Odds are mcgramps will win Texas, which is already pretty odd.

Though I don't watch fox news at all, from a purely entertainment point of view, it might be fun to watch them election night.

I wonder if people like Hannity and other McCain supporters are becoming so desperate that they will do anything like intentionally hurt themselves in order to blame it on Obama and his supporters. Take for example the picture of this McCain supporter who claims that a Obama supporter beat her up and carved a "B" on her cheek with a knife. Its odd how that "B" is carved backwards like she did it herself while looking in a mirror and the fact that the "attacker" went well out of his way not to leave any permanent damage. Here is the picture of the woman in question from the Democratic Underground:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/...

Although they may lose some access to the White House, don't think these people are simply going away.

They're going to present themselves as the cool, dissenting voice.

Remember during the Kosovo bombing these fools and their representatives in Congress were doing everything but flashing peace signs and wearing love beads?

that we don't get cocky and start talking shit.

I am very cautiously optimistic....no more/no less.

Background music for FAUX election night coverage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or_tJ15z2iA

To paraphrase Obama, let's not get too cocky here. If it is a close election, the voting machines may again have a large effect on the outcome.

We still have to get out the vote for the Obama/Biden ticket on November 4. Nothing is certain until it is over.

That's nothin...

Some guy knocked me down at my ATM and carved "John McCain is better that your old Barak Obama any day, you commie liberal pinko scum" in my face. It took, like, forever.

Oh, and you have to look in the mirror to read it.

Palin’s Makeup Stylist Fetches Highest Salary in 2-Week Period

Who was the highest paid individual in Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign during the first half of October as it headed down the homestretch?

Not Randy Scheunemann, Mr. McCain’s chief foreign policy adviser; not Nicolle Wallace, his senior communications staff member. It was Amy Strozzi, who was identified by the Washington Post this week as Gov. Sarah Palin’s traveling makeup artist, according to a new filing with the Federal Election Commission on Thursday night.

Ms. Strozzi, who was nominated for an Emmy award for her makeup work on the television show “So You Think You Can Dance?”, was paid $22,800 for the first two weeks of October alone, according to the records. The campaign categorized Ms. Strozzi’s payment as “PERSONNEL SVC/EQUIPMENT.”

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/24...

Crying Towels with McCain/Palin printed on them.

I'm not a praying person so I can't go there, but I hope with all my heart that Obama's grandmother can live to see and understand the events, if her grandson is elected president of the United States. Every time I think about that I start to cry. It happened yesterday while I was standing in line waiting to vote. My heart is softer than my brain and probably larger too.

Palin's talking about "special needs children"?? I'd say that 10.6 million american children qualify as "special needs children" - these children have been ignored by the Bush Administration totally.

Nice try to save this fool from going down like the Titanic though - however, just like Joe The Plumber, she's tanking into the toilet bowl.

I was right with Clinton in '92.

I was right with Clinton in '96.

I was right against Bush in '00.

I was right against Bush in "04.

AND, I'm pfucking right with Obama in '08.

clap, clap.

I won't believe it til I see it. The extreme right will go to almost any lengths to retain power, I believe. Up to and including declaring martial law because of a national emergency. And thereby "postponing" the election(read adios republic).

Today could very well be the mother of all Black Fridays in the stock market. Might give chimpie just the excuse he needs.

Just 'cuz you're paranoid, doesn't mean they are not after you.

An Atlantic reporter on MSNBC yesterday reported that the fellow who held that credit card, lives in Norm Coleman's basement.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2kxlZDOHeQ

)O(

But unfortunately for you, Mr. Brown, you lost my vote when you said yea to the bail-out bill. FU Sherrod Brown!

Down 300. Hold on to your hats folks, it's gonna be a bumpy downhill slide.

... Diebold Premier Election Systems executives are walking free, I'm not taking anything for granted.

Note to Sarah Palin. Never schedule a speech around the same time that the market is opening for perhaps one of the worst days in history.

Every station cut from her speech to Wall Street the minute the market opened.

