Obama '27--Murderer's Row

I was born in Ohio. My natural enemy is Wolverines.

Very perceptive of you.

I think the enemy of all Iraqis is the colonialist American Armed Forces who are occupying Iraq to bleed it dry of palm oil.

 

Got Hope?

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Apparently MoveOn bought airtime on MTV and Comedy Central to show this ad, minus the Obama part(cnn says the tv ad does not mention Obama).

Isn't that the guy from Boy Meets World?

 

That's f******ing awful.

 

Positive, humerous commercials are bad? It was in response to Let Freedom Rings "Both Ways Barack" ad, which was a typical PAC attack ad.

 

Nothing against positive commercials, but that was just too saccharain.

 

too late, I saw the original. Thanks Matt. At least with the ad I had to click on something.

 

Goodness, that was painful.

MoveOn had an ad about the war that ran a couple of weeks ago. It was the first MoveOn ad that didn't make me want to throw up. I'm glad they're getting back to their roots.

And that was the kid from Boy Meets World at the end, wasn't it?

 

He should have Petraeus take over.

 

Interesting Graph from Gallup showing post-primary movement for Obama.

 

Not sure where to post this, but here's the "libreal" media at it again: ABC News claims 6 year low gas prices are 38% higher then a year!

I know the article should say June(22nd?), but yea...they need a new web-editor.

 

If one looks back at the tracking polls from '04 there are some patterns that can be explained by the movement of the stock market. If the market was up, Bush was up and vice versa. I suspect it's the same way for McCain. He hasn't moved in the polls for weeks, stuck somewhere around 41%. He's much lower than Bush was (probably because the religious voters who aren't Reps havn't supported him) and I suspect he'll stay stuck there baring a run in the stock market or a drop in prices. Neither are likely.

 

At first I thought it was Jared Leto, but yeah, you're right.

I thought it was a good idea, to spoof on McCain's embrace of hopelessness. But they didn't pull it off. Too clever by half?

 

Andrea Mitchell calls bulls**t on the whole "Obama not visiting the troops" McCain ad because she was, you know, actually there. But the Republican dude disingenuously still wants to keep the controversy going with his answers. How do these guys live with themselves while peddling this garbage?

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The New Yorker, they're not.

 

It's his job. People believe all kinds of things if a paycheck is attached.

He's a cheerleader. Sort of how some NY, Chi, DC and LA fans believe the league has never shown favoritism towards their team.

 

David Kilcullen, counterinsurgency expert heavily involved in designing the surge with Petraeus, now working for Secretary Rice, calls the decision to originally invade, "f*cking stupid."

"“The biggest stupid idea,” Kilcullen said, “was to invade Iraq in the first place.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/28...d-idea-was-to-invade-iraq-in-the-first-place/

 

Interesting contrast between Obama and "foreign policy expert" McCain in Jerusalem Post interviews:

 

looked to Lieberman several times for reassurance on his answers and seemed a little flummoxed by a question relating to the nuances of settlement construction.


Holy crap! Lieberman will not only be on the ticket, he is primed to be the second coming of dick cheney.

But Obama, who was making only his second visit to Israel, knew precisely what he wanted to say about the most intricate issues confronting and concerning Israel, and expressed himself clearly, even stridently on key subjects.

Obama needs to find a way to make hay out of stuff like this. The American people need to know that he is way up the ladder in terms of understanding foreign policy issues. Is anyone still making the empty suit arguments?

 

There's a problem for Obama if he tries this.

See my sig.

 

Excellent mailer by the AFL-CIO taking on the various Wing Nut rumors.









PDF version of 1 and 2 here.

It would appear that the Democrats or at least their supporters are learning.

(Cross-posted on the Birth Cert thread).

 

And The Tax Foundation tackles some more serious misconceptions.

 

Obama as law professor. This is gt under a new name, by the way.

"A favorite theme, said Salil Mehra, now a law professor at Temple University, were the values and cultural touchstones that Americans share. Mr. Obama’s case in point: his wife, Michelle, a black woman, loved “The Brady Bunch” so much that she could identify every episode by its opening shots.

As his reputation for frank, exciting discussion spread, enrollment in his classes swelled.

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In class, Mr. Obama sounded many of the same themes he does on the campaign trail, Ms. Callahan said, ticking them off: “self-determinism as opposed to paternalism, strength in numbers, his concept of community development.”

But as a professor, students say, Mr. Obama was in the business of complication, showing that even the best-reasoned rules have unintended consequences, that competing legal interests cannot always be resolved, that a rule that promotes justice in one case can be unfair in the next.

So even some former students who are thrilled at Mr. Obama’s success wince when they hear him speaking like the politician he has so fully become.

“When you hear him talking about issues, it’s at a level so much simpler than the one he’s capable of,” Mr. Rodriguez said. “He was a lot more fun to listen to back then.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/us/politics/30law.html