Inside The Democratic Convention – Hot, Sweaty, Successful
I know that many of you have a partisan bent but this convention has been a good run so far for ther Dems. The Clintons behaved, and Joe Biden hit one out of the park. I find it fascinating that the Dems have to apologize for their discord. I mean, the Clintons are self interested, but a good argument is better than watching an administration that only cares to hear one side of an argument.
The real local stars: Bob Casey Jr. I mean the guy got the best prime time spot in the house, That’s what happens you support someone in a state where he needs help. And Casey went to bat for Obama.
My only problem with this convention is Denver, not the city but the plan. This place has no coordinated plan to direct people where they are supposed to go. No exaggeration: I have already traveled in a bike rickshaw, a sheriff’s dept. golf cart, and the back of a pickup truck to get to the Pepsi center from the security perimeter. The city has no idea how to direct people, and all the hotels seem like they are in Kansas, or Nevada, they are so far away. They have a mass transit system here. It’s cleaner than Septa. Anything is. But it doesn’t stop at the Convention site. The arena only has two press elevators. People are trapped wall to wall. Bad for phobias. Sweat pouring out from your neck.
Some highlights. I am the only person in the Pepsi Center to ask for a Coke at the concession stand. They thought I was insane. The Pepsi center is small. The people here are great, but the cops are upset that the traffic patterns are such a mess. Most people left town for the week, leaving it to the transportation-seeking, hungry delegates and news people who are ready to leave mile high for St. Paul.
I’ll tell you one thing. I’ve been to 21 political conventions. This one has been fine, but there is little coordination, and lots of confusion for the attendees. You may not like the Republicans, but they run much smoother conventions.
What did you think of Biden’s speech? I thought it was the best yet, but make no mistake about it, Barack Obama will be on top of his game at Invesco field tonight. I will be there. I’ll let you know what it was like.
My best interview of the week? Terry Madonna, super pollster, who said the Clintons were hijacking the convention. Best chance meeting, Martin Lurher King the 3rd, touring the hall today. Best special moment: Terry McCaullife, Clinton insider.yelling out, “We are down a few points.” He was talking about a tracking poll showing Obama trailing. He was breaking out in a grin.
Sorry I’ve been “off: for a few days, but I’ve been doing KYWS Newsradio, CN 8, Smerconish, getting food, sending out dry cleaning, answering emails, reading, meeting and greeting politicians and walking a lot.
BY THE WAY, DON’T MISS THE VIDEO BLOGS ON CN8.TV or KYW1060.COM.
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Rarry,you cheap you ride in my rickshaw and not tip,You drink coke when everybody drink pepsi Rarry you crazy you ride with hippies in back of pickup truck,My rickshaw cleaner then septa right Rarry?
Sonny, nice observation and we welcome the diversity. Perhaps Larry could hire you as his Man Friday to transport him in St Paul, take care of his dry cleaning, and make sure he gets good meals and has his bedding flufffed and pulled down at night when he’s exhuasted from all of his newsmaking.
Larry, Biden did knock it out of the park. He connected with me more than any Democrat in recent memory with his story. I felt he was speaking to me and how I value family, especially my father, and my son. HE was an excellent pick, and it’s scary for McCain if we Republicans are saying such things.
Hopefully you can cut a deal to hire Sonny Lee for the rest of your travels, he’d be a great help plus he could give us posts as to what you’re doing when your too busy to update us.
By the way the communion issue with Biden is already a huge deal , you heard it here first, and my crew of right wing jack-booted religious zelots are going to bring this issue and abortion rights front and center this fall. so go ahead, be the first to ask him if he’ll take communion if the Bishops ask hin not to. I dare you.
TMI, Larry.
This is your most “gonzo” piece yet. By the end of it, I was half expecting you to say you were sniffing raw ether and running amok on the floor of the convention.
I think the lack of organization at the convention, or all the walking you’re doing in the thin air, is affecting your punctuation, which looks like something that would have come out of Hillary’s strife-ridden campaign.
Have you seen Rendell? I’ll bet sweat is pouring out of his neck.
Any progress on the FREE AIR plank? Have you managed to find anyone who is willing to investigate why gas stations in the same neighborhood sometimes have as much as a 2-3% variance in their prices for gasoline?
By the way, I agree about Biden. He rocked out with his, uh, socks out. I doubt McSame will find his equal on the GOP side. Maybe he will choose droning Joe Lieberman after all . . . .
Larry, welcome to our world. As non-politicos or press, we don’t get moved from one climate controlled area to the next. We have to push our way through crowds, drive in traffic and sit next to funky people on mass transit. Oh the humanity…
Biden was clearly the best speaker so far. Aside from JR who still has a woody from the Clintons’ attempted re-coronation,I think the vast majority of the people find this a very boring convention with lots of platitudes, panderering and trying to feel good about being a Dem. Good luck with that. CNN’s coverage is aweful. All we hear is their analysis. David Gurgen. Donna Brazile. Wolf Blitzer. Please!
BTW, Larry, no report on the Free Air situation. Leo is right! Less talk about personal hygene and more substance on the Free Air crisis. If the Dems include as a plank, I maybe swayed to vote straight Democratic.
WHERE DID OBAMA’S MONEY COME FROM???????
Subject: New York Times Editorial
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: June 29, 2008
Go to Columnist Page
Certainly the most interesting and potentially devastating OBAMA’S
TROUBLING INTERNET FUND RAISING Certainly the most interesting and
potentially devastating phone call I have received during this election
cycle came this week from one of the Obama’s campaign internet geeks.
These are the staffers who devised Obama’s internet fund raising
campaign which raised in the neighborhood of $200 million so far. That
is more then twice the total funds raised by any candidate in history -
and this was all from the internet campaign.
