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Obama Camp Has Now Raised More Than $10 Million Since Palin Speech
The cash keeps flowing in to the Obama campaign in the wake of Sarah Palin's speech, suggesting that whatever effect she's had on the GOP base has been duplicated on the Democratic side.
Obama spokesperson Tommy Vietor confirms that the campaign has now pulled in over $10 million since her speech -- a "one day record," Vietor says.
"I hope she gives a speech every day," Vietor joked.
Separately, the RNC reportedly raised $1 million after the speech.
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"suggesting that whatever effect she's had on the GOP base has been duplicated on the Democratic side."
$10 million != $1 million
September 4, 2008 9:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Money talks, bullshit walks.
And another two-fiddy of that was mine.
I think I'm skating the edge - I better check for real next time before I hit that button.
LOL
September 4, 2008 9:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL Tena, you have to be maxed out by now youve given so much!
September 4, 2008 9:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Big wet kiss, Tena, darlin.
Keep talking, Sarah. Wade on out and take a few questions from the traveling press corps.
This keeps up, Palin may have to file as an Obama contributor.
September 4, 2008 9:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thank y'all - you're sweet but everybody helps.
:)
The only way we can lose if they steal it and if they steal it they may not like what happens next - I just can't see Americans letting that happen again. I talk to too many who know very well what's been going on and are really fed up. That started over a year ago. The bumper stickers that used to get me chased and yelled at? Suddenly, strangers are telling me starting a year ago: "Hey, I agree with all those stickers!" The "Worst President Ever" sticker, the "impeach Bush/Cheney sticker," et al.
It was an amazing sea change, but it really changed. And I don't think they can get away with the shit anymore.
September 4, 2008 10:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
After the FISA thing, I was going to let Obama sink or swim with only my vote, not my money.
But the idea of lunatics like Palin and the people screaming their lungs out for her getting anywhere near the White House got me to break out my wallet for a $250 donation my self.
And, being from IL, I'm planning to volunteer to go to MI or MO to help in any way I can. While Obama may turn out to be too conservative to be my ideal president, these people will run what's left of my country completely off the edge of the cliff. I can't stand idly by and let that happen
September 5, 2008 12:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ha! that's what you can do if you're a COMMUNITY ORGANIZER, McCain.
September 4, 2008 9:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Assuming the RNC take was about the same for the McCain campaign, I have an extremely hard time reconciling it with some of the doom-and-gloom writeups I've seen over the SUSA and CBS polls.
September 4, 2008 9:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is why I firmly believe national polls are utter bullshit.
I really do
September 4, 2008 9:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
wow.
September 4, 2008 9:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Palin Speech:
The operation was successful - but the patient died.
September 4, 2008 9:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
I suppose that what happens when you send in a pitbull to do a doctor's job.
September 4, 2008 9:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
A pitbull in lipstick, no less.
Just using her own words...
September 4, 2008 9:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
lol....great comment Gay...
September 4, 2008 9:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm beginning to think that this really is a boon for Obama and Biden.
Not just the money, either. Next to these two, do they not look like serious people that you want running your country, as long as you aren't a batshit insane fundie or a billionaire?
September 4, 2008 9:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Or a war profiteer or war mad lunatic.
September 4, 2008 9:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Of course the worse of them is the batshit insane, war mad lunatic fundie who became a billionaire as a war profiteer.
September 4, 2008 9:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
My husband had his teeth cleaned at the end of the day, and NOW he's watching the Repubs so I don't have to. That, my friends, is heroism.
September 4, 2008 9:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
O I concur!
Give that man a - well, I guess I shouldn't go there in public.
;)
September 4, 2008 9:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sounds like you've got a good one!
September 4, 2008 9:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Don't you just love the Christian fundies selling beer?
September 4, 2008 9:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'll vote for Bud, yup yup.
