The Post-2008 election schadenfreude thread

Thinking back to this one as inspiration:

The Post-2006 election schadenfreude thread

Best candidate for the equivalent of santorum.jpg to begin...NOW.

doleulost.jpg?

As I said last time:

The youtube clips of weepy concession speeches and of flacks looking depressed, the hysterical outbursts from your off-the-deep-end blogger of choice, the explosions of ugliness in the comment boxes, the whining, the flailing.

This is not a thread to talk about someone putting up a good campaign and being gracious in defeat, and if you think someone's done just that, spare them their blushes and don't link them. This thread is about the tools who have irritated you greatly and now have nothing to show for it but their own craptasticness.

michellemalkin.com

From the fr33p thread:

He's not my president. And no I don't respect the office either. So there. If he wins, I'll concede that it's God judgment on America for the sin of abortion.

I don’t believe they’re just letting all this fraud go and a socialist without a birth certificate into our white house. Thank the Lord my elders aren’t alive to see this.

haha and fuck you

http://s38.photobucket.com/albums/e143/debwar_bucket/?action=view¤t=liberty_crying-1.jpg

Saw this (presumably un-ironically) on fr33p or somesuch. The odd thing about these people is the absolutely sincere disbelief that the media didn't run with their batshit talking points. 'why didn't the MSM call Nobama on being a Marxist' argh etc.

McCain? FUCK HIM.

ok guys... Palin speech soon, right? That alone can fill 200 posts on this thread.

Oh believe me, I want to see her whole family cry.

Even the baby.

GO AMERICA!

ilu ned

FUCK ED THE DAIRYMAN, FUCK JOE THE PLUMER, FUCK JOHN THE HUNTER, FUCK CINDY THE CITIZEN

FUCK JOE THE PLUMBER TOO

Every cryingeagle.gif posted tonight is an extra victory for us.

facebook = goldmine

Nick welcomes everyone to the United Socialist States of America. one compulsary nation, under the lord savior barack hussein obama, with liberty & justice for none!

Oh man, facebook is just painful. "Good job douchebags" and "will tip 10% now to make up for my higher taxes" are the highlights of the moment.

FUCK YOU AND YOUR REAL AMERICA! REAL AMERICA VOTED OBAMA!

McCain Palin shirts discounted in Bellevue, WA

http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/politicsnorthwest/2008/11/04/in_bellevue_a_sale_on_mccainpa.html

discounted as in on sale, not discounted for trying to vote lol

can't help but notice that Alaska hasn't voted yet and it doesn't mean jackshit

Begich/Stevens one to watch for. But I assume Begich'll win.

I feel like we owe a lot to Steve Schmidt and Bill Kristol for such a gracious assist.

More sadness at Republican HQ in Bellevue, WA

http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/exile_on_bellevue_way

The line at the end toward Dan Savage, editor, is lolworthy

(ok, Dan Savage is not the NEWS editor nor main editor anymore. my bad.)

Know what? Tucker Bounds is unemployed!!!

Not for long people like that bob back up like the unflushable turds they are.

http://i34.tinypic.com/wlx5om.png

Know what? Tucker Bounds is unemployed!!!

I was thinking about that last night. With glee.

My husband saw this coming a couple of years ago, and has been stocking up on guns and ammo. He’s taking me target shooting today.

there was definitely rioting in bed stuy last night, if by rioting you mean the churchgoing grandmother who lives in the next apartment shouting "OBAMA" over and over again at 11 pm rioting

Derb speaks http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZjBhMWEyZmZhYTYwZTNlMjIyM2E1NmQwOWUzODBlZTc=. Or rather, complains loudly in the wilderness.

(damn bbcode).

this is still my favorite cheney pic

http://www.vicepresidents.com/files/u41/cheney-parka.jpg

you want palinfreude? You got your palinfreude.

http://slog.thestranger.com/files/2008/11/sarah-palin-b_3.jpg

We want more palinfreude than that.

The crying eagle for a new generation of fucktards.

where's my buddy todd? we need some todd on this thread

All right, I'm sour. The most liberal member of the U.S. Senate! And that shakedown-artist of a wife, with the permanent frown! And Joe Biden! …

haha. "AND JOE BIDEN!"

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/fakeplasticlove/obama/jobama4.png

So much tasty Schadenfreude here: http://www.newsweek.com/id/167581

NEWSWEEK has also learned that Palin's shopping spree at high-end department stores was more extensive than previously reported. While publicly supporting Palin, McCain's top advisers privately fumed at what they regarded as her outrageous profligacy. One senior aide said that Nicolle Wallace had told Palin to buy three suits for the convention and hire a stylist. But instead, the vice presidential nominee began buying for herself and her family—clothes and accessories from top stores such as Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. According to two knowledgeable sources, a vast majority of the clothes were bought by a wealthy donor, who was shocked when he got the bill. Palin also used low-level staffers to buy some of the clothes on their credit cards. The McCain campaign found out last week when the aides sought reimbursement. One aide estimated that she spent "tens of thousands" more than the reported $150,000, and that $20,000 to $40,000 went to buy clothes for her husband. Some articles of clothing have apparently been lost. An angry aide characterized the shopping spree as "Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast," and said the truth will eventually come out when the Republican Party audits its books.

A Palin aide said: "Governor Palin was not directing staffers to put anything on their personal credit cards, and anything that staffers put on their credit cards has been reimbursed, like an expense. Nasty and false accusations following a defeat say more about the person who made them than they do about Governor Palin."

McCain himself rarely spoke to Palin during the campaign, and aides kept him in the dark about the details of her spending on clothes because they were sure he would be offended. Palin asked to speak along with McCain at his Arizona concession speech Tuesday night, but campaign strategist Steve Schmidt vetoed the request.

Is there any site online where we can check US-to-Ireland emigration stats for the next 3-6 months? I want to see if all the blustery conservative reactionaries actually make good on their promises.

i can save you time and tell you now that none of them will

But those who will will sing this song.

metametadata OTM.

I mean how many even well off conservatives who aren't already politicians actually got passports?

all of them

Apologies in advance for the stereotypes, but the only people I met in my life in the U.S. who proudly admitted to never wanting to travel outside the U.S. are the suburban never-leave-home types and the ones you've seen at the Palin rallies. These are the ones who cried IRELAND the past two months.

Nelson laugh

Nelson laugh

OK, i forgot about the Orange County CEOs who travel to Montego Bay once a year. Que's right.

.Nelson laugh

nelson.laf

'I wonder if the American people realized yesterday that they could very well be voting to become France.'

Meanwhile, if this guy was GOP, then one has fled already:

A former Goldman Sachs analyst accused of running a $6.7 million insider-trading ring — an international network that included a Merrill Lynch research analyst, an exotic dancer and a Croatian underwear seamstress — has gone missing and may have fled the United States, a lawyer for the Securities and Exchange Commisssion said late Monday.

http://candid.livejournal.com/768797.html

Why'd that guy leave? Bush will just pardon him on 1/19.

