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Re: The Cheney Endorsement

Garteric — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:08:19 -0000

EPIC FAIL!!! This is Ilidan endorsing Kil'jaedan at the end of a Kara run. Time for a bubble hearth.

(Toon: Garteric, Guild: Seduction, realm: Muradin)

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Justin — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:50:38 -0000

It's a national ad, by a conservative PAC. (http://tpmelectioncentral.talk... So McCain technically isn't bringing Wright up, like he promised. Even the RNC isn't touching that one. Not sure where these dudes got the $2 million to run it, but whatever, I can't see it making a bit of difference at this point.

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John — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:59:19 -0000

Tessa,

I agree I've seen the Reverend Wright commercial, twelve times by my count since 4:00 p.m. CT yesterday and I live in Illinois. Obama's home state. Yeah, that's brilliant, run the ad in the guy's home state cause that's really gonna switch voters over to your side. Seriously, how stupid can the McCain campaign be? I mean talk about a waste of money.

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Persia — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:01:25 -0000

We got the Wright ad on Sunday Night Football too, in Vermont. Must be a national buy.

I'm waiting for McCain to denounce it as he promised, and will no doubt be waiting through Election Day and beyond.

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bago — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:13:18 -0000

I would not give Palin Camper cred. She's much more like the retards that spam "Camper" in a ctf or defense oriented game.

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Asher — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 01:23:53 -0000

So, TNC, the "blacks are responsible for Prop 8" meme is picking up some steam - they're now even calling it an "Obama Effect" (blacks turn out en masse to vote for Obama, then vote for Prop 8):

http://www.kcrw.com/news/programs/ww/ww081030prop_8_same-sex_marr

Re: The Cheney Endorsement

Paul Gilmartin — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:13:34 -0000

Pretty sure the wright ad is national as I saw it during Sunday Night Footie here in Oklahoma.

It's fucking weak. Seriously, can you see ANYONE who had decided to vote for O saying "Oh yeah, he had an anti-american preacher, I think I'll vote for the old guy instead"?

Thanks to Pox news for beating the shit out of this subject earlier in the year (Fuck, did I just thank Pox News???).

History will be made on Tuesday!

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Sharon — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:17:36 -0000

I just saw the Rev. Wright ad in Maryland. Now it was during Sunday Night Football, so it might be a national ad buy, but jeeze… blowing what money that you have on a toxic ad like that two days before the election, seems kind of desperate. No, strike that, it is desperate.

The McCain campaign has been robo-calling center-city Baltimore neighborhoods the last week and a half in places that are affluent census tracts, but are not at all McCain Country.

I'm convinced that the media buying folks on Team McCain are trying to justify their existence. Why would anyone in their right mind buy Maryland for the GOP?

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hubcap — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:06:39 -0000

By the way, I just saw the Reverend Wright commerical on television. I only mention this because I live in San Jose, CA. Does the McCain campaign seriously believe running this ad, or any ads really, in California is a good way to spend money in the last 2 days before the election?

In fairness to McCain, it's an outside group that has decided to waste its money running the Wright ads in California.

McCain has decided to waste his money sending me mailers in Virginia, even though I voted for Obama last week. But please spend more money on me, McCain!

Re: The Cheney Endorsement

KevDog — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:06:55 -0000

Based on this hysterical comment:

Dick Cheney is fully aware that his approval rating is on par with that of gonorrhea (incidentally, they have pretty much the same base).

Let us hearken back to the SATs.

Penicillin is to gonorrhea as ________ is to Dick Cheney.

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sharky — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:58:07 -0000

In gamer terms, I nominate Palin as a "camper." She goes and finds a vantage overlooking a spawn point, then snipes everyone coming in before they can draw. Then she spams "LOL N00B" until she's booted.

If anyone spawnkills her, of course, the ~moral outrage!~ capslock spam overwhelms your feeble connection.

Re: The Cheney Endorsement

Antoine "Hussein" La — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:31:34 -0000

Cheney gave that poisonious "endorcement" to jam McCain, but also to help Obama. Don't forget that they are distant cousins.LOOOL.

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rufustfyrfly — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:33:25 -0000

I agree with the comments above. Dick Cheney is fully aware that his approval rating is on par with that of gonorrhea (incidentally, they have pretty much the same base). This wasn't some brilliant campaign maneuver, this was the Kiss of Death.

