Too popular. Too well-educated. Too fit. Too presidential. The guy doesn't stand a chance. No wonder media coverage of poll results that show Obama beating McCain makes it sound like McCain is winning.
"Too black" is what they're aiming at.
Or maybe "too Democrat Partyish."
Lime Rickey |
08.09.08 - 8:56 am | #
God only replies by email.
Barndog, cooler than you |
08.09.08 - 8:57 am | #
A great deal of misery could be avoided if these countries just allowed these regions to go rather than do the psycho boyfriend routine on them.
catalexis | 08.09.08 - 8:54 am
Not if you're the one party in the one party state and have staked your reputation on restoring national pride to the level of the former empire.
Tom - 大肚腩 |
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08.09.08 - 8:58 am | #
It just occurred to me that Pooty Poot isn't in charge of Russia anymore. His sockpuppet Medved is.
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08.09.08 - 8:58 am | #
What's a Saturday morning without a "caption the photo" contest? Bunnypants like him some Olympic volleyball. (Gratuitous cheesecake included.)
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08.09.08 - 8:59 am | #
I liked the way he said the Lord has forgiven him.
What, God sent him a text message? A card? Twittered?
I'm going with that Twit thingie.
Holy crap these Cirque de Soleil performers are good.
Snow (D-SC) |
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08.09.08 - 9:00 am | #
Nevermind. The audience applauded when they took off their shirts.
Snow (D-SC) |
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08.09.08 - 9:01 am | #
What's a Saturday morning without a "caption the photo" contest? Bunnypants like him some Olympic volleyball. (Gratuitous cheesecake included.)
No one likes Obama. He's too popular.
/Yogi Berra
Karin Hussein |
08.09.08 - 9:02 am | #
"caption the photo"
Number One Ass.
Lime Rickey |
08.09.08 - 9:03 am | #
What's a Saturday morning without a "caption the photo" contest? Bunnypants like him some Olympic volleyball. (Gratuitous cheesecake included.)
"Your tramp stamp is distracting me from staring at your ass."
Snow (D-SC) |
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08.09.08 - 9:04 am | #
Oh.
My.
God.
"Is that a Nike logo on your butt or are you just happy to see me?"
Richard Cranium, LS/MFT |
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08.09.08 - 9:04 am | #
Did y'all catch some of the glimpses of Bunnypants during the opening ceremony? I saw one where he had restless leg syndrome-then looked at his watch. Later he was distractedly tapping his leg with the little American flag.
Karin Hussein |
08.09.08 - 9:04 am | #
No one trusts Obama anymore. He's too popular.
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08.09.08 - 9:05 am | #
What's a Saturday morning without a "caption the photo" contest? Bunnypants like him some Olympic volleyball.
"Yah mean I can jus' whack ya? Kool!"
racymind |
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08.09.08 - 9:06 am | #
Ah, the Olympics.
When the world comes together, as one, to share acute embarrassment at George W. Bush.
SteveNS |
08.09.08 - 9:07 am | #
I think he fell off his bike again. I'm seeing photos of him with scabby arms, and it looks like he's got something going on on the left side of his face.
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08.09.08 - 9:07 am | #
So do the volleyball athletes get points for the swimsuits? Overall even tanning points, maybe?
racymind |
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08.09.08 - 9:07 am | #
Hello, China. This was a terrorist attack. Stop pretending otherwise.
Snow (D-SC) |
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08.09.08 - 9:08 am | #
HAH! The women's softball team pranked Bush - birded him with chalk!
I liked the way he said the Lord has forgiven him.
What, God sent him a text message? A card? Twittered?
watertiger | Homepage | 08.09.08 - 8:56 am
Why not? It worked for the white seperatist movement's favorite congresswoman, Helen Chenowith, when she cheated on her husband back in the 90's. No problem.
Skinner T. |
08.09.08 - 9:09 am | #
So do the volleyball athletes get points for the swimsuits? Overall even tanning points, maybe?
racymind
He is oggling her tramp stamp.
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08.09.08 - 9:09 am | #
I think he fell off his bike again.
The new euphemism.
He's back on his bike again.
I didn't realize he'd fallen off his bike again.
Snow (D-SC) |
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08.09.08 - 9:10 am | #
He's back on his bike again.
