Obama On Cheney's Endorsement Of McCain: Congratulations, John!
In Colorado later this afternoon, Barack Obama will pounce on Dick Cheney's endorsement of John McCain earlier today. From the prepared remarks:
I'd like to congratulate Senator McCain on this endorsement because he really earned it. That endorsement didn't come easy. Senator McCain had to vote 90 percent of the time with George Bush and Dick Cheney to get it. He served as Washington's biggest cheerleader for going to war in Iraq, and supports economic policies that are no different from the last eight years. So Senator McCain worked hard to get Dick Cheney's support.But here's my question for you, Colorado: do you think Dick Cheney is delighted to support John McCain because he thinks John McCain's going to bring change? Do you think John McCain and Dick Cheney have been talking about how to shake things up, and get rid of the lobbyists and the old boys club in Washington?
Colorado, we know better. After all, it was just a few days ago that Senator McCain said that he and President Bush share a "common philosophy." And we know that when it comes to foreign policy, John McCain and Dick Cheney share a common philosophy that thinks that empty bluster from Washington will fix all of our problems, and a war without end in Iraq is the way to defeat Osama bin Laden and the al Qaeda terrorists who are in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
So George Bush may be in an undisclosed location, but Dick Cheney's out there on the campaign trail because he'd be delighted to pass the baton to John McCain. He knows that with John McCain you get a twofer: George Bush's economic policy and Dick Cheney's foreign policy -- but that's a risk we cannot afford to take.
A huge gift.
Christmas sometimes comes in November.
November 1, 2008 2:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
This year, on November 4th!
November 1, 2008 2:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Woooohooo!!!!
November 1, 2008 2:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Just when I start to get worried again, someone from the McCain camp opens their mouth. Between this, Palin sayin' we're already fightin' Iran gosh darn it, and Sen. Ensign praising Biden over Palin, it's shaping up to be a blockbuster final three days.
November 1, 2008 2:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
This beats an illegal half-aunt.
November 1, 2008 2:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes.
Instead of political coverage on the illegal half-aunt, we'll have political coverage divided between this and the half-aunt story.
November 1, 2008 3:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Actually, the half-aunt is perfectly legal.
Her continued residence in the US is alleged to be illegal.
(Some nits are worth picking.)
November 1, 2008 4:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
I didn't know that. Then again, I'm not paying close attention to the aunt story.
November 1, 2008 4:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
you forgot to put story in air quotes (or rather, "dick fingers").
November 1, 2008 8:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Presumption of innocence. And in view of the vfact that such information is to be confidential, by law, the lawbreakers who leaked the allegation cannot be trusted to be telling the truth.
Unless one believes criminals would never lie.
November 1, 2008 10:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama's getting his snark on!
November 1, 2008 2:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
And his snark is so nicely done, too!
November 1, 2008 4:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
That was very nice of Mr. Cheney. Very nice indeed. I hope they take this into account when his trial in Hague gets to the sentencing stage.
November 1, 2008 2:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
I would rule such evidence inadmissable, as such evidence would doubtless misinform and prejudice the jury that Cheney has at least one bone in his body that isn't evil.
November 1, 2008 10:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nicely played, Mr. President-Elect-to-be.
November 1, 2008 3:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
God I love this man. I was just watching the vid of his closing argument in Nevada. It was wonderful. He's really bearing down on the sarcasm and enjoying it.
And I've been actually thanking Commander CooCoo Bananas for 7 years now, for helping me get Mr. Tena to vote a straight D ticket.
I'll be eternally grateful for everyone who was involved in putting Sarah Palin on the McLame ticket.
Now I find I'm a tad grateful to the Dark Lord of the Sith for coming out of hiding 3 days before the election and endorsing McLame.
LMAO!
November 1, 2008 3:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
George Worst President Ever Bush has not only been a great recruiting tool for America-hating terrorists, he's aldo been a great recruiting tool for America-loving Democrats.
Mostly he's just a tool.
I can't wait to be proud of the President again.
November 1, 2008 3:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sounds like some sort of acceptance speech.
