http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR5FGkpfsbM

I watched this last night.

My friends, that is shark jumping you can believe in.

I guess ad libbing is not David Letterman's strong suit.

As long as they line the fridge with lead you can survive a nuclear blast. I've seen it.

Pretty funny stuff, though.

I still dont get why McCain was acting like such a loon last week.  But I loved the debate, especially the use of "festooned with earmarks".  I will vote for McCain if he promises to speak only in old tyme lingo.

A letter to the editor of the local paper said that McCain came off as ready for new ideas and Obama smirked a lot.  I think that person needs to check the dramatis personnae of this play, they got the characters backwards.  Retards shouldn't subscribe.

Jim McNeal needed to express some backbone.  "Two minutes" is not five.  Answer/Answer/Rebuttal/Rebuttal format doesn't contain Interrupting Re-Rebuttal afterwards.  I miss the good old days of Edwin Newman (to Ronald Reagan:  "I'm sorry, Mr. President, I'm obliged to cut you off"). 

Edwin Newman would've returned as "Clemenza" in Part II if he hadn't demanded more money.

Maybe if we secretly replaced the fine Tom Brokaw served in the next debate with Folgier's Edwin Newman Crystals....  Let's watch.

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A letter to the editor of the local paper said that McCain came off as ready for new ideas and Obama smirked a lot.  I think that person needs to check the dramatis personnae of this play, they got the characters backwards.  Retards shouldn't subscribe.

Jim McNeal needed to express some backbone.  "Two minutes" is not five.  Answer/Answer/Rebuttal/Rebuttal format doesn't contain Interrupting Re-Rebuttal afterwards.  I miss the good old days of Edwin Newman (to Ronald Reagan:  "I'm sorry, Mr. President, I'm obliged to cut you off"). 

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I've learned that both parties sign up loyals to donate their names as writers of "letters to the editor" which are really written by campaign employees.  See if I vote for either of these motherfuckers.

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Pretty funny stuff, though.

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You didn't actually think that shit from Letterman was funny, did you?  He was too busy waffling between politically neutral deference and pathetically weak jabs.  It's like watching a cat chase a mouse when the cat is hog tied and labotomized.

Well, the cutting to the katie couric interview and yelling at it was funny.

Anyhow, no matter how I feel about him, I think today's events have totally ensured an Obama victory.  Which might be good if an Obama presidency would calm the markets down (not that I'm all savvy about how the market responds to things).

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I am a Democrat. I believe in the ideals of a Democrat socially and economically. The trickle down method has proven itself dumb, if you give money to rich people they keep it :(. I am voting for Obama because he believes in the same or at least similar ideals. That was my thesis statement. That is my report on politics. Bill Maher is funny too. I watch his show.

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You're not really going to vote, are you?

I'm voting for Howard the Duck.

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My friends, that is shark jumping you can believe in.

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I think the actual 'shark jumping' will be the arranged shotgun wedding of Brill Cream Palin and Drunk Hockey Boy presented as a full three ring media circus in a pathetic attempt to gain votes and distract the population from the obviously sickly, lame duck and painfully dumb campaign of the reslug candidates, psychogeezer and moose-ilini.

something attached to a Flickr picture yesterday:

That's one thing that scares me about elections in the near and distant future; it's practically like a contender for office could be videotaped gutting kittens while explaining to the camera how tartar sauce is a valuable resource produced by Canadian dental clinics which we must protect our pipeline to from space aliens before diving head-first into a big pile of oil industry lobbyist money, but as long as they say they believe in God and the GOP and whatever political action is popular that year -- and more importantly have managed to keep their pants zipped as far as anyone knows -- they can get elected. 

I think anyone that rallies behind sarah palin knowing all the dumb things she's said now are only trying to fool OTHER people into voting for her. It would be one thing in the beginning to just admit that she didnt know what the bush doctrine/Iraq/the economy/foreign policy is in the beginning and say that she is willing to learn, but she just bullshits like I do on my term papers. and fails.

However, anyone that rallies in sarah palin's behind gets a big thumbs up from me.

