John McCain’s Superpowers Greater Than First Suspected!
Wow. We knew that John McCain suspended his presidential campaign for the last 36 hours (except for meeting with Katie Couric, and except for speaking at the Clinton global initiative) so he could single-handedly gallop into the Senate chambers on a sweaty white horse and fix our economy. We knew that somehow he was going to wave his magic staff and make the deregulation and tax cuts for the wealthy that got us into this mess, the exact way to get us OUT of this mess. We know we can thank him for technological wizardry like the Blackberry. We even knew he could defy age by hiring a $5000 makeup magician from American Idol. But this…..this is impressive. I’m talking about nothing less than…time travel, itself.
For centuries, poets, scholars and fringe scientists have contemplated the physics, and the imaginative possibilities of this feat. Movies have been made, books have been written, but McCain is the one who did it.
Remember when McCain said he wanted to postpone the debate? Being there would mean he’d have to take a gruelling hour and a half flight in his Cindy’s private jet to be in Mississippi for the 9pm debate. Besides keeping him up past bedtime, this would mean he couldn’t be focusing every ounce of his laser-sharp attention on the economy.
But now, via time travel McCain actually traveled to Mississippi, realized he WAS at the debate, watched it intently, analyzed it carefully, and came to the following conclusion. He won. AND, not only did he win, he won BIG. Big enough to take out an ad congratulationg himself on the website of the Washington Post, complete with his smiling face, and a big ol’ flag in the background. While he was living in the future (trying to avoid a chance meeting with his future self), McCain managed to get an on-the-record quote from his campaign manager Rick Davis.
“McCain won the debate – hands down,” he gushed.
Then, after the brief interview, McCain was sucked back into the present, where he promptly took out the ad in the Washington Post Wall Street Journal online so we’d all know what had happened….even before it did.
You look skeptical… What other explanation can you come up with? I mean here’s the ad that showed up on the website, more than 24 hours before the debate! And there’s the quote from Rick Davis! Are you calling him a liar?
I need some fresh air im going for a walk
And all this after killing fiddy men and getting his shins blowed off….outstanding!
It just means the Republicans have figured out a way to steal debates as well as elections. They are so good at this stuff! And Fox News has reported all day that McCain is a “leader” that people are “waiting for” to lead them, and that’s all that matters. So why shouldn’t he win?
Of course other reporters say stuff like, well, you know, mock, and stuff.
Let’s hope there are some hanging chads in Mississippi that can save Obama. At least he got a trip to Memphis out of this.
Actually, after all this jet-setting around trying to save the economy by not saying anything, I think McCain may need a nap. Hopefully, he will doze off after the first question just as he did in the important meeting yesterday.
I’m not amazed by anything coming from this man or his campaign…….
Just plain terrified!
Give the bailout to the American people and watch everything go away. Houses, cars, TV’s, etc. would be bought, mortgages would be paid off, companies would prosper, taxes would flood in on the money received by the taxpayers, situation solved. The banks and Wall Street who made the bad decisions to hide the bad debts and sell it off would have to fix their own problems.
That’s my 2 cents!
Better hurry up with that Anti-Palin rally you guys are planning…
Palin should step down, conservative commentator says
Posted: 02:27 PM ET
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/26/palin-should-step-down-conservative-commentator-says/
Man, that is so good. I’ve been away for the day. Hope the MSM has picked up on this.
Also – other “suspended” activities – running ads, running his VP candidate out to campaign, and running surrogates and campaign staff all over the cable shows to talk about how great he was for doing this thing he’s done all his career, not thinking of self and, you know, reaching out across the aisle in a bipartisany way. Oh, but he did suspend being funny – not
prudentappropriate to be funny in a crisis. Too bad Letterman doesn’t see it that way. I guess he confused suspending his campaign and putting his campaign into suspended animation.When I first heard this I absolutely hooted!!!!
Of course, to be fair, a candidate should be ready, right? Like ANYONE is going to run an ad that says “McCain Loses Debate”
Maybe ” Mc Cain loses temper” or
“Mc Cain loses election” or
“Mc Cain loses Palin” any others?
Someone needs to take control of his effort or, like Rumpelstiltskin, he’ll stomp himself into the ground!
I really think it’s time for the Republicans to admit that Bush and McCain are both insane and have left them all swinging in the wind. That won’t help this crisis with Wall Street, but it might save their dignity.
Who wants to be the last Republican standing out there defending McCain as a maverick who is different from Bush?
Oh yeah… we know who she is.
I’m getting revved up for the debate. Anyone know a good drinking game for tonight? It’s gonna be tequila shots!
Curiouser and curiouser!
(Where’s the Davis quote ad? I haven’t seen it anywhere.)
Connie
Mr. Mudflats – That story is not quite right. It was supposedly seen on the online version of the Wall Street Journal.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2008/09/mccain_wins_debate.html
I would love for this story to be true… but it is so ludricrous that my ‘false’ radar is pinging wildly. It was apparently sent to a Washington Post reporter as a screen capture, but those are easily edited.