'I wonder if the American people realized yesterday that they could very well be voting to become France.'

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, November 5, 2008 4:58 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

so does this include the food?

ESCARGOT!!!

MY CAR GO

16http://www.saveiowa.org/images/obama-logo-small.gif

XD thakig uuuuuuuuu

And that shakedown-artist of a wife, with the permanent frown

wtf is this

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=13200515790

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I'm doing my rounds and walk up to an 86 yr old lady raking leaves in her yard up in NH yesterday. I ask her if she voted, etc. She leans into her rake, "I usually go with the Republicans". She fixes her eye on me, "But this man....he is an honest man, you know?". Then she looks down at the leaves again, "And that other guy is too old!....And who does he pick? A jackass!".

She seemed to enjoy pronouncing that last verdict.

pith^

http://townhall.com/blog

She leans into her rake, "I usually go with the Republicans". She fixes her eye on me, "But this man....he is an honest man, you know?". Then she looks down at the leaves again, "And that other guy is too old!....And who does he pick? A jackass!"

Whoever took the entire American electorate and wrapped it up into one human being and deposited that human being in a yard in New Hampshire, thanks.

Obviously there was some studying up she needed to do, but OMG: Palin didn't know that Africa was a continent, and more juicy tidbits from Fox News via Huffpo

*is

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31824_Should_the_GOP_Double_Down_on_Social_Conservatism/comments/#ctop
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31828_McCain_Staffers_Savaging_Sarah_Palin/comments/#ctop

the enemy is happy!!! http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31821_Muslim_Brotherhood_Smiling
the enemy is not happy!!! http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31823_Arab_Reactions_to_Obamas_Election

OMG

Palin Once Greeted McCain Staff Wearing Only A Towel

lol "staff"

It is loltastic how many bitter Repubs refuse to concede that the jig is up. If it were me, I would have been offended to have had my intelligence insulted by the Palin gimmick in the first place. But these people are going down in flames defending her (just read some of those FGF comments). Esp. O'Reilly w/ "she could be tutored" reaction to Palin not knowing second-grade basics about global geography, not to mention the ABCs of contemporary world politics.

Flip-flop on Palin even as she kills them? These are people for whom changing yr position in the light of new information is practically baby-killing.

lol "tutored," like she's the 10-year-old heir to the throne instead of a fucking VP nominee

she did seem very receptive to new information in that conversation with sarkozy

Goons are busily harvesting and stocking freeper lolz for the long winter months ahead:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3002188

Should I feel bad for the pedagogical smackdown I delivered to a couple of McCain-voting "he's gonna spread the wealth around and I work hard and lazy people don't deserve to get my money" 19 year old girls at work today?

also i exclusively with 19 year old girls how the fuck did this happen

*WORK

i WORK exclusively with 19 year old girls

you should not hit a woman hoos

Help I exclusively with 19 year old girls! Is this a problem?

are these a couple of those myspace 19 yr olds whose income is "over $250,000"? because then i can understand.

That last littlegreenfootballs post links to a news summary that has some pretty radical islamic quotes, but also bits like this:

Al-Hayat Columnist/Al-Arabiya Deputy Director: "The Faces [in the White House] Change in a Way That We Find Impressive"

Daoud Al-Shiryan, columnist for the Saudi daily Al-Hayat and deputy director of Al-Arabiya TV, praised American democracy, comparing it to the nondemocratic processes in the Arab world: "The U.S. elections afford a kind of change that does not occur in the Arab 'democracies'... The faces [in the White House] change in a way that we find impressive.

I've got to wonder if they even read their links before posting?

http://o.bamapost.com/
http://www.barackobamaantichrist.blogspot.com/
http://wnd.com/

http://forums.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=219

If someone would have told me on September 11, 2001, that our next president would be named Barack Hussein Obama, I would have assumed we had lost a war to Islamists.

otm?

"Obama nation" Clever..veeeery clever.

whoa wnd ftw

saw a book at mckays last night called "why obama cant win"

lol

dustshouldersoff.gif

ABC dishing the dirt

Fox News reports that Palin didn't know Africa was a continent and did not know the member nations of the North American Free Trade Agreement -- the United States, Mexico and Canada -- when she was picked for vice president.

The New York Times reports that McCain aides were outraged when Palin staffers scheduled her to speak with French President Nicholas Sarkozy, a conversation that turned out to be a radio station prank.

Newsweek reports that Palin spent far more than the previously reported $150,000 on clothes for herself and her family.

Several publications say she irked the McCain campaign by asking to make her own concession speech on election night.

The tension is likely to continue or get worse. Lawyers for the Republican National Committee are heading to Alaska to try to account for all the money that was spent on clothing, jewelry and luggage, according to The New York Times.

Lawyers for the Republican National Committee are heading to Alaska to try to account for all the money that was spent on clothing, jewelry and luggage, according to The New York Times.
Lawyers for the Republican National Committee are heading to Alaska to try to account for all the money that was spent on clothing, jewelry and luggage, according to The New York Times.
Lawyers for the Republican National Committee are heading to Alaska to try to account for all the money that was spent on clothing, jewelry and luggage, according to The New York Times.
Lawyers for the Republican National Committee are heading to Alaska to try to account for all the money that was spent on clothing, jewelry and luggage, according to The New York Times.
Lawyers for the Republican National Committee are heading to Alaska to try to account for all the money that was spent on clothing, jewelry and luggage, according to The New York Times.
Lawyers for the Republican National Committee are heading to Alaska to try to account for all the money that was spent on clothing, jewelry and luggage, according to The New York Times.
Lawyers for the Republican National Committee are heading to Alaska to try to account for all the money that was spent on clothing, jewelry and luggage, according to The New York Times.
Lawyers for the Republican National Committee are heading to Alaska to try to account for all the money that was spent on clothing, jewelry and luggage, according to The New York Times.
Lawyers for the Republican National Committee are heading to Alaska to try to account for all the money that was spent on clothing, jewelry and luggage, according to The New York Times.
Lawyers for the Republican National Committee are heading to Alaska to try to account for all the money that was spent on clothing, jewelry and luggage, according to The New York Times.

THIS IS LIKE AN EARLY CHRISTMAS

!!!!!!!

IT just keeps giving....

Those lawyers better watch out, RedState will mark them with LEPROSY

You know, I'm almost willing to believe that Palin is dense enough to think that when the campaign handed her a credit card that she genuinely thought she had carte blanche to buy whatever she wanted.

IE, just like a dumb young band/pop star/whatever signed to a major label who has no idea what 'advances' actually are.

Behind the Music: Sarah Palin

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/11/attacks_heighten_on_sarah_pali.html

As also reported by Newsweek yesterday, the whole mess surrounding Palin's $150,000 wardrobe was more her fault than the RNC's. She was told by McCain aide Nicolle Wallace to buy four to six new suits and spend about $20,000. Campaign staff was shocked to receive the astronomical bills, and are considering an audit of Palin's home closets now.

please please please please audit the closets.

lololololololololololol DANCING WITH GLEE HERE

Trapped in Sarah Palin's Closet!