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I think the actual 'shark jumping' will be the arranged shotgun wedding of Brill Cream Palin and Drunk Hockey Boy presented as a full three ring media circus in a pathetic attempt to gain votes and distract the population from the obviously sickly, lame duck and painfully dumb campaign of the reslug candidates, psychogeezer and moose-ilini.

 

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I'll lay you $25 that right before the wedding, DHB discovers a sudden need to train for the Iditarod and disappears somewhere in the taint between Barrow and Prudhoe Bay.

His myspace page used to be an absolute blasty blast, with such gems as "Ya fuck wit me I'll kick yo ass" and hardcore poses in front of mirrors. Classic! Relevant! Archived! It's got everything you need  to make a great salad.

I don't get mandingo's point.   I think I'm reading it wrong.

Anyhow, I'm probably just going to abstain from voting on the presidential ballot at all and just focus on the local elections (Go Charles Lewis!)

I still haven't bought into Obama's slick marketing campaign, and McCain is getting stranger by the day.  I can't vote for someone who appropriates themes I care about to promote himself, and I dont know if I can consider McCain any longer.

It's sad, because these two were like dead last on my list, McCain in 10th place, Obama in 11th.

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I should probably narrow this down a bit.  I suppose it's a gut reaction thing, but Obama seems even more plastic-fantastic than any candidate I've seen.  I get all the showmanship and lying of most political campaigns, but there's just something about him I'm too dumb to put in words that I dont like.

But, really, I dont give a shit; I live in Oregon and my vote wont matter regardless of which way I go.  All our delegates willl go to Obama in the end, anyhow.

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BLACK?

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I don't remember myself. something about Beano i think. my argument was sparkling though, i'll tell you that. anti-Beano peeps were quaking in their funk

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They're waiting for me to close CC401.

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However, anyone that rallies in sarah palin's behind gets a big thumbs up from me.

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I approve this message!  There are enough thumbs up the behind in Washington presently. Now, if her daughter had held that sort of assembly, she wouldn't be the prego-porn star she is now.  Win-win for the lose!

I'm looking forward to the vice presidential debate on Thursday.  Normally this activity is pointless, since it's not like veeps are sold separately on the ballot, but it should be a hoot hearing Palin talk.  Let's see if she sounds so nuts she makes George Bush sound like he wasn't on blow during college, or if she has any Jedi mind tricks to make people think she wasn't just giving blows during college.

Brokaw, don't fail me now.  Own a pair, Tom.  Watch the clock, put your foot down, curb McCain like a caffienated shih-tzu.

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I suppose it's a gut reaction thing, but Obama seems even more plastic-fantastic than any candidate I've seen. 

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This whole election has been like chicken with rice soup.  Looks good, smells good, but no substance whatsoever.

Obama:  "Hope!  Change!  Buzzwords!"
McCain:  "Psst... hey, you see that Obama guy over there?  He sucks.  Pass it on."

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I certainly don't disagree, but I'm curious why you think that's a purely Republican phenominon...?  I'm from a land of "Yellow-Dog Democrats" -- people who would vote for a yellow dog as long as there was a "D" by his name on the ticket.

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Well, to be fair and balanced, I shouldn't imply that I think it's a "purely" Republican phenomenon.  It isn't. But (my reading of contemporary opinion) there are fewer avowed Democrats that think McCain is the better candidate than avowed Republicans who think Obama is better.  People of any political affiliation have come to realize that the way the standing Republican president and his cabinet have been running things is running the country into the ground, putting McCain at a disadvantage because he's "one of them" who did this to the nation, and his use of the word "maverick" just doesn't seem to be an accurate description of him.

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Funny story here in the Evergreen State that I know I've mentioned before:  The Republican candidate for governor in Washington doesn't put an R by his name, he puts "GOP".  He is currently being legally pursued by groups that believe he's trying to obscure and confuse people into thinking he's not a Republican (like McCain and Bush, thus "part of the problem") by using a synonymous term.  Which is amusing simply because when you see Dino Rossi's campaign ads and how much spin and smear they employ, it's not hard to tell which political party he's in.  And that his strategy is this: "The governor who has been doing the job for years sucks because she has to raise and spend taxpayer money like any governor must; I have no experience and won't explain how I won't spend any money but I could do the job better."

