Sensitive MSM interviewer's question for hurricane victims: How happy are you to have given John McCain an opportunity to show his concern for unfortunates like yourself?
Oh I think about five minutes into the Veep debate with Missy Hockey Mom and Joe Biden will clearly define this mess as McSame Train Wreck. Reminds me of the year that Perot chose Mr Choate as his Veep and the guy stood there and asked "What am I doing here?"
Andrew Sullivan keeps saying that the evangenital wingnut base just does not have the numbers that the MSM wants you to believe. I have no idea if he is right but it sure seems like there must be more twenty somethings, who love Obama, than Jeebus Freaks out there.
Who knows? Missy Hockey Mom Karen Walker Alaska surely is a cruel joke on this nation.
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
i hope sullivan is right. i think that may be true. and i hope the GOPers can't rig the vote again...i'm sure they'll try.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
He's been saying that for a while now...that the evangenitalia just do not have the large voting numbers that we think they have. In terms of the "Diebolding" factor, it seems that trends have been back to optical scanners and paper ballot receipts since the 2000 debacle. There are a few swing states like Ohio that are still in court battles. Dallas, remarkably, has a seemingly very secure system where the optical generates a machine count and then gives you a paper copy of what you put in the machine. Florida apparently is still a total disaster and hanging chads may once again be in play.
Oh yeah, Brian Williams is interviewing John McCain right now on Today with the soft religious side light falling across his face, the lamp in the background, John McCain relaxed and appearing in his prime.
I'd like to see Obama helping witth the relief effort after the eye passes, say about midafternoon, in time for the evening news. They are owning this event.
No one is asking why, when we have had severe weather in this country for hundreds of years, we haven't yet figured out how to continue to conduct the business in spite of it. REally, does the President take up a station in Boston when New England suffers a major blizzard? I think not. Part of what's going on here is an addictive feel-good outpouring of pity over the fate of people too poor to have basic, sound, shelter and to buy transportation out of town. And they are just as poor as they were three years ago, having invested our tax dollars in crappy reconstructions which are still vulnerable to weather. How about some stories about building codes and zoning in New Orleans?.
We need poor people to give us an opportunity to feel magnanimous.
Indigo
· 1 year ago
Also, without poor people, the wealthy would have no standard of comparison and might not feel wealthy after all.
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
wouldn't it be great if the storm fizzles out and the GOPers are left standing there in the sunshine with a cancelled convention and no excuse for shrub not to "speak"?
come on Mother Nature...
jescot
· 1 year ago
Its time to break out the no votes on the investigation and to rebuild.
Also I think McCain could be making a big mistake here by "acting" if he in charge - " Success has many fathers but failure is an orphan' If things do not go well after the storm he has posistioned himself as being a key player ...a big gamble. If things go well he will have to share credit or it will be clear he was just a cheerleader and had no real power over events anyway ...can you imagine if obama was doing this?
1970cs
· 1 year ago
The thing is, what can he possibly do except stand around and say how awful it is. He could offer tax breaks to the oil industry if the offshore rigs and the LOOP are damaged, that will go over big.
dad
· 1 year ago
re-demp-tion 1. an act of redeeming or the state of being redeemed. 2. deliverance; rescue. 3. Theology. deliverance from sin; salvation. 4. atonement for guilt.
republican self knowledge? it is possible?
Indigo
· 1 year ago
Bumper sticker theology says: "Christians are not perfect, just forgiven." I don't hear anything in that line except an arrogant contempt for others but apparently it's meaningful to the 700 Club.
bunnyjump
· 1 year ago
The repugs also benefit by having a subdued convention...no comparisons can be drawn with the blockbuster Dem convention.
caphillprof
· 1 year ago
If one is to believe Fred Hiatt in today's WaPo, the GOP also encouraged Georgia to provoke a Russian invasion in order to create a GOP issue for the November election. The human hand is greater in the Georgia situation and the human misery as real.
MNmack
· 1 year ago
I find it very interesting how the contrast in weather has affected both the DNC and RNC. The DNC left itself wide open for disaster had there even been rain at Invesco stadium but it was a beautiful crisp cool evening the night of Barack Obama's speech. By contrast the RNC has been scaled back to almost nothing because of a storm nowhere near the convention. The only reason for this was the mismanagement of Katrina by the Bush administration. We don't go running off to monitor storm sites in other areas, let alone cancel an important political convention. I believe Bush and McCain were eating cake for McCain's birthday as Katrina was approaching. I guess this will not be a cake year. I believe God is giving us a preview of what is to come. Although we will all be bogged down cleaning up the damage and mismanagement from the past Bush/Republican leadership, I have hope that Barack Obama will lead us away from this in the cool crisp night air that was present at Invesco stadium.
sargeanton
· 1 year ago
Love Barak Obama Hussein. Just what we need: a muslim president who masquerades as a pseudo-christian. Hurray for 9/11. Hurray for Obama. Let's elect him!
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it's not his place to be on the scene there at all.
more poor judgment.
ps: the levees might not hold...what another GOPer fiasco that would be.
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/man-plan...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-creamer/wh...
Andrew Sullivan keeps saying that the evangenital wingnut base just does not have the numbers that the MSM wants you to believe. I have no idea if he is right but it sure seems like there must be more twenty somethings, who love Obama, than Jeebus Freaks out there.
Who knows? Missy Hockey Mom Karen Walker Alaska surely is a cruel joke on this nation.
and i hope the GOPers can't rig the vote again...i'm sure they'll try.
have the large voting numbers that we think they have. In terms of the
"Diebolding" factor, it seems that trends have been back to optical scanners
and paper ballot receipts since the 2000 debacle. There are a few swing
states like Ohio that are still in court battles. Dallas, remarkably, has a
seemingly very secure system where the optical generates a machine count and
then gives you a paper copy of what you put in the machine. Florida
apparently is still a total disaster and hanging chads may once again be in
play.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/1/4231/184...
Yes, McCain picked a real whack-a-doodle!
I'd like to see Obama helping witth the relief effort after the eye passes, say about midafternoon, in time for the evening news. They are owning this event.
No one is asking why, when we have had severe weather in this country for hundreds of years, we haven't yet figured out how to continue to conduct the business in spite of it. REally, does the President take up a station in Boston when New England suffers a major blizzard? I think not. Part of what's going on here is an addictive feel-good outpouring of pity over the fate of people too poor to have basic, sound, shelter and to buy transportation out of town. And they are just as poor as they were three years ago, having invested our tax dollars in crappy reconstructions which are still vulnerable to weather. How about some stories about building codes and zoning in New Orleans?.
We need poor people to give us an opportunity to feel magnanimous.
come on Mother Nature...
Also I think McCain could be making a big mistake here by "acting" if he in charge - " Success has many fathers but failure is an orphan'
If things do not go well after the storm he has posistioned himself as being a key player ...a big gamble. If things go well he will have to share credit or it will be clear he was just a cheerleader and had no real power over events anyway ...can you imagine if obama was doing this?
1. an act of redeeming or the state of being redeemed.
2. deliverance; rescue.
3. Theology. deliverance from sin; salvation.
4. atonement for guilt.
republican self knowledge? it is possible?
I don't hear anything in that line except an arrogant contempt for others but apparently it's meaningful to the 700 Club.