I love the idea of a closet audit

charged to mccain campaign am-ex:

case of newports
some puma sweats

Perhaps she'll "launder" some of the assets. Ha...ha.

i love this thread

i want websites, tell-alls, RSS feeds, newspaper articles, radio interviews, youtube clips. . . i want to know everything that happened to this crazy hillbilly in the campaign

Oh hey, Malkin has created a petition site to show your support:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/thank-you-sarah-palin

I am tempted, actually.

"Thank you. No, really."

As far as costing McCain a vote, let me just say if it wasn't for you on the ticket I probably wouldn't have voted at all. And I like to vote!

Demographics funnies:

The biggest region where McCain improved on Bush's numbers was the spine of Appalachia, running from Tennessee up to southwestern Pennsylvania, where he managed to flip some depressed steel counties. But these gains were in places that are, in many cases, losing population -- the electorate's share of white voters without a college education dropped by four percentage points this year, compared with 2004.

And McCain's gains were more than outweighed by his losses in growing metropolitan areas, suggesting that the story of the 2008 election was the Republicans' demographic weaknesses, not Obama's. In Pennsylvania, the southwestern counties of Washington, Fayette and Beaver gave McCain a net increase of 10,000 votes over Bush's 2004 performance, but he lost the Philadelphia suburb of Montgomery County by 41,000 more votes than Bush.

In Virginia, McCain slightly improved on Bush's performance in the rural southwest, but Prince William County alone gave Obama a 28,000 net gain over 2004.

"McCain did slightly better in southwest Virginia, but so what? You win Prince William and Loudoun, and you win Virginia," said Robert Lang, a demographer at Virginia Tech's Metropolitan Institute in Alexandria. "The Obama campaign clearly understands where the battleground of this election was. Do [the Republicans] have the basic math skills to sit with an Excel spreadsheet and figure out where the growth is, or are they out of their minds?"

You could replace McCain's name with Kerry and Obama's with Bush and set the clock back four years (and fudge a place name or two) and I bet that we wouldn't find it so funny.

he lost the Philadelphia suburb of Montgomery County by 41,000 more votes than Bush.

that's where i was working on election day. we had record (75%) turnout in a red community trending blue as it got younger and more diverse, having just elected its first dem mayor in ages.

Alaska Airlines will be making bank off Sarah Palin/RNC fites.

The goofy moose logo when making a reservation has a whole new meaning now.

i can't wait until Palin's clothes go to charity.

Can I admit here that most my private mental gloating is directed at people who argued endlessly with me that Obama was flatly unelectable compared to Clinton?

all shapes & sizes of schadenfreude are welcome here

do you mean mental as in GOING mental? because you should be verballing shaming these people on national tv.

We're long overdue for Channel Nab1sco anyway.

ooh new thread idea.

"Can I admit here that most my private mental gloating is directed at people who argued endlessly with me that Obama was flatly unelectable compared to Clinton?"

Strangely I didn't have that argument with anyone. Almost everyone I talked to seem to think (rightly IMO) that Clinton had the more serious baggage.

PARTY OVER, PARTY PARTY MAN

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2008/11/05/2008355155.jpg

Thank you, Sarah! Your presence on the Republican ticket convinced a bunch of my undecided friends that McCain was too crazy to be President! Please, continue what you're doing; it's fascinating and entertaining to watch!

^_^

Palin didn't know Africa was a continent

speechless here.

and it begs the question: does she know what a continent is?

Eh, there's no reason to get divisive about it, especially since I was never really arguing too hard in the other direction -- I didn't see any massive electability gap between them, except that Obama's campaign organization seemed to function a whole lot better. I think a lot of the people who argued that point (excluding those who were just sour-grapesing as Hillary slipped) were younger people from Democratic areas and households who didn't have a firm memory or experience of how the Clintons were perceived by a lot of the country. (I also suspect some of them were thinking in a very careful short-term way, and not considering the really long-term impact that's going to come from a whole lot of younger voters being insanely energized by this election; the fact of having a huge numbers of young people really passionate and committed about a young Democrat is going to bear fruit for years, especially if Obama can keep shaping the party in a way that courts that.)

xpost - yeah, Alex, a lot of people under the age of, say, 25 don't have incredibly firm personal memories of the Clinton baggage! Unless their immediate families spent the Bush years still bitching about Clinton, it'd never have made a huge impression on them.

I sort of experienced the same thing but with John Edwards instead of Clinton.

(btw yes I did post exactly that on the "Thank You, Sarah Palin!" petition and attached my name to it)

Hero.

i lol @ the memories of tracer hand on the primaries threads, tbh

the not knowing africa is a continent is so unbelievably amazing, that i might not actually believe it

^^^

It's not that the Africa story must be true -- it's that it's so easy to believe it IS true.

sarah palin doesn't exactly strike me as the sort of person who would know shit about the world beyond the u.s. of a. so i can all too readily believe it

I realized recently that most of my law school classmates have very little memory of the Clinton years! All they've known (in a genuine political awareness sense) is Bush!

bush was elected the fall of my sophomore year in college, so much of my politically engaged life has been dominated by his policies.

"and also, as someone from an energy-producing state, i'm very aware of the fact that, you see, "continents" is this kind of false myth we have about large masses of land that are made up of smaller teutonic chunks, and it's these small chunks that are the real land on which we live, the foundation of this blessed land we've been given"

Obama's chief of staff, Jim Messina, had slept only a few hours when his cell phone rang. It was still dark on the morning of Aug. 29. Messina and a few other staffers had gone to a bar to carouse after Obama's speech.

"Get your ass up," said the voice on the other end. "They picked Palin."

Messina could not mistake Plouffe's flat, no-nonsense voice, but he was still groggy. "F––– you," he said. "Why are you waking me up? Stop teasing me." "I'm serious," said Plouffe. "Get up and get your team together." Messina stumbled out of bed, thinking that Republicans must really be panicking, that they would never pick someone like Sarah Palin unless they were desperate.

Obama's plane was taking off from Denver airport around 9 a.m. when Axelrod got confirmation that McCain had indeed picked Palin as his running mate. He went to the front cabin to tell Obama and his new running mate, Joe Biden. Biden asked, "Who's Palin?"

hahahaha

LOL @ Dan. (I did, too)

"Thank you, Sarah, for all the guffaws. I voted Obama, but was you, yes YOU, who made this campaign the awesome ride through WTF-land it was. Please don't ever go away. I don't know what I would do on slow days at the office without you."

"and also, as someone from an energy-producing state, i'm very aware of the fact that, you see, "continents" is this kind of false myth we have about large masses of land that are made up of smaller teutonic chunks, and it's these small chunks that are the real land on which we live, the foundation of this blessed land we've been given"

applause

'teutonic' is a nice touch

Salter tried to strike up a conversation. He knew that Todd was half native Alaskan and a championship snow-machine racer.

"So what's the difference between a snowmobile and a snow machine, anyway?" Salter asked. "They're the same thing," Todd replied. "Right, so why not call it a snowmobile?" Salter joshed. "Because it's a snow machine," came the reply.