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Corrected to WSJ online. Thanks for catching that. Fingers were not connected to brain! AKM
So McCain never intended to cancel the debate, it was just another ruse by the campaign, or as Keith Olbermann explained it yesterday, just another hit on the reset button. If McCain can lie so easily and so often in such a public way, I wonder about all the other lies that we don’t know about.
I’m very nervous about the amount of absentee ballots flying around this year. Got one in the mail from repubs the other day. My shredder was hungry so I fed it. Did you see story of Palin cornfield maze in Ohio. Wouldn’t it be fun to put Mc and P in it and see if they could figure out how to get out?? lol
Go O’Bama
ForeverWild (11:50:35) :
I’m getting revved up for the debate. Anyone know a good drinking game for tonight? It’s gonna be tequila shots!
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How about every time McCain says, “My friends…” That should get a good buzz going in about 10 minutes!
The Drug Enforcement Agency should investigate this site-it’s very addictive.
How about every time he brings up pow.
Wow! McCain’s journeys even tops Biff’s in “Back to the Future II.” I wonder if we’ll see a similar ad on November 3rd congratulating himself on winning the election. I need a drink!
campaign manager Rick Davis.
“McCain won the debate – hands down,” he gushed.
ah me… you cannot make this stuff up.. or- er- maybe you can..
This is just too surreal…
I love it – he just keeps shooting himself in the foot – maybe it’s the Ambian?
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Politics/story?id=4919842
Here’s the story from Reuters:
http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/09/26/mccain-to-attend-debate-web-ad-claims-victory-already/
(sorry- not good with tags)
It looks like it may be a mistake by the Wall Street Journal website. Is it common for campaigns to have all this stuff pre-written, like the celebrity obituary files news outlets keep in advance? Seems odd.
edit: unless the whole thing is, indeed a hoax. At this time though, if it is, it looks like it has taken in quite a few news sources.
Yes, I corrected it to read WSJ online, which is where the ad showed up. My bad. Thanks! AKM
The Twilight Zone = McNuts campaign
according to Wikipedia – The Twilight Zone:
Each episode (= each day of the campaign) is a mixture of self-contained fantasy, science fiction, or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist (See ya later on November 4th!).
I’m speechless
ohiovoter above mentioned receiving an absentee ballot in the mail. he/she did the right thing — shred it (although saving it to use as evidence when the investigations begin after the election might not be a bad idea).
everyone should be aware that you DO NOT USE ABSENTEE BALLOTS UNLESS THEY ARE VERIFIABLY FROM YOUR ELECTION BOARD.
and your election board should not be mailing you an absentee ballot unless you requested one.
these faux absentee ballots are popping up all over the place and are intended to defraud voters and derail democratic votes.
DO NOT USE ABSENTEE BALLOTS UNLESS THEY ARE VERIFIABLY FROM YOUR ELECTION BOARD.
@ForeverWild… there is a debate bingo game available at http://www.motherjones.com It’s pretty good
inquiring minds want to know about talis colberg’s vacation.
what did he do? who did he visit?
i’ve been surprised that the alaska papers don’t seem to be asking that question or writing what they know.
it seems pretty significant to have the head legal guy skip town in the middle of a controversy he’s involved in and then just pop back in town and pick up like he never left.
where i live, we’d be screaming.
So the WSJ shot him in the foot – have they apologized?
Whoa… AKM… we have edit buttons and everything!!! How cool is this! Props to you and Snowskred!!!! Thank you thank you for all you do!
Obama campaign cracks down on misleading TV ads
http://www.kmov.com/video/index.html?nvid=285793&shu=1
Wait a min. Fake absentee ballots are being mailed out? Isn’t that a felony? What?
Every time I think I have heard the worst and there can’t possibly be another travesty…..
Oh looky- I found a really interesting blog entry on this:
http://www.ickypeople.com/2008/09/mccain-sends-out-fake-absentee-ballots.html
I am gobsmacked.
the thing i find amusing/terrifying about this…is that i completely bought it for a few minutes…believed that they’d do something like this…disinformation mcainspeak style.
wonder how will they re-define reality this evening in Miss?
I’ve added the screenshot of the WSJ instead of just the image of the ad. AKM
My initial thought on this was that it was a hoax, but I do wonder if it’s an accidental by-product of his “suspension” of his campaign. Although it is widely agreed he did NOT suspend most facets of the campaign, evidently he did TRY to get some ads pulled, briefly. Maybe once he ordered them back up (for tomorrow morning, I thought?) there was some kind of mix-up.
I’ll believe almost anything at this point. This election has far surpassed any I can remember in terms of surreal-ness.
