Morning News: But Wait, Says Obama Infomercial, That’s Not All!
You know what we really miss? The primary campaign, back when Barack Obama was giving all those great arena speeches and famous people were making videos of songs with snippets of those arena speeches. It was fun getting tingly, being torn between candidates, buying a bunch of candidates’ T-shirts and all that.
Sure, we get it. Can’t be too charismatic in the general election, lest John McCain start up with that “celebrity” stuff again. Still, turns out we like catchy and original campaign soundtracks.
So the infomercial. What did you think? Not quite arena-Obama but definitely better than sitting through a frenetic late-night Magic Bullet commercial. John McCain was less than impressed, however. He cautioned buyer beware. “As anyone who has bought anything from an infomercial knows, the sales-job is always better than the product.” Clearly, this man does not know the deep rewards of being able to “set it and forget it.”
Now, McCain didn’t buy airtime to make his case or respond to Obama’s big $3 million media buy, but his daughter Meghan’s got something to say (finally!) about this election and her dad’s opponent. PS: She’s blaming the last two years and Democrats for the mess we’re in today.
Daily Palin: Recall the effigy of Sarah Palin hanging by a noose from some West Hollywood home? Well, it’s down. Not by force, by choice (and probably neighborhood pressure). In actual Sarah Palin news, the VP pick is still roguing it on the trail. She’s been ad libbing in her stump speeches so much that the teleprompter techs can’t really figure out where she’s at.
Early today on Good Morning America, she told Elizabeth Vargas “absolutely not!” when asked whether she would pack up and head back to Alaska if the GOP lost the election. Palin’s got BIG PLANS!
Know who else isn’t packing up and heading home? “Joe the Plumber.” He’s being pursued for a record deal. Wow! Can McCain pick the coat-tail riders or what?!
Also sticking around are Obama’s big, big donors. Why? Because they’re getting access to the Dem’s top advisers. Politico‘s got a list.
Show of hands: have you already voted? Because you’re not alone if you have (as if you didn’t notice). People are turning out in droves to cast their ballots early and, as many say, hopefully safely.
Still not convinced that healthcare should be reformed? Well, if you’re a woman, this might change your mind. Because you pay way more on average — way more — for your policy than a man who gets identical coverage. And we know what you’re thinking, but it has little or nothing to do with the cost of childbearing.
If you’re teetering on the edge with your home loan, help might (finally?) be on the way. The Treasury and the FDIC have come up with a rescue plan for little ol’ you.
You know how proud you feel when your kid gets weighed and s/he’s tipping the toddler scales in the 95 percentile? OK, well, what if seven pounds of that weight were a tumor, as was the case for this little boy. Yeeuugh.
Finally, we’d be remiss (and kicked out of our own home) were we not to mention The! Big! News! The Phillies turned back the Rays to win the World Series last night. Good morning news, people, good morning news.
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I am a Republican because I believe this is the greatest country in the world, we are the world. Everyone looks to us and wants to come here. We are a capitalist nation, this is what makes us so great.
I am a Republican because I believe that I am better off spending our own money than having the government spend it for me.
I am a Republican because I believe in good competitive health care. My grandparents live in Canada and I have been in the waiting room at doctor’s offices, and I have seen first hand how sucky it is to WAIT hours just to see a dr. And when you finally see the doctor he is so bad because there is NO competition for him to try to be a good doctor. Dr’s don’t get the same respect as they do here, because they don’t have any incentive to be better.
Just because it’s FREE does not make it better.
I am Republican because I believe in the American dream and that anyone can own a business and not get taxed to hell because of it.
I am a Republican because I love this country. Why would anyone want to CHANGE it?
moviegirl keeps linking associated content which is a blogging page that anyone can sign up and post to. There are no paid bloggers and the content is whatever the writer wants it to be. A highly questionable source at best!
Conservative Right wing republicans that smear Barack Obama keep accusing people of “drinking the Kool Aid!” The number of educated, historically right wingers that are jumping ship should stop and give one pause. You would think, right? Yeah, but so many of them don’t think for themselves!
I’d much rather drink the Kool Aid then the Jesus Juice that the right is slinging!! Any day…..
I’m actually starting to think brighteyes and moviegirl might be the same person. They both have the same fucked up ideas, and they both write “American’s” instead of “Americans.”
As usual…more BS from brighteyes and moviegirl.
No. He has not associated with terrorist groups. You people make me tired. Seriously, nothing in that 1st little tirade has any relevance to his campaign. It’s rather racist and nasty to think that the insinuation that a Kenyan father and an atheist mother and 2 years at a muslim school are things that should sway any undecided voter.
He’s definitely toned the rhetoric down; the guy is basically a centrist like Bill Clinton and I have a feeling that the political establishment will smooth over his little teeny bits of liberalism. People have exalted Obama so much because we are so ready for an end to the morass of the past 8 years. I was a kid when Bush stole the 1st election. I grew up being embarassed for my country and furious about all the messes he has so blithely made. This is my first presidential election. So as far as I’m concerned he can turn up the messianic rhetoric to 11 and I will say Amen.
I think brighteyes is trying to say that matters, because Obama is trying to hide his background and is lying about his faith. He has associated with terrorist groups and is trying to keep that mum.
I’m confused. What does the race of his parents or his mother’s atheism have to do with anything?
First of all, he is a Christian. Secondly, who cares if he’s not? I know I don’t.
None of our other presidential candidates have ever been arrogant, naive or unscrupulous enough to claim that they would personally transform the World. Even Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy did not claim that. Obama does. He is constantly saying that he and his followers will change the World. The question is why do Americans just accept such wild rhetoric without comment or challenge?
You mean the truth? Hide it? because that is what you want, to hide the truth? This is public forum where all comments are welcome and discussed.
Can someone delete that garbage?
please read this for the sake of all American’s:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1099313/barrack_obama_where_did_the_money_come.html?page=1&cat=9
Since no one really knows about Obama’s background, I thought that I would tell you. And of course read my favorite quote of the day at the bottom,”
Barack Hussein Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack Hussein Obama Sr. (black muslim) of Nyangoma-Kogelo, Siaya District, Kenya, and Ann Dunham of Wichita, Kansas. (white atheist ).
When Obama was two years old, his parents divorced and his father returned to Kenya. His mother married Lolo Soetoro — a Muslim — moving to Jakarta with Obama when he was six years old. Within six months he had learned to speak the Indonesian language. Obama spent “two years in a Muslim school, then two more in a Catholic school” in Jakarta. Obama takes great care to conceal the fact that he is a Muslim while admitting that he was once a Muslim, mitigating that damning information by saying that, for two years, he also attended a Catholic school.
Obama’s father, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. was a radical Muslim who migrated from Kenya to Jakarta, Indonesia. He met Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham-a white atheist from Wichita, Kansas-at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Obama, Sr. and Dunham divorced when Barack, Jr. was two.
Obama’s spinmeisters are now attempting to make it appear that Obama’s introduction to Islam came from his father and that influence was temporary at best.
In reality, the senior Obama returned to Kenya immediately following the divorce and never again had any direct influence over his son’s education.
Dunham married another Muslim, Lolo Soetoro who educated his stepson as a good Muslim by enrolling him in one of Jakarta’s Wahabbi schools. Wahabbism is the radical teaching that created the Muslim terrorists who are now waging Jihad on the industrialized world.
Since it is politically expedient to be a Christian when you are seeking political office in the United States, Obama joined the United Church of Christ to help purge any notion that he is still a Muslim.
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From Audacity of Hope: ‘I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.’