November 1, 2008 10:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
"So George Bush may be in an undisclosed location, but Dick Cheney's out there on the campaign trail because he'd be delighted to pass the baton to John McCain. He knows that with John McCain you get a twofer: George Bush's economic policy and Dick Cheney's foreign policy"
Priceless!
November 1, 2008 3:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's so great when Obama pull out his inner SOB.
Sigh. I love this man.
GoBama!
November 1, 2008 3:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
I am bit surprised that no one has mentioned Ron Reagan's endorsement for Senator Obama.
I would have thought this would get some attention!!!
November 1, 2008 3:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well worth noting, as I did.
But this thread is about the celebration of Dick "Dick"/"Five Deferments" Cheney's endorsement of McSame.
November 1, 2008 10:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dick Cheney = Willie Horton
November 1, 2008 3:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama is so good at snark he can even get to be a poster at TPM if he works at it a little more.
November 1, 2008 3:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Send your donations to the Alaska Independence Church of Witchcraft, Northern Meth-Lab Division, Nowhere, AK 99901.
November 1, 2008 3:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oops. Meant as a reply to Tina's comment up-thread.
November 1, 2008 3:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
That will get it speedy delivery.
November 1, 2008 10:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
That will get it speedy delivery.
November 1, 2008 11:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
So glad to hear of McCain's latest "king of darkness" endorsement:-) Hopefully, it will drown out the continual lies coming out of both McCain and Palin's mouths. They are both unbelieveable!! All of a sudden, they are going to do all the social things Obama has always had in his plan....except, they don't say a word about HOW they are going to do anything! If we live in smart America, not dumb, fearful America that showed up in 2000 and 2004 and allowed elections to be "taken" away, we will be celebrating big time Tuesday night!! Go-Bama! Love it!
November 1, 2008 3:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nailed it. Hit it out of the park on all points.
They need to cut this up make it into a 60 second commercial buy to air all day Sunday during the games.
November 1, 2008 3:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
I just can't stop chuckling. Just when McScum is desperately pushing the "I'm not Bush" line... LOL! Cheney knowingly did that. He is sooo sadistic.
November 1, 2008 3:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Seriously. He could have stumped for the GOP candidates without saying anything about McCain. Sure, hearting McCain might go over big in Wyoming, but there's this new invention, known as YouTube which guarantees that everyone's going to be able to see that video whether they were watching at the time or not.
November 1, 2008 3:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Aha! You nailed it!
Dickwad Cheney is shoring up McSlime's chances in the battleground state of Wyoming!
November 1, 2008 3:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
I haven't seen any polls on Wyoming. Is it that irrelevant?
November 1, 2008 11:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
O MY GOD - I just got a door to door Obama canvasser who drove from California to work New Mexico. It was awesome.
She said all El Prado, which is next to Taos, is Obama and I said I thought the whole Taos Valley was. She said there were a few holdouts and I bet I know who they are - retirees from elsewhere. Anyhow, it was really cool!
November 1, 2008 3:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
That is impressive Tena.
November 1, 2008 4:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nah. All she had to do was answer the door, then converse with the canvasser.
What I'm interested about as concerns NM is the legal consequences for Pat Rogers and his goon Romero. I want not only Rogers' ass in jail, but all of Rogers there.
November 1, 2008 11:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nah. All she had to do was answer the door, then converse with the canvasser.
What I'm interested about as concerns NM is the legal consequences for Pat Rogers and his goon Romero. I want not only Rogers' ass in jail, but all of Rogers there.
November 1, 2008 11:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Check the polls before and after the Cheney endorsement. John McCheney probably lost 3 points.
:-)
November 1, 2008 3:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey John what unit? I was with 1/508
November 1, 2008 3:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Day started out badly with the "November surprise" of Obama's aunt but it got better once the Obama campaign released a statement that Obama didn't know her status and they were returning the money she donated the campaign.
Then it got better because the Mason-Dixon Florida poll which tends to lean Republican has Obama out front at 49% to 47%.
And finally it got super sweet after McCain was endorsed by Sir Dick.
November 1, 2008 3:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
The winds are REALLY going our way, something bad (well not bad just inconvenient in that it would distract people) happens and then 2 GOOD things happen to put us right back on track.