Later, Schmidt and Salter went outside so that Salter could have a cigarette. "So how about the Eskimo? Is he on the level?" Schmidt asked. Salter just shrugged and took another drag.

this can't be real

You could replace McCain's name with Kerry and Obama's with Bush and set the clock back four years (and fudge a place name or two) and I bet that we wouldn't find it so funny.

― Alex in SF, Thursday, November 6, 2008 7:55 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark

Well, yeah. That's the point, isn't it? nelsonlaff.gif?

god i am fucking loving this

http://www.geocities.com/seinfeld_soundbites/puddy_elaine.jpg

Because it's a snow machine

more from that ABC link I posted:

And when McCain and Palin split up in Arizona Wednesday, the personal differences were stark.

McCain drove himself home in a Toyota sport utility vehicle. Palin's departure was a grander event. She left with an entourage of 18 family members and friends and a Secret Service detail, heading to the airport in a motorcade stretching more than a dozen vehicles, flanked by a dozen more cops on motorcycles.

I already can't wait for 2012!

and it's over for Brit Hume; will retire

now THAT'S schadenfreude!

Palin's departure was a grander event. She left with an entourage of 18 family members and friends and a Secret Service detail

by every single report possible, the secret service left the mccain campaign at 6am that morning -- what time was palin's departure?

I never imagined it would be the RNC who is nailin' Palin.

Oh, btw guys, don't forget to go through Todd's closet, too.

Can I admit here that most my private mental gloating is directed at people who argued endlessly with me that Obama was flatly unelectable compared to Clinton?

― nabisco, Thursday, November 6, 2008 3:01 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

pre primaries arguing w/a young political consultant friend of a friend - he was all id love it if he did but theres no way obama can win hillarys the establishment candidate and shes got it locked up - lol in yr face pro doggie

to his credit he spent the last while working for obama in western penn - after getting his 20 something friend elected to the new york state senate

Oh, btw guys, don't forget to go through Todd's closet, too.

"So what's the difference between a snowmobile and a snow machine, anyway?" Salter asked. "They're the same thing," Todd replied. "Right, so why not call it a snowmobile?" Salter joshed. "Because it's a snow machine," came the reply.

And the plot thinnens.

"So what's the difference between a snowmobile and a snow machine, anyway?" Salter asked. "They're the same thing," Todd replied. "Right, so why not call it a snowmobile?" Salter joshed. "Because it's a snow machine," came the reply.

http://web.mit.edu/pearlin/www/images/eleven.jpg

hahahahaha

BEST ELECTION EVER

hahaha Brit Hume! G'bye fucker!

"So what's the difference between a snowmobile and a snow machine, anyway?" Salter asked. "They're the same thing," Todd replied. "Right, so why not call it a snowmobile?" Salter joshed. "Because it's a snow machine," came the reply.

I am completely with Todd Palin on this one, and you should be, too

Today on the "No Spin Zone", O'Reilly was gloating over the fact that Obama's "bomb-throwing associates" were nowhere to be seen.

Wait, what?

Oh please. They were nowhere to be seen because they are NOT IN ANY WAY A PART OF HIS LIFE.

orb just out throwing bombs etc

Alaska Airlines will be making bank off Sarah Palin/RNC fites.

The goofy moose logo when making a reservation has a whole new meaning now.

― HI, YOUR BAND! (Mackro Mackro), Thursday, November 6, 2008 2:57 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Apropos of nothing, this reminded me of the scene in Vacation in which Chevy Chase punches Mary the Moose in the face. I suppose some metaphorical significance could be imagined to justify its inclusion in this thread:

*Marty the Moose

I forgot that the Alaska Airlines Moose is named TED

)_)

Two McCain sources also say Palin did not know Africa was a continent and could not find it on a map. A third source, a Palin ally, says that was a miscommunication.

a miscommunication

i love this

"it's africa! just show us where it is!"

and could not find it on a map.

i'm imagining the backroom of mccain/palin headquarters being like the prep room in ronin with palin in the sean bean role

This is major end-of-Flowers-For-Algernon territory here.

The Weekly Standard is annoyed at you all for your craven thoughts.

Posted by Ham on November 6, 2008

Disgruntled McCain staffers not only require you to believe that the chief executive of the state of Alaska knew nothing about one of her state's most important trading partners, but that she was equally oblivious to the economic winds affecting the industry that provided her very own livelihood.

...Yeah this is not very difficult to believe, sorry Ham!

Salmon form from little particles of ice deep in those glaciers way up there

Mike Gallagher : Mourning In America
David Limbaugh : Conservatives, Don't Be Hypnotized
Oliver North : Protect and Defend
John Hawkins : Say "Enough's Enough" And Do Your Part To Stop Mitch McConnell
Ken Blackwell : Post-Racial Preference America
Burt Prelutsky : A Contrarian Comes Clean
Patrick J. Buchanan : An Unnecessary Defeat?
Jonah Goldberg : Progressivism's Achilles Heel
Suzanne Fields : The Triumph of Hope
David Harsanyi : Unity? No, Thank You
Charles Krauthammer : The GOP's Worthy Nominee
Michelle Malkin : The Cowardly Character Assassination of Sarah Palin
Linda Chavez : Testing the New President
Lorie Byrd : President Obama, the Military, and National Security
Michael Gerson : The Deceny of George W. Bush
Matt Towery : Post-mortem on John McCain's Candidacy
Kathleen Parker : Postscript
Mona Charen : Racial Psychodrama
Roger Schlesinger : Is There a Free Lunch?
Amanda Carpenter : Conservative Power Brokers Strategize
Michael Reagan : Why McCain Lost
Diana West : You Elected a Man, Not a Moral Judgment
Amanda Carpenter : GOP Criticizes Emanuel as Chief of Staff
Cal Thomas : Religious Right R.I.P.
Bob Burney : America's Problem: Our President or Our Pulpits?
Cliff May : The Change You'll Get
John McCaslin : In Closing
Janice Shaw Crouse : Which Barack Will Govern?

http://townhall.com/columnists/BenShapiro/2008/11/06/americans_embrace_childish_unity

David Harsanyi : Unity? No, Thank You

^^^my personal fave

I posted that before clicking on that last link. Oh, man alive.

Cal Thomas's piece is interesting in that I think he's the last founder/defender of the Moral Majority impulse still alive to finally come around to what most of the others eventually thought -- namely, the pursuit of political power was a fool's game.

Who says you can't have it all? The Democrats, the Left, now have the White House, control of both houses of Congress, a majority of governors' mansions, a majority of state legislatures, the entertainment media, the elite news media, the unions, the educational establishment, the lion's share of the philanthropic community and increasing power over the courts.

Get the message?

That was the Cliff May piece incidentally.

I am forced to ask of these kind of conservatives, as Orson Welles once did of the incompetents plaguing him, "What is it you want, in the depths of your ignorance? What is it you want?"