What I learned from this insider was shocking but I guess we shouldn’t
be surprised that when it comes to fund raising there simply are no
rules that can’t be broken and no ethics that prevail. Obama’s internet
campaign started out innocently enough with basic e-mail networking,
lists saved from previous party campaigns and from supporters who
visited any of the Obama campaign web sites. Small contributions came
in from these sources and the internet campaign staff were more than
pleased by the results.
Then, about two months into the campaign the daily contribution intake
multiplied. Where was it coming from? One of the web site security
monitors began to notice the bulk of the contributions were clearly
coming in from overseas internet service providers and at the rate and
frequency of transmission it was clear these donations were “programmed”
by a very sophisticated user.
While the security people were not able to track most of the sources due
to firewalls and other blocking devices put on these contributions they
were able to collate the number of contributions that were coming in
seemingly from individuals but the funds were from only a few credit
card accounts and bank electronic funds transfers. The internet service
providers (ISP) they were able to trace were from Saudi Arabia , Iran
, and other Middle Eastern countries.. One of the banks used for fund
transfers was also located in Saudi Arabia .
Another concentrated group of donations was traced to a Chinese ISP with
a similar pattern of limited credit card charges.
It became clear that these donations were very likely coming from
sources other than American voters. This was discussed at length within
the campaign and the decision was made that none of these donations
violated campaign financing laws.
It was also decided that it was not the responsibility of the campaign
to audit these millions of contributions as to the actual source
(specific credit card number or bank transfer account numbers) to insure
that none of these internet contributors exceeded the legal maximum
donation on a cumulative basis of many small donations. They also found
the record keeping was not complete enough to do it anyway.
This is a shocking revelation..
We have been concerned about the legality of “bundling” contributions
after the recent exposure of illegal bundlers but now it appears we may
have an even greater problem.
I guess we should have been somewhat suspicious when the numbers started
to come out. We were told (no proof offered) that the Obama internet
contributions were from $10.00 to $25.00 or so.
If the $200,000,000 is right, and the average contribution was $1500,
that would mean over 13 million individuals made contributions? That
would also be 13 million contributions would need to be processed. How
did all that happen?
I believe the Obama campaign’s internet fund raising needs a serious, in
depth investigation and audit. It also appears the whole question of
internet fund raising needs investigation by the legislature and perhaps
new laws to insure it complies not only with the letter of these laws
but the spirit as well.
Ah, Larry, the French sock puppets are afoot. (It’s a pun. Laugh.) Now they’re planting apocryphal articles attributed to columnists that didn’t write them. That’s a right wing noise machine tactic, and it’s fraudulent. I’m sure Larry will get to the bottom of that one as someone’s using his blog to perpetrate a fraud.
By the way, Larry, you can read about this right wing hoax/smear of Obama, which has been reproduced at post 6 of your blog, if you go to snopes.com and search on “Maureen Dowd.”
Or go here, if your blog permits links: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/donations.asp
Larry-Do you have any insider info about how Backtrack will be making his entrance? The big money is on smoke,much like they do for Football games.You may not like the Democratic’s but they sure no how to put you to sleep.Witness Bob Casey,yowzaa.
I got a kick out of you saying the mass transit system is cleaner than SEPTA.Hell,the system in Darfur is cleaner than SEPTA.
Terry McCauliffe was grinning because he knows that Obama is toast & he can begin the 2012 campaign soon.Actually I believe the Clinton’s began it this week.
jr, ur, YBP, you sure do seem to like GOP talking points. Are you aware of McSame’s stance on pirates? I hear he hasn’t liked them since one showed Cindy his “Jolly Roger.” In fact, I hear he’s going to set up a blockade on the Mississippi to keep them from sailing up and storming his little coronation, where he will receive his trigger order from the former KGB agent (i.e., Putin) who programmed him.
Leo, the right wing noise machine won’t be responsible for Obama not winning. It will be a lack of perceived preparedness for the position. If Biden is his answer to that, than maybe Biden should be the candidate.
OOOJ, right perceived based on baseless repetitions from the right wing noise machine, spreading misinformation and smears just like the purported Dowd article someone posted here to Larry’s blog. He’s prepared. McCain needs to adhere to his 2000 statements about running campaigns based on ideas and not personal attacks. He’s flip-flopping all over the place. Kerry did a great job hanging the flip-flop label on McCain last night, by the way. Takes one to know one, they say.
Bravo to the Clinton’s for showing class and leadership this week and shutting up the whining obamanites now it’s on backtrack to win this race,and i agree Biden/obama ticket makes more sense…
BTW has anyone seen yahoo picture blocks-there’s a picture of a teenage kid standing in his house-it’s very troubling.
JR, Hillary was 45 minutes late making everyone wait for her moment. That’s beyond fashionably late. That’s plain rude.
You would have thought Slick Willie was the rockstar last night. He worked the crowd like a carnie. I hope the people in the front row checked their wallets.
LB, know one listens to Kerry, not even his wife. He was whining about Swiftboat so much everyone tuned him out.
Obama is not prepared for day one. He’s so far in over his head that he needs floaties. He will have to surround himself with the best staff ever assembled and hope he’s as lucky as Ronald Reagan.
OOOJ, simply repeating the phrase “Obama is not prepared for day one” does not make it true. He’s at least as prepared as McCain, who has zero executive experience. If being a legislator prepares one for office, then McCain and Obama are in the same shoes. Sure, Obama hasn’t been on Saturday Night Live or Leno as many times as McCain has, but, then, who has? (I hear Jennifer Love Hewett is McCain’s only real rival for appearances on Leno. Amazing what a wannabe celebrity he is.)
Obama has judgment, and he will have a deep team around him, unlike Dubya, who was unprepared, who had no judgment, and who let Cheney walk all over him. And who appointed a “university elitist” to be the National Security Adviser leading up on the biggest strike against our national security since Roosevelt was in office.