November 1, 2008 4:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Cheney is a lot of things, but stupid isn't one of them. There is more to this than meets the eye, and an angle I'm missing.
November 1, 2008 3:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL!
Jonzie, your life is just a tangle of angles.
;)
November 1, 2008 3:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
You kill me, T.
Where would Jonze be without your daily kick in his paranoid butt?
Best I can figure is he wants to make sure McCain holds on to the new battleground that is his home state of Wyoming.
November 1, 2008 3:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
I adore Jonze.
Which he ought to know by now cause I've said so often enough.
;)
Ok, that was server crash no. 1
November 1, 2008 4:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here's the angle: he thinks McCain is going to lose (he's not smoking the same fairy dust that Rick Davis is). He's there campaigning for the Republicans running for office because the race for the lone House seat is actually pretty close, and the Democrat (Gary Trauner) almost won in 2006.
He's rallying the Wyoming base (which gives him a 53 percent approval rating, btw).
November 1, 2008 4:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wyoming gives Cheney a 53 per cent approval rating!?
Why is Wyoming not being urged to secede?
November 1, 2008 11:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Leave it to Dick to come through in a pinch!
I don't know if I can create a link, but here is an attempt.
Gallop polls nov. 1
November 1, 2008 3:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
so the McCain campaign really thinks a Cheny endorsement can help them?? I mean after they spend the entire campaign trying to distance themselves from Bush (albeit not too successfully) three days before the election they seek the endorsment of Bush's VP? who's anathema to anybody but a Bushie?? RETARDED, RETARDED, I swear.. I can find no other adjective...
(as for the Auntie thing.. they really think voters will say, oh horror -- the auntie is here illegally -- ok, I've changed my mind, I do want four more years of Bush after all.....;)
November 1, 2008 3:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Personally I really doubt that and I think Obama doubts that, too, or he wouldn't be sarcastically congratulating McLame for this endorsement.
It's like being endorsed by Auguste Pinochet.
November 1, 2008 3:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tena, very funny you should say that, I'm from Chile, where Pinochet ruled for about 17 years... so yeah, I know what you mean...:) :)
November 1, 2008 4:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
I honestly believe that Cheney would have been Pinochet if this wasn't the US. He was itching to disappear people.
And wow - I can't believe I did make just that comparison with you and you are from Chile. Wow.
November 1, 2008 5:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Kissinger would be flattered by a Pinochet endorsement.
Nixon would also -- though would likely be shady about it -- except that Nixon is dead.
Yes: Nixon is dead, even though Cheney does his best to channel him.
November 1, 2008 11:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Cheney endorsement was McCain's "November surprise".
November 1, 2008 3:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ok, that was server crash No. 1 -
November 1, 2008 4:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Josh - please, please, please pay the ransom to whoever is holding your server hostage.
Sick the FBI on them on Nov 5, but if TPM isn't up and running for the next three days....
November 1, 2008 4:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well at least one member of the family provided good news for Sen Obama today !
November 1, 2008 4:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
what are you talking about?
November 1, 2008 4:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Cheney = distant relative of Obama. Distant relative who may push that other relative out of the news a bit.
November 1, 2008 4:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
but is that other relative really a big deal?
November 1, 2008 4:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Who the heck knows? IT doesn't have a banner headline at Drudge or The Page, but it is featured at CNN...
But here's the thing. Tomorrow, the blatherers will be yammering about McCain on SNL, the polls, the race, and, if we're lucky, that silly prank played on Palin (you have to listen to it--see links below).
November 1, 2008 4:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Can't wait to see my baby on Tuesday here in Chicago!
November 1, 2008 4:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, rub it in that you're going to be there.
November 1, 2008 4:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL, I'm just sayin...He better hope Michelle won't be there, cuz they'll seriously be a cat fight goin on...Why are all the good men takin?
Anyway, there's suppose to be a million people there. I don't want to see all those people...I just want to see my future husband!
November 1, 2008 4:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
How about a few days in DC on or about Jan. 20th '09? Ought to be a fun party as well.