PS – Kizzy – you reference “Mr. Mudflats” – though I think the blog author has deliberately not revealed his/her gender, I did read a piece in the Washington Post that indicated the author is a she, after doing an interview. For what it’s worth.
I think it would be perfect if Obama brought a copy of the ad with him and just before they start, shows it to McCain and says, “Senator McCain. Did you have a debate without me?”
I also think if would be cool if Obama had an ad made that says, “NO you didn’t!” and shows it right at the end of the debate.
Okay – love the edit button!
@karen marie (12:05:42) :
Good advice on the faux absentee ballots, but I’d go farther. In the states I know of, it’s ILLEGAL for anybody but the Election Board or equivalent to send out absentee ballots.
Don’t shred it, report it.
ForeverWild (11:50:35) :
“My friends” or “the surge” are probably good ones, if you want to get sedately polluted over the course of an hour. But what you really want is some wild cards – like any mention of the words “Anbar Awakening” or “Medvedev” or god forbid, “Alaska”.
ONE (probably safe) trigger: chug the whole drink if McC mentions SP by name. I bet he will avoid that like the plague she is!
Karen Marie… All kidding aside. You’re right. I should have kept it.
Check this out:
Unwelcome Visitors at the Ole Miss’ Debate: the Ku Klux Klan
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1844872,00.html
Letterman is going to love this! (I am still a bit confused, but not at all surprised.)
Obama — “You can’t just make stuff up!”
uhhh wellll, I guess you CAN.
But if you do – AKM will _get_ you!!
Go to the Cafferty file on CNN.com! He just ripped Palin and the poll is “Is Palin qualified?” Go Mudpals, go now and tell him what you think!!!!
Karen Marie
Colberg was probably holed up somewhere w/ McCain’s legal beagles working on strategy. He didn’t figure out how to get subpoenas quashed by himself.
Okay…I knew I shouldn’t have looked but I did!
Someone in Juneau has a tape of the beauty pageant and here it is!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/26/sarah-palins-beauty-pagea_n_129667.html
Looks like there may be additional installments in the works and we’ll FINALLY know what she did for the talent portion of the event! We know it wasn’t anything to do with maps!
Some from Mother Jones include: “POW”, “Change”, “Country First”, “Second POW reference” “Restore respect for America” all in all, way better than regular bingo’s. We mudpuppies should do this together, so go to http://www.motherjones.com and print off the bingo card. They will ask you for $$ first, but just go ahead to the bingo game card (unless, of course, you want to support them, too)
Hey Nebraska Native – where on Mother Jones website is the debate bingo game?
I don’t know what the procedure is if a candidate strokes out or otherwise implodes prior to the election but does it strike anyone else that McCains’ campaign is degrading a little too fast for comfort?
I know that the debate could change the dynamic a little; it would need a disaster from Obama to change it a lot but, I could be comfortable with a less steep nosedive from McCain. I want him, yes, and Sarah, to get to election day because they are so inept that I can’t imagine a better pair of muppets (without the charm) to run against and if Jonah augers in 3 weeks short of The Day GOP will have time to put up a halfway decent replacement duo.
So please, join with me in wishing the McCain campaign a slightly slower slide into oblivion and a delicately delayed deterioration.
@amanda (12:02:19) :
My first reaction was Photoshop, but the Reuters article does quote a McCain spokesman, identified as Brian Rogers, as saying this was a “mistake” by the WSJ. Now, that could mean they put it up early, or it could mean they put up a bogus ad.
I’m assuming the WSJ can tell who actually paid for the ad, so we should find out eventually. As of now, I can’t find any reference to the issue on the WSJ online, although they do have an article about McCain “resuming” his campaign.
Andrew Sullivan has video of Sarah in the swimsuit competition. How did you get scooped on that?
Hey, I thought I was Strike Chipper Palin!
I guess I’ll go get a new name…
dang it
Here’s some Bingo links:
http://www.azcentral.com/news/election/debatebingo/azc_bingo.html
lets you hit shuffle to get a new card…
and here’s the one from motherjones
https://www.motherjones.com/secure/images/WS08D/bingo_card.pdf
Damn. I missed it. I thought the debate was tonight.
Oh, maybe he was talking about the debate at the White House, where he sat and listened to all the people without dementia and George Bush talking.
If he listened to anyone it’ll be a first
Even w/ his superpowers, it looks like the “no debate/fix Wall St.” campaign stunt didn’t work – so Slate has some predictions for McCains next stunts: http://www.slate.com/id/2200927/
My favorite – not that I’d want this to pass Congress, of course – “Sells Alaska to Russia for $700 billion.” Now we know why he picked Sarah for his running mate!
@Foreverwild… try this http://www.motherjones.com/debate
It will redirect you and says something about the link isn’t there, but it is, so hit on it, and then you are at the subscriber page, but in small print is the bingo card for download on the right side (as you are facing the computer screen) Sorry for the confusion!
Thanks Sara!
