Weekend Open Thread: Barracuda!

Probably offensive to any Hamster Heart purists out there (0.00 / 0)

but this is the first tune that popped into my head after playing Barracuda.

Wonder if Sununu's fired now.

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by: Dean Barker @ Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 20:32:10 PM CDT

Heartbreaker (4.00 / 1)

Probably what was playing in Barack's Plane after making even the ghoulish Bill-O say "Barack's not a wuss."


"I'm not smart enough to run the economy."

- John McCain (r) Arizona
Interview with the Keene Sentinel, November 7, 2007

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by: TJMCNH1 @ Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 21:10:38 PM CDT

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Reason #84,679 to make sure Obama and Biden win: (4.00 / 3)

2012 New Hampshire Primary, Palin vs. Romney.

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by: Douglas E. Lindner @ Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 21:29:13 PM CDT

Musing (0.00 / 0)

What did Sarah say, when asked to join the ticket?

Or does this just refer to the awkward body language?

(The sound is spotty, unfortunately)

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by: JimC @ Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 21:48:05 PM CDT

Since this is an open thread, (4.00 / 4)

I wish to voice my growing concern that we may be falling into a trap that may just serve to generate more interest and sympathy for someone who is obviously in over her head, and is incapable of comprehending it. Demonizing Palin (vapid though she may be) only helps to get her name repeated when it may be better to just pass her by and focus on the significant individual here: the one who brought her to this dance.

Now that their little vacuum-packed convention is over, it's time to continue pounding home the reality that these people have nothing more of substance to offer than negativity, blame-the-media, and running like hell from the record of the past eight years. That's the real story here, seems to me more like flounder and carp than Barracuda.

Remember the "uniter-not-a-divider" of 2000? The "compassionate conservative"? They were lying then, and they are lying now, still singing the McSame old tune.


It's time for a change and I need a nap. Or is it the other way around?

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by: GreyMike @ Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 21:58:15 PM CDT

Has anybody else noticed how hilarious Joe Biden is? (0.00 / 0)

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by: Douglas E. Lindner @ Sat Sep 06, 2008 at 00:28:05 AM CDT

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Indeed. (0.00 / 0)

"To Barack Obama, the son of a black man from Kenya and a white man from Kansas, now, no matter what your politics, that is a moment for the history books."

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by: hannah @ Sat Sep 06, 2008 at 06:24:05 AM CDT

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Disturbing Time Story (0.00 / 0)

I agree with GreyMike that we need to be focusing more on what we want then what we don't want, but
this story in Time magazine paints a disturbing and Nixonian picture of McCain and Palin. There must be more than meets the eye here.

Key Alaska allies of John McCain are trying to derail a politically charged investigation into Gov. Sarah Palin's firing of her public safety commissioner in order to prevent a so-called "October surprise" that would produce embarrassing information about the vice presidential candidate on the eve of the election.

In a move endorsed by the McCain campaign Friday, John Coghill, the GOP chairman of the state House Rules Committee, wrote a letter seeking a meeting of Alaska's bipartisan Legislative Council in order to remove the Democratic state senator in charge of the so-called "troopergate" investigation.

How does a presidential campaign, or any other entity for that matter have the right to endorse such an obvious attempt to obstruct justice?

French, the Democrat overseeing the probe, has hired a special counsel to determine, in effect, whether Palin "used her public office to settle a private score," he recently said. He has also suggested that the probe may turn up evidence that state laws were violated by Palin's aides because they pulled confidential personnel files on the trooper.

The move underscored the huge political stakes in the outcome of a legislative investigation that is being closely monitored by both the McCain and Obama campaigns because of its potential impact on the fall election. "How can this possibly be read as anything but a partisan attempt to shut down a legitimate investigation that was approved and funded with bipartisan support?" said one state Democratic legislative aide, who asked not to be identified because of the political sensitivities. Coghill told NEWSWEEK that he decided to write his letter to strip French of his position on his own-without any coaxing by McCain campaign officials.

But a top McCain campaign official acknowledged that the GOP lawyer had given the campaign a "heads up" about his letter and that the McCain campaign approved of the effort to remove French.

Bold is mine to point out the lie.

It gets more interesting. Todd Palin was also involved.

As a further sign of the sensitivity of the probe, a lawyer for Palin told NEWSWEEK Friday that Todd Palin, the governor's husband, was in the process of hiring his own separate counsel to represent him in the legislature's probe. Thomas Van Flein, Governor Palin's lawyer, would not identify who is now representing the governor's husband. But he sought to deflect charges that Todd Palin, a commercial fisherman and oil company worker, had improperly intervened in state business by inviting Monegan to the governor's office and asking him to look into Wooten's status on the state police force.

What on earth is the governor's husband doing being involved like that? Is Sarah really a front for him? Was she just trained like a pit bull to give speeches and play act?

This is very disturbing to me. It shows a complete lack of morality. And that McCain will go to any depths to prevail in this election. I hesitate to use the term win, because of what happened in 2000.

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by: jbd @ Sat Sep 06, 2008 at 06:28:03 AM CDT

The Republican National Convention in a single minute: (4.00 / 2)

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by: Douglas E. Lindner @ Sat Sep 06, 2008 at 15:17:08 PM CDT