November 1, 2008 4:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes! And I will be there too! Trust me...I'm a stalkmobile when it comes to him.
November 1, 2008 4:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
You might smarten up instead of presenting yourself as a Lewinski out to do damage for blind self-centered greed.
Wake up: Some things are NOT funny.
November 1, 2008 11:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Holy lack of a sense of humor, Batman. Lighten the hell up.
November 2, 2008 1:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
Okay, then. Let's talk freely about how Obama reminds us of Lincoln and JFK.
And not recall what happened to Lincoln and JFK.
Being thoughtless is not a way to be intelligent.
CLUE.
November 2, 2008 1:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
Wonder if this means McCain will be bringing up certain endorsements of Obama:
http://www.esquire.com/the-side/feature/racists-support-obama-061308
November 1, 2008 4:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
In reply to Tena:
Isn't Cheney supposed to be related to Sen Obama?
Sen Obama has referred to himas such before.
November 1, 2008 4:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah - CT explained. I forgot.
I'm probably related - I have a bunch of genetic markers in Kenya, too.
November 1, 2008 4:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yep Cheney is Obama's distant cousin. Luckily Dick didn't endorse Obama or he would have gotten two whammies from relatives today...LOL!
November 1, 2008 4:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why is McCain calling Joe Biden "Joe the Biden"?
Is it a joke or has he totally lost it?
November 1, 2008 4:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
He must think it's a joke from the Joe the Plumber mentality. Get it?
November 1, 2008 4:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
No. Not really. I mean, I get the "Joe the Plumber" reference, but I don't understand what it means beyond that. It just struck me as very odd.
November 1, 2008 4:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
The first time I saw him saying that, nobody in the audience reacted in any way. I just thought it was another "my fellow prisoners" moment, but looks like he keeps repeating it. Just weird, I think.
November 1, 2008 5:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Linsay Graham was saying that awhile back as well. Seems pretty stupid.
November 1, 2008 5:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe he means "Biding his time, until I win," or some other weird, cranky-old-rich-guy humorous drivel. drivelous humour.
November 1, 2008 6:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's calling Biden that name because John the Asshole is just that.
November 1, 2008 7:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's probably more of that Republican dipshit schoolyard crap of name calling akin to "the DEMOCRAT party"...I will be so fucking glad to see the last of these adolescent scumbags.
November 2, 2008 8:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
November 1, 2008 4:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is it just me...or is Chuck Todd obviously an Obama supporter that tries everything in his might to seem like he's balance by going overboard with too much negativity toward Obama and leniency toward McCain.
November 1, 2008 4:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
O/T.
Some Canadian comedy duo fooled Sarah Palin into thinking one of them was Nicholas Sarkozy.
Here's the call (click on the youtube version).
Sarah Palin gets pwned
No, I'm not joking.
November 1, 2008 4:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good minds think alike. I heard the You Tube site is getting hammered LOL
November 1, 2008 4:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Did you listen to it? You don't think she should have been a little suspicious when "Sarkozy" mentioned how good his wife was in bed?
Seriously?
November 1, 2008 4:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Joe Biden would have asked: "Is this a joke?" She is such an airhead.
November 1, 2008 4:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's a spectacular fail. Wow.
November 1, 2008 4:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Stunning. I even feel a tiny bit sorry for her.
November 1, 2008 4:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, I mean, so stunning it's even unreal. I'm speechless, literally. Wow. I mean, WOW. And how quickly she started flirting with him without any sign of suspicion... WOW.
November 1, 2008 5:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yup, yup. You betcha! Wink!
November 1, 2008 5:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Laughs about killing animals, pathetic. And the stupid laugh after the "you will be President one day." Honestly, she did not get the fact she was being pranked after the Joe the Plumber song, and Sarkozy's wife being good in bed???? WTF, this woman is just so low I.Q.
November 1, 2008 5:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Did you hear him reference "Nailin' Palin"? She let it slip right by.
November 1, 2008 5:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
"After 8 years, maybe". She knows McPalin are going to lose. And that 2012 is out.
