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Obama Accepts

Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 7:13:46 pm PDT

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1 Typicalwhitey  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:14:49pm

Arrogance on file

2 HelloDare  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:15:13pm

With profound humility. He's lying already.

3 experiencedtraveller  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:15:20pm

I'm gonna slap the first guy that says "hope" or "change"...

4 Charles  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:15:32pm

Are they weeping yet?

5 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:15:39pm

Sympathy for the hard working hamsters!

6 Tarkus289  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:15:50pm

I am.

7 Sharmuta  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:15:57pm

He accepts! I could cry.

8 jamgarr  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:16:00pm

Props to Hill

9 TnTx13  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:16:12pm

CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE hope CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE

10 Wendya  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:16:15pm

The consummate hustler.

11 Cognito  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:16:19pm

It's weird. Before he accepted, I had a pretty decent cut on my upper arm.

It's just totally healed.

12 Colonel Panik  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:16:23pm

All hail the messiah!
Obama, Obama!
The path to the new Socialist Motherland!
Our savior, our savior!
Obama, Obama!
The leader more famous than Lindsay Lohan!
Bow down and praise The One™!
Give him your money and your guns!
Give us a country
That makes your wife proud!
Lord Barry heal the bitter ones!
White and clinging to faith and to guns!
Hope for the change of the hope of the change!

13 Jetpilot1101  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:16:29pm

Michelle looks very shrewish.

14 Sharmuta  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:16:38pm

Props to Hill. I'm sure he really means it too.

15 DistantThunder  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:16:41pm

Thanking bill and Hillary - missing in action.

16 pestolover  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:16:43pm

I counted 33 thank yous to start.

17 BignJames  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:16:48pm

Change! Change! Play the one about Change!

18 Occasional Reader  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:16:49pm

KNEEL BEFORE ZOD!

19 Dianna  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:16:49pm

re: #4 Charles

Well, they're sure as hell waving blue and white flags. And chanting.

I'm deeply annoyed.

20 HelloDare  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:16:51pm

There's a guy in the front row in a wheel chair. I think Obama is going to heal him.

21 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:16:53pm

When do they start fainting like at a Benny Hinn meeting?

22 Wendya  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:17:07pm

God... those chanting people are freaking me out.

23 jorline  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:17:11pm

Burp

24 Attaboid  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:17:13pm

Clench those teeth Michelle.

25 Sharmuta  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:17:13pm

To Joe Biden- I thank him- that I could show him up.....

26 The Pulchritudinous Patriot  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:17:15pm

Where is the swooning? I want to see swooning!


And what? No vestal virgins!

I feel cheated!

27 Occasional Reader  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:17:20pm

His kids are very cute, I'll give him that.

28 Maximu§  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:17:21pm

Theres alot of tingleing legs in that crowd.

29 Crimsonfisted  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:17:22pm

I can only hope NOT she is the next first lady.

30 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:17:25pm

Friends, Americans, Countrymen, Fellow travelers, lend me your ears.

31 Colonel Panik  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:17:30pm

re: #20 HelloDare

There's a guy in the front row in a wheel chair. I think Obama is going to heal him.

Benny Hinn Obama

32 really grumpy big dog Johnson  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:17:31pm

What is that pin he's wearing? Is it the tiniest flag pin in the world?

33 willowone  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:17:33pm

beautiful children.

34 Palandine  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:17:39pm

re: #11 Cognito

It's weird. Before he accepted, I had a pretty decent cut on my upper arm.

It's just totally healed.

Maybe I WON'T have a hangover tomorrow...

35 rw in san diego  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:17:39pm

re: #13 Jetpilot1101

Michelle looks very shrewish.

I was just thinking how nice she looked tonight. Must be the martini kicking in.

36 TnTx13  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:17:43pm

re: #26 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

Where is the swooning? I want to see swooning!


And what? No vestal virgins!

I feel cheated!

Later...

37 Dahveed  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:17:44pm

Just home from the bar watching the Cubbies losing in time to watch this.

What a great evening.

38 infopimp  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:17:45pm

He's SINCERE and calling Joe the "next vice president" like it is a foregone conclusion?

39 doppelganglander  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:17:50pm

I've had a gin and tonic and two glasses of wine. Is that enough for me to be able to turn on the tv yet?

40 DistantThunder  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:17:54pm

re: #20 HelloDare

lol

41 stuck in california  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:17:55pm

finest statesman, MO! puke

42 lifeofthemind  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:17:55pm

The Olympics of insincerity, as advertised and released

43 Occasional Reader  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:17:58pm

Wait, who is it that deigns to talk to Amtrak conductors? Biden?

Oh, the little people... we think so highly of them, really we do.

44 mrberner  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:18:02pm

Party like a rock star!

45 MandyManners  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:18:03pm

Is that fucker wearing a flag pin?

46 The Pulchritudinous Patriot  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:18:12pm

Brief union?

More like a drunken one nighter!

47 Luigi  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:18:13pm

A very brief union.

48 ratherdashing  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:18:16pm

It is a historic moment.


/still not votin' for him

49 Ward Cleaver  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:18:22pm

re: #4 Charles

Are they weeping yet?

I saw one, a woman.

50 Crimsonfisted  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:18:24pm

He could achieve AFTER BOTH his parents abandoned him.

51 noshariaincanada  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:18:26pm

he's so friggen full of himself

52 loppyd  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:18:27pm

KANSAS
KANSAS
KANSAS
KANSAS
KANSAS
KANSAS

we get it.

53 experiencedtraveller  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:18:27pm

He's nervous. Just blew a line..

54 Attaboid  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:18:30pm

re: #30 Kosh's Shadow

Friends, Americans, Countrymen, Fellow travelers, lend me your ears.

/Dumbo

55 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:18:40pm

Wow, I've talked to Amtrak conductors, just like Obama! I feel so close to him now.
Not

56 DistantThunder  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:18:51pm

re: #39 doppelganglander

I've had a gin and tonic and two glasses of wine. Is that enough for me to be able to turn on the tv yet?

Need a vicodin with this migraine of a speech.

here comes the hangover.

57 WayDownSouthInBama  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:18:54pm

Sell all that you have,pick up your koolaid,and come...follow me.

58 loppyd  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:18:56pm

re: #33 willowone

beautiful children.

I just said that to the BF - they really are.

59 Biff  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:18:56pm

He looks palid and sickly. Too thin. And he's wearing makeup a tone darker and redder than his skin tone.

60 Dianna  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:19:01pm

We do not meet at some special moment. And we're not in crisis!

61 really grumpy big dog Johnson  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:19:04pm

I know what it is, it's his nomination ribbon. There'll be nine rows of ribbons in two years, when he's wearing gold braid and epaulets.

62 Dahveed  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:19:08pm

3.3% GDP. Not so much turmoil.

63 mattm  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:19:15pm

American Sucks, but I will save it.

64 braddock  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:19:16pm

America Sucks- Barry

65 infopimp  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:19:25pm

Oh George Bush is running against Obama... I missed that!

66 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:19:29pm

re: #57 WayDownSouthInBama

Sell all that you have,pick up your koolaid,and come...follow me.

No need to sell, the government will take it

67 HelloDare  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:19:35pm

Please, please, please make the teleprompter go boom.

68 Cartman  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:19:35pm

There it is.

69 Wendya  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:19:36pm

Okay.... I turned it off. I just can't deal with the hysterical masses right now.

70 Dianna  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:19:38pm

Oh, and we don't have bills we can't pay unless we ran them up.

I don't want to bail out the improvident.

71 jorline  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:19:39pm

Please empty your wallets on the way out.

72 The Pulchritudinous Patriot  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:19:42pm

I am so damn sick of the whole You can't afford your homes shit...DONT BUY MORE HOME THAN YOU CAN AFFORD...fuckwits

73 bkgodfrey  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:19:49pm

thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
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74 cyclown  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:19:52pm

So it IS Bushilter's fault for the tumbling price of homes! Dammit. I KNEW IT, I just needed Obama to splain it to me.

75 Dahveed  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:19:56pm

George Bush forced people to NOT pay their credit card bills. Wow! What power.

76 Beller0ph1  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:19:58pm

Too bad McCain is running, and not Bush.

77 Mich-again  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:19:58pm

I wonder if they'll tear out the turf on the field.

Obama grass!

78 Luigi  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:20:05pm

Bring out the victims.

79 Killian Bundy  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:20:09pm

Stock market up 200+ points today.

/oh and 2008 second quarter GDP was better than 3%

80 Jetpilot1101  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:20:15pm

I'm Barrack Obama, go fuck yourself Denver.

81 Edouard  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:20:18pm

Narcissus of Harvard.

82 rawmuse  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:20:21pm

Slime! It's all over me!

83 kevinmumaw  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:20:26pm

Ah yes, the victim parade. Democrat staple since 1976.

84 Colonel Panik  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:20:27pm

I wonder what would happen if his TelePrompter shut down.

85 jetprop  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:20:29pm

the god come down from on high to speak...

86 ratherdashing  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:20:35pm

re: #63 mattm

American Sucks, but I will save it.

That's it in a nutshell.

87 devil in baggy pants  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:20:37pm

KATRINA


DRINK!

88 Biff  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:20:37pm

re: #55 Kosh's Shadow
The say that all the railroad men drink up your blood like wine. BD

89 The Pulchritudinous Patriot  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:20:41pm

pulllese...pluese drop Katrina.

90 Palandine  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:20:48pm

It's midnight in America, and this country sucks.

Please make me its leader.

91 willowone  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:20:49pm

ugh enuff even

92 spirochete  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:20:50pm

re: #64 braddock

Cut capital gains taxes for small businesses? What about for the avergae american taxpayer?

93 DistantThunder  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:20:51pm

Now I'm angry - what a filthy liar -

94 infopimp  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:20:52pm

Katrina plug... hey Obama... what did George Bush do for Africa?


ENOUGH... wow... they love the Nazi shouting!

95 SummerSong  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:20:53pm

*sniff*

96 lori lane  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:20:56pm

re: #35 rw in san diego

I was just thinking how nice she looked tonight. Must be the martini kicking in.

Yeah, i just announced to my husband and wife that I'd take her hair.

97 Dianna  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:20:57pm

A major city drowns before our eyes?

Idiot! Liar! Evil!

98 Beller0ph1  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:20:57pm

Holy smokes...his big screen reminds me of the Chancellor from V.

99 MandyManners  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:20:58pm

Has BET ever carried a nominee's acceptance speech before?

100 experiencedtraveller  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:21:01pm

Drowned city?

He's blaming Bush for Atlantis?

101 neocon hippie  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:21:06pm

The same old song and dance sob stories.

"This moment..."

102 rawmuse  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:21:07pm

Yeah, those Republicans have been running New Orleans for a long time...
Oh, wait...

103 Cartman  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:21:09pm

The blame game, at it's finest.

104 rorschach  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:21:15pm

I can't believe they have him wearing a striped RED tie.

Video hates red. My screen is going bonkers.

105 jcm  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:21:16pm

The American Dream....
The crap all over it, I got it, you can't with out me.

106 JacksonTn  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:21:35pm

This is how baby republicans are hatched. I am thinking some dems gonna be scared of this crap. He is scarrrreee.

107 Edouard  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:21:40pm

With one sweep of his hand, he condemns anything good about the last 8 years.

108 Beller0ph1  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:21:45pm

I didn't know Cedar Rapids, IA was that big of a city.

109 HelloDare  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:21:46pm

What a demagogue.

110 Noam Sayin'  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:21:49pm

Has anyone hammered the former administration the way this year's DNC has?

Is that all they have to go on?

111 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:21:49pm

re: #88 Biff

The say that all the railroad men drink up your blood like wine. BD

I didn't know that, but then the one I met
just smoked my eyelid and punched my cigarette.

112 Occasional Reader  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:21:50pm

You love this country "too much"? Have you explained it to your buddy Billy Ayers?

113 Miss Trixie  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:21:53pm

"... an American city drowns." A**hat.

114 JSK1121  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:21:54pm

Dick Van Patten is spinning in his grave.

115 doppelganglander  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:21:54pm

re: #56 DistantThunder

Need a vicodin with this migraine of a speech.

here comes the hangover.

No kidding. I decided to turn it on, with the mute button, and it's behind me so I don't have to watch continuously. You can just see him pulling out all his moves -- the sincere face, the concerned face, the inspired face -- I may need to finish the whole bottle.

116 stuck in california  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:21:56pm

16 would be enough...

117 willowone  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:21:56pm

jeeze, so this is their plan, everything is Bush's fault, and McCain is bush. is that going to win this?

118 Beach Lover  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:22:01pm

oooh...ENOUGH!

now he's starting to sound like the REV WRIGHT!

119 The Pulchritudinous Patriot  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:22:01pm

news flash....GEORGE BUSH CAN'T SERVE A THIRD TERM! and the dems call Bush stupid.

120 Maui Girl  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:22:03pm

re: #45 MandyManners

Is that fucker wearing a flag pin?

You don't like him much do you?

121 justacanuck  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:22:05pm

You cockroach Barry O! Dubya didn't sit on his hands during Katrina. You asshole! You're just taking advantage of all the stupid Dem voters who don't have a focking clue about the facts.

FOCKER!

122 kevinmumaw  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:22:07pm

"A city that drowned"

For which the people of Louisiana fired the Democrat governor, Mr. God Damn America.

123 jorline  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:22:09pm

Enough...I'm with you now Barry...enough enough...please say good night

124 krypto  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:22:09pm

In the preliminary video before his speech, I just heard him say:

“It is that fundamental belief, “I am my brother’s keeper! I am my sister’s keeper!” that makes this country work.””

Where’s brother George!

125 Outrider  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:22:10pm

What the hell is the matter with his wife's jaw? Did she have wisdom teeth pulled today?

126 Tasty Beverage  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:22:10pm

Chanting fools.

127 cyclown  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:22:12pm

So Obama said Bush is running for a 3rd term?!?!? Shiite I didn't think a president could run for more than 2 terms. Thanks for the civics lesson Barry.

128 Muadib  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:22:13pm

How the hell will Marxism make America a better place?

129 acapesket123  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:22:17pm

Sorry Bub, I am paying tuition to a non Govt school.
My husband works like a dog and is a fabulous success and my Real Estate parcels are worth more now than they were last year.
Shmuck!

130 MandyManners  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:22:18pm

Over 100 in eight minutes. Is that a record?

131 Biff  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:22:19pm

I have a dream ... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

132 rw in san diego  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:22:26pm

Eight is Enough! Wasn't that a tv show?

133 Occasional Reader  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:22:27pm

EIGHT LEGS GOOD! TWO LEGS BAD!
EIGHT LEGS GOOD! TWO LEGS BAD!

134 galloping granny  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:22:27pm

re: #70 Dianna

Oh, and we don't have bills we can't pay unless we ran them up.

I don't want to bail out the improvident.

Well, almost. We're looking at $5 a gallon for heating oil this winter. But that is not the fault of the President. If any group is to blame, then I would place the blame squarely on the shoulders of the do-nothing Congress that has managed to pass less than 200 bills this session - the lowest in history.

135 IslandLibertarian  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:22:29pm

The last 8 years brought freedom from Saddam and the Taliban to MILLIONS!

136 infopimp  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:22:33pm

re: #106 JacksonTn

This is how baby republicans are hatched. I am thinking some dems gonna be scared of this crap. He is scarrrreee.

And baby lizards.

137 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:22:37pm

What's the crowd chanting? Sieg heil?

138 Sharmuta  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:22:39pm

8 is enough! He's the pop culture candidate.

139 Edouard  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:22:49pm

"Let there be no doubt." DRINK!

140 really grumpy big dog Johnson  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:22:57pm

This punk has the audacity to blame the whole of Katrina on our federal government.

What a total worthless asswipe. There is no truth in him.

141 Cognito  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:23:04pm

I'll lay money on this line coming up:

"We need more than 10 percent change."

142 Beller0ph1  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:23:08pm

Here comes McCain's voting record in accord with President Bush. Now how man times has 0bama voted, NOT present.

143 devil in baggy pants  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:23:11pm

re: #135 IslandLibertarian

The last 8 years brought freedom from Saddam and the Taliban to MILLIONS!

No they didn't.

//sarc

144 WayDownSouthInBama  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:23:12pm

I said earlier that Denver would need an enema after tonight. Better start it NOW if it's going to clean this mess out.

145 Cognito  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:23:17pm

And there it is!

146 Typicalwhitey  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:23:18pm

So far not a very good speech

147 David IV of Georgia  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:23:18pm

re: #72 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

I am so damn sick of the whole You can't afford your homes shit...DONT BUY MORE HOME THAN YOU CAN AFFORD...fuckwits

I can't buy a home with Zero Down and $150/month? The banker smiled when he said I could....

148 willowone  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:23:19pm

god this is evil

149 lori lane  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:23:20pm

re: #51 noshariaincanada

he's so friggen full of himself

I know. And my husband and daughter are getting very annoyed with my comments. arrrrrghhhh.

150 Mosse  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:23:20pm

re: #12 Colonel Panik

All hail the messiah!
Obama, Obama!
The path to the new Socialist Motherland!
Our savior, our savior!
Obama, Obama!
The leader more famous than Lindsay Lohan!
Bow down and praise The One™!
Give him your money and your guns!
Give us a country
That makes your wife proud!
Lord Barry heal the bitter ones!
White and clinging to faith and to guns!
Hope for the change of the hope of the change!

Very good! Excellent! You must have been peeking at Axelrod's song book.

151 The Pulchritudinous Patriot  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:23:23pm

Wow....he's fallen into the attack trap. And here McCain takes th high road withhis ads.


Rove...you magnificent bastard!

152 SummerSong  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:23:30pm

They didn't die, they moved to Texas...

153 devil in baggy pants  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:23:31pm

re: #141 Cognito

I'll lay money on this line coming up:

"We need more than 10 percent change."

LMFAO

154 galloping granny  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:23:31pm

re: #132 rw in san diego

Eight is Enough! Wasn't that a tv show?

Yes. The one where the Father of 3 boys marries the mother of 3 girls.

155 doppelganglander  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:23:31pm

re: #96 lori lane

Yeah, i just announced to my husband and wife that I'd take her hair.

Wait, what?

156 BGOH  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:23:34pm

He won't take a 10% chance on change, but he's asking you to take a .05% chance.

157 braddock  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:23:37pm

Barry is getting all gangsta tonight.

158 Palandine  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:23:38pm

Obama, this is your JOB interview.

Tell us about your whole 142 days of Senate experience before you started running for President. Tells us about the votes you cast, besides "Present."

159 loppyd  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:23:39pm

It's ANGRY Obama tonight....

160 DistantThunder  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:23:41pm

This guy is pessimistic and an ugly human being - so unlikable - no disingenious. My father is a reagan democrat and says no one he knows is voting for obama

161 MandyManners  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:23:45pm

re: #120 Maui Girl

You don't like him much do you?

What was your first clue?

162 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:23:49pm

re: #133 Occasional Reader

EIGHT LEGS GOOD! TWO LEGS BAD!
EIGHT LEGS GOOD! TWO LEGS BAD!

Shelob?

163 Jetpilot1101  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:23:52pm

This speech is really bad, none of Barry's ideas, just a lot of BDS.

164 laZardo  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:23:55pm

He's even on the local cable news channels. HRRRRRRGH.

/and good morning to everyone...

165 taxfreekiller[deleted]  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:23:57pm
166 the lizard  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:23:58pm

sooo which is it?

i've heard that mccain voted with bush 95% and 98% of the time, and now it's 90%.

