If Barack Obama can't handle this dumb hick moose hunter, is he ready to deal with the likes of Vladimir Putin?
Coming into the Republican convention last week, everyone was all worried about Hurricane Gustav ripping things up. But of course it has turned out to be Hurricane Sarah that's doing the damage.…
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— go to most recent comments26 - Ruvy
I was shocked to see your vulgar use of negro ghetto slang in your headline. In English, there is no such word as "beyatch." Surely your vocabulary is not so poor that you really could not think of a real word to express your thought instead of parroting Ebonics in a headline.
And here I thought Brother Barger had dug up some Alaskan hunting term.... Silly me. I just haven't spent enough time in the 'hood with the homies, huh?
27 - Clavos
True dat.
28 - Cannonshop
Dee, so you're basically saying that you're voting not based on your own candidate's merits, achievements, record, even looks, you're just voting because he's not McCain.
I guess that's mostly acceptable, after all, I know people that only thought in 2004 as far as "He's against Bushitler" , and there are thousands of fundies out there who vote the other way with about as much thought.
While I might consider that to be pretty much voting in a state of unreason, it's your vote, and your mind. It would be nice if you were basing your attacks on SOME factual basis, though. You know, like maybe being able to show Where McCain's lied about his record?
29 - Clavos
I was shocked to see your vulgar use of negro ghetto slang in your headline.
"Shocked?" Why? Were you concerned that one of the "Negroes" had escaped from the slave quarters?
Only racists refer to African Americans as "Negroes" these days.
Thanks for the insight into your cesspool, Frank.
30 - Dave Nalle
Dee, it's just that Barger didn't think he could get away with putting the word, properly spelled in a headline without having it edited out. He was probably right.
You're right, it isn't the same guy. I think the primary loss in 2000 is what changed him, when he saw that blustery lying could go unchallenged, he embraced it, both literally (embarassing Bush man-hug) and figuratively.
This is one reason why so many are excited about the selection of Palin. It shows that McCain may actually still be that guy.
Dave
31 - Edward
The Media and the Democrats are now if a full-fledged PANIC MODE and it's priceless! They are watching this campaign slip away from them right before their very eyes! The american people are loving this.... Who is writing this script?! It must be a tough pill to swallow for the Dems.... Who would've thought that an old man with a pig could be president! Democrats are bunch of pathetic losers...
32 - dee
I'm voting for Barack because I want someone who is intelligent in the white house... not retard Bush, or old 2nd to last in my class McCain or community college redneck born and bred (Alaska highest rate of incest in the nation) Palin... its very simple... its based on who is smartest because this country has some serious problems to deal with but people like cannon are more concerned with irrelevant issues... I never claimed McCain lied about his record, I am claiming he is phony for saying he is going to change anything when his campaign is run by lobbyists, the same people who ran Bush's campaign, and when he has been part of the problem in the senate for the last twenty plus years... and he's like 80 years old... really out of touch and the debates will probably be way past his bedtime... Obama will win retards
33 - Jordan Richardson
Obama will win retards
There has to be a nicer way to say that Barack will win the Special Needs Persons' vote.
34 - dee
"There has to be a nicer way to say that Barack will win the Special Needs Persons' vote."
if they can find the voting booths that is... Palin's baby included
35 - Clavos
if they can find the voting booths that is... Palin's baby included.
Charming. Aren't you a sweet lady...
36 - Dr Dreadful
And why shouldn't kids have the vote?
Juvenile Suffrage Now!!!
37 - Rob
I hope neither John McCain gets elected or Barak Obama.
I hate Democrats as much as I do the Neo Nazi Con child molesting Republicans taking orphans from Boys Town orphanage for prostitutes.
38 - Dave Nalle
How dare you accuse Bing Crosby of that.
Dave
39 - Cannonshop
"Obama will win retards"
wow, now that's...no, wait, you couldn't be... ah. So, you're saying that he's got the guided, delayed-fall bomb vote?
I wasn't aware that airburst munitions had the vote...
40 - Dr Dreadful
It's an airburst munition, Cannon. If it wants the vote... YOU LET IT VOTE.
41 - Silas Kain
...of course if her husband were a real man he'd challenge Obama to a duel
Yikes. I kind of think the First Dude is real cute. It must get very lonely up there in the Northwest. Those cold winter nights where Sarah is out on the campaign trail might make the First Dude very lonely. I'd volunteer to keep him entertained but the Christian Right might have me stoned to death for even saying so.