September 4, 2008 9:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Governor Palin Was “Simply Brilliant”
ABC’s George Stephanopoulos: “She Gets An ‘A.’” ABC’s CYNTHIA MCFADDEN: “Joining me now is ABC’s chief Washington correspondent George Stephanopoulos for the Nightline report card. So George, what about it, did she win them over?” STEPHANOPOULOS: “She definitely gets an ‘A’ for this, especially when you look at that crowd tonight. They loved every minute of her speech, but also I think to the television audience, she was appealing, she was funny, she was warm at times, very, very tough at times as well. And she really did have an ability to bring these things down to earth, bring these issues down to earth, like when she talked about saving money in the state of Alaska.” (ABC’s “Nightline,” 9/3/08)
· NBC’s Tom Brokaw: “She Could Not Have Been More Winning Or Engaging.” “Tonight makes a very auspicious debut as the vice presidential candidate before this hall and a national television audience. She could not have been more winning or engaging.” (NBC’s “Republican National Convention Coverage,” 9/3/08)
· CNN’s Anderson Cooper: Governor Palin “Is A Force To Be Reckoned With.” “I mean as you said a star was born certainly for the Republican Party. Whether you agree with her or disagree with her, no one has any doubt, I think listening to that speech, that she is a force to be reckoned with.” (CNN’s, “CNN Election Center,” 9/4/08)
· CNN’s Candy Crowley: “She Was, I Thought, Terrific.” (CNN’s “Republican National Convention,” 9/3/08)
· CNN’s Wolf Blitzer: “And She Not Only Hit A Home Run, It Might Have Been Even A Grand Slam.” (CNN’s “CNN Election Center,” 9/4/08)
· CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin: “This Speech Was A Heck Of A Lot Better Than Joe Biden’s Speech.” “Well, let’s just start with an obvious point that I don’t think anyone has made yet. This speech was a heck of a lot better than Joe Biden’s speech.” (CNN’s, “CNN Election Center,” 9/4/08)
Think dumbass Oilbama wishes he picked Hillary now? Thank God she did not jump on board the empty suit cultist Oilbamabot ship. The only thing Oilbama has ever accomplished since he arrived in the Senate was to vote for his buddy Dick Cheney's Energy Bill. Meanwhile Sarah Palin
has cleaned up the largest state in the Union
while raising 5 kids.
September 4, 2008 9:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
This list is an idictment of the craven GOP-addled MSM.
The ass-kissers don't report on, say, outrageous lies or vitriol, just "great theater".
Goebbels was good theater, by the way.
September 4, 2008 9:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
I see Dem BillC and in my mind letters re-arrange into Imbecille.
September 4, 2008 9:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dem BillC, almost an anagram for Imbecille.
September 4, 2008 9:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
You wasted 2 minutes signing up to write that bullshit. That u have life? you troll...lol
September 4, 2008 9:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
You wasted 2 minutes signing up to write that bullshit. BillC, don't u have life? you troll...lol
September 4, 2008 9:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Reminds me a bit of the vice-presidential debates in 1992. Quayle came off (initially) sounding like the most authoritative voice, until the next day when it turned out he'd made everything up.
Unfortunately, the standards that normally hold for talking about people (libel, slander, etc.) don't appear to hold true for politics.
It's sad that the GOP is now the party of sex (Lots, but only if it's likely to result in pregnancy) and lies.
September 4, 2008 10:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Think dumbass Oilbama wishes he picked Hillary now? Thank God she did not jump on board the empty suit cultist Oilbamabot ship."
Her Dem Bill C, how about you going over to Noquarters and giving Larry Johnson that ritualistic handjob you always do - you fucking asshole you. That said, you know that a person is desperate when they start quoting media pundits, here's a tip - kill yourself.
September 5, 2008 7:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
I have felt a lot better about party unity after the primaries, when it be came immediately evident that the same "Hillary Supporters" who were smearing Obama were actually lurking Conservatives.
I had suspected as much, but they have shown this to be true. Nowhere more so, I might add, than on theleftcoaster.com. That site was plagued by insincere posters claiming to be HRC supporters in order to slam Obama with every Hannity/Limbaugh taking point imaginable, things no Dem would say. That was the tell.
The funniest part is that, although you don't have to register to comment on the site, they are now openly supporting McCain and openly Republican while voluntarily posting under the same names they used before. They aren't even trying to cover up the fact that they were lying!
Dem BillC fits this mold perfectly
September 5, 2008 9:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
I have felt a lot better about party unity after the primaries, when it became immediately evident that the same "Hillary Supporters" who were smearing Obama were actually lurking Conservatives.
I had suspected as much, but they have shown this to be true. Nowhere more so, I might add, than on theleftcoaster.com. That site was plagued by insincere posters claiming to be HRC supporters in order to slam Obama with every Hannity/Limbaugh taking point imaginable, things no Dem would say. That was the tell.
