Obscure Thoughts and Diggeracities

BEN STEIN IS AN IDIOT

2008-12-14T14:32:00.001-05:00

Recapping financial punditry, mob psychology, and lonely voice of rationality.

THE KING SPEAKS

2008-11-10T13:17:00.000-05:00

THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN'

2008-11-05T11:24:00.002-05:00

...the largest margin of victory for a President since 1984. The SCOTUS and US Constitution will soon be safe again.

Chicago November 5, 2008

Barack Obama's email to supporters:

Friend --

I'm about to head to Grant Park to talk to everyone gathered there, but I wanted to write to you first.

We just made history.

And I don't want you to forget how we did it.

You made history every single day during this campaign -- every day you knocked on doors, made a donation, or talked to your family, friends, and neighbors about why you believe it's time for change.

I want to thank all of you who gave your time, talent, and passion to this campaign.

We have a lot of work to do to get our country back on track, and I'll be in touch soon about what comes next.

But I want to be very clear about one thing...

All of this happened because of you.

Thank you,

Barack

NO VET

2008-10-28T10:26:00.000-05:00

The Right Side of the Bell Curve

2008-10-17T09:04:00.003-05:00

McZaney to the Rescue!!!

2008-09-25T06:15:00.008-05:00

It isn't possible to get into the heads of McSame's advisors, you know the ones who came up with the White Knight gambit. Presumably they sussed out both the upside and the downside. But, maybe they were unable to do the latter, blinded as they were by the bright light of their idea.

As far as I can tell, the upside is that the mavericky leadership of zany McBush would dominate the news cycle for three days and fill the hearts of the narrowing indy voter with the image of St. John-George slaying the dragon of Wall Street greed and saving the damsel of Main Street. Added bonus: buy in of Obama, and this turns Obama into nothing more than a foot soldier and follower.

Alas, there was no message discipline on the right side last night. Even the All-Star Fox panel chuckled at the thin cloak of principle thrown over the obvious arch political ploy. Then, Obama lofted McCain's slow pitch from his wheel house into the seats when he stated leader's need to be able to do more than one thing at a time.

The poorly conceived stunt moved quickly from McSame posing himself as 'the One!' to comedy. All this unfolded in one news cycle--with almost no cooperation--to land at the door of today's news cycle.

Then, late yesterday the idea was floated that a cancelled debate on foreign policy might be rescheduled in the Biden-Palin slot next week, reinforcing a new comedic concept: not only did McCain not want to debate tomorrow, but Palin would prefer to escape the klieg lights on October 2nd. Ooops. Palin hasn't successfully reinforced the idea she is St. Joan of Wassila over the last month, so this move reeked right out of the package. In fact, Palin has seemed not much more than a hockey mom with lipstick:earnestly ambitious yet also badly educated and mostly ignorant.

McCain's impulsive, grandiose narcissism couldn't have been more effectively brought to the center of today's news picture. It is possible the promotion of an election about personality differences might turn out to be an ill-begotten strategy too as the sober and thoughtful Obama crosses swords with the developing parody of mavericky self-aggrandizement. Such differentiation might well serve the future of the country.

Woooooooeeee

2008-09-24T08:51:00.002-05:00

Bush remains able to completely shock the sensibility.

...can't wait to hear what Sarah Palin has to say.

SYMMETRY!?!!

2008-09-23T09:01:00.000-05:00

Doh MOLECULES

2008-09-19T14:50:00.000-05:00

Defer This

2008-09-18T16:19:00.002-05:00

My definition of a dangerous choice for any office is a person whose sole expertise is in promoting their own political ambitions.

BACK TO THE FIFTIES

2008-09-07T06:37:00.000-05:00

GETTING TO KNOW YOU

2008-09-01T15:35:00.002-05:00

INSANE FOR A REASON, TIS McCRAZY

2008-08-31T15:36:00.002-05:00

From Politico:

McCain was scheduled to deliver his acceptance speech Thursday, but now may do so from the devastation zone if the storm hits the U.S. coast with the ferocity feared by forecasters.

LITTLE MISS MAVERICK

2008-08-30T17:36:00.006-05:00

There are a lot of ways to knock McSame's choice of Sarah Palin. But they are likely to miss the point. McSame has with this single stroke placed a piece on the board aimed--rightly, in terms of tactics--at mobilizing the evangelical base and providing the undecideds with an excuse to not vote for Obama. Also, basically, she's squeaky clean, enough.

It simply doesn't matter that Mrs. Palin is both inexperienced and a doctrinaire right winger. She will be set upon the task of reinforcing McSame's claim to being the true reformer against both the dried out Republican plutocrats and all those pesky pointy headed liberal socialists and welfarists. She can write her own script on personal responsibility cum reform, but everything else that comes out of her mouth will be tightly programmed.

Her message will be: personal responsibility + integrity + "post-partisan" reform. Reform, reform, reform! This will have a powerful appeal with the undecideds.

This said, obviously McSame has little interest in reform. He wants desperately to be the "general of generals." His 25 year record of being a foot soldier in status quo conservatism speaks for itself, (but who's asking?)

