Campaigns Begin Dash To Election

New York Times:

Fresh off back-to-back conventions, the two presidential campaigns took off Friday on a 60-day dash to the White House in a political landscape reshaped by the candidacy of Gov. Sarah Palin and Republican efforts to seize the mantle of change.

The race, transformed by zeal among the Republican base for Senator John McCain's running mate, got a burst of new life at the same time that television viewership numbers showed that nearly 40 million people, a record for an American political convention, tuned to the major broadcast and cable-news networks to watch Mr. McCain's acceptance speech in St. Paul on Thursday night. That was a bit more than those who watched Senator Barack Obama's speech in Denver last week.

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Comments

[AntiTerrorDonkey]

that was not a hunting R I F L E

sarah was waving around in that video

it was an A S S A U L T...R I F L E

mainly used for K I L L I N G people

heh...

[beaupritchard]

The meese are bigger in alaska ... takes an assault rifle to kill em ... blow torch to cook em.

[TLV]

Interesting moniker, Donkey.

[forpeace]

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Haven't seen you for a while! Welcome back.

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[StarkRavingNakedEmperor]

THE PROM QUEEN HAS GOT A G U N !!!!!!

[SCG2]

"A number of other disputes flared up and died down in the first year. The Frontiersman, which sparred with Palin frequently at first, accused her of rolling her eyes and making faces at city council meetings when she heard testimony she didn't like.

- Anchorage Daily News October 23, 2006

[TLV]

Vamping for the photographers.

[beaupritchard]

Wait until she finds out the toilets are indoors in DC.

[Medius]

That is funny but I doubt she'll every find out.

[Medius]

I mean 'ever' find out.

[beaupritchard]

It'll be the thing all five kids are staring at in the "laundry room".

[DaOne]

A good take on why Yup Yup should start talking. Now.

George H.W. Bush foresaw Senator Quayle as a similar reach across generations. But at the first sign of criticism, Mr. Bush's advisers gave Mr. Quayle a paint-by-numbers speech and all but stuffed him into a trunk for the duration of the campaign. His reputation never recovered.

http://frum.nationalreview.com/post/?q=Y2ZiYzllODgxNTY2YjMzNzQxZDQwYjI1Y2JhMTFmNjM=

[going2ireland]

Glad you dug that up. A great revelation as to the way the GOP thinks and works.

[PleaseSaveAmerica]

The problem is GHWB won the election in spite of Quayle.

[ThunderclapNewman]

This isn't 1988.

[maxdenn]

Senator Biden is doing the job on JMc. And he's just getting warmed up.

[humuhumunukunukuapuaa]

Palin went to SIX COLLEGES to get a 4 yr degree in journalism!

She didn't even last ONE SEMESTER at Hawaii Pacific University!

HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY!!!??!!! That is a school for slackers who need an excuse to come to Hawaii to surf!! And SHE COULD NOT TAKE IT THERE!!

Gosh she is a flunkie!!!

[Medius]

Palin is a s l o w l e a r n e r but very quick with her words.

[Americatortures]

Like McFailure.­..who finished 5th from THE BOTTOM of his class at Annapolis.­..where his admiral pappy got him in!!! Americans who vote GOP do NOT want folks who are too smart in the White House because they may be able to get government to actually work...som­ething that's like poison to the GOP!!

[StarkRavingNakedEmperor]

So true!

[dashcat]

This is rich people's version of Affirmative Action.

[maxdenn]

Rove spent five years in college and never graduated. And our prez was a bought and paid for by daddy C- MBA. And JMc barely made it out of the Navel Academy.

[StarkRavingNakedEmperor]

Thanks for dishing the low down from the Big Island! Aloha!

[Americatortures]

The two scariest words for the GOP will turn out to be...SARAH PALIN....w­ho probnly went back home to speak in tongues and handle poisonous snakes in the privacy of Wasilla!! AHHHH...Ho­me Sweet Home!! The GOP REALLY DOES think the American public is as dumb as I do!!!

[JLopez]

Handling Snakes...L­OLOLOLOLOL­O

Thats awesome

[StarkRavingNakedEmperor]

I wish she/he was kidding!

[DaOne]

Isn't Palin supposed to move to Cheney's undisclosed location after she gets elected, not before?

[Americatortures]

The one in Dubai???

[TLV]

Cheney - is he still alive?

[StarkRavingNakedEmperor]

They need a little time to get to know each other, trade some hunting stories.

[SaviourMachine]

Shame that Palin went to all that trouble applying her lipstick.

Now that the GOP put a muzzle on their little "pit bull" we'll never know what color she chose.

[Heru1]

isn't getting a girl under 18 pregnant statutory rape?

[BPCModerate]

No.

[ThunderclapNewman]

In Alaska, the age of consent is 16.

[Heavy]

Don't tell Fo ley. Oh wait that's still too old.

[InformedVoter08]

no...it's having sex with a girl when you are over 18 and she is under 18. Most of the time, the parents or girl would have to press charges if it was against her will.

[TLV]

She was just exercising her feminist side.

[InformedVoter08]

Obama said this in Indiana today! I love it!
"Suddenly [McCain"s] the change agent!" Obama laughed. "He says, "I"m going to tell those lobbyists that their days of running Washington are over." Who"s he going to tell? Is he going to tell his campaign chairman who"s one of the biggest corporate lobbyists in Washington? Is he going to tell his campaign manager who was one of the biggest corporate lobbyists in Washington? Is he going to tell all the folks who are running his campaign who are the biggest corporate lobbyists in Washington?"

"Who is it that he"s going to tell that change is coming?" he added, "I mean come on, they must think you"re stupid!"

[DaOne]

"I hate to admit it, but a skinny white chocolate mocha is my staple in the morning," - Sarah Palin, in the WSJ glossy supplement out this weekend.

Yeah, that's what all those average hockey moms are having.

[SPQR1052]

Sarah has a pastor problem and I doubt the Jewish community is happy about this sermon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-fvg6Q_TyE

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IAVA Director: Faux Walter Reed Background ‘Was As Close As McCain Got To Veterans Issues’ At RNC

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/06/mccain-veterans-rnc/

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[RatgurlSD]

Due to fear of the election for POTUS being stolen by the GOP - AGAIN - I will be photographing my ballot after filling it out, and at each intermittent step, to prove I am casting my ballot for Obama / Biden.

I encourage you all to do the same.


And FYI, Diebold changed their name to Premier. No receipt, no printout. Make your own record.

[repubstheirownworstenemy]

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[RatgurlSD]

scared?

[SunshineDaydream]

blackboxvoting.org

[RatgurlSD]

Thanks. Very informative.

[DMcD]

Good idea , especially here in San Diego (with our X-Diebold employee / Registrar of Voters and all).