The funniest part is that, although you don't have to register to comment on the site, they are now openly supporting McCain and openly Republican while voluntarily posting under the same names they used before. They aren't even trying to cover up the fact that they were lying!
Dem BillC fits this mold perfectly.
September 5, 2008 9:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
I don't know what to think. I wanted a blow out this election. I'm disappointed in the press for protecting the GOP so much. But then they are members of the club, so......I just wish there weren't any wolves hiding in Democratic clothing. We'll have to wait and see. I need to let go of this stuff for now. I got now control over it, and there are things that have to be done. So, I'm out of here for a while. See ya.
September 4, 2008 9:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
O Josh has a real winner up:
Apparently, Ms Sarah's husband was married to someone else when they started dating.
see, I would just never run for office. I have a colorful past and I'd just as soon let it be my wonderful and delicious memory in my old age.
Not all over the fucking media.
LOL!
September 4, 2008 9:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sweet. Kind of like Johnny having a wife when he met Cindy. Peas in a pod.
September 4, 2008 9:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Talking about John and Cindy I believe. Didn't mention his first wife...
September 4, 2008 9:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
And, in true repub tradition, began their relationship on both of the not telling the truth about their age. Who cares about the truth.
September 4, 2008 9:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, definitely about McCain and Cindy.
September 4, 2008 9:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
We Christians call that adultery. It's in the Bible. You can look it up.
September 4, 2008 9:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
O - I totally misread that if they meant John and Cindy.
d'oh.
and darn.
September 4, 2008 9:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
You is really hard-o-readin, aintcha?
September 4, 2008 10:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's talking about McCain.
September 4, 2008 9:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah - I don't know what Sarah's husband's name is -
Jeff?
September 4, 2008 9:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Todd.
September 4, 2008 9:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
In which case they edited out the half-siblings.
September 4, 2008 9:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Another $25 from us (had to pay for kids' soccer club fees this week - all 4 of them).
September 4, 2008 9:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey thanks - sounds like you really stretch it so you can give and that's really above and beyond.
:)
September 4, 2008 10:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
All right, Obama supporters! Give what you can. Stupidity has to be defeated with cold hard cash.
http://pufferfish.typepad.com/
September 4, 2008 9:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Lindsey Grahm says Obama "doesn't get it."
Palin and McCain are talking about "change."
Are they for real with this shit?!
September 4, 2008 9:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tomorrow, i'll make a $ 5 donation the Obama campaign. Although, its no much, it can a long way.
Please donate!
September 4, 2008 9:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
The token black from Rwanda?!?
September 4, 2008 9:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
and such the thunderous applause the repubs gave her. pathetic.
September 4, 2008 9:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tomorrow, i'll make a $ 5 donation the Obama campaign. Although, its no much, it can a long way.
September 4, 2008 9:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey - it's the small donors that have gotten Obama where he is.
I'll be so fucking glad when this stupid convention of demons and hell's barons and duchesses is over.
September 4, 2008 10:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
$25 from me.
September 4, 2008 9:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
I just noticed they got rid of last nights intrusive Media Matters banner. Whoo hoo! Thanks!
September 4, 2008 9:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Still up for me. It must be a rotating banner.
September 4, 2008 9:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ah, I'm on a different computer tonight with a different browser.
September 4, 2008 10:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Indiana close...McInsane is in serious trouble and there is no lipstick he can out on the bullshit that is his campign
September 4, 2008 9:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
My wife and I have donated every night the GOP convention has been on. We figure every dollar we give now saves us ten or twenty dollars towards an affordable college education for our kids fifteen years from now.
September 4, 2008 9:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
I am a lifelong Democrat who sent a check off to McCain this week. Oilbama, besides voting for Dick Cheney's Energy Bill, and making friends with Terrorists like William Ayers, Racists like Rev Wright, and scumbag Slumlords like Rezco, is way to much of an empty suit to support unless you are a cultist Obamabot. Country First.
September 4, 2008 9:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Every time this idiot say something stupid, I'll donate five bucks.
...shit, there goes fifty dollars.
September 4, 2008 10:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
You're gonna go broke - and I'm not joking.
