Does McCain blame Palin for his swirling toilet of a campaign?
By David Neiwert Thursday Oct 23, 2008 5:45am
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To hear Brian Williams and Chuck Todd talk, as they did last night on Hardball, you'd think things were perhaps not so peachy these days over at Camp McCain, after they spent the afternoon interviewing John McCain and Sarah Palin together:
Well, Chris, and this something that I -- I wouldn't blame Brian for not wanting to say this, but -- there was a tenseness between -- first of all, between the two -- there's no chemistry. I couldn't see chemistry between John McCain and Sarah Palin. It was -- I felt as if we grabbed two people and said, 'Here, sit next to each other, we're going to conduct an interview.'
There wasn't -- they're not -- you know, they're not just ... comfortable with each other, uh, yet. The other thing about it is that you can tell they know that they're losing. They just have -- there's an intensity there, they're drained, the entire campaign staff is drained. The two candidates are guarded, they seem on edge. It's not as if they were rude or anything, it's not as if they weren't trying to be forthcoming, it's just, they seemed -- it's a negative intensity. I don't know how else to describe it.
But you'll see, when you see the two of them together, the chemistry's not all there. You do wonder, is John McCain starting to blame her for things, blaming himself? Is she blaming him? You just wonder what's going on inside their heads. Are they upset with how the other has treated them, and is that why her numbers are low? But whatever it is, it's a negative vibe that you get in that room.
This happens to echo the recent New Yorker piece (which Todd in fact cites a little later in the discussion), which described how much McCain wanted to name his favorite fellow Mavericky Senator, Holy Joe Lieberman himself, and as many of us suspected, strongly preferred Joe as his running mate:
By the spring, the McCain campaign had reportedly sent scouts to Alaska to start vetting Palin as a possible running mate. A week or so before McCain named her, however, sources close to the campaign say, McCain was intent on naming his fellow-senator Joe Lieberman, an independent, who left the Democratic Party in 2006. David Keene, the chairman of the American Conservative Union, who is close to a number of McCain’s top aides, told me that “McCain and Lindsey Graham”—the South Carolina senator, who has been McCain’s closest campaign companion—“really wanted Joe.” But Keene believed that “McCain was scared off” in the final days, after warnings from his advisers that choosing Lieberman would ignite a contentious floor fight at the Convention, as social conservatives revolted against Lieberman for being, among other things, pro-choice.
“They took it away from him,” a longtime friend of McCain—who asked not to be identified, since the campaign has declined to discuss its selection process—said of the advisers. “He was furious. He was pissed. It wasn’t what he wanted.” Another friend disputed this, characterizing McCain’s mood as one of “understanding resignation.”
One can readily imagine the Mavericky One's disappointment -- not to mention Holy Joe's ... as well as the liberal blogosphere's. My, what fun that'd have been. With the added value that Joe no doubt would've helped McCain about as much as he helped Al Gore.
They kept fishing around long enough and came up with a hottie to run alongside the hero. Too bad the hottie turned out to be a complete know-nothing capable of making everyone forget those "McCain moments." Now McCain knows who to blame for that swirling toiletlike sound he hears at every turn: The idiots who told him to name Palin. And of course, Palin herself bears the brunt of this:
Palin initially provided the McCain campaign with a boost, but polls now suggest that she has become a liability. A top Republican close to the campaign said that McCain’s aides have largely kept faith with Palin. They have been impressed by her work ethic, and by what a quick study she is. According to the Republican close to the campaign, she has sometimes discomfited advisers by travelling with a big family entourage. “It kind of changes the dynamic of a meeting to have them all in the room,” he told me. John McCain’s comfort level with Palin is harder to gauge. In the view of the longtime McCain friend, “John’s personal comfort level is low with everyone right now. He’s angry. But it was his choice.”
Just imagine: If he'd been able to name Joe his running mate, he could just go out there and be John McCain and do his thing instead of being the victim of Dobson's Choice he's become.