You think you can't get any more crazed than the town hall articles - then you read the comments...

also ned otm, Cal's is an interesting take, and I'll get behind it totally. Yes, please, go elsewhere.

listening to these guys complain is going to be funny and wah wah wah go cry about it for like one, maybe two more months. after that its just going to piss me off that they even exist

but hey, let's stay positive ~^_^~

The second paragraph of Cliff May's thing is even more interesting to me:

Will President-elect Barack H. Obama use this awesome power to strengthen America's defenses in a time of global conflict and repair America's economy in a period of financial distress?...

(I think he'll give it his best shot, yeah.)

...Or will his goal be to solidify the Left's grip for the long-term, for example by shutting down conservative talk radio and perhaps other pockets of media resistance, by growing the percentage of Americans dependent on government programs, and by using immigration policy and gerrymandering to create a permanent Democratic majority? Your guess is as good as mine."

What's the name for when you blame others for what you hate most about yourself? The word escapes me. Because you are clearly not describing anything but a steadfast Republican in that last bit there.

the last pockets of media resistance have been eliminated captain

but hey, let's stay positive ~^_^~

yeah, of course, but not on the schadenfreude thread.

the last pockets of media resistance have been eliminated captain

― ✧✦✵✶✴i feel magical✴✶✵✦✧ (ice crӕm), Friday, November 7, 2008 9:00 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

IS THAT MY MAN HANNITY???

I thought those of you absolutely loathe and despise my Dennis Perrin links should know he exulted in Obama winning Indiana:

He fucking took the Hoosier state. I'm a native son, and let me assure you that Indiana has countless outright racists -- open, proud, uncompromising. It was one of the reasons why I moved to New York, and have never moved back. God knows what those losers are thinking today. Their shabby, shitty worlds got rolled last night, and I'm certain that they don't know who to trust anymore. Did one of their neighbors, or worse, relatives, vote for that Marxist Muslim Supremacist? Somebody near them sure as fuck did. But who? Oh man, picturing those assholes chasing their tails makes me smile....

Also, he links to his wife's blog -- she voted for Obama; "It's nice that our kids have her as a counterbalance to me. I can't imagine being raised under my lunacy."

http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/2008/11/brief-bit-of-oxygen.html

From Anne C0ult3r's piece entitled "The Reign of Lame Falls Mainly on McCain" [I'm hoping the Republicans start eating each other]

"How many times do we have to run this experiment before Republican primary voters learn that "moderate," "independent," "maverick" Republicans never win, and right-wing Republicans never lose?

Indeed, the only good thing about McCain is that he gave us a genuine conservative, Sarah Palin. He's like one of those insects that lives just long enough to reproduce so that the species can survive. That's why a lot of us are referring to Sarah as "The One" these days.

Like Sarah Connor in "The Terminator," Sarah Palin is destined to give birth to a new movement. That's why the Democrats are trying to kill her. And Arnold Schwarzenegger is involved somehow, too. Good Lord, I'm tired.

After showing nearly superhuman restraint throughout this campaign, which was lost the night McCain won the California primary, I am now liberated to announce that all I care about is hunting down and punishing every Republican who voted for McCain in the primaries. I have a list and am prepared to produce the names of every person who told me he was voting for McCain to the proper authorities."

hahahaha we broke Ann, awesome

Also: Michelle Malkin : The Cowardly Character Assassination of Sarah Palin

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I'll stop posting this stuff eventually. Really.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/reliable-source/

On top of the $150,000 first outlined in Federal Election Commission filings, Palin spent "tens of thousands of dollars" on additional clothing, makeup and jewelry for herself and her family, including $40,000 in luxury goods for her husband, Todd, our colleague Michael Shear reports. The campaign was charged for silk boxer shorts, spray tanners and 13 suitcases to carry all the designer clothes, according to two GOP insiders.

Ain't no tan like a spray tan.

OMG

my username feels apt right now

silk boxer shorts for the Eskimo

he's on the level

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/movielady/library/USAmccarthy3.jpg
I have a list and am prepared to produce the names of every person who told me he was voting for McCain to the proper authorities.

Studs Terkel apparently called Palin "McCarthy in a dress"; didn't live to add Imelda Marcos.

Morbs:

I like that post, not because it is a standpoint I agree with (it is), but because it's the first positive Perrin post I've seen. EVER.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=13200515790

Impeach Barack Obama
Global
Basic Info
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Description:
Get on board if you want to be ready to impeach Barack Obama.

― obama cyber leader (kingfish), Wednesday, November 5, 2008 10:16 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Post #5
Bennett Sidney Hartz III (Minnesota) wrote10 hours ago
oh god my income... its being... distributed... noooo

Post #6
Bennett Sidney Hartz III (Minnesota) wrote10 hours ago
hang on, where did my income go... aw man, that dudes got it. wait whos income is this that i have... wtf this makes no sense, stop distributing peoples income

Post #7
Bennett Sidney Hartz III (Minnesota) wrote10 hours ago
alright you give your income to him, and you- right there, stop working. here, take this income. on the house. -barack obama's aaceptance speech

Bennett Sidney Hartz III I love you.

you- right there, stop working

lolz!

yeah this dude is a pretty good troll

Post #39
1 reply
Bennett Sidney Hartz III (Minnesota) wrote10 hours ago
conair what kind of roads do you use

Post #40
Bennett Sidney Hartz III (Minnesota) wrote10 hours ago
do your parents make private roads for you to drive to school

Post #42
Conair Grehan (Conant High School) replied to Bennett's post10 hours ago
what do you mean ..... i do not understand the question

Post #43
Bennett Sidney Hartz III (Minnesota) wrote10 hours ago
how much does your private police force cost. i just ask because my bodyguard is getting restless... i had to cut his wages after my entire income got redistributed.

lol bennett sidney hartz III

you- right there, stop working. don't do it that way.

lollllllllllllllllll

more like bennett hussein hartz III

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=13200515790#/group.php?gid=31540703483

Another facebook Impeach Obama group - SPLITTERRSSSS!!!!

it's the first positive Perrin post I've seen. EVER.

Perrin's father is a stockbroker (I think you can do some Freudian math right there), and he quoted him recently as saying "haha, son, why don't you just cut your wrists and get it over with?"

Don't fear, he's back to pointing out that Rahm E has the terrorist connex in the new Administration.

That's why a lot of us are referring to Sarah as "The One" these days.

http://i34.tinypic.com/nofz0l.jpg

Perrin's father is a stockbroker (I think you can do some Freudian math right there), and he quoted him recently as saying "haha, son, why don't you just cut your wrists and get it over with?"

Well that's just unpleasant.

still can't tell whether or not this is parody

Crystal Marie Green (Atlanta, GA) wrote
at 4:46am
Alright..I heard when he's sworn in, he'll take the oath on the KORAN while wearing a turban and robe and he will be speaking swahili.

Can anyone debunk this statement?