That's all the imbecile ever posts -
September 4, 2008 10:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ok, you are a solid beginner troll. Good work on the false spin regarding Rezco, et al. But you have some real negatives here. For one thing, "Oilbama" just doesn't make sense...that's a terrible nick. You have to use names that reflect something negative about the candidate, such as "Manymansions McCain" or "Exxon John." Second, the "empty suit" jab is so three weeks ago...everyone now knows that Obama is all brains and substance, so using that old smear just makes you look silly (especially in light of the new "empty suit" on the scene, Gov. Palin). Finally, drop the "Democrat supporting McCain" shtick...no one believes it and it wastes space that could be used for more smears and lies.
Look, your job as a troll is to do one or more of the following:
1) Disrupt a thread and throw it into chaos
2) Sell your own candidate
3) Undermine the community's confidence in their own candidate
You failed in all 3. You have the troll tone down, but not the skill. Keep working at it and you'll do your part in degrading public discourse.
September 4, 2008 10:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
I am a lifelong Democrat...
No you're not. You have nothing in common with Democrats. You can't just say you're a Democrat while hating everything about Democrats and siding with people who represent everything that Democrats are against. It makes no sense.
You're a Republican. Admit it. And then go away.
September 4, 2008 11:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
"..besides voting for Dick Cheney's Energy Bill, and making friends with Terrorists like William Ayers, Racists like Rev Wright, and scumbag Slumlords like Rezco"
The same old republican talking points used when the inbred person speaking doesn't have anything substantive to say. Whenever I see some asshat rifle off the same group of usual suspects, I always want to ask: "Why don't you just call the guy a nigger already and get it over with? You'd probably feel much better."
September 5, 2008 7:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
Tomorrow, i'll make a $ 5 donation the Obama campaign. Although, its no much, it can a long way.
September 4, 2008 9:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Football ended on time. Rating comparison will be interesting. McCain should draw 30M+...
September 4, 2008 9:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Don't forget that college football is on, too, and it's a relatively close game.
September 4, 2008 10:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
I turned it on a bit ago, and Cindy turned her robot gaze upon the camera to express her sorrow at people losing their homes.
I got scared, and tuned to another news channel. In the brief ten seconds she went from forclosures to how we have to GET GOVERNMENT OUT OF THE WAY! Because the government is keeping people like the McCains from saving poor people's homes.
Now I'm watching last night's Letterman. Makes a lot more sense.
September 4, 2008 10:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Please give me an update on Republican convention because i have decided not to watch it
September 4, 2008 10:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm not watching either. I'm still having flashbacks of the green-screen debacle.
September 4, 2008 10:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
THEY DID IT AGAIN!!!
He's sitting in front of a green screen right now. I can only imagine that they're daring us at this point.
September 4, 2008 10:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Are they serious with this?!?!?!?
September 4, 2008 10:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
They swapped it to a bluescreen, but by that time, I was done. McCain is a horrible public speaker if he's not actively engaged in warmongering.
September 4, 2008 10:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
A gathering of Jesus freaks, goobers and fascists. Throw in a few millionaires and sociopaths and you have it
September 5, 2008 1:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
Now this war video thing, I could swear I saw this film back in the '50s. Does the music seem a bit 1940ish? They must really have a lot of old people in that party.
September 4, 2008 10:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Strictly BIBLICALLY Speaking:
Adultery is a property crime of a man using another man's property. Both the man and the woman who is married to another are guilty if two witnesses declare in open court that they witnessed the transgression.
A man having sex with a woman is executing the second half of a wedding CONTRACT - The exchanging of tokens. He is simply exercising his maritial perrogetive with his subsquent wife. Unless the man in question had executed had executed a proper divorce to the prior wife, the issue is bigamy not adultery.
This is why the Rapturians should stick with their own farging book of the dead.
SIDE NOTE: If the National Enquirer is correct MRS. Pain is boffing some dude that is NOT her husband *AND* THAT IS ADULTERY.
September 4, 2008 10:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
POWs are naturally good at a lot of things...
Juggling
Trigonometry
Reading upside down
Being President
Super Mario Bros
Dunno why, they just are.
September 4, 2008 10:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL!
September 4, 2008 10:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Strictly BIBLICALLY Speaking:
Adultery is a property crime of a man using another man's property. Both the man and the woman who is married to another are guilty if two witnesses declare in open court that they witnessed the transgression.
