US Presidential Elections 2008 (1 Viewer)

[pete]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB1olxLwBWI"]YouTube - {Part 1} President Jokes @ White House Correspondents Dinner[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouVzworH30s"]YouTube - {Part 2} President Jokes @ White House Correspondents Dinner[/ame]

 

[Froog]

obama made a few good jokes alright.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

I don't know if this was posted before but I only happened upon it this morning
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2008...3636/obama-speaks-at-the-al-smith-dinner.html

Barack Obama doing a bit of comedy at the Al Smith dinner.

More Obama standup from last year.

 

[ann post]

has he hired the guys from the daly show to write for him??

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

no, his own staff wrote the jokes for that roast or whatever it was

 

[therealjohnny]

http://sendables.jibjab.com/originals/hes_barack_obama

 

[nooleen]

so how's he going anyway, i lost interest pretty fast after the election. is everything ok now?

 

[Anarcho Munk]

shutup. i had almost forgot about him....

He makes a better Reublican than any Republican could...

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

shutup. i had almost forgot about him....

He makes a better Reublican than any Republican could...

To get elected and then be effective, you need to run from the left and govern from the centre.

The trend of politics in the US since Reagan means that the centre has shifted quite a bit to the right.

 

[Vinnie]

Governing from the middle is a reality to some degree but it's no excuse for doing a complete U-turn on significant elements of your election manifesto and actually condoning & even continuing some of the most odious practices of the last 8 years instead of creating bulwarks to prevent them from ever happening again.

Having said that who the fuck knows what goes on in american politics. Nothing would surprise me

 

[egg_]

Find out which promises he's keeping and which he isn't here:

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/

I actually think he's doing ok, though that's based on a fairly cursory knowledge of What's Happening In The World. Would love to follow a big discussion on this thread about it, but my job's under threat so I gots to work

 

[Unicron]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Gov. Sarah Palin announced Friday that she will step down as Alaska's chief executive by the end of the month. She will not seek election to a second gubernatorial term in 2010.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announces she's stepping down this month.

"People who know me know that besides faith and family, nothing's more important to me than our beloved Alaska," Palin said at an announcement from her home in Wasilla. "Serving her people is the greatest honor I could imagine."
Palin, a Republican, was elected governor in 2006. She was tapped as Arizona Sen. John McCain's vice presidential running mate last year.
Palin said she was transferring authority to Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell, who will be sworn in at the Governor's Picnic on July 26.

Watch Palin's announcement »
Palin added in a statement that she was "determined to take the right path for Alaska even though it is not the easiest path. ... Once I decided not to run for re-election, I also felt that to embrace the conventional lame duck status in this particular climate would just be another dose of politics as usual, something I campaigned against and will always oppose."
A Republican source close to her political team told CNN's John King that it was a "calculation" she made that "it was time to move on." The governor's "book deal and other issues" were "causing a lot of friction" in her home state, the source said, adding that he believes she is "mapping out a path to 2012."
Another source, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said Palin "thinks she has accomplished goals she has set forward. ... She sees what a positive influence she has had on people's lives from traveling the country in the last year."
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Following Palin's announcement, the Democratic National Committee blasted what it called her "bizarre behavior."
"Either Sarah Palin is leaving the people of Alaska high and dry to pursue her long shot national political ambitions or she simply can't handle the job now that her popularity has dimmed and oil revenues are down," DNC spokesman Brad Woodhouse said.
"Either way, her decision to abandon her post and the people of Alaska who elected her continues a pattern of bizarre behavior that more than anything else may explain the decision she made today."
Republican strategist and CNN contributor Ed Rollins said, to a certain extent, Palin's announcement makes her look "terribly inept."
"I think everyone is shocked by this, and I think to a certain extent everyone is going to assume there's another story. You don't just quit with a year and a half to go. You certainly don't do this as a stepping stone to run for president. You finish the job that you're in, and obviously she's not doing that," he said.
"I think people are going to be very suspicious because of the timing. You don't quit on the Friday of a three-day holiday. If you are going to do this, you think it through, you give a good speech," Rollins said.
As the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, Palin had been considered one of the front-runners for the GOP nomination in 2012.
In an interview last month with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Palin said she was unsure about her re-election bid because she needed to focus on her state and her family.
"So, no decision yet on either 2010 or let alone 2012?" Blitzer asked.

"No decision that I'd want to announce today," Palin responded.
Palin catapulted on the national stage last August when McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, chose her as his running mate.

 

[Froog]

oh man, how much fun is the palin campaign gonna be in 2012?

 

[nooleen]

she'll be ready, oh ya betcha!

 

[Unicron]

Palin after quitting as governer. - "I'm a fighter, not a quitter."

 

[magicbastarder]

http://alaskareport.com/news39/x71283_divorce_palins.htm

 

[IFF]

Palin after quitting as governer. - "I'm a fighter, not a quitter."

person interviewed on daily show "oh she'll never quit."
daily show guy "so why did you think she quit?"

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Lolbama brings the funny

http://www.c-span.org/Watch/Media/2010/05/01/HP/A/32352/2010 White House Correspondents Dinner.aspx

Seriously, dude could host SNL

 

[ann post]

has he hired the guys from the daly show to write for him??

http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/2010/05/03/do-you-care-if-daily-show-staffers-wrote-jokes-for-obama/

yes.

 

[therealjohnny]

Good grief

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