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11.08.2008
11.06.2008
Letterman election night recap
Katie Couric said "Neil Sedaka". All it needed was this guy. And Tits McGee.
America is a bluish center-left nation
Let's stop this center-right horseshit. Did you see the election results? 7.7 million mote votes. 68% of the electoral vote. 6 new Senate seats.Then there's this map
According to Gallup, on the issues, Americans...
...are pro-choice (67 percent)
...support the Geneva Conventions with regards to torture (57 percent)
...don't want the government snooping in their bank and internet records (67 percent)
...want the USA Patriot Act changed or eliminated entirely (81 percent)
...support protecting the environment at the expense of economic growth (55 percent)
...believe that global warming is happening (86 percent)
...believe that it's the government's responsibility to provide health care (69 percent)
...support the decriminalization of marijuana (55 percent) and support the legalization of medical marijuana (78 percent)
...are opposed to attacking Iran (68 percent, according to a CNN Poll)
...support labor unions (60 percent)
...want government funding of embryonic stem cell research (56 percent)
...believe that free trade hurts American workers (65 percent)
...believe rich people and corporations aren't paying enough taxes (66 and 71 percent respectively)
Overall party affiliation? 54 percent of Americans are Democrats (with leaners) and 39 percent are Republicans (with leaners).
The schizophrenia continues, with extreme right-wingers insisting that America is a center-right nation, despite all of their positions being repudiated.
But the band played on. Matt Yglesias, who's been a two-day strong clearinghouse of push-back on the center-right myth, compiles this video of people insisting on the conventional wishful thinking.
Watch here:
Of course, none of this explains how the Obama got to be the candidate who, in Karl Rove's words, "smartly and wisely ran a campaign" that emphasized how center-right everyone was, TWO DAYS after being branded far and wide as a socialist radical.
Here's the Electoral Vote map from mydd.com showing the EV with the map distorted to show population. Not much red there.
Ralph Nader makes Fox look sane
Good for Shepherd Smith. But how far has Nader fallen into the crazy? Uncle Tom? He uses the phrase Uncle Tom in reference to Obama on the night he's elected the nation's first black president? Time for Ralph to toddle off to the home.
On the nose!
Not to pat myself on the back, but I will direct you to my post of November 4th where I called the election for Obama with 364 electoral votes. And as you'll note below in the NBC graphic, he got exactly that. Now, I had IN for McCain and MO for Obama, so I was only 48/50, but still on the nose electorally.
Blue America
The New York Times has some great interactive maps showing voting trends in this election, and allowing them to be compared to previous elections.
This map shows voting shifts from 2004. Areas in blue shifted towards Democrats, while areas in red shifted towards Republicans. The darker the color, the more pronounced the shift.
This map shows voting shifts from 2004. Areas in blue shifted towards Democrats, while areas in red shifted towards Republicans. The darker the color, the more pronounced the shift.
11.05.2008
The circular firing squad
First up: the dish on how totally unqualified Sarah Palin really is. She couldn't name all of the nations in North America, thought Africa was a country and not a continent, and... well, read on.
Before you go all "Nasty Democrat, piling on", this comes from FOX NEWS. That's right, The O'Reilly Factor.
Watch:
Next up is Brit Hume going all Jeff Gillooly on Karl Rove, calling Ohio for Barack Obama while Karl Rove was in the middle of an electoral map analysis that said John McCain will have a nearly impossible road to victory without Ohio.
"If he loses Ohio," Rove said of McCain, "he goes from 286, which the Republicans carried in 2004, down to 266, and that puts him below the 270 threshold needed to win the White House. So he'd not only need to sweep the rest of these states which were won by the Republicns in 2004, he'd also need to pick up something as well."
"Guess what Karl," Brit Hume broke in, "I've just received word that the state of Ohio has gone for Barack Obama."
Lastly, for now, Joe the Plumber gets his plunger pulled by CNN's Rick Sanchez during an interview on Election Day.
Sample:
Joe the Plumber: Why are you vetting me out and you haven't done this for Obama? You are asking me all these insane questions I asked a question of an elected public official and you are going to ask me these questions? That's kind of ridiculous man.
Sanchez: You have gone on the air and endorsed John McCain, you are no longer just joe private person, you have thrust yourself into this campaign by holding news conferences talking to reporters and endorsing a candidate. You have to be asked the tough questions my friend. That's the way it works in this country
Before you go all "Nasty Democrat, piling on", this comes from FOX NEWS. That's right, The O'Reilly Factor.
Watch:
Next up is Brit Hume going all Jeff Gillooly on Karl Rove, calling Ohio for Barack Obama while Karl Rove was in the middle of an electoral map analysis that said John McCain will have a nearly impossible road to victory without Ohio.
