Political Hippo Circle Jerk - America, farg YEAH!

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

I get more and more nervous by the day about this election.

I don't think Obama will lose, but the Philly fan pessimist in me (and the last 2 elections) have me feeling like it can't actually happen.

The Phillies need your nervousness.  Obama does not.

[Phanatic]

A relative of mine who was normally a Democrat has started quoting Sean Hannity talking points to me. For farg sake! I'm all for intelligent discourse but they don't even mention the issues.

[Butchers Bill]

A relative of mine who was normally a Democrat has started quoting Sean Hannity talking points to me. For farg sake! I'm all for intelligent discourse but they don't even mention the issues.

The issues are Obama is a terrorist, Biden has hair plugs, McCain is a senile old man, and Palin is a whacko fundie who everyone would like to get in a mother-daughter tag team with.

I think its pretty plain.   

[Magical_Retard]

why the farg would anyone outside of nyc or wash dc give a shtein about terrorists...i just dont understand why its even in the top 10 issues for them

911 seemed to have affected Middle America much more than the actual targets.

here in NYC ppl laugh their asses off when reading stuff like this.

[Seabiscuit36]

because Al Queda clearly wants to attack Kimbleton, KS

[Magical_Retard]

another thing i notice about these racists is how subtle they try to be.

at one point its "Radical Islam" or "Religious Extremists" but then they take the leap to include all the 2000+ Mosques in the USA as part of the grand Muslim scheme to take over the US from within. WTF? if you are racist enough and ignorant enough to believe what your saying then why be all PC about it?

[Phanatic]

why the farg would anyone outside of nyc or wash dc give a shtein about terrorists...i just dont understand why its even in the top 10 issues for them

911 seemed to have affected Middle America much more than the actual targets.

here in NYC ppl laugh their asses off when reading stuff like this.

Then why did I get that email forwarded to me from a Philadelphian? It appeals to anyone over the age of 60. Well anyone outside of California anyway.

[General_Failure]

Philly isn't New York or DC.

[rjs246]

another thing i notice about these racists is how subtle they try to be.

at one point its "Radical Islam" or "Religious Extremists" but then they take the leap to include all the 2000+ Mosques in the USA as part of the grand Muslim scheme to take over the US from within. WTF? if you are racist enough and ignorant enough to believe what your saying then why be all PC about it?

It's only subtle to them. To the rest of us it's as subtle as a jackhammer.

[SD_Eagle5]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5fdzji2C54&feature=user

John McCain rally in Iowa marked by partisan prayer



Rev. Arnold Conrad, in delivering an invocation at a rally today for John McCain in Davenport, Iowa, apparently didn't get the word from the candidate about elevating the tone at such gatherings.

Conrad, who appeared before the crowd before McCain had arrived, offered a prayer that seemed to urge divine intervention to prevent Barack Obama from winning the presidential election -- and cast the outcome as a referendum on differing religions.

The Times' Maeve Reston was at the event, and she passed along the key passage from Conrad's words:

I would also pray Lord that your reputation is involved in all that happens between now and November, because there are millions of people around this world praying to their God -- whether it's Hindu, Buddha, Allah -- that his [McCain's] opponent wins for a variety of reasons.

And Lord I pray that you would guard your own reputation, because they're going to think that their god is bigger than you, if that happens. So I pray that you would step forward and honor your own name in all that happens between now and Election Day.

Oh Lord, we just commit this time to you, move among us, make your presence very well felt as we are gathered here today in Jesus's name I pray.

Some in the crowd greeted the prayer with applause.

-- Don Frederick

[Seabiscuit36]

wow, and this guy was elected as an official. 

[ice grillin you]

no hes a priest that was asked to do this at a mccain rally


i love how he thinks hindus buddists and muslims are all buddy buddy....basically if youre not christian your collaborating with every other religion in the world to destroy christianity

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

coexist

[ATV]

Palin's future, according to Garrison Keillor

We are a stalwart and stouthearted people, and never more so than in hard times. People weep in the dark and arise in the morning and go to work. The waves crash on your nest egg and a chunk is swept away and you put your salami sandwich in the brown bag and get on the bus. In Philly, a woman earns $10.30/hour to care for a man brought down by cystic fibrosis. She bathes and dresses him in the morning, brings him meals, puts him to bed at night. It's hard work lifting him and she has suffered a painful hernia that, because she can't afford health insurance, she can't get fixed, but she still goes to work because he'd be helpless without her. There are a lot of people like her. I know because I'm related to some of them.

Low dishonesty and craven cynicism sometimes win the day but not inevitably. The attempt to link Barack Obama to an old radical in his neighborhood has desperation and deceit written all over it. Meanwhile, stunning acts of heroism stand out, such as the fidelity of military lawyers assigned to defend detainees at Guantanamo Bay -- uniformed officers faithful to their lawyerly duty to offer a vigorous defense even though it means exposing the injustice of military justice that is rigged for conviction and the mendacity of a commander in chief who commits war crimes. If your law school is looking for a name for its new library, instead of selling the honor to a fat cat alumnus, you should consider the names of Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift, Lt. Col. Mark Bridges, Col. Steven David, Lt. Col. Sharon Shaffer, Lt. Cmdr. Philip Sundel and Maj. Michael Mori.

It was dishonest, cynical men who put forward a clueless young woman for national office, hoping to juice up the ticket, hoping she could skate through two months of chaperoned campaigning, but the truth emerges: The lady is talking freely about matters she has never thought about. The American people have an ear for B.S. They can tell when someone's mouth is moving and the clutch is not engaged. When she said, "One thing that Americans do at this time, also, though, is let's commit ourselves just every day, American people, Joe Six-Pack, hockey moms across the nation, I think we need to band together and say never again. Never will we be exploited and taken advantage of again by those who are managing our money and loaning us these dollars," people smelled gas.

Some Republicans adore her because they are pranksters at heart and love the consternation of grown-ups. The ne'er-do-well son of the old Republican family as president, the idea that you increase government revenue by cutting taxes, the idea that you cut social services and thereby drive the needy into the middle class, the idea that you overthrow a dictator with a show of force and achieve democracy at no cost to yourself -- one stink bomb after another, and now Governor Palin.

She is a chatty sportscaster who lacks the guile to conceal her vacuity, and she was Mr. McCain's first major decision as nominee. This troubles independent voters, and now she is a major drag on his candidacy. She will get a nice book deal from Regnery and a new career making personal appearances for forty grand a pop, and she'll become a trivia question, "What politician claimed foreign-policy expertise based on being able to see Russia from her house?" And the rest of us will have to pull ourselves out of the swamp of Republican economics.

Your broker kept saying, "Stay with the portfolio, don't jump ship," and you felt a strong urge to dump the stocks and get into the money market where at least you're not going to lose your shirt, but you didn't do it and didn't do it, and now you're holding a big bag of brown bananas. Me, too. But at least I know enough not to believe desperate people who are talking trash. Anybody who got whacked last week and still thinks McCain-Palin is going to lead us out of the swamp and not into a war with Iran is beyond persuasion in the English language. They'll need to lose their homes and be out on the street in a cold hard rain before they connect the dots.

[SD_Eagle5]

Sarah Palin daughter's boyfriend breaks silence

—Associated Press (October 14, 2008)

The hockey dad speaks!

Levi Johnston, the 18-year-old high school hockey player who's having a baby with Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol, gave a rare interview to The Associated Press while standing in the driveway of his family's home in Wasilla, Alaska.

Here are the highlights, released Monday:

Yes, he was a little shocked when he learned about 17-year-old Bristol's pregnancy but says he quickly embraced the prospects of fatherhood. No, he's not being forced into a shotgun wedding with the girl he says he's been dating since his freshman year in high school.

"We were planning on getting married a long time ago with or without the kid," he said. "That was the plan from the start."

He dropped out of high school to take a job on the North Slope oil fields as an apprentice electrician. The wedding is next summer. The baby is due Dec. 18. It sounds like the couple is expecting a boy.

"I'm looking forward to having him," he said. "I'm going to take him hunting and fishing. He'll be everywhere with me."

As for the election?

He thinks Barack Obama "seems like a good guy," but he's rooting for John McCain and Sarah Palin.

"I just hope she wins," he said. "She's my future mother-in-law. She better win."

Unfortunately, he won't be able to help her. According to the Mat-Su Division of Elections Office in Wasilla, Johnston didn't register in time to vote.