Thus it seems to me that Obama/Biden must tread carefully around McSame's brilliant (and cynical,) choice of Palin and concentrate on four fundamentals:

1. Run against Bush/Cheney
2. Point out the obvious sameness of McSame
3. Make the ground game an overwhelming factor
4. Present the agenda to smallish groups in the hinterlands of the battleground states

Blog worth tracking, mudflats You can't make this stuff up:

PAID FOR

2008-08-28T10:30:00.001-05:00

Reformer my ass.

GRIPPING THE GRAPE

2008-08-28T06:37:00.006-05:00

Because their candidate didn't win the fault is found with the opponent and the nominating system. The features of the latter were well known before the process was begun. Did the PUMA nation do anything about it starting a few years ago? No.

In reading through the protestations on hillaryclintonforum.net, I'm struck by the immense sour grapes expressed in the context of almost total naivete about how the nominating system works, and has worked over many election cycles.

Almost needless to say, their unconscious identification with Hillary now supports their valorizing McCain. They see him as the bitter medicine they wish to serve to the "other side." This vindictiveness, contra as it is to the advice of HRC, rotates their desire to reform the system around nothing more than their own self-victimization. And what brought this all on? That the PUMAs came to the messy kitchen of primary politics believing the HRC dish was a done deal.

Here's some gripping from hillaryclintonforum.net

mslas4hillary
Silver Member = >250 Posts
WHY WE MUST VOTE for MCCAIN? BECAUSE IT EQUALS THE END OF WHAT WE HAVE BEEN FIGHTING AGAINST
MCCAIN IN 2008 = THE END OF OBAMA FOREVER BECAUSE DEMOCRATS WILL BE OUTRAGED HE DIDNT CLOSE THE DEAL = HILLARY TO BE PRAISED AND ELECTED IN 2012 DEMS WILL SAY WE PICKED THE WRONG CANDIDATE

McCain will help the country more than obama ever could. Im begging you all to cross the party line for this one time for the sake of the democrats and the country, yourselves and Hillary. Remember if McCain is elected we see the end of obama, the end of obama nation, the end of the kool aid drinking supporters, the end of the bias, the end of the reverse racism, the end of the sexism from many, the end of the bias media, the end of inexperienced candidates and obama will be hated by dems for not closing the deal.

Staying home this election is a vote for Obama, McCain needs all the help he can get SO PLEASE VOTE MCCAIN.

WE CAN NOT REWARD DEMOCRATS WHO ACT UNDEMOCRATICALLY

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GaGirl
Gold Member = >500 Posts
Obama is taking me to McCain - not Hillary
If I vote for McCain, it is because of Obama, Dean, and Pelosi and I don't mind saying it. Hillary did not take me from the Democratic party. Obama, Dean, and Pelosi did. Hillary can get me back. I am willing and proud to say that Hillary could bring me back - in an instant.

If Obama loses because I went to McCain, how does that hurt Hillary? If only Hillary can get me back, how does that hurt Hillary?

She told me NOT to go to McCain. It is only because of Obama as a lousy candidate and the DNC as dishonest manipulators that I left. It has nothing to do with Hillary.

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lucky-ann
Presidential Member = >1000 Posts
I wouldn't be too concerned about using Hillary's name while campaigning for McCain e.g. saying you supported her in the primaries. people have no way of knowing how widespread it is if they hear individual people say this in interviews or so. but personally I wouldn't tell pollsters that you're a Hillary supporter for McCain and especially don't tell it to exit pollsters. hard numbers could really hurt Hillary's reputation though she's of course NOT responsible for our actions. still it could hurt her politically. I think the election had to be very close to be decided by hillary supporters but at the moment is looks like it is very close. We don't want to give the obama supporters any chance to blame Hillary though that's anyway really hard. She's going above and beyond the call of duty for him.

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thebword
Presidential Member = >1000 Posts
Quote:
Originally Posted by eyedoc333
I have already heard from some Obama supporters that if PUMA appears to be the cause of Obama's downfall, they will remember in 2012. Let's be cognizant of this as we move forward.

Here we go again Obama and his intimidators. Too bad. Hillary and Bill did what they had to do. I will do what I have to do. PUMA's will do what they have to do. See that is America, we are supposed to VOTE our conscience for the good of all, not for our own personal benefit. Something the DNC, delegates, Super Delegates, and Obamabots obviously have forgotten.

Obamabots will not hold 2012 over my head as a threat. Country First.

Obama is responsible for making his case to the American people, to get their votes. His downfall is his own. It is Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's responsibility to position herself politically for a 2012 run.

LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON

2008-08-23T10:49:00.000-05:00

HOUSED

2008-08-22T09:00:00.005-05:00

new update:

ONE DOSE IS TOO MUCH

2008-08-20T10:12:00.000-05:00

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MARYKAY FROM HILLARYCLINTONFORUM.NET

2008-08-13T14:55:00.004-05:00

hillaryclintonforum.net, home for HRC deadenders, Party Unity My Ass activists, Obama haters, and providing acres of trash talk and inanity, hosted this post yesterday.

This may be funnier than anything conjured by The Daily Show so far. Of course it would be hard to make this stuff up! Enjoy.

