Jack and Jill Politics - Latest Comments in Wednesday Open Thread

Re: Wednesday Open Thread

heartsandflowers — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:05:06 -0000

Are you forgetting the Chapelle skit and 'choke a **tch'?

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GreenLadyHere — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:13:58 -0000

Then there's "MCANCIENT": "Low Road Express"

www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/opinion/30wed1.html?...

"McCain has wholeheartedly adopted Mr. Rove's LOW-MINDED and UNCIVIL playbook."

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GreenLadyHere — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:05:43 -0000

Re "billary watch": Seee, I knew that she was planning something!!!!
"Report: Hillary Gets Major Speaking Slot At Convention"[Eric Kleefeld]
She will be speaking on the first night which happens to be the day of the anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment - the right of women to vote. Billary will be joined on stage by all other FEMALE Democratic senators. Will this be the LAST DAY of her CAMPAIGN, FINALLY!!!???

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com...

Geez!! SSSSSSnakes!!! Whew!!! Deep breaths!!!

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GreenLadyHere — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:07:13 -0000

isonprize: Funny post!!! Thank you!!!! :>)

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GreenLadyHere — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:45:58 -0000

ice: Thanks, as usual! :>) :>)

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Texas_Girl_in_LA — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:29:47 -0000

I can always count on you to find the best photos!

The one that stood out the most was the photo of Obama smiling while walking over the shake the hands of white men holding up a big sign saying, "Rednecks for Obama" - classic

And also the one of him serving hamburgers to the locals...the smiles on their faces...-just classic

Re: Wednesday Open Thread

99PercentSure — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:01:31 -0000

Politics has . . . evolved from the centralized "war room" of the 1990s to a decentralized one that exists in a million or two homes right now, of which bloggers and independent media are a new kind of precinct captain that needs no orders from headquarters nor permission to take initiative. We saw that at work last weekend in the rapid response from the bottom up to the McCain campaign's false claims in a television ad about Obama's European trip. Only four days later, the McCain camp has backed down.

And that's a large reason why the Chicken Little proclamations that we so often read and hear elsewhere - the petulant demands from armchair campaign managers that the Obama [campaign] fight back in specific ways - are so silly: Surrogates almost always make the better counterpunchers and anybody with a modem or a network of friends or neighbors is now as much of a surrogate as the big names that can garner mass media attention. When you can do something yourself, it's just plain infantile to call upon daddy or mommy - or the presidential candidate or political leader upon which you project that role - to do it for you. Hopefully, one of the lasting results of 2008 will be the emergence of the more grown-up form of political activism in which rather than calling on others to do things for us we simply do it ourselves.

Profound political wisdom from Al Giordano on The Field.

Re: Wednesday Open Thread

icebergslim — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:52:25 -0000

Obama Missouri Pictures Up

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isonprize — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:28:11 -0000

Rikyrah, RIKYRAH,

This one's for your PILL-POPPIN' PIECE ON THE SIDE.

CINDY LOU HENSLEY McCAIN in DICKIPEDIA...a wiki of dicks

Re: Wednesday Open Thread

Elephants&Flowers — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:51:29 -0000

He's funny and observant.
Toward the end of the show, Keith mentioned the fade in from Obama to the 2 blond white women and wondered if there was anything behind it. The comedian Finnegan didn't run with the line...he was too skurd.

Re: Wednesday Open Thread

99PercentSure — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:20:34 -0000

Based on his behavior during primary coverage, as well as other things I've observed, I believe that Eugene Robinson is an Obama supporter.

As a matter of fact, he was the Washington Post staffer who contributed the Obama chapter in the book, Being a Black Man: At the Corner of Progress and Peril, which is an anthology of writings on black manhood edited by the staff of The Washington Post based on a 2006 series of Post articles.

Robinson's piece in the book is titled, "Not Just Any Walk-On Part" and discusses Barack Obama's career and his blackness. IIRC, he starts his piece by writing that "Obama walks black."

