Senator Obama on The Daily Show
Barack Obama was all over the airwaves last night, between his half hour infomercial, midnight rally in Florida with Bill Clinton, and great appearance on The Daily Show, his third to date. (You can see the first here, and the second here.) No topic was off limits, as the Senator spoke about socialism, the Sean Hannity fans who probably wouldn't want to have a beer with him, and the so-called "Bradley effect."
"I think that there's a certain segment of hardcore Sean Hannity fans that probably wouldn't want to go have a beer with me. But I think for the average voter, they're saying to themselves, 'What's all this stuff about? I'm trying to think about hanging onto my house.'"
"I said today that I think they found proof that when I was in kindergarten I shared my toys with some friends, and that's clearly a sign of subversive activity. But the socialism thing doesn't fly too well."
on insHannity.
Thanks BO!!
Democrats - "Let's share our toys"
Republicans - "I drink your milkshake!"
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Well john cornyn's vote against S-Chip was taking medicine from sick kids
So I guess if he's reelected his next victory will be snatching candy from babies.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
...and I swear, I will be beating pots and pans and waking the neighborhood the moment Mc Cain concedes! (I pray to God!)
Counting the days..holding my breath...
"I love ya, man!"
Obama/Biden '08
"A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life."....Muhammad Ali
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I hope to wake up in Jail the morning after...
oh man dont do that! the next day your obituary in the paper will read cause of death , to many blows to the head from nebiors louisville sluggers!
Not necessarily surrounded by McSame signs but I swear, I willl be out there screaming when this guy takes it.
Good stuff..
Steven Colbert's endorsement of President Hussein Obama, as also hysterical..
was Colbert's interview with the Socialist Presidential candidate. Nice to have someone on to say: I AM a Socialist, and Obama's not one of them!
Divine Right of Kings (1600's); Divine Right of Corporations (2011)
but I would have bought the AbMaster from Mr Obama last night. If nothing else, I want to experience a president that does nothing but strike fear into the hearts of Americans. But I know he'll do more than that.
Socialism?: It All Depends on What Your Definition of ‘Ism’ Is
"...Not that I condone fascism, or any -ism for that matter. -Ism's in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an -ism, he should believe in himself. "
Catholicism
protestantism
baptism etc.??
Atheism,
Agnosticism,
Secularism etc??
living Organism?
Anurysm?
Cataclysm?
Spoonerism?
Witticism?
Divine Right of Kings (1600's); Divine Right of Corporations (2011)
schism?
jism?
Bagism?
Shagism?
Dragism?
Madism?
Ragism?
Tagism?
Thisism?
Thatism?...ism...ism
All we are saying....
including those of politics, religion, economics and psychology require the individual to be passive before the specific ideologies great truths. Democracy is rooted in a cautious and sceptical equilibrium that demands disinterested PARTICIPATION on the part of the citizen. That's the definition of freedom.
"Secular humanism -- a fearless, realistic world view replete with doubt and scepticism that attempts to attain an unachievable state of equilibrium between and among the human qualities of reason, intuition, imagination, memory, ethics and common sense.
"Hismself".
"'I don't believe in The Beatles, I just believe in me.' Good point there. After all, he was the walrus. I could be the walrus. I'd still have to bum rides off people."
(more Bueller goodness)
"When are we going to stop trying to tell elected officials what to do. Our job is to spend the taxpayers' money the best way we can." -- Tommy Watkins, Justice of the Peace, Crawford County, Arkansas
There will likely be a Constitutional Amendment in the next 10 years that greatly expands Democracy; at least if the trend continues.
http://voteforamerica.net/editorials/Comments...
This is hilarious and indicative of how totally "desperate" McCain is at this point to fill seats at his abysmal rallies. Of the 6,000 people there, he had to bus in 4,000 school kids in Ohio. I "kid" you not! Pretty Pathetic since the innocent kids didn't have a choice about the "McCain field trip"....hahahaha!
Here's the link:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/30/...
Also of Note: Joe, the Non-Plumber Plumber, also stood up McCain so it's now Joe, "The AWOL" Plumber. Evidently, this really threw McDepends for a loop.
