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I'm surprised no one in the entertainment industry has referred to McCain's desperate campaign suspension for Wall Street (in order to buy time) going "AWOL".
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Am I the only one here that thinks McCain looks a lot like Casper? Or maybe really old Ritchie Ritch.
Amazing how polite he was after having Palin say Obama "pals around with terrorists".
A far more apt comparison would be that McCain pals around with lobbiests (as they make up all of his campaign advisors) or his fellows in "The Keating Five".
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quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: Amazing how polite he was after having Palin say Obama "pals around with terrorists".
Well, apart from that little "that one" phrase. Your fellow Senator is sitting right there, and you call him "that one"? What?
So it seems the debates, up until now, don't really have a lot of impact on the polls. Both are doing reasonably well, neither of them are able to really catch eachother out. Unless something particularly nasty is dug up by McCain-Palin (they seem to be trying hard), it seems like Obama's lead will be very hard to break. OTOH, who even knows what happens anymore right now, let alone in 4 weeks time.
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It wasn't just the "that one". He was dickish the whole time. I don't know where someone could get the idea that he was being "polite".
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Yeah, McCain was being a total stain, especially when Obama wanted to follow-up on some comment he made and McCain said something to effect of, "Well if he gets to follow-up, then so can I." It's seems that now McCain and Palin are so desperate for a lead that they've gone into douche-bag mode. Just hope people will see past it.
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It seemed to me that neither candidate really answered the questions to the best of his ability, but McCain really sucked in that regard. I could be mistaken, but I seem to remember him answering a yes or no question with a statement that was pretty much rephrasing the question.
" Senator, could you please phrase your answer in the form of an answer?"
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McCain also refused to shake Obama's hand at the debate's conclusion- very dickish.
"Friends" of Gov. Palin appeared before Alaska's supreme Court today to ask it to dismiss the "troopergate" investigation because, and I shit you not, it "could hurt the election chances of a political party". Yeah, I cant imagine which one.
A lawyer arguing for the probe made a great point:
quote:"Never in the darkest days of the McCarthy hearings did a court ever say this investigation has to stop, you have to halt what you're doing right now," he said.
"What they're asking for here is not just stopping an investigation, but suppressing a report -- suppressing a report because it might be critical of the governor."
Holy crap: if you'd asked me about this even yesterday, I'd have told you it would get swept under the rug untill at least after the election.
Now it's up to the media to actually do their jobs and cover the story- Palin's got the kid gloves treatment so far and it's time they start asking tough questions- of her and McCain.
quote:"Gov. Palin knowingly permitted a situation to continue where impermissible pressure was placed on several subordinates in order to advance a personal agenda," the report states.
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I just saw this on CNN. What's this, like McCain suddenly realizing what his campaign team has been spewing out?
When Obama becomes President, he will get a seriously hard time from these kinds of folks, as they apparently see him as a black socialist Arab... basically the top 3 things most hated by the darn-golly hot-dang Joe Sixpack mob.
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Trouble is, he won't have them shot. He could, but he won't. I'd just be bad publicity.
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See, here's the thing. When a lady says "[Obama]'s an Arab", and John McCain's response is "No...he's a decent family man", people should not act like he's finally said something right. Today's headlines really ought to read something like "McCain : Arabs indecent, hate families".
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Noooo...then they'd be showing off their supposed "liberal Media Bias" that title scares them so much that they'll give the GOP a free ride not to answer questions or be held accountable for their pasts/remarks/actions/associates.
Which is, of course why the GOP decry such supposed bias in the first place.
Someone should be ballsy enough to say they're just biased towards the truth and disabuse the masses of the silly idea once and for all.
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Whatever you say, I think McCain did pretty good on SNL. I can never quite get past his really awkward arm movements, but hey, he's makes a few good jokes.
What really puzzles me more about that clip is the ad in the beginning. I was expecting some kind of government ad on voting, but actually it is Starbucks using the elections to sell coffee. And as an outsider, that kind of close link between commercial ads and politics is a bit bizarre. Maybe they are actually concerned about voter turn-up, but its still just them trying to sell coffee, right..
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