Why, then he'd only be losing by 15 instead of 10.
[H/t to Heather for the video.]
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Todd says: "I wouldn't blame Brian for not wanting to say this"
Why not? What is he trying to tell us about Brian?
I think that the reason Todd said that was because, as a newscaster, Brian Williams needs to remain non opinionated and impartial. The comments that Todd made after that caveat referred to his opinion and not hard facts. If Todd had asked Williams to "sign on" to that observation, which was not very pro McCain, Williams impartiality could be called into question, or, more likely used as a talking point that Williams is part of the "liberal" (I prefer to think of it as "reality based") media.
Reality has a liberal bias. so true.
Todd is permitted to state opinion.
In the Rachel Maddow segment, Rachel says to Williams, "Well, at least she didn't make any major gaffes this time" (referring to the interview). Williams replied, "I'll let you be the judge of that. Remember, you're only seeing a clip here; you haven't seen the entire interview".
I believe Williams is a Republican. I know he wrote a piece on his blog some months ago, fawning over Peggy Noonan. I think that's a good indicator.
From what I've read and heard from his own lips, I'd say that's a pretty accurate statement.
Brian Williams is indeed a Republican, almost purely a corporate type. But then, there are bunch of them jumping off that particular haywagon this year.
Williams did make a comment on Maddow's show that he has to explain to her the idea of coporate media ownership.
See, there are two kinds of Republicans: true fiscal consevatives and the stupid "x-ian" rabid base. They are miles apart in the thinking department.
Actually, maybe there are three or four kinds. The third kind are the Hammer guy (what's his name?, rat poison guy); personal glory, power and riches matter most. And, the fourth is the ideological neocon.
Just imagine: If he'd been able to name Joe his running mate, he could just go out there and be John McCain and do his thing instead of being the victim of Dobson's Choice he's become.
Why, then he'd only be losing by 15 instead of 10.
I'm not so sure about that. A lot of moderate and liberal Republicans who will now be voting for Obama may have voted for McCain if he had chosen a friend instead of capitulating to Dobson and his comrades. Maybe...but we'll never know...
Ok, everyone say it's XX days any thing can happen. McCain seems to not be above a few stunts to try and win, here is one I would actually be afraid it could work...
He waits until like 3-4 days before the election then drops a bomb on the media, he comes to the podium and says.
"My friends I have done myself and my country a great disservice, I made a terrible mistake and to correct that mistake I would like to announce the dropping of Palin as my running mate and her replacement by Joe Lieberman.
My friends. I went against my own best judgement when I listened to the fringe elements of my party and not to my heart. I am also dismissing all of my campaign staff except those that are loyal to me and the country not a political party. My friends, in 2000 I was brutilized in the same fashion by the same people that are running my campaign, and I'm ashamed, I thought if I went along with the hate that permeates the right it would get me elected and that the ends justified the means, I was Wrong. We cannot divide this country anymore than it already has been over the last 20 years. I have been forced to change, forget or take positions that I do not agree with, just to be clear, I do believe that the rich should pay morein taxes than the poor, I do not endorse torture, I do not endorse or condone wiretapping innocent Americans in the name of freedom. I believe in small efficient government, I believe that big money lobbys and the washington corporate money game is sucking all that is good out of our leadership in Washington.
I can change that, I can start now. In 2000 I said what I meant and meant what I said, as the years went by I was convinced this country needed my leadership more than ever, and I was convinced by others to do whatever it took even if it meant violating my core beliefs. This was something I rationalized at the time but I can no longer. My friends, I have always said it's never to late to do the right thing, and I hope I'm not to late to serve this great country in a way that reflects my deep and unwavering love for it. I want to thank you all for your support and apologize to Obama and any other patriotic Americans for any slander they suffered at the hands of my out of control campaign.
