Election Thread 2008 MAKE SURE YOU VOTE

[Mr-K]

I honestly think that as time goes on McCain is going to be revealed as a more and more likable candidate who was either dragged by his campaign to compromise himself or doing what he thought he had to to win. Either way. he still had a poorly managed, sort of insane campaign and that doesn't exactly scream "Awesome President"

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Palin sez she ain't THAT dumb. O RLY?
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Pleasant segment from the Rachel Maddow show.



She gets it.

[Frogacuda]

I honestly think that as time goes on McCain is going to be revealed as a more and more likable candidate who was either dragged by his campaign to compromise himself or doing what he thought he had to to win.

I've always assumed much of this to be the case, but the way I see it, if he can't show definitive leadership of his own campaign, he certainly can't lead the country. That doesn't make him a bad man, it just means he's not the leader he thought he was.

[Nirvana]

McCain camp is going to throw Palin under the bus in both fair and unfair ways in the coming weeks. I don't really care about her clothes, it's the shit she says that bothers me.

As long as the old McCain sticks around since showing up to give his consession speech, I have no problem with that. I actually saw a van with a "hockey mom" driving around today with a "Palin 2012" sticker. I'll see if the pic I took with my phone came out well enough.

I appreciated Stewart pointing out once again that we need electoral college reform as Obama pulled huge "numbers", yet the popular count is far far closer. Hopefully McCain will get behind it just like he did with campaign finance reform in 2000.

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Bill Maher on comedians' problems with Obama:

[SpoDaddy]

Hey guys, wanna see Newsweek's piece on the secrets of the campaign?

Awesome find Brisco. It's really interesting to read all the behind the scenes stuff after following this so closely for the past two years.

[stormy]

Larry King really finds Bill Maher hillarious.

[g0zen]

Larry King really finds Bill Maher hillarious.

He's the only one.

Even I got tired of his idiocy about milk and shit after awhile. I mean, seriously, how can you hate on milk?

[YellerDog]

Maher's not big on silly things like "modern medicine" or "other people having religious views". I think he is on the board at PETA.

[SpoDaddy]

I've always assumed much of this to be the case, but the way I see it, if he can't show definitive leadership of his own campaign, he certainly can't lead the country. That doesn't make him a bad man, it just means he's not the leader he thought he was.

Eh, I don't think the two correlate. McCain has an extreme distaste for the sleazy partisan side of politics, which is what makes him such a refreshing politician. The flipside of that is that he doesn't want to do the things a candidate needs to do to win a modern campaign. I've never seen a candidate more averse to even trying to "stay on message", let alone running negative ads, than John McCain. Had he been elected he would have been a great post-partisan president (which I'm hoping Obama will be).