Cheney and McCain hate each other. And rather than try to make a case for the Bush administration--try to rescue them from the inevitable "worst president ever" label--McCain tried to sweep them under the rug. Even in this he fucked up, and now the Bush administration is not going to be followed by Rove's Permanent Republican Majority, but by several straight elections in which Democrats make large gains and Bush/Cheney are roundly repudiated by the American people. Bush still daydreams about being vindicated by history, but Cheney was never that delusional.

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Dsulz — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:25:58 -0000

Ta-Nehisi,

Check it out. First good impression I've heard done of Barack Obama. Pretty funny too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0D1w2mjqzk&feature=rec-fresh

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jsg — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 17:52:39 -0000

PS don't forget to credit Karl Rove and the people Sullivan calls "Christianists" for their part in taking the GOP down in flames.

To give the devil his due, Cheney isn't stupid. He had enough sense to sink out of sight post-Nixon, didn't step back in the light until Bush II, and doesn't care what happens next because he's old.

Meanwhile the geniuses of the TalEvan know only they can save the GOP and the only way to save the GOP is to make it even more socially conservative. (And we know who they've picked to lead the way.)

It should be fun to watch, provided we don't overdose on popcorn.

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bwaage — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 15:35:58 -0000

I think this endorsement just days before the election is the 2008 version of the 2004 Bin Laden tape.

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Tessa — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 15:16:40 -0000

By the way, I just saw the Reverend Wright commerical on television. I only mention this because I live in San Jose, CA. Does the McCain campaign seriously believe running this ad, or any ads really, in California is a good way to spend money in the last 2 days before the election?

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Tessa — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:32:16 -0000

>"These guys give good, decent tax-paying demagouges a bad name. They should be ashamed."

I wonder if they are, ashamed. I wonder if they feel like complete assholes post no-WMDs, Abu Gharib, Guantanamo, Katrina, Halliburton, HHS Scully, The Energy Task Force, Enron, no Osama, domestic spying, Valeria Plame, stop-loss orders, Chalibi, Walter Reed, the deficit lie, 10+ trillion in debt, fannie, freddie, AIG, the downing street memo, ImGlone, Global Crossing, Dusty Foggo, Jack Abramoff, Tom Delay, the Dubai ports deal, toxic air at ground zero, Darfur, Harry Whittington, and last but not least, mission accomplished.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.

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rikyrah — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:29:49 -0000

"Afromercial?"

lol

that is so funny.

Snowman is on the money about The Evil One and his intent.

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Asher — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:28:51 -0000

TNC, this wasn't planned. No strategist thought of this. Cheney was campaigning for a Congressman in his home state of Wyoming, and he decided to mention, of his own accord, that he supports McCain. Cheney and McCain hate each other; for all we know, he was just trying to screw McCain over. He is clever like that.

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John Henry — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:27:57 -0000

Just wait until tomorrow, when McCain announces that Victoria Jackson will be his choice for Ambassador to the UN.

LOL. Rick Moranis for Dept. of Justice.

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dan — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:03:34 -0000

As much as I'm amused to see Obama using this as a club to beat McCain over the head with, I don't think this is particularly significant. My guess is that Cheyney was trying to fire up a partisan crowd and wasn't thinking too much beyond that. Sure, the guy's pure evil and all, but it would have been pretty conspicuous if he had mad a public political speech and not endorsed McCain/Palin, no? Three days in, this isn't going to make a bit of difference anyway.

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Alyson Miers — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:00:57 -0000

I have a theory that there's a gene in all human beings that motivates us to do stupid shit. It's evolution's way of making sure we don't get lazy. This is why we smoke, drink and abuse other substances. This is why we eat junk that we know is bad for us. This is why we drive like NASCAR finalists, cheat on our partners, have unprotected sex with people we barely know, and so forth.

This is the best explanation I have for the way McCain has been campaigning recently, and that goes especially for Cheney's endorsement. I think there's a part of him that's doing its best to make sure he doesn't become President. And if it keeps doing its job so well, it just might cost him his next reelection to the Senate, too.

Re: The Cheney Endorsement

Kylopod — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:48:58 -0000

"My guess is that Cheney got sick of listening to McCain bash him and Bush in the press."

I've always thought Cheney was driven by power but not ego.

Re: The Cheney Endorsement

matoko_chan — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:38:23 -0000

Snow is right.

This is deliberate execution....I wonder if this is designed to give Palin some cover so they can still use her in the GOP post election?

btw, in gamerspk, Palin is what's known as a "retard" and a "baddie".

Retard is sort of selfexplanatory, but baddies are peeps that show for raid grouping with crappy armor and no skillz, and expect everyone else to carry them.

Also baddies cause drama.