Mike_1776: I keep wondering this too, but then I have to ask myself, at such a late date, would ANYONE, even Lieberman, agree to hook the rest of his/her future political career to the swirling, sinking turd of a ship that is the McCain campaign? Not sure even Lieberman would do that.
was to predict, in mid 2007, that there would probably be McCain/Lieberman ticket. Admittedly, I thought they'd try to become a 'third-party/Unity' ticket, because I believed atht the time and still that McCain is/was unelectable as a GOPuke...
By the way, qand slightly O/T: "I'm so bearish you could call me Pooh..." It's both funny and smart...
God, do I love this Repuke cannibalism.
The toilet bowl thing is very fitting. All those turds swirling clockwise around the drain.
Considering McShame is so Maverickey wouldn't they be swirling counter clockwise?
Wouldn't they go counterclockwise there too Bob?
So, all that POW heroism, DC experience and general maverickness couldn't overcome Kristol's influence on the VP choice?
I thought they were soulmates. Seems there should be chemistry between soulmates. They are most cetainly a pair. Not sure what they are a pair of.
A pair of syphilitic nuts on the last leper in hell?
No, I'm sorry, that's cruel to people with syphilis, leprosy or are in hell.
McCain wanted to shore up the dominionistas, Palin just wanted her 15 minutes of fame.
She got those 15 minutes plus some expensive clothes. What a deal.
As I watched that interview last night, I told my husband she reminded me of a relative visiting an elderly person in a nursing home. She just watched him talk with the understanding that no matter what he said, the interviewer would understand at his age, he might just say anything.
So the old maverick let his campaign bully him into going against his better judgment. That says a lot about his character. I imagine he does resent her now. She has become the laughing stock of his campaign. At first she was just an oddity or an attraction, but like other things that draw first dawn interest, her attraction is not so pretty in the light of day.
This morning I heard that she said some people call her a red neck to which she says, thank you. All that money spent on her clothes and makeup, yet she appreciates being called a red neck?
because he told her to STFU. Everytime she opens her mouth utter craziness comes out. That is why McCain has to sit next to her during her interview. Damage control.
Watch the moment in the interview where she says "Can I just interupt?" [Not "If I may interject?"] McCain has "that face" again. Angry, worried, dreading the next moment.
That is why McCain has to sit next to her during her interview. Damage control.
EXACTAMUNDO!!!!!
Notice how he pounced on her words to correct the number of endorsements from former Sec of State. this was supposed to be a 'plain' interview, not a 'mcplain' interview.
brian mentioned that he got to pull her aside for a half-hour or so. the repug brian will distill the interview to clean her up for some primetime kindness.
the msm will do their best to make it a tight race and they are not doing it for the ratings. As usual, just like 'moderating' the debates and totally overusing the false equivalency technique, SCLM will try to save the repug disaster.
j Dean on Herschbergers history of Mccain--must read...
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20081017.html
...and now the devil is coming to collect. If he had run as John McCain, and not as a continuation of obviously failed neocon policies, he could have won this thing. Thankfully, his advisers completely screwed the pooch on this one. McCain/Lieberman could have been a formidable opponent to Obama/Biden. McCain/Palin is a political punchline.
instead of his political convenience, he'd have named Hillary as his VP, and forestalled all this GOP crap. It would have completely short-circuited the GOP plan...
Seriously. So Palin's reign of craziness is due to Obama not picking your gal? Grow up, seriously...
Or, I'd say, McCain's stupidity thinking that everyone with a vagina will abandon their own values and run to his sleaze-bag show, cuz all women will magically stick together and vote for anyone with the same anatomy (i.e., they don't have brains or ideas of their own.) He's old and white enough to be that dense.
I doubt the sex of the candidate holds much sway. As Hillary said, I didn't run as a women, I ran because I wanted to be president and this is who I am. (not verbatim.)
Actually, I think the race would be closer. McCain's choice of Palin wouldn't seem so mavericky, so he and his advisors would have gone another direction: Mitt Romney.
Put a guy that supposedly has a lot of economic experience in there and the downward spiral of the impending recession wouldn't be McCain's albatros.