167 Typicalwhitey  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:24:03pm

He just put up a parade of whiners

168 lifeofthemind  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:24:09pm

So this is why he never votes? so her can't be accused of agreeing with his opposition? So much for uniting and not dividing

169 rawmuse  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:24:14pm

Whiners, yes.

170 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:24:16pm

re: #141 Cognito

I'll lay money on this line coming up:

"We need more than 10 percent change."

That's all we'll have left of our income after he's through with it.

171 jorline  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:24:25pm

Tell us about YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENT!

172 Dahveed  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:24:26pm

re: #135 IslandLibertarian

The last 8 years brought freedom from Saddam and the Taliban to MILLIONS!

Don't confuse the liberals with facts.

173 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:24:27pm

Barry, have a seat, let the grownups run things.

174 Occasional Reader  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:24:31pm

BOOOO! We're not whiners!

Now, gimme gimme gimme gimme

175 infopimp  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:24:33pm

This guy is way to strident and arrogant... and annoying... to be president.

176 FightingBack  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:24:34pm

re: #58 loppyd

I just said that to the BF - they really are.

All children are beautiful.

177 rexatosis  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:24:35pm

Note to the Dems: Usually when one uses "more" it is used for purpose of comparison. IE: "More Than...."

178 Dianna  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:24:37pm

"Mental recession" is quite right, and we are a nation of whiners.

At least, Obama and his cronies are!

179 DistantThunder  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:24:37pm

Whiners - whiners - whiners - whiners

180 rw in san diego  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:24:39pm

A nation of whiners....LOL! Didn't we just have to listen to a number of them?

181 Sharmuta  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:24:44pm

You are a bunch of whiners! We've seen it all night!

182 HelloDare  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:24:48pm

Ah, wasn't the whole night about people complaining.

183 Maui Girl  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:24:51pm

re: #92 spirochete

Cut capital gains taxes for small businesses? What about for the avergae american taxpayer?

Most small businesses are run by the average American taxpayer. I'm an example of that fact.

184 Intrepid  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:24:55pm

"I say ENOUGH!"

OK, Barry - BRING IT ON! We'll see what happens once the adults have their convention next week. Then we'll see some substance, and not this touchy-feely empty rhetoric.

We'll see a man who has suffered for his country - five and a half years' worth of torture - stand up and give us a real reason for HOPE.

And millions will have the nudge in their hearts to CHANGE their minds about who they will vote for in November.

McCain/? '08

185 Sharmuta  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:24:57pm

Tell that to Tommy Boy!

186 devil in baggy pants  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:24:59pm

Yeah...

AFTER CLINTON SENT YOUR AUTO WORKER JOBS TO MEXICO WITH

NAFTA, DUMBASS

187 Jetpilot1101  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:24:59pm

This whole convention has been nothing BUT whining.

188 lori lane  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:25:02pm

re: #123 jorline

Enough...I'm with you now Barry...enough enough...please say good night

I almost want to cry. My husband doesn't like him and won't vote for him, but he says that Congress holds the power so we'll all be okay in the end.

189 rorschach  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:25:03pm

O'Biden is grinning like a Cheshire cat,

He's thinking, "this guy is my ticket!"

190 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:25:10pm

Talking about McCain's record.

Lets compare it to Barry's record...if you can find one

191 Dianna  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:25:10pm

Well, hell, I'm glad he at least admits to knowing someone!

Jerk.

192 Dahveed  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:25:10pm

Is this the same Michigan that has been under Democratic control lately?

193 ratherdashing  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:25:11pm

re: #141 Cognito

I'll lay money on this line coming up:

"We need more than 10 percent change."

That was leaked on CNN about an hour ago.

/maybe you knew that.

194 Beller0ph1  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:25:18pm

Yeah, what about the soldiers VOLUNTEERING for their multiple tours of duty. And 0bama talks about the workers going back time and time again.

195 rp1138  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:25:18pm

Is that a flag pin?

196 MandyManners  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:25:21pm

I'm watching MASH. Klinger would make a better president than BHO.

197 stuck in california  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:25:24pm

Change!

198 Occasional Reader  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:25:27pm

re: #162 Kosh's Shadow

Shelob?

OBAMA/SHELOB '08

"Stop Struggling, It Won't Do You Any Good"

199 Miss Trixie  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:25:36pm

re: #121 justacanuck

You cockroach Barry O! Dubya didn't sit on his hands during Katrina. You asshole! You're just taking advantage of all the stupid Dem voters who don't have a focking clue about the facts.

FOCKER!

Honey, I'm with you - he's a complete jacka**.


Dissing McCain is sooooooooo classy.

/keeping my potty mouth in check ...

200 cyclown  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:25:41pm

No not God bless American Godd*** America! It is your fault that those UAW workers in Michigan are unemployed! You didn't buy enough cars. Your fault America. Your fault.

201 rawmuse  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:25:54pm

We already give tax refunds to people who do not pay taxes.
This is somehow inadequate?

202 BGOH  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:25:59pm

Wasn't the BDS and McCain lies supposed to be part of Biden's job description?

Just checking.

203 Killian Bundy  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:25:59pm
A nation of whiners.

Hello, has he been watching his own convention, like 15 minutes ago?

/truth hurts

204 NoSubmission  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:26:00pm

There's that clenched teeth and fist look again.

205 stuck in california  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:26:04pm

what a child

206 DistantThunder  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:26:04pm

Ok, I'm in 1000% for McCain - what an absolute nightmare this Obama monster is.

207 rw in san diego  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:26:05pm

What a bunch of crap. So much better to leave your retirement in the hands of Congress!

208 loppyd  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:26:13pm

I can fell the money being ripped out of my paycheck.....

209 Cognito  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:26:18pm

re: #193 ratherdashing

That was leaked on CNN about an hour ago.

/maybe you knew that.

Nope. It was just so flippin' clear where he was headed.

Total deceit. John McCain is far, far from "a third term."

210 galloping granny  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:26:19pm

re: #159 loppyd

It's ANGRY Obama tonight....

REally? He does not come off well when he is angry. And whatever happened to what he said a while back, something about smiling when you talk to white people, something like that. . . . .

211 neocon hippie  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:26:19pm

"Privatize social security and gamble with your retirement"

Dude, Soc Sec IS a gamble with your retirement.

212 Cartman  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:26:22pm

This is beyond the pale.

213 HPG337  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:26:23pm

So far it's just a lot of stump speech one-liners and some pablum about America that doesn't match the policies he's espoused. I've heard nothing in this campaign that suggests Sen. Obama is ready for a massive promotion to the Presidency.

214 noshariaincanada  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:26:24pm

he's not made any substantive points. Just empty criticism of republicans.

215 Muadib  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:26:30pm

No Barack, you don't get it. Fool.

216 Typicalwhitey  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:26:31pm

Angry and smartass

Do you guys agree?

217 willowone  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:26:31pm

I won't talk about what IM going to do for you, I'm going to spend my time beating up Bush , McCain.

218 Sharmuta  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:26:33pm

Big corporations employ people barry. You know- give them jobs, paychecks, and big corporations offer a lot of great benefits like, you know, healthcare.

219 cyclown  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:26:35pm

Wow. This is a really angry acceptance speech. This is historic. Not even FDR blasted Hoover like this.

220 Beller0ph1  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:26:36pm

Heh, I'll "gamble with my retirement". At least I have a hope for a profit, instead of "investing" in Social Security. I doubt Social Security will still be funded when I retire.

221 JSK1121  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:26:41pm

BULLSHIT!

222 infopimp  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:26:45pm

Wow - everyone is going to get free boots!

Jack boots?

223 jamgarr  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:26:45pm

re: #167 Typicalwhitey

He just put up a parade of whiners


Direct Hit!

224 Mich-again  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:26:47pm

Pure demagoguery.

225 Dahveed  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:26:48pm

Same as the founding founders of the USA. They were on their own. How did they do it without Obama's help?

226 loppyd  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:26:49pm

It's called self reliance, asshole.

227 NoSubmission  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:26:50pm

What's wrong with personal responsibility?

228 lawhawk  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:27:01pm

They might be weeping, but LGF needs to get the kleenex for the hamsters because they're seriously blowing at the moment. I think they're pegging the redline at the moment.

Oh, and while we're on the subject of the economy, funny how the AP rewrites its coverage of the 3.3% growth in 2Q to turn it into an attack on how bad things are.

229 rp1138  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:27:01pm

Michelle just naturally looks pissed, doesn't she?

230 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:27:01pm

He's going on the attack here. Bad move.
Doesn't like the "ownership" society - he doesn't want us to own anything, does he?

231 Blue Falcon  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:27:03pm

So change means no more personal responsibility to find jobs or pay for services? GIVE ME A BREAK

232 Occasional Reader  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:27:03pm

re: #196 MandyManners

I'm watching MASH. Klinger would make a better president than BHO.

Celebrate diversity!

233 Tasty Beverage  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:27:05pm

These crowd shots are creepy, people.

234 noshariaincanada  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:27:07pm

change America !

235 Sharmuta  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:27:10pm

Out of work? Pay $80 to park to see me talk about it.

236 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:27:11pm
237 rorschach  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:27:13pm

He's a friggin' rock star.

I'd like to hear him carry a tune.

238 rawmuse  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:27:14pm

Do you really want someone in the government to ASSIGN you a job, the way they used to in the Soviet Union?

239 Jetpilot1101  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:27:14pm

re: #216 Typicalwhitey

Angry and smartass

Do you guys agree?

YES!

240 Opinionated  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:27:16pm

This is a very anti American speech.

241 vrwc007  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:27:16pm

How sad. In order to get elected BO has to convince voters we are living in a depression.

I can't take it. I'm switching to football on ESPN.

242 really grumpy big dog Johnson  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:27:16pm

re: #190 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Talking about McCain's record.

Lets compare it to Barry's record...if you can find one

We can only compare it to the part of Barry's record that is still around and not disappeared. Forget about the anecdotal bullshit, that's exactly what it is.

243 neverquit  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:27:18pm

Let's see, most Democrats voted to authorize the use of force to remove Saddam in 2003, after years of supporting the official Clinton Admin position for Regime Change in Iraq; Now suddenly, at election times, are magically opposed to the removal of a Saddam, a man that caused two wars, was a state sponsor of terrorism, harbored terrorists, thumbed his nose at the peace treaty he sued for after Gulf War I, grafted his way through black market oil sales via UN endorsed "Oil for Food", and are now endorsing the need to invade a nuclear tipped Pakistan?

The Democrats are desperate, they have nothing but pomp and party. Fake enthusiasm wrapped in negative rhetoric about how the economy is wrecked, how the country is in a desperate state mere moments from becoming a Third World Nation - and only the demagogue Obama can save us through "change".

The message of the Democrats: America is a failed state and only Obama can save it......

What a crock of shit....All of my friends and family are better off than we were 8 years ago, and we are safer too.

244 itellu3times  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:27:19pm

Ew, he's making many mistakes.

But parts of this speech are pretty good.

And y'know what, I think we're seeing some of the real Obama here, he believes that crap coming out of his mouth.

245 ciaospirit  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:27:20pm

The medium/close up shots make it look like he's in front of the White House.

246 merrytexas  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:27:20pm

Does he not know how many of us brought ourselves up out of poverty without boots? geez

247 Cognito  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:27:20pm

What's wrong with pulling yourself up by your bootstraps?

That's the "pursuit of happiness" that the founding fathers wrote so eloquently about.

It's not the "guarantee of happiness."

248 kevinmumaw  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:27:23pm

Where's George Obama? Now there is someone who is on their own.

249 laZardo  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:27:27pm

"Even if you were born into poverty, pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, even if you don't have boots, you're on your own."

Wait...isn't that what Barack claims to have done?

/Clarence Thomas would not be pleased.

250 FightingBack  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:27:38pm

"You're on your own!"
The Most Beautiful Words in the English language!

251 galloping granny  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:27:41pm

re: #188 lori lane

I almost want to cry. My husband doesn't like him and won't vote for him, but he says that Congress holds the power so we'll all be okay in the end.

Not if it is a Dem congress we won't. And at the present it is. Maybe you should remind him of that.

252 hman  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:27:41pm

#59 He looks palid and sickly...

Obama is a 30 + year smoker. He has the typical unhealthy cyanotic appearance of chronic cigarette smokers that I have cared for as a doc. I believe in free choice and personal responsibility, but wouldn't you think someone who wants to lead the way to "universal health care" could have controlled his addiction?

253 cblesz  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:27:41pm

Wow. Change...what will be left in my wallet...

254 Muadib  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:27:51pm

It's time to change America? Over my dead body.

255 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:27:57pm

Wait, I thought he was going to shift gears and tell us _how_ he is going to change things and into _what_?

256 Maui Girl  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:27:59pm

re: #154 galloping granny

Yes. The one where the Father of 3 boys marries the mother of 3 girls.


That was the Brady Bunch. Eight is enough, he was a widower with 8 chillins.

257 JohnH  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:28:00pm

We are what, 20 minutes into this and my wife is yelling at him to say one thing, just one thing that he will do.

What a vapid, vacuous, empty suit.

258 DistantThunder  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:28:01pm

The APA president, Author of Learned Optimsim says:

Bootstrapping works!

259 Typicalwhitey  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:28:02pm

Angry black man isn't going to get any votes besides his base

260 JSK1121  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:28:03pm

Everyone who has been a 'true american success story' has pulled themselves up from poverty and it'll be that way forever unless we become a socialist utopia.

261 Beller0ph1  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:28:07pm

Ohh, looks like Michelle packed Barry his ANGRY FACE!

262 infopimp  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:28:11pm

The Fortune 500s started as startups, dumbass!

263 loppyd  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:28:11pm

world's smallest flag pin?

264 willowone  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:28:13pm

re: #216 Typicalwhitey
i'm feeling a pretty good rage building up.

265 rp1138  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:28:13pm

Eight is enough?
He should get Dick Van Patten up there.

266 HelloDare  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:28:14pm

Under George Bush and a Republican Congress.

267 devil in baggy pants  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:28:19pm

My life during the Clinton years was HORRIBLE. It's done nothing but get better since Bush was elected.

I shit you not.

268 experiencedtraveller  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:28:23pm

re: #234 noshariaincanada

change America !

:::SLAP!:::

I warned ya!

269 rorschach  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:28:26pm

Now, he's using fraudulent income figures, Clinton vs. Bush.

Lyin' s.o.b.

270 nigella  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:28:30pm

Talk about whinners, didn't the Dhimmis run a never ending parade of them the last few days? Did any one at this "circus" ever have anything positive to say about this Country? This man makes me sick!

271 noshariaincanada  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:28:30pm

re: #233 Tasty Beverage

These crowd shots are creepy, people.

a lot of "crazy eyes" ... yes.

272 kevinmumaw  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:28:30pm

Has he mentioned San Francisco billionaires yet?

273 Muadib  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:28:34pm

re: #226 loppyd

It's called self reliance, asshole.

Yes!

274 ciaospirit  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:28:40pm

re: #195 rp1138

Is that a flag pin?

I tried to magnify it. Still can't tell.

275 merrytexas  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:28:43pm

I'm sure this speech is providing McCain's team with plenty of ammo for future ads.

276 NoSubmission  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:28:43pm

Didn't he just lather on earlier about how his grandparents pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps?

277 baxtrice  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:28:58pm

Patton's Army? America's army.

278 Blue Eyed Music Lover  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:29:02pm

I think about my mom who abandoned me.

279 rawmuse  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:29:03pm

Where did all that "self reliance" that was in the warm-up video suddenly go?

280 Miss Trixie  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:29:03pm

Is Barack MILHOUSE Obama speaking sans teleprompter?

Then we truly see his Marxism.

281 Intrepid  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:29:04pm

re: #196 MandyManners

I'm watching MASH. Klinger would make a better president than BHO.

And with much more coordinated outfits, with feather boas too!

282 David IV of Georgia  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:29:07pm

re: #167 Typicalwhitey

He just put up a parade of whiners

Just ought to be repeated.

Isn't Obama whining? Tovarishch Obama—give me rich people's money too, I'm tired of working 50- 60 hour weeks in a thankless job I'm overqualified for (and overqualified for my supervisor's job, too.) I want to steal from the rich, too.

283 Neo Con since 9-11  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:29:17pm

re: #181 Sharmuta

You are a bunch of whiners! We've seen it all night!

We are the whiners we've been waiting for.

284 Crimsonfisted  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:29:19pm

Sister? Who is she?

285 experiencedtraveller  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:29:20pm

We got a few weepers in the crowd already!

286 Loose Cannon  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:29:28pm

Alright! Stop! I can't take it anymore! I'll tell you everything!

287 razorbacker  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:29:29pm

re: #166 the lizard

sooo which is it?

i've heard that mccain voted with bush 95% and 98% of the time, and now it's 90%.

I didn't even realize that Bush was in Congress. No wonder things are so f*cked up. They've been letting the President vote in Congress.

There oughtta be a law.

288 doppelganglander  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:29:32pm

"my mom who raised my sister and me on her own?" Your mother didn't raise you, fool. She dumped your ass on her parents.

289 itellu3times  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:29:35pm

He is right that average wages have been falling and Bush hasn't noticed, and McCain doesn't get it.

BUT

Just what is Obama proposing?

I wouldn't trust Obama to pick up a dollar from the sidewalk.

Clinton was elected on just such a weak appeal - but I don't think it will work for Obama. I pray it won't.

290 JacksonTn  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:29:36pm

uh, oh, here comes the community (Alinsky) organizer

291 Jetpilot1101  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:29:40pm

Granny's back!

292 Beach Lover  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:29:42pm

Ok..that's it..the mute button went on
ahhhhhhhh....serenity

293 jaunte  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:29:49pm

Senatorial pensions for all citizens! Oh wait...

294 Dave the.....  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:29:49pm

T-Paw for VP!

295 Blue Eyed Music Lover  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:29:50pm

My white grandmother? the racist

296 Typicalwhitey  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:29:53pm

This is the ONLY DAMN TIME he has really talked about his mom or his grandparents

He is USING them

297 ciaospirit  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:29:56pm

I hate when he uses his mother. The fucker wasn't even with her when she died and didn't lift a finger to take care of her while she was sick.

298 JSK1121  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:30:02pm

"Work makes you free!" ~ Barry-O

299 Mich-again  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:30:04pm

Democrats hate corporations but love businesses.

300 J.S.  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:30:05pm

O brother -- more lies -- so how come, Barry, you spent 20 years in a church which had a "pastor" who cursed America? How does that fit in with your current fabrications? frigging liar...

301 kevinmumaw  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:30:14pm

Where's George Obama?

302 Muadib  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:30:14pm

re: #280 Miss Trixie

Is Barack MILHOUSE Obama speaking sans teleprompter?

Then we truly see his Marxism.

Wouldn't it be fun to unplug his teleprompter!?!?

303 braddock  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:30:16pm

remind me to go watch Obama next he specks at Investco. There are some lookers in the crowd

304 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:30:19pm
305 Occasional Reader  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:30:20pm

Ooh, his "community organizing".... uh, you sure you wanna go there, Barry? Want to chat a bit about your, ahem, associations from those years?

What's that? I'm being "divisive"?

Hey, his racist grandma is watching! Hi, racist grandma!

306 Opinionated  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:30:23pm

Did Rev Wright write this speech?

