The 2008 Democratic National Convention

[kane9321]

Obama. rocked that..OMG OMG

 

[The Chairman]

I have not yet watched it. I really need to focus my attention span on staring at Youtube screen for 45 minutes.

 

[StorminNorman]

The "Scandal" seems to be non existent and she has a long long record for tackling corruption in Alaska on various levels of Government.

Also - first term Governor offers executive experience, far more important to a President than a first term Senator. Palin also has years of government experience before she got elected Governor - including ethics chair for Alaska's Oil and Gas Commission.

 

[jaguarr]

I have been watching the news all morning and it has been all McCain's VP pick.

I'm seeing both stories get pretty equal coverage, to be honest.

jag

 

[kane9321]

ok for the $1000.00 question. Do you guys think the female hillarites will jump ship to vote for a female republican?...They couldnt be that stupid...right?

 

[StorminNorman]

Will all female hilldogs jump to McCain? No.

Will some? Yes.

 

[BlackLantern]

Will all female hilldogs jump to McCain? No.

Will some? Yes.

As is their constitutional right to....

 

[jaguarr]

ok for the $1000.00 question. Do you guys think the female hillarites will jump ship to vote for a female republican?...They couldnt be that stupid...right?

The ones that are single-minded about voting for a female candidate, all other issues aside, might.

jag

 

[Excel]

I didnt realize they played the REMEMBER THE TITANS theme!

 

[StrainedEyes]

ok for the $1000.00 question. Do you guys think the female hillarites will jump ship to vote for a female republican?...They couldnt be that stupid...right?

The ones that Hillary was talking about, the ones only in the election for her, might jump ship. The ones who actually agree with what Hillary stands for, what's important, will stay put.

 

[UA-Archangel]

The "Scandal" seems to be non existent and she has a long long record for tackling corruption in Alaska on various levels of Government.

Also - first term Governor offers executive experience, far more important to a President than a first term Senator. Palin also has years of government experience before she got elected Governor - including ethics chair for Alaska's Oil and Gas Commission.

Wait, I thought I heard a little air escape from Obama's campaign.

This is shaping up to be one of the most interesting election since Reagan and Mondale.

 

[rdh007]

Will all female hilldogs jump to McCain? No.

Will some? Yes.

Will it be enough? Hmmmmmmm

 

[The Senator]

The "Scandal" seems to be non existent and she has a long long record for tackling corruption in Alaska on various levels of Government.

Also - first term Governor offers executive experience, far more important to a President than a first term Senator. Palin also has years of government experience before she got elected Governor - including ethics chair for Alaska's Oil and Gas Commission.

Oh, I see how this game is played.

Obama doesn't have enough experience at all. But when someone mentions that he spent several years in the Illinois state senate, and worked as a community organizer in Chicago, you completely blow them off. In fact, I believe the exact response to those posts was this:

BUT, now that McCain has selected Palin, her inexperience is being brushed under the rug by you and others because she served in the Alaskan government and was chairman of an industrial board. How, in God's name, is that any different from what Obama had in years prior to being in the Senate? And, before you give the "she was a businesswoman" response, I've read attacks from other conservative posters who slammed Obama for being a "community advocate." So that doesn't really fly with me. And for the record, I don't consider Obama's pre-Senate experience to be relevant for the campaign.

Really, what we have here is the biggest double standard in the entire presidential election coming into play, right here, on these boards. It's wonderful.

 

[rdh007]

Wait, I thought I heard a little air escape from Obama's campaign.

That was the point of making the announcement today and furthermore the point of making the choice he did. The question is, did he sacrifice long term goals for the short term goal of nullifying Obama's convention bump? And is John McCain that short-sighted?

I will say this, the Republicans will probably do a great job of playing up the "don't pick on her" part of all this.

 

[rdh007]

Oh, I see how this game is played...

As I said in the Palin thread, Norm's reaction to this makes me think it's a good thing for Obama/Biden. Norm's not stupid.

 

[jaguarr]

That was the point of making the announcement today and furthermore the point of making the choice he did. The question is, did he sacrifice long term goals for the short term goal of nullifying Obama's convention bump? And is John McCain that short-sighted?

I will say this, the Republicans will probably do a great job of playing up the "don't pick on her" part of all this.