And there’s more—I’ll have to stop staying away from my computer so I don’t miss all this good stuff
Calling for SWWNBN to quit:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/26/kathleen-parker-after-int_n_129535.html
a blogger in Alaska found Palin’s 1984 beauty contest footage….
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/26/sarah-palins-beauty-pagea_n_129667.html
@ Epic (12:27:59) : Completely agree with you, the last thing we need is an October surprise that involves the Republicans pulling it all back together due to an unprecedented crisis in the ranks. Please don’t let them have to put in a woman VP who’s actually competent. Please.
Fido—–Geez Louise, they pulled that video already. Who has that kind of power????
Initial pride in the fact that my state would be host to the first presidential debate of this historic campaign has turned to absolute disgust and outrage. The Mississippi White Knights also plan to attend.
Looking forward to the debate? Not as much as the attendees ……
A Hostile Audience
One side effect of McCain’s debate gambit is, I’m told, that everyone at Ole Miss now hates him. It will make for a very hostile audience tonight among those students and faculty attending. He might have to apologize for creating the uncertainty or make some explanation up front, which is never ideal.
09/26 01:09 PM
Source: National Review Online
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZGMyMzdkMDk3NzNmM2EzMmRmNDAzYTZhMjlhM2Y4MzI=
What does SWWNBN mean? I must have missed the chat when that first came up.
SP’s church probably invited them.
Wow – I watched that video 3 minutes ago and now it’s gone…
fidoNo Gravatar (12:41:46) :
a blogger in Alaska found Palin’s 1984 beauty contest footage….
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/26/sarah-palins-beauty-pagea_n_129667.html
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I just watched it! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! What is Pravda going to do with this now? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Oh, No. She forgot she met the President of Iceland LAST OCTOBER!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/26/palin-met-icelands-presid_n_129690.html
I think this is it, Alaskans, I think she’s falling fast, perhaps by Monday. Whew, at least we won’t have to hear her at the VP debate.
Please keep yourselves anonymous or stay safe at the rally.
SWWNBN – she who would not be named
Deep Blue: She who must not be named, or she who will not be named… referencing our dear clueless Sarah P
Regarding the Absentee Ballot. I received an Absentee Ballot Application from the McCain camp. Not a Ballot, but the request for a ballot. The mailing address is the address of the City Clerk’s Office at the City Hall. I am not so sure there is anything illegal about this.
SWWNBN = She Who Will Not Be Names, as in the Harry Potter books!
Seriously, who has the power to remove these videos?
Nebraska Native AKA Froth Moonshine PalinNo Gravatar (12:43:46) :
It’s still there, try it again.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/26/sarah-palins-beauty-pagea_n_129667.html
SWWNBN = She Who Will Not Be Names, as in the Harry Potter books!
Of course you realize that SP herself wouldn’t have read those books –
witchcraft you know….Where’s Pastor Mutha when you need him?
Jeeze, youtube is getting really fast at pulling videos that make Palin look bad. This reminds me they censored, I mean pulled , that 10 minute video on her religious background posted a while back, which you can still find here:
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/9/13/1538/09770
No doubt this pageant video will still be around all over the place.
I did not pay much attention at the time when youtube was bought but now I am wondering what the real agenda there is. I mean, who cares if Palin has pageant video out there? What else do they yank that we never hear about? Where’s my single malt?
The only comfort I can draw from the possibility of Sarahs’ fall, and therefore the appointment of a worthwhile veep, is that any Republican figure of stature or competence would run screaming at Toxic Johns’ first approach.
Maybe that’s why she’s still there. Who else would be dumb enough to get within McCains’ fallout plume
And all this without the need for a DeLorean car.
If Obama had done such a thing (which he never would), they surely would have called him arrogant.
Cassie it keeps telling me “This video is no longer available” when I hit the play button. it looks like it starts to load and then I get that message…
Cafferty is asking if Palin Qualified to be President.
Go take a crack at it.
http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/26/is-palin-qualified-to-be-president/#comment-651789
McCain and his campain (spelled incorrectly on purpose) are the elephant’s a$$ right now and will crash and burn. He was a POW, but now his brain is MIA.
OK, I absolutely have to go put the sealer thingie on the deck… Don’t talk about anything until I get done/back.
@mvngfwd – Enjoyed the link to the Cafferty/CNN post. Almost all the comments could have been written by us mudpuppies. Maybe the rest of our fellow citizens are finally awakening from Sarahmania and realizing she’s way out of her league. But to be fair, W has set the bar so low, I think my Republican friends and family just don’t expect too much from the GOP.
It IS legal to send out applications to request an absentee ballot… but I read about one county where the Republican party sent out ballots with an extra unnecessary “I am eligible to vote” check box that a lot of people weren’t checking and the county said they couldn’t accept it if it wasn’t checked.
Why are McCain’s eyes different sizes now?
I just noticed this.
