Texas/Ohio/Merciful End Of It Thread

[Fenian_Bastard]

Might as well start it a week out.
Is it me, or does Obama's Texas trend line look like a freaking Saturn 5 at this point?
http://www.pollster.com/08-TX-Dem-Pres-Primary.php

 

[zeke12]

http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/02/25/mmm-latte.aspx

Finally, empirical data showing what I suspected all along.

The more people pay attention, the more likely they are to vote for Obama.

What particularly interests me about that is that Hillary Clinton did not perform poorly at that debate. But the people who watched most or all of it went for Obama by 20 points.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Hard to know why.
He wasn't very good.

 

[finishthehat]

FWIW, I just tried to early-vote here in Texas. Two pm on a Tuesday, and the wait was going to be at least 90 minutes if I stayed. Line doubling on itself and stretching out the door.

I'll try again tonight, not so close to downtown, but this may be the first time in a while I actually end up voting on Election Day.

 

[zeke12]

FWIW, I just tried to early-vote here in Texas. Two pm on a Tuesday, and the wait was going to be at least 90 minutes if I stayed. Line doubling on itself and stretching out the door.

I'll try again tonight, not so close to downtown, but this may be the first time in a while I actually end up voting on Election Day.

Zeke porn!

 

[suburbia]

Hard to know why.
He wasn't very good.

I think Dems were jumping on the Obama bandwagon so quickly at that point that nothing short of a major scandal was going to be able to stop the surge. Hillary's "win" at that debate certainly wasn't lopsided enough to do the trick.

That being said, it's back to square one once the nomination is locked up. Obama will have a lot of work to do, especially since I can't see the Clinton's giving him much in the way of support.

 

[dixiehack]

Is it me, or does Obama's Texas trend line look like a freaking Saturn 5 at this point?

Half of one anyway.

 

[writing irish]

I mentioned this on another thread, but as a reporter covering this, I am astounded by the Epic Fail demonstrated by the Clinton campaign's media relations people over the past two weeks. I've had more cooperation from people who didn't want media anywhere near what they were doing.

 

[Pastor]

FWIW, I just tried to early-vote here in Texas. Two pm on a Tuesday, and the wait was going to be at least 90 minutes if I stayed. Line doubling on itself and stretching out the door.

I'll try again tonight, not so close to downtown, but this may be the first time in a while I actually end up voting on Election Day.

Zeke porn!

They were all there for Nader...

 

[zeke12]

More porn...

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/2008/02/26/lewis_0227_web1.html

 

[21]

No idea where to put this item, so here it lands:

Anyone catch Crazy Bill Cunningham's psychotic (I know, redundant) rant/introduction of McCain today, during which he called Obama everything short of a Muslim-lovin-Negro? (Maybe he said that too, I might have missed it.) Great show, as McCain supporters stood slack-jawed behind Cunningham on the stage, their McCain signs sagging slowly with every hateful epithet.

McCain then had to apologize for his own supporter, whereupon Cunningham took to his radio show to slam McCain.

If anyone has a clip (CNN had it earlier), it's Must-See-TV.

 

[zeke12]

No idea where to put this item, so here it lands:

Anyone catch Crazy Bill Cunningham's psychotic (I know, redundant) rant/introduction of McCain today, during which he called Obama everything short of a Muslim-lovin-Negro? (Maybe he said that too, I might have missed it.) Great show, as McCain supporters stood slack-jawed behind Cunningham on the stage, their McCain signs sagging slowly with every hateful epithet.

McCain then had to apologize for his own supporter, whereupon Cunningham took to his radio show to slam McCain.

If anyone has a clip (CNN had it earlier), it's Must-See-TV.

I saw it, and couldn't believe it.

And, so long as it doesn't happen again, I will applaud Senator McCain for distancing himself from this bozo.

 

[deskslave]

No idea where to put this item, so here it lands:

Anyone catch Crazy Bill Cunningham's psychotic (I know, redundant) rant/introduction of McCain today, during which he called Obama everything short of a Muslim-lovin-Negro? (Maybe he said that too, I might have missed it.) Great show, as McCain supporters stood slack-jawed behind Cunningham on the stage, their McCain signs sagging slowly with every hateful epithet.

McCain then had to apologize for his own supporter, whereupon Cunningham took to his radio show to slam McCain.

If anyone has a clip (CNN had it earlier), it's Must-See-TV.

I saw it, and couldn't believe it.

And, so long as it doesn't happen again, I will applaud Senator McCain for distancing himself from this bozo.

I agree, although I'm annoyed by McCain's response on being asked whether it was OK to use Obama's middle name like that. A better answer would have been, "What the hell difference does it make what his middle name was? Yeah, he shares a name with a bad guy. He also shares it with a king of Jordan who was generally well-regarded (if my understanding is correct)."

