So, did you watch the half hour Obama campaign ad last night? I did. I haven’t scoured the intertubes for reviews, but I thought it was OK. Nicely done, good production values. The couple minutes of the live rally in Florida was a good ending. I noticed he had the flag pin going (too late in the game to fuck with that stuff), and he got all your major demographics and ethnicities in there.
I could live without his pushing ‘clean coal’ all the time, personally. But, I’m willing to overlook that for the time being, as well as the fact that his healthcare plan doesn’t call for a single-payer solution. I guess we’ll just have to work on him once he’s elected.
I liked that he had real families in there (I assume they’re real, anyway), but I thought it was a little disjointed. I’d have had each one highlight a single issue/problem, and then have him come out and say how he was going to fix it. But he certainly didn’t hurt himself. Whether it will bring over any ‘undecided’ voters or not, I don’t know.
It’s hard for me to tell. All I have to do is look at McCain/Palin, and the deal is sealed for me.
I did watch the Obama 1/2 hour. It didn’t change my mind. I’m still voting for him. The reviews I heard on Olbermann and Rachel were positive. I didn’t have the stomach to turn on Faux New aka Faux Outrage.
Mudflats says that an Alaskan citizen has filed an ethics complaint against Palin for using state money to take her daughters with her when she travels around the state. It seems that Alaskans are learning things about their governor that they didn’t know. Perhaps McLame will have, in the long run, done us a favor by not vetting Sarah and leaving he job to the press corp.
Perhaps (hope springs eternal) the press corp will find out how satisfying it is to learn something and actually report news instead of brain numbing GOP talking points.
And, congratulations Webhubbletelescope for making the top 25 list. I’m sure your prize money is already in the mail.
Gotta work!
I thought the deal was that once you hit the top 25, you had to start paying dues. Vernon has to pay twice.
It’s amazing to me that ‘Bama glides along seemingly effortlessly without arguing every BS attack by mcpalin til he’s :growl: and :fustrate: like I would. Guess that’s why he’s at the top of the ticket and I’m just a tick in the woodpile.
He can’t even allow himself to look slightly irked, lest he be depicted in the next McCain ad with a bone in his nose, carrying a spear and dancing around a large kettle with a couple of white women and their blonde, freckle-faced kids slowly boiling away in it.
I haven’t read his book but I don’t think ‘irked’ is in his DNA. I’ve known a few excellent attorney’s and they’ve got ice-water running through their veins.
I saw him look a little irked a couple of times when he kept having to answer the same bullshit questions. He has to walk a fine line between angry (or crazy) black guy and emotionless robot. I mean, he even caught shit from the rightwing loonies (and traditional media) for the terrorist fist bump with his own friggin’ wife, fer chrissakes. And if you want to get pissed off, listen to the last episode of This American Life where they go into the field with ‘Democrats for McCain’ trying to sway voters in PA as they try to explain why they’d go from supporting pro-labor, pro-choice Clinton to anti-labor, anti-choice McCain. And then there were the people trying to get support for Obama who had people telling them flat out they’d never vote for a black guy – even against their own best interests. I couldn’t even listen to the whole thing.
I just hope the fix isn’t in. I think at this point a ‘victory’ for Republicans would be to only lose five or six Senate seats and less than 20 in the House. I just want them to get 60 Senate seats not counting Lieberman so they can tell that asshole to go shit in his hat.
that was one of the most depressing “AMerican life” episodes ever.but I don ‘t think he’s had to put up with much shit personally
Not if you change your name…
:knit: Still waiting for PJ’s giant pool of money report…
At the beginning of the season, if you had told me the Rays would be in the World Series, I would have had you drug-tested. So I’m a little disappointed about last night, but still proud. It gives us a lot to discuss in the off-season.
I early-voted yesterday. Our Repig supervisor of elections only opened three centers in the entire county of almost a million population, but the whole thing took only a little over an hour. I think I hit it lucky going mid-day.
There was a nice diverse cross-section of the community: students to seniors, male, female, black, white, Asian, Hispanic. If there were any Repigs waiting in line, they kept it quiet. LOTS of conversations down on Bush and McCain and looking forward to President Obama. Good times!
Looks like Joe’s off the bus.
He just had to stop to get a six-pack. :40:
I’m working on related rates :barf:
http://global-warming.accuweather.com/2008/10/nitrogen_trifluoride_making_ne_1.html
Exxon Mobil posts biggest U.S. quarterly profit ever
Thank goodness. I was afraid they were in trouble what with gas being so darn cheap now.
hmmm, name change, huh?
NOW how do ya suppose they’ll administer this test? :priest:
triple post? how’d that happen?
Fred Bramante, a member of McCain’s New Hampshire Leadership Committee and a 2008 Alternate Delegate to the Republican National Convention today announced his support for Senator Obama’s Campaign for Change.