Does being a POW and a bottom of the class graduate who got by on family political connections make someone ready to lead a nation? I doubt it.
LB, I agree that just being in Congress for 20-34 years doesn’t make you anymore qualified to be President. Same goes for Biden. Being in Congress for a long time does expose you to multiple administrations, issues and a very good understanding for how to get things done. Obama simply hasn’t been in Washington long enough to understand how everything works. He’s been campaigning for the last 2 years. He hasn’t run a business. He has run anything. He’s been grooming himself to run for office. Any Ivy League degree doesn’t make you ready to be President. Being smart doesn’t make you ready to be President.
Bashing Bush and McCain doesn’t make your case or Obama ready to be President. He may turn out to be a great President. The fact remains he is no where near ready. Even Hillary (down Jack) is better prepared.
I see Putin’s weighing in,no question who he wants to be elected.Next we’ll hear from the Iranian wingnut & probably Chavez as well.
Monday night will be a truly great night.I expect a riveting speech from John McCain & lots of camera shots of the very lovely Cindy McCain,she of the attractive donkey zone.Kudos to JR,by the way,for that term.I suspect that will have a long shelf life.
It seems Backtrack has momentarily halted his August “pole slide”.I heard that & my mind wandered to Michelle Obama & her days as a pole dancer.Not to my taste but some guys like a big donkey zone.There’s that term again.
Speaking of experience,a lot is being made of Backtracks time as a “community organizer”.No doubt that’s a clear path to the White House.Presumably he was a life guard the summer before.
OOOJ, by that logic, Mittens Romney would add nothing to McCain’s ticket either, since he’s never been in Washington and doesn’t know how it works at all. Maybe that was Dubya’s big problem, too. But Clinton did pull it off, even though he’d had only minimal experience running a podunk state.
If Larry wanted coke while he was in the Pepsi Center,why not just go right to the Obama suite ? Had to be some blow there somewhere.
I think Larry just likes to be difficult asking for coke at the pepsi center, he’s becoming Andy Rooney, but doesnt realize it yet.
A rather gracious John McCain,congratulating Backtrack Obama on his nomination.A move,I suspect,that Backtrack himself & the ghastly Michelle are incapable of.
Perhaps I’m overstating when I say that I expect a riveting speech from Senator McCain.After watching the Dems this week,I’ve come to realize there aren’t many good orators these days.No William Jennings Bryan & his fiery Cross of Gold speech.No Barry Goldwater to remind us that “extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice”.Adali Stevenson was probably good though before my time.JFK was good.Anybody have anyone else ?
Not that William Jennings Bryan wasn’t before my time as well.Poor wording.
YFAP, did Michelle Obama look like Uhura from StarTrek last night or is it just my imagination. Don’t peg me as a StarTrek nerd.
I can’t remember an excellent speach reading President in my lifetime.
I guess Star Trek was on T.V. during the period when I was real busy,extremely distracted as it were.In other words the comparison escapes me.
I just went on youtube & listened to the WJB speech again.Worth a listen if you’ve not heard it.
WJB?
Look up Uhura on YouTube and see the comparison.
Obama’s speech tonight was incredible. McSame’s got his work cut out for him. No wonder he’s gone all negative all the time. How can he compete honestly on ideas? It’s no contest.
Obama is a masterful speech writer and orator. He clearly understands the mindset of the country. He appears to know what he plans to change. We have not heard one plan with specifics on how he would implement change and how much it will cost. College professors and actors could do the same thing. This is the knock on Obama; he speaks in generalities and abstracts. If he would or could start delineating programs, he could distance himself from McCain. He should get a big bump from the speech last night anyway.
Clearly McCain is neither the speech writer nor the speaker that Obama is. Clearly McCain either doesn’t get it or can’t enumerate what the country is feeling. He doesn’t have that feel good message. He is being painted into a corner of 4 more years of Bush. No one wants that except the most wealthy Americans. He has to delinate his differences from Bush, as well as Obama. He can clearly regain the momentum if he seizes the economic issue. Americans’ #1 concern is the ecomony. If he picks Romney and let’s Mitt do the talking for the next 3 months, he has a chance. If he picks Ridge, Pawtucky, Rice, Huckabee, KB Hutchinson or someone without an indepth economic insight, he’s likely toast. We’ll know later today.
In the end, McCain is his own worst enemy. Everytime he opens his mouth, something stupid comes out. He needs to have his vision delineated by a better speaker. The VP choice for McCain is far more important than Obama. We should know the outcome of this election later today if McCain makes his VP announcement today. As a Republican that has never, ever voted for a Democrat at any level, I sure hope he makes the right choice.
McSame has no vision. And no specific plans. That leaves him behind Obama.
If McCain takes Palin, as reports are indicating, it’s game over. If he thinks he can win over Hillary votes with a backwoods female governor, it’s just too transparent and brings nothing to the ticket.
Talk is cheap. Obama talks a good game.
YFAP, are you out hanging up laundry again?
McSame would only choose Palin because he wants to do some drilling in Alaska.
I say:
Obama chooses Biden.
McCain chooses Palin.
What do I win?
SARAH PALIN! Well Larry you can’t claim this one, sorry, no air compressor for you.
This choice is unbeleiveable, probably the most courageous VP choice in histoy. Sarah is hot, smart and edgy conservative. She shoots F-ing moose, life long NRA, and knowinlg carried a downs child to term. She talks the talk and walks the walk. Gentleman, sorry to have gone wobbly after the Biden selection, this trumps it. McCain’s got game! LEo, your mother in law will be out of work sooner than I had hoped. The abortion mills will soon be grinding to a halt, the welfare state will shrink, and personal responsibility will again rule the day. A pro-life feminsit with five kids who is also a 2nd runner up in Alaska beauty contest! Nice donkey zone here JR, take a look, the most attractive national female politican in history.