I saw the Washington gubernatorial debate, it was carried by a Portland affiliate (I suppose for the benefit of scummy 'Couverites).

Rossi seemed stiff and republican-y, but Gregoire appeared dopey and disconnected.  Good luck on choosing what box to check on that one.

Not a hard choice.  The one that has "Gregoire - D" next to it.  I can't trust a man who smears more than he shines.  And it wasn't until I was like 30 before I discovered which side of the Columbia that Vancouver is on since no matter where you look it's listed with the Oregon branches of stores, not the Washington ones.  I feel your pane.

One hour until the veep primaries.  Who's making the popcorn? 

Seven hours later, no one else has commented so I take another turn...

Palin:  Was more eloquent than I thought she'd be.  Not to say she didn't take the McCain School of Charm course on how to be condescending (does Alaska really have an accent that sounds like Minnesotan via Texas?).  That down-home thing is down home but, uh, I think she lost a few people when she started a statement with, "Oh, there you go again, Joe..."  Good to see that her lips are firmly planted on John McCain's butt.  Extra credit for assuming the tone of someone who disapproved of other people's congressional voting record, considering that she's never been in a position to vote either way on the war.  Husker du, frau?

Biden:   I think he was wearing people out with the repetition of items.  Sure, he has a few good points about how McCain has done business.  But please don't make it sound like that's your entire toolbox.  And huge kudos for getting verklempt when mentioning that his son is shipping out... I totally was not expecting that card from him, that bit of vulnerability was what you'd expect of a woman (Palin didn't flinch) and woke people up.  Well-played.

Bonus points to George Lopez for saying that Palin must be a Latina:  she's got a job and her man doesn't, she talks smack and her man says nothing, and she has a pregnant 17 year old daughter.  :)

Bonus points to the moderator for only taking a minimum of bullshit on sticking to times, diverting questions, and extra rebuttals.

Number of times Palin used the word "maverick" to say McCain was one in 90 minutes: 6.  Number of times Biden used the word "maverick" to say McCain wasn't one in 2 minutes:  7. 

Sarah Palin reminded me of me in my asian studies class.

If anyone asked me anything about asian culture(like lets say, Katie Couric) I would be clueless, but if I get a study guide for a test and cram for it(like BOTH candidates did), I can easily regurgitate enough information so people think I know what I am talking about. I don't.

At least Biden doesn't have a horrible track record for not knowing what the hell he's talking about on largely important things. Knowing your amendments and staying updated on current events (like lets say, in a newspaper) is important. Forgetting when the television was invented is not going to mess up america, unless instead of war people decide to play trivial pursuit, in which case Palin would still do worse. Fuck her. Literally and figuratively.

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Number of times Palin used the word "maverick" to say McCain was one in 90 minutes: 6.  Number of times Biden used the word "maverick" to say McCain wasn't one in 2 minutes:  7. 

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Number of times Palin used the word "maverick" to say McCain was one in 90 minutes: 6.  Number of times Biden used the word "maverick" to say McCain wasn't one in 2 minutes:  7. 

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You know who should be pissed about this?  James Garner.

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I asked my girlfriend a couple of weeks ago why the campaigns were talking about James Garner so much, he's not even running.

She didn't laugh, either.

So, on another point, how come every indicator of prudence and judgement in these candidates lives happened 2 years ago?  What the hell happened 2 years ago that was so tumultuous that all these character-defining moments were taking place?

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I asked my girlfriend a couple of weeks ago why the campaigns were talking about James Garner so much, he's not even running.

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I hadn't even thought of that.  I did think of this:

http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20230875_4,00.html

What, you guys didn't come running to StripCreator immediately after the second debate?

Brokaw is still my hero for owning a pair.  Obama is still my hero for practically saying "honkey, please".

Speaking of Brokaw, my favorite part of the debate was during the introductions when he had to pronounce Barack and Arizona.

You little bastards don't understand anything. You don't realize what I'm up against. I was collecting gook skulls with a bowie knife when you snot-nosed little pricks were just... HNNNNNGGGGG!!!

Any idea where I can find an unaltered version of the above image? My search-foo seems to be weak tonight.

Never mind. A template floated up on failchan.