Jesus, it's like saying any guy with the first name of Adolph is automatically the spawn of Hitler. And people still go for this ****. It's just sad.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

No idea where to put this item, so here it lands:

Anyone catch Crazy Bill Cunningham's psychotic (I know, redundant) rant/introduction of McCain today, during which he called Obama everything short of a Muslim-lovin-Negro? (Maybe he said that too, I might have missed it.) Great show, as McCain supporters stood slack-jawed behind Cunningham on the stage, their McCain signs sagging slowly with every hateful epithet.

McCain then had to apologize for his own supporter, whereupon Cunningham took to his radio show to slam McCain.

If anyone has a clip (CNN had it earlier), it's Must-See-TV.

I saw it, and couldn't believe it.

And, so long as it doesn't happen again, I will applaud Senator McCain for distancing himself from this bozo.

I agree, although I'm annoyed by McCain's response on being asked whether it was OK to use Obama's middle name like that. A better answer would have been, "What the hell difference does it make what his middle name was? Yeah, he shares a name with a bad guy. He also shares it with a king of Jordan who was generally well-regarded (if my understanding is correct)."

Jesus, it's like saying any guy with the first name of Adolph is automatically the spawn of Hitler. And people still go for this ****. It's just sad.

I'm a little sick of St. John's apologizing to empty rooms for this terrible stuff after he or one of the surrogates gets odious in front of the crowd.
Disingenuous old creep.

 

[markvid]

No idea where to put this item, so here it lands:

Anyone catch Crazy Bill Cunningham's psychotic (I know, redundant) rant/introduction of McCain today, during which he called Obama everything short of a Muslim-lovin-Negro? (Maybe he said that too, I might have missed it.) Great show, as McCain supporters stood slack-jawed behind Cunningham on the stage, their McCain signs sagging slowly with every hateful epithet.

McCain then had to apologize for his own supporter, whereupon Cunningham took to his radio show to slam McCain.

If anyone has a clip (CNN had it earlier), it's Must-See-TV.

I saw it, and couldn't believe it.

And, so long as it doesn't happen again, I will applaud Senator McCain for distancing himself from this bozo.

I agree, although I'm annoyed by McCain's response on being asked whether it was OK to use Obama's middle name like that. A better answer would have been, "What the hell difference does it make what his middle name was? Yeah, he shares a name with a bad guy. He also shares it with a king of Jordan who was generally well-regarded (if my understanding is correct)."

Jesus, it's like saying any guy with the first name of Adolph is automatically the spawn of Hitler. And people still go for this ****. It's just sad.

I'm a little sick of St. John's apologizing to empty rooms for this terrible stuff after he or one of the surrogates gets odious in front of the crowd.
Disingenuous old creep.

AMEN!

 

[deskslave]

No idea where to put this item, so here it lands:

Anyone catch Crazy Bill Cunningham's psychotic (I know, redundant) rant/introduction of McCain today, during which he called Obama everything short of a Muslim-lovin-Negro? (Maybe he said that too, I might have missed it.) Great show, as McCain supporters stood slack-jawed behind Cunningham on the stage, their McCain signs sagging slowly with every hateful epithet.

McCain then had to apologize for his own supporter, whereupon Cunningham took to his radio show to slam McCain.

If anyone has a clip (CNN had it earlier), it's Must-See-TV.

I saw it, and couldn't believe it.

And, so long as it doesn't happen again, I will applaud Senator McCain for distancing himself from this bozo.

I agree, although I'm annoyed by McCain's response on being asked whether it was OK to use Obama's middle name like that. A better answer would have been, "What the hell difference does it make what his middle name was? Yeah, he shares a name with a bad guy. He also shares it with a king of Jordan who was generally well-regarded (if my understanding is correct)."

Jesus, it's like saying any guy with the first name of Adolph is automatically the spawn of Hitler. And people still go for this ****. It's just sad.

I'm a little sick of St. John's apologizing to empty rooms for this terrible stuff after he or one of the surrogates gets odious in front of the crowd.
Disingenuous old creep.

Exactly. So if it happens again, and I'll be shocked if it doesn't, I really don't wanna hear his apologists going on about how "it's not the view of the campaign" and "he apologized for it!"

 

[Oz]

Hillary's hitting Texas hard. How do we know this? She's not simply going after voters and superdelegates ... she's going after the late former governor Ann Richards ...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080227/ap_on_el_pr/clinton_ann_richards

Dan Richards said in an interview Tuesday that they denied permission and he's angry the campaign published the video anyway. He said the campaign contacted him again last Friday to ask him to reconsider, and he repeated his objections.

"They asked me if I would sue the campaign, and I said no, I wasn't in the business of suing the campaign, but I didn't think they should do it," he said in a telephone interview. "To try to present who she would endorse a year and a half after she died is offensive to me."

 

[Bubbler]

Another Texan answers from the grave ...

"I knew Ann Richards. HRC is no Ann Richards."

 

[zeke12]

Another Texan answers from the grave ...

"I knew Ann Richards. HRC is no Ann Richards."

Molly, is that you?

 

[Rumpleforeskin]

Obama had about 10,000 supporters at a rally tonight. He stumbled a little bit in his speech, but he's very persuasive. I don't see some of his ideas working, but otherwise, he's a great public speaker.