Let’s hear it LArry, what do you think?
George, I think you’re smoking something that is legal in Alaska.
After McCain slammed Obama for lack of experience, he wants to put a woman who has been a mayor of a small town in Alaska a heartbeat away from the presidency? Who is facing ethics investigations in her own state, which is controlled by Republicans? Are you kidding? He’s going to look silly next to her, like her father or something.
Someone needs to bring up McCain’s history of infidelity and start asking whether these two can be trusted to work late into the night together in the Oval Office. Turn her strength into a liability.
This is going to be amusing.
I’m still in shock. McCain took the experience card out of the deck with this pick. What else can he play? He can’t run anymore Paris Hilton ads now that he’s chosen her to be his VP candidate.
Larry,Mccain has some brass balls,Palin has has as much experience as backtrack obama,so if backtrack people are going to point at her for no experience they have to point at backtrack too,this could have been no big deal if backtrack had the balls to take Hillary on the ticket.
Palin will help Mccain with the the female vote in PA,OHIO,FLORIDA.
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Larry,obama’s speech was good last night but we all knew that would be,the big show was too phony and staged,I am waiting for the soundtrack to come out.
MLK would never do business like that.
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George you’re right she’s hot.
jr, you’re smoking it, too. How is being mayor of a town of 6,000 people and being governor of a remote state for less than two years the equivalent of being a state representative for eight years and a U.S. Senator for a few more? It doesn’t come close. And you’ve got it backwards: it was the GOP that was on the no-experience offensive, which was their strongest argument and which they now must forego.
Women are smart, too smart to let such a transparent ploy pull their votes.
The attractiveness of Palin will also play against her in many respects.
I’m waiting for the VP debate. Biden will eat her alive, especially on foreign policy, etc. He’ll have to be careful not to run up the score too much.
Rush Limbaugh just state that McCain chose his second trophy wife. I LOLed!
Leo-Mccain will eat obama alive,Palin has just as much experience as backtrack, Mccain has your head spinning,,Mccain has the nitwits on MSNBC speechless they don’t know what to say,,John Mccain has guts and courage that backtrack obama can only dream of.
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To Leo’s Family-please keep all prescription medicine’s out of Leo’s reach.
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USA USA USA USA USA!
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God Bless America!!!
The Russell’s head asplode!
Weird virus on my computer,can’t access this blog so I’m playing catch up here.Most egregious statement so far comes from Leo.Some ethics investigation,it may have already been dismissed.Real low level stuff.And you’re afraid of some late night meeting ?That’s funny but Clinton’s no longer in office.By the way,I think Larry introduced the virus as a way to “reset” me.
Has anyone seen Leo?,I am concerned for his safety,Larry please check on Leo.
Leo, the Biden eating her alive argument is what many are saying, but think about it. Rick Lazio stepped up to Hillary and invaded her personal space in a debate and that ended his senate bid. Biden has made a woman cry in a senate hearing. Beating up a 44 year old yummy mummy will not go over well in a debate and its a tricky thing to do succesfully, unless she’s a complete idiot, and so far it appears she’s quite bright. Palin just has to hold her ground and she will beat him, given the expectation that Biden will cream her (although I suspect he’ll want to do that in some manner). You must admit, its the boldest thing ever done in presidential politcs and will either be genius or disaster. Palin has also smoked weed, so she’s got all the bases covered!
JR, sounds like you are on board with the McCain ticket. Did you happen to check Meagan McCain today as well? The donkey zone on this ticket is off the hook!
YBP, using a political office to fire people you don’t like is bad mojo, not “low level stuff.”
McCain’s record on philandering is as good as Bill Clinton’s. He just needs the opportunity to play it out in the Oval Office. Why else do you think he wants to be president?
McCain really shot himself in the foot here. This woman is like a Tina Fey wannabe. She’s not going to withstand scrutiny. Hillary will be offended that a beauty contestant “Aunt Tom” is trying to usurp her legacy of this year and will redouble her efforts on Obama’s behalf. (Like that jr? I know you do.)
Nice comment about the trophy wife. I guess that McSame just wanted someone else he could enter into the naked beauty contest at Sturgis, SD besides Cindy.
McCain is now the biggest flip-flopper. On experience. He attacked Obama, who has much more experience than Palin, and then essentially told the country that someone who has been mayor of a 6,000 person town and governor of one of the most sparsely populated states is qualified to be president should he snuff it due to skin cancer, heart attack, trigger command from KGB sleeper agent, etc. With no foreign policy experience whatsoever, no legislative experience, etc. Isn’t that a slap in the face of the GOP voter? You bet it is.
Right, George, like I said, he’ll have to be careful not to run up the score too much or people will feel sorry for the inexperienced wankette. Being a pity object doesn’t qualify someone to run the country, however.
We’ll see in 67 days Leo. I’ve learned not to underestimate woman, or to marginalize them becasue of their gender. It’s the 21st century, the times have changed the votors will decide. I think this is a stroke of genius,and will buy you four tires worth of air if I’m wrong.
I want to hear what pat has to say.
No one is marginalizing her because of her gender. They’re marginalizing her because McCain has already effectively declared her unqualified to be president via his attacks on Obama. People who supported Hillary are not likely to support Palin, who isn’t remotely close to being in the same league and whose political views are diametrically opposed to Hillary’s views.
No one’s record on philandering is as good as Clinton,lets be candid.
Aunt Tom ? What a week,first Donkey Zone,now Aunt Tom.Not like you Leo,that’s more out of George’s straight talk playbook.
Not sure what to make of Palin.I guess we’ll all have to wait & see how she handles herself.
Larry,Palin will bring Mccain the female vote in PA.OHIO and FLORIDA game over,Mccain has shook up the backtrackers.