Have heard Senator Brown (put in hundreds of hours for Brown when he ran for his Senate seat) say this numerous times now here in Ohio. The only thing that Brown forgets is socio paths like Hannity and O'Reilly do not cry. They are all dried up

Here is a question I have been asking
The Obama/Biden campaign keeps talking "jobs baby jobs". There are 600 Obama ground team folks who were sent to Ohio. Most of the paid Obama team members that I have looked into here in southeastern Ohio are from other states. I have tried to get the numbers on just how many people the Obama campaign actually hired from Ohio but have been unable to get those numbers from the Obama headquarters. From what I can tell most of the 600 have been brought in from out of state. The people from out of state sent into do what the Obama campaign refers to as "grass roots" certainly make me question just how "grass roots" the Obama campaign really is. Why not put people who are out of work in towns like Glouster, Chauncey, Pomeroy and elsewhere around the state to work for the campaign instead of bringing out of state people in? This seems to be a major contradiction to Obama and Bidens call for "jobs baby jobs". Why not give people in Ohio and other states who are out of jobs...Jobs for the campaign?

After what the Repugs have done to this wonderful country, Billo and Sean should be whipping themselves. THEY are the reason we are in this mess. The propaganda they have been shilling for the last 8 years have caused this mess. Unforgivable.

"Plank" as in "platform-type plank"?? Yesterday she made it clear that she was clueless about McCranky's platform; today's she's walking a plank of her own creation. Interesting?? Why would Simpleton Sarah choose to come out as though she has been running a legitimate, clean campaign just now? Could it be those landslide numbers against her? The GOP has just witnessed their best chance for 2012 become classified as "simple-minded"? All of the above I would imagine.

She has to be the village idiot in singling out special needs families when we have 10.6 million american children going without health care of any kind.

Please! Someone call a "code blue" on aisle 9 of Saks Fifth!! We have a women here who has just loaded her gold-plated Pampers!

They'll be screaming that night about how screwed America is. They're bitter and will make the next four years as difficult as possible for anyone watching to see the bright side in this victory.

STFU...this election isn't over yet.

Gee, that brought a tear to my eye too ;)

THIS NOVEMBER 4TH, PARTY WITH FOX NEWS

I’m a Manic-Depressant. Today, of course, THEY prefer the term Bi-Polar. Now, there are a group of birds that cannot stand the dark. So every July, you will find them at the North Pole. They then migrate, sometime in December, to the South Pole. That means that every year, these birds travel 24,000 miles. Now that is what you call bi-polar.

Around June of this year, I found myself exceedingly depressed. For over a year, Hilary’s negative quotient was extremely high. So was Baraak’s, I had given up. So I wrote the DNC and suggested that they dump the entire primary process and by acclamation, choose two of our finest democratic Senators who never even participated in this process.

I realized that Hillary had obtained over18,000,000 votes, but her negatives were through the ceiling. And who is going to vote for a black guy whose middle name is Hussain? Once again, I figured in the extreme depressed side of my brain, the American People would fall for messages from the dark side of the force.

Why not dump this charade and come up with the perfect democratic ticket” There is a n extremely gifted senator from Nebraska whom I see regularly on the sitcom “C-Span”, all the time. And her name is Lincoln, Nancy Lincoln. She has that mix of a western and southern drawl that voters have been programmed to like. She is well versed, speaks with determination and without the ehs or ahs or hesitation so often heard on that sitcom.

The second part of the ticket would be occupied by the man who beat one of the only republicans I ever liked, Senator Chaffee. Senator Whitehouse has been performing admirable during some of the committee hearings, and he is always prepared and he is a hard worker. He has a slight lisp, but then again, my favorite senator over the last two decades was the late Senator Paul Wellstone
and I think it gives Senator Whitehouse an endearing kind of flaw that could really sell.

The point of all this was that I figured it would be difficult, if not impossible to vote against the Lincoln/Whitehouse ticket. In the depths of my mental morass, I just assumed that a good portion of the electorate does not give a damn about real issues. They do not really know anything about the global economy, or global trade, or global warming, or global disease let alone the real problems facing this nation. Elections are sold on sound bites and individual biases that coalesce in certain groupings in this country.

Again, how could a Lincoln Whitehouse lose? What could the Republicans say in their ads? Vote against the socialist, terrorist, welfare lovers Lincoln Whitehouse? I had it all figured out.

But do you know what? Not only did the DNC not respond to my brilliant concept, but they did not even bother to send me a contribution request.