"If he loses Ohio," Rove said of McCain, "he goes from 286, which the Republicans carried in 2004, down to 266, and that puts him below the 270 threshold needed to win the White House. So he'd not only need to sweep the rest of these states which were won by the Republicns in 2004, he'd also need to pick up something as well."
"Guess what Karl," Brit Hume broke in, "I've just received word that the state of Ohio has gone for Barack Obama."
Lastly, for now, Joe the Plumber gets his plunger pulled by CNN's Rick Sanchez during an interview on Election Day.
Sample:
Joe the Plumber: Why are you vetting me out and you haven't done this for Obama? You are asking me all these insane questions I asked a question of an elected public official and you are going to ask me these questions? That's kind of ridiculous man.
Sanchez: You have gone on the air and endorsed John McCain, you are no longer just joe private person, you have thrust yourself into this campaign by holding news conferences talking to reporters and endorsing a candidate. You have to be asked the tough questions my friend. That's the way it works in this country
11.04.2008
Greek columns, huh?
I seem to remember these being an object of derision back in August.
Hypocrisy to the end.
Hypocrisy to the end.
11.03.2008
This has to touch your heart
It has to happen this year. It has to.
(Austin American-Statesman)
Daughter of slave votes for Obama
Amanda Jones, 109, the daughter of a man born into slavery, has lived a life long enough to touch three centuries. And after voting consistently as a Democrat for 70 years, she has voted early for the country's first black presidential nominee.
For at least a decade, Amanda Jones worked as a maid for $20 a month, Joyce Jones said. She was a housewife for 72 years and helped her now-deceased husband, C.L. Jones, manage a store.
Amanda Jones, a delicate, thin woman wearing golden-rimmed glasses, giggled as the family discussed this year's presidential election. She is too weak to go the polls, so two of her 10 children — Eloise Baker, 75, and Joyce Jones — helped her fill out a mail-in ballot for Barack Obama, Baker said. "I feel good about voting for him," Amanda Jones said.
Jones' father herded sheep as a slave until he was 12, according to the family, and once he was freed, he was a farmer who raised cows, hogs and turkeys on land he owned. Her mother was born right after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, Joyce Jones said. The family owned more than 100 acres of land in Cedar Creek at one point, she said.
Amanda Jones' father urged her to exercise her right to vote, despite discriminatory practices at the polls and poll taxes meant to keep black and poor people from voting. Those practices were outlawed for federal elections with the 24th Amendment in 1964, but not for state and local races in Texas until 1966.
Amanda Jones says she cast her first presidential vote for Franklin Roosevelt, but she doesn't recall which of his four terms that was. When she did vote, she paid a poll tax, her daughters said. That she is able, for the first time, to vote for a black presidential nominee for free fills her with joy, Jones said.
(Austin American-Statesman)
Daughter of slave votes for Obama
Amanda Jones, 109, the daughter of a man born into slavery, has lived a life long enough to touch three centuries. And after voting consistently as a Democrat for 70 years, she has voted early for the country's first black presidential nominee.For at least a decade, Amanda Jones worked as a maid for $20 a month, Joyce Jones said. She was a housewife for 72 years and helped her now-deceased husband, C.L. Jones, manage a store.
Amanda Jones, a delicate, thin woman wearing golden-rimmed glasses, giggled as the family discussed this year's presidential election. She is too weak to go the polls, so two of her 10 children — Eloise Baker, 75, and Joyce Jones — helped her fill out a mail-in ballot for Barack Obama, Baker said. "I feel good about voting for him," Amanda Jones said.
Jones' father herded sheep as a slave until he was 12, according to the family, and once he was freed, he was a farmer who raised cows, hogs and turkeys on land he owned. Her mother was born right after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, Joyce Jones said. The family owned more than 100 acres of land in Cedar Creek at one point, she said.
Amanda Jones' father urged her to exercise her right to vote, despite discriminatory practices at the polls and poll taxes meant to keep black and poor people from voting. Those practices were outlawed for federal elections with the 24th Amendment in 1964, but not for state and local races in Texas until 1966.
Amanda Jones says she cast her first presidential vote for Franklin Roosevelt, but she doesn't recall which of his four terms that was. When she did vote, she paid a poll tax, her daughters said. That she is able, for the first time, to vote for a black presidential nominee for free fills her with joy, Jones said.