307 HelloDare  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:30:24pm

re: #266 HelloDare

d'oh

Under George Bush and a Republican Democratic Congress.
308 Intrepid  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:30:25pm

re: #263 loppyd

world's smallest flag pin?

Yes, because Barry believes America is the world's worst country!

309 MandyManners  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:30:25pm

He's attacking Sen. McCain!

You filthy fucking liar.

310 Sharmuta  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:30:25pm

Your Gran who you tossed under the bus?

311 rp1138  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:30:26pm

When are we supposed to sing "Democrats Uber Alles"?

312 infopimp  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:30:26pm

My heros (as they pan 1000s of celebrites in the crowd)

313 Dianna  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:30:28pm

re: #246 merrytexas

He's never gone hungry. I bloody well have.

So he can bloody well shut up.

314 cyclown  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:30:32pm

So we need a new GI Bill? Huh? WTF is he talking about. This douche needs a serious history class.

Oh, when is he going to highlight his experience?

........waiting........waiting......still waiting......

qualifications?
........waiting........waiting......still waiting......

315 SummerSong  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:30:35pm

I have heros in my family. We all do. Everyday heros and Barrack doesn't speak for them.

316 lawhawk  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:30:42pm

re: #171 jorline

Tell us about YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENT!

That would be a real short speech. What else would they do with the 59 minutes left?

317 DistantThunder  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:30:42pm

HOld on to your wallets

318 itellu3times  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:30:44pm

It's still about him.

How about "us", bambi?

319 Muadib  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:30:52pm

Marxism in our time!

320 Cartman  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:30:56pm

The Great Pretender.

321 WayDownSouthInBama  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:30:56pm

Since this is a worship service will they at least pass the plate for George?

322 rorschach  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:31:01pm

If obama pulls this off, 50% of Americans will deserve what 100% gets.

And it won't be pretty.

323 Luigi  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:31:02pm

Except Stanley Kurtz

324 Miss Trixie  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:31:07pm

Your heroes? The boys in fatigues are the REAL heroes you horse's a**.

325 kevinmumaw  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:31:07pm

The market should reward drunks?

326 Crimsonfisted  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:31:07pm

Is he DELIBERATELY handing the election to McCain tonight?

327 MandyManners  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:31:09pm

Positive liberty.

328 Biff  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:31:12pm

Is this guy running for class president or what?

329 Blue Falcon  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:31:12pm

You are a celebrity jackass, I don't see you paying for your poor mom to have box seats at you little ego fellatiating cult meeting tonight either.

330 Typicalwhitey  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:31:19pm

He won't say President of the United States of AMERICA

Listen...he doesn't say "of America'

331 BGOH  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:31:20pm

Everyone here, and everyone who cares about the future of this country NEEDS to wake up tomorrow, go to the nearest McCain office and ask what you can do to help him. If you can walk, go door to door. If you can't walk, get on the phones. If you don't want to do that, help put up yard signs, do lit drops, or hand out literature at local events.

This idiot has a heck of a ground game working for him, and we MUST beat him at it, or you are now looking at the next POTUS. Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE must get involved. I am totally convinced that the future prosperity and well-being of this nation depends upon our action.

332 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:31:20pm

After his racism speech, I said Obama is a Sith Lord - feel your anger, use your anger, turn to the dark side.
That's what this speech is. Worse.
He wants change; he wants revolution.
This guy is dangerous. He is worse than Ayers; he makes us think he's helping when he wants to tear everything down.

333 Blue Eyed Music Lover  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:31:23pm

heavy duty lying here about corporate responsiblity

334 DistantThunder  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:31:32pm

"Don't wait for government" - Reagan

335 Edouard  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:31:37pm

Touchy about McCain's "celebrity" ad, isn't he?

336 lawhawk  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:31:38pm

re: #280 Miss Trixie

Is Barack MILHOUSE Obama speaking sans teleprompter?

Then we truly see his Marxism.

Mark Levin fan? :)

337 laZardo  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:31:46pm

Thankfully, I gotta whoosh off to college now. >_> Cheers.

338 leftover54  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:31:52pm

Enjoy the irony Shrillery !

("...passed over for promotion because shes a woman...")

339 Colonel Panik  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:32:02pm

re: #248 kevinmumaw

Where's George Obama? Now there is someone who is on their own.

The mngwa ate him.

340 Palandine  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:32:02pm

The jumbo-tron surrounded with columns is big brother-ish. Tres creepy

/and Senator, I may have only gone to public school, but the "American promise" is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Not your litany of socialist plans.

341 Muadib  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:32:05pm

Barack is the ONE that EVIL has been waiting for.

342 willowone  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:32:05pm

our water is horrid, no sewers, no schools, so Baddddd

343 Dahveed  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:32:06pm

Businesses have an obligation to make money for shareholders. Not create jobs.

344 FightingBack  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:32:07pm

What is the American Promise?
Government Cannot Solve Our Problems.

(His words, my edit)

345 MandyManners  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:32:07pm

I'm back to MASH. I cannot take this shit.

346 baxtrice  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:32:08pm

Our government should get the f*ck out of the way, Barack, not stand in our way!

347 Tasty Beverage  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:32:08pm

re: #271 noshariaincanada

a lot of "crazy eyes" ... yes.

I'm recording this. I'm going to go back through it later/tomorrow and grab some screencaps. Lemmings with stars in their eyes.

348 infopimp  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:32:08pm

Your brother in the HUT?

349 melinwy  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:32:19pm

re: #247 Cognito

What's wrong with pulling yourself up by your bootstraps?

That's the "pursuit of happiness" that the founding fathers wrote so eloquently about.

It's not the "guarantee of happiness."

Isn't that the story of Joe Biden? His parents, pick yourself up....and of course mommie wanted the bloody nose as well.....

350 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:32:20pm

So, this is what Nurenburg looked like, I'll be...

351 Cognito  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:32:20pm

And now we bring it on back to George W...

352 livefreeor die  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:32:23pm

Who wrote this crap?

353 DistantThunder  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:32:24pm

Brother's keeper - he is the worst example of all.

354 Noam Sayin'  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:32:24pm

Has he gotten to the part where he explains what he's meant by, "Hope and Change" yet?

355 jwb7605  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:32:25pm

re: #211 neocon hippie

"Privatize social security and gamble with your retirement"

Dude, Soc Sec IS a gamble with your retirement.

Not if you're under about 40.
You're just wasting the contribution ... the system will be gone.
Not much of a gamble.

356 ciaospirit  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:32:29pm

Rush is gonna have a field day with that "I am my brother's keeper" line.

357 Dr. Shalit  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:32:31pm

re: #9 TnTx13

CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE hope CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE

TT13 -

CHUMP CHANGE!

-S-

358 Colonel Panik  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:32:37pm

re: #264 willowone

i'm feeling a pretty good rage building up.

Obamic Rage Boy

359 Occasional Reader  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:32:38pm

"I am my brother's keeper"

WHAT ABOUT YOUR BROTHER GEORGE?!

360 HelloDare  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:32:38pm

All this talk about Republicans mismanaging economy will be worth spit when the facts come out about how he mismanaged over 100 million with Bill Ayers in Chicago.

361 Palandine  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:32:39pm

I am my brother's keeper, again!

362 Merlot  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:32:41pm

What a whiner

363 Jetpilot1101  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:32:43pm

This guy is handing John McCain a victory.

Oh great, here comes his plan.

364 cblesz  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:32:44pm

How the fuck did this assclown get the nomination?

365 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:32:44pm
366 Noam Sayin'  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:32:46pm

Oh.

Here it comes.

367 indythinker  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:32:53pm

It's a great day because a black man has been nominated by a major party for President in the USA. MLK is smiling in heaven right now.

Unfortunately, Barack Obama, the person, is a megalomaniac. Everything is about him, he thinks. His lawyers are off filing criminal charges at anyone who makes a strong argument against Obama. If he becomes President, his Attorney General will be the chief prosecutor of the United States. Obama would make Nixon look like an angel. It would be terrible if the first black President gets impeached, yet with Obama that is likely the best we could get.

For the sake of civil rights, we need vote against Obama.

368 FightingBack  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:32:54pm

I am My Brother's Keeper?
George?

369 ornery elephant  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:33:00pm

" I am my brother's keeper"

370 Sharmuta  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:33:00pm

Yeah- because no celebrity ever had a rough childhood, barry,

Give me a break.

371 kevinmumaw  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:33:01pm

And more companies will leave the United States, tool.

372 DistantThunder  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:33:06pm

Step 1 - Punish business

373 devil in baggy pants  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:33:13pm

Oh...

so YOU get to decide who gets taxed, there, bud?

374 Muadib  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:33:13pm

re: #345 MandyManners

I'm back to MASH. I cannot take this shit.

Know your enemy.

375 J.S.  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:33:15pm

The Big Zero is trying to Re-brand himself as the "ordinary Joe." Yeah, well I'm not buying that bull sh*t...He's a radical, not a moderate. There's nothing about him which is not way out there -- way, way outside of 'the norms."

376 jihad worrier  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:33:17pm

Did he just say that he is his brother's keeper?

377 rw in san diego  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:33:18pm

He's going to stop rewarding Joe's son, the lobbyist?

378 jorline  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:33:28pm

re: #316 lawhawk

That would be a real short speech. What else would they do with the 59 minutes left?

LOL...let Biden do the talking, he can make up all kinds of accomplishment and go over the alloted time.

379 Zoltan  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:33:31pm

Brother's keeper? What about George living in a shack?

380 BlueCanuck  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:33:31pm

This guy terrifys me. And I am not even an American. He will screw you folks up so bad we will be in a depression up here years after you get yourselves fixed.

381 MadHamster  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:33:32pm

I just got here. Am I too late for the 'turning water into wine' trick?

382 mattm  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:33:37pm

Now The Chosen One it going to outline his vision of "Change." Drink up!

383 Cognito  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:33:44pm

Well that sucks, if you're in the top five percent.

That's a lot of dang people.

384 Typicalwhitey  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:33:44pm

BULLSHIT

385 kevinmumaw  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:33:46pm

The 95% that don't pay taxes? Gee thanks, for cutting a 0$ tax bill to 0$...you rock sir.

386 Muadib  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:33:52pm

re: #365 buzzsawmonkey

Just words.

Just bullshit.

387 braddock  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:33:52pm

I don't have HD so I can't tell if that's an American Flag on his lapel

388 cyclown  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:34:02pm

Lobbyists? Like Biden's son?

389 Noam Sayin'  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:34:02pm

re: #356 ciaospirit

Rush is gonna have a field day with that "I am my brother's keeper" line.

It's going to make Operation Chaos look like a turkey shoot.

390 Blue Falcon  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:34:04pm

woah woah woah, he said "waste taxes on the middle class" Freudian slip methinks

391 galloping granny  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:34:07pm

Cut taxes for 95% of all working families? while fixing social security, getting us out of oil dependence, and instituting universal health care? Not even when pigs fly!

392 infopimp  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:34:10pm

Eliminate the need for oil - with OBAMAS HOT AIR!

393 rw in san diego  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:34:10pm

The Democrats aren't going to raise taxes? Right!

394 Mich-again  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:34:11pm

tax cuts only for small businesses. I suppose its F* the big businesses that employ all those union workers then.

395 snowcrash  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:34:13pm

HOW?

396 DistantThunder  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:34:13pm

2- Lie to the American people that he will cut their taxes.
3 - Lie about ending dependence on oil from the middle east.

397 jorline  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:34:20pm

Bullshit...bullshit and more bullshit.

398 FightingBack  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:34:20pm

Cut taxes?
How will you pay everyone's tuition bills?

399 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:34:23pm
400 kevinmumaw  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:34:25pm

And Joe Biden has been there for 36 of them.

401 Typicalwhitey  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:34:31pm

This speech sucks seriously

402 baxtrice  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:34:34pm

Great Googly Moogly, someone hand me the Vodka!

403 devil in baggy pants  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:34:35pm

well, your VP was there for ALL THIRTY YEARS


what a tool!

404 willowone  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:34:35pm

off forighn oil, Yay he's going to Drill here ,

405 BGOH  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:34:38pm

How friggin' long has your running mate been there, you stupid ass hole?

406 jamgarr  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:34:39pm

Hey, he's for Drill Here - Drill Now

407 really grumpy big dog Johnson  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:34:44pm

Barry's promise to America is that he can shuffle the books so much that nobody know what's what anymore, then we can have a blank check. This is a fraudulent candidate of empty promises.

408 HelloDare  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:34:45pm

Class warfare. To the barricades!

409 ciaospirit  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:34:45pm

He revised his 10 year off oil plan to just off of Middle East oil in ten years.

410 rorschach  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:34:45pm

obama .... Dusty Rhodes in the flesh.

411 big L  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:34:46pm

He ran thru 50 million dollars in 4-5 yrs --the Anneberg money. With NOTHING to show for it. Where is it you jerkface? Where is the money.
You are cutting taxes on people that don't pay any taxes you dopeass.

412 rw in san diego  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:34:46pm

And your pal Joe's been there right with him.

413 Loose Cannon  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:34:51pm

Biden's been there LONGER, dumbass!

414 lifeofthemind  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:34:51pm

and Hot chicks for all the single men and stable husbands for all the single mothers and ...

415 Occasional Reader  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:34:53pm

McCain made us dependent on Middle East oil! Who knew?

416 bill-tb  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:34:59pm

CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE

CHANGE WHAT ?

uh er um ...

CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE

417 Dahveed  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:35:00pm

Rush has a full week of material with this. I can't wait to listen.

418 Cognito  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:35:02pm

Ha. That's code for "I'll drill."

419 kansas  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:35:06pm

Hit it lucky tonight. Had kids school open house and got home to discover there had been a 90 minute rain delay on Chiefs Rams game, so....should I watch Obama? Naaaaaaaaa. I read the transcript. Puke.

420 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:35:10pm
421 Dr. Shalit  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:35:12pm

"End dependence on Oil from the Middle East"

DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW - LOWER PRICES!

-S-

422 jorline  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:35:27pm

McCain has been there for 26 years...Biden has been there for 36 years.

423 Cartman  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:35:27pm

All either empty promises, or just outright lies. He's a master at deception.

424 opnion  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:35:27pm

This is really something, our first Marxist nominee for President.

425 kevinmumaw  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:35:29pm

As president, I will end rainy days! Everyone will have flying cars and rocket suits, and they will all be free.

426 HPG337  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:35:30pm

This reminds me a bit of one of President Clinton's state of the union speeches: a huge laundry list of feel-good rah-rah things that are stated as "we will do this" with no substance of how he plans to accomplish his lofty goals. Then toss in a dose of "everything awful and we have to CHANGE it" with a few sly jabs at Sen. McCain. That's all this is.

427 Muadib  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:35:32pm

Invest = Very High Taxes

428 lawhawk  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:35:33pm

re: #385 kevinmumaw

The 95% that don't pay taxes? Gee thanks, for cutting a 0$ tax bill to 0$...you rock sir.

Funny, but it was the Bush tax cuts that increased the number of people who no longer pay any taxes.

429 Killian Bundy  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:35:37pm

He's lying about taxes. He's going to raise the capital gains tax.

/how many Americans own stocks, only 5%?

430 Occasional Reader  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:35:39pm

re: #391 galloping granny

Cut taxes for 95% of all working families? while fixing social security, getting us out of oil dependence, and instituting universal health care? Not even when pigs fly!

Our ramped-up unicorn exports will pay for all of this.

431 Merlot  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:35:46pm

The Red Sea has been parted!

432 DistantThunder  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:35:48pm

I have such a huge headache from all his lies. He's crossing into Bill Clinton sociopathy.

433 David IV of Georgia  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:35:49pm

Is he going to nationalize oil companies? He promising away tax money again.

434 BGOH  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:35:51pm

What is he going to do to help automakers re-tool? Carry the new tools into the building for them?

I think I'm going to be sick.

435 noshariaincanada  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:35:52pm

"I will invest"

436 zeppenwolf  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:35:53pm

"Drilling is a stopgap measure" -- B. O.

So... getting oil out of the ground in our own country is a "stopgap measure".

Got it.

437 jaunte  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:35:55pm

"Tap" not "drill." Liar.

438 Typicalwhitey  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:35:59pm

150 BILLION and tax cuts for all!


whooo hooo I am on board
/

439 Muadib  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:36:06pm

CHANGE! your diaper, 0bama.

440 Blue Falcon  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:36:07pm

Help auto companies retool green with 150 billion dollars in handouts to evil corporations. What the hell is this clown smoking?

441 rawmuse  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:36:08pm

Wind and solar power is all very well and good. Now, how do you supply the other 98% of demand?

442 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:36:09pm

Cut taxes for 95% of working families? That means everyone else gets royally screwed.

End dependence on oil from the mideast? HOW? Without drilling?
I know - he'll ruin the economy so we won't use oil.
Ok, so drilling is a stopgap - but we aren't going to get anywhere else without it.
Our car companies retool? They're building cars in Canada and Mexico! Honda and Toyota are building in the US.

443 galloping granny  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:36:10pm

ROFLMAO - 5 MILLION new jobs that pay well and cannot be outsourced!

444 HelloDare  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:36:13pm

Every child gets a kitten or a puppy.

445 rorschach  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:36:17pm

I'm sure even Karl Marx sounded reasonable on occasion.

446 Miss Trixie  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:36:20pm

His anger terrifies me even more than his alternate energy fantasies.

*shudder*

447 FightingBack  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:36:24pm

Cut taxes, provide education.
How?

448 kevinmumaw  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:36:25pm

This speech is a frickin gold mine! I see no fewer than 25 commercials from the RNC using his own words.

449 cyclown  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:36:27pm

I will expand and extend the reach of the federal government and all you humans in this stadium are going to pay for it. Sieg heil

450 Typicalwhitey  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:36:35pm

Free college for everyone WOW

451 Jetpilot1101  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:36:38pm

This may be one of the worst speeches I have ever heard and Michelle knows it. She is getting pissed.

Obama epitomizes asclownery.

452 bill-tb  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:36:41pm

Cartman: It's called jive talking, the BeeGees wrote the song.

453 DistantThunder  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:36:42pm

Democrats have bankrupt new York
They bankrupt Chicago and Illinois.

They have bankrupt new Jersey
They have bankrupt California.

454 Dahveed  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:36:46pm

Everybody has a chance at an education. Some people don't want the opportunity.

455 JSK1121  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:36:52pm

re: #450 Typicalwhitey

Free college for everyone WOW

Just like Cuba!

456 JacksonTn  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:36:53pm

And I'll, and I'll, and I'll, and I'll .......... be passing the hat at the end of this sermon.

457 devil in baggy pants  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:36:55pm

"I'll invest in......

with YOUR money, bitches. Bend over."

458 jaunte  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:36:56pm

Biofuels! More fertilizer pollution for the Gulf of Mexico. Yay!

459 BGOH  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:36:59pm

"Is you is, or is you ain't my consiteants?!"

460 Zoltan  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:37:00pm

He's going to help the auto companies? Big business? Oh, wait, he needs to carry MI.

461 Neo Con since 9-11  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:37:01pm
"In ten years I will end our dependence on foreign oil" -Barack


I hate when Presidential candidates say "in ten years". What they mean is "I'll do nothing for eight years" and hope my successor manages to fix the problem in two years.

462 Cognito  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:37:04pm

re: #420 buzzsawmonkey

How's he going to pay for all the free shit with those tax cuts?

That's so rude, Buzz. Like asking, "How's he gonna get wine from those water jugs?"