Matt Dydek (U. Houston) wrote
at 15:06
A report came out that Obama finally produced his authentic birth certificate, so I'm sorry to say that I am now leaving this group. Otherwise I'll be no better than those 911 truth'er crackpots.
Report

Chase Colasurdo (Lake Washington High School) wrote
at 1:38am
the constitution is not a "living document" maybe it is to commies, but it sure was not to the founding fathers.

hahaha wait

Oracle: You're cuter than I thought. I can see why they like you.

Palin: Who?

Oracle: Not too bright, though.

haddock = sarkozy + beard amirite?

"How many times do we have to run this experiment before Republican primary voters learn that "moderate," "independent," "maverick" Republicans never win, and right-wing Republicans never lose?

santorum.jpg

Beard = carla bruni?

http://blogs.suntimes.com/scanners/p2012-thumb-400x245.jpg

excuse me, when did minivans become the object of librul scorn as to require the Real Americans to hold them aloft as proof of their real-ness?

Middle-aged black doo-wop group member on the Subway (according to my wife):

"Ladies and gentlemen, we are taking monetary donations, and we are also collecting McCain buttons to make tap shoes for poor children so they can learn the Riverdance."

Okay so that's the greatest thing I've read in a while.

Wow, Coulter is truly living up to her parody on the Boondocks Season 2

Palin refused to talk to donors because she found it corrupting, and they were furious when they heard rumors that Todd Palin was calling around to Alaska bigwigs telling them to hold their powder until 2012. The day of the third debate, Palin refused to go onstage with New Hampshire GOP Sen. John Sununu and Jeb Bradley, a New Hampshire congressman running for the Senate, because they were pro-choice and because Bradley opposed drilling in Alaska. The McCain campaign ordered her onstage at the next campaign stop, but she refused to acknowledge the two Republican candidates standing behind her.

Newsweek

OK, Palin-on-the-trail film adaptation plz (get someone better than Fey, too)

McCain's 24-year-old daughter Meghan, was increasingly, and sometimes profanely, complaining that her father was being poorly served by his advisers. The atmosphere on the bus was becoming so poisonous that one midlevel staffer e-mailed another to say, "Kill me."

A very Sartrean version of hell, to have Meghan McCain constantly swearing in your ear on a bus ride to nowhere.

Beautiful:

At the very end, the Reverend Wright did make an appearance. An independent expenditure group called the National Republican Trust PAC ran an ad on "Saturday Night Live's" prime-time election special. The ad attacking Obama's former pastor was slick, with much better production values than the crude Reverend Wright videos running on the Internet. But it was too little, too late. When a NEWSWEEK reporter e-mailed a top Obama adviser for reaction, a reply came back reading simply: ZZZZZ.

A very Sartrean version of hell, to have Meghan McCain constantly swearing in your ear on a bus ride to nowhere.

i'd take it

facebook = goldmine

Nick welcomes everyone to the United Socialist States of America. one compulsary nation, under the lord savior barack hussein obama, with liberty & justice for none!

― With a little bit of gold and a Peja (bernard snowy), Wednesday, November 5, 2008 4:59 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

update: this dude is still goin' strong

Nick loves how everyone is happy that a black man won, but no one cares or even knows about the policies and values that will be put into america now. fucking idiots.

Nick is never going to work another day in his life, and just let the lord savior barack hussein obama take care of my health care and send me welfare checks. YES!

(lol @ junior in college saying he'll "never work another day in his life")

Haaaaa

(to everything)

i'd take it

You're a sick man.

:D

Just another seat-filler on the McCain Hate Fuck Express

According to Seattlest, the Palin journey may have all started by shmoozing on cruise ships based in Seattle

http://seattlest.com/2008/11/06/palins_short_strange_winky_vp_trip.php

Well, The New Yorker via Seattlest...

Mackro you too can be a political flash-in-the-pan by impressing old codgers on Seattle-based cruises. Now is your time.

"Hey Dino, the political thing just isn't working out. BUT, global warming is turning out to be a boon to Washington state viticulture and your name rhymes with 'Vino', rite?"

joe lieberman lol

• Billy Graham's work with presidents is ending, son says

I know the man's pretty old now, but niiiiiicce timing there, Bill.

maybe he's scared of rahm emanuel

"This stranglehold has got to be broken or the country's going down the drain," the nation's best-known preacher said as he agreed with a stream of Nixon comments about Jews and their perceived influence in American life.

"You believe that?" says Nixon after the "stranglehold" comment.

"Yes, sir," says Graham.

"Oh, boy," replies Nixon. "So do I. I can't ever say that, but I believe it."

"No, but if you get elected a second time, then we might be able to do something," replies Graham.

Billy Graham will be working w/ Bill Buckley soon nuff

ugh dino is totes going to run again isn't he

I heard Dino say that he has no plans to run again, but who knows. Losing twice should ought to tell you something.

Does WA have term limits for governor?

Derek Van Horn (Appalachian State) wrote
at 12:36pm
Joshua, they didn't release the actual birth certificate - that was a computer generated "copy" printed out on a printer - they didn't have those when he was born. We're talking about the old handwritten, doctor signed, day of birth certificate.

Derek Van Horn (Appalachian State) wrote
at 12:29pm
Josh - your post about "hard factual evidence" is what we're all asking for here - we can't produce it because we can't walk into the vault in Hawaii and pull out his old paper birth certificate. Everyone Democrat and Republican alike should be writing Mr. Obama and telling him to release it and stop keeping it behind sealed doors so we can see the truth. To stop our argument that the man is a fraud all he has to do is show an old piece of paper, but he refuses. Most liberals won't take the Bible's word for how the earth was created because you can't *see* the Creator, why should we take Obama's word when we can't see the certificate?

That last question makes me stop and think.

isn't there a 2 term max for governors?

joygoat:

I heard Dino say that he has no plans to run again, but who knows. Losing twice should ought to tell you something.

Dino said that the first time, did nothing for almost 3 years, THEN decided to run late last year. A 3rd time? Given that the whole "Prefers G.O.P. Party" thing didn't work out, and was a direct dodge from the Republican moniker, I'm not sure the Republicans will want Dino next time, but they may not have any other options, or perhaps they're just that lame (entire possible.) (Pssst, if the WA Republicans were smart, they would accost Rob McKenna as a gubernatorial candidate, but don't tell them that.)

Also, Washington is in the minority of states in that Gregoire could theoretically be GOVERNOR 4 LYFF. Washington has no max term limits for governor, as it turns out.

http://www.nga.org/Files/pdf/GOVLIST2008.PDF

So conservatives' concern with Barack Obama's birth certificate is actually grounded in some very deep epistemological issues.

If only I could see God's birth certificate.