She's a political nobody whom McCain met ONCE before making her his VP running mate and also has a very short tenure at the State level with an ethics scandal underway in that short time. She's also already provided a few gaffes ("I don't know what the job of the Vice-President is" and not having an opinion on the Iraq war even though she has a son in the military there, for example) for the Dem's to use against her. This is going to end badly. All it's done is given McCain equal mention on the news alongside Obama's landmark speech. Short-term it kept at least a few spotlights on McCain going into the RNC Convention (if that doesn't get delayed). Long-term? Mmmm......we'll see how that goes but I have a feeling it's going to blow up in his face. The Women's Interests groups are already starting to ding him for this.

jag

 

[Marx]

That was the point of making the announcement today and furthermore the point of making the choice he did. The question is, did he sacrifice long term goals for the short term goal of nullifying Obama's convention bump? And is John McCain that short-sighted?

I will say this, the Republicans will probably do a great job of playing up the "don't pick on her" part of all this.

The Republican's have had no hesitance of ridiculing and villifying Hillary Clinton. Sarah Palin is fair game.

 

[UA-Archangel]

That was the point of making the announcement today and furthermore the point of making the choice he did. The question is, did he sacrifice long term goals for the short term goal of nullifying Obama's convention bump? And is John McCain that short-sighted?

I will say this, the Republicans will probably do a great job of playing up the "don't pick on her" part of all this.

No question that he did that for that reason. Politics is like playing pool, if you can't sink a shot then make one that frustrates your opponent. I guarentee that she's no shrinking violet, so Republicans aren't worried about any attacks on Palin, not to mention that she has a very impressive track record of following through on promises and attacking political self-servers.

She isn't known (in polite circles) as being the Barracuda for no reason, so don't worry about the "Don't touch her treatment." She's looking forward to any attacks against her.

I suspect Biden is reading Wikipedia about right now.

 

[rdh007]

She isn't known (in polite circles) as being the Barracuda for no reason, so don't worry about the "Don't touch her treatment." She's looking forward to any attacks against her.

I doubt that. If they can play that up and get more votes they will, and she will be complicit.

 

[jaguarr]

I suspect Biden is reading Wikipedia about right now.

Well, that would make sense because that's probably how McCain came to the conclusion to give her the VP slot.






Sorry, that one was just too good to pass up given the recent debacle with McCain pretty much quoting directly out of Wikipedia in one of his speeches.

jag

 

[UA-Archangel]

Well, that would make sense because that's probably how McCain came to the conclusion to give her the VP slot.






Sorry, that one was just too good to pass up given the recent debacle with McCain pretty much quoting directly out of Wikipedia in one of his speeches.

jag

No worries. This is one election we are all going to enjoy, win or lose.

 

[Spider-Gamer]

Well, that would make sense because that's probably how McCain came to the conclusion to give her the VP slot.






Sorry, that one was just too good to pass up given the recent debacle with McCain pretty much quoting directly out of Wikipedia in one of his speeches.

jag

But, I thought McCain doesn't know much about computers. I guess he had to ask his staff.

 

[danoyse]

Wow.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...E?SITE=1010WINS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Obama's speech seen by 38 million viewers

NEW YORK (AP) -- Barack Obama's acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention was seen by more than 38 million people.

Nielsen Media Research said more people watched Obama speak than watched the Olympics opening ceremony in Beijing, the final "American Idol" or the Academy Awards this year. Obama talked before a live audience of 80,000 people in Denver.

His TV audience nearly doubled the amount of people who watched John Kerry accept the Democratic nomination to run against President Bush four years ago. Kerry's speech was seen by just over 20 million people.

Obama's audience might be higher, since Nielsen didn't have an estimate for how many people watched Obama on PBS or C-SPAN Thursday night.

 

[terry78]

Well, that would make sense because that's probably how McCain came to the conclusion to give her the VP slot.






Sorry, that one was just too good to pass up given the recent debacle with McCain pretty much quoting directly out of Wikipedia in one of his speeches.

jag

So technically one could go on Wikipedia and basically put anything they wanted on that page, and he'd take it as fact.

 

[BlackestNight]

So technically one could go on Wikipedia and basically put anything they wanted on that page, and he'd take it as fact.

And that my friend is what we here in Colbert Nation like to call Wikiality.
And that's "THE WORD".