The final days of the 2008 election

[dubman]

ok ok

discounting the fact that we're all biased and such

was it just one big infomercial

[gambit]

Originally Posted by dubman

was it just one big infomercial

Yup. I bet McCain had the money to do this, too.

[gambit]

Joe the Plumber has a music deal.

Really? I mean, really?

[gambit]

Well, this can't be good. McCain is using robocalls in Arizona.

[den]

Originally Posted by dubman

was