Obama made the best choice possible. McCain's pick of Palin is very transparent. Clinton would be the best possible choice to head up the Senate and get Reid out of there as the Democrat leadership. Clinton would have more influence and power (and possibly longer) than she ever would as president or vice president.
I think HRC would be an outstanding replacement for Reid. Time to kick some ass in the Senate!
If Obama had named Hillary as his running mate at the Democratic Convention this whole election would have been over that night. There would have been NOTHING the Republicans could have done to beat them.
Not that I'd ever want to encourage them, but if the Republican Party had any brains they would divorce themselves from the right-wing wacko fundamentalist control freak wing of their party and let them form their own damn party. Then they'd have a political party of their own that could be swept into the dustbin of history rather than into the White House!
Here's a very funny article about the election by Larry David that probably reflects exactly how most of us here at C&L feel:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-david/wai...
"What ifs" are the way the mentally weak deal with reality.
all projections were that hillary on the ticket means barack loses or hillary loses if she were at the top.
I think, in the end, "all this GOP crap" has exposed them for exactly what they are. It is, oddly, positive. The GOP might re-group and re-think, and purge the scum from their ranks, especialy if NO ONE votes for them/their rotten candidates.
McCain Campaign Now Packaging ‘Pete the Porn Star’
You could tell from day one they aren't comfortable together and it's only getting worse as their campaign continues to swirl.
I expect that they're deliberately keeping them apart at this point knowing old man mcsame's temper and his inability to deal with reality.
It's impossible to hide the fact that the 'anvil in lipstick' is taking the party and the campaign to new lows. Not that mclame is a big draw for anyone either.
It's not just her or her painful ignorance or disgusting derisive ways but more the fact that she herself is a giant neon sign pointing to mclame's incredible lack of judgment or competent advisers.
that just about sums it up!
How long until he calls Palin a C***, too?
It would seem to me that if John McCain were truly 'in charge' of his campaign, and especially with his reputation for being stubborn, then the Palin issue wouldn't be one. He'd have gone with Joe and stuck with Joe.
Of course, now the people who advised him to pick Palin are in the exact same spot - if they don't continue to back her, THEY look like a bunch of royal chumps, and McCain goes ballistic.
When it comes down to it, I wonder if someone has been banking on McCain croaking from melanoma, and frontloading Palin into the veep slot puts an evangelical hockey puck in the front seat without her really having to withstand a long campaign.
I love the way the pundits actually are making the case for McCain's ineptitude and total impotence within his own campaign as they try to play the blame game on campaign aides and insiders.
In so doing, they have painted McCain into an exit-less corner: 1)Either McCain is totally inept and cannot control even his own campaign which does not bode well in the minds of americans regarding his strength of character, resolve, and ability to keep this country safe....or...
2) McCain is the CEO and, as such, the buck stops there. No need to point fingers at anyone if he wants to claim the CEO "experience meme", is there?
Each of these two conclusions is equally damning for McCain.
We all know that McCain's tyrannical persona is legion within the Senate so one would have to conclude that the obvious and predictable finger pointing will only backfire in his face, just like every other shenanigan has heretofore.
And remember:
John
BushMcCain is his own man!have to agree that your theory has certainly occurred to at least a few dominionists. We have a solemn duty as citizens, to protect and defend the U.S. Constitutions against all threats, foreign of domestic. I honestly feel that a palin presidency would be the worst thing that could happen to the separation of Church and State. Just hearing from palin that God's will will be done on Nov. 4 sends chills up my spine;
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081022/ap_on_el_...
God (if you are a believer) instilled in Man, free will. God gives Man the choice. How many affairs of State will this person "place in God's hands?". She is clearly (IMHO) in NO WAY qualified to fulfill the requirements of a Chief of State.
Clap, Clap, Clap
That is precisely the plan. An evangelical (and not just any old evangelical, but a meanspirited dominionist) in the White House.