Nebraska Native AKA Froth Moonshine PalinNo Gravatar (12:52:16) :
Seriously, who has the power to remove these videos?
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Good gosh, you’re right. The picture is still there but the clip is gone! I watched it, it moved..I know because I thought….you know….she might fall or something?
I would like to be sitting in the Mississippi audience this evening with my paint ball gun, and everytime he sleazily utters “my friends” or goes on yet again about his POW experiences, I’d zap him one. I figure by the end of the debate he would be a bright yellow.
Perhaps now it should be SWICOOHL for She Who Is Clearly Out Of Her League.
Well, I just returned from my walk which was needed to try and clear my head from news overload. It helped me to focus on three things. 1.) My dislike for McCain-Palin (toxic for our country). 2.) Must limit my news intake to the Mudflatters, for its objective reporting and links. 3.) 1 p.m. is not a good time for a senior to be walking in Arizona. Gasp, where’s the water. I hope Barack can find an opening and throw the Keating 5 at McCain, and remind the world of his involvement. And if he mentions the POW thing, I’ll have to read about it later, as I will be busy extracting my foot from the TV set.
Cassie Jeep Pike (newly a Trout, too!) (12:52:20) :
Nebraska Native AKA Froth Moonshine PalinNo Gravatar (12:43:46) :
It’s still there, try it again.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/26/sarah-palins-beauty-pagea_n_129667.html
No, it really is gone. How could that have happened so fast?
John McCain was truthful when he told Obama that he wanted to suspend political activity until the economy debacle was solved.
He just forgot to mention that Obama was the only one who was supposed to do it.
@Dust Chinstrap (13:05:22) :
Why are McCain’s eyes different sizes now?
I just noticed this.
There were commments about that the other day. People have been noticing that his left eye seems to be drooping. Were thinking the cancer has returned behind this eye – don’t know. Where are those medical records?
Did he steal the DeLorean?
Yes, there has been a lot of discussion re his eye – not sure what is going on there.
I have a technical question. How do you get rid of the edit feature if you don’t want to edit your post? Am I the only one who can see that black bar?
Can someone tell me why I get 10 full minutes to edit my post? I’ll end up putting on 30 pounds if I have to wait ten minutes for each post
McCain the show horse: Way off track
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/connelly/380669_joel26.html?source=mypi
By JOEL CONNELLY
P-I COLUMNIST
ABOARD THE now-jettisoned “Straight Talk Express,” Sen. John McCain loved to talk with reporters about go-to heroes in history, none more than Theodore Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.
The two were famous multitask guys, writing books while directing battles. Neither ever ducked a debate, let alone an appearance on “Late Night With David Letterman.”
“This is not the John McCain I know, by God,” Letterman said after being stood up Wednesday on the ground that McCain had to hurry back to Washington, D.C. A few minutes later, he learned that McCain was at that moment in a neighboring CBS studio taping an interview with Katie Couric.
If he’s really a history buff, McCain might open William Manchester’s Churchill biography to the momentous days of May 1940.
As first lord of the Admiralty, Churchill was directing Britain’s futile struggle against German invaders in Norway. Germany was hours away from attacking in the West.
Still, at that hour, Churchill found time and voice to lead the defense of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s government in the 20th century’s most famous parliamentary debate.
Nearly seven decades later, McCain was trying to duck out of a debate in Oxford, Miss.
Teddy Roosevelt would not be saying “Bully, Bully!” to McCain’s claim to be “suspending” his campaign so he can return to the Senate and help save America’s economy.
McCain has missed 412 of 643 Senate votes in the current Congress. Since April 8, he has missed 109 out of 110 votes.
Sen. Barack Obama has also been absent much of the time. But at least Obama showed up for a critical Senate vote to try to stop a Republican filibuster against a renewable energy package.
Its backers secured 59 of the needed 60 votes: McCain could have broken the filibuster, and cleared the way for the solar and wind energy development he touted in Portland and the Puget Sound area last spring.
McCain has missed all 15 “critical environmental votes” in this session, reports the League of Conservation Voters.
The “suspended” campaign has plowed ahead despite the nominee’s announcement.
Gov. Sarah Palin held an airport rally in Philadelphia, where she dodged a query about whether she’ll vote to re-elect Alaska’s indicted Republican Sen. Ted Stevens and the “bridge to nowhere” champion, Rep. Don Young.
OH, man, thanks C. I started looking into this, but in trying to find out more about McCain’s eyes, I came across this. Kathleen Parker, who is a simply massive conservative commentator, is now calling for Palin to withdraw from the race:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDZiMDhjYTU1NmI5Y2MwZjg2MWNiMWMyYTUxZDkwNTE=
Could this be the beginning of the end? Could it? *stifles whoops*
OK, 10 more minutes on McCain’s
eyes and then I have to get some RL stuff done, I really do.
