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

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.

KILL HIM at the Palin rally in Scranton

http://www.scrantontimes.com/articles/2008/10/14/news/doc48f4ba8994588930223377.txt

http://whall.org/blog/files/lolcats-finish-him.jpg

OOOOH JUST LIKE THE MOVIE NATIONAL TREASURE

McCain is such a tool. "Why are you accepting the endorsement (by Mrs. Annenberg) of someone who funnelled $50M to a group associated with a person you consider a terrorist, Senator?"

"We've got to get ourselves out of this hole. When you're in a hole what do you do to get out? You quit digging."

JFTR that does not actually get you out of the hole, GOVERNOR.

Start digging sideways

Stop digging start grooving

tunnel to nowhere

break a sewer line, wait for hole to fill with effluence

Rising tide lifts all boats, etc...

"Dig UP, stupid!"

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/10/14/opinion/20081014_OPCHART.html :D

Country band The Farmer's Daughter is performing for the standing-room-only crowd. They played a version of the Lynyrd Skynyrd anthem "Sweet Home Alabama" but substituted "Pennsylvania" in the lyrics.

uh, what did they do for all the other lyrics in that song? ("In Philadelphia they love Governor Rendell?" doesn't quite work)

sure it does, Shakey Mo

they just sang "ni**er" over and over again

^^ kill him

lolololol

http://www.wolfenstein3d.co.uk/KillHim2ts.gif

Mackro, why ever did you have to create a link in my brane between 'kill him' and 'bj'? So not cool.

http://us.st12.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/yhst-78507158105148_2024_6289581950

blame wolfenstein3D fan

christ, more of this bullshit, and this is from yesterday: http://thetimes-tribune.com/articles/2008/10/14/news/doc48f4ba8994588930223377.txt

Each time the Republican candidate for the seat in the 10th Congressional District mentioned Barack Obama the crowd booed loudly.

One man screamed "kill him!"

if I may be so callous, the only benefit to this is that swing voters are going to be more and more disgusted by mccain

After the line "In Birmingham they love the governor" they sing, "Boo! Boo! Boo!" -- Skynyrd wanted to make it clear that they didn't support Wallace.

So yeah, technically, changing it to Rendell would've worked. Not that it makes the misappropriation of the song any less nauseating.

its just the flip of the Republicans vilifying the "loony left" - they have their own unattractive lunatics that are now the core of their party.

(x-post)

So I guess the Friday thing in Minnesota where McCain was correcting the audience was just him playing the EVIL John McCain from Episode 557 Season 2.

altho the image of McCain yelling at his audience in a rally "GET A LIFE! You! Over there in the red shirt. Have you ever kissed a girl?" brings lulz

no, see Obama's NOT an Arab, but he IS a terrorist!

http://obama.3cdn.net/b889b999c93e7660f4_d0gmvywkn.jpg

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.

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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