463 Charles  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:37:06pm

Hey, what happened to the Greek temple backdrop?

464 Edouard  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:37:07pm

"Drilling is a stopgap measure, not a longterm solution -- not even close"

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

IDIOT!

465 really grumpy big dog Johnson  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:37:10pm

Higher pay for more socialist teachers!

466 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:37:12pm
467 braddock  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:37:15pm

re: #362 Merlot

No kidding

468 Badge of Kaffir Pride  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:37:15pm

The army of teachers will be the only army he'll be able to command...

469 willowone  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:37:19pm

world class education. hmm, didnt he already fail at that in chicago>?

470 ciaospirit  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:37:20pm

re: #329 Blue Falcon

You are a celebrity jackass, I don't see you paying for your poor mom to have box seats at you little ego fellatiating cult meeting tonight either.

You mean his step mom?

471 shanester  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:37:22pm

I Looooove the comment from Jimmy Carter about McCain "Milking" his service.

Isn't Carter the assclown that MADE our guys in Iran serve 444 days as FREAKING HOSTAGES?!?!?!?!?

Oh yeah.... Until Reagan was sworn in.
Lah-Hooo-Zer!

472 Cartman  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:37:24pm

Notice that this is Big Government that's gonna do all of this?

473 galloping granny  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:37:25pm

Have you noticed the faux Southern Black Accent all of the sudden? What a tool

474 Intrepid  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:37:26pm

He's just hyping all the rhetoric from the past eight months! No real specifics. And what he's saying is going to bankrupt our economy.

It seems that he honestly thinks the government is the answer for every question, the solution to every problem.

America will be lessened if he is elected president.

475 Occasional Reader  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:37:26pm

"An army of new teachers"... and we'll pay for college for everyone... and I'll cut taxes! Hooray!

476 quickjustice  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:37:30pm

re: #379 Zoltan

Maybe "brother's keeper" means that he sent George a twenty dollar bill, doubling his income!

477 noshariaincanada  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:37:32pm

It would surprise me if >50% of American voters choose this clown.

478 pestolover  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:37:34pm

What's this I hear? Moses promising his people the flesh pots of Egypt?

479 stuck in california  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:37:38pm

He's off to see the wizard....

480 runrabbitrun  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:37:39pm

hello galloping granny,

in answer to your comment in the last thread about the smart college age kids who see right through Obama.... I think you're right. I hope there are just enough of them (and I'm sure those smart young Repub voters will get themselves to the polls) to make up for the dunces who will crowd the ROCK the VOTE! buses Soros sends to the college campuses on election day.

481 Beller0ph1  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:37:40pm

A couple things while the page was loading...

- McCain has been in the senate for 26 years. How long has Biden been in again?

- Of course our oil demand has risen. How quickly has the country grown in those 26 years?

- Of course oil is a stopgap! It doesn't last forever (we think)

- Where is he going to get all this money from for helping auto companies, research into alternative energies, paying for new teachers, paying for every student, while cutting taxes?

482 BlueCanuck  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:37:45pm

re: #409 ciaospirit

Drill here, drill now. That would do the trick.

483 Sharmuta  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:37:46pm

Pandering to youth. Seniors are under the bus.

484 formercorpsman  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:37:51pm

re: #410 rorschach

the aamerrracannnn draham.

485 mrberner  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:37:52pm

I will make 5 million jobs appear out of thin air! I am Lord Barak Obama.

486 Cognito  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:37:54pm

re: #429 Killian Bundy

He's lying about taxes. He's going to raise the capital gains tax.

/how many Americans own stocks, only 5%?

Raise it to 28 percent on ALL home sales, if I recall.

487 mattm  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:37:54pm

He will cut taxes but somehow give everyone health care, education, etc, etc.

488 itellu3times  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:37:55pm

I, I, I
I, I, I
I, I, I
I, I, I
I, I, I
I, I, I

(check out the last episode of The Prisoner)

489 Reno911  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:37:55pm

I'm getting rid of my healthcare...i want what congress has

490 snowcrash  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:38:03pm

Where does all the money come from?

491 rexatosis  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:38:07pm

Clean coal, nukes, biofuels, wind, solar...wasn't that all part of Evil Bush's energy policy the Dems demonized?

492 Muadib  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:38:09pm

re: #447 FightingBack

Cut taxes, provide education.
How?

Get rid of money. From each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs. MARXISM!

493 HelloDare  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:38:14pm

Free Waffles!

494 Racer X  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:38:20pm

Karl Rove said in order for Barry to hit it out of the park he had to keep his speech extremely POSITIVE, and limit the attacks to about 10%. (Are you listening Mac?)

I'm not watching but judging from your reactions this speech was a swing and a miss.

495 acapesket123  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:38:24pm

Obambi is more "me mee mee" than the Clintons!
This is so ugly.
Michelle and you are where you are due to AFFIRMATIVE ACTION..period.

496 Jetpilot1101  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:38:26pm

re: #453 DistantThunder

Democrats have bankrupt new York
They bankrupt Chicago and Illinois.

They have bankrupt new Jersey
They have bankrupt California.

Don't forget Michigan and Massachusetts

497 rorschach  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:38:28pm
I'm going to kowtow to the teacher's union, and insure that administrators get higher salaries!
498 shanester  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:38:29pm

re: #422 jorline


LOVE the Spage Ghost icon. Sweeeeeeet.

499 Cognito  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:38:30pm

re: #463 Charles

Hey, what happened to the Greek temple backdrop?

It's there. A long lens can do a lot.

500 Tasty Beverage  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:38:30pm

So you're going to do all these things, Barry. How?

"Now is the time"......puke vomit barf

501 aboo-Hoo-Hoo  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:38:30pm

Years ago there was a movie, Isle of the Damned - a take-off/serial on Village of the Damned.

Scariest thing I'd ever seen...until today.

502 big L  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:38:31pm

No shame ,used his mother dying of Cancer like algore used his sister dying of lung cancer.

503 MandyManners  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:38:33pm

I wish someone would do a commercial about his brother, juxtaposed with his bullshit tonight.

504 Palandine  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:38:39pm

Michelle's got her angry eyes on tonight.

505 Sharmuta  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:38:42pm

re: #463 Charles

Hey, what happened to the Greek temple backdrop?

They turned it into the Rose Garden.

506 rw in san diego  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:38:45pm

Mrs. Biden looks as though she's always on the verge of tears.

507 DistantThunder  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:38:51pm

re: #463 Charles

Hey, what happened to the Greek temple backdrop?

It'd been replaced by a arts and craft architectural motif.

508 kevinmumaw  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:38:55pm

re: #463 Charles

Hey, what happened to the Greek temple backdrop?

I was thinking the same thing. Obviously someone got the hint. Now if only they would get the other 9,000 hints.

509 Muadib  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:38:57pm

re: #463 Charles

Hey, what happened to the Greek temple backdrop?

Good question.

510 little boomer  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:38:59pm

re: #463 Charles

Hey, what happened to the Greek temple backdrop?

They finally figured out it is too Leni Riefenstahl-ish.

511 Opinionated  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:39:00pm

"Oh, promises, promises, my kind of promises
Can lead to joy and hope and love
Yes, love!"

512 Intrepid  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:39:04pm

re: #383 Cognito

Well that sucks, if you're in the top five percent.

That's a lot of dang people.

Yes, and the ones who pay at least 85 percent of the taxes.

513 Bobblehead  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:39:04pm

re: #417 Dahveed

Rush has a full week of material with this. I can't wait to listen.

He wasn't much fun today. He was very angry and seriously depressed about all the lies and America hate he saw on display last night.

514 Occasional Reader  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:39:05pm

Oh the "equal pay" canard again. Utter bullshit.

515 Beller0ph1  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:39:05pm

Where did the gray hair go?

516 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:39:08pm

re: #443 galloping granny

ROFLMAO - 5 MILLION new jobs that pay well and cannot be outsourced!

Yes, and here's the training for them.
Repeat after me:
Do you want arugula with that?
Sorry, fries are not allowed under the new health care system.

517 Dahveed  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:39:08pm

Republicans are against sick children. Who knew?

518 Killian Bundy  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:39:08pm

Obama's giving away [expletive deleted]loads of money here.

/hmmm, wonder where it's all going to come from

519 Blastforth  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:39:14pm

So Im hearing tax the rich, protectionism, socialized medicine, and more business regulation. We're doomed.

520 HelloDare  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:39:14pm

Islamic Terror? Hmm?

521 itellu3times  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:39:14pm

re: #429 Killian Bundy

He's lying about taxes. He's going to raise the capital gains tax.

/how many Americans own stocks, only 5%?

Including retirement funds, I thought it was more like 50%.

But just in taxable accounts? Hmm, ...

522 Miss Trixie  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:39:15pm

Ah. Here's the bill.

523 cyclown  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:39:17pm

Wow. His speech sounds a bit like those old Dominos commercials: something for nothing.

Just elect Obama and you will get everything you ever wanted, with no additional cost, but wait there's more...

524 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:39:20pm
525 ornery elephant  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:39:26pm

If anyone watching this speech actually holds stock in any American company or has money in mutual funds, and this guy is elected, you might as well kiss it all goodbye.

526 SummerSong  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:39:28pm

Michelle exhibits strange facial expressions. Inappropriate to the situation.

527 Sharmuta  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:39:28pm

re: #490 snowcrash

Where does all the money come from?

From all the CHANGE!

528 Colonel Panik  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:39:29pm

re: #280 Miss Trixie

Is Barack MILHOUSE Obama speaking sans teleprompter?

Then we truly see his Marxism.

Don't be dissin' my man Tricky Dick by associating him with this Marxist demagogue.

Say what you will about Nixon, he wasn't a demagogue.

529 BlueCanuck  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:39:38pm

Safe nuclear power? I thought it was already safe?

/my brains exploding, need more booze to dull the pain.

530 galloping granny  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:39:40pm

re: #458 jaunte

Biofuels! More fertilizer pollution for the Gulf of Mexico. Yay!

More starving children in Africa and $15 a box cereal on American Indian reservations because food that should be feeding people is going into "biofuel" so some idiot can drive a different car for every member of the family.

And where does he think he is going to get a line item veto?

531 rorschach  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:39:40pm

silver-tongued devil

532 lawhawk  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:39:43pm

re: #411 big L

He ran thru 50 million dollars in 4-5 yrs --the Anneberg money. With NOTHING to show for it. Where is it you jerkface? Where is the money.
You are cutting taxes on people that don't pay any taxes you dopeass.

It was actually closer to $110 million.

533 flynmudd  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:39:43pm

Oh dear God! I feel my poor neighbor picking my pocket already for all the free shit I have to pay for.

534 pegcity  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:39:43pm

Is Obama running for the leadership of the NDP up here in Canada?

535 Jetpilot1101  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:39:46pm

Hey dumbass, the line item veto was declared unconstitutional.

536 jorline  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:39:46pm

Democrats...promises, promises.

Stupid Question...who'd paying for ALL of YOUR PROGRAMS.

537 kevinmumaw  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:39:47pm

This economic plan sounds like it was written by a reasonably bright 14 year old.

538 Cognito  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:39:58pm

Who's going to pay for this?

The businesses! That's FREE money!

539 Beller0ph1  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:40:02pm

Alright! Let's close tax loopholes for corporations, effectively raising taxes for them! How are those companies going to stay in business when Uncle 0bama takes more? Oh yeah, raise prices!

540 sattv4u2  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:40:02pm

I sure HOPE he finishes his speech before i leave work. I just know that the gas station i'm going to will CHANGE their prices to $.75 a gallon, and I need to fill-up!

541 really grumpy big dog Johnson  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:40:03pm

re: #490 snowcrash

Where does all the money come from?

The mint, of course. It's the same way that Hitler got Germany flush with money.

Oh, now Obama is going to institute a unilateral line-item veto. This provision will have an 8 year sunshine provision...

542 Palandine  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:40:05pm

Umm, Senator?

Men and women do make equal pay.
Bush passed the Family and Medical Leave Act years ago.
You don't lose retirement plans in bankruptcy.

/scary, scary lack of knowledge

543 mfarmer1  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:40:11pm

Looks like I'm going to have to work until September now each year before the money I earn gets into my bank account.

This guy is painting a picture of a country that if you didn't know better, might be Somalia or Yemen for crying out loud. Good grief.

Check that, I'll have to work until November. I can't even type as fast as he's spending my paycheck. Shit, now he's essentially telling me that I'll have to work until February of the following year.

544 cyclown  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:40:16pm

Sweet he's going to cut programs that don't work: itsnt that everything from the New Deal and the Great Society. By gum it is.

545 Occasional Reader  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:40:17pm

re: #515 Beller0ph1

Where did the gray hair go?

"Only his hairdresser knows for sure."

546 Dahveed  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:40:18pm

re: #513 Bobblehead

He wasn't much fun today. He was very angry and seriously depressed about all the lies and America hate he saw on display last night.

You can't keep Rush down for long. He always rises to the challenge.

547 Mosse  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:40:18pm

I notice they nixed the Greek columns being actually behind him (along with the halo...). We all probably shouldn't have clued them in on how visibly fascist that was. What is that stuff behind him -- are those supposed to suggest prison windows -- the gulag we'll end up in for not supporting the One? Shoji screens -- he's planning on sealing the deal selling us to the Japanese?

...Heroes... What about Frank Davis, the pornographer? Boy, this is all the usual blah-blah -- zero specifics about how to implement all gooey platitudes. Seems so benign and IS so sinister.

O! He's going to "spell it out" for us! Ha! No capital gains taxes for small businesses and start-ups! That and his "praetorian guard"-- those up to $250K! Ha! That's it. Bet he'll give a bunch of breaks to non-profits that play ball with the Socialist States of America. too! Ooo! He'll "recruit an army of new teachers!" Generalisimo Obama...

Ok. Lizards -- we are the core of communications, now. Stay on this guy after Disneyworld is over and continue to expose his deception and the "mob" mentality he's worked so hard to create. Ban the Kool-Aid! Think!, America! Thanks, as always, to Charles, our Lizard Founder, for the opportunity for us to know we are all here and that there are SO MANY of us!
Thanks, fellow-Lizards. Serially....

548 opnion  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:40:20pm

Waity, if you have insurance, he will lower your premiums?
How does that work? There are loss ratios. He is childish.

549 Killgore Trout  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:40:24pm

Line item veto was ruled unconstitutional.

550 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:40:29pm
551 looking closely  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:40:34pm

re: #429 Killian Bundy

He's lying about taxes. He's going to raise the capital gains tax.

/how many Americans own stocks, only 5%?

About half of American households own stocks, either directly or indirectly in retirement accounts like 401ks.

Hence Obama's claim that his capital gains tax increases will only penalize the "rich" is BS on its face.

552 BGOH  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:40:43pm

AMERICA'S PROMISE IS THAT YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PURSUE LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.

America's promise has nothing to do with anything that he is talking about tonight.

553 galloping granny  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:40:44pm

re: #480 runrabbitrun

hello galloping granny,

in answer to your comment in the last thread about the smart college age kids who see right through Obama.... I think you're right. I hope there are just enough of them (and I'm sure those smart young Repub voters will get themselves to the polls) to make up for the dunces who will crowd the ROCK the VOTE! buses Soros sends to the college campuses on election day.

Actually, I didn't mean college kids. I don't know many of that age group - though we do have a few that show up early mornings here. I was talking about the 11-14 year olds.

554 bill-tb  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:40:48pm

re: #483 Sharmuta

The only hope for BHO is enough ignorant young voters and illegals vote fore CHANGE, expecting to get their share of the winnings.

555 Muadib  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:40:50pm

This is what an epic train wreck of Biblical proportions sounds like.

556 JSK1121  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:40:51pm

Americans have a right to do as much or as little as they'd like. This guy is going to ram 'responsibility' down our collective throat if elected!

557 devil in baggy pants  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:40:51pm

Wait wait wait...


we need a "renewed sense of responsibility?"


I thought you weren't going to leave us "on our own", Barry?

You gonna make all the baby daddy's take care of their kids? Damn, dude.

558 lawhawk  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:41:05pm

re: #443 galloping granny

ROFLMAO - 5 MILLION new jobs that pay well and cannot be outsourced!

Those are government jobs don't you know.

559 HelloDare  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:41:07pm

No rain on the weekends!

560 Cognito  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:41:13pm

/did someone say debate?

561 kevinmumaw  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:41:16pm

No, it isn't.

562 bnichols10  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:41:24pm

I can't believe there are this many stupid sheep following and listening to this guy.

563 braddock  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:41:27pm

Obama reminds me of this piss ant that beat me for Student Body prez in 5th grade. The kid goes up on stage and says he is going to get Coke Machines and Snack Machines in every hall. I was sitting there going WTF this cat is laying his ass off. I'm not bitter

564 MandyManners  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:41:31pm

I'm gonna' start saving for my booze fund now in case this asshole is elected. No way could I go through the next four years sober.

565 razorbacker  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:41:32pm

re: #414 lifeofthemind

and Hot chicks for all the single men and stable husbands for all the single mothers and ...

Hey now. A hopeychangey plan! Wait, you're kidding, aren't you.

*not nice to play with a man's emotions like that. not nice at all.*

566 ciaospirit  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:41:34pm

Preach it. Reverend.

567 Typicalwhitey  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:41:42pm

This speech is bombing

anyone who isn't a kool aid drinker......this speech isn't going to change anyones mind

568 Merlot  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:41:42pm

The govt. will guarantee a fathers love for his children.

569 mattm  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:41:44pm

He will pay for it by taxing Corporate and cut the federal budget.

Ha! Ha! No.

570 Coldpizza  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:41:52pm

If you look closely beside the stage you can see a big vat of Reverend Jim Jones Koolaid about to be dispersed.

571 rawmuse  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:41:54pm

I am half way expecting balls of fire to shoot out of his butt...

572 sloggin420[deleted]  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:41:55pm
573 Occasional Reader  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:41:58pm

Who has the "temperament" to serve as the next C in C? No, Barry, we're not talking about "temperament".

574 HelloDare  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:42:03pm

I don't remember the McCain "muddle" statement.

575 Dahveed  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:42:05pm

Thank G-d I had a couple pints or else this speech would be incredibly painful.

576 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:42:05pm

Fathers take responsibility for their children?
Well, here is one thing he does know about. He must be pissed at his father.
Where's a psychiatrist when you need one?

We know McCain's father was there

577 reine.de.tout  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:42:12pm

Strategy Room guys on Fox News just called this plan "Robin Hood Economics".

578 Biff  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:42:21pm

And John McCain says: Bring it on you dweeb clown."

btw - "9-11" x 2 , drink drink. Finally.

579 HPG337  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:42:22pm

"a debate I'm ready to have"?! Who is he kidding? He doesn't want to have a debate unless there's a teleprompter and nobody to ask him any hard questions. What a crock.

580 MandyManners  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:42:23pm

ST:TNG is on AMC.

581 FightingBack  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:42:25pm

"Fathers must take more responsibility."

He'll force them. While cutting their taxes, providing free health acre, free tuition, housing, cars.

582 lori lane  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:42:26pm

Ok. Settle this argument. My family says he's not using a teleprompter. PLEASE agree with me that he is.

583 rw in san diego  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:42:31pm

Take out Osama. Right, just like Bill did.

584 David IV of Georgia  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:42:32pm

Ya'll all be coledge edjucated if'n ya'll vote fer me.