I think the proccess went something like this:
Need VP running mate
Clinton has 18 million supporters (votes)
The base wants red meat
-->*Hire evangelical woman* (like deficits, experience doesn't matter; well package her up nice)
I believe what these interviewers were alluding to was the total failure of the McCain campaign and the level of desperation these two have reached right now.
They've watched every slick political trick and "gimmick" not only fall flat on it's face but backfire in their faces. They've watched every "faux gremlin" they've spent all of their precious resources on to attach to Obama fail to stick and gather traction. And now we see the obvious: The McCain Campaign is clearly out of gusto in the realization the america will elect Obama by a landslide, even in red states, and all of the swing states.
They also recognize that hacking this election is no longer an option with the landslide these polls are predicting.
Not being able to suppress and frighten voters any longer and the premise of the improbablity/implausibility of their hackers being able to corrupt all of the states McCain needs to hack, spells disaster for these two.
Now their latest "Palin gimmick" is also backfiring on them. They brought her out of the gate as being a Wal-mart hockey mom - the mother of 5 also serving as Governor. If they had an intelligent candidate who dressed like America's quintessential hockey-mom, this could not only have resonated with middle american women everywhere but we would have respected their choice.
We discover, now, that the HockeyMom/Walmart "myth" is a total fabrication in every respect. Not only is she NOT a hockey mom who buys her clothes in Walmart but she's spent Joe, The Plumbers, next three years income within the scope of ONE MONTH on clothes attempting to crate this vacuous candidate.
John McCain no longer holds any degree of respect and dignity with the american people. Whomever he was years ago when he resonated with the people, has vanished, I feel, into the darkness of senile dementia.
Yesterday's ridiculous comment in Pa. amplified all of his gaffes with the people behind him looking stunned and remarkable "had". My fellow prisoners, this man is now totally discredited.
We "average people", with internet at hand, threw a fly in the ointment by instant fact-checking and rebuttals, every single step of the way.
We have changed the election. (Clap here, but remember to vote: the final nail in the GOP's coffin.)
I think Palin thinks this senile old man has dashed her hopes of becoming VP. She thinks that she has carried the water for the right wing base of the party, and McCain has failed her. When this is over the repug party will have a big price to pay to Palin, and with the nut bag base behind her, she will be there to collect. Maybe in 2012 we will see a Palin/Bachmann ticket.
That's ticket straight from the bowels of hell...
If the reslugs pick her up again next time I'll eat my hat. Even they aren't THAT stupid. Are they?
As one wag stated recently, it is amazing and terrifying that the Republicans managed to come up with a potential future leader in Palin who is stupider than George W. Bush. Not a bad observation.
Did they really want a pit bull wearing lipstick? I imagine they would like to take it back to where they got it now. It's torn the place apart and barks all the time.
♫♪ that was music to my ears ♪♫
Maybe we should call the Pound?
Has pissed and shit all over EVERYTHING!
And you should see the bathroom! Chewed-on lipstick everywhere!
I think it was thinking about painting its toenails ...
They even bought it a shiny new collar and a pretty bandanna but it's still an obnoxious pit bull.
And the nasty things it leaves behind... ugh!
They are uncomfortable together because they don't know each other. They're strangers. They've hardly been in the same room together since the arranged marriage at the RNC. Jon Stewart called the Palins, Grifters. You can just see them in fancy hotels. What does this toilet(bidet) do Mom? You can see them in their white robes ordering massages and room service 24/7.
That does paint a picture.
What I found remarkably explicit during observation of this interview was how the paranoia level has increased between the two of these candidates.
When Palin was asked about "preconditions", I feel we saw firsthand the fear and trepidation McCain now feels about his uneducated sidekick opening her mouth. Of course, she never answers the question and this time was no exception. She convolutes every thought she's attempting to express and McCain almost had to jump in, again, to try to save this woman from herself.
that's who you should blame.
That's why I think it's a bad idea to get too smug before November. I won't feel confident about any election until every Diebolt voting machine is turned into landfill.
