Topic: Election 2008 (Read 63085 times)

Royal☭ · « **Reply #140 on:** August 22, 2008, 04:37:08 PM »

Besides, we already have Pennybags in office.

Brentai · « **Reply #141 on:** August 22, 2008, 04:42:35 PM »

Pennybags lacks that smirking, "I love how you dumbasses let me do what I want no matter how obviously evil I am" perpetual grin.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #142 on:** August 22, 2008, 04:49:36 PM »

You're right of course. That dire, grim rictus perpetually smeared on Cheney's face is a frightening reminder of the black recesses of his own soul. Still though, the man has assloads of money and I think the Pennybags moniker should belong to whomever is actually richer. Let's run the numbers, shall we?

Cheney stands at a lofty $94 million

McCain's seems rather meager at $44 million.

Now these figures are both 2006, but it seems more likely that they've both only grown in such times. So in fairness, Cheney wins the Pennybags label...

...but loses it because The Penguin is a much more suitable nick name. Seriously, a monocle, tophat and cigarette holder and the bumper stickers should have read Bush/Cobblepot 2004.

Side note: Barack Obama is only worth $1.3 million in 2006. He's hardly struggling, but it seems surrealy ridiculous that he could be labeled the elitist at all. Hell, according to John McCain, he's only middle class.

Brentai · « **Reply #143 on:** August 22, 2008, 10:13:45 PM »

Quote from: Constantine on August 22, 2008, 04:49:36 PM

Cheney stands at a lofty $94 million

McCain's seems rather meager at $44 million.

Call me low-class, but I look at that and only see one tax bracket.

Sharkey · « **Reply #144 on:** August 25, 2008, 06:43:38 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X9LypdiQFo

Awwww!

Burrito Al Pastor · « **Reply #145 on:** August 25, 2008, 07:55:50 PM »

Wait a minute...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB6V6aUaptI

They're resorting to filk?

Thad · « **Reply #146 on:** August 25, 2008, 11:18:23 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nGSvkJjc9c

...Anyway. Caught Michelle Obama's speech tonight and I think she knocked it out of the park. All the right notes -- hardscrabble upbringing, family values, the American Dream and her husband's historic candidacy. I've said it before but it bears repeating: I'd vote for her if she were running.

EDIT: Video/transcript.

Thad · « **Reply #147 on:** August 27, 2008, 06:57:36 PM »

Bill's speech: not his finest work, but solid. He deftly balances between soaring rhetoric and brass-tacks policy, between criticizing the current administration and saying what Obama will do that's different, between praising McCain as a person and damning him as a politician. In the end, the takeaway is clear: "Remember how much better off you were when I was President? Yeah. Vote Democratic."

The bit about "They said I was too young and inexperienced to be President too" was kind of an insult to the audience's intelligence -- like we've forgotten he himself was using that exact argument as recently as this past month -- but it's a good line and I'll forgive it.

Thad · « **Reply #148 on:** August 27, 2008, 08:55:26 PM »

Biden: "Why do we fall, Sir? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up."

He plays to his strengths: the economy and foreign policy. If McCain picks Romney, Biden is going to eat him alive.

...Both he and Kerry made the "Freudian slip" of referring to McCain as Bush. I think they're doing it on purpose.

Arc · « **Reply #149 on:** August 27, 2008, 09:01:08 PM »

Biden was legitimately surprised to see Obama come out on stage.

FINALLY, BARACK HAS COME BACK TO DENVER.

He'll deliver the people's elbow tomorrow night.

Brentai · « **Reply #150 on:** August 27, 2008, 09:23:32 PM »

Quote from: Thad on August 27, 2008, 08:55:26 PM

...Both he and Kerry made the "Freudian slip" of referring to McCain as Bush. I think they're doing it on purpose.

Maybe... maybe.

Metal Slime · « **Reply #151 on:** August 27, 2008, 10:08:24 PM »

Quote from: Arc on August 27, 2008, 09:01:08 PM

Biden was legitimately surprised to see Obama come out on stage.

MSNBC gave spoilers that that was likely gonna happen since Obama's motorcade drove right by where they were doing the outdoor broadcast from.

Also earlier on I saw someone in the background on MSNBC wearing a black and white :awesome: mask.

Büge · « **Reply #152 on:** August 28, 2008, 10:08:51 AM »

Is that better or worse than wearing a

mask?

Arc · « **Reply #153 on:** August 28, 2008, 04:48:36 PM »

Explaining :awesome: last night to a collection of retirees went over so well that they've invited me to a union hall party tonight to watch The Speech.

Coleslaw ahoy!

Dooly · « **Reply #154 on:** August 28, 2008, 06:51:23 PM »

The McCain campaign's health care policy adviser says "No one's really uninsured, because emergency rooms will still take you."

Classic · « **Reply #155 on:** August 28, 2008, 07:35:34 PM »

By the time I read it, the McCain campaign had said , "they do not consider Goodman to be an official campaign adviser."

Metal Slime · « **Reply #156 on:** August 28, 2008, 08:37:40 PM »

McCain sure knows how to pick his advisors(lol not "official").

Wonder what those scamps will say next?

Thad · « **Reply #157 on:** August 28, 2008, 09:56:10 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ0gxF869NE
You can safely skip the first five and a half minutes.

The next five actually remind me of the best scene in Head of State, Chris Rock's "That Ain't Right" speech. (Can't find it on YouTube at the moment.)

Pretty much perfect; not much for anyone to complain about; even guys like Kristol and Buchanan are talking about how amazing it was. (Though apparently the guy the AP got to do it disagrees, and Olbermann's pissed.) If I had to guess at what bit the Republican bloggers are going to harp on, it's probably the line about "If you don't have a record to run on, you turn your opponent into someone to run from."

Just a great all-around speech; I can't imagine McCain is happy right now. He's not going to top this one, and realistically I expect his speech is going to boil down to "Democrats want to raise your taxes and let terrorists murder you in your beds."

Detonator · « **Reply #158 on:** August 28, 2008, 10:05:05 PM »

I honestly don't see why Obama isn't up by a million billion points in the polls. McCain could never draw this big a crowd, they say he'd be lucky to get a fifth as many people at his acceptance speech next week.

If you wanna see an energized electorate, this video is all the proof you need. The difference between this and Gore/Kerry is night and day (lol black people), and those races were close. With this much support, McCain should be blown out of the water.

Maybe the media is doing what they did with the Dem primary: if we pretend this is a close race, people will think it's more exciting and watch the news!

Thad · « **Reply #159 on:** August 28, 2008, 10:08:01 PM »

Also: God's aim was off with that whole "rain out Obama's speech" thing -- it rained like a MOTHERFUCKER here tonight.

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