I didn't realize he'd fallen off his bike again.
Snow (D-SC)
The training wheels have gone back on the bike and a Secret Service agent runs along holding up the bike frame.
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08.09.08 - 9:12 am | #
Obama can't win the election, he's just too damned popular.
foolme1ns |
08.09.08 - 9:12 am | #
That was a really great Jamison Foser piece. Pulls all the various media narratives together and shows the idiocy of our discourse.
good morning.
TJ, dancing queen |
08.09.08 - 9:12 am | #
I didn't realize he'd fallen off his bike again.
Well, according to multiple sources, he's off the wagon again. When, oh when, will the media investigate??
Richard Cranium, LS/MFT |
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08.09.08 - 9:12 am | #
The training wheels have gone back on the bike and a Secret Service agent runs along holding up the bike frame
Why does a tricycle need training wheels anyway?
Barndog, cooler than you |
08.09.08 - 9:13 am | #
She's saying "hey! War Criminal! Kiss.My.Ass"
Escariot |
08.09.08 - 9:13 am | #
Well, according to multiple sources, he's off the wagon again. When, oh when, will the media investigate??
Richard Cranium, LS/MFT | Homepage | 08.09.08 - 9:12 am
I thought the Enquirer was all over it, but ya know the MSM will only pick up the stories that embarrass Democrats.
Tom - 大肚腩 |
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08.09.08 - 9:13 am | #
Why does a tricycle need training wheels anyway?
Because he's an alcoholic!
Snow (D-SC) |
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08.09.08 - 9:14 am | #
This is the last year in the Olympics for softball, which was added to the games programme in 1996 in Atlanta. Asked by a reporter whether the sport should be allowed back into the Olympic Games, Bush said: "It should be."
"It's good for the world to have girls playing softball, and these women are going to show young girls how to win," he added.
SteveNS |
08.09.08 - 9:14 am | #
Because he's an alcoholic!
Since when did Bush goe to those fucking meetings?
He's a garden variety drunk.
Barndog, cooler than you |
08.09.08 - 9:14 am | #
Well, according to multiple sources, he's off the wagon again. When, oh when, will the media investigate??
John Edwards is apparently going to be needing a new spokesperson because Jennifer Palmieri doesn't seem all that enthused.
Snow (D-SC) |
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08.09.08 - 9:15 am | #
so where is Laura while Commander Codpiece is ogling the volleyball players?
and why is his shirt untucked? I don't think I've ever seen a picture of him attired like that...
TJ, dancing queen |
08.09.08 - 9:15 am | #
and why is his shirt untucked? I don't think I've ever seen a picture of him attired like that...
Tattoo on the small of your back.
Snow (D-SC) |
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08.09.08 - 9:16 am | #
wtf is a "tramp stamp"?
Tattoo on the small of the back.
SteveNS |
08.09.08 - 9:16 am | #
Xan -- I had to ask, too; it's that tattoo women get at the base of the spine/top of the butt.
V for Virginia, hot(bad kind) |
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08.09.08 - 9:17 am | #
Uh... I am self-medicating right now!
racymind |
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08.09.08 - 9:20 am | #
Now, now. The proper term is "self-medicator".
I ain't known for using proper language.
Snow (D-SC) |
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08.09.08 - 9:21 am | #
D-I-Y doctoring... would lead to D-U-I (what, were there six of those between W and Cheney?) except for the Secret Service... our tax dollars at work long after they're out of power...
nick carraway |
08.09.08 - 9:21 am | #
Holy crap these Cirque de Soleil performers are good.
Snow (D-SC)
I've taken my daughters to see them twice.
When your teenager says: "That was the greatest thing I've ever seen!" you can consider it money well spent.
Second time was, if anything, even better.
I have a friend/business associate, who's also been twice and both times been the guy who gets dragged out of the audience to go onstage (in case you were wondering if that person is a 'plant').
SteveLG |
08.09.08 - 9:22 am | #
Now, now. The proper term is "self-medicator".
So, is Lexipro use "self-medicating" or is it just trying to keep my head straight?
Supreme Commander Thor |
08.09.08 - 9:22 am | #
I think it's time to dodge the raindrops and head to the gym.