(lol @ junior in college saying he'll "never work another day in his life")

― With a little bit of gold and a Peja (bernard snowy), Friday, November 7, 2008 4:53 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

oh man this is probably what i hate most about the student conversative/libertarian crowd. especially when they start going on about how they've worked hard to get where they are and don't want anyone taking away their future $$$$$, everyone else should just be exactly like them and everything would be fine.

http://www.bellesbears.com/images/birth_certificate.gif

clearly a forgery--no way patch is 15 inches

oh man this is probably what i hate most about the student conversative/libertarian crowd. especially when they start going on about how they've worked hard to get where they are and don't want anyone taking away their future $$$$$, everyone else should just be exactly like them and everything would be fine.

right? i've told some of them that they should start living up to their ideals by giving their parents back the money their kids stole from them for their wasted educations but apparently that doesn't make sense. u_u

Dino said that the first time, did nothing for almost 3 years, THEN decided to run late last year.

Err, not really. A Lot of the issue with the BIAW/Master Builder's lawsuit is that they were gathering funds for a second Rossi run long before his announcement of candidacy, (which isn't the legal problem) before either organization had registered as PACs.

Palin...learned that a number of prominent conservative pundits would soon be passing through Juneau, on cruises sponsored by right-leaning political magazines.

Insert Larry Craig joke here?

Ever since Larry Craig, whenever I go to SEATAC and use any restroom there, I now think "oh fuck, what if he did his hand call thing in THIS stall at some point? BLEEEAAAAAAAAAAAARHGGG!"

From the Community Voices section of a very, very conservative redneck mountain county in NC

wilkesguy20 Posted 6:14 pm, 11/06/2008
"Canada is looking better everyday! Already looked into getting a place up there! GOOD BYE AMERICA....hopefully...."

From the NC IS A BLUE STATE! thread:

Say Cheese! Posted 6:31 pm, 11/06/2008
People who recieve food stamps should be weighed every month.

Sorry, just one more, from the same thread (from the psychotic religious left):

searching4u Posted 7:42 pm, 11/06/2008
YES!!! VICTORY! Oh GOD is so mighty! He has showen his might! Yes LORD you have "SMASHED" the EVIL, HATE SPEWING RE-PUB-LIE-KINS!
Thank you FATHER GOD for sending us OBAMA! All Praise And All Glory Go To You! Thank You Jesus! We Are SOOOO Lucky to have a KIND, DECENT, "GOD FEARING" family man for our new President! Praise GOD!!!!

ohhhh lord 2pac big please talk to this sucker cause they killing america they taking the pain and struggle of life of america the only thing we coulda express our minds and pain. and these suckers took it and made it look like garbage thats why we get judge so much cause these shit dont be making sence

http://static.crooksandliars.com/files/uploads/2008/11/Joe%20the%20Plumber_553a1.jpg

http://thepage.time.com/2008/11/08/palin-unloads/

Sarah Palin vs. the Jerky Boys

Magdalene Flood (Liberty) wrote13 hours ago
wow, we have some dumb trolls here...and one of them from a former red turned blue state....of that, (I am VERY ashamed to be a part of this state right now!) attacking you for going to community college??? Sheesh, at least you are bettering yourself instead of getting into prison, or expecting a hand out like the majority of BHO's constituents!!! Racist? I think not. I find blacks to be far more racist than white folk...I mean, they just can't stop talking about the color of their skins, and what whites owe them and how whites are to blame for where the blacks are...sorry, but I think they can rise above all of that if they quit throwing their pity parties...and our president elect is no better, he wants to adopt a MUTT, Just like HIM??? Sheesh...there he goes again, bringing attention to the color of his skin. Get over it. If you want this country to heal, quit grave digging and bringing up the color your skin. It ony sets us back. Don't like the N word? Don't say it, don't sing it, don't rap about it, etc. Don't want non-blacks saying it? then blacks, be an example and abolish that word from your vocab and expand your grammar and find better ways of describing a person of color. If we can't say the N word without looks of shock from the blacks, then I would say that's racist, to say that I can't say it because I am not black. I am disgruntled with this double standard crap, one of the many things wrong with liberals.

How Many Electoral Votes Will Obama Win?

that's what i was dreading, rather than anticipating...

i am disgruntled

the language...she is evolving!

Sarah Palin can bitch all she wants about her critics being cowards, but she as she professed to be unconcerned with cultivating the good opinions of the media, refused to answer their questions and never appeared in a non-stage-managed moment, she is getting what she asked for. YOUR PRAYERS WORKED, BABY.

Nicolas Sarkozy saved the President of Georgia from being hanged “by the balls” — a threat made last summer by Vladimir Putin, according to an account that emerged yesterday from the Élysée Palace. . . .

The Russian seemed unconcerned by international reaction. “I am going to hang Saakashvili by the balls,” Mr Putin declared.

Mr Sarkozy thought he had misheard. “Hang him?” — he asked.

“Why not?” Mr Putin replied. “The Americans hanged Saddam Hussein.”

Mr Sarkozy, using the familiar tu, tried to reason with him: “Yes but do you want to end up like Bush?”

Mr Putin was briefly lost for words, then said: “Ah -- you have scored a point there.”

There are so many high-level 'talking shit about Bush' conversations that I would love to read...

sarkozy 1, putin 0

ahahahahaha

hah, and sarkozy likes bush

(carla-bruni.jpg blah blah)

Mr. Putin then pulled out a Lugar and shot Mr. Sarkozy.

"And now, I have scored my point as well." said Mr. Putin

Of course, now I imagine Putin keeping a senator under his jacket.

It's how LBJ used to handle Hubert Humphrey.

didn't he say at Cabinet meetings, "Alright, Hubert, you have one minute to speak, and I'm timing you"?

i love Sarko

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2132471/posts?q=1&;page=751
Constitutional crisis looming over Obama's birth location
World Net Daily ^ | 11/14/08 | Bob Unruh

ugh, those comments. what a bunch of delusional fucking cretins. i can't read this stuff.

Your one-two punch for the day:

Eric Cantor: GOP is no longer 'relevant'

Kristol finally owns up to something:

I don’t pretend to know just what has to be done. But I suspect that free-marketers need to be less doctrinaire and less simple-mindedly utility-maximizing, and that they should depend less on abstract econometric models. I think they’ll have to take much more seriously the task of thinking through what are the right rules of the road for both the private and public sectors. They’ll have to figure out what institutional barriers and what monetary, fiscal and legal guardrails are needed for the accountability, transparency and responsibility that allow free markets to work.

And I don’t see why conservatives ought to defend a system that permits securitizing mortgages (or car loans) in a way that seems to make the lenders almost unaccountable for the risk while spreading it, toxically, everywhere else. I don’t see why a commitment to free markets requires permitting banks or bank-like institutions to leverage their assets at 30 to 1. There’s nothing conservative about letting free markets degenerate into something close to Karl Marx’s vision of an atomizing, irresponsible and self-devouring capitalism.