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Palin is a lot easier on the eyes than mrs. backtracker we won’t have to look at her sour puss face or her big donkey zone after Nov.4.
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Prediction:2012 Palin vs.Clinton.
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Was there a big speech last night no news about it today.
Aunt Tom, thats rich Leo. I think it also had a double meaning, as that’s probably a code term that a closet lesbian like Hillary would use to trash talk a pretty, intellengent woman who she views as a threat, and who doesnt subscribe to her milatant dykish dogma.
Leo-Which VP pick wouldn’t you have trashed ? And why do you always seem to ignore the more obvious problem ? To wit,your concern over Cindy McCain’s past drug use but not Obama’s drug use,and the inexperience of Palin, who’s running for VP,but not the inexperience of Obama,who’s running for President.
George-Careful,you may have awakened jr with that one.
The liberals in this country must be going nuts. Here we have McCain picking the darkest of dark horses to be his running mate. I’ve never seen McCain look so happy when he was standing next to Palin. I mean this woman even eats moose burgers. The left is bringing up the experience factor…. They have a two bit South side Chicago politician running for president yet she is the one who is inexperienced. My friends. buckle your seat belts and put your trays in the upright position, because this is going to be one hell of a ride.
YBP, I wouldn’t have trashed Ridge. This Palin pick is just laughable. All of the right wing noise machine’s bluster about Obama’s inexperience just boomeranged on them in spades.
Ed, McCain looks happy because, as was pointed out, he got a new trophy wife. A VP “with privileges.”
Hey, but at least she’s been in Vogue, right? That makes her “serious.” I’m still laughing. McCain has outdone himself with this cheap stunt.
Game over. Everyone go home. Palin is terrible choice. McCain deserves to lose by 15%. What a putz. Maverick? Dumbsh*t.
After the last 24 hours, it is now Obama’s race to lose.
LB, YFAP is right about you would have poked holes in any VP McCain picked. Ridge? Please. Fact remains he had a chance to put a stake in Obama heart (figuratively) and failed miserably. Now Obama does not have to detail his plans or explain Obamanomics. Its a cakewalk unless he or Angry Joe say something really stupid.
Bad day for GOP.
But, wait, there’s more. When she was mayor of a town of 6,000 people, she ran the budget $20,000,000 into the red. So she’s good with balanced budgets and fiscal restraint. She’s ready to take the oath of office!
LB,
She’s got more executive experience than Obama even if its in Northern Exposure.Obama hasn’t balanced a budget since the Harvard Law Review and that was 10 people. By my math, 6K is a couple of orders of magnitude greater than 10.
I personally would not have had the chihones to make that selection. It is definitely a big gamble. Yet all of the sudden it seems like the election is now being carried out on an level playing field. Voting should be a privilege just like driving. There are so many idiots that cast their vote for the
lamest of reasons. It was wise for McCain to pick Palin. For all of those who vote blindly for Obama there will be proportionate amount of those who will vote blindly for a woman on the ticket.
The two idiot factions will cancel each others vote.
Ed, what happened to Big Red Ed?
BTW, you guys are all talking about hot middle aged woman in the election. You swoon over Hillary and some other woman that personally don’t float my boat. Sara Palin included.
Maybe I’m showing my age but I personally find Jill Biden the most attractive.
Leo said “spades”, he lectured me about that word, and now he’s using it in reference to Obama, no question a Freudian slip- Shame on you LEO!
Speaking of Freudian slips, I can’t wait until Biden says some stupid racsit or sexist thing, then we can say hey Joe, Freudian slip? Freudian slip? if he’s such a Freudian then when he mispeaks like he did at the convention, it will really mean he’s speaking the truth.
Hey JR, give me a pass on the Hillary attack, alls fair when responding to Leo, won’t you agree? Anyway, you’re a Palin guy now, let’s take her to donkey town! Her donkeyness Pails in comparrison to Hillary, it cannot be matched!
Okay this is getting inane even for me. I’ve had a long day in front of cable TV, I need to go out for air.
OOOJ, I noticed that myself. Easy come easy go. Very odd, very odd indeed. It does however give me a broader range in my development as a sock puppet.
George, there’s a clear difference between using spades as I did, to refer to the cards, and using spade in the racist sense, which derives from ancient Greece. Hurrrr.
OOOJ, you’re right. Sarah Palin looks like a broken down Tina Fey who’s trying really hard to cling to some semblance of the slight glimmer of beauty she might once have had. I’m laughing. But Michelle Obama is good looking. Baby’s got back.
BTW, Sarah Palin coverage in the WSJ amounts to reporting on her diet and exercise habits. McCain is running for prom king?
Today I imagined that John Edwards was so despondent over his affair and lying and dragging his sick wife into it he killed himself. So then I thought, what if I jump up out of my cubicle and say to my co-workers “oh my god, john edwards found dead in apparent suicide!” as if I just read it off a newswire. SO all day I kept thinking about it, so at about 4pm when everyone was wired about Palin, I did it. People were shocked, you should have seen their faces, and they went running to their computers in disbelief. For a few minutes I was the most important person in my office and everyone was paying attention to me. Then slowly people started asking where I read that, so I told them I forgot, and then said on AOL after they got suspicious. Then I went to the bathroom and stayed in a stall for awhile,then just left for the day without saying goodnight. I bet on Tuesday, unless he does that,my co-workers will be mad and think I’m a lier, but so what, it felt good, I had my 15 minutes.
Leo, your bravado is reminiscent of an old wild wild west gunslinger who is counting on his reputation to intimidate his opponent. You are running scared my man, and there is no place to hide. Palin is just what the doctor ordered and I don’t mean Doc Holiday.
I was referring to the cards connotation as well Leo, it just did’t square with your desire to attack me, and your desire to site some arcane idiotic Greek etimology of the word that you hoped would impress someone, I don’t know who, because most of us on here only have GEDs.
