Nothing clever or insightful here, just one Democrat screaming at my television as Republican douchebags, one after another, spew horsecrap.
Stupid douchebag observation 1 —
“the whole deal fell apart after Nancy Pelosi made a speech.”
oh. really. You mean to tell me you show ponies will sell the economy up the river because of a speech?! What? What?!
Um. hand up in the back of the room — shouldn’t you be voting on a bill?
It took me all this time to digest Sarah Palin’s comment at the GOP Convention about community organizers lacking any real responsibilities. Being a professional organizer myself, the comment left me uncharacteristally mute. Now finally, I’m ready to, as we say in organizing, “call the question” —
So, tell me, Governor Palin, whom should we hold responsible for the current challenges and debacles facing this country?
My answer? The American people,
And coincidentally enough that’s what organizers do — they hold the people accountable for the state of their communities, their workplaces, their churches, their organizations and ultimately their country and the world.
I’m sorry, I couldn’t resist this. Some light relief – or at least it seems like that watching the Dow index
Having heard Matt Damon ask:
I need to know if she really thinks that dinosaurs were here 4,000 years ago. I want to know that, I really do. Because she’s gonna have the nuclear codes.
I was fascinated to read this recollection of Governor Palin’s beliefs recalled by a Wasilla Resident, Philip Munger, and reported into today’s LA Times
More below the fold.
Rasmussen is out with his Monday tracking poll. He finds the race essentially static:
Obama 50
McCain 45
Rasmussen observes:
That’s the fourth straight day Obama has been at 50% and the fourth straight day McCain has been at either 44% or 45%
Can you imagine watching the Palin interview with Couric while in the same room as McCain and Co?
“Pass me the gasoline AND the matches Cindy!”
Who wants to play?
Guess who said what .
WARNING : Actual quotes from 2 people. Not 1. 2. For realz.
That’s why I say I, like every American I’m speaking with, we’re ill about this position that we have been put in where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy. Um, helping, oh, it’s got to be all about job creation, too, shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions, and tax relief for Americans.
That’s why I say I, like every American I’m speaking with, were ill about this position that we have been put in where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy, helping the–it’s got to be all about job creation, too, shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americans.
The grand finale!
And trade, we’ve got to see trade as opportunity not as a competitive, scary thing. But one in five jobs being created in the trade sector today, we’ve got to look at that as more opportunity. All those things under the umbrella of job creation. This bailout is a part of that.
Here’s a great chart for those who still don’t understand what she means.
Here’s a great chart I found for those who still don’t understand what she means.
Even the turds on CNN found it amusing.
After watching the debate I have to speak up. I am a currently serving veteran of the Iraq war who is soon to go back. Senator McCain, with all due respect, you do NOT speak for me. And just as you do not speak for me; I do not speak for all Soldiers. We all think for ourselves.
Stop implying that you are the only one who can understand our veterans, because for millions of us clearly you do not. So let me address some of the things you said during the debate.
(cross posted from various places)
For the first time since FDR, The Record casts its endorsement for a Democrat, Barack Obama. The Record is a newspaper covering Calaveras and Lockeford/Clements County (home of my birthplace – Stockton, CA).
The unanimous decision was made by our editorial board, which consists of Publisher Roger W. Coover, Managing Editor Donald W. Blount, Opinion Page Editor Eric Grunder, Human Resources Director Sandi Johnson and me (Mike Klocke – Editor).
John McCain likes to run around crying, “Country first,” but this week showed us what he instinctively puts first. There are several accounts now circulating across the web that tell us quite frankly what we had suspected from the first, that John McCain’s quixotic antics last week displayed a willingness to try and save his campaign in the face of crashing poll numbers even if it meant wrecking the country.
After a few weeks of hand-wringing by Democrats about why the race is so tight, Obama seems have broken into a clear national lead.
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday-including the first day of post-debate polling-is unchanged. Barack Obama once again attracts 50% of the vote while John McCain earns 44%. This six-point advantage matches Obama’s biggest lead yet and marks the first time he has held such a lead for two-days running (see trends).
We’re tired. Since Baby Jack came home, sleep has been largely elusive. Our waking hours this weekend have been spent hovering over the baby, cooing. When not contorting our faces into sloppy exaggerated grins and speaking in high-pitched baby talk, we’re plodding about like zombies, staring blankly at television, or surfing the blogs.
We try to rest when the baby does, so I was more than slightly grumpy when I had to drag my disheveled self from bed yesterday morning to answer an insistent doorbell.
I was slightly curt with the Jehovah’s Witnesses gathered on my doorstep as I took the pamphlet they offered and shoo’d them away. After I glanced at the cover of their spiritual propoganda, I broke into a sustained giggle:
All Suffering SOON TO END!