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09/04/2008
Shots from the RNC
From CNN's front page, above (via reddit and pam) and below, the most awkward shot of the night (get that child out of there!), AFTER THE JUMP...
Posted 11:09 AM EST by Andy Towle in John McCain, News, Republican Party, Sarah Palin | Permalink
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I'm guessing the "B" in BC is for "Bruce,"
uncle Bruce?
Posted by: Rocco | Sep 4, 2008 2:44:24 PM
24 Play and everyone
Check this out
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
oliver-willis/the-other-base_b_123808.html
Great piece at huffpo.
It talks about her stirring up the repub base. The problem is that the repub base is already stirred up and behind mccain due to the muslim smears, scary blk man schtick, etc. Palin doesn't even galvanize the fundies because they in fact were already stirred up.
Who she does stir up is ............
wait for it
...............................
US!
You, me, all of us. The already galvanized Obama supporters by showing us our greatest fear. A far right religious nut.
PatrickNYC , ^5 on the summing up community service. Well said
RAD :-) Cool and good for you
Posted by: Jimmyboyo | Sep 4, 2008 2:47:52 PM
John
Yeah
The electoral college map is looking great.
Crazy prediction from a crazy here
Pop vote =10% Obama lead
Electoral college = 290-320 Obama (270 to win)
The down tickets are amazing. Repub head of senate re-election team has said they would be lucky to keep their losses to 4 senate seats
Posted by: Jimmyboyo | Sep 4, 2008 2:51:13 PM
The thing that got my attention was the first picture... it reminded me of some kind of Nazi rally... with Palin with the "Heil Hitler" pose and the "S" shape wall looking EXACTLY like one of the "S" in "SS" - which was an evil elite military organization in the Nazi party. Seriously... this is bizarre! The symbolism and propagandising methods of the republican party are like some weird deja vu of Germany during the rise of power of the Nazis.
Posted by: Mike | Sep 4, 2008 3:01:36 PM
Calling Sarah Palin's grandson Trig a "tard' is way out-of-bounds… Levi's unfortunate child evidently has Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, and now Trig's mother Bristol is already on her second pregnancy, while fighting the urge to drink.
Please have some sensitivity to the need for privacy and respect when a upright and moral family is forced to disguise private issues like an unwed pregnant teenager's underage drinking.
Posted by: Baked Alaska | Sep 4, 2008 3:26:50 PM
"Community Organizer" is Republican for "NIGGER!!!!"
Posted by: David Ehrenstein | Sep 4, 2008 3:58:07 PM
DAVID EHRENSTEIN
I would say it is repub code speak for "Upity N...er" and "pesky k@k@" because Jews like to go out and register dem voters in GOTV efforts while making baby jesus cry
A Ga repub congress critter actually just dumped the code speak and went straight to what they all say behind closed doors "Upity" in referring to Obama
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/
westmoreland-calls-obama-uppity-
2008-09-04.html
Posted by: Jimmyboyo | Sep 4, 2008 4:31:21 PM
How has it come to pass that we are voting on people who do not and cannot resolve our problems? What is their role in this representative democracy if we disallow them their opinions, their prejudices, their gifts for self-aggrandisement? Gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual people are the final test for this form of government. It's unfolding before our eyes.
Posted by: BILLOFTHEDESERT | Sep 4, 2008 8:25:15 PM
Uppity....The Southern Strategy is alive and well.
Posted by: MAJeff | Sep 4, 2008 8:52:13 PM
One thing that the whole Palin thing has done .... it's got Hillary supporters like myself, my husband and my parents to throw our support 100% behind Obama.
Last night I donated AGAIN to Obama and my husband is getting an Obama/Biden sticker for his car.
I just got my Hillary quote sticker for mine.
"No Way, No How, NO MCCAIN"!!
Posted by: Tralfaz | Sep 4, 2008 8:56:53 PM
please please please will somebody prove one simple thing: at the time of being placed on the ticket, sarah palin had no idea her daughter was pregnant. she found out three days after the announcement. thus, mccain had no idea as well. they are lying. they need to be caught in that lie, and that lie alone, and no other scandal is necessary to bring the ticket down.
Posted by: sam | Sep 5, 2008 1:36:59 AM
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2008/09/08/080908ta_talk_gourevitch
Before she was running against him, Sarah Palin—the governor of Alaska
and now the Republican candidate for Vice-President of the United
States—thought it was pretty neat that Barack Obama was edging ahead
of John McCain in her usually solidly red state. After all, she said,
Obama's campaign was using the same sort of language that she had in
her gubernatorial race. "The theme of our campaign was 'new energy,' "
she said recently. "It was no more status quo, no more politics as
usual, it was all about change. So then to see that Obama—literally,
part of his campaign uses those themes, even, new energy, change, all
that, I think, O.K., well, we were a little bit ahead on that." She
also noted, "Something's kind of changing here in Alaska, too, for
being such a red state on the Presidential level. Obama's doing just
fine in polls up here, which is kind of wigging people out, because
they're saying, 'This hasn't happened for decades that in polls the D'
"—the Democratic candidate—" 'is doing just fine.' To me, that's
indicative, too. It's the no-more-status-quo, it's change."
This was two weeks ago, at the statehouse in Juneau. After persistent
reports, in July, that Palin was on McCain's short list of potential
running mates, her name had faded back into obscurity. Nobody in
Alaska seemed to take her seriously as a national prospect, and she
had shrugged the whole thing off on television, telling CNBC's Larry
Kudlow that, before considering the job, she would want to know "what
is it, exactly, that the V.P. does every day." Now, at the statehouse,
she sat, unattended by aides, curled up in a cardigan, and explained
that what she had done every day since becoming governor was to stick
her thumb in the eye of Alaska's Republican Party establishment. "The
G.O.P. leader of the state—we haven't spoken since I got elected," she
said.
She went on, "I guess if you take the individual issues, two that I
believe would be benchmarks showing whether you're a hard-core
Republican conservative or not, would be: I'm a lifetime member of the
N.R.A.—but this is Alaska, who isn't?—and I am pro-life, absolutely."
She continued, "I guess that puts me in a box of being hard-core
Republican." But she said she recognized that "the Democrats also
preach individual freedoms and individual rights, capitalism, free
market, let-it-do-its-thing-best, let people keep as much of their
money that they earn as possible. And when it comes to, like, the
Party machine, no one will accuse me of being partisan."
So the possibility that Obama might win Alaska did not worry Palin:
"Turning maybe purple in the state means, to me, it's more
independent, it's not the obsessive partisanship that gets in the way
of doing what's right for this state, and I think on a national level
that's what we're gonna see." And she added, "That's why McCain is the
candidate for the G.O.P.—because he's been known as the maverick, as
the conduit for some change." In the state's Republican caucus, McCain
came in fourth, trailing Ron Paul. "I always looked at Senator McCain
just as a Joe Blow public member, looking from the outside in," she
said. "He's been buttin' heads with Republicans for years, and that's
a healthy place to be." Then again, on McCain's signature issue—the
prosecution of the war in Iraq—she did not sound so gung-ho. Her son
is a soldier, and she said, "I'm a mom, and my son is going to get
deployed in September, and we better have a real clear plan for this
war. And it better not have to do with oil and dependence on foreign
energy."
Posted by: rich | Sep 5, 2008 2:31:30 AM