The "maybe" is the illusion that's carrying her through. She has NO future nationally, and her political future in Alaska is in its last few minutes of the total 15.
Send her back to Wasilla so that Wasilla can kick her to the curb. Get he a job at Wal-Mart that isn't near the money.
November 1, 2008 11:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
OMG: Palin pranked so bad. She thought she was talking to France's President.
http://www.dailykos.com/
November 1, 2008 4:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
I just watched that from CT's link.
O. My. Fucking. God. She is beyond stupid - "give her a big ol hug for me."
[laughingsohardfallingoutofchairsideways]
November 1, 2008 5:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tena: Nailin' Palin' and she still stays on the phone???? This woman is thick as a brick. Laughing my ass off with you.
November 1, 2008 5:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
She doesn't LISTEN because she knows it all.
Her version of "feminism". Far-right. Being a sexist manipulator; and when that doesn't work by itself, bullying with her sex to back it up.
And if that doesn't work, and she can get away with it, restraining order.
It can lead to being in alleys where bullshitting ain't enough. At which point she getws huffy and hangs-up -- it's still someone else's fault.
November 2, 2008 1:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
That was so fun! Thanks for the link, Amelie
November 1, 2008 5:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's ok folks, Cheney was just helping out his distant cousing. OUCH that one even hurt when I said it.
November 1, 2008 4:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Damn I got beat on the joke!
November 1, 2008 4:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL!
November 1, 2008 4:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL!
November 1, 2008 4:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Damn I got beat on the joke!
November 1, 2008 5:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Little John le Conquerou. -- Muddy Waters.
November 2, 2008 1:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
Breaking News!
Your contribution may well tip the balance, Dickless. A man who shoots his friend in the face supports a man who shoots himself in the foot.
Thanks, Dork, helping to elect Obama, is probably the only decent thing you've ever done in your sadly prolonged and worthless life.
Now, fuck off back to your secret bunker.
November 1, 2008 5:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ok, I'll have to get the link, but HuffPo links to a story in GQ about who White Supremacists, and one Black Supremacist, are endorsing for president.
3 out of 4 White Supremacists interviewed think McLame is nuts!
I'm not kidding. LMAO!
November 1, 2008 5:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here's the link:
http://www.esquire.com/the-side/feature/racists-support-obama-061308
November 1, 2008 7:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here's the link:
http://www.esquire.com/the-side/feature/racists-support-obama-061308
November 1, 2008 7:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
So good.
November 1, 2008 5:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
I just listened to that crank call again and I just can't believe it's actually her. But it's sounds like they have basically confirmed it. Did you hear her at the beginning? "Hellooo" and then he says "please hold for president Sarkozy" and then you hear her in the background say "It's not him yet - I always do that".
November 1, 2008 5:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
I was born and raised in France, and live in San Francisco now.
Poor Sarah, she is so clueless. I just listened to the audio.
This is so funny, but so embarrassing for her!!! I hope the media will talk about this.
It shows that the campaign is clueless too. Do they really think that the French president will call her out of the blue. And that the advisers would not even vet anything!!!
My partner did listen too. Both have big smiles...It is hilarious!!!
This made my day!
November 1, 2008 5:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think the French title of the Joe-the-plumber song translates into something about lipstick and pigs ("rouge" & "couchon). Oui? Non? Peut etre?
November 1, 2008 5:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
I just read this on the Huffpo link to the story.
I don't know if it's accurate or not.
Yes, in French, it"s called " Du rouge à lèvres sur un cochonne " (Lipstick on a smutty girl) or if you prefer in English Joe the Plumber, [sings] It"s his life, Joe the Plumber..."
November 1, 2008 5:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
congratulations to Sen. McSame for his convenient endorsement from Dick Cheney...lol
November 1, 2008 5:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
A technical question: does an endorsement from Dick Cheney count as negative advertising?
November 1, 2008 5:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hahaha!
It sure does!
November 1, 2008 7:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not in the alternate universe, where up is down [etc.].
November 2, 2008 1:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
the kids and i just got home from phone canvassing with TEXAS imports (Tomhall???? near Houston)......wow! I thought New Mexico was considered blue. We were calling all over the State to make sure people had already sent in their absentee ballots, and telling them what to do if they hadn't.