42 - Cannonshop
Yikes. I kind of think the First Dude is real cute. It must get very lonely up there in the Northwest. Those cold winter nights where Sarah is out on the campaign trail might make the First Dude very lonely. I'd volunteer to keep him entertained but the Christian Right might have me stoned to death for even saying so.
Well...let's see...five kids? Yah, I'd say you wouldn't have a chance in Hell, Silas. Obviously Mr. Palin saves it for Sarah when she's home, or he's got REAL strong forearms.
43 - watching and listening
If we could look behind both of the candidates' curtains I would venture to say that you may find that "special interest groups" have their hands in both of the candidates' cookie jars. Too bad Ron Paul insn't still running.
44 - troll
don't look now but he might be
45 - Cannonshop
Paul would be better at acting the Watchdog than running-his appeal's too narrow and his message too nuanced-plus he put himself in a spot to be tarred as a Bircher, which isn't a good spot to be-the Organization's credibility's shot thanks to some really stupid actions and statements in the past, that unlike the SDS and Weathermen, did not benefit from hollywood romanticism and the mainstreaming of members.
46 - Clavos
Cannon, did you run out of periods?
47 - Arch Conservative
No one can deny that if Governor Palin were a man, she would never have been picked.
Yes and fi Obama weren't half black eh wouldn't be the Dem nominee.
48 - 1bassman9
If the radical reich wing fundalmentalists think the septuagenarian and the Armaggedonist is what this country needs than we do need a rapture. What you Fundamentalist Christian crackpots call a rapture, I call a cleansing. It will be nice not to have to listen to hypocritical crap anymore. Jesus, how soon can you rid the planet of this vermin?
49 - Jet
Barger, do you actually believe you're swaying anyone who hasn't already decided, or is this article just part of the right-wing pissing contest that this website has been running in order to see who can make the best juvenile smartass remark?
50 - Al Barger
Jet- The correct answer is B, pissing contest. I think I'm currently the lead pisser. But I haven't gotten anywhere NEAR as juvenile or as smartass as I am capable of. We've got a couple months left before the election. Stay tuned.
Messiah- You forgot pig humper
51 - Jet
Tell me something then, are we going to be just as outraged that McCain referred to Hillary's health care program, "Putting lipstick on a pig". Is it that Democrats are intelligent enough to know when a candidate's programs and ideas are being pissed on and not the candidate?
52 - Andy Marsh
Come on now Jet, that's not even fair, Hillary looks a lot more like a pig than Sarah Palin!
53 - Andy Marsh
Yeah yeah...lighten up! It was a joke already...don't even start! I'm not running for anything!
54 - Jet
You David, are a hypocrit. John McCain called Hillary's health care program "Putting lipstick on a pig". Did I read your outrage when that happened, did you get upset that Hillary might have been called a pig?.. or are us leftist, liberal faggots, smarter than you enough to tell when a candidate's programs are being derided, and not the candidate?
55 - Andy Marsh
You guys are missing it....it wasn't just the comment, it was the laughter and the snickers in the background.
You can tell that whether Barry meant to make the connection or not, which I believe he did, he can't possibly be that stupid to have not meant it, the crowd heard it that way. When I heard it, I also heard the crowds reaction and that, more than the comment, was what got my attention. Trying to pretend that's not the way it went is BS.
56 - Al Barger
Really Jet, you need to get past whatever your particular hangup is here if you want to actually get the point. No one here is MAD at Obama for the lipstick remark, least of all me. Note the link to my comedy bit about opposing women's suffrage.
Again, the point isn't a criticism, but an observation of how badly Palin has rattled his cage to be saying dumb stuff like this. It's really FUNNY to me. I'm amused, not offended.
Also, John McCain was not talking about lipstick a few days after Hillary made a big convention speech talking about lipstick.
Lighten up, cuz.
57 - Jordan Richardson
This whole situation confirms what I already knew about American politics: you guys take this shit waaaaay too seriously.
58 - Silas Kain
Well... let's see... five kids? Yah, I'd say you wouldn't have a chance in Hell, Silas.
Hmph. Five offspring doth not confirm straighthood -- especially amongst conservative males. But that's a debate we'll save for the 2012 elections.
you guys take this shit waaaaay too seriously.
Actually Jordan, we take this so seriously because we're too cowardly to confront the real issues head on like education, health care, responsible government and energy.
59 - Cannonshop
#59
Lisa isn't afraid.
60 - Matthew T. Sussman
"This whole situation confirms what I already knew about American politics: you guys take this shit waaaaay too seriously."
This. This. And THIS.
