SHUT UP ALREADY: Ultimate 2008 US Presidential Election Thread For Whiners

get a faster computer, nerds

good luck usa

thanks, l0u1s jagg3r, we all appreciate it

still cant vote

change this socialist, terrorist title.

we can keep this one to a reasonable length if no one posts anything

just a suggestion

what sunny aren't you a REAL citizen yet?

hey

i

like

the

nerw thread title

opps i mean new

fake citizen - 'resident alien'

lol thread title

i still get to pay taxes and get hauled off to jail though YAY

http://www1.ecxmall.com/stores/familyestore/catalog/38680.jpg

under an obama administration we will be swamped by foreigners like sunny

gossip grrrrrl sez:

under an obama administration we will be swamped by foreigners like sunny

― mookieproof, Tuesday, October 14, 2008 12:12 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

tru

wait are the gossip girls for or against mccain? ive got no sound.

against. it's just one of the girls. and the guy.

should be posted to ILG, ha

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/236924.php

the guy is kind of a girl xp

i just emaild my friend who works for the company that serves those ads - he said the campaign is running on a bunch of games including madden

xp

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/images/obama-xbox.jpg

whaaaaaa?

wait, then who are the other people? I recognize the blonde girl and the first guy.

mark danner writes about the "sweet potato pie" rally in philadelphia:

http://www.nybooks.com/features/2008/10/danner

some of the writing is a little o_O

He seems slender and slight and young, astonishingly young, and you notice first of all, for it is impossible not to, the physical grace; he moves like an athlete much more than a politician, taking pleasure in his body: bursting up onto the stage, the lanky highly stylized movement, shoulders bent slightly concave, gathering everything into those constantly clapping hands, using the hands in their clapping to acknowledge the crowd, his head nodding all the while, as if he is drawing his energy only from them and showing that energy with his clapping and nodding, with the bursting energy of his body that is an embodiment of theirs, a picture of what they're giving him. He prances with evident pleasure around the little stage, moving his head in big theatrical nods, embracing each politician in turn, big full bodied embraces, and again one thinks of an athlete on the sidelines or in the dugout: all of it is done with the unhindered pleasure of the body, all of it says confidence and pleasure, as if this, being bathed in the huge cheers, taking sustenance and energy from the wave of sounds and the shouts of his name, is the place where he breathes his true oxygen, where he really lives. He seems made to be precisely here—in the midst of these thousands of sun drenched cheering people, on this perfect fall day. There is only him and them and what is between them. And then he approaches the podium.

but what really sticks out is this:

Everything else they [the "national campaign audience"] would never see. It existed only for the several thousand cheering people in Vernon Park on that bright morning in Germantown. They would never see, for instance, Obama's riff on sweet potato pie.

because that little riff made it to youtube! like half a dozen times! some of the videos are halfway making fun of him for it, like this one:

collectively, the pie riff has been watched more than 300k times, and i couldn't even find the hand-held one that's on the old thread (rip). it's an article crying out for some blogger to take on and talk about new media blah blah blah as i have just done

this election is so over

should change thread title to "Measuring the Drapes in the Oval Office 2008 Anticipation Thread"

interview with "he's an arab" woman

should change thread title to "Measuring the Drapes in the Oval Office 2008 Anticipation Thread"

Seconded

I have read that some who were there (I think Ana Marie Cox was one?) say that the woman actually said "Arab terrorist" and for reason the "terrorist" part was either cut off or the sound dropped or something. Has anyone else heard about that?

i for one am sick of these "gotcha" interviews with people who are unprepared to give straight answers because they are stupid, ignorant, and easily manipulated.

Anyway, the only consolation is that people who are retarded enough to believe shit like that were probably already voting Republican, if they're voting at all

meth is a helluva drug

ok that was mean but whatever fuck these people

rest assured someone's driving that dumbass to the polls on election day lolz

the ballad of timothy pettigrew

http://ncronline3.org/drupal/files/images/10172008p07pha.jpg

lol "Footloose" blasting in the background

lol at "Footloose" in the background

xp

Obama camp runs radio ads in Wisconsin and Colorado focusing on the Ayers attacks:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1008/Obamas_Ayers_ad.html?showall

u kno that woman points out, in a way, that the boomers were wrong (the stereotypical liberal boomer, anyway). there is only a very minor "change in consciousness" except through generation cohort change. even then, shitty ideas and objectively shitty people persist. what did mark s say once, way back when: the english civil war is not over? yeah, well, it's true here too.

at a certain point there's nothing that can be said to some people, and not much to be said about them. they just have to lose. tombot otm.

i think dan savage said something once to someone who wrote in to him about how his parents were being vicious to him now that he'd come out of the closet. he was trying to figure a way to get back on good terms with them and savage was like, "fuck them, cut them out, marginalize them, forget them". kinda otm w/r/t these types of people too imo.

