2008 Primaries Thread 3: The Rejecting and Denouncening

what.

the fuck.

Would be nice if someone asked the candidates why they felt so comfortable appearing on a TV show that, less than a year ago, held a two hour tribute to the life and career of a man that'd just murdered his wife and son, complete with funny anecdotes about how said wrestler used to beat up trainees for laughs.

partly i'm just shocked that the american version of deal of no deal looks like italian television and is hosted by howie mandel

Obama or at the very least an aide has clearly at least watched the WWE; 'Can you smell what Barack is cooking'. Hillaray not at all and clearly no one in her campaign. (although I'm surprised bill isn't a fan).

Would be nice if someone asked the candidates why they felt so comfortable appearing on a TV show that, less than a year ago, held a two hour tribute to the life and career of a man that'd just murdered his wife and son, complete with funny anecdotes about how said wrestler used to beat up trainees for laughs.

hahaha good luck asking a question like this and not getting called "elitist" for dissing WWE

lol maccain tryina act tough and coming off like a crotchety old man

fucker could still catch you off guard with a steal chair though

steel, even

i bet he couldnt

Maybe if you were already on the canvas and he didn't have to raise it above his head.

haha o poor disfigured old man

not so much of the poor

dont make me get my folding chair

Would be nice if someone asked the candidates why they felt so comfortable appearing on a TV show that, less than a year ago, held a two hour tribute to the life and career of a man that'd just murdered his wife and son

simple answer: they didn't look so comfortable. lol @ real-life onionism of 'can you smell what barack is cooking?' tho.

http://i31.tinypic.com/30mye1c.jpg

o jeez

What McCain's choice of typeface says about him

omg designers putting fonts on the psychiatrists couch plzzzz no

any Screaming Lobster of Hope sightings today?

YOU CAN CALL ME "HILL-ROD"

I saw clip on BBC America this morning, not sure I was in fact not dreaming

(btw I don't get wrestling references any more than "dusting off shoulders")

The dustoff crosses over more than the wrestling does. I think McCain thinks being Prez is one long photo op with sprinkles.

Like a good pair of shoes and a well-cut suit, type makes the man (or woman). Consider typography to be the window into the soul of the candidate’s campaign. The depth, the breadth, the good, the bad and the ugly is all there for us to witness and assess in one clear and telegraphic manner.

Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan.

I'm a font nerd from Hell BUT HEY, have I pointed out that Obama's typeface designed by a certain NYT/NYer music critic's brother?

obama font designed by some dude who worked for gq

according to gq

I don't think you did, Suzy, but I noticed a distinctive surname in that previous article.

looooool McCain such a dweeb.

I may have to start going by Hill-rod

http://www.typography.com/images/blogImages/typography-com_mccain+hillary.jpg

lol

hahahaha

indeed

If you wanted to Banksy her posters you'd just colour the ILL red.

I'm laughing at the signs in the audience for that clip. A nice touch.

"People say that they reject elitism, but in the end, they assume the position, then wonder why they're getting fucked."

http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/2008/04/playing-ones-part.html

Quite honestly, I don't know if I'm annoyed and disgusted that the President is wasting time on "Deal or No Deal" or if I'm relieved that W. is being contained by inane trivialities and not actually doing anything important or damaging.

That clip goes all jerkout for me; I have to say am relieved, slightly.

WE HAVE LIFTOFF!

http://media.gallup.com/poll/graphs/042208DailyUpdateGraph1_ysiel5l.gif

Clinton's comments on the day of the South Carolina election (way back in January) stirred up a controversy over whether Hillary Clinton's campaign was deliberately trying to make Obama "the black candidate" in the minds of white voters. This morning, Clinton told Philadelphia public radio station WHYY that Obama had "played the race card on me."

"And we now know, from memos from the campaign and everything, that they planned to do it all along," the former president said. It's not entirely clear what he meant by that; he was probably referring to an internal memo showing that the Obama campaign was collecting examples of racially weighted remarks made by Clinton surrogates. But the memo didn't indicate an advance plan to highlight those remarks -- it was written after they'd already been made (though before the Jesse Jackson dispute).

The WHYY reporter had raised the issue by asking a question about it, but Clinton didn't exactly stay on message in his response. He said the Obama campaign's implication in response that Clinton was trying to marginalize the two black candidates had been disrespectful to Jackson (whom he called a friend, though he endorsed Obama). "You gotta really go something to play the race card on me, my office is in Harlem," he said. "And Harlem voted for Hillary, by the way." Apparently unaware he was still on the phone with the radio station, Clinton muttered about the question afterward to an aide, "I don't think I should take any shit on that from anybody, do you?"

my office is in harlem is the new some of my best friends are black

I like how Bubba really can't deal with the pace of internet news cycles = issue silly/inaccurate/offensive statement, follow with denial, look stupid upon immediate "oh yes you DID say that and here's the verbatim clip/transcript/video" rebuttal

Absolutely. The immediate availability of primary sources (past speeches, new speeches) is so central to this election.

Quite honestly, I don't know if I'm annoyed and disgusted that the President is wasting time on "Deal or No Deal" or if I'm relieved that W. is being contained by inane trivialities and not actually doing anything important or damaging.

the only damage he can do is to the republicans, which is why they have him on deal or no deal

that's on abc, right?

oh maybe not

http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/19513/thumbs/s-OBAMAANDBABY-large.jpg

This Bill Clinton thing is getting funny coverage on MSNBC.

Bubba played the race card on Ricky Ray Rector

what the fuck is up with this crap:

Clinton: Iran would pay a 'very high price' for nuclear attack
Posted: 03:08 PM ET
Hillary Clinton sends a warning to Iran Tuesday.

(CNN) – Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that her comments that the United States could “totally obliterate” Iran if it made a nuclear attack on Israel had been an attempt to return the United States to Cold War style deterrence.

Responding to accusations from Barack Obama's campaign that she was engaging in the sort of hypothetical thinking she had criticized him for, Clinton said the situations were not equivalent, since the threat from Iran was all too real. “I think in this particular instance of Iran it's a question not of what might be on or off the table concerning a tactical or strategic decision but an effort on my part to get back to what worked during the Cold War which was deterrence,” she told reporters in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.

“…Iran is feeling quite powerful. They have been empowered by the actions of the last seven years and they must know there are lines that the world will not let them cross.”

Earlier Tuesday, Clinton told ABC’s Good Morning America that "I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran [if it attacked Israel].”"

nuclear threat from Iran "real" = lolz. uh last time I checked they don't have the bomb.

General Hillary Jack Ripper Clinton

"I wouldn't hypothetically send troops into Pakistan to target wanted terrorists but I would hypothetically obliterate another country with nukes if they hypothetically posed a nuclear threat" what the fuck EVER

Didn't the NIE say that Iran doesn't have a nuke program? Why is everyone acting like they're the Soviet Union or something.