Confused, discombobulated McCain in PA

WTF

Wow. I don't know what I can say to that, really.

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by: acidqueen @ Wed Oct 22, 2008 at 07:15:30 AM CDT

How About . . .

There goes the "let's turn PA red strategy out the window".

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by: Jon Michaels @ Wed Oct 22, 2008 at 13:40:41 PM CDT

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Wow

Vaguely reminiscent of this :p

Si Hoc Legere Scis Nimium Eruditionis Habes

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by: Kiera_Lynn @ Wed Oct 22, 2008 at 07:47:50 AM CDT

Is he auditioning for the role of Grandpa Simpson...

...in a hypothetical upcoming live-action Simpsons movie?

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by: george.w @ Wed Oct 22, 2008 at 07:51:24 AM CDT

Teleprompter?

I can't tell from the video, but he doesn't seem to be reading from notes, so could it be just a teleprompter snafu, that he then tried to recover from?

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by: OH les @ Wed Oct 22, 2008 at 07:53:12 AM CDT

one of my better efforts....IMO

Being so SICK of Joe the Plumber and Tito the WHATEVER
here's my response

  http://img.villagephotos.com/p...

Bob the LOSER

actually "Sarah the Whatever" might be a good tag on Nov 5th

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner

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by: peteyPornpig @ Wed Oct 22, 2008 at 08:23:05 AM CDT

I find it fascinating

that NONE of the local media here in Pittsburgh has aired this clip.  They are so blatantly pro-McCain (and so beholden to the local Catholic diocese), there was probably never much chance.  They covered the rally "live on tape," as they say, and cut discreetly away at the crucial moment.  Obama has a double-digit lead in the polls here in PA (which makes it seem really squirrelly that McCain and Palin have been spending so much time here so late in the race), and that's despite everything the media could do to try and tip things the other way.

It is a constantly deepening mystery why anyone relies on the MSM.

Cynic, n.  A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.  
-Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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by: QScribe @ Wed Oct 22, 2008 at 08:43:51 AM CDT

UNDECIDEDs...who are they?

Mark Morford is upset they are so important to decision makers..and tries to fathom their mental patterns.

Firstly, some quick assumptions. I hereby assume the Undecideds are not the Classic American Zombie. They are not the socially and politically ignorant, the millions of culturally apathetic, uneducated Americans you often read about who live way off the intellectual grid, who don't read, don't vote, don't eat with utensils, don't care, don't know how to care and have never really evolved their own intellectual curiosity much beyond the walk-upright-and-don't-drool stage. In other words, the Undecideds still pay attention. Sort of.

This, perhaps, is the first major snag: From what I can glean, it seems the Undecideds pay just enough attention. They care a little, maybe just enough to vote, to take part in a political tracking polls and interviews, to latch onto irrelevant effluvia, to nod with brow-furrowed interest when their more attuned friends speak passionately about a given issue. But that's about as far as it goes.

For an Undecided, then, everything is received wisdom. Everything is a mishmash of external sources, a haphazard blur of everyone else's ideas, headlines, tidbits of disconnected thought and rumor, and the thing they believe most is merely the last thing they heard that "sounded about right."

Upshot: no original thought. No sifting and sorting and careful deliberation, resulting in a calm statement of self-determined purpose. There is only, perhaps, fear of taking a stand, of having an opinion, of believing in something, anything, lest you be proven ignorant or pitiable or Britney Spears. Psychology experts, start your engines.

If this definition holds true, if there's such a large and powerful group that, given its lethargic inability to make distinctions, requires all sorts of trickery and flash to hold their fleeting attention, well, it makes the Undecideds a rather hugely dangerous lot indeed. And sort of pathetic. And really lousy in bed.

or the Second, are they really the super evolved?

Could it be that the Undecideds have developed an enlightened, Zen-like meta-perspective, wherein they see all social melodramas and political extremes as essentially the same, all part of the Grand Cosmic Circus? And therefore deciding something as piffling as Obama versus McCain -- that is, whether to kick human experiment forward with intelligence and thoughtfulness, or lock it into conservative Tupperware and shove it in the back freezer for another 30 years -- is pointless and unnecessary, merely part of the same cosmic joke?

Hell, I've oft championed the necessity of keeping your mind juicy and spirit fluxive, of never letting dogma bog you down and clog your karmic drain. Have the Undecideds mastered this rare skill? Let me just hedge a tentative answer right here: not a chance. After all, there's a profound difference between lucid energetic fluidity and, well, mealy mental dithering.