That's interesting. You know who else hates tattoos? James Howard Kunstler. He has been railing against them for a while. In fact, I think his eyesore of the month for August was a tattoo parlor.
I don't have any, but I'm not opposed to them either. I guess I just don't care one way or another. Pretty much how I feel about a lot of stuff lately.
TJ, dancing queen |
08.09.08 - 9:23 am | #
So, is Lexipro use "self-medicating" or is it just trying to keep my head straight?
No, Lexapro is prescribed by a doctor; ergo, not "self" medication.
Has anybody read Kunstler's new novel (World Made by Hand)? I'm afraid it will be too depressing, but I kinda want to read it.
TJ, dancing queen |
08.09.08 - 9:25 am | #
My wife is ex-marine and she has a very nice bird tatted ummmm... not on her arm.
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08.09.08 - 9:25 am | #
SteveLG -- I've never had any desire to go to Las Vegas, none whatsoever, until the Cirque show "Love" started. I think it would be worth the trip, even if that's all I did out there (and it would probably be).
SCThor -- you didn't prescribe the Lexipro to yourself, did you? Then it's not self-medicating.
V for Virginia, hot(bad kind) |
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08.09.08 - 9:25 am | #
Jack Daniels, on the other hand...
watertiger
When you're driving down that highway at night, and you're feelin' that Wild Turkey's bite . . ..
And just hearing now Bernie Mac is gone
Supreme Commander Thor |
08.09.08 - 9:25 am | #
I tell my cousins with tattoos that the authorities will be able to ID them when they rob banks.
Snow (D-SC) |
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08.09.08 - 9:25 am | #
US sweeps gold, silver and bronze in individual women's sabre. (speaking of showing the young girls how to win)
Tom - 大肚腩 |
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08.09.08 - 9:26 am | #
the media needs some Claritin for their allergy to mentioning Carol McCain
jr |
08.09.08 - 9:26 am | #
And just hearing now Bernie Mac is gone
Supreme Commander Thor
WHAT? Dead?
Fuck.
V for Virginia, hot(bad kind) |
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08.09.08 - 9:26 am | #
My wife is ex-marine and she has a very nice bird tatted ummmm...
Ask her directly if she is an ex-Marine. Personally, I know the terms 'former' or, 'not currently serving' - but never Ex.
Barndog, cooler than you |
08.09.08 - 9:27 am | #
SCThor -- you didn't prescribe the Lexipro to yourself, did you? Then it's not self-medicating.
No, had to get myself committed in order to get it. Now the wine I'd been drinking before that . . . yeah, self-meds.
Supreme Commander Thor |
08.09.08 - 9:27 am | #
I have see some incredibly beautiful body art. Tramp stamps have never fallen in that category.
But I'll keep looking for one that does.
Snow (D-SC) |
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08.09.08 - 9:28 am | #
For several years, the Bushies have been trying to talk NATO into admitting Georgia.
What the hell would have happened if Georgia was a NATO nation, and Russia had behaved as it has in the last couple of days?
My guess is that we would have seen a major escalation, or that NATO would have collapsed.
As it is now, the US can back out on a technicality.
montag |
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08.09.08 - 9:29 am | #
crap:
Comedian Bernie Mac, 50, has died in a Chicago-area hospital from complications due to pneumonia, his publicist says.
GuyInMilwaukee |
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08.09.08 - 9:29 am | #
And just hearing now Bernie Mac is gone
Supreme Commander Thor
WHAT? Dead?
Fuck.
V for Virginia, hot(bad kind)
Yeah, I'm at the Honda dealership getting the car worked on and they just broke in saying it's just been reported.
Supreme Commander Thor |
08.09.08 - 9:29 am | #
I actually have been drawn into the womens soccer match on MSNBC....
racymind |
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08.09.08 - 9:29 am | #
The activity taking place here, however, is a symptom of the growing barbarism in American life. Tattooing has traditionally been a marginal activity among civilized people, the calling card of cannibals, sailors, and whores. The appropriate place for it is on the margins, in the back alleys, the skid rows. The mainstreaming of tattoos (on main street) is a harbinger of social dysfunction.
He's such a curmudgeon.
TJ, dancing queen |
08.09.08 - 9:30 am | #
Comedian Bernie Mac, 50, has died in a Chicago-area hospital from complications due to pneumonia, his publicist says.