Anyway, at this time and place, I cannot think when I was more optimistic about the future. Barack Husein Obama and one of my favorite senators of all time, Joe Biden, are going to win this election. Of course, this could all be attributed to my new medication, but all these blogs are so optimistic. And the conservative blogs are all involved in blaming other conservatives. And the republicans who appear on cable can only come up with old, dried up slogans like:

Tax and spend liberals.
Creeping Socialism.
Abortion lovers; baby killers
White flag wavers.
Etc. Etc., etc.

On some of the blogs and in some of the newspapers the conservatives are already predicting a landslide win by democrats and a huge back-lash in 2010. The prime fascist on MSNBC, Buchanan, has been featuring this back-lash argument for over a week. (By the way Barnacle, who are you kidding? Don’t you ever read his books? In at least two of them he praises Hitler as a courageous leader; he contends that Hitler was not responsible for the holocaust, and continues to tell the world–for a profit-that the United States of America fought on the wrong side in WWII. He despises any black person who stands up for his or her rights, he hates Jews–yes just read his books- and he wants all our immigrants to come from Northern Europe. This guy actually thinks that Plessey vs. Ferguson was a dead-on decision and that the Brown Decisions almost destroyed this country, and that the Segregated South was doing just fine without Northern interference.)

At any rate, the real point of this piece–I am going to hold a huge party for election night. I am going to rent a hall. I am going to have at least 10 gigantic wide screen TVs. Big flat screens.
I am going to have the best wine, the best beer and the best American Whiskey I can find. Hors D’oeuvres will be found everywhere in the hall. Champaign will be served by the best of waiters and waitresses as soon as our ticket is declared to be over the top.

There will be a huge dance floor and in the background the Beatles will be played all night.
But the music will be low background. Low background so that everyone will be able to hear noise coming from Fox News. Why Fox News ?

Because during the 2006 elections, with no computer, I was taking notes while I watched CNN and MSNBC. I kept watching the boards to see if the first female Democrat was going to be elected Speaker of the House of Representatives. I wrote a note:

To actually weep while watching election returns when my team was winning.
Who’d a thought?

I stayed up all night until that son-of-bitch from Virginia conceded to Senator-Elect Webb. Montana returns came in before that and I swear, I jumped of the sofa and dumped Pepsi all over the floor.

But as I watched the returns on MSNBC and CNN, I would switch to Fox, from time to time.
Fox’s projections were behind the others or certain congressional races were being precipitously given to the Republicans. Even by mid morning, Fox was giving some races to Republicans outright or saying that those races were too close to call.

Weeks later Fox was still disputing some races, although I remember the Democrat who could not get seated in January. We got that back when the Democrats were 3 for 3 in the special elections since 2006.

And the wailing and gnashing of teeth was sooooo much fun to watch. Interspersed in Fox’s delivery was the blame game.

Why didn’t Bush do this? or
Why didn’t Bush do that? or
Why didn’t the RNC do this? or
Why didn’t the RNC do that? or
How could the American Electorate do this?

This blame game was so much fun to watch. But I kept having to go back to my standard news programs to find out exactly how the election was going.

Can you imagine how this election is going to be played out on November 4th by Fox News? Yelling, arguing, crying, gnashing of teeth, and tons of denial.

Oh they will ramble on and on about how the election would have gone during these terrible times if someone other than Obama had been the Democratic standard bearer. I can hear it now:

With the biggest economic crash since ‘29 (or 32, or 87, or whatever), the Democrats should have picked up 60 seats in the House and 20 seats in the Senate. or

If the American People really believed in the socialist doctrines spewed by Obama he would have won 400 electoral votes instead of 350,, or

Due to the slimness of the Democratic victory, 2010 is the Republican’s for the taking. or

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah......

After awhile, I can have the Beatles turned up and just mute Fox to look at the expressions on their faces. I assure you, these expressions will make McCain’s facial expressions
during the debates look positively benign.

Representative Hyde, just before his death, apologized for Clinton’s Impeachment. He admitted that it was just pay back for Nixon’s Impeachment Hearings. Pure revenge.

After witnessing Nixon’s reelection in 1972, Reagan’s election in 1980, and the reelection of the most evil and most inept (thank god) president in 80 or 90 years’, revenge will never taste so sweet.

But the full range and nuanced flavors of that revenge will be had while watching Fox.

Just to be safe however, I will wait to turn the channels until after the Midwest returns are in.