He'll balance the economy. Translation: Those nuklar missles and aircafft carriers cost too much. If we buy everyone in the world candybars, then we won't need a military.

585 kevinmumaw  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:42:32pm

I feel a threat to invade Pakistan coming on

586 nigella  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:42:34pm

Thank you to all you brave lizards who watched this for me. I'm getting too old to get over stressed, and angry. Could injure myself, or the TV, if I actually had to see this buffoon speak!

587 Occasional Reader  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:42:35pm

HE'S GOING TO INVADE PAKISTAN AGAIN!

588 rorschach  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:42:40pm
If John McCain wants to have a debate, that's a debate I'm ready to have! ...er, sometime next year, after I'm already canonized.

What a poseur. (merci beaucoup!)

589 christheprofessor  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:42:40pm

This man is seriously nauseating.

590 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:42:42pm
591 Spiny Norman  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:42:42pm

Is Elmer Gantry still preaching bloviating?

I've got work that needs to be finished tonight and don't have time to yell at the TV or radio...

592 Cartman  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:42:45pm

Make no mistake here - this man is basically promising you that he's going to put a serious crimp in what dwindling individual freedoms you have left.

593 Tilly  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:42:46pm

re: #448 kevinmumaw

This speech is a frickin gold mine! I see no fewer than 25 commercials from the RNC using his own words.

Yes especially about being the brothers keeper...

Love the shack he is keeping him in!

594 DistantThunder  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:42:47pm

re: #563 braddock

Obama reminds me of this piss ant that beat me for Student Body prez in 5th grade. The kid goes up on stage and says he is going to get Coke Machines and Snack Machines in every hall. I was sitting there going WTF this cat is laying his ass off. I'm not bitter

But Obama's followers are not smarter than 5th graders.

595 Typicalwhitey  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:42:47pm

I really thought he would have a barn burner of a speech.
This is pathetic

596 really grumpy big dog Johnson  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:42:58pm

The Republican Party has every campaign add they need until election day right now. Barry is truly screwed.

597 wccawa  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:43:03pm

Well, I'm waiting. But my back still hurts. When do the miracles begin? And my water is still water?

Oh. my bad. I poured wine. Silly mistake.

And God help anyone stuck out on I-25 tonight. I'd venture that 90% of them would click the checkmark, "Anyone BUT Obama".

598 Beller0ph1  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:43:12pm

When does "bring troops home now" translate to he'll start a war in Afghanistan?

599 Jetpilot1101  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:43:14pm

That is because the surge which you opposed worked assclown!

600 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:43:19pm

re: #548 opnion

Waity, if you have insurance, he will lower your premiums?
How does that work? There are loss ratios. He is childish.

Easy- cut coverage.
Meet your new doctor, Dr. Kevorkian

601 opnion  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:43:31pm

Rambo Obama apparently knows wht cave that Osama is in.
Why doesn't he go get him?

602 lifeofthemind  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:43:33pm

McCain should drag him onto a plane and dump his candy ass out in Afghanistan and tell him to start walking to that cave.

603 Killian Bundy  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:43:35pm

Damn, by the time he's done any publicly held U.S. corporation with any sense at all will relocate outside the country.

/I predict tomorrow will be a down day on Wall Street

604 infopimp  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:43:47pm

He DARES mention Israel?

605 devil in baggy pants  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:43:48pm

OOOOOOOOH, he just said Israel.

606 rorschach  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:43:56pm

David Axelrod, you lyin' s.o.b.

607 galloping granny  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:43:57pm

Just how would Barrak Hussein Obama know how to defeat a terrorist network?

608 Dahveed  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:44:00pm

So everyone - forget about 9/11. It is in the past.

609 Attaboid  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:44:01pm

Where is that cave Barak. And the frequency?

610 doppelganglander  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:44:02pm

I dozed off for a minute -- has he gotten to the part where we call get free unicorns?

611 kevinmumaw  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:44:09pm

Don't even talk about Georgia, asshole. You struck out on that one.

612 Beller0ph1  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:44:17pm

Is he saying that Russia is one of our oldest alliances? So 1990's counts as oldest?

613 DistantThunder  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:44:21pm

I feel a rage in his insulting of my intelligence - what an @ss. I sign up tommorrow for McCain campaign - sign bumper sticker the whole works.

614 Typicalwhitey  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:44:24pm

He is using a prompter

615 Occasional Reader  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:44:25pm

What the FUCK is he talking about regarding Iraq?!

Barry, you were ready to throw in the towel for the last 5 years. That doesn't somehow make you "right" now that we've won.

616 KathyP  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:44:26pm

He's going to protect Israel? OMFG. Robin Hood, indeed.

617 JacksonTn  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:44:27pm

Someone from is campaign said today he took his speech from

JFK, FDR, Clinton and Reagan and a dash of his 2004 speech. This speech is just the same replay from every four years. What is the Reagan part?

618 jorline  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:44:31pm

re: #463 Charles

Hey, what happened to the Greek temple backdrop?

CHANGE, Charles...CHANGE!

619 Bobblehead  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:44:38pm

re: #546 Dahveed

You can't keep Rush down for long. He always rises to the challenge.

I hope so. I was seriously worried about him today.

620 rorschach  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:44:39pm

He learned his oratory skills from Jeremiah Wright.

621 Cognito  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:45:01pm

re: #603 Killian Bundy

Damn, by the time he's done any publicly held U.S. corporation with any sense at all will relocate outside the country.

/I predict tomorrow will be a down day on Wall Street

I look forward to seeing how he'll create all those American auto jobs and simultaneously squeeze their employers for more taxes.

622 kevinmumaw  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:45:02pm

re: #593 Tilly

Yes especially about being the brothers keeper...

Love the shack he is keeping him in!

Where...is...George Obama?

623 bellamags  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:45:02pm

He is such a fucking asshole.

624 DistantThunder  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:45:05pm

The infanticidal Master Obama.

625 MadHamster  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:45:07pm

I'll bet that somewhere in some chubby corner of the MSNBC booth, you'll find a naked Keith Olbermann enjoying the evening in the way that only Keith Olbermann can. Ewwww.

626 ornery elephant  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:45:11pm

He pointed out how NOT to fight Terrorism...did he mention ANYTHING as to how he WOULD fight it? Did I miss that?

627 BlueCanuck  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:45:21pm

Man this guy is so far too the left I am losing my stability just listening to him.

628 Beller0ph1  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:45:27pm

I'm sorry, but the modern Democratic party is NOT the party of Roosevelt and Kennedy, especially since the Kos Kooks are the base.

629 sattv4u2  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:45:28pm

re: #582 lori lane

Ok. Settle this argument. My family says he's not using a teleprompter. PLEASE agree with me that he is.

I'm in the satellite tv broadcast business. I watched an open shot of the stadium earlier today (the networks set camera angles,,, microphone levels ,, etc) and I saw them set up the prompter!

630 Dianna  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:45:30pm

I had to turn the TV off. I can't take listening to that pack of lies any longer!

Good heavenly day, this is insane!

They cheered lie after lie after lie!

631 rorschach  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:45:37pm

I've had enough b.s. for one night.

'Nite all.

632 Intrepid  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:45:40pm

He's promising everything, but offering no real ideas as to how to pay for them. If he taxes "the rich", they'll stop investing in new businesses and capital. Massive unemployment. Yeah, Barry, that's the way to go!

I cannot wait for John McCain to take him on in debates. He will be trounced so soundly that they'll have to pick him up from the basement.

He talks a tough game, but he has nothing - NOTHING - to back it up with.

633 kevinmumaw  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:45:41pm

He voted to deny funding to soldiers deployed in Iraq. There's another McCain commercial.

634 Typicalwhitey  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:45:41pm

re: #613 DistantThunder

I feel a rage in his insulting of my intelligence - what an @ss. I sign up tommorrow for McCain campaign - sign bumper sticker the whole works.


I already did.

Watch how many McCain yard signs go up in the next week.

635 rw in san diego  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:45:47pm

He's going to rebuild the military? Somehow, I doubt that.

636 David IV of Georgia  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:45:50pm

We are the party of Roosevelt! We are the party of Kennedy! We are the party of slavery!

Oh, wait. He forgot the last part.

637 Attaboid  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:45:50pm

A "sacred" commitment?

638 Guy_Montag  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:45:56pm

My wife and I listened until we couldn't take it anymore. I almost puked, seriously, into my drink. We put it on mute, and we're reading the CC -- it's all we can stand.

639 pegcity  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:46:03pm

so hes going to build up the military by canceling all future weapons development,

Brilliant

640 cyclown  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:46:05pm

Poor LBJ. He is ALWAYS left out of 20th century presidents that are named for their "greatness." He must be rolling in his grave. He was a good cold warrior and his stance on Vietnam was proven correctly in 1975. He just should have unleashed the tether on American troops.

641 DistantThunder  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:46:07pm

What a friggin meglomaniac.

642 devil in baggy pants  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:46:09pm

He just used Reagan's

LAST, BEST HOPE.


You ASS hole!

643 Occasional Reader  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:46:11pm

re: #613 DistantThunder

I feel a rage in his insulting of my intelligence - what an @ss. I sign up tommorrow for McCain campaign - sign bumper sticker the whole works.

I'm sending a donation to McCain right now, while Barry is speaking. Heh.

644 Cognito  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:46:12pm

re: #627 BlueCanuck

Man this guy is so far too the left I am losing my stability just listening to him.

Don't complain. Some of our best businesses are packing up and headed your way, come 8 a.m.

645 Beller0ph1  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:46:14pm

Heh...restore America to be the last, best hope. Who do nations turn to when the shit hits the fan? Chad?

646 opnion  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:46:25pm

re: #576 Kosh's Shadow

Fathers take responsibility for their children?
Well, here is one thing he does know about. He must be pissed at his father.
Where's a psychiatrist when you need one?

We know McCain's father was there

Man you nailed it. He has daddy & mommy issues. Why did he just pronounce Taliban like an Arab?

647 Sharmuta  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:46:26pm

I can do everything! I'm the obamessiah!

648 avspatti  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:46:29pm

re: #229 rp1138

Michelle just naturally looks pissed, doesn't she?

I think it's something about her teeth.

649 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:46:50pm

I missed what he said about Israel; I was typing.

Boy, he's promising everything. Two televisions in every room, pot in every chicken, arugula in every salad.
And about a 125% tax rate. Or hyperinflation.

650 itellu3times  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:46:52pm

I, I, I
I, I, I

651 DistantThunder  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:46:53pm

Question his judgement - and his poor character.

652 Attaboid  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:47:06pm

"Curb" Russian agression?

Like you curb a dog?

653 braddock  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:47:11pm

Teleprompter is on fire tonight!

654 looking closely  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:47:17pm

re: #635 rw in san diego

He's going to rebuild the military? Somehow, I doubt that.

The military he doesn't want to use. . .except to invade our ally. . .

This guy absolutely can NOT be Commander in Chief.

655 Percopius  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:47:24pm

Obama is calling out John to debate? Not wise.

656 JacksonTn  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:47:24pm

re: #642 devil in baggy pants

Guess that was the Reagan part he ripped.

657 Palandine  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:47:26pm

Wait. Iraq is suffering under awful American occupation, AND they have a $79 billion budget surplus?

Don't say that, Senator. Everyone will want to be occupied by us evil Americans

/I don't question your patriotism, Senator. You need to have a thing for it to be questioned.

658 BGOH  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:47:29pm

I think he forgot to promise the new vending machine he is going to get in the cafeteria...

659 MandyManners  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:47:30pm

re: #613 DistantThunder

I feel a rage in his insulting of my intelligence - what an @ss. I sign up tommorrow for McCain campaign - sign bumper sticker the whole works.

Same here. So what if some nitwit keys my car!

660 Cognito  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:47:33pm

No, sorry dude. Too late for the bipartisan bit.

You already laid out the socialist agenda.

661 Sharmuta  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:47:34pm

He's really touchy about questioning his patriotism.

662 kevinmumaw  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:47:46pm

re: #628 Beller0ph1

I'm sorry, but the modern Democratic party is NOT the party of Roosevelt and Kennedy, especially since the Kos Kooks are the base.

Those democrats that were the warriors in the FDR and JFK administrations left the party in 1968. Now they are referred to as NEOCONS.

663 Bobblehead  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:47:47pm

In other news.....
Jesse Jackson just purchased a new knife sharpner. He must be sooo jealous.

664 devil in baggy pants  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:47:50pm

re: #648 avspatti

I think it's something about her teeth.

She has a serious underbite so her lower jaw always protrudes forward.

665 infopimp  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:48:01pm

Is it just me... or is there a person in the crowd with a DOG WHISTLE of a scream?

666 merrytexas  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:48:01pm

Doesn't he look older and experienced now that BO's figured out a way to make it look like he has gray hair? Still no accomplishments, still no experience, but he's got gray hair. blech

667 Cartman  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:48:02pm

That's it. My head is gonna explode.

668 Jetpilot1101  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:48:06pm

I think this speech is going to backfire on him in a big way.

669 newsjunkie_ky  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:48:10pm

Not watching it. What did they do? They took down the Greek Temple?

670 FightingBack  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:48:12pm

re: #617 JacksonTn

Someone from is campaign said today he took his speech from

JFK, FDR, Clinton and Reagan and a dash of his 2004 speech. This speech is just the same replay from every four years. What is the Reagan part?

Reagan looked really handsome on TV.

671 doppelganglander  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:48:14pm

re: #582 lori lane

Ok. Settle this argument. My family says he's not using a teleprompter. PLEASE agree with me that he is.

Of course he is. Anyone would, but with Barry he can't speak a full sentence without one.

672 DistantThunder  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:48:24pm

Sig Heil - Sign Heil - Sig Heil

673 ornery elephant  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:48:37pm

80,000 Democrats trying to chant "USA! USA! USA!" becomes disjointed and comes out as "BOO USA ! BOO USA! BOO USA!"

674 Percopius  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:48:38pm

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

675 rp1138  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:48:40pm

When does he do the walk on water thing?

676 kevinmumaw  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:48:41pm

We all put our country first

That is a demonstrable lie, Senator.

677 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:48:42pm

Obama is the tooth fairy, Santa Claus, and the Easter bunny all wrapped into one!

678 JeremyR  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:48:44pm


"Mid America locksmiths, Mike speaking, may I help you?"
"Yes, I need to get the lock on my house replaced, ASAP."
"I'm sorry, I'm book for the next four days...."
"Listen, this is an emergency, junior is in Denver, its the first time he's been out of the basement in four years. We need our house back, we're desperate."
"I kmow ma'am, the DNC convention is our busiest time every four years." "Could you send him twenty bucks so he can go to St. Paul? I've got a half hour next Thursday after noon if that will work. A trip north could be the ticket... Book him a one way ticket, St. Paul is nice this time of year, he won't care much until October."
"Thank you."
"Oh, and this would be a great time to change your phone number as well."

679 Intrepid  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:48:46pm

re: #529 BlueCanuck

Safe nuclear power? I thought it was already safe?

/my brains exploding, need more booze to dull the pain.

Here, BC! This should help, eh?

680 braddock  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:48:51pm

Barry is having mood swings during this speech

681 formercorpsman  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:49:17pm

re: #542 Palandine

Actually, Clinton pushed FMLA into law.

I loathe the day that became law.

12 different ways to ask the same question.

682 Sharmuta  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:49:18pm

Is it me, or is michelle obama really the embodiment of Sherri Palmer. Wow. Fiction comes to life.

683 infopimp  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:49:19pm

Criminals only get ILLEGAL guns.

Watch for the gun grabbing folks.

684 cyclown  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:49:22pm

Cast off old ideas of politics in the past? You just reiterated them knucklehead. Sheesh.

685 doppelganglander  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:49:23pm

Do you suppose this moment is just like he imagined it in front of the mirror in high school, giving speeches into his hairbrush?

686 Percopius  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:49:27pm

Dude this is the longest string of bullshit I have ever heard.

687 rawmuse  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:49:31pm

It's ALREADY illegal for a criminal to have an AK47, or any other weapon.

688 Cartman  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:49:33pm

AK-47's.

689 Beller0ph1  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:49:39pm

Heh...the criminals will find their own ways to get their AK-47s. The hunters in Ohio will get their "clinged to" guns taken away.

690 kevinmumaw  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:49:42pm

It's already illegal for criminals to have weapons. That's why they are criminals, asshole.

691 Lynn B.  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:49:50pm

Remind me ... What was Barry doing while John McCain was lying in a North Vietnamese prison camp?

692 Palandine  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:50:04pm

Um, Senator?

It's already illegal for criminals to own AK-47s. Of course, when you were a state senator, you went awfully easy on tough prison terms for gang bangers.

693 Racer X  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:50:11pm

re: #661 Sharmuta

He's really touchy about questioning his patriotism.

Watch as McCain kicks his ass on it. Ayers will bring Obama down.

694 rp1138  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:50:18pm

Will he turn the water into wine as he walks across it?

695 Blue Falcon  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:50:24pm

Yes open borders are super, we can pay for everyone's goodies, we'll just tax those mean corporations whose money doesn't pay its workers or anything like that.

696 Wendya  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:50:28pm

re: #92 spirochete

Cut capital gains taxes for small businesses? What about for the avergae american taxpayer?

He's pandering to his idiot constituents.

Small business owners ARE the average American taxpayer.

697 opnion  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:50:35pm

He is so screwing up!

698 FightingBack  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:50:35pm

Larger and firmer in public life?

I won't touch it.

699 BGOH  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:50:38pm

I live in Cleveland, and I would be hard pressed to go back 10 years to find the last time a crime was committed with an AK47.

This guy is retarded.

700 Jetpilot1101  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:50:43pm

re: #691 Lynn B.

Remind me ... What was Barry doing while John McCain was lying in a North Vietnamese prison camp?

Learning how to jack off.

701 Occasional Reader  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:50:46pm

re: #642 devil in baggy pants

He just used Reagan's

LAST, BEST HOPE.


You ASS hole!

The phrase is actually Lincoln's.

702 yesandno  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:50:54pm

ZERO.........

703 razorbacker  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:50:56pm

re: #558 lawhawk

Those are government jobs don't you know.

What's the split on government paychecks vs. private industry?

I'm guessing that it's probably getting close to 50/50.

All those 'public servants' voting their self-interests must be lapping this stuff up.

704 christheprofessor  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:51:03pm

What balls! Implying McCain doesn't have a record to run on... Hypocritical prick...

705 mfarmer1  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:51:06pm

Wow, he's seriously off track. He's way too angry and all over the place. From screaming about patriotism to softening his voice to discuss abortion and within seconds getting confrontational about the 2nd Amendment all in one breath.

Who wrote this pile of crap?

Where is he anyway, in a Japanese tea house? I thought he was in Athens. Look at that background!

706 Percopius  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:51:06pm

I like when hear some policy they really don't like and half clap. First time hearing policy I guess.

707 Abu Maven  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:51:07pm

This is a snoozefest. I can just hear the sound of tvs clicking off on the east coast.

708 kevinmumaw  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:51:14pm
If you don't have a record to run on...

HAHAHAHAHA!

Please tell me he of all people did not just say that.

709 capitalistincharge  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:51:17pm

I am so fricking average it's pathetic. So, if I am average this is what the rest of the average folks are thinking right about now. This speech is turning me off, big time. Seems like a hatefest and basically he's told me I'm an idiot in his eyes. I don't like this uppity, hateful, lying bag of sh*t. Not one little bit. He has cemented the feeling that I had before that he can not be the president but now he has instilled passion in me along with that belief.

710 pegcity  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:51:25pm

Obama is ready to lead america to victory against its next challenges, all of which he will cause.

711 Sharmuta  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:51:30pm

Barry- YOU have no record to run on and are painting YOUR opponent as someone to run from.

712 Blue Falcon  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:51:33pm

Talking about if you don't have a record? Oh man, Mr.Vanity needs another mirror.

713 Edouard  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:51:42pm

Is OBAMA accusing MCCAIN of "having no record to run on?"

714 Rev. Churchmouse  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:51:44pm

There won't be anymore "last best hope" in the world with a Commander in Chief who thinks he's going to chase after terrorists and invite them to talk.

/but we knew that already


"Republicans, Democrats, and Independents fought and died together in Iraq"--

meanwhile in the Congres and Senate they fjust fought while Pelosi and Reid stopped them from voting.

715 Percopius  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:51:53pm

Not about me my ass.

716 Colonel Panik  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:51:56pm

"All across America something is stirring." The spectre of Socialism.

717 FightingBack  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:52:01pm

Something is stirring?
Another one I can't touch.

718 PattiO  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:52:02pm

Exactly how long would it actually take to go through the federal budget line by line? With at least a minute to comprehend and decide if it should be "done away with or made better" wouldn't that take years?

719 JacksonTn  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:52:05pm

No ass it is all about MECHELLE

720 JeremyR  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:52:09pm

re: #11 Cognito

It's weird. Before he accepted, I had a pretty decent cut on my upper arm.

It's just totally healed.

Didn't realize he talked that long, I thought it only SEEMED like ages.

721 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:52:09pm
722 kham  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:52:17pm

"I know I don't have the same pedigree" - translation: Vote for me because I'm black

723 kevinmumaw  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:52:19pm

re: #691 Lynn B.

Remind me ... What was Barry doing while John McCain was lying in a North Vietnamese prison camp?

What was he? 12? Probably getting high.

724 Sharmuta  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:52:19pm

This election is not about me. LMAO!

725 DistantThunder  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:52:25pm

13,000 students on waiting lists for charter schools Mr Obama - Tear Up That List!

726 Neo Con since 9-11  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:52:43pm

Did he really just say "If you've got no record to run on, you run a campaign to make people afraid of your opponent"? Is he implying McCain's paltry record compared to his own? I'm pretty drunk at this point and wasn't sure I heard that right.

727 devil in baggy pants  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:52:44pm

re: #701 Occasional Reader

The phrase is actually Lincoln's.

You are correct. I just remember Reagan speaking those words.

//Mea Culpa

728 mountb  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:52:46pm

Noonish in Melbourne. Stuck with a lousy cell phone broadband thingy. Man, is it S-L-O-W ... can't watch the streaming feed from the Temple. So, following along here. Frankly, this is WAY better, lol.

729 KathyP  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:52:48pm

He says this election isn't about him? Excuse me, Obama sahib, don't you read the newspapers or watch MSNBC?

730 rp1138  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:52:57pm

"Don't question my patriotism!"

I don't. I question your lack of it.

731 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:52:57pm

How many points do you think he'll lose in the next polls? 5? 10?
I think only the idiots who already worship him will buy this shit.
Oh, and the people who believe someone in Nigeria has money for them, if they'll just send some money to get it out.

732 rawmuse  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:53:06pm

If we elect this guy, then we are just too stupid to breathe.

733 big L  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:53:13pm

Israeland Taiwan better lock and load. The USA is a skedaddling away from you. You're on your own.

734 opnion  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:53:16pm

Saul Alinsky is proud tonight.

735 tradewind  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:53:27pm

August 28, 1964, Dr King said ' I have a Dream, America...'.
August 28, 2008....Professor Obama said ' I have a bone to pick with you, America'....

736 Athos  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:53:32pm

Attempting to use populism to implement socialism....

737 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:53:36pm
738 Racer X  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:53:40pm

Change Shit Happens!

739 vbspurs  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:53:43pm

#706 posts. Guys, I marvel at your tenacity in listening to this man.

BTW, I decided. 4 years ago, I became a pollworker, and was actually a Clerk of my precinct for the Presidential Election (a nightmare).

But in 2008, I am volunteering tomorrow in a McCain office. Since I don't do drugs (a kind suggestion by a lizard in how to cope for the next 4 years, if Obama is elected), I have to save my sanity somehow.

740 braddock  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:54:03pm

Barry is really going to enjoy his After-Investco Speech cig

741 Bobibutu  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:54:08pm

re: #406 jamgarr

Hey, he's for Drill Here - Drill Now

I thot Nan wanted to drill brains ... dry hole!

742 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:54:11pm

re: #726 Neo Con since 9-11

Did he really just say "If you've got no record to run on, you run a campaign to make people afraid of your opponent"? Is he implying McCain's paltry record compared to his own? I'm pretty drunk at this point and wasn't sure I heard that right.

Yes, he's telling what his campaign strategy is. I think most people can see through it.

743 Rev. Churchmouse  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:54:13pm

re: #705 mfarmer1

Wow, he's seriously off track. He's way too angry and all over the place.

Where is he anyway, in a Japanese tea house? I thought he was in Athens. Look at that background!

He's in lala land.

744 DistantThunder  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:54:16pm

Soldiers know that Obama will pull the rug out from under them - just like bill Clinton.

745 Sharmuta  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:54:20pm

Katrina!

746 Reno911  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:54:23pm

You get the government you deserve.

747 Percopius  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:54:26pm

This is so lame. He is mentioning flooding....

748 christheprofessor  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:54:31pm

This has got to be one of the smarmiest MFers I've ever seen give a speech.

749 LionFromzion  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:54:45pm

He seems so angry!

750 rp1138  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:54:49pm

re: #705 mfarmer1

Where is he anyway, in a Japanese tea house? I thought he was in Athens. Look at that background!

Caesar's Palace.

751 OliveMe  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:55:06pm

Can you imagine being his daughter and having to listen to his promises every night?

752 kevinmumaw  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:55:08pm

Where is George Obama, Mr. I am my brothers keeper?

753 Occasional Reader  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:55:19pm

re: #721 buzzsawmonkey

Mao-churian candidate.

Groomed for twenty years for this moment.

Barack Obama is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.

754 braddock  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:55:23pm

I just heard the Rev. Wright ssssssssssssssss. He was giving a shout out. Nice touch

755 Jetpilot1101  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:55:27pm

re: #744 DistantThunder

Soldiers know that Obama will pull the rug out from under them - just like bill Clinton.

Yes we do.

756 DistantThunder  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:55:28pm

The promise I make to my children Is that I will do everything in my power to see that this Socialist is NEVER our president.

757 Cartman  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:55:33pm

That rumble you will be hearing tomorrow morning will be the stampede to local gun shops. The renewed assault on the 2nd Amendment is on.

758 Neo Con since 9-11  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:55:39pm

re: #699 BGOH

I live in Cleveland, and I would be hard pressed to go back 10 years to find the last time a crime was committed with an AK47.

This guy is retarded.

I live in rural Ohio and at this point he's just pandering to the Buckeye state. I think 5 of his dopey, fake stories tonight have been based about someone in Ohio.

759 Percopius  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:55:41pm

MLK, of course.

760 FightingBack  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:55:46pm

re: #749 LionFromzion

He seems so angry!


Wouldn't you be? He has to be elected. That ain't easy.

761 opnion  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:55:51pm

re: #731 Kosh's Shadow

How many points do you think he'll lose in the next polls? 5? 10?
I think only the idiots who already worship him will buy this shit.
Oh, and the people who believe someone in Nigeria has money for them, if they'll just send some money to get it out.

He will get a bounce, but it won't be big & it will go away.

762 Palandine  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:55:52pm

MLK reference

His ego is truly overweening

763 Racer X  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:55:55pm

Wow! This speech will go down in history.

Thats it.

764 christheprofessor  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:56:20pm

My "new comments" button never re-enabled!

765 BGOH  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:56:22pm

I don't know if it is because of the cadence of his voice, but I can't help but feel like I am watching a televagelist...

That's probably the point of this whole charade, though.

766 J.S.  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:56:23pm

Lies and projection...

767 Miss Trixie  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:56:25pm

He's milking MLK - a**hat.

768 kevinmumaw  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:56:47pm

re: #728 mountb

Good, lord man, don't listen top this crap, hit the beach!

769 Optimizer  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:56:48pm

What'd I miss? I was at this bar eating dinner, then this guy came on. I had to leave for fear that heavy drinking would necessarily ensue, making my travel home problematic.

Has the world's supply of the word "moment" been exhausted?

770 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:56:53pm
771 JacksonTn  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:56:54pm

Is Jerry Lewis gonna sing at the end of this telethon?

772 itellu3times  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:56:56pm

He's all over the map.

I like parts of it - which means he's going too academic for the electorate.

What we are seeing tonight is the clean and articulate valedictory.

773 Dianna  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:56:57pm

Who'd like to attend a McCain acceptance speech party? I'm going to sign up to host. I've got a good space for it.

I'm now a very committed McCain supporter.

I'm about to kiss a couple hundred bucks goodbye, because after this pack of lies and impossible promises, McCain is my freaking hero.

774 DistantThunder  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:56:59pm

What an AnGRY MOTHER....We can not turn back from defeating this meglomaniac

775 Percopius  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:57:00pm

Over!

776 Jetpilot1101  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:57:01pm

This speech is terrible. I know the media will say he hit a home run but I think the average American will be completely turned off. America doesn't suck and a lot of us know that!

777 Intrepid  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:57:03pm

Man, he's really boring now, and has been for the past number of minutes!

He's preaching, and I have an aversion to "preaching". I'd rather have specifics, thank you. And your specifics, Barry, are rather repugnant to MY American dream.

778 Occasional Reader  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:57:09pm

HE'S TRYING TO SOUND LIKE MLK NOW, RIGHT DOWN TO THE QUAVER IN THE VOICE.

Very creepy. Very, very creepy.

779 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:57:10pm

This speech reminds me I have to take out the trash.

780 taxfreekiller[deleted]  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:57:10pm
781 BlueCanuck  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:57:11pm

re: #679 Intrepid

Here, BC! This should help, eh?

Ahhhhhh, curse you. That looks so good, but I can't drink rye. :(

/stuff does me in nastily.
//But I got a 40 of rum that I will be doing serious damage on.

782 kevinmumaw  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:57:13pm

You know he wanted to say GOD DAMN AMERICA!

783 rp1138  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:57:17pm

McCain doesn't have a record to run on?!

I hope this is the theme of his campaign. It'll be a bloodbath.

784 Ben Hur  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:57:22pm

Game effen Over.

785 vbspurs  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:57:25pm

To think I missed Kenny Chesney and Miranda Lambert live at the Cruzan Amphitheatre for this crap.

I'll never forgive myself. Kerosene indeed.

786 DistantThunder  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:57:29pm

I feel like I've been intellectually violated.

787 OliveMe  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:57:33pm

What was his last line? Hold firmly to the hope we compress?

788 Citizen Duck  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:57:33pm

Gah. Thank goodness that's over. What a shite samich.

789 Jetpilot1101  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:57:35pm

Brooks and Dunn let them use this song. See you fuckers, I'm throwing out your CD's.

790 Racer X  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:57:38pm

I just caught the last bit of his speech.

Yawn.

791 ciaospirit  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:57:42pm

He looks forward to debating McCain. Yet he's been running from debating him for months.

792 Edouard  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:57:43pm

Nothing in this just-concluded speech persuaded me that this speechifying demagogue has the competence to govern this country.

On the contrary, Obama's incompetence, which this speech went all out to try to cover up for, will really, really harm this country.

793 Sharmuta  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:57:51pm

Vote for obama and utopia will be at hand.

794 JacksonTn  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:57:53pm

What is the song they are playing now?

795 pestolover  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:57:56pm

What a common speech. Rabble rousing negativity. Utterly forgettable. Is this man really the great light. Notice how isn't smiling at all? Who is this man? He's still hiding behind his rhetoric.

796 FightingBack  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:58:06pm

Is that all there is?
We could have written him a better one for the teleprompter.

797 Blastforth  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:58:08pm

I'm not impressed.

798 jaunte  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:58:09pm

Grotesque.

799 opnion  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:58:18pm

re: #744 DistantThunder

Soldiers know that Obama will pull the rug out from under them - just like bill Clinton.

Thank you for saying that. I feel sorry for our troops tonight. They deserve support & respect , not pity & derision.

800 Spiny Norman  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:58:19pm

re: #603 Killian Bundy

Damn, by the time he's done any publicly held U.S. corporation with any sense at all will relocate outside the country.

/I predict tomorrow will be a down day on Wall Street


McCain announces his VP tomorrow. If it's Romney, expect the Dow to go waaay up.

801 jcm  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:58:46pm

re: #721 buzzsawmonkey

Mao-churian candidate.

Groomed for twenty years for this moment.

I think that's why Michelle always has that sour look.... she can't stand the "American" bullshit, but knows he has to mouth the words to get elected.

802 rp1138  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:58:48pm

We need to move on from he corrupt politics of the past. It's time for the corrupt politics of the future!

803 Jetpilot1101  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:58:50pm

re: #799 opnion

Thank you for saying that. I feel sorry for our troops tonight. They deserve support & respect , not pity & derision.

We'll pull through in spite of this assclown.

804 indythinker  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:58:50pm

Did you know that one President can do the following in his term? Barack Obama promised in his speech to:

- cut taxes on 95% of Americans
- make America energy independent
- create 5 million new jobs
- send every child to college
- give affordable, accessible health care to every American
- protect Social Security for future generations
- mandate that women will be paid as much as men
- close corporate tax loopholes
- eliminate every government program that doesn't work
- make every American a better person, who keeps their responsibility
- invade Pakistan, a nation of over 167 million hardcore Muslims
- overcome terrorism, Russia, Al Qaeda, poverty, and disease
- lose in Iraq
- restore America's moral standing
- keep the promise of America by upholding gay rights like same-sex marriage and not taking babies from their mothers
- Start a new day in politics where we can agree to disagree and avoid bashing the other side personally like in the politics of the past
- Keep the promise of Martin Luther King, a Republican, of America, and of scripture by preventing John McCain from taking office

Crazy, terrible speech. I'll be voting McCain. That said, I truly hope we can put this race shit behind us now and all be Americans.

805 capitalistincharge  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:58:56pm

I am sending Mccain my check immediately. Anybody who is not a far lefty has got to be very upset right about now. I think he lost the election tonight.

806 devil in baggy pants  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:58:59pm

PYROTECHNICS!

OOOOOOOOOHHHHHH!

807 DistantThunder  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:59:01pm

I need to take some kind of political Morning After Pill

808 Palandine  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:59:08pm

re: #773 Dianna

Who'd like to attend a McCain acceptance speech party? I'm going to sign up to host. I've got a good space for it.

I'm now a very committed McCain supporter.

I'm about to kiss a couple hundred bucks goodbye, because after this pack of lies and impossible promises, McCain is my freaking hero.

Yep, the lowlifes will key my Jeep, but I'm buying a McCain bumper sticker now. I'll wear the scratches as a badge of honor.

809 braddock  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:59:22pm

Just in time for the local news. Man he's good

810 kevinmumaw  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:59:25pm

That sounds like some Gun Clinging music to me.

811 mattm  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 7:59:39pm

The GOP has so much material to use against him. Hopefully they do.

812 JacksonTn  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:00:13pm

McCain needs to announce his VP tonight.

813 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:00:18pm
814 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:00:21pm

We have now heard from Darth Insidious.
Remember, turn to the dark side of the force. Feel you anger. You know you are angry; use your anger.

Ayers just blows up stuff; this guy would blow up the whole country.
He can NOT get elected!

815 Jetpilot1101  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:00:30pm

I will never listen to Brooks and Dunn again as long as I live.

816 Citizen Duck  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:00:44pm

I find the confetti hanging over the Greco-Roman temple to be a nice visual metaphor for the mess Obama and Biden intend to make of this country.

817 kham  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:01:16pm

Brit Hume just uttered the Messiah's middle name. Expect the leftys to pounce.

818 devil in baggy pants  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:01:20pm

I see...


TEARY PEOPLE.

819 arizona9  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:01:25pm

re: #625 MadHamster

I'll bet that somewhere in some chubby corner of the MSNBC booth, you'll find a naked Keith Olbermann enjoying the evening in the way that only Keith Olbermann can. Ewwww.

According to the Olberman groupie chick he had a one nighter with, Keithy, ahem, has issues. Mechanical issues that even Viagra couldn't help. So, erase that unfortunate image from your mind. Little Keith is in the hanger.

820 Beller0ph1  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:01:31pm

The only thing that is churning tonight is my dinner while listening to this drivel.

821 OliveMe  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:01:35pm

Fireworks a little lame after the Chi-Com Olympics.

822 Mosse  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:01:39pm

Beijing! Fireworks! Just like the Olympics! Fascism! Albert Speer, Jr. (the son of Hitler's archictect who was hired by the Chinese for the Olympics)!

These people never disappoint! They can't resist it -- they just ARE fascists! Great.

We know what our work is, Lizards. Buh-bye Bama!

823 Racer X  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:01:39pm

Not near as good a speech as the one he gave at the last dem convention.

824 Jetpilot1101  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:01:41pm

Britt Hume just jizzed all over the booth at FOXNews.

825 baxtrice  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:02:00pm

Did he say Martin Luther King Jr, or just refer to him as "a preacher"?

826 pegcity  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:02:22pm

Anyone here watch the Show the WIRE?

its as if Clive Davis ran for president

827 big L  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:02:23pm

795- Right on. Oby is still lying about his past and he is not mentioning the bomber at all.

828 kevinmumaw  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:02:33pm

re: #785 vbspurs

To think I missed Kenny Chesney and Miranda Lambert live at the Cruzan Amphitheatre for this crap.

I'll never forgive myself. Kerosene indeed.

re: #805 capitalistincharge
You can donate online at mccain.com. I'm making my second contribution...right...now...

829 Killian Bundy  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:02:40pm

Fire marshal puts field on lockdown

The fire marshal shut down access to the field at Invesco, shutting out a crowd of about 100 that quickly grew angry.

The marshal decided shortly before 7 p.m. there were too many people on the field. At the north tunnel entrance, security officers blocked people from walking inside. A line of about 12 firefighters and police officers then were called in to get people to move away from the entrance.

Among those in the crowd that couldn't get in were members of Congress, Democratic National Convention Committee staff and delegates — who began holding their green credentials in the air and shouting "Delegates! Delegates!"

As they shouted, police officials yelled, "Get back" and "Back up."

/a perfect metaphor for this vulgar trainwreck of a campaign

830 devil in baggy pants  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:02:48pm

WTF is that music playing?

It's very stormtrooperish.

831 Intrepid  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:02:51pm

WHO DRESSES MICHELLE OBAMA? Oh my word!

And here comes Joe! And where's Mrs. Joe? Ah, there she is! WHO DRESSES HER? Yikes.

Sorry Democrats, but this one was too long and was a litany of complaints about how bad America is.

I'd like to hear someone tell me of the real promise of America, how it can inspire me to pull myself up by my own ambition and make something of myself and pass it on to others.

You've all made me feel like a failing victim, a do-nothing who can only be helped by the almighty GOVERNMENT!

Yeah, and we see how well government has done!

All hat, yet no cattle in sight!