Damn.... that's pretty damn young for a pneumonia related death.
racymind |
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08.09.08 - 9:31 am | #
You can take the Marine out of the Corps, but you can't take the Corps out of the Marine
Thank you, Snow.
Barndog, cooler than you |
08.09.08 - 9:31 am | #
He was only 50. Jebus.
TJ, dancing queen |
08.09.08 - 9:31 am | #
News has Bernie Mac as being released from the hospital in the near future.
Snow (D-SC) |
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08.09.08 - 9:31 am | #
News has Bernie Mac as being released from the hospital in the near future.
And they will be . . . but not in the way he was expecting.
Supreme Commander Thor |
08.09.08 - 9:32 am | #
News has Bernie Mac as being released from the hospital in the near future.
They cover their bases with that one. He's being released to a funeral home
Lurking... |
08.09.08 - 9:33 am | #
Pissed-off question ... who exactly is this goatfucker Lars Larson who's now polluting cable shows with his incendiary bullshit?
megisi |
08.09.08 - 9:34 am | #
OK, yesterday's statement that Bernie Mac was stable and had not died was obviously a fucking lie if he dies the next fucking day, publicist person.
Snow (D-SC) |
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08.09.08 - 9:34 am | #
The mainstreaming of tattoos (on main street) is a harbinger of social dysfunction.
He's such a curmudgeon.
TJ, dancing queen | 08.09.08 - 9:30 am
The Maori all blacks would kick Kunstler's ass.
Now everybody Haka.
Tom - 大肚腩 |
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08.09.08 - 9:34 am | #
So Bush and Putin are inseparable buddies in Beijing. And Georgia has officially declared war on Russia.
What might W.'s official comment on the matter be?
racymind |
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08.09.08 - 9:35 am | #
And Georgia has officially declared war on Russia.
There are more people in Atlanta than in Georgia. What were they thinking?
Snow (D-SC) |
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08.09.08 - 9:36 am | #
Why Are We Whispering?
By Andrew Klavan
Saturday, August 9, 2008; Page A15
At a recent writers conference in Southern California, one of my colleagues on a screenwriters panel told the crowd of about 50 people that she hoped Barack Obama would win the presidency. A number of people applauded. When it was my turn to speak, I politely said that I disagreed with her politics and moved on to other topics. There was no applause for me, but several writers approached me afterward. Each dropped his voice to a whisper and, looking around to make sure no one would overhear, said, "Thank you for saying that."
Which raises a question for all conservatives in the arts: Why are we whispering?
It's true throughout Hollywood certainly. In filmland business meetings, the executives, producers and talent feel free to wax on about how stupid President Bush is, how evil American foreign policy is, even what awful human beings conservatives are. Hollywood rightists, meanwhile, are reduced to holding secret gatherings to confess their beliefs in sympathetic company.
When you have "secret gatherings" that plan to take over the world, you should be whispering.
Lime Rickey |
08.09.08 - 9:36 am | #
So Bush and Putin are inseparable buddies in Beijing.
there were great shots of Bush sitting in the stands, his jacket off, borned on his ass while checking his watch like "Where the fuck is MY team? I'm tired of watching these low-rent fuckers parading by not givin' me my props!"
Completely classes fuck--just like with everything else he does.
Supreme Commander Thor |
08.09.08 - 9:37 am | #
Broderian Hypocrisy Sheets
Dr. Wu |
08.09.08 - 9:37 am | #
Hollywood rightists, meanwhile, are reduced to holding secret gatherings to confess their beliefs in sympathetic company.
I guess they think they're going to be required to face some sort of House Un-un-American Activities Committee or something.
catalexis |
08.09.08 - 9:39 am | #
Which raises a question for all conservatives in the arts: Why are we whispering?
Because you're becoming aware of what shame feels like?
V for Virginia, hot(bad kind) |
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08.09.08 - 9:40 am | #
For the life of me I can't see why there isn't a movement to have outlets other than MEDIA MATTERS doing the job they do and providing fact checking on information that's out there...I know folks would have to do some WORK to seek it out (although some blogs do a very nice job of linking to MM not just paraphrasing/spinning what they think is there)because it's just what Foster refers to as to how our MSM operates that is making a bad situation in this country WORSE!!
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