Awesome sauce and other toppings
Samantha Bee, Women's "Health" and Air Quotes - or dickfingers
This is corny, but it's still awesome
Spotting Dirty Tricks
This is corny, but it's still awesome
Spotting Dirty Tricks
The Best of Obama
'The Audacity of Hope' | The 2004 DNC Keynote Address
July 27, 2004
'A More Perfect Union' | The Philadelphia Address
March 18, 2008
The Iowa Caucus Victory Speech
January 3, 2008
The Convention Acceptance Speech
August 28, 2008
Democratic Nomination Victory Speech
June 3, 2008
July 27, 2004
'A More Perfect Union' | The Philadelphia Address
March 18, 2008
The Iowa Caucus Victory Speech
January 3, 2008
The Convention Acceptance Speech
August 28, 2008
Democratic Nomination Victory Speech
June 3, 2008
Palin: Press criticism violates 1st Amendment
(ABC News)
In a conservative radio interview that aired in Washington, D.C. Friday morning, Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin said she fears her First Amendment rights may be threatened by "attacks" from reporters who suggest she is engaging in a negative campaign against Barack Obama.
"If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations," Palin told host Chris Plante, "then I don't know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media."
(Salon)
If anything, Palin has this exactly backwards, since one thing that the First Amendment does actually guarantee is a free press. Thus, when the press criticizes a political candidate and a Governor such as Palin, that is a classic example of First Amendment rights being exercised, not abridged.
This isn't only about profound ignorance regarding our basic liberties, though it is obviously that. Palin here is also giving voice here to the standard right-wing grievance instinct: that it's inherently unfair when they're criticized. And now, apparently, it's even unconstitutional.
According to Palin, what the Founders intended with the First Amendment was that political candidates for the most powerful offices in the country and Governors of states would be free to say whatever they want without being criticized in the newspapers. The First Amendment was meant to ensure that powerful political officials would not be "attacked" in the papers. It is even possible to imagine more breathaking ignorance from someone holding high office and running for even higher office?
(Me)
It sounds like Palin is all in favor of renewing John Adams' Alien and Sedition Acts making it illegal to criticize the government. Or perhaps rery John Peter Zenger.
In a conservative radio interview that aired in Washington, D.C. Friday morning, Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin said she fears her First Amendment rights may be threatened by "attacks" from reporters who suggest she is engaging in a negative campaign against Barack Obama.
"If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations," Palin told host Chris Plante, "then I don't know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media."
(Salon)
If anything, Palin has this exactly backwards, since one thing that the First Amendment does actually guarantee is a free press. Thus, when the press criticizes a political candidate and a Governor such as Palin, that is a classic example of First Amendment rights being exercised, not abridged.
This isn't only about profound ignorance regarding our basic liberties, though it is obviously that. Palin here is also giving voice here to the standard right-wing grievance instinct: that it's inherently unfair when they're criticized. And now, apparently, it's even unconstitutional.
According to Palin, what the Founders intended with the First Amendment was that political candidates for the most powerful offices in the country and Governors of states would be free to say whatever they want without being criticized in the newspapers. The First Amendment was meant to ensure that powerful political officials would not be "attacked" in the papers. It is even possible to imagine more breathaking ignorance from someone holding high office and running for even higher office?
(Me)
It sounds like Palin is all in favor of renewing John Adams' Alien and Sedition Acts making it illegal to criticize the government. Or perhaps rery John Peter Zenger.
11.02.2008
The Who @ Borgata on Halloween
I saw The Who Halloween Friday night at the Borgata in Atlantic City. The venue can't hold more than 3000 people. It was an intimate setting and the band was incredible. What an amazing feeling to be 60 feet away from Peter Townshend.
Great setlist for the night, the highlight was the stretch from Baba to Won't Get Fooled Again, as well as Eminence Front and an amzing Sparks.
thewho.com
THE WHO PLAY ATLANTIC CITY
For their gig at the Borgata, Atlantic City, The 'Oo stuck to the same list as at the previous week's gig in Philadelphia. A good mix of greatest hits, classics and new material.
The set list ran as follows:
I Can't Explain
The Seeker
Relay
Fragments
Who Are You
Behind Blue Eyes
Real Good Looking Boy
Sister Disco
Baba O'Riley
Getting In Tune
Eminence Front
5.15
Love Reign O'er Me
My Generation
Won't Get Fooled Again
Pinball Wizard
Amazing Journey
Sparks
See Me/Feel Me
Tea And Theatre
Great setlist for the night, the highlight was the stretch from Baba to Won't Get Fooled Again, as well as Eminence Front and an amzing Sparks.
thewho.com
THE WHO PLAY ATLANTIC CITY
For their gig at the Borgata, Atlantic City, The 'Oo stuck to the same list as at the previous week's gig in Philadelphia. A good mix of greatest hits, classics and new material.
The set list ran as follows:
I Can't Explain
The Seeker
Relay
Fragments
Who Are You
Behind Blue Eyes
Real Good Looking Boy
Sister Disco
Baba O'Riley
Getting In Tune
Eminence Front
5.15
Love Reign O'er Me
My Generation
Won't Get Fooled Again
Pinball Wizard
Amazing Journey
Sparks
See Me/Feel Me
Tea And Theatre
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