Anchorage Daily News on Palin's response to Branchflower

http://www.adn.com/opinion/view/story/555236.html

http://palinaspresident.com/

McCain will bring up Ayers at debate

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14564.html

Sounds like a great plan

Obama camp runs radio ads in Wisconsin and Colorado focusing on the Ayers attacks:

Concise and effective, I think.

did y'all get forwarded the STAARBUXX free coffee if you vote OMG spam email that's doing the rounds?

You do get free coffee when you vote.

free tacos, free coffee... I hope mcdonalds does some sort of free chicken sandwich deal for if the dow drops below 6000.

there was a commercial for it on SNL and I got an email from starbucks too since I have a starbucks CC...just go there tomorrow and say you voted and you get a free brewed coffee.

can i go

you should certainly try.

steal a ballot, steal a taco

TG1 on RAIUNO here in italy said that Obama's Grandmother died. This true?

RIP

Yeah, she died early yesterday (of cancer, I don't know what kind) but they didn't announce until last night. BAWLED.

Where in Italy are you?

i just lost my own grandmother so i'm very sympathetic to obama wanting to make the trip to hawaii. if he has any trouble reimbursing his campaign i'll gladly donate to the cause.

Venice, just saw it was yesterday on the front page of corriere della sera. My bad but I am not loading this monster by blackberry.

I hate it when people who are not me are somehow allowed to go to Venice.

dixville notch votes for the democrat for the first time since 1968.

republicans, you suck so hard, you lost dixville notch.

Christ, dixville notch is such a blatant tranny porn name

LOL true, it's a burlesque act with Saxby Chambliss.

Might be time for the new thread so Prince Charming above doesn't experience further Blackberry issues, yes?

yeah we should have a results thread

possibly with some kind of DIXVILLE NOTCH joke in the title

It's actually Election Day for most of you now, so new thread time.

Say it loud, say it proud US citizens :

PRESIDENT OBAMA

2008 USGE RESULTS THREAD PS GOP U LOST DIXVILLE NOTCH LOL

I guess I should change this title to "penultimate"

Republicans - prepare for annihilation.

All your base are now belong to us.

This is my first Pacific time / mail in ballot election. On one hand it's nice to leisurely fill out my ballot at home and drop it in the mail, but I'm seriously going to miss actually going somewhere to vote tomorrow - it's just kind of a cool feeling to see people out doing civic duty and all.

But seeing the results starting to come in as I get home from work and having everything (hopefully) decided by the time I go to bed is going to be really nice.

can brits on twitter and beyond stop imploring americans to do the right thing it is horrible and patronising kthxbye

"clark county project" 2004 never forget

jhosh don't listen to tht pleasant plains I cdn't get the url to karl rove's ugly mug either *hi five*

hey wait wd tht starbucks thing work in scotland if I lied abt my citizenship?

I have a copy of a friend's postal ballot for Virginia. Mocha latte puhlease. PS Good luck USA.

pp totally just guessed the rove.com/images/header.jpg path - its not even sliced liked the real header - navigation woulnt be live if you used that one!

I don't even know wht tht means *hi five*

boooyaaah!

I have enjoyed this conversation

most important is the skins losing to ROFLs and leftwich. LEFTWICH PEOPLE!

(i look forward to brits trying to parse that)

hey wait wd tht starbucks thing work in scotland if I lied abt my citizenship?

― czn (cozwn), Tuesday, November 4, 2008 11:59 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

I am going to try this later on. I have a visa!

Not in Scotland though, because it's miles away. I will probably do this in Oxford.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/bkharmony/political-pictures-barack-obama-chi.jpg

Ben & Jerry's is also giving away free scoops today.

killer!

Could people just post on the election day thread and not this one anymore, it'd be easier to follow just one thread?

who are you, john mccain?

nah

Hey, you can't even vote in our election!

I just like to keep following the one I have been. Haven't noticed another thread.

2008 USGE RESULTS THREAD PS GOP U LOST DIXVILLE NOTCH LOL

Well no wonder I missed it. That title is horrendous.

GOOD LUCK USA! ///// I LOVE CRICKET ELECTION THREAD!

Good morning!

As soon as I teach my 9:30 class, I'm gonna vote. According to local media, 4.1 million Floridians have voted already, so I'm hoping the line ain't too bad in the middle of the morning (my precinct has just under 2,000 registered voters).

The last time a candidate was able to claim victory on Election Night was in 1996. At the very least, Shrubya never got to look wistfully to the open skies as balloons fell upon him. Lil' fucker.

"We can't guarantee that your candidate of preference will win on Nov. 4," said Chef Ron Rupocinski of Krispy Kreme, which will give out star-shaped doughnuts to customers at select locations. "But we can guarantee that your right to voice your choice will be rewarded with a patriotic doughnut that will remind you just how tasty freedom really is."

crap, you all should lock this thread so my valuable posts are not lost to the void.

Everybody go here now:
2008 USGE RESULTS THREAD PS GOP U LOST DIXVILLE NOTCH LOL