Bramante, a Co-Chair of Gov. Mike Huckabee’s presidential campaign and former Republican gubernatorial candidate, is a past Chairman and current member of the New Hampshire State Board of Education. His endorsement marks the first time nationally that a delegate or alternate delegate to the 2008 Republican National Convention has publicly announced their decision to support Sen. Obama.
A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION
by George Gerber
Last night, Barack Obama appeared on a nationally televised 30-minute campaign ad just prior to the start of the World Series. With equal parts of eloquence, grace, and hope, he hit the ball “out of the park.” The Phillies then took the stage and, for the first time in 28 years, won baseball’s golden crown in the city where our nation’s Liberty Bell resides. It was clearly fitting that by chance of weather and game postponements, both events occurred on the same night one after the other. Baseball is America’s national game and Barack Obama, by all signs, will soon be America’s national gain. Both Senator Obama and the Philadelphia Phillies represent what is best about our country. They have become iconic symbols of hope, hard work, and unity in a country that has suffered from a lack of hope, declining jobs, and divisiveness for the past eight years.
While John McCain refers to the Obama ad as an “infomercial” and CNN shamelessly picks up the chant, the truth is Senator Obama’s decision to run the ad was another example of his brilliance and his inventiveness. He dealt with specifics in the ad. He clearly outlined his proposals for fixing the country while conveying a clear sense of optimism. He looked presidential, spoke like a president and was mesmerizing in his presentation. This was no infomercial with a slick salesman shouting the information while showing an overacting assistant trying to mop the floor using old fashioned methods. As I have said before, McCain’s attempts once again to classify Obama by attaching a label woven of hate, is the only thing the Republican has left. The fact is John McCain has run out of ideas and has lost his moral compass.
At the end of the taped portion of the speech, the camera cut live to Barack Obama in a packed Florida stadium. Without a delay or glitch of any kind, he closed the ad with a personal appeal; the timing was perfect. He spoke live with strength and self-assuredness. He spoke with principle, purpose, and conviction. An hour and a half later, the Philadelphia Phillies won the World Series. They too acted with purpose, strength, and conviction. They acted as a team united and, like Obama, gave the credit to their fans.
All told, last night was filled with eloquence, grace, and hope sorely lacking for the past eight years. New feelings were stirred and for one brief shining moment it felt as if Camelot had reappeared on the American landscape.
:nod:
How to answer a question GOP style:
Is Goldfarb just crazy?
Sen. Norm Coleman announced on Thursday that he was filing a lawsuit against his Democratic opponent Al Franken and the Franken campaign over what he deemed defamation of character.
If the move seems dramatic, it shouldn’t. This is now the fourth time that the Minnesota Republican has filed a suit late in the course of his runs for office.
During the gubernatorial race in 1998, Coleman filed and later dropped a complaint against his Democratic rival Hubert Humphrey III over an issue of unfair campaign practices. In 2002, the state’s Republican party (operating, ostensibly, on Coleman’s behalf), filed a complaint against then Senator Paul Wellstone, accusing him of inciting “union thugs” to rough up a GOP cameraman. And, again in 2002, the Coleman campaign filed a separate suit against Wellstone for distorting his stance on social security.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/30/norm-coleman-sues-al-fran_n_139287.html
FK- I think there’s a fine for a triple post :tongue:
I wonder if sheeple think that the economy may partly be behind the motive in this incident.
Tens of thousands of Coloradans who had been removed from the state’s voter rolls will be allowed to vote in next week’s election and given extra protections so their ballots are counted, under an agreement reached late Wednesday in federal court here.
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In Michigan, a federal appeals panel in Detroit delivered a similar victory on Thursday for about 5,500 voters who had been dropped from the rolls. The 2-to-1 ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit said state elections officials should not remove registered voters from the rolls, even if their voter ID cards had been returned as undeliverable. The lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the United States Student Association Foundation and the Michigan branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/us/politics/31colorado.html?ref=us
I’ve been reading for weeks about the tens of thousands removed from the rolls here in Colorado. But I’ve never seen anything backing that up in the local reporting. At most, a few thousand probably had moved and didn’t have matching addresses but they’ve all been contacted. As much as I don’t trust repugs I don’t see the evidence for massive election fraud like it’s been reported. There was a kerfuffle about whether people had checked a box or not but two of the largest counties in the Denver area, Jefferson and Arapahoe, both controlled by republicans, are ignoring the direction of the republican S of State, and he’s not going to risk disenfranchising republicans.
BTW- the most serious area of concern for votes getting counted are in Denver which had problems in the primary and is all very much in the hands of the Dems.
Probably, but he’s more stupid than crazy. These people think that no one will challenge them and some, are, finally!
So, what do you guys think of Alex Jones and Prisonplanet? At first I thought he might be a vehicle for disinformation. Muddying the waters, so to speak. But who knows. I’m sure some of the info on there is correct but which info? Again, I have as hard of a time accepting it as I do rejecting it.
I’ll have what she’s having.
Actress, painter, singer Estelle Reiner dies at 94
🙁 :gate: