tom Bearse question about "clown" Ron Paul who'll vote for McCain.
The truth is Ron Paul HAS LUXURY of telling us BEFORE ELECTION what Obama will do AFTER.
Give us your opinion as to whom Paul is voting for in this election.
...lol and there is no need for my opinion.
If you are asking who Paul is going to vote for in November then himself already answered it long ago, - for no one.
- Dean is first.
By Tom Bearse on Sep 7, 2008 9:07 AM EDT