It's what they're counting on. [no pun intended] The rigged voting machines.
I wouldn't trust it as landfill, either. It'd subside on you after four years ...
> They have been impressed by her work ethic
Yeah, after she was found guilty for violating the Alaskan Ethics Act.
> and by what a quick study she is.
So quick that she doesn't know what a VP does, after being asked that already 3 times.
BTW David, your piece on her AIP connections was great, what a shame that the cowardly MSM buried it again so swiftly...
The media is being forced to reveal her anti-government AIP connections soon by being flooded with letters and petititons to do so.
We will see a swift pick-up of this dropped media ball over the weekend.
I wouldn't bet on it. But after Nov 4 no one will care anyway... :)
Stamp: FAILURE
John McCain's "executive experience" is a failure because he's the CEO of his own campaign and has failed abysmally.
What else is obvious at this point is that John McCain lacks the wisdom and intelligence to select someone who would assume the reins of this country when he has his next bout of chemotherapy and radiation for his fatal cancer.
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Now I'm off to walk the streets and look at stuff in the night market.
Have fun and don't forget to get evryone you know to get out and vote.
McCain created a character for himself but he couldn't live up to it.
Vote Sarah Palin...that's her name...and away goes the country...down the drain.
There are so many pieces and videos of Sarah Palin's flagrant support for the Secessionist group that they are certain to be the topic of conversation this weekend.
It's taken on a life of it's own and it's high time our whoring media airs it.
Bombard every media website with this information today:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/10/10/...
He called 'em "grifters."
Here's a dictionary 'definition':
Noun 1. grifter - a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, scammer, swindler, gouger,
- card shark, card sharp, card sharper, cardsharp, cardsharper, sharper, sharpie, sharpy, a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games,
- clip artist - a swindler who fleeces the victim; con artist, con man, confidence man
- a swindler who exploits the confidence of his victim; beguiler, cheater, deceiver, trickster, slicker, cheat
- someone who leads you to believe something that is not true...
Sound like any GOPalins you know?
GOP = Grifters On Parade...
welcher, welsher - someone who swindles you by not repaying a debt or wager
I too saw this last night and thought it spot on.
Also a Law and Order CI rerun earlier in the day based on the life (and death) of Anna Nicole Smith seemed oddly timely...
As long as it means the Republicans lose on Election Day, cool.
You know? The ones that don't mention McCain? Those might have been a little presumptive.
To blame the failure of the McCain ticket on {alin, or Bush for that matter, is just plane wrong. The reason McCain is losing is that the Rethugs are wrong, the platform they run on, the way that they run the govt, how they run the elections, the embrace of religous and xenophopic nutbags, and on and on. There is no one person that is to be blamed, it is the whole of the ideas that rethugs have embraced that is now so repellent ot most of America that is to blame for the failure of the McCain ticket.
Exactly! That explains the media bias towards Obama it's not bias it's reporting! This is a good analogy... Today the two hopefulls unveiled their homemade cakes today, here in this picture you can see Obama holding a cake, well decorated with frosting and lookng pretty good, over here we have McCain with a plate full of ... shit? Well it's kinda built up like a cake, it seems like it has frosting, might be mold.. mhh how do we report this? Objectivly it would be Mcain plan looks lke shit, Obama has a decent cake with frosting. So then the right screams foul! you are giving Obamas cake way to much coverage, we want you to cover McCains shit pile and make it look good.
Well, good luck with that media, whats funny is they try.
I especially like the part where advisers told him who to choose for VP and he did even though he made it clear he wanted someone else.
How mavricky!
LOL!
but well worth the read. It is a short biography of Palin's rise from city council from The New Republic http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=8c1... via Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish "How Anti-Intellectual is Palin?" http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_dai...
"Here's one way to look at the question: how has Palin brought up her own kids? Her eldest son is a high-school drop-out. Her eldest daughter has had, so far as one can tell from press reports, very uneven attendance in high school, and no plans for college. Her other daughters seem to spend a lot of time traveling the country with their mom at tax-payers' expense. I've seen them at several rallies with the Palins this fall. Are they not in school?"