AND, one of the managers of the office, a hispanic woman, made a beautiful altar in the office, and the kids and I added our picture to the altar.
in guad we trust.
November 1, 2008 5:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tomball, TX, NW of Houston. Not much more than a wide spot in the road. No offense to any Tomballians.
November 1, 2008 5:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
MSNBC carried the Pueblo rally where he gave these remarks live...have to say that it was far more snarkier on paper. Not that that's a bad thing.
And in the meantime, an Obama volunteer stopped by, asking if we needed rides on election day. First time that's ever happened. I live a couple of miles away from Minnesota Gov. Pawlenty...the heart of the state's Republican power base. It is going to be so sweet when Obama carries Timmy's old state house district!
November 1, 2008 6:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
No dancing in the streets until late Tuesday night PLEASE. Until then, GET TO WORK.
November 1, 2008 6:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have some news. Bill Burton was on Weekend Hardball just now with Chris Matthews and he said that Joe Biden will be going to Pennsylvania on Monday to campaign.
I am very glad. The Obama campaign can NOT take Pennsylvania for granted.
November 1, 2008 6:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
What's even more annoying is how Chris said the Mac campaigns negativity is like "beanbag" compared to some others.
November 1, 2008 7:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
The McCain campaign's negativity is like "beanbag" - but that's only because it is so inept.
November 1, 2008 7:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
More good news:)
http://www.cbsnews.com/
Early voters: Senator Obama +19%
Likely voters: Senator Obama +13%
November 1, 2008 7:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
You can tell me I'm nuts, but here's what I think: John McCain has pissed Bush/Cheney/Rove off over the years, but his public criticism of the administration over the last couple of weeks proved to be the last straw. Cheney's endorsement is a deliberate act of sabotage, a cold reprise of McCain's humiliation in the 2000 primaries. They hate this guy and this is one last, fatal thrust.
November 1, 2008 8:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
George, I can't say that I agree with your theory (that this was a stilleto in the back for McCain) but I commented on another blog how totally passionless and without conviction Cheney's endorsement was, and he just read it from a script that probably was written by someone else.
But then I also noticed that he looked weak and wan, and coughed right after the endorsed McCain, so it might be his physical condition. But one thing for sure, the conventional "ringing endorsement," just was not there. It was just words.
November 1, 2008 9:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Republicans support those who are proclaimed Republicans who seem to espouse Republican BS against all comers.
Who said anything about enthusiasm?
OK, weird: McLame is being tortured by his situation, and yet Cheney isn't pouring it on . . .
November 2, 2008 1:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
Who'd have pegged Dick Cheney as an Obama surrogate?
November 1, 2008 9:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Evidently the public has consistently had a lower opinion of Dick Cheney than it does of George Bush. I struggle a bit to comprehend the magnitude of that achievement. Dick Cheney has really had to work hard to pull that off. Lotta late nights, I would guess. Lotta explicit and thinly veiled f*** yous to a whole lotta folks, and also clauses of the US Constitution.
I wonder if the McCain campaign might arrange for a photo of McCain hugging Cheney to be taken asap and then lead McCain's closing ads with it? I might even consider chipping in to help fund that ad.
November 1, 2008 10:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Evidently the public has consistently had a lower opinion of Dick Cheney than it does of George Bush. I struggle a bit to comprehend the magnitude of that achievement. Dick Cheney has really had to work hard to pull that off. Lotta late nights, I would guess. Lotta explicit and thinly veiled f*** yous to a whole lotta folks, and also clauses of the US Constitution.
I wonder if the McCain campaign might arrange for a photo of McCain hugging Cheney to be taken asap and then lead McCain's closing ads with it? I might even consider chipping in to help fund that ad.
November 1, 2008 10:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Cheney shoots McCain in the face - in spirit.
November 2, 2008 8:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
Compare these two Wikipedia entries for academic endorsements…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama_endorsements#Academics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_John_McCain_presidential_campaign_endorsements#Academics
November 2, 2008 8:24 AM | Reply | Permalink