@Cassie Jeep Pike (newly a Trout, too!) (13:17:55) :
Can someone tell me why I get 10 full minutes to edit my post? I’ll end up putting on 30 pounds if I have to wait ten minutes for each post
I was wondering this too — kind of related to my previous question.
I noticed the eyes too. One of local blogs pointed that out a couple of days ago. Also It seems McC is now using a $5000 make up artiste from American Idol to fluff him up for his appearences.
When he looses is he going on A/I to try out for the 2009 season? Will Simon dis him, will what’s her name love him more? Will he get more votes on A/I than he does in the general election?
ohiovoterNo Gravatar (11:52:54) :
I’m very nervous about the amount of absentee ballots flying around this year.
You should be nervous about it. The Republicans new way to disenfranchise Democratic voters is to send them an absentee ballot with the wrong return address on it.
Don’t use any absentee ballot other than one you got from your registrar of voters.
Voting absentee is a good idea, just do it right.
Here is what we are going to hear from McCain more than once tonight:
“And I know how to fix it”
He says it all the time to explain why he is the right person for the job.
Do you remember him saying about capturing Osama Bin Laden
“And I know how to find him”
Hey John, Well freakin’ tell us how tonight and we might elect you, but don’t make us wait until January for Pete’s sake.
Not sure why the beauty pageant was scrubbed so fast. It doesn’t really hurt her anymore than anything else she has said or done in the last month – at least not until they show the Q&A session.
Ooooh I can’t wait!
The suspense is killing me – I hope it’ll last!
Never mind, self, you can still reload while waiting!
Re: the tape disappearing from you tube who pulls them?
C in CONo Gravatar (13:20:18) :
I think you can reload while waiting, but you would still be able to edit, should you need to.
I just tried it.
And the black blotch just lets you know what’s still open for editing.
Duh! I thought I had to wait around!
Obama’s camp has responded to the “McCain Won Debate” ad. Very classy. They sent an email to journalists today saying: of course he’s going to win! McCain has a reputation as a great debater!
The email quotes articles praising McCain’s debate skills…..and well, not so much Obama’s.
Excellent job of setting expectations!
Remember to watch John’s body language…….. It really matters not what comes out his mouth (your ears hear) but please listen to what your eyes see. People that are deceptive twitch, jerk, hand movements, etc….it is a repetitive pattern you’ll quickly pick up on. I don’t know what else…except maybe they give the old guy some speed and I don’t think we can see his pupils.
http://by136w.bay136.mail.live.com/mail/ScanAttachment.aspx?messageid=5235f578-7bd0-4c33-b8f1-50c98dbeb336&bissafe=True&attindex=0&cp=65001&attdepth=0
If you find the whole sub-prime thing a little confusing you might appreciate this creative attempt to put it all in “laymen” terms. It is a powerpoint presentation so just hit your right arrow to move the pages forward (for those who are not familiar with PPT).
Winner of beauy contest on Palin
http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/cobb/stories/2008/09/08/blackburn_palin_cobb.html
Now I’m getting nervous.
This report about race issues that still exist in Mississippi.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/09/26/ku-klux-klan-members-plan-to-appear-at-presidential-debate-site/
“When the University of Mississippi hosts the first presidential debate tonight, the two sides of its troubled racial history could converge.”
Folks!
Someone posted an original video of Sarah Palin strutting her stuff in a red bathing suit and heels to the swanky sounds of a saxophone at the ‘84 Alaska State Beauty Pageant on Youtube for an hour this afternoon before it was taken down suddenly. Hmm, methinks someone paid this sucker off.
Dear America,
After the shennanigans of this week, (Katie Couric as Chief Inquisitor!) I fear that the typical, politically disengaged US voter will vote these morons back into office.
Yours sincerely,
Australia
PS: Speechless. Just utterly speechless.
Given the current climate, I think the KKK should think hard before doing anything. Guantanamo is still open for business!
Rape kit controversy hits the New York Times opinion page:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/opinion/26fri4.html?em
@sara without the h
“Here’s some Bingo links:
http://www.azcentral.com/news/election/debatebingo/azc_bingo.html
lets you hit shuffle to get a new card…”
hehehe….printed out a mess of them and just distributed to my office. I’ll be at a gathering tonight and will bring more
RLSNo Gravatar (12:50:26) :
Regarding the Absentee Ballot. I received an Absentee Ballot Application from the McCain camp. Not a Ballot, but the request for a ballot. The mailing address is the address of the City Clerk’s Office at the City Hall. I am not so sure there is anything illegal about this.
Don’t use it. I bet you will find that the return address on the form is not for your registrar of voters office. They have been sending them out with a PO Box return address that does not go to the Registrar of Voters. So, you will never get your absentee ballot. Ask for it yourself.
Voting absentee is smart. You won’t have to stand in line, there won’t be a voting machine to hack your vote and there is no chance some Republican is going to try to challenge your right to vote in the precinct.