832 metal man  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:02:59pm

That whole speech was akin to a used car salesman selling a lemon only driven to the store once a week by a little old lady.

(no offense intended to Lille old ladies)

833 rp1138  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:03:02pm

If we just clap our hands, Tinkerbama will make all our dreams come true.

834 Spiny Norman  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:03:03pm

Finally. My #800 took forever to post.

Are the hamsters staging a sit-down strike, or something. LGF is painfully slow in both IE and Firefox. Safari just plain gave up.

835 Ben Hur  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:03:20pm

Ejactulatory finale.

836 Beller0ph1  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:03:23pm

So I wonder what the carbon footprint is for the electricity to run the stadium, the fireworks that rival the Beijing games, the tons of paper that now has to be cleaned up, and of course all the hot air that was spewed in the last 45 minutes. Gah, what a crock of crap.

837 badtemper  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:03:24pm

re: #815 Jetpilot1101

yeah....what was that about? Not familiar with that song, but oh dear Lord, I may have to go run downstairs and dispose of my B&D CD's without delay!

838 mattm  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:03:30pm

re: #791 ciaospirit

He looks forward to debating McCain. Yet he's been running from debating him for months.

Change!

839 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:03:35pm
840 DistantThunder  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:03:37pm

Think of all the money wasted on this venue. But it's what Democrats do - it's who they are.

841 Frank_Mtl  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:03:45pm

I am amazed at how the mass media can create an idol in a relatively short time. I have read somewhere online an article about Barak Obama asking: "Who sent him?" It fits with the fact that although I am not an American citizen, I had previously heard of, and read stuff about John McCain. Before this campaign, I had not the faintest idea of who Obama is.

842 J.S.  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:03:45pm

This takes the running for the Office of the President of The United States to new lows...disgusting...what an ugly spectacle...no class whatsoever.

843 Jetpilot1101  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:03:52pm

This is pathetic. McCain has got to be loving this!

844 kham  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:04:29pm

And now for the Flag Burning ceremony

845 Cognito  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:04:33pm

So is this weird end-of-movie music actually playing in the stadium, or just on television?

846 Racer X  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:04:33pm

re: #822 Mosse

Beijing! Fireworks! Just like the Olympics! Fascism!


One major difference: The Chinese did NOT arrest any reporters.

847 Beller0ph1  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:05:21pm

This music is rather scary. It's kind of foreboding, not nearly as HOPEfull as I'm' sure they wanted.

YOU'RE KIDDING, the fireworks are still going on!

848 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:05:42pm
849 rawmuse  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:05:49pm

Well, I am off. The hamsters need a rest, and so do I.
I am going to rotate the air in my tires. Again.

850 Killian Bundy  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:06:02pm

Sonds a bit like Wagner.

/as they all retreat behind their miniture plywood temple

851 Lynn B.  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:06:02pm

The video and the music remind me of nothing so much as the grand finale of a melodramatic film. All that's left is for the words "The End" to scroll up the screen.

Followed, of course, by the credits.

852 Jetpilot1101  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:06:30pm

What a letdown. 70 Thousand have to get home now.

I think Brit Hume's head is going to pop off. Hint: stop soaking cork Brit.

853 devil in baggy pants  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:06:34pm

Okay, is it just me or does the set look like somebody took an exacto knife and cut out those "windows" today?

It looks like total shit close up.

/ former set builder

854 big L  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:06:53pm

I am going to take some of the bomber articles and leave them in the news basket at Starbucks. make sure they get out. Same with Mcdonalds,.

855 HD Woman  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:07:25pm

Cut taxes = make the Bush tax cuts permanent?

856 Lynn B.  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:07:36pm

Poor Juan.

857 Jetpilot1101  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:08:08pm

Juan Williams didn't like the speech. WOW!

858 Tilly  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:08:22pm

I am really surprised that they had all those fire works.....

The secret service must have been not happy about that showmanship!

859 devil in baggy pants  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:08:33pm

He is ripping Obama a new one.

860 Defogger  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:08:41pm

This "little" speech clearly shows that Obama knows that the only way he can get elected is to sound like a conservative! Phony as a 3-dollar bill.

861 FightingBack  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:08:58pm

I think Juan's been reading LGF

862 Jetpilot1101  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:09:22pm

Bill Kristol is an idiot.

863 BlueCanuck  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:09:25pm

re: #832 metal man

You better not insult little old ladies. A lovely litttleoldlady brings us fruitcup in the morning, so mind your p's and q's. :)

864 devil in baggy pants  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:09:39pm

Bill Kristol has been smoking many drugs to think he met and/or surpassed expectations with that speech.

865 Beller0ph1  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:09:40pm

And McCain gets more money from me tonight after watching The 0 have constipation of the brain and diarrhea of the mouth.

866 Cognito  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:09:43pm

So Juan Williams didn't like the speech, but Bill Kristol loved it?

/Armageddon here we come

867 PatrioticNaturalizedAmerican  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:09:44pm

OK, did anybody else notice that Obama was essentially adhering to Republican talking points?

868 melinwy  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:09:58pm

Anyone else feel they just watched a made for TV movie?

869 Valentina  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:10:04pm

Disappointing speech...just a repeat of so many lefty speeches...nothing new and no real details his programs.
The set was a waste from the standpoint of the TV audiences and big screens...the brown wood with peachy walls didn't work for me...looking down on the set, the backdrop reminds me of Spinal Tap's "Stonehenge"...this ain't no Lincoln Memorial or White House!
The fireworks are neat, once they got going....

If I'd waited all day in the arena for this, I would have been HUGELY DISAPPOINTED...

All in all, I'm not worried....GO MCCAIN!

870 MandyManners  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:10:39pm

I just knew they'd play Springsteen's America-sucks song.

871 jcm  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:10:39pm

Any one else have trouble with LGF, seems to me the hamster are struggling.

872 mountb  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:10:41pm

re: #768 kevinmumaw

Heh ... would that were possible -- it's still winter down here!

873 Cognito  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:11:04pm

re: #867 PatrioticNaturalizedAmerican

OK, did anybody else notice that Obama was essentially adhering to Republican talking points?

Eh? Do you mean the higher corporate taxes? Or the lack of free trade?

874 FightingBack  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:11:31pm

Average American (Fatherless) Family?

875 Syrah  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:11:38pm

re: #848 buzzsawmonkey

An Elvis classic . . .

876 big L  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:11:46pm

831- yeah and lets have Obama and Biden hug and the two wives hug and the husbands and the wives hug etc. Yuck and degrading and inappropriate. This is not a bunch of engineers going to Applebees. This is for the Presidency of the USA. No PDAs, No "coats off" and "sleeves rolled" imagery. Grow up. This is not a pick-up B-Ball game. Peoples lives are at stake.

877 reine.de.tout  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:11:47pm

..

878 Jetpilot1101  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:11:54pm

re: #871 jcm

Any one else have trouble with LGF, seems to me the hamster are struggling.

I think we are overloading the hamsters.

879 Bobblehead  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:12:11pm

I just went to McCain's web site and donated what
I could to his campaign. I urge you all to do the same. If this doofus is elected we are so screwed.

i

880 Intrepid  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:12:34pm

re: #779 Kosh's Shadow

This speech reminds me I have to take out the trash.

Hee - it made me have to run off to the ladies' room!

Same difference. Waste disposal.

881 Bobibutu  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:12:42pm

Well ... I missed the past few days ... just posted a few topside stories and skipped the threads ... great comments now - skimming - and looks like I saved myself some major brain bleach time.

Safari is hangin' in there.

882 Colonel Panik  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:12:49pm

Michael Steel on Fox News Strategy Room stream slamming Obama's speech as empty rhetoric.

McCain/Steele '08

883 avspatti  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:12:50pm

re: #534 pegcity

Is Obama running for the leadership of the NDP up here in Canada?

Please, take him.

884 capitalistincharge  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:12:53pm

these idiot talking heads are so out of touch....what Brit Hume is now going to vote for Barack?

885 big L  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:12:57pm

I'm going on M'Cain's web-site and donating some dough.

886 lifeofthemind  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:12:58pm

He did have the cajones to say, "When you do not have accomplishments you attack your opponent?"

I think he just gave $500 billion or more to Canada

887 Beller0ph1  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:13:12pm

McCain has a really classy video for 0 on the homepage. I doubt 0bama will have the same when McCain accepts the Republican nomination.

888 Proud to be American  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:13:26pm

re: #862 Jetpilot1101

Bill Kristol is an idiot.


Please don't insult idiots.

889 Killian Bundy  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:13:26pm

re: #862 Jetpilot1101

Bill Kristol is an idiot.

/but he's a perpetually happy idiot

890 MandyManners  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:13:36pm

I hope the Republicans in charge of our convention watched in order to see what NOT to do.

891 rw in san diego  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:13:42pm

I wonder how everyone under the bus likes the Greek temple that showed up?

892 Athos  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:13:43pm

re: #878 Jetpilot1101

CHANGE!

Save the Hamsters!

CHANGE!

893 reine.de.tout  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:13:51pm

re: #879 Bobblehead

I just went to McCain's web site and donated what
I could to his campaign. I urge you all to do the same. If this doofus is elected we are so screwed.

i

I made my very first political contribution the other day, to the McCain campaign.

894 FightingBack  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:14:17pm

In what way was that "magnificently delivered?"
He read it off the telep, angrily & with a scowl.

895 neocon hippie  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:14:18pm

Like the other speeches this week, he hit all the notes for the faithful, and made those of us who are unconvinced even more so. But I'm not sure this will swing the undecideds. I guess it will come down to whether or not he'll bring out enough young voters, blacks, illegals and vote fraud to counteract the women and conservative Dems he will lose. Plus the GOP has to hit its own GOTV hard.

896 stevieray  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:14:31pm

re: #853 devil in baggy pants

Okay, is it just me or does the set look like somebody took an exacto knife and cut out those "windows" today?

It looks like total shit close up.

/ former set builder

They probably did make them today... I think they got so much grief over Mount Olympus, they had to do a slap-dash redesign.

897 MandyManners  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:14:35pm

Close to 1,000 in an hour.

898 cliffster  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:14:49pm

re: #878 Jetpilot1101

I think we are overloading the hamsters.

The php needs some tnt.

899 sngnsgt  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:14:49pm

re: #32 really grumpy big dog Johnson

What is that pin he's wearing? Is it the tiniest flag pin in the world?

It doesn't look like an American flag.

900 Maui Girl  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:14:55pm

re: #869 Valentina

Lt. Gov. Michael Steele basically said same thing. All heard before, no substance. Nice and flashy, etc.

901 Opinionated  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:15:00pm

To summarize the speech.

America sucks. The only thing that will save us is Obama the Magnificent and his magic wand he named "change".

902 devil in baggy pants  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:15:18pm

Chrissy Wallace: "an exceedingly smart speech"

GAH

903 fat bastard vegetarian  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:15:26pm

Can't believe I'm proud of not being able to log on. Congratulations Charles.

Haven't read comments....obviously just got here.

Couldn't help but thinking these words during the...

"Oh. You not Bill Gates?" speech....

"How."

904 Jetpilot1101  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:15:36pm

Chris Wallace is going loony. Must be the stench of the delegates and all the weed they were smoking.

905 Athos  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:16:01pm

Interesting on the bio film of Barry - I don't recall any reference to living in Indonesia or his education in the Saul Alinsky school of socialism and thuggery.

906 mattm  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:16:09pm

I just gave some money to McCain. If he uses the gold BHO has goveh him soon, he will get more.

907 Killian Bundy  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:16:23pm

re: #882 Colonel Panik

McCain/Steele '08

/looking more and more like it's going to be T-Paw

908 Reno911  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:16:25pm

BHO jumped the shark tonight...

909 razorbacker  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:16:39pm

re: #813 buzzsawmonkey

The Perpetual Scowl of the Incompetent Supervisor™.

I'm going to give you a free pass on the next two bad puns for that.

*Stealing it*

910 devil in baggy pants  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:16:40pm

I wonder if his lapel pin had 57 states on it...

911 rw in san diego  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:17:00pm

re: #884 capitalistincharge

Yikes! I didn't mean to ding you down. I was clicking on new comments and my recalcitrant mouse was in the wrong place. I apologize.

912 Dahveed  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:17:15pm

It was a good speech for the liberals. He is pretty much giving everything to everyone.

913 Jetpilot1101  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:17:23pm

Where can I buy an AK-47?

914 Occasional Reader  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:17:23pm

re: #893 reine.de.tout

I made my very first political contribution the other day, to the McCain campaign.

Me, too. But I made it about 15 minutes ago, during Barry's speech. HEH!

915 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:17:25pm

re: #906 mattm

I just gave some money to McCain. If he uses the gold BHO has goveh him soon, he will get more.

I'm giving more as well. Might as well, if 0bama wins, the government will take it.

916 Russkilitlover  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:17:25pm

Guess I missed the party - dogs needed walking and wanted a swim, too. Then dinner and...voila! Everyone is chatting about how the speech "was." Can someone sum it up for me in two ways? 1. How does LGF feel, and 2. How will this speech play in the subsequent MSM stories?

917 vbspurs  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:17:42pm

I hate to sound emotional, but I can feel butterflies in my stomach -- the kind you get during an upside-down roller-coaster ride.

I can't take this. I don't like McCain. He's a RINO and doesn't really represent my world view.

But so help me, I will try to do everything legitimately possible to allow him to win. I don't ever want to feel this dejected and insulted by a speech again.

918 Lynn B.  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:17:43pm

Don't know what Bill Kristol (and now Chris Wallace) is smoking tonight, but it doesn't matter. Bill Kristol isn't going to vote for Obama no matter how much he liked his speech. The fact that Juan Williams was disappointed says a lot.

I don't think Juan has ever been a big Obama fan, but he was starting to get into it the last few days. This is bad news for Obama's convention bump.

919 metal man  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:17:51pm

re: #863 BlueCanuck

That was the reason for my misspelled addition. don't want to screw up the fruit cup:)

920 Syrah  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:17:53pm

While the speechifiying was taking place in the Mile High Stadium, I was sitting down to Lamb Vindaloo, Bhindi Masala and Garlic Naan at a little waterfront town on the sound.

I am so stuffed I can hardly sit comfortably.

Eat, Drink and be Merry, for tomorrow, that narcissistic clown could be President.

921 Jetpilot1101  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:17:54pm

Time for bed, see you all tomorrow.

922 fat bastard vegetarian  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:18:00pm

re: #911 rw in san diego

recalcitrant ?

Nice.

923 DistantThunder  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:18:05pm

re: #845 Cognito

So is this weird end-of-movie music actually playing in the stadium, or just on television?

The music was very threatening and ominous.

924 Occasional Reader  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:18:26pm

re: #913 Jetpilot1101

Where can I buy an AK-47?

My car is parked around back. Meet me there in 10 minutes.

925 rp1138  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:18:36pm

All sound and fury, signifying nothing.

926 Maui Girl  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:18:37pm

re: #901 Opinionated

To summarize the speech.

America sucks. The only thing that will save us is Obama the Magnificent and his magic wand he named "change".

And then he had the gall to say that this election is NOT all about him. Just after he finished spewing all the changes HE was going make (not HOW mind you) I just about choked.

927 doppelganglander  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:18:46pm

I just pulled the trigger on my first campaign contribution ever -- $25 to John McCain. I'll probably donate to the RNC after the convention, too.

928 yesandno  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:19:02pm

re: #891 rw in san diego

I wonder how everyone under the bus likes the Greek temple that showed up?

LOL!

929 JCM  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:19:13pm

re: #913 Jetpilot1101

Where can I buy an AK-47?

WA they are legal (semi), I bought American instead.

930 FightingBack  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:19:37pm

re: #916 Russkilitlover

Guess I missed the party - dogs needed walking and wanted a swim, too. Then dinner and...voila! Everyone is chatting about how the speech "was." Can someone sum it up for me in two ways? 1. How does LGF feel, and 2. How will this speech play in the subsequent MSM stories?

1. Same old, Same old.
2. Change!

931 JCM  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:19:52pm

Lizards!

A Toast!

To President John Foster McCain!

932 reine.de.tout  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:20:03pm

re: #918 Lynn B.

Don't know what Bill Kristol (and now Chris Wallace) is smoking tonight, but it doesn't matter. Bill Kristol isn't going to vote for Obama no matter how much he liked his speech. The fact that Juan Williams was disappointed says a lot.

I don't think Juan has ever been a big Obama fan, but he was starting to get into it the last few days. This is bad news for Obama's convention bump.

I agree, Juan has not seemed like a big Obama fan, but earlier tonight, he did seem to get a little choked up over the historic nomination of a black man. I wondered, though . . . who will he vote for?

933 Cognito  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:20:49pm

Krauthammer, at last.

934 opnion  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:20:51pm

re: #908 Reno911

BHO jumped the shark tonight...


I think so. There are a lot of sound bites for attack ads.

935 DistantThunder  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:20:58pm

I feel nauseous at having been condescended to by an arrogant, absurd little man.

And why does Carter get to call him a "Black Boy" without any repercussions?

936 PSGInfinity  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:21:06pm

I thought it was a fine speech. Emotionally nuanced. Smoothly delivered. A fine balance of specificity and common theme, delivered to a crowd that clearly loves America and can't abide what's happening to it.

Question: Where has this Democratic Party been for forty years?

937 Occasional Reader  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:21:15pm

I agree with Kristol, by the way, that this was a "good" speech, IN POLITICAL TERMS. Not meaning I agree with the substance, etc.

938 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:21:26pm

re: #916 Russkilitlover

Guess I missed the party - dogs needed walking and wanted a swim, too. Then dinner and...voila! Everyone is chatting about how the speech "was." Can someone sum it up for me in two ways? 1. How does LGF feel, and 2. How will this speech play in the subsequent MSM stories?

He was angry; it stopped short of calling for revolution; just change.
He promised more than all the other would-be-presidents ever have - cheap health care, good jobs that cannot be sent abroad, cheap fuel, college for everyone, and anything else you could imagine. And also 95% of the working families wouldn't have to pay any taxes.
Anyone who buys this speech, I have a bridge to sell.
And as I said, he was angry. He is a Sith Lord, turning the Dems to the dark side of the force.

I think he blew the election. He hasn't crashed and burned yet, but he blew out his engines.

Lizard summary: Most are giving money to McCain after this.

939 MandyManners  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:21:37pm

re: #906 mattm

I just gave some money to McCain. If he uses the gold BHO has goveh him soon, he will get more.

I wonder how much McCain's gonna' get tonight.

940 Lynn B.  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:21:39pm

What I want to know is ... how many people in this crowd were at Woodstock?

941 Maui Girl  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:21:44pm

re: #932 reine.de.tout

Maybe Michael Steele will run in four years.

942 Russkilitlover  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:21:50pm

re: #930 FightingBack

1. Same old, Same old.
2. Change!

Oh, good. So I didn't waste an hour or so of my life? And my dogs are so happy, and wet, and tired, that it's all worth it!

943 Noam Sayin'  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:22:18pm

Apparently the storm has subsided.

Wow. got knocked off and it was awful tough getting logged in again.

944 Athos  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:22:25pm

re: #926 Maui Girl

If all of those changes were needed, and the Democrats controlled Congress, why weren't any of those introduced into bills and sent to the President's desk?

Wouldn't it have been more powerful to have the ability to say - look we tried - Bushco stopped us - now elect me and we will finish the job?

This is just another case of political pandering - using populism and promises to mask socialism. Lots of promises of bigger government, more spending, and since almost everyone gets something they should vote for him......and ignore the repeat of 1977-1980.

