Comments on: The Brightest Shiniest Object of them all: 2008 edition

By: MarkH

MarkH — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:26:51 +0000

John McCain’s selection for Vice President is a surprise unknown. Now that she and her record have been studied it’s clear that almost everything said by her, John McCain and the McCain campaign about her and her political record has been incorrect or a stretch of the truth. Politically she’s more in tune with President Bush than most Americans. John McCain says we need change and then picked someone who stands for “more of the same Bush Doctrine”?

John McCain isn’t the person we need to be President in 2009.

By: looseheadprop

looseheadprop — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:27:26 +0000

PW,

Yes, yes, and yes.

I concurr

By: MrWhy

MrWhy — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:35:06 +0000

The Republican campaign has captured the media focus. The Democratic campaign has to get it back somehow. I remember the YouTube of Have You Had Enough? sung by Rickie Lee Jones, I thought it was wonderful, bring it back, but do something else, something new with a new twist. Get the video focus off of Palin. Months ago I suggested an update of Yes We Can Can, but I don’t think it’s quite strong enough now. We need a story strong enough to displace Palin from the main news cycle for a day or more, so that when she comes back, she’s not the shiny toy, she’s old news.

She’s no Ingrid Bergman, she’s no Condi Rice, but she’s the media darling of the campaign because she brings eyeballs to the TV.

Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin,
let’s go make a picture
On the island of Umnak, Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin, you’re so perty,
you’d make any mountain quiver
You’d make fire fly from the crater,
Sarah Palin

This old mountain it’s been waiting
All its life for you to work it
For your hand to touch its hardrock,
Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin

If you’ll walk across my camera,
I will flash the world your story,
I will pay you more than money, Sarah Palin

Not by pennies dimes nor quarters,
but with happy sons and daughters,
And they’ll sing around Umnak Island,
Sarah Palin

ORIGINAL WORDS: Woody Guthrie 1950 - MUSIC: Billy Bragg

Oh Sarah Sarah beggin’ on my knees
Open up your heart and let me in wontcha please
Got no money but everybody knows
I love you Sarah and I’ll never let you go
Sweet and dandy pretty as can be
You be the flower and I’ll be the bumble bee
Oh she loves me oops she loves me not
People say you’re cold but I think you’re hot

Oh, Sarah, Sarah
Oh, Sarah, Sarah

Oh Sarah, Sarah I’m talkin’ to you girl
What’s it gonna hurt come on give me a whirl
Shake your body now let me see you go
One time for me Oh Sarah I love you so
Skank for me Sarah show me what you got
They say you’re too uptight I say you’re not
Dance around me spinnin’ like a top
Oh Sarah Sarah Sarah don’t ever stop

Oh Sarah Sarah Can’t you hear me call
I’m standin’ in the street outside your garden wall
Pocketful of money belly full of wine
Sarah in my heart and romance on my mind
Listen to me Sarah don’t be afraid
I come here tonight to chase your blues away
I’ll never hurt you I’ll treat you right
Oh Sarah Louise won’t you come out tonight

Pretty little Sarah precious as can be
Bet you never had another lover like me

Original Words & Music by Steve Earle 2004

By: tjbs

tjbs — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:46:15 +0000

Did anyone else catch what Mark Shields said on the news hour on Friday, something like,Today may very well be (Palin’s) best day of her campaign. Eagleton ,for those of you youngers out there, had his past drive him from the ticket in mid-campaign. She will be the example of throwing enough **** against the wall, some of it is going to stain and right now is a prime example of a fan you don’t want to be in front of as somethings”s being drawn into the fan intake. It is almost too easy.

By: dakine01

dakine01 — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:21:13 +0000

Yes.

By: foothillsmike

foothillsmike — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:17:31 +0000

Slightly OT : I received a DVD in my copy of the Denver Post today. It is titled “Obsession” Is this the one that everyone was talking about last week?

By: Phoenix Woman

Phoenix Woman — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:13:10 +0000

LHP, Nate Silver at fivethirtyeight.com makes the point that the alleged “Palin bounce” is pretty much the standard post-convention bounce — and points out that he’d predicted this weeks ago, well before anyone but the Fundies thought Palin was even possible as a pick.

The big thing is to start talking about McCain as Bush again, even as McCain’s working to pretend he didn’t vote the way Bush wanted him to vote when it counted.

By: dakine01

dakine01 — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:10:36 +0000

Blue TExan a couple of flights up on some liars

By: cinnamonape

cinnamonape — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:07:27 +0000

The Obama Campaign really needs to get out there are use the fact that the GOP is trying to disenfranchise people who are being evicted from their foreclosed homes. They are going to use foreclosure lists to send letters out to show the people are no longer residents in the precincts, and then challenge them for being illegally registered…although they were lehgally resident at the time of the registration and do not have DUAL registrations.

The only fraud here is the Republicans trying to steal peoples right to vote in key areas where Republicans face tough races.

Take a look at the areas where foreclosures are highest and you can see why they need to eliminate angry “economics” voters, many in critical swing states

DETROIT, MI
LAS VEGAS, NV Reno NV
Columbus OH CLEVELAND, OH Dayton OH
MIAMI, FL Cape Coral-Fort Meyers Fl FORT LAUDERDALE, FL DENVER/AURORA, CO Greeley, CO
Indianapolis IN
Atlanta, GA
Dallas/Ft. Worth TX
STOCKTON, CA RIVERSIDE, CA SACRAMENTO, CA BAKERSFIELD, CA Merced, CA Modesto, CA Vallejo-Fairfield, CA Salinas-Monterey, CA [several Central Valley and Southern California “red districts”]

By: foothillsmike

foothillsmike — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:02:13 +0000

We will probably have Venezuela added to list soon