MaryKay

Gold Member = >500 Posts

Join Date: Mar 2008

Posts: 678

Poster Rank: #110

My Two Cents - Zbig, Obama and McCain

Intersting. Now, am I reading this right? You say that you've been told it has something to do with Georgia? Hummm.

If that be the case, here are my two cents, for what it's worth:

On Russia invading Georgia - As we all know too well, Obama's lead foreign policy advisor is Zbig Brzezinski. Zbig is fanatical about taking down Russia. He orchestrated the Rose and Orange revolutions in Georgia and Ukraine respectively.

Now, Zbig was Jimmy Carter's advisor. If you recall, he and Vance could not stand each other, and it was because Zbig actually started the first war in Afghanistan (which gave us the mujahideen, which evolved into the Taliban). When asked if Zbig had any regrets about doing this, he is quoted as saying that he felt it helped bring an end to the cold war, and he would rather have a few Islamic fundamentalists running around than the Soviet Union. Interestingly, Zbig also orchestrated the overthrow of the Shah of Iran, and brought us the Iranian government we know today. Great guy, huh? And yeah, we know that's Mika's daddy on Morning Joe.

Now, here's some things that I recently read. I'm connecting the dots here, so this part is more me piecing information together than it is cold-hard truth, as was the first part I just wrote above. That part is all fact. You can find it in many resources.

Fact: John McCain hired Zbig during his 2000 campaign, as he wanted to show he was willing to put dems on his cabinet. Over the years, McCain and Zbig had some sort of falling out. While it (seems) McCain has great respect for Zbig and what he and his sons did in Georgia and Ukraine to establish these "democracies," Zbig has disdain now for McCain for even wanting to sanction or go after Iran. I believe that Zbig's "creation," Iran, is still his baby. He believes Iran being an Islamic state is still central to keeping Russia "in line," and to his goals for the US being globally dominant. That's why Zbig went to work for Obama and I've read (again, don't know that this is true), that Zbig found Obama when he was at Columbia and groomed him to be this "world figure" so Zbig could carry out his plan. Again, you've got to read Canadian press to get this stuff.

BUT NOW... And this is the part where I'm speculating -- Obama has failed Zbig terribly with his initial comments and Zbig sees that he is weak after the European Tour. Hell, Clark Griswald had a more successful European vacation!

Zbig also didn't count on Russia actually attacking before he got to drum up more of these "soft" revolutions. There was talk on the Interent -- Canadian Press again -- that Zbig had one of these "color revolutions" planned during the Olympics in China, but I guess this war between Russsa and Georgia just stole that thunder, didn't it? My gut feeling... I think Obama was supposed to step forward and praise this soft revolution in China and he would look like a hero, but when real trouble came before they could hatch their plan, he didn't know how to respond!

Between all the gaffes and how silly Obama looks now, I think Obama's own people are getting ready to throw him under the bus. And I will bet you ten-to-one that someone may be using our movement to help Hillary orchestrate that coup at the convention, so it looks like our doing. If that does happen, I'll bet you ten bucks that Zbig will go running back to the arms of John McCain, because McCain -- at least in Zbig's eyes -- believes in preserving those democracies. McCain is likely to send in troups. Hillary takes Wes Clark's stance as that being a last resort. That's why Wall Street opened high every time she won a primary and opened low every time Obama won one. It's not only that Obama was preceived as being more tax and spend than Hillary, they felt that Hillary would not be as likley to use troops to nation-build Eastern Europe. Did you know that? I think you can find a Wall Street Journal article on that. I think there is a thread on here about it, actually.

Now, I'll bet the Republicans got wind of this, somehow. With our efforts and Hillary's recent words, there is talk that she may be ready to make a move. It could just be that our efforts are truly paying off and this is making them nervous, but the fact you mentioned that you were told it has something to do with Georgia made me connect these dots on some things I've been reading.

Let's see if I'm right here. If I am, then maybe we are in for an exciting convention and I'll watch it after all.

I had often said in reading what I read about Zbig that the reason Obama wanted the troops out of Iraq was to send them to these surrounding Eastern European countries for nation-building. Why else would Obama want to increase the size of the military in peace time? Think about it.

This could prove to be very interesting.

Dare I say Hillary 08?

WHITE HAIRED GUY

2008-08-06T08:58:00.000-05:00

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2008-07-12T19:29:00.000-05:00

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NAILED

2008-07-11T08:56:00.003-05:00

Remember, McCain's line on Iraq is that the US forces win by helping stabilize Iraq AND reducing their own casualties so that "victory" results and then the US stays for 100 years. ...just like it happened in completely disarmed Japan and Germany, and, in Korea, even if Korea faces down North Korea along their DMZ.

MCCAIN=MORE AUTHORITARIAN MANAGEMENT OF DISSENT

2008-07-08T09:34:00.003-05:00

Not funny to have the Denver police squish one's Constitutional rights, but really funny as an object lesson in the exacting similarities between King Bush and the throne-eyeing McSame.

BUSH TOUR-D

2008-07-07T09:34:00.001-05:00

Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency

All that's left to do is the shredding and the pardoning.