The least one can say is that none of her children seems to have been brought up thinking that college is something to aspire to. And her new son-in-law just dropped out of high school as well.
Sarah Palin's own record of several colleges over several years - ending with a degree in sports journalism - tells you a lot.
FWIW, I'm pretty certain that Palin's degree was in broadcast journalism, not sports. I just spent a weekend hanging out with my friend the dean of UI's J school (Palin and I share the same alm mater) and that's what their records show.
I didn't write the article, but I thought that too. Of course a sports journalism degree would better explain why Palin couldn't name one newspaper or periodical she's read.
You could just tell during that interview that McCain wasn't comfortable because he laughed or smiled that weird smile at the end of each of his sentences. I think he's mad as hell and doing everything he can to try to cover it up. He knows with just about any other candidate on his short list, at least at this point, would have still been taken seriously. Even someone like Joe Lieberman. Joe could have gone out on his own from the day he was chosen. There would have been no time needed for gearing him up. He wouldn't have been a pop star, but at least he would have been reliable.
This is what happens when you have to rely on the running mate as the the one who is energizing the base. When McBush relies on Palin to draw the crowds and get the media interested then he has probably lost. The only reason anybody is going to his rallies or watching on TV is because of Palin. If it was Holy Joe nobody would care. The base would be sleeping. The deal is that nobody really cares about McBush.
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Here we go!
So this recession is going to be blamed on President Obama. You knew it was coming.
Its funny when the idiot right wing say that the Democrats have been in power since 2006. That is bullshit. It is a lie or it is stupid ignorance. The Democrats were voted in in November 2006. They didn't take office until January 2007,. This financial meltdown started no later than August 2007. Or at least it became obvious then. It started way before that. That was 8 months after they took office but the seeds were sown way before that. Goldman Sachs says it is laying off 3500 assholes. Is that President Obama's fault too? You are not "joetheplumbersupporter". You are RandytheRepublicanDickhead.
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"Well, Chris, and this something that I -- I wouldn't blame Brian for not wanting to say this, but -- there was a tenseness between -- first of all, between the two -- there's no chemistry. I couldn't see chemistry between John McCain and Sarah Palin." WTF? Is politics now a high school cafeteria at recess?? These two morons should be publicly denigrated for their low-level, useless and childish "reporting". If they have any journalistic credentials (whatever the hell they are), then they should be rescinded. Staggering.
Ever listen to fox "news"? todd was giving an opinion, based on his observations. At least he had the decency and integrity to admit that these were his opinions. He doesn't try to pass if off as though it were necessarily true.
Who wants to hear journalists' opinions? At one time, this type of reporting was deemed to be editorializing and was restricted to the editorial page. It was always understood that editorializing was not reporting. Today, that distinction is out the window and causes confusion and wariness in the citizenry for the obvious reasons.
I want to hear journalist's opinions in the appropriate settings. Brian Williams has bit of class and tact that makes him a decent anchor.
Chuck Tood isn't a journalist per se... he's the network's goto guy for political insight and opinions. Todd wouldn't do well as an anchor.
I'm a journalist (actually I cover high school sports for a weekly newspapers) and people ask my opinion about county teams, the conference shake down, and the playoff picture all the time.
Why don't you push for reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine.
I think it was one of the "other things" that undid Holy Joe's chances - namely being Jewish. Just like Romney was flushed due to excessive Mormon-ness.
Palin was appointed by the evangelicals in a craven attempt at energizing "the base". There's no way they would support a heathen and they were seriously underwhelmed by Grampa Flipflop's lack of commitment to the cause of religious nuttery. Bad luck for Grampa, it turns out that the base just isn't that wide any more and was only good for ~25%.
I eagerly look forward to the moment when McCain snaps. You know he's just one spilled beer or burned dinner away from a complete meltdown.