I like those Steven Harper TV spots which look like some kind of life insurance policy commercial. Yes, it's important to be Canadian and play catch with your kid but ... oh wait you want me to vote for you?
61 - Ryan
"You might partly consider this a sign of commander in chief McCain's expertise, his strategic skill in picking just the right weapon for his target."
You might partly consider his finishing 893/898 in his Naval class, or the fact that he was a terrible pilot who crashed five planes, or the fact that he made 20 propaganda videos for the Vietnamese where he called Americans baby killers, or the fact that he took several promotions over more qualified Naval officers knowing it was all nepotism, or the fact that he opposes college scholarships for soldiers, when evaluating his commander in chief expertise. Or you can decide by who's better at character assassination. Just try to remember that the side with the better catch phrases has no inherent advantage in a war.
"Of course this is going to get stuck up in him and broke off on general grounds of misogyny. That it's a black man so speaking of a white woman doesn't help him any - not that Palin would havg any interest in playing victim."
OK, you're going to have to explain the significance of a "black man so speaking of a white woman." Is that something that I'd need to be a a racist to understand?
'and talking about "my Muslim faith." That right there is the real damage.'
And that one I'd need to be a religious bigot to understand right?
62 - Jordan Richardson
I like those Steven Harper TV spots which look like some kind of life insurance policy commercial. Yes, it's important to be Canadian and play catch with your kid but ... oh wait you want me to vote for you?
Oh Christ, you mean the sweater one? Terrible.
63 - Dan
Ruvy, Palin's husband is 1/8th Yu'pik. It's not the Yu'pik's who don't like the word "eskimo". It's the Inuit's. Yu'piks are OK with "eskimo". But they don't like being called Inuit.
I think it's great, and funny, that Obama Freuded the lipstick remark, but a better story is his admission to Bill O that the surge has "succeeded beyond our wildest dreams". Not just worked out fairly well, but "beyond our wildest dreams".
Unless "succeeded beyond our wildest dreams" means "failed miserably" in Orwellian nuance.
64 - Jordan Richardson
That whole thing is so Playground Politics to me: "Ha ha, you admitted that something you didn't think was going to work actually worked. Egg's on your face now, asshole!"
C'mon people. Really?
65 - Matthew T. Sussman
C'mon, Jordan, we have two months to kill before the election. We're just biding time.
Know how in a
basketbbasebahockey match where one team's up by a lot in the finalquarinniperiod, and fights break out? Same thing.66 - steve
who would win in a fight...? Sarah Palin or Chuck Norris?
67 - Joe Corrao
sad excuse for journalism...if thats what is is.
68 - troll
so Jordan - which had traction today: Obama's lipstick gaff or McCain's foolish add about sex ed for tots - ?
69 - Jordan Richardson
We're just biding time.
Now there's a VP platform I can get behind!
who would win in a fight...? Sarah Palin or Chuck Norris?
Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one bird, so he wins by default.
so Jordan - which had traction today: Obama's lipstick gaff or McCain's foolish add about sex ed for tots - ?
I think it was the Big Mac Guy.
70 - troll
I'm with ya there...now that's news - !
71 - Nonhelema!
YES!!
How "telling" that the PIG wearing a tie! would claim that it's not me, there's the Pig wearing lipstick!!!!
LOL
The "real" pig is wearing a tie and has revealed himself for what he is and would like subconsciously "TO BE WEARING LIPSTICK!!!
LMAO!!!!
72 - Nonhelema
HOW NICE! THE OLDEST, "SMELLIEST," AND MOST WORTHLESS COMMENTS ARE KEPT AT THE TOP.
ONE MORE REASON BARACKO IS GOING TO ROT IN THE SPOTLITE!
HIS EMPTY, MEANINGLESS, SMELLY, RHETORIC IS NOW EXPOSED FOR WHAT IT IS - EMPTY, MEANINGLESS, BARREN, VOID........ WELL, YOU GET THE IDEA, IT'S BARAK OBAMA HIMSELF, NAKED, FOR ALL TO SEE AND JUDGE APPROPRIATELY, AND SO WE SHALL! SO LONG BARAK - THANKS FOR THE LAUGHS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL, LMAO!!!!
73 - Jordan Richardson
I'm wearing a tie...
*looks over at Wife's lipstick*
74 - ken
No no you don't understand! Obama *IS* the idea!
He's all about change, and hope and stuff...and he likes talking about pigs. Wo what?
Ken
75 - Steve
Perhaps Obama is a fan of the online comic Sinfest. In this comic, one of the main characters - a pig - decides to run for VP and it clearly is taking the piss out of Sarah Palin.