I am also sure that his publicist has warned him about being seen to much with a LOSER like McDepends.
I bet his records will be as popular as this guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH4-tOqLH94
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Don't know if Joe the Plumber's records will sell as well as Sadler's (the ballad of the Green Berets was a huge hit, actually)but he could very well die the same way: "Accidentally" shot by a prostitute in Guatemala City, if memory serves...
With two insatiably ambitious know-nothing opportunists like Palin and Wurzelbacher on their 2012 ticket, the GOP would soar—like an eagle that's been snacking on depleted uranium.
Have ya'll notice how close news cameras have to hug mcgramps to make it look like he's surrounded by adoring crowds?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Even Joe, the non-plumbing, tax evading AWOL plumber has given McCain the finger publicly now.
Please say it ain't so, Joe!
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/30/...
A certified plumber would have showed up for work.
Oh, he's certified alright.
A bit of cheeky humor, what?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
n/t
Obama doesn't quite have Bill Clinton's personal charm or wit, but he has dignity and presence, and that's more than we have now.
I love it when this happens:
http://freewayblogger.blogspot.com/2008/10/tr...
I would love one, thanks!
Not just ONE beer either!
I promise you, that would be the slowest I've ever consumed a glass of beer.
I second having a beer with Obama...better make sure it's Delerium Tremens.
However, I've always gotten the feeling that he and Michelle are more wine drinkers than beer drinkers.
Young, vibrant, intelligent, articulate, contemplative, curious, measured, confident...and a REAL sense of humor.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
After Barack Obama is elected, suddenly it will become a lot harder to find things about the government that are easy to ridicule.
On the other hand, it still leaves Hannity, Limbo, Billo, etc.
Good times...
Government includes our spineless Kongre$$$$. There will be a LOT to work with, even with better election results than the current edition.
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What would we do without Jon and Colbert !
BO seems to be made for a cool leader we need to keep our boat afloat - his sense of humor is dry, which is a relief from 'betcha'jinks. I wonder how can he still smile with this unbelievable strain of campaign - not only mental, but purely physical. I just hope after Nov 5 (the fireworks will be going offf..)he WILL get good REST from all of this stuff, and catch up on SLEEP. Before all hits the fan at once.
We'll have to do OUR PART pushing the pols/Kongre$$$ to work with Obama. Just SOME of OUR TAX $$$$ at work:
A Question for A.I.G.: Where Did the Cash Go?
By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH
Published: October 29, 2008
The American International Group is rapidly running through $123 billion in emergency lending provided by the Federal Reserve, raising questions about how a company claiming to be solvent in September could have developed such a big hole by October. Some analysts say at least part of the shortfall must have been there all along, hidden by irregular accounting.
cont ......
Goldman Sachs ready to hand out £7bn salary and bonus package... after its £6bn bail-out
to which:
Cuomo Asks for Pay Data From Banks
By BEN WHITE and JONATHAN D. GLATER
Published: October 29, 2008
Wall Street is coming under mounting political pressure to cut bonuses for top executives, traders and bankers in what was already expected to be a down year for pay.
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The letter follows one sent earlier this week to the same banks by Henry A. Waxman, the California Democrat who is chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, urging them not to use any government money for bonuses or other payments and asking for data on pay going back to 2006.
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Lloyd C. Blankfein, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, received bonus and stock awards worth about $68.5 million last year, while Goldman’s co-presidents got just slightly less.
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“Taxpayers are, in many ways, now like shareholders of your company,” Mr. Cuomo wrote, “and your firm has a responsibility to them.”
In his letter, Mr. Cuomo asked specifically for a description of bonus pools for this year, a description of how money in those pools would be allocated, an explanation of how that allocation might have changed since each company received money under the federal Troubled Asset Relief Program and a description of bonuses paid to executives earning more than $250,000 in 2006 and 2007.
Mr. Cuomo’s letter was sent to Bank of America, Bank of New York Mellon, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, State Street and Wells Fargo, all of which received capital injections from the government as part of a wide-reaching program to stabilize the financial system.