A man having sex with a woman is executing the second half of a wedding CONTRACT - The exchanging of tokens. He is simply exercising his maritial perrogetive with his subsquent wife. Unless the man in question had executed had executed a proper divorce to the prior wife, the issue is bigamy not adultery.
This is why the Rapturians should stick with their own farging book of the dead.
SIDE NOTE: If the National Enquirer is correct MRS. Pain is boffing some dude that is NOT her husband *AND* THAT IS ADULTERY.
September 4, 2008 10:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
For those of you who aren't going to try and suffer through the speech, you should watch this - it's absolutely hilarious:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7YTf08xjpE
September 4, 2008 10:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sorry. I have gotta stop posting from my Treo. Sigh.
September 4, 2008 10:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
I gave but not the first time around. When I first read Plouffe's solicitation the min stated amount (you can give less) was $100. Later it dropped to 15
September 4, 2008 10:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
I gave but not the first time around. When I first read Plouffe's solicitation the min stated amount (you can give less) was $100. Later it dropped to 15
September 4, 2008 10:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
So apparently I tuned in for the best few seconds - some protesters getting dragged off the convention floor.
September 4, 2008 10:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's happened several times. If the crowd starts chanting "USA" randomly, you know someone's getting tackled somewhere.
September 4, 2008 10:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Their visuals really suck! He's still got that green thing on the closeups with the crowd in the background (green signs?) and that tiny flag on the enormous blue field doesn't do him well at all.
Crap - it's a blue screen challenge! Hopefully he says something really really stupid.
September 4, 2008 10:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
They did the green thing again?
September 4, 2008 10:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nah, it's blue this time. I think the crowd has green on one side of their signs, so on some closeups it looks green.
Everything else - solid blue projection screen (with a tiny flag off to stage left on the screen so it never shows up behind McCain).
September 4, 2008 10:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
It was green for the first 10 mins. It was a giant picture of a lawn and some building. But when it zoomed it on him it was pure green.
September 4, 2008 10:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ok, I turned it on - is he fucking creepy, or what?
O ick!
September 4, 2008 10:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm having a lot of fun watching this with mute on.
September 4, 2008 10:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
I seriously can't wrap my head around the idea of trying to co-opt "change" this late in the game.
September 4, 2008 10:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
AP has a story about the speech already. I kid you not!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080905/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_convention_rdp
September 4, 2008 10:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
They release the text early so writers can file their stories quickly. Not really reporting IMO - but that's what we get these days.
September 4, 2008 10:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
They've decided that John is the good cop and Sarah is the bad cop. But at least we don't have to listen to the vitriol tonight. I'm glad he said the kind words of respect about Obama.
September 4, 2008 10:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
OMG the green backdrop is hideous!
Didn't they learn from last time?
September 4, 2008 10:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ok, my girl friend just turn it to McCain's speech
September 4, 2008 10:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe I'm biased, but I don't detect one ounce of sincerity when he talks about people's struggles.
September 4, 2008 10:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Did McCain just mentioned lobbyst? Isn't he taking money from the lobbyist?
September 4, 2008 10:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
I ead his speech and about 1/4 recounts the POW days...
September 4, 2008 10:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why did he say he fought union bosses when he keeps talking about regular working folk?
Last week when he announced the VP choice (town?) He was pro union and Sarah even talked about how her husband was a union member. What the ...?
September 4, 2008 10:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's called pandering out of both sides of his mouth.
September 4, 2008 10:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
VERY thin on actual PROBLEMS people have and ideas to deal with them, IMO...
September 4, 2008 10:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
"We lost their trust..."
So give us another 4 years?
September 4, 2008 10:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's the motto (c/o Aasif Mandvi):
Give us one more chance
And we promise not to fuck it up this time
September 4, 2008 11:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
The part of Roosevelt and Reagan?
September 4, 2008 10:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Teddy, dontcha know...
September 4, 2008 10:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Soo...
Where's McCain's flag ping? Why Sen. McCain hate America?
September 4, 2008 10:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
err...flag pin
Doesn't he know that someone will question is patriotism now? I mean, surely they will, right?
September 4, 2008 10:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's a POW dammit!