I do enjoy your company though, it would be dull without your pompus retorts. If both of us were on a sinking ship with Larry we’d have a Jew, a Catholic, and and Atheist. And if God said to Larry, as the the chosen one you may save either George or Leo. Who do you think LArry would save? You, because he likes you better, or me because I add more spice and depth to his blog?
John Mccain has some brass ones what a pick.Leo you seem to attack the woman(Clinton & Palin) all the time,is it something from your childhood?
Leo you took your daughter to see mrs backtrack,why not take her to see Hillary Clinton it sounds like a race thing Leo.
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woman voters are going to vote for Palin.
black voters are voting for obama,what’s the problem?
Leo-Way too much back.
George-I resent that.I graduated from the seventh grade.Not with honors but that’s another story.
George, you said “calling a spade a spade.” That’s not about cards. Learn your history.
Palin is a joke. Even the WSJ thinks so, reporting on her diet and exercise activities because there’s no there there.
John Edwards is going to give a speech in New York about his affair with Palin.
More people in the U.S. watched Obama’s speech (40 million) than watched the Bejing opening ceremonies. No other convention in history ever drew comparable numbers. Game on, Mr. McCain.
Game over
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John Kerry you old leatherneck what do you think of Sara Palin? I think the Tina Fey analogy was pretty good. I think Tina may have been a better choice though. Are you rethinking that Edwards pick now you loser?
God, Palin is one hot piece of yummy mummy trim. I swear to God, everytime they show her shooting that automatic weapon I become visably aroused, and many of you know the steps I take after that happens. Let’s just say, I was sequestered from the time of her announcement, and my index and middle fingers are quite sore, and thats not from flipping the cable remote to keep her on screen all day. I may be a washed up MA liberal, but I was also was once an eligible bachelor for a number of years before I sold my sole to get a piece of the Heinz fortune.
Look at McCain, he’s got a trophy wife , now a trophy VP. I had that genital washing twit, John Edwards. I swear to God, I’d like to cover him in peanut butter , lock him in a fenced in area, and release a team of Spitz Eskimo dogs on him, film it and then put it on You Tube. Sounds crazy? Well thats what I’d like to do with him. Barney Frank gave me the idea, he has all kinds of ideas like that, that just dont normally come to mind to most of us, that why he’s such an innovator in the senate.
Remember John, the ketchup bottle goes in the front of your speedo, not the back.
John, you must have been choking on “pretzels” with Bush. (I hear they can do nasty things when they get deep in your throat.) Barney Frank isn’t in the Senate.
I agree with anyone who thinks McCain’s choice will ultimately doom his campaign. It seems to be an ill-considered attempt to seize on what he and the media were portraying as his opponent’s worst weakness. He has virtually no hand left to play. Or is he going to do GQ photoshoots to complement Palin’s Vogue photoshoots? They can both be celebrities with Britney!
Jeff, if you want to purge yourself try a warm ketchup enema. Just heat up one of those new easy to use bottles in the micowave for a few mituntes, test ketchup temp to make sure not too hot. Insert and squeeze. Let me tell you, the natural properties of tomatoes have cleansing and health enhancing properties that are scientifically proven. Those info-mercials wont tell you this because they are selling expensive snake oil as colon cleansers, all you really need is warm Heinz ketchup!
JK, are you secretly trying to find a way to sell more ketchup? Thanks for the food and health tip!
LB, people who live in glass houses (support emptysuit candidates) should throw stones.
Sarah Palin: Monty Python’s Holy Grail?
Thees is zee brilliant pick from the McCain.She is beautiful,intelligent & is thee success in the North of your country.The French love this woman & this pick & we will help elect this ticket.Sacre bleu,the McCain is very smart.
Sacre bleu,we cannot wait for the President McCain & the Vice President Palin to come to “the city of lights” or maybe the Bordeaux region.And with our own President Sarkozy & his beautiful wife,we will have Cindy,Sarah & Carole all together in one area.It will be beautiful & we French love beauty.America,you must elect this ticket.
Captain-I am buying what you’re selling,that beats looking at chelle chelle’s sour puss face and big donkey for four years,I’ll smell you later.
Jack, Michelle Obama is taller, thinner, far less donkey zone and more attractive than Hillary. What don’t you like.
I’m goimg to call a spade a spade: Sarah Palin has it over Joe Biden in SPADES!
I’m going to call a club a club, McCain has it over Obama in CLUBS!
Oh wait, a club is a black suit, that could be perceived as offensive to Obama supporters. Let’s insert heart for club above. Oh wait, that’s a red suit, and Native Americans were once referred to as the red man. Uhhmm, lets see…how about: Obama is a pointy headed, cracker acting, white breaded, mother fucker who doesnt have a chance against McACain. I think that’s less offensive since only white people could take exception to such a charaterization and Obama is half white.
George, you never cease to amaze me with your lack of restraint and commonsense. Perhaps you should ask Leo or JR to proofread your blogs before posting.
George could run for President on the straight talk ticket.
OOOJ-Still glum about the choice ? I’m kinda warming up to it.I don’t think she’ll necessarily get disaffected Hillary voters but she’ll get their attention.She appears to be popular in Alaska,has been able to distance herself from Stevens & Young,nice family situation.Might turn out to be a very good pick.
aesop-you are overdosing on the obama juice,chelle-chelle is not more attractive than Hillary,Chelsea or Palin,plus chelle-chelle has a problem with america and all people (natives-whites-hispanics-asians) except blacks that is why she sat in rev wracist church for 20 years,now she is trying to come off as a hockey mom and she looked like a fish out of water at the convention,and to use straight talking George’s style she has a sour puss face and a BIG ass.
What don’t you like about Hillary,Chelsea and Palin they are educated and done alot for all people.