If conservatives do some difficult re-thinking in the field of political economy, they can come back. If they don’t — well, there were a lot of admirable conservative thinkers and writers, professors and novelists, from 1933 to 1980. But conservatives didn’t govern.

well, there were a lot of admirable conservative thinkers and writers, professors and novelists, from 1933 to 1980.

lolz

deserves the most horrible death, this guy

has Kristol read Evelyn Waugh and Eliot?

i.e. Kristol thinks free-marketers should stop being free-marketers altogether (I'm fine with this btw, it's just an odd way to defend free-marketism.)

guys, Kristol is flailing, and he wants to hang around long enough to get noticed by Obama's bipartisan cabinet.

oh come on

even he doesn't believe that's gonna happen

Utah getting majorly schadenreuped. Would do nelson.laf it weren't so awful

Bush, U.S. Burean of Land Management to auction off many Utah parks for oil and gas drilling

See, I basically agree with kristol there it just pisses me off that he's either just found the intellectual humility to finally take such a nuanced approach or feels the direction of the current wind enough to quit his previous friends' position. Yes, markets can be more efficient than bureaucracies, monopolies and cartels but also, having social security and medicare isn't necessarily the first step down a road to a command economy. This isn't news, folks. It's what FDR was talking about in friggin '32.

kristol is a troll and nothing more

ultimate schadenfreude is still reading shit like this

http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/5minute_arguments/republicans_dea.php

YAHHH SCHISM YAHHH

Oh my, that drilling proposal in southern Utah is beyond fucked up.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/169192

Right wingers is sooooooo kee-razay!

Also, someone plz explain to me what "The eBay of Prophecy" might actually mean.

I'm speechless.

dunno why... every time we elect a new president someone claims he's the antichrist (usually gets a little more traction when it's a dem)

Mat Staver, dean of Liberty University's law school, says he does not believe Obama is the Antichrist, but he can see how others might. Obama's own use of religious rhetoric belies his liberal positions on abortion and traditional marriage, Staver says, positions that "religious conservatives believe will threaten their freedom." The people who believe Obama is the Antichrist are perhaps jumping to conclusions, but they're not nuts: "They are expressing a concern and a fear that is widely shared," Staver says.

admit yourselves to an institution already you fucked-up whack jobs

they are NOT nuts

they are delusionally enabled.

Oh, I always thought the President Antichrist meme started - and got more traction than any Dem ever has - with Ronald Wilson Reagan.

It strikes me as verrrry interrrresting that so many Jesus Camp fundies used to be Catholic and left to anticipate wrasslin' snakes with their amazing end-times Pentecostal superpowers circa late '70s/early '80s. Anyway, if they'd stuck with Rome or were in any way intellectually curious they might have been encouraged to view Revelations in its proper historical and political context and not as self-validating moral porn where you get to blame all your shit on the Other.

http://www.billoreilly.com/blog?action=viewBlog&blogID=369264165202353218

"holiday"? "winter season"???? wtf is going on!?

War on Christmas Reading

They got to O'Reilly?

how great to see the Dems have the minimal principles to oust Lieberm... oh.

Did anyone seriously think the Dems were actually going to break ties with Lieberman?

lol pragmatism

hey we can make this guy vote how we want on national health care green energy infrastructure and corporate regulation if we throw him a bone or we can punish him and hell be a huge pain in our ass

kill him yay!

stay in that wide stance.

Joe the Plumber funnies:

[The McCain campaign] is trying to throw Sarah Palin under the bus. They are trying to allude to the fact that she is the reason that John McCain might have lost this election. That does not sit well with me. John McCain has not come out and said that Sarah Palin is an honorable woman and has not protected her.

really dont understand the "kill lieberman" crowd

Joe the Chauvinist

Well who's that shouting?
Joe the Chauvinistor!
All he ever gives us is pain

Oh, I always thought the President Antichrist meme started - and got more traction than any Dem ever has - with Ronald Wilson Reagan.

it may have gotten traction b/c of the name thing but it def wasn't the first

John McCain has not come out and said that Sarah Palin is an honorable woman and has not protected her.

lol this is so not true^^^

Has he said THOSE EXACT WORDS? Has he not gone out and personally punched every person saying negative things about her?

Well?????

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2008412319_apobamacabinet.html

Mostly about Napolitano, but the end here is the kicker

Republicans sniped at what they saw as an unwelcome trend. Alex Conant, spokesman for the Republican National Committee, said, "Barack Obama is filling his administration with longtime Washington insiders."

breaking: longtime washington insiders comlain abt longtime washington insiders who areny actually longtime washington insiders

I am continuing in my quest to be a short-time Washington outsider.

yes u can

<a href=http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081105/ap_en_ot/books_bush_memoirs>;Publishers to Bush: Memoir? Yeah, whatevs. Don't knock yourself out, pal.</a>

oh for...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081105/ap_en_ot/books_bush_memoirs

If I Did It...Oh Wait I Did

LOL I pwned U

Sarah Palin Does TV Interview While Turkeys Are Slaughtered In The Background

Happy Thanksgiving!

Well now I'm imagining her singing "Meat is Murder"

aaaand lol she was there to pardon a turkey !!!11 hahahahah

I just heard about this at work. I love the guy: "uh, she's on TV... should I keep working? Anyone? Bill? ...Oh fuck it, I've got a quota to meet."

Weird. I don't hate her anymore.

0_oMG.

It's probably easier to hate someone when they might be given the keys to the nuclear launch codes. Now not so much, but she's still surplus to requirements and if she was really as dumb as a turkey we could just wait for her to drown outdoors in a thunderstorm. One can live in hope.

Burberry scarf + latte cap = WHO'S THE ELITIST NOW, MISS MOOSE HUNTER?

I wonder if that scarf came from her $150,000 shopping trip. And why does the word "scarf" look so odd to me?

latte CUP

;_; I want a latte cap

http://images5.cafepress.com/product/284560555v6_240x240_Front_Color-Khaki.jpg

Burberry's well street tho innit

supposedly she gave back the 150k in clothes except the kids underwear which was lost or irreparably changed or something

supposedly she wasn't involved in buying them. except she was.

I'm sure there's an outlet mall near Wasilla that does a roaring trade in Burberry etc.

I'm also sure she didn't give back a great deal of her Saks Sweepstakes, BTW.

i don't know what else to say about this, so here we go:

http://www.velocitystore.com/?page=media

http://www.velocitystore.com/images/JoeHelps.jpg

Joe Wurzelbacher, better known as Joe the Plumber, has partnered with VelocityStore.com to help you with the transition from Analog-to-Digital television. Check back often for new videos from Joe where he'll not only show you how to set up your DTV converter, but he'll also explain the public safety benefits the transition provides to all Americans.

omfg

for a sec i thought he was wearing fatigues

joe the plumber: shock troop in the dtv transition

"This isn't about politics, it's about doing the right thing."

the video resembles a hostage tape. So I guess in a velocitystore.com board meeting they were discussing how to "do outreach to those most impacted by the DTV transition" and they figured Joe the Plumber = working class cred?

> but he'll also explain the public safety benefits the transition provides to all Americans.

but isn't that like communist? is he licensed to do this?

I would be happy if Joe the Plumber were to do the DTV video in Spanish and Yiddish language versions, too.

DTV=series of tubes

http://i41.tinypic.com/4r46du.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Vomit.jpg

I wonder how much they cleared on Palin-related pr0n items, either in doll or Larry Flynt-related items

lol

;)

good luck