September 4, 2008 10:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't understand the backdrop. I mean they've got a picture of a massive flag pole with an American flag atop it...but none of that is actually visible on camera while he's speaking. You just see solid blue. They should've just gone with a one large flapping flag graphic or something.
September 4, 2008 10:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama passed corporate welfare for oil companies?
Jesus H Chrysler!! What fucking universe is this?
September 4, 2008 10:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's lying about Obama's position on rising taxes!!! He's lying about lots of stuff!!!!
September 4, 2008 10:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Of course he is, but they no longer care about facts. They've got Fox News and the AP, and anyone else that bothers to factcheck them, they'll just dismiss them as the sexist liberal media picking on them. They'll ride that message, win or lose until election day, because they have nothing else to run on.
I despise these people so much. I honestly never thought I'd have this level of contempt for a group of people, but then I made the mistake of watching their convention.
September 4, 2008 10:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Did he say he was getting rid of unemployment benefits?
Holy shit, did I hear that?
September 4, 2008 10:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why is McCain lying about Obama's record? This guy is lying and he is hoping media doesn't call him out on it.
September 4, 2008 10:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm watching McCain and feel like this is the last safe stretch of a roller-coaster convention. He SUCKS, SUCKS, SUCKS, and still SUCKS. Where are all the details he promised? The audience is snoozing by now.
"Education is the Civil Rights Issue of this century," says the guy who proudly graduated 5th from the bottom of his class and chose a running mate who attended 5 colleges in 6 years.
September 4, 2008 10:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Are they just picking out every hot young female republican and zooming in?
September 4, 2008 10:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why is McCain lying about Obama's record? This guy is lying and he is hoping media doesn't call him out on it.
September 4, 2008 10:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
FAILING SCHOOLS!!!!
MORE TEACHER BASHING. LET'S NOT CONSIDER ANY OF THE FUNDING AND SOCIETAL ISSUES THAT IMPACT EDUCATIONAL PERFOMANCE.
IGNORANCE......
September 4, 2008 10:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
I can see why he stays on the POW thing. When he gets off it, he's totally incoherent.
September 4, 2008 10:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
I could swear he said that unemployment insurance was meant for the economy of the 50s and he'd get rid of it -
did I hear that?
September 4, 2008 10:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, he's gonna "change" it...by eliminating it? Revamping it? What? C'mon Johnny...
September 4, 2008 10:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
He never got unemployment checks in Hanoi!!!
September 4, 2008 10:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yep. Josh caught it on the front page too.
September 4, 2008 10:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's what I heard as well.
Gets scarier and scarier, don't it.
I gave twenty semolians to Obama today. After this I think I'll make it an even thirty.
September 4, 2008 10:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Iran fearmongering and Russia fearmongering.
The Republican Party - The party of FEAR.
September 4, 2008 10:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow - he'll ask Democrats to serve with him!
September 4, 2008 10:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Thanks. But, no thanks."
September 4, 2008 11:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
I can't believe it - it was the Repug platform with Change Change Change =
wow
September 4, 2008 11:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tack on another $25 to that $10M, courtesy of me.
September 4, 2008 11:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain is not lying when he says Oilbama voted with Dick Cheney and supported Cheney's Big Oil Energy Bill. Oilbama did vote with his buddy Cheney in the biggest givaway to the Oil Companies in this Nations History.
McCain, even though it was voting against his own party, voted against Cheney's Energy Bill putting America first. Oilbama put Oilbama first as always.
September 4, 2008 11:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
"McCain, even though it was voting against his own party, voted against Cheney's Energy Bill putting America first. Oilbama put Oilbama first as always."
Man, I wish this internet thing wasn't so anonymous, because I'm certain that some kind citizen would have kicked your teeth down your fucking throat by now.
September 5, 2008 7:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
I never donated twice in the same day. These bucks are for you, Dumb Bill C.
The only thing that got me through the day was Jon Stewart's segment on Karl Rove, Bill O'Rielly and Dick Morris. If you haven't seen it, go to the Comedy Central website and run Wednesday night's show. It's great.
Also a couple Leno jokes from last night:
John McCain was so concerned about the hurricane victims that he let 200,000 of them stay in some of his empty houses around the country.
Sarah Palin was right at home looking out over the GOP delegates at the convention center. You know, looking out over a great white expanse.
