US Presidential Elections 2008 (2 Viewers)

[7 - No tomorrow]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/us_elections_2008/7710949.stm

I note that the volume control on the BBC video imbed goes to 11.
Some kind of geek programmers humour?

 

[broken arm]

 

[taubstumm]

newsweek has a load of post-election-day-embargoed stories that they've just put live; some crazy shit...

main thing was that apparently russia or china were trying to hack obama's website, and that palin spent shedloads on clothes. but also...

- The Obama campaign was provided with reports from the Secret Service showing a sharp and disturbing increase in threats to Obama in September and early October, at the same time that many crowds at Palin rallies became more frenzied. Michelle Obama was shaken by the vituperative crowds and the hot rhetoric from the GOP candidates. "Why would they try to make people hate us?" Michelle asked a top campaign aide.

- On the Sunday night before the last debate, McCain's core group of advisers—Steve Schmidt, Rick Davis, adman Fred Davis, strategist Greg Strimple, pollster Bill McInturff and strategy director Sarah Simmons—met to decide whether to tell McCain that the race was effectively over, that he no longer had a chance to win. The consensus in the room was no, not yet, not while he still had "a pulse."

- The Obama campaign's New Media experts created a computer program that would allow a "flusher"—the term for a volunteer who rounds up nonvoters on Election Day—to know exactly who had, and had not, voted in real time. They dubbed it Project Houdini, because of the way names disappear off the list instantly once people are identified as they wait in line at their local polling station.

- Palin launched her attack on Obama's association with William Ayers, the former Weather Underground bomber, before the campaign had finalized a plan to raise the issue. McCain's advisers were working on a strategy that they hoped to unveil the following week, but McCain had not signed off on it, and top adviser Mark Salter was resisting.

- McCain also was reluctant to use Obama's incendiary pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, as a campaign issue. The Republican had set firm boundaries: no Jeremiah Wright; no attacking Michelle Obama; no attacking Obama for not serving in the military. McCain balked at an ad using images of children that suggested that Obama might not protect them from terrorism. Schmidt vetoed ads suggesting that Obama was soft on crime (no Willie Hortons). And before word even got to McCain, Schmidt and Salter scuttled a "celebrity" ad of Obama dancing with talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres (the sight of a black man dancing with a lesbian was deemed too provocative).

- Obama was never inclined to choose Sen. Hillary Clinton as his running mate, not so much because she had been his sometime bitter rival on the campaign trail, but because of her husband. Still, as Hillary's name came up in veep discussions, and Obama's advisers gave all the reasons why she should be kept off the ticket, Obama would stop and ask, "Are we sure?" He needed to be convinced one more time that the Clintons would do more harm than good. McCain, on the other hand, was relieved to face Sen. Joe Biden as the veep choice, and not Hillary Clinton, whom the McCain camp had truly feared.

- McCain was dumbfounded when Congressman John Lewis, a civil-rights hero, issued a press release comparing the GOP nominee with former Alabama governor George Wallace, a segregationist infamous for stirring racial fears. McCain had devoted a chapter to Lewis in one of his books, "Why Courage Matters," and had so admired Lewis that he had once taken his children to meet him.

- On the night she officially lost the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton enjoyed a long and friendly phone conversation with McCain. Clinton was actually on better terms with McCain than she was with Obama. Clinton and McCain had downed shots together on Senate junkets; they regarded each other as grizzled veterans of the political wars and shared a certain disdain for Obama as flashy and callow.

- At the GOP convention in St. Paul, Palin was completely unfazed by the boys' club fraternity she had just joined. One night, Steve Schmidt and Mark Salter went to her hotel room to brief her. After a minute, Palin sailed into the room wearing nothing but a towel, with another on her wet hair. She told them to chat with her laconic husband, Todd. "I'll be just a minute," she said.

- The debates unnerved both candidates. When he was preparing for them during the Democratic primaries, Obama was recorded saying, "I don't consider this to be a good format for me, which makes me more cautious. I often find myself trapped by the questions and thinking to myself, 'You know, this is a stupid question, but let me … answer it.' So when Brian Williams is asking me about what's a personal thing that you've done [that's green], and I say, you know, 'Well, I planted a bunch of trees.' And he says, 'I'm talking about personal.' What I'm thinking in my head is, 'Well, the truth is, Brian, we can't solve global warming because I fucking changed light bulbs in my house. It's because of something collective'."

full story here: http://www.newsweek.com/id/167581/page/1

 

[magicbastarder]

 

[Vinnie]

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[egg_]

So when Brian Williams is asking me about what's a personal thing that you've done [that's green], and I say, you know, 'Well, I planted a bunch of trees.' And he says, 'I'm talking about personal.' What I'm thinking in my head is, 'Well, the truth is, Brian, we can't solve global warming because I fucking changed light bulbs in my house. It's because of something collective'."

Haha brilliant!

 

[taubstumm]

she thought africa was a country!

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

she thought africa was a country!

It might as well be.
All those individual countries there look alike.

 

[snakybus]

That has to be the most stunning piece of ignorance all right. If Fox are reporting it, my guess is they're trying to salvage some dignity for the GOP by making her the scapegoat for the loss.

 

[Gambra]

YouTube - Howard Stern interviews the KKK after Obama gets elected 1/2

Ignore the video completely. Just listen to the audio.

 

[Unicron]

Every Natalie helps.

Needs to wash her hair.

 

[plug]

YouTube - Howard Stern interviews the KKK after Obama gets elected 1/2

Ignore the video completely. Just listen to the audio.

the wife is vicious isn't she!

 

[Carlow Punks!]

Needs to wash her hair.

She's try to be a women-of-the-people, and is going for the Mid-Western lady in ill-fitting leisure-suit and a greasy semi permed tied back hair-do.

I still would, though

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

YouTube - Howard Stern interviews the KKK after Obama gets elected 1/2

Ignore the video completely. Just listen to the audio.

Daniel is always good for a laugh.

 

[broken arm]

Needs to wash her hair.

and eat a few pies

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

and eat a few pies

I met her a few years back when she was going to Harvard.

She's gorgeous but tiny. About 5'2" I'd say, tops.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

YouTube - Howard Stern interviews the KKK after Obama gets elected 1/2

Ignore the video completely. Just listen to the audio.

Part deux

YouTube - Howard Stern interviews the KKK after Obama gets elected 2/2

 

[broken arm]

Did anyone catch the car-crash reporter frm the Birmingham mail?

Can't find for sure if he was fired or not

http://daveleejblog.com/2008/11/birmingham-mail-reporter-im-a-bit-of-an-idiot-really/

 

[Diddles]

Did anyone catch the car-crash reporter frm the Birmingham mail?

Can't find for sure if he was fired or not

http://daveleejblog.com/2008/11/birmingham-mail-reporter-im-a-bit-of-an-idiot-really/

Can't believe that person put the video on youtube. You'd want to be a right wanker to do that.

 

[classic seanc]

Adam Smiths theories have been debunked?!!