Why are the backtrackers so worried about Mccain’s pick,because a lot of Hillary’s voters are backing Mccain in droves especially in ohio and pa.
George you are stealing my shtick. Believe me it works, but doesn’t last very long. People get tired of ranting hostile, angry Irishmen. Look where it got me…. I do miss those in your face moments, pushing my “guests” to their breaking point. Man now that was fine TV. Phil Donahue didn’t have anything over me. I was the king of degradation and humiliation. Good stuff….
Now all we have is Maury Povitch and Jerry Springer. I don’t even have to tell you what I think of those two shmoos. At least my guests had an IQ higher than the speed limit.
JR, the ONLY thing that Palin and Hillary have in common is they are both ‘hunters’. Difference is that Palin went more than once and apparently would shoot her husband if he cheated. Five kids, not the token princess.
I’ve got a slight twist on Aesop’s fable above:
Sarah Palin: Johnny Python in Search of Holy Grail.
Ed I’m gladMcCain had the courage to pick a woman,just maybe before I die I’ll see a woman as VP or President,
Give Palin a chance everyone was quick to jump on the other inexperienced one bandwagon lets see how Sarah does.
I thought she gave a great speech and I thought she was very graceious to Geraldine and Hillary,even the crowd applauded.
Morton, I thank you for the sage advice, may you rest in peace!
JR, that sour puss on Michelle, or chelle chelle as you like to call her, is real and will wear thin with the American people. I think Obmama had a much different and much more positive experience in the white world than she has had. There is definately a chip there, and maybe for good reason, but it’s clear she has a racial ax to grind and it shows, but she keeps it just under the surface. Her face and body language has been tellling us lot. She must be going nuts with that brood of five children that Palin has, the quientessential American family, that the majority of middle Americans will relate to on the campaign trail.
Michelle is breaking new ground. It’s a tough road for sure, and was not helpful to have Amorosa from Doanld Trump show at the convention, as she brings out some of the worst stereotypes of the entitled bitchy black female queen.
It will be interesting to see how Americans react to a paper she wrote while at Princeton. Young people write all kinds of crazy things, but this paper might scare a lot of main stream people, and there’s no doubt it will get circulated soon. I have not read it but am curious to know if it is as inflamatory as some say- we’ll see soon enough. It could make Reverand Racist rants look tame.
McCain, Age 71 — We can’t let someone who only has twelve years of experience in state and federal government be president because he’s dangerously underqualified.
McCain, Age 72 — Please greet my VP running mate, Mrs. Sarah Palin, who has two years of state government experience from a state with a tiny budget, no real urban area or substantial public educational system or healthcare system, and where most of the state shuts down from November until February. But she did almost win Miss Alaska, and, because she chose to have a child at an advanced age and decided it was fair to that child to the exponentially higher risk that it would have Down’s Syndrome by carrying it at that advanced age (except she doesn’t believe in science that demonstrates that because she’s a creationist — let’s get out the evangelical vote!), because she would still love it by spending all her time away from it making backroom deals even if Sweet Baby Jeebus wanted it to have Down’s Syndrome, so let’s put her a HEARTBEAT AWAY FROM THE PRESIDENCY!!!!!!!
As Kinky Friedman says, McCain needs a checkup from the neck up.
Post #98 Pock Suppet, was written by Mr Leo Bloom.
So Bill Clinton calls me this morning and says hey Kerry three words: Sarah-Jill-Barcelona! And I was like what? And he said it again. At this point I’m clueless. He says “woody alan you moron; Vicky, Christina, Barcelona is his new movie.” Then he says, I’m going to do Sarah and Jill before the election in a three way, just like in the movie. This guy is out of control, but I bet he’s going to get it done, just like he did in the white house.
John, that was my best laugh today. Keep up the guessing.
I’ll hazard one. Jack Russell = Yankee Air Pirate.
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JK I got to get back to the pits but you are right about Pock Suppet being Leo. Also you are right about sleezeball Clinton.
Tires are changed. Got to go.
Yo Pock-No on the JR=Yankee Air Pirate.Rather divergent views,not sure I could play two prolific sides.
Kinky also said ” if you’re paranoid long enough,sooner or later you’ll be right”.I think that fits.
I’m not the most observant person, but Yankee Air Pirate and Jack Russell and Pat all type exactly the same.
But whatever. I am usually just a lurker here and can imitate any one of you too because each of you is pretty much a type.
What a difference a birthday makes for McCain though. He got a year older and he lost his mind.
George i agree there is more coming out about chelle-chelle and obama-the rev wracist has a book coming out in october that will blow the weave right off chelle’s head.
she does not go over well in middle america states she cannot hide that deep hatred she has for the american way.
She is one of his biggest liabilities,besides his own lack of experience and 20 years with rev wracist,the book is coming soon.
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and can somebody tell me why barry keeps trying to kiss biden’s wife on the lips is that part of the deal for biden who was knocked out of the primaries after the first 2 weeks,i quess he isn’t ready to be president either,even ron paul and dennis kacininch lasted longer then him.
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leo the sock puppet i would say put on your shoes but i am sure the shoe laces are missing:)check the front desk:)
“She’s not prepared to be governor. How can she be prepared to be vice president or president?” said Lyda Green, the president of the State Senate, a Republican from Palin’s hometown of Wasilla. “Look at what she’s done to this state. What would she do to the nation?”
Where do your children’s names come from?
TODD PALIN: Sarah’s parents were coaches and the whole family was involved in track and I was an athlete in high school, so with our first-born, I was, like, ‘Track!’ Bristol is named after Bristol Bay. That’s where I grew up, that’s where we commercial fish. Willow is a community there in Alaska. And then Piper, you know, there’s just not too many Pipers out there and it’s a cool name. And Trig is a Norse name for “strength.”
Sen. McCain, as you leave on a road trip to Pennsylvania, what do you think about having all those kids on your bus?