Anyone who hasn't read the book should do so as it is an excellent treatise that offers far more solutons than all the episodes of CNN's Black in America combined.

Re: Wednesday Open Thread

Coby_D — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:48:06 -0000

Well, here's my beef: our Congress is too busy discussing things that aren't relevant to the country as a whole. And when I see a Republican put forth a plan on energy independence while two dhimmicrats put forth a resolution on slavery and a bill to legalize weed, I'm a little.....concerned.

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afroacademic — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:37:26 -0000

I understand the reluctance. I mean I don't like what drugs do to communities. However we know for a fact that our drug laws create more crimes and problems than are ever really solved.

As for gas, it was bound to happen that we were reminded that A) we're an oil poor country; and that B) we just ain't all that. Look at steel, look at copper, all these things are being used by a lot more people who aren't us which equals higher prices. And guess what? No matter what some tell us we are never going to be able to get out in front of oil on the production side, but maybe just maybe we can fight this on the demand side.

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Val2 — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:05:15 -0000

Kieth Olbermann is on. He is hilarious. He is slamming McCain's ads. So funny I have to record it.

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smoothie — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:04:02 -0000

what you call nontrovery, the GOP calls Talking Point that leads to the bigger narrative. Deep down, you know its true...

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Miranda — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:59:03 -0000

Know what's amazing?? Obama came into this race with not even a fifth of the money of the frontrunners, he's African-American, hell, his name is Barack Hussein Obama, you can't get much blacker than that.....he re-wrote the rules COMPLETELY......and to see these right-wing knuckleheads say "well, why isn't he leading in the polls MORE".....I just gotta laugh.
(now where did I put it....I know I just had it...geez, can't find anything in this purse)...AHAAAA!!! There it is!! My RACE CARD (its everywhere you...well....if you're black its not everywhere you wanna be, its just everywhere you BE)

There is one reason and one reason ONLY that Obama is not 25 points ahead in the polls and I'm sick of these condescending "well why can't he close the deal" rethuglicans......no, the question is why is a lily-white military vet BEHIND?

Re: Wednesday Open Thread

GreenLadyHere — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:48:32 -0000

Nellcote: Seeeee. DATA , girllll, is soo helpful!!! Thanks!!! :>) :>)

Re: Wednesday Open Thread

GreenLadyHere — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:44:07 -0000

Miranda: Doesn't it feel good ta be here!? :>) :>) :>)
Co-sign and "virtual dap" on the rest! :>) :>) :>)

Re: Wednesday Open Thread

Miranda — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:38:46 -0000

So Tucker Carlson stopped wearing those annoying bowties....he still looks like a dweeb.

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msmartin — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:35:56 -0000

I know, he had to know better than that shit.

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TRW — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:35:06 -0000

Co-sign. These people are NOT stupid. And they should realize that they are NOT helping. Sometimes I think these Black entertainers want to have it all. They want to get mainstream acceptance, but don't want mainstream criticism. Stop acting foolish!!!!! There is a time and a place for everything, and if you don't know the appropriate time or place to express your feelings than you need to keep your mouth shut. Point blank, period.

Re: Wednesday Open Thread

Miranda — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:34:46 -0000

Thanks GreenLadyHere - got the Mozilla Foxfire downloaded..YEAH!!

I declare Claire McCaskill and Rachel Maddows honorary sistahs! Somebody get a crown because they hold it down ERE time.

Tanya Acker is always holding it down on the Verdict with Dan Abrams...but I haven't seen her for awhile.

Re: Wednesday Open Thread

Val2 — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:31:31 -0000

HAHAH

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GreenLadyHere — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:30:39 -0000

Nellcote: DOUBLE co-sign and "virtual dap!!!"
My comuter doesn't know what a "dap" is! :>) :>) :>)

Re: Wednesday Open Thread

Val2 — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:29:01 -0000

ROFL