Oh damn...
And I so wanted to watch Obama debate this guy:
http://timothyzhu.files.wordpress.com/2008/08...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
He dismissed The Bradley Effect in the polls but, of course, we won't know until Nov. 4th if that phenomenon suddenly disappeared from this contest.
However, there was plenty of evidence of it throughout the nomination process in the first half of this very year. Starting from the earliest days of the nomination process and continuing for the next several months (From Feb. to June), national polls regularly showed Obama with a 6-14 point lead over Hillary Clinton (although Clinton regularly outperformed Obama vs McCain).
A few examples:
http://www.pollingreport.com/wh08dem.htm
Gallup Poll daily tracking. Three-day rolling average. N=approx. 1,200 Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters nationwide. MoE ± 3
Preference for Democratic Nominee:
05/19/08
Obama_54
Clinton_40
=Obama_+14 points
Pew Research Center for the People & the Press survey conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International. May 21-25, 2008. N=618 registered voters nationwide who are Democrats or lean Democratic. MoE ± 4.5. April 2008 survey conducted by Abt SRBI.
"Which Democratic candidate would be your first choice for president: [see below]?" If unsure: "Just as of today, would you say you lean toward [see below]?" Names rotated
May 21-25, 2008
Obama_54
Clinton_41
=Obama_+13 points
And yet, Obama never saw, at best, as much as a 0.5% lead over Clinton in actual votes even if you add to his vote total the imaginary/estimated votes from caucus states that were never cast by anyone.
And, at worst, Obama got almost 290,000 fewer actual votes from actual people who got off their butts to go vote for Clinton instead of him:
Popular vote totals for Dem nomination RCP
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/...
No one ever wants to acknowledge this OBVIOUS example of Obama's poll numbers far outperforming his actual votes by as much as 13-14 points nearly every week and every month of the nomination process right to the bitter end, whether they want to call it The Bradley Effect or not.
that is assuming the polls are correct.I have little faith in polls,ever since I was subjected to a telephone poll years ago.The questions were crafted to elicit a predictable responce or the questions left me little room to answer as to my real views,or stand on specific issues.
I was being contacted by polls back in 1988. One question was if I was a republican or a Democrat, and I answered a Cynic.
One asked me if the election was held tomorrow would you vote for boosh or Dukakis, I answered Pee-Wee Herman.
Another asked me if I was a liberal or a conservative, I answered a conservative; I believe in the Divine Right of Kings.
First time I ever heard a pollster laugh.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I was never asked directly who I would vote for. I was asked questions such as 'would you for for(candidate A) if you knew He/she ( insert exageration,innuendo,outright lie)' and so on.
Obama kills me when he does humor because he's so serious in tone. It's like Spock telling a knock-knock joke. It's simultaneously hilarious not funny at all.
Bob Newhart made a good living doing that.
Larry, Darryll, and Darryll RUUULEZ!!!
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
As did Jack Benny if I'm not mistook.
OK
Larry, Darryll, Darryll and Jack.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Have ya'll notice how close news cameras have to hug mcgramps to make it look like he's surrounded by adoring crowds?
Absolutely true. There have been several photos scattered about the web, taken from behind the GOP candidates. Most times McLame and Palincomparison are speaking to only several hundred people.
If you subtract out friend and relatives, you probably couldn't get a good card game going at a McLame event.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Not even strip poker?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Not even strip poker?
Oye...do you really want to see McCain naked? Brrrrrrrr......
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Was when Obama was looking under the couch cushions for the Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq!
I missed that!!!
Dammitalltohell!
Or his lost shaker of salt.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
he does lose the election, he may probably will be wasting away again in Marguerittaville.
Divine Right of Kings (1600's); Divine Right of Corporations (2011)
Its not that you are willing to share your toys that makes you a socialist, it's that you want to FORCE everybody else to share their toys, under threat of fines and imrisonment. Last i checked, that was Fascism, but as long as its Fascism 'for the good of the children', it will be accepted by the masses.. And mandatory charity is no charity at all. Sadly, I will not be voting for either socialist.
Rothbard > Rothschild
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