lostfan Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Oct 15, 2008 -> 05:52 PM) Giuliani is straight out of 1984. Remember, a year ago today he was ahead. Seriously. And watching his campaign go down in miserable flames was epic, I smiled every day when I read the coverage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 LOL. WASHINGTON (AdAge.com) -- Major League Baseball has moved back the scheduled start time of any game 6 of the World Series so Fox can also air the half hour Barack Obama spot on Oct. 29. A network spokeswoman confirmed the buy and said MLB had agreed to the network's request for the delay. Fox now joins CBS and NBC in airing the half hour program, whose content the Obama campaign has declined to describe. The decision means that the Obama campaign is now spending close to $3 million to air the program from 8 to 8:30 p.m. that night on at least three networks. ABC didn't immediately return a message asking whether it too has now agreed to a buy, a move which would create an unprecedented roadblock of the nation's biggest commercial networks. Fox had originally been scheduled to start airing the baseball game at 8:20 p.m. but is now expected to start the game at 8:35 p.m. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rex Kickass Posted October 16, 2008 Author Share Posted October 16, 2008 Didn't Perot do that a few times in 92? I remember 30 minute Perot infomercials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Oct 16, 2008 -> 02:35 PM) Didn't Perot do that a few times in 92? I remember 30 minute Perot infomercials. Yep, and thankfully he had pie charts for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Chappas Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 $3M does not sound like a -lot. I would think the GOP would want to counter this.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rex Kickass Posted October 16, 2008 Author Share Posted October 16, 2008 QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Oct 16, 2008 -> 10:38 AM) $3M does not sound like a -lot. I would think the GOP would want to counter this.... They don't really have the money to, that's the problem. And frankly, it won't be terribly effective. Obama's campaign really has taken a page from Bush's playbook in the 2004 election. Having a luxury of resources allows them to do odd things that might attract fringe votes. In Obama's case, its the infomercials and the two minute loop on DirecTV. One of the things Bush did in 2004 that was genius was Traffic and Weather sponsorships. It got the person doing the reporting to parrot off the two sentence commercial like a live read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSqwert Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 Mccain and Palin and their ilk don't laugh. They patronize. They don't smile, they snicker. They don't debate, they denigrate. They don't talk, they condescend. They don't argue, they ridicule. There is a nastiness, a mean-spiritedness, a smug certitude, and a profound and baseless arrogance seething from both of them. These aren't leaders. They're not even grownups. They're certainly not a team of mavericks, they're a team of schmendricks (Yiddish. Means someone who can't succeed but thinks he can. Also means penis). Now, contrast that with Barack Obama. Always respectful, even when disrespected. Always calm, even when faced with contempt. Always articulate, never talking down. He never rattles and never takes it personally. He's not just a diplomat, he's a gentleman. You know what he has? Manners. I'm exhausted by rigid, condescending ideologues like John McCain. He's like a circus mirror, showing us some distorted version of ourselves as only he sees us. He says "spread the wealth" as if he were saying "spread the herpes." He uses air-quotes while saying "a mother's health," as if it's some radical fantasy invented by "those who would seek to destroy us." McCain's grin is an undisguised scowl of anger and intolerance. But the worst part is that he thinks that's our scowl too. John McCain is a rear-view image of yesterday's America. Barack Obama is a signpost to the road ahead. It's that simple. And if the people McCain is so proud of don't like it? Jimmy-Crack-Corn. And I don't care. LINK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSqwert Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 Inland GOP mailing depicts Obama's face on food stamp By MICHELLE DeARMOND The Press-Enterprise The latest newsletter by an Inland Republican women's group depicts Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama surrounded by a watermelon, ribs and a bucket of fried chicken, prompting outrage in political circles. Click here to read the rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSqwert Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 McCain/Palin supporters let their racist roots show By David Neiwert Thursday Oct 16, 2008 10:31am It was kind of strange, dintcha think, that John McCain came to the defense of his supporters last night after Barack Obama pointed out that people at McCain/Palin rallies were shouting out "terrorist" and "kill him!" in reference to Obama. Now an Al Jazeera camera crew caught the honest sentiments of McCain/Palin supporters at an Ohio rally: "I’m afraid if he wins, the blacks will take over. He’s not a Christian! This is a Christian nation! What is our country gonna end up like?” “When you got a n***** running for president, you need a first stringer. He’s definitely a second stringer.” “He seems like a sheep - or a wolf in sheep’s clothing to be honest with you. And I believe Palin - she’s filled with the Holy Spirit, and I believe she’s gonna bring honesty and integrity to the White House.” “He’s related to a known terrorist, for one.” “He is friends with a terrorist of this country!” “He must support terrorists! You know, uh, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck. And that to me is Obama.” “Just the whole, Muslim thing, and everything, and everybody’s still kinda - a lot of people have forgotten about 9/11, but… I dunno, it’s just kinda… a little unnerving.” “Obama and his wife, I’m concerned that they could be anti-white. That he might hide that.” “I don’t like the fact that he thinks us white people are trash… because we’re not!" Yep, McCain must be so proud. The rest of us, well ... let's just say those polls should tell the story. No video linked as of yet so take it with a grain of salt until we see actual proof of this. LINK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longshot7 Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 QUOTE (kapkomet @ Oct 15, 2008 -> 01:48 PM) I agree, but it's not enough to allow me to sit there and say, "I'm voting for RSO". There's no way in hell. Voting for McCain is just about like voting for Bill Clinton on the political scale, that's how far left the GOP has gone (save for the idiocy on shoving morality down out throats, which you rightly point out and it's a turn off of mine as well and highly disappointing). Except on social issues like abortion (esp after McCain's major gaffe on it last night) and human rights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostfan Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 Yeah, WTF was McCain thinking when he said that? Like "oh, yeah, the mother's "health." Right." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soxbadger Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 What he was trying to say, and not very eloquently is that the term "mothers health" can be twisted and stretched until it is so broad that it basically means a mother can have an abortion at any time. IE: The mother is 8 months pregnant but a Psychologist writes a letter stating that the "mothers health" may be effected if the baby is born because the mother is not emotionally stable enough to care for the baby and therefore she needs an adoption. What McCain said is actually not that terrible, his problem is that he just assumes everyone understands what hes getting at. I personally am pro-choice but I actually understood where he was coming from. The problem isnt always what he says, its how he says it, and how he fails to narrowly tailor his responses. He just shoots from the hip to much, and it often comes out sounding terrible, even though some times the thought behind it is actually pretty rational. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostfan Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 I know what he was thinking too, but god damn, what a bad choice of words that was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 Should I go see Dr. Jill Biden or fmr. Sen. Sarbanes on Friday. both are at the same time. I'm leaning towards Sarbanes, but I've heard great things about Dr. Biden. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSqwert Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 16, 2008 -> 12:48 PM) No video linked as of yet so take it with a grain of salt until we see actual proof of this. LINK And here it is: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 you think they prefaced the interview with the fact that they were Al-Jazeera? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSqwert Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 16, 2008 -> 01:52 PM) you think they prefaced the interview with the fact that they were Al-Jazeera? Like it would have mattered. I guarantee none of them have a clue who Al-Jazeera is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuskyCaucasian Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 16, 2008 -> 01:55 PM) Like it would have mattered. I guarantee none of them have a clue who Al-Jazeera is. one of the a-rab terrorist organizations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuskyCaucasian Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 Obama Election Night Rally: Barack Obama's campaign is eying either Chicago's Grant Park or Millenium Park as the likely site for its Election Night gathering, and potential victory party. For the Illinois Democrat, the site would mark yet another outdoor venue chosen for a momentous occasion, with Obama having announced his candidacy on the steps of Illinois's state capitol, and his speech accepting the Democratic nomination at Denver's Invesco Field in August. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DukeNukeEm Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 It's gonna be cold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 hot victory, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuskyCaucasian Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 "Pro-America"? What parts arent? Oh maybe Alaska? Palin also made a point of mentioning that she loved to visit the "pro-America" areas of the country, of which North Carolina is one. No word on which states she views as unpatriotic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuskyCaucasian Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 CLASSY! Nearly 48 years ago, a young woman, not yet 18, became pregnant in her freshman year of college. Living in a time and place in which abortion was generally illegal, she proceeded to marry the father of her child and gave birth to a son. Perhaps she would have done so irrespective of the abortion laws at the time, even if, say, she lived in a legal culture that celebrated abortion as a fundamental right. Very possibly not. (I haven't found any statistics on the percentage of pregnant college freshmen who abort their pregnancies, but indirect indications suggest that it's very high.) Barack Obama may actually believe, as he stated yesterday, that Roe v. Wade "was rightly decided." But it may be very lucky for him, as the son born of that woman, that it hadn't been decided a dozen or so years earlier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reddy Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 16, 2008 -> 02:46 PM) <!--quoteo(post=1781207:date=Oct 16, 2008 -> 12:48 PM:name=BigSqwert)-->QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 16, 2008 -> 12:48 PM) <!--quotec-->No video linked as of yet so take it with a grain of salt until we see actual proof of this. LINK And here it is: i hate america. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuskyCaucasian Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Oct 17, 2008 -> 09:06 AM) "Pro-America"? What parts arent? Oh maybe Alaska? Palin: Country Folk are more patriotic than City Dwellers "We believe that the best of America is not all in Washington, D.C. We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation. This is where we find the kindness and the goodness and the courage of everyday Americans. Those who are running our factories and teaching our kids and growing our food and are fighting our wars for us. Those who are protecting us in uniform. Those who are protecting the virtues of freedom." Gov, just shut up. Dont talk. Dont say that country people are more "pro-america" than the city dwellers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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