October 2, 2008
Anyone who has talked themselves into believing this debate is going to be close tonight are kidding themselves, but they should still tune in because by the end, they will be laughing anyways.
It’s not really as simple as, “Oh, well Sarha Palin has really only done two bad interviews.” Technically that’s true, but each interview was spread out over a week and cut into five minute segments; and two times a segment she said something outrageous! Literally for any question, Palin could say ANYTHING. We have no idea what she is capable of for an unedited 90 minutes. If Joe Biden barely gets a word in all night, he wins by a landside. If he just says, “Pass” to every question, he could pull within a draw. At least. Fortunately, he’ll probably be throwing out more facts than Alex Trebek, which poses another problem for Palin.
She has been training all week to not be specific and talk in generalities for this debate. Unfortunately for her, that is that is exactly what she has been doing for the past two weeks, and it’s been a train wreck. I don’t really know how anyone thinks she can miraculously pull this off in front live audience of 60 million people.
Either way, this has the potential to be the funniest deadly serious event in television history.
October 2, 2008
From Politico:
Vice presidential debate: A barrel of gaffes?
The problem with each candidate is just slightly different:
Joe Biden: How can someone so smart say something so stupid?
Sarah Palin: How can any human being continously sound so incredibly stupid?
October 1, 2008
Barack Obama is now up in virtually every swing state, according to seperate state-by-state polls released by TIME/CNN and Quinnapiac University, including the previously red states of Florida, Ohio, Colorado, and Iowa.
October 1, 2008
This is classic. A Fox News reporter is in a restaurant in Pennsylvania when he asks the patrons who they are voting for. When McCain’s name comes up, ONE man reluctantly raises his hand, and then his wife right next to him shoves his arm down before his vote can be counted. Then the reporter asks for Obama votes. The whole restaurant raises their hands.
Then the punchline (delivered with complete seriousness to the TV audience): “Alright, see? It’s split…”
The room erupts in laughter.
September 29, 2008
The House will pass The Bailout Bill as soon as tomorrow Thursday.
The Dow closed down over 700(!) points in the couple hours after the bill failed. When people see their retirement plan tomorrow, that they probably lost all their interest for the past year in a day, all those complaints about not wanting to bailout Wall Street are going to vanish. Those twelve votes who switched sides because someone hurt their feelings will be scared back into reality tomorrow and then some.
Plus, now John McCain can fake swoop into Washington to try to get Republicans to vote for it. Again.
UPDATE: Apparently, the House is adjurning until Thursday, so they will probably pass it three days from now, as long as the Senate passes it Wednesday (which they will).
September 29, 2008
After the Republican Leaders blamed Nancy Pelosi for hurting their feelings before the vote and so therefore voted against The Bailout Bill, reporters asked her to respond to those charges. Instead, Finance Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA) took the question.
After expressing semi-sarcastic shock at Republicans’ apparently grave self esteem issues, Frank pleaded with them to rise above it. “I’ll make them an offer. Give me those twelve people’s names, and I will go talk uncharacteristically nicely tell them; and tell them what wonderful people they are, and maybe they’ll now think about the country.”
September 29, 2008
Bailout Fails; Stocks Plunge
The Bill went down 228-205, with approximately 2/3 of Democrats voting for and slightly more than 2/3 of Republicans voting against.
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R) placed blame on Nancy Pelosi’s speech on the House Floor just before the vote. He claimed it caused 12 of so Republicans to switch their vote, coincidentally the same number needed for passage.
Pelosi spent her time during her time allotted during the three hour debate reminding everyone that George Bush and Republican economic policies were responsible for the crisis. All valid points and most likely true, but why even bring it up mere moments from the vote? Everybody knows George Bush is a failure, at this point even that is a completely bipartisan issue. Instead of criticizing, she could have just shut her mouth and took all the credit when it passed. Instead of just enjoying the glory, she kicked Bush when he is already permanently down for the count.
With that said…what egotistical, selfish, infantile move on the part of those turncoat Republicans. Someone hurt your feelings so you’re going to prolong a national emergency? Really? Are you in sixth grade?!
No doubt Nancy Pelosi made a tactical partisan mistake and will probably pay for it, but for Republicans to vote against one of the most critical bills in the last century because someone called them names is an absolute disgrace.
September 28, 2008
This is the latest, now almost daily headline about Sarah Palin that looks like an Saturday Night Live skit, but is actually completely true.
ANCHORAGE — Soon after Sarah Palin was elected mayor of the foothill town of Wasilla, Alaska, she startled a local music teacher by insisting in casual conversation that men and dinosaurs coexisted on an Earth created 6,000 years ago — about 65 million years after scientists say most dinosaurs became extinct — the teacher said.After conducting a college band and watching Palin deliver a commencement address to a small group of home-schooled students in June 1997, Wasilla resident Philip Munger said, he asked the young mayor about her religious beliefs.Palin told him that “dinosaurs and humans walked the Earth at the same time,” Munger said. When he asked her about prehistoric fossils and tracks dating back millions of years, Palin said “she had seen pictures of human footprints inside the tracks,” recalled Munger, who teaches music at the University of Alaska in Anchorage and has regularly criticized Palin in recent years on his liberal political blog, called Progressive Alaska.
It’s getting so ridiculous, that at one point in Tina Fey’s uncanny impersonation of Sarah Palin on SNL last night, she literally repeats lines from the real Katie Couric interview verbatim, and the audience is hysterically laughing.
Maybe that’s why her favorability rating has dropped to a minus 10%, the only one out of the four candidates that is negative. It looks like maybe everyone is finally taking her for what she really is–a joke.
September 28, 2008
(via TPM)
September 25, 2008
John McCain’s “suspension” of his campaign includes all of his campaign offices still being open for business, his surrogates still bashing Obama on TV, McCain himself doing interviews with all the major networks, his VP still holding rallies, and continuing to take donations.
So it’s kind of like when you got internally suspended in Middle School. You still showed up for school, talked to all your teachers, had to do all your work, saw all your friends in the hallways, and probably managed to accomplish everything you would on a normal day. Never really felt like a “suspension,” did it?
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