Since he can time travel and all, do you think he should just go back and fix the economy?
That is great, Sara (without the h)! How fun!
My son just told me I am addicted to this website. He’s right!
When I try to locate the McCain Wins Debate ad myself on the WSJ website, I can’t find it– has anyone else tried?
(Nice to see you, Cassie Jeep Pike (newly a Trout, too)!)
OK. I looked and was amazed at all the posting this week about McCain’s eye thing, which has been widely noticed – but there is absolutely no clue to what it might be about, if anything. If it is a serious indication, health-wise, I imagine more will come out very soon, since he would just be getting worse in a hurry. If it’s just being old and raggedy, then pppfffttt, could be nothing. Odd though, very odd.
As to youtube, Google owns it and they censor anytime they want. They rarely explain themselves. The shareholders voted down a set of rules about it, so it goes on. Although most people think of youtube as an objective posting service, even almost a part of the MSM, it is in fact a corporate entity and completely subject to any control Google cares to exercise over it for whatever reason. Entertainment, yes, useful data, not so much. Article:
http://news.cnet.com/Should-YouTube-play-the-censor-and-sentinel/2100-1025_3-6217712.html
Although why a beauty pageant needs to be yanked simply totally escapes me. So freaking what? They are barking mad. The guy who owns the footage needs to get a domain and post it himself. It’s not hard, by the way, to capture videos from the intertubes yourself. I paid for a small edition of Quicktime that I use to grab stuff on occasion. I got it so I could save for all eternity that amazing scene after Katrina when Cheney was chewed out by one of the people in the street (Remember? The “Go f-yourself sir” incident). I wanted to show it to my grandchildren someday.
Now. back to picking up the livingroom while Alison Janney and Bonnie Hunt get corked on silver-bulleted cocktails on my teevee.
I hate John McCain. Really, really hate him. What a despicable human being he’s turned out to be.
If most Americans are stupid enough to elect this guy, they probably deserve him. Too bad I have to live here, too.
“Stotting”. I love new words…
http://www.236.com/blog/w/joseph_minton_amann_and_tom_breuer/the_real_reason_mccain_picked_9149.php
I wish McClueless would quit harping on Obama’s refusal to do Townhall Meetings with him. He’s using that as an excuse for blaming everything on Obama. It’s getting old.
I read somewhere…must find that link…that the reason Obama wouldn’t go for the Townhall Meetings with McCain is because McCain wanted to fill the audience with “By Invitation Only” people, and Obama wanted the audience to be “first-come, first-served.”
Obviously, By Invitation Only people would be easier to control.
BE SAFE tobight at the Debate Senator Obama.. and IF the KKK should raise its ugly head, it will merely expose that underlying horrible stench of racism that still (sadly) exists in this country.. tho not for much longer.
I think the KKK and their ilk are facing their sunset- and in that context I worry about what desperate ppl can do… but I trust Obama to be the same classy man he has always been and if Americans get embarrassed or ashamed by the KKK then well they should be!
Crap – all this time I thought SWWNBN meant ’she who will never blink nohow!
John McCains eye problem looks like botox gone bad syndrome to me, check out the forehead.
Re: the Iceland blunder – just put a fork in her, she’s done.
Cassie Jeep Pike (newly a Trout, too!) (13:37:22) :
Now I’m getting nervous.
This report about race issues that still exist in Mississippi.
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Well, that would really put the icing on the cake. Let’s show the rest of the world how truly evolved we are now. Cowardly men hiding under white sheets and misguided souls wailing and talking in tongues. This sure beats any sitcom I’ve ever seen. It just gets whackier and whackier,
Just watched the beauty pageant video on Huffington – http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/26/sarah-palins-beauty-pagea_n_129667.html – seems to be back up.
The Daily MississippianOnline responds with an open letter to the KKK
http://www.thedmonline.com/1.746424
While I would love to see SWWNBN bow out of the race, I am afraid McCain might actually choose a reasonable running mate. He can only improve his chances.
Just saw anti-Mc/P wolf ad on our local channel. Brings tears to your eyes.
Absentee voting to start this tues…..
McCain, Palin To Appear In Columbus On Monday
Friday, September 26, 2008 4:52 PM
Print StoryE-mail StoryCOLUMBUS, Ohio — Republican presidential candidate John McCain will make a campaign stop in Columbus on Monday.
McCain and running mate Sarah Palin will appear at the Capital Center, located on the campus of Capital University, 10TV News reported.
The event is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m.
Tickets to the event can be reserved by visiting McCain’s Web site.
Watch 10TV News and refresh 10TV.com for continuing Campaign 2008 coverage.
Additional Information:
YUCK!!!!!!!
Re: McCain’s eye
I, too, have wondered if it might be Botox related.
Seems to me, the last thing you’d want to do is inject poison into the skull of a 72 year old man!