JOHN: (Laughs)
SARAH: It’s like, ‘Hold onto your hats!’
Mrs. McCain, do you even remember the last time he changed a diaper?
CINDY: No. And I’m not sure he does.
JOHN: Heh-heh. I remember. There’s some experiences you never forget. I had Consuela do it, my friends. I never touched the filthy things. Heh-heh.
Vrooom
Fluffy where is Jody and Mr French?
Larry Kane has been calling me for an interview, Larry I’m back in Boston now. We get CN8 up here and I watched your report, not bad, but you should have one of those woman powder you up with some TV make up, you looked a little too real. Ask that pervert Larry Mendte how he made his face look so smooth and fake, he can help you and has nothing else to do. Imagagine how Dawn “get this “Stensland is treating him these days, I’ll have to tell him about my two finger trick, if he thinks about Alycia LAne while doing it, it could work great! The CN8 program looks like a PBS show from the 1980s. Where do they find those overweight inarticulate woman with such bad hair? I felt like I was watching a high school news production. That fact that I even watch the CN8 show is crazy, who’s more washed up, me or Al Gore? Be honest, John Kerry can take it- and when John Kerry says take it, he means “take it!”
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JK as sad as this is you are more washed up than Al Gore. He got a new lease on life and 15 minutes of fame because of global warming. You got nothing. You are a whiny old cow with leather skin and a bad haircut.
Tank topped off. Got to go.
Vrooom
Pock Sucket you are a lame dude similar to Leo. In fact you probably are Leo. And you are the one that always complains about sock puppets and right wing articles. Time to come out of the closet.
Lugnuts tight. Got to go.
I am in such a foul mood today after reading our illustrious grand newspaper the Inquirer that I’ve decided to cut short my discounted 8 week trial at half price. If Palin were Mother Mary the Inquirer with all of their left wing commie do gooders would find a way to besmirch her for giving birth to Jesus Christ, which they probably do around Easter. The Lovobama fest is making me sick. I hate Obama, I hate the Inquirer,
Sacre bleu,,what is the meaning of this,this sock puppet ? The French have no translation for this.And this John Kerry,he responds here too,no ? And the famous Jeff Gordon,he is a chauffeur , no ? Ah,your Mr.Kane must be famous,or these famous people would not be on this board.
PS: I’m also beginning to hate sock puppets…..
Ed-I heard that.Coming from Chris Satullo,it’s easy to believe.He’s the one that thought we shouldn’t observe the 4th of July this year,said we didn’t deserve it.
YAP, I Thought with Palin on the Rep ticket, the Phila. paper might commend them for this bold move. But noooooooo
they go right into attack mode. It is one horrendous agenda that they promote.
Forget the level playing field. It’s all Obama all the time.
Can anyone explain Obamanomics to me? He’s going to give middle class a tax break. He’s going to raise taxes on the rich and business. Who does he think is going to pay the higher prices when businesses offset paying higher taxes? The rich?
How is he going to pay for universal healthcare?
How is he going to fund alternative energy development?
I did not see the Inquirer or anyone at the convention explain any of that.
Can anyone here?
Exxon Mobil pays as much federal tax as the bottom 50% of American taxpayers.
I enjoy telling liberal environmental wing nuts how much Exxon Mobil makes per second in profit; it’s $1400 per second. They usually begin to hyperventilate at how outrageous this is, then I ask how much in taxes Exxon pays, believe it or not some say none. The fact is they pay $4000 per second in taxes. So not only do they provide us with a necessary product that allows us comfort (heating oil)and convenience of travel (gasoline), but they finance a huge portion of the federal and state government.
Supply side economics was proven to work under Reagan, it’s dismmised as tricle down economics by Obama, but I can tell you with certainty higher taxes, especially capital gains taxes, will result in less tax revenue rather than more.
Obama is interested in more of a socialist system and belivees people should pursue the American dream , up to a point, but it is some how vulgar and un-American to become wealthy. He thinks the government should pay for everyone’s education rather than have students and families save up and pay for it themselves. Where will these newly educated kids work if we tax away and overly regulate all the corportations that provide all of the good paying jobs?
Maybe they’ll find work on the south side of Chicago where Obama’s communinity organizing sparked an economic miracle- or did it?
John Kerry, sounds like you’re really a conservative deep down, but what you’re saying sure makes a lot of sense! I think Barney Frank drove some sense
(among other things) into you out in Dever.
This just in. The Democrats are now claiming that God is on their side due to hurricane Gustav interfering with the Republican convention. Let me make this perfectly clear, oBUMa and his people can take their hope and change and yes we can rhetoric and shove it. It is not
that I am a dyed in the wool McCain supporter. I support America…..
It’s interesting that Democrats believe God would intervene, isn’t it Republicans that cling to their guns and religion? They better be careful attributing God to the hurricane since it may kill a lot of them, will that be Gods fault or Bushs’? Last time all of those Obama supporters were too stupid to get out of town when Katrina hit. Perhaps the Republican govenor will get them to safety in this storm. The Democrat govenor didnt seem to do that three years ago, or was it the mayor, or both? Oh right George Bush was supposed to get them to safety. Of course the Democrat mayor and govenor of a state are not responsible for the safety of the people who elected them, they need the Federal govenment to hold their hands and figure these complicated matters out.
George I’m sure the whole God is damming the Republicans and their convention is just tongue in cheek, yet I can’t help but think that they sorta hope that it is true. It makes me believe that some Democrats actually believe in a power higher than oBUMa and his henchmen.
Pat Robertson claims that the hurricane has been sent by God to punish Louisiana for electing a minority governor.
I’m flattered that you all would think that I came up with “Pock Suppet,” but you should know my stand on sock puppets by now. I’m still waiting for the unmasking. I was away camping. So I’m amused.
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