945 Maui Girl  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:22:34pm

re: #936 PSGInfinity

I thought it was a fine speech. Emotionally nuanced. Smoothly delivered. A fine balance of specificity and common theme, delivered to a crowd that clearly loves America and can't abide what's happening to it.

Question: Where has this Democratic Party been for forty years?

You forgot the sarc tag.

946 PSGInfinity  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:22:38pm

re: #853 devil in baggy pants

Okay, is it just me or does the set look like somebody took an exacto knife and cut out those "windows" today? It looks like total shit close up.
/ former set builder

dibp, this former model builder agrees.

947 vbspurs  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:22:59pm

re: #931 JCM

To President John Foster McCain!

*raises champers glass*

To President John Sidney McCain III & Mitt Romney or Sarah Palin or Tim Pawlenty...or anyone who straps on a flightsuit alongside a REAL American patriot.

948 melinwy  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:23:01pm

re: #904 Jetpilot1101

Chris Wallace is going loony. Must be the stench of the delegates and all the weed they were smoking.

maybe (hopefully?) they are all just exhausted

949 devil in baggy pants  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:23:10pm

SSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHH... Krauthammer is on

950 sngnsgt  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:23:14pm

He's making promises Americans wallets can't afford. Bend over and work for Barry. You're not going to be taking much home if The Speech Giving, Community Organizer is elected!

951 rawmuse  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:23:29pm

re: #913 Jetpilot1101

Where can I buy an AK-47?

Here. Better hurry.

952 doppelganglander  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:23:33pm

re: #938 Kosh's Shadow

Lizard summary: Most are giving money to McCain after this.

So far I count Occasional Reader, reine.de.toute and myself. How many others made their first contribution tonight?

953 opnion  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:23:36pm

This was not as American as apple pie as Libs like to say.
It is redistribution of wealth by a Marxist with Islamic sympathies.

954 Cartman  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:23:45pm

Folks, if you have a few spare bucks you can live without, I'd strongly suggest handing 'em over to Sen. McCain's campaign.

955 Occasional Reader  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:23:46pm

re: #943 Noam Sayin'

Apparently the storm has subsided.

Wow. got knocked off and it was awful tough getting logged in again.

Moi aussi. It took me about 7-8 minutes to get back in.

956 JCM  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:23:48pm

re: #937 Occasional Reader

I agree with Kristol, by the way, that this was a "good" speech, IN POLITICAL TERMS. Not meaning I agree with the substance, etc.

Agreed, I tried to listen with an "open" mind. What would I think if I were undecided and knew little about BHO.

From that perspective it sounded good. It's good enough to get a bounce coming off the convention.

957 Reno911  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:23:55pm

re: #931 JCM

It's John Sidney McCain

958 PSGInfinity  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:23:56pm

re: #923 DistantThunder

The music was very threatening and ominous.

...The sort of music that introduced Emperor Palpitane?

959 Maui Girl  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:24:12pm

re: #944 Athos

I agree. Like someone mentioned earlier, only 200 bills passed since Congress under Dem. began a couple of years ago. Lowest in history.

960 doppelganglander  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:24:23pm

re: #906 mattm

I just gave some money to McCain. If he uses the gold BHO has goveh him soon, he will get more.

That's four. Anyone else?

961 mattm  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:24:31pm

McCain got got $15. If he takes the ball and runs with it, he will get more. The RNC will most likley soon follow.

962 FrogMarch  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:24:47pm

Democrats don't know how to cut taxes. Just like they don't know how to separate themselves from the teachers union.

963 Miss Molly  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:25:08pm

I wish everytime Obama's name is mentioned it would also be automatically linked to "who has only 142 days if experience in the Senate". It should be said so often that people think "142 days" is part of his middle name.

964 Occasional Reader  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:25:18pm

Link to make McCain campaign donation.

965 LaMano  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:25:37pm

Oregon State 20
Stanford 17

3rd Qtr

966 FrogMarch  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:25:43pm

Don't miss Stephen Green's drunkblogging:

“We ALL put our country first.” Unless there’s an international institution whose permission we need, or allies we need to consult, or dictators we need to talk to, or domestic terrorists we need to help launch our political careers.

967 FightingBack  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:26:02pm

re: #963 Miss Molly

I wish everytime Obama's name is mentioned it would also be automatically linked to "who has only 142 days if experience in the Senate". It should be said so often that people think "142 days" is part of his middle name.

We're not allowed to say his middle name.

968 mattm  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:26:49pm

re: #952 doppelganglander

So far I count Occasional Reader, reine.de.toute and myself. How many others made their first contribution tonight?

1st to McCain, not 1st donation of the campaign.

969 PSGInfinity  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:27:08pm

re: #945 Maui Girl

You forgot the sarc tag.

I wasn't being sarcastic. I WILL put my asbestos undies on. But the speech, as a speech, went really well. Barack did a good job.

So I guess the real question is, does eight tough years cancel forty near-treasonous ones?

970 Valentina  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:27:18pm

This speech reminds me of when I was a lefty (before G.W.Bush)and believed the lefty nominee would do everything they said they were going to do...Progressive promises to get nominated before going to the center to get elected. But Obama actually scares me, because I think he will actually try to implement Socialist policies...WITH VERY AUTHORITIVE, TOTALINISTIC METHODS!

MAUI GIRL:
I wish Michael Steele was in the running!

971 dry_heavz_4_alla  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:27:31pm

This site is running especially slow for me tonight, and I haven't been able to keep up with all the comments, but did anyone catch his veiled threats against Pakistan? This on top of Bill Richardson's comments. All the talk about going after OBsAMA BIn laDEN "wherever he is" ... with the implication that we know he's in a cave in Pakistan. Someone needs to call him on this. They might not be so bold as to nuke our ships in the Persian Gulf, but they might also not be beyond "losing" a nuke to someone who'd do worse. Those 2 Pakistani guys he use to room with (and traveled to Pakistan with) must have really pissed him off or something.

972 FightingBack  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:27:54pm

Love the nice McCain ad (the Job Well Done one)

973 avspatti  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:27:55pm

OK, this just stinks and is terrifying at the same time. Where is the critical thinking? Where is the knowledge of history? Where is the common sense? I'll tell you where they all are . . . they have all been thrown under the bus by the government/ public schools and their teachers. I know. I recently went back to a public HS. for three years to teach, and I was APPALLED at all the cr*p that goes on. I have always been a proponent of the public schools; not anymore. They have so totally dumbed down education that this idiotic mass idolatry of Obama is the result. People cannot think their way out of a paper sack. We are doomed if education isn't changed. I feel seriously like weeping for our dear country.

974 FrogMarch  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:28:00pm

Obama is a liar when it comes to debates. He keeps whining about how he wants to debate McCain - but Obama said no to 10 debates with McCain.

Obama is all marketing.

975 Sharmuta  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:28:02pm

Obama promised utopia if we'd only vote for him.

976 fat bastard vegetarian  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:28:06pm

re: #891 rw in san diego

I wonder how everyone under the bus likes the Greek temple that showed up?

Obama Ex Machina

977 Percopius  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:28:07pm

What would Rove do?

978 doppelganglander  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:28:07pm

Did anyone else see McCain's congratulations ad? Very classy.

979 Lynn B.  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:28:10pm

McCain steps up with a "job well done, Senator" ad. "Tomorrow we'll be back at it, but for tonight ..."

Classy.

980 J.S.  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:28:53pm

CNN is now interviewing all the Obamatons -- they're all "overcome" and crying and weeping and sobbing (haven't heard about any faintings -- yet)...What lame brains.

981 Irish Rose  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:29:20pm

Your typical Dem candidacy speech.... full of big talk, glowing promises, empty, feel-good promises, and breathless ideology.

The hell with "historical significance" and unbridled idealism... these are tough, perilous times for the US and it's time for some straight talk and a harsh reality check.

It's time to wake the masses from their hypnotic, starstruck slumber.

Bring on the Maverick.

982 Ward Cleaver  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:29:26pm

Wow, LGF very slow. Got the low-res version a minute ago. Time for a new thread, Charles.

983 DistantThunder  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:29:53pm

It's like Puppy Love with Donny Osmond.

984 Ward Cleaver  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:29:58pm

re: #980 J.S.

CNN is now interviewing all the Obamatons -- they're all "overcome" and crying and weeping and sobbing (haven't heard about any faintings -- yet)...What lame brains.

Sheep.

/baaaaaaaaa!

985 Russkilitlover  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:30:04pm

re: #938 Kosh's Shadow

Lizard summary: Most are giving money to McCain after this.

Just gave $35 to McCain campaign...all that my dwindling severance would comfortably allow me to do. I hope it's the best $35 I've ever spent. And if I get employment prior to November, I'll knock that up a bit.

986 ciaospirit  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:30:31pm

re: #967 FightingBack

We're not allowed to say his middle name.

Brit Hume said in his post show comments. I wonder if he'll get chewed out for it.

987 fat bastard vegetarian  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:30:48pm

re: #980 J.S.

Seen the same with "The Beatles"

Unfortunately, however....Obama is the "Monkees".

988 yesandno  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:31:03pm

re: #936 PSGInfinity

I thought it was a fine speech. Emotionally nuanced. Smoothly delivered. A fine balance of specificity and common theme, delivered to a crowd that clearly loves America and can't abide what's happening to it.

Question: Where has this Democratic Party been for forty years?

IT was a speech of feeling....

You don't feel good about your life or the life of your neighbor. We will make you feel good. We don't have to solve the problem to do that, only free you from the responsibility of having to work things out on your own. Yes, all about how you feel about things...

No reality of how life is. That responsibility begins at home. We don't need emotionally nuanced...that is another way of lying. We need a dose of reality. If you can't afford a home, don't buy one. If you can't afford school, do it a little at a time. Wear last years clothes. Work it out, grow up, and help your neighbor...but don't help yourself to what your neighbor has...you are not entitiled to that.

989 FrogMarch  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:31:10pm

Hard to imagine why pro-democrat media bias is so prevalent?

Yahoo news writers were jumping for joy!

990 TnTx13  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:31:15pm

re: #982 Ward Cleaver

Wow, LGF very slow. Got the low-res version a minute ago. Time for a new thread, Charles.

Yeah, I've missed the last 500 or so comments...

991 Killian Bundy  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:31:24pm

Well, whatever you make of tonight's unholy spectacle, it proves one thing, without a doubt.

/this arrogant assclown doesn't have a [expletive deleted] clue what fiscal responsibility means

992 Typicalwhitey  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:31:31pm

Yeah his congratulations ad right after obambi ripped him.

Very classy

993 DistantThunder  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:31:31pm

re: #985 Russkilitlover

Just gave $35 to McCain campaign...all that my dwindling severance would comfortably allow me to do. I hope it's the best $35 I've ever spent. And if I get employment prior to November, I'll knock that up a bit.

It's only a fraction of the new taxes you'll pay under Obama - my property taxes went up $1000 this year in New Jersey.

994 Syrah  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:31:34pm

re: #975 Sharmuta

Obama promised utopia if we'd only vote for him.

. . . the god-state. . .

995 Occasional Reader  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:31:35pm

I just donated $500,000 to the McCain campaign.

No, really.

I am writing from my yacht, by the way. Which is anchored next to my mansion.

996 ciaospirit  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:31:55pm

re: #977 Percopius

What would Rove do?

He's on Fox now.

997 chukardog  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:32:21pm

wonder what kind of bounce the princess obama will get from this truely pathetic speech. So far he only has a 1 point bounce. Could this be the lowest poll bounce in history? hope so

998 DistantThunder  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:32:26pm

Rove saying obama was negative....

999 Archimedes  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:32:28pm

When is his buddy Bill Ayers coming out on stage?

1000 Ward Cleaver  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:32:56pm

Meanwhile, the Kos Kidz are fawning:

Job well done, Senator Obama. And I doubt McCain is looking forward to being "back at it" tomorrow after the bruising he received tonight.

Yawn.

Update by brownsox: I have never seen Barack Obama give a better speech. I have never seen anyone give a better political speech.

1001 Cartman  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:33:03pm

I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I thought the speach was just more of the same tired old Dem rhetoric. Maybe with an extra dose of implied socialistic promise sprinkled in, but still the same old shit, IMO.

1002 devil in baggy pants  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:33:03pm

Karl Rove is a fucking GENIUS.

1003 DistantThunder  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:33:14pm

negative politicians - hostile politicians don't win

1004 Syrah  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:33:21pm

re: #999 Archimedes

When is his buddy Bill Ayers coming out on stage?

As soon as someone throws down a US flag for him to walk on.

1005 fat bastard vegetarian  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:33:44pm

Okay. G'night John Boy.

1006 Irish Rose  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:33:47pm

re: #979 Lynn B.

McCain steps up with a "job well done, Senator" ad. "Tomorrow we'll be back at it, but for tonight ..."

Classy.

link?

1007 Ward Cleaver  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:34:01pm

re: #999 Archimedes

When is his buddy Bill Ayers coming out on stage?

He's chained in his basement.

1008 Fat Jolly Penguin  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:34:20pm

Well, I only caught the last few seconds of the bloviating -- which is probably good, since those few seconds got me really worked up. All that talk about marching united into our future seemed very creepy to me.

1009 Russkilitlover  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:34:28pm

re: #1006 Irish Rose

link?

Check prior threads. It's out there.

1010 vbspurs  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:34:40pm

I just donated. Please count me in the rollcall of Lizards.

Thank you for your generous contribution.

Please note, your contribution will be listed as "EDonation" on your next billing statement.

1011 Lynn B.  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:34:40pm

Rove so gets it.

1012 Ward Cleaver  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:34:51pm

re: #1008 Fat Jolly Penguin

Well, I only caught the last few seconds of the bloviating -- which is probably good, since those few seconds got me really worked up. All that talk about marching united into our future seemed very creepy to me.

The Long March!

1013 loppyd  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:35:08pm

Other than the first say 5 to 7 minutes I missed the whole thing because our car just got broken into.

F*ckers.

1014 Fat Jolly Penguin  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:35:25pm

re: #1006 Irish Rose

link?

From Hot Air.

1015 Russkilitlover  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:35:50pm

re: #1012 Ward Cleaver

The Long March!

There goes the Navajo vote!

1016 6pat6  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:36:04pm

Good Lord, after listening to B-HO and those that preceded him tonight, at the steps of the Parthenon, I swear, my brain is ready to explode! I could only stomach about five minutes each of Dickhead Durbin and the Goreacle, though. People actually believe what these crooks say! People think this bunch is gong to "save" our great nation! People are actually going to VOTE for these bastards!

I pray with all my being that these people get soundly defeated 67 days from now. If there were EVER a time for decent Americans with a conscience, with a sense of knowing what being an American really means, and with a soul, vote against these "progressive" mouth-breathing maggots! Get out and campaign against them! Let your friends know where you stand!

NOBAMA '08!

1017 Defogger  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:36:29pm

re: #867 PatrioticNaturalizedAmerican

Yep. See my #860.

1018 Killian Bundy  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:36:39pm

Well, Greta's got a wet crotch.

/wonder where Geraldo is?

1019 J.S.  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:37:05pm

re: #987 fat bastard vegetarian

Up here in Canada we've got that CBC (taxpayer funded) series called "Little Mosque on the Prairie" -- and you can only guess how they're marketing the show...no, they're not using The Monkees...they're Using The Beetles...all the album covers the Beetles used are now superimposed with the Muslim actors...that's the promo for the series...comparing the "Fab 4" with the Muslims in the series...(I'm self-censoring my response to this -- we do not have Free Speech in Canada.)

1020 Irish Rose  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:37:08pm

re: #1009 Russkilitlover

Check prior threads. It's out there.

I have to go to bed, and LGF is moving slower than a stoned turtle for me.

Never mind.

1021 Valentina  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:37:17pm

#978
Did anyone else see McCain's congratulations ad? Very classy.

I AGREE!

1022 Occasional Reader  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:37:22pm

What the fuck?

FOX NEWS, of all people, just cut off one of their guys reading the McCain campaign rebuttal to go the Greta van Sustren for the "Breaking News"... that "Obama accepts nomination".

Fucking ridiculous. Pardon my French.

1023 BlueCanuck  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:37:24pm

re: #987 fat bastard vegetarian

Seen the same with "The Beatles"

Unfortunately, however....Obama is the "Monkees".

Ahhhh, the "Prefab Four". :)

1024 Pawn of the Oppressor  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:37:25pm

Tried to post earlier and my post got eaten by an outage... Hope I don't repeat too much.

I have to hand it to him: The guy does an awesome job of playing a President on television. Durbin is a good speaker too. It seems Obama is at his most genuine when he's talking about his own family. Beyond that, his understanding of the mechanisms of capitalism are non-existent, and his mental model of foreign policy is as solid as an Obama statue made of warm swiss cheese in an earthquake.

As for content, it was the standard Democrat we're-all-going-to-die-poor-and-miserable-unless-y ou-vote-for-us boilerplate mixed with tidbits ripped off from Reagan and JFK, and sugar-coated with Mocha Messianism. He didn't actually say anything concrete, he just strung together a bunch of platitudes in a preacher's voice and relied on his charisma to carry it.

Did anybody catch all the rhetorical tricks? Things I noticed:

- He's been watching Bill Clinton carefully to prepare. That skeezy Arkansas-esque accent came out whenever he started talking about Free Stuff For Little People.

- Bush. McCain. BushMcCain. McBushMcCainMcBush! McCainBush! BushMcCain! MCCAIN IS BUSH! MCAIN IS BUSH! OBEY! OBEY!

- "I'm not qualified, but I mean well." That's "I feel your pain" re-written for a more gullible audience, bro.

- "It's about you", feel-good appeals to narcissism. You ask, we deliver, we're here for you, we care, we'll give you everything, we give you what you want, we reflect your needs, we're symbols of your every hope and longing, et cetera, et cetera. We care a lot about you people, we care a lot about your guns! We care about your wars, gee that looks like fun! (No wait, he didn't say that...)

- "I have ideas, but when we have debates, we should forget about ideas at all, because this is all new. Old ideas are bad, and bad people have old ideas, but I have new ideas. Just don't ask me what they are because it's time for new ideas." Huh?

- "Children and people who are children at heart" - Obama knows his audience. "Snort".

- AK-47s on the streets... Laugh Out Loud.

- Projection which would make Freud wet himself. "They make the election about small things" "They try to make you scared by associating you with bad things" Um, 1. Big Things are made up of smaller things, and 2. Isn't that exactly what you're doing with the McCain-Bush mantra?

- Oh yeah, and us cynics out here in the audience who don't Believe and Hope for Change? We just don't understand.

I'm afraid I do understand, Barry. I understand all too well.

I was channel-surfing looking for decent HD coverage and when I ended up on CNN the goofy looking guy with white hair was talking to the black lady commentator about how her dad had fought in Korea, and how "veterans of the cultural wars of the 60s" were happy now too. For f-ck's sake... Equating a bunch of narcissistic leftist college kids with Korean war veterans? What boggles my mind about this whole Obama phenomenon is the complete lack of internal consistency. Nothing means anything in a broader context, the whole universe is just made of cute little floating metaphors that can be re-arranged at will to fill an emotional need. God I hate these people.

DON'T THINK, JUST BELIEVE! DON'T QUESTION, JUST HOPE!

1025 Dublin(CA)Dude  Thu, Aug 28, 2008 8:37:39pm