NOPE he finally has to admit, no idea as to what they are thinking.

I'm not buying it. For one thing, most of those activists have a clearly demonstrated -- if a bit wonky -- ability to choose. And let's just say it outright: Even if you can't tell much difference between Obama's and McCain's tax policies or approaches to Pakistan or whatnot, the difference in intuitive energies, in sheer vibrational attitude, between the calm, deeply intelligent Harvard-trained senator and the curmudgeonly war hawk with a nasty temper are so profound as to keep entire nations awake at night. It's a bit like choosing between a glass of wine and a beer bong full of turpentine and carpet tacks. Sure you can ingest them both, but come on.

Do not misunderestimate. I do not mean to suggest that it's mandatory that everyone take some sort of extreme black/white position every time. It is not about grabbing a mulish, uninformed stance and never budging. Moderate, reflective positioning is fine. But that's still a position. Undecideds aren't moderates. They do not seem to be clear on what they value, exactly. They're just ... I'm not sure what. Confused? Simple? Overmedicated?

It's the Hammer of JUSTICE,
It's the Bell of FREEDOM,
It's the Song about LOVE between,
my Brothers and my Sisters
...All over this Land.

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by: Orion45 @ Wed Oct 22, 2008 at 08:49:27 AM CDT

Then the comments....a few gems.

Several have suggested that the choices leave them cold. I believe that is an urban phenomenon - out here in Rural 'Murica most Undecideds can't decide whether it is a "worser sin" to vote for a non-Caucasian or a non-male. And frankly, they think their God is playing some cruel cosmic joke on them for asking them to choose

To most the feeling is:

Undecided. This is the reason: McCain is an absolutely horrible, horrid choice. On the other hand, Obama is black. Conundrum. So, McCain in these last days are giving anyone ANY excuse they can grab onto other than "He's black"

Thats it...thats the essence of 'UNDECIDED'  Can Obama address it? Can Biden?
IF so HOW.

It's the Hammer of JUSTICE,
It's the Bell of FREEDOM,
It's the Song about LOVE between,
my Brothers and my Sisters
...All over this Land.

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by: Orion45 @ Wed Oct 22, 2008 at 08:55:51 AM CDT

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Cindy McCain

I tried clicking on the video and it says that it is no longer available.

But I've saw it earlier on MSNBC and I am wondering - what's up with Cindy McCain?  She looks haggard and old.  She used to look a lot younger than her age, and now her face looks much older.

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by: Zorya @ Wed Oct 22, 2008 at 09:24:50 AM CDT

Campaign Trail

On the campaign trail the hours are long and stressful, no matter who you are*.
I saw a clip of Joe Biden from a couple of rallies here in Colorado.  The man needs a few hours sleep, soon.

*there is only one that never looked tired.  Probably because he did not live in this reality Bush II.

Pam,
J'aime ma Peau

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by: Blonde Pam @ Wed Oct 22, 2008 at 09:49:18 AM CDT

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speaking of LOSERS

I saw some footage of that saggy old QUEEN Mitch McConnell and it was PATHETIC.
He was in some tiny diner pressing flesh with the Early Bird Special crowd, and almost pleading for these folks to look at ALL THE EARMARKS he brought back to Kentucky.
   http://www.swamppolitics.com/n...
Mitch ....possom
do you really think that during the Financial CRISIS, and McCain p*ssing all over spending and gutting EARMARKS, that's a winning speel?

btw. that old fossil is now TIED with the challenger and well below 50%...a deadly position for an incumbant

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner

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by: peteyPornpig @ Wed Oct 22, 2008 at 09:40:44 AM CDT

morning joe

Had DOUBLE the emails this morning ripping Palin a new a$$hole over her extravagence and being a phoney as a plain little hockey-Mom.

good times, yeah good times

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner

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by: peteyPornpig @ Wed Oct 22, 2008 at 11:10:15 AM CDT

Don't forget Palin flies...

..the whole Palin tribe at Alaska citizen expense. (http://www.wtop.com/?nid=213&sid=1501484)

And the latest person who will benefit from a McCain presidency? Sammy [Osama] the Terrist (http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D93VA3B80&show_article=1 )

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by: SharonB @ Wed Oct 22, 2008 at 11:39:56 AM CDT

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