September 5, 2008 12:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
yea that was pure gold showing all the rubbish they talk and how they have filled so fast
September 5, 2008 1:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
I never donated twice in the same day. These bucks are for you, Dumb Bill C.
The only thing that got me through the day was Jon Stewart's segment on Karl Rove, Bill O'Rielly and Dick Morris. If you haven't seen it, go to the Comedy Central website and run Wednesday night's show. It's great.
Also a couple Leno jokes from last night:
John McCain was so concerned about the hurricane victims that he let 200,000 of them stay in some of his empty houses around the country.
Sarah Palin was right at home looking out over the GOP delegates at the convention center. You know, looking out over a great white expanse.
September 5, 2008 12:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
I never donated twice in the same day. These bucks are for you, Dumb Bill C.
The only thing that got me through the day was Jon Stewart's segment on Karl Rove, Bill O'Rielly and Dick Morris. If you haven't seen it, go to the Comedy Central website and run Wednesday night's show. It's great.
Also a couple Leno jokes from last night:
John McCain was so concerned about the hurricane victims that he let 200,000 of them stay in some of his empty houses around the country.
Sarah Palin was right at home looking out over the GOP delegates at the convention center. You know, looking out over a great white expanse.
September 5, 2008 12:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hi everybody, This is my 1st post. I spend too much time at work reading you folks, but it's the best snark on the internets. I finally cracked open the wallet tonight and send in $50 and bought some nice lawn ornaments. I live in Michelle Bachman's district, I don't want one of those near the Whitehouse. Go bama!!
September 5, 2008 12:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
That's great!
I've been putting off donating to the Obama campaign because there just isn't enough left at the end of each month since I lost my job....(thanks to Bush and his miserable policies)........but I made my first donation tonight because I refuse to allow petty, arrogant, lying, out-of-touch right-wingers from destroying America further. Palin and McSame can bite it.
September 5, 2008 1:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
I never donated twice in the same day. These bucks are for you, Dumb Bill C.
The only thing that got me through the day was Jon Stewart's segment on Karl Rove, Bill O'Rielly and Dick Morris. If you haven't seen it, go to the Comedy Central website and run Wednesday night's show. It's great.
Also a couple Leno jokes from last night:
John McCain was so concerned about the hurricane victims that he let 200,000 of them stay in some of his empty houses around the country.
Sarah Palin was right at home looking out over the GOP delegates at the convention center. You know, looking out over a great white expanse.
September 5, 2008 12:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
Sorry, my computer is went Republican on me. It's all screwed up.
September 5, 2008 12:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ten million plus a hundred bucks from me tonight. Assholes. How dare they fuck with us? We'll bury them.
September 5, 2008 12:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
Just as the media kept telling us how friendly, folksy and warm-hearted Bush was, I've been hearing all this media buzz about her being a star, dynamic, etc. (cf. Tom Shales in the Washington Post). I saw a typical, nasty, mean-spirited, angry GOPer with beady eyes, tons of cheap sarcasm, and supreme self-satisfaction. She is one more great reason to give again to the Obama campaign.
September 5, 2008 6:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
I suspected a large part of her massive TV audience were Democrats like me. Anecdotal evidence from work and the online community seems to bare this out.
So I'm not at all surprised Democrats were motivated by it.
It was a truly rotten and deceitful. If it were intended to pull in Hillary supporters, I'm afraid the unabashedly hateful tone toward Democrats will have caused it to backfire on that front also.
September 5, 2008 8:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think my brother's comments best sum it up:
"But actually I have had a life changing illumination because of all this. It goes like this.
She and half the people in USA have a special relationship with god. If you don't accept that as true the alternative is that half the species are jumped up, narcissistic, insane, f***ing little weasels. And pyramiding delusions they imagine their delusions are worthy of respect. And since that is an even crazier hypothesis, the first one has to be true."
September 5, 2008 12:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think my brother's comments best sum it up:
"But actually I have had a life changing illumination because of all this. It goes like this.
She and half the people in USA have a special relationship with god. If you don't accept that as true the alternative is that half the species are jumped up, narcissistic, insane, f***ing little weasels. And pyramiding delusions they imagine their delusions are worthy of respect. And since that is an even crazier hypothesis, the first one has to be true."
September 5, 2008 4:12 PM | Reply | Permalink