Monthly Archives: November 2008

Waiting for the eternal first returns of the same

We’re all waiting for the first exit polls. In the meantime……
Desperation in the coverage has produced some great interviews over the past 24 – FOX tracked down one of the McCainiacs who had yelled at Walnuts during a town hall meeting – ‘get out and fight’ – while Mccain squirmed because he knew that what [...]

Scenarios

1. Worst Case – the polls were wrong, the Bradley effect is through the roof, the kill the coal industry stuff circulates, and another big gaffe happens in the next 24.
McCain holds all the 04 Bush states and gets Pennslyvania and New Hampshire – McCain 311, Obama 226
2. Next worst
McCain takes Pennsyvlania only
McCain 307, [...]

Obama’s coal fired smoking pistol

12.30am US EST/4.30pm Oz EST
The GOP have found a good bit of stick to beat Obama with – a San Francisco Chronicle interview he did in Feb 2008 talking about cap and trade restrictions on carbon output – especially by coal stations. People can try and build a coal station (meaning a non-clean coal one, [...]

Joe strikes again

Joe the Plumber is on the Neil Cavuto show….
JOE: well Barack Obama’s rich and he’s up on the hill and we’re down here,  and he doesn’t want us to get up there, and having dinners, and buying stuff…
Later….
JOE: I don’t make six figures, not even close…
The man would be close to a thousand dollars a [...]

Meghan McCain…

…is a bit of a chubby one, have you noticed ? Cindy looks like a feeder to me. Fatten the kid up and then make cracks all through her adolescence ’sweetheart don’t wear the scarlet until you’ve lost a few gallons, otherwise people will think you’re going to a fancy dress party as a [...]

Sheridan on realclearpolitics

Greg Sheridan’s Australian op-ed got the number two slot on realclearpolitics today, saying that the us electionwas one of the most boring in memory…
really greg? is that how it looks from surrey hills.
look you worthless bearded grouper twunt, you say that simply because you hate the result.. In middle amrica,where you never go, when you [...]

McCain on SNL

John Macca has just appeared on Saturday Night Live. Two appearances – in the ‘cold opener’ , with Tina Fey as Sarah Palin doing s fake ‘home shopping channel’ segment, and then a spot in the weekend update segment. Both of them genuinely funny.
For McCain supporters, worryingly so. Obama as witnessed by his recent daily show [...]

Palin, sexism, Tracee Hutchinson

 
Look it’ s someone else’s job to bag Tracee Hutchinson, but I suspect that her most recent article , for the Saturday Age,  on the alleged discrimination against Sarah Palin, won’t get that attention it deserves from that quarter.
Hutchinson argues several things
1) that the attention paid to Palin’s personal choics, dress etc has been sexist [...]

Obama’s aunt

Obama’s auntie….
….is the latest desperate ploy by the GOP. She’s a half-sister of Obama’s father, lives in Boston in public housing, and has been refused asylum – she had applied from Kenya, on political grounds. She’s still in Boston….Obama’s stonewalled questions on the issue, but his team put out reports claiming that Obama had neither [...]

Palin’s latest gaffe

She’s the gift that keeps on giving….Palin’s latest foray into commentary in American goverment is her misreading of the first amendment. She said today:
“If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations, then I don’t know what the future of our country [...]