Chin Trout Palin (NJ)No Gravatar (14:17:41) :
I am so proud of the students at the University of Mississippi!!!!! For all that SWWNBN did NOT learn in any of 5 or 6 colleges, it seems that these students already have what they need to succeed:)
Thank’s for my revised name;)
Chin Trout- I sure hope that the editorial board has the numbers in security to back up that stern declaration.
If the link disappears again (and you REALLY want to see it) go to youtube.com and search for *Sarah Palin the swimsuit Edition*. Poor Sarah Heath looked like she was recovering from a *foot caught in trap* incident. Looked like she was limping off the stage.
UK Lady- botox may very well be the cause but I’m thinking it’s probably blepharoptosis (drooping of the eyelids), a rather common problem with aging.
Call me cynical, but I could soooo see Cindy behind a number of these brainiac schemes of Johnny Mac’s. The presidency is the one gift that she can’t purchase for him to make him happy. Well, not *purchase it* as in buying it in a store. I keep thinking back to an interview after the nomination and she was very proudly vocal about how *we* chose Sarah, etc. And I think he listens to her. Money talks…
Ana Gama (11:53:36) :
ForeverWild (11:50:35) :
I’m getting revved up for the debate. Anyone know a good drinking game for tonight? It’s gonna be tequila shots!
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How about every time McCain says, “My friends…” That should get a good buzz going in about 10 minutes!
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I am LMAO and people are peeking in my office to see what has me so dang giddy!
OMG I am crying!
Everytime McCain says “My Friends” an angel dies….
The overwhelming response to Jack Cafferty’s poll about Palin’s qualifications to be present is NO!
However, there were a few people defending her among them, a woman who wrote this:
“Those of us, the base of the Republican Party, the conservatives that Gov. Palin rallied during the RNC, have not changed our minds about Gov. Palin and don’t plan to. You are forgetting, Mr. Cafferty, that Gov. Palin still has more executive experience than your top choice for President. Sen. Obama is a very experienced speaker, I’ll give you that, but I cannot afford a vote based on eloquent oratation or charisma. I am supporting Palin because I have confindence that she can execute sound judgement and make decisions that reflect the ideas and values of conservative Americans. One only has to look at the liberal media and Hollywoods reaction to Gov. Palin, to know that she is the real deal. They litterally hate her and all that she represents because it goes against everything on their, and of course Obama’s, liberal agenda.
I have a lot at stake in this election. My family. My vote will be for McCain and Palin. I am a 40 year old, stay at home mom, and, last time I checked, I was the swing vote.”
She sure does have a lot at stake with this election. I wonder what she is going to do when her candidate loses.
In the discussion of McCain’s eye – everyone seems to be talking about his left eye being droopy. But his right eye is what spooks me. It just pops out at me when he is on TV – I really noticed it when he was announcing the “suspension” of his campaign.
Re: McCain’s eye
It’s tired eye from all the blinking he’s had to do!
Enough Already AKA Emough AlreadyNo Gravatar (14:35:13) :
“Everytime McCain says “My Friends” an angel dies….”
Every time McC says “My friends” god kills a kitten…
Chin Trout Palin-
Wow!
Thanks for that link to the Daily Mississippian Online article. What a powerful statement. Everyone should read this one. I got tingles down my spine. It makes you realize what a great stake their community has in this historic event. Hope all goes well there for the debate.
Katie is Republican and in her first broadcast on CBS wanted Limbaugh. And we know how that went.
Years later, she gets to interview the most wanted. And her smirk, “and you would go against Kissinger?”
I never heard Kissinger say anything against…”
And Kissinger did.
I can explain the whole “McCain Wins Debate” thing.
Not only can Sarah see Russia from Alaska, but since the International Date Line runs through the Bering Straight she can also see into the future. So when she looks across to Russia she is also looking into the tomorrow. IE: It’s Friday night in Little Diomede but across the Bering Straight in Big Diomede it is Saturday night. So JM just had SP look out across to Russia and see what tomorrow’s headlines are.
SWWNBN bragged about her “beauty pageant” background. She brung it! The video was out for a few short hours and mysteriously made “unavailable”. This reeks of censorship. I was able to see it before it was pulled. She looked like she could barely walk.
I’m looking forward to the debates where McCrusty has to climb out of his Delorean and take it on the chin. Sorry to hear that Ted Kennedy has been hospitalized. But, MSNBC says it is not serious. Best to you Ted!
Good luck to Alaskans tomorrow! Rally it up!
When I went to pick up pizza for the debates I drove past a bank…..by Repug rationale, I now have the tools to solve our economic issues and could be classified as a banking expert. I’m only a couple of hours from Oxford, should I drive over and let the candidates know that I just got all the answers by osmosis?
Wow! Please check out Townhall Kathleen Parker article dated September 26th
The Palin Problem
http://townhall.com/content/5525c5e0-f4c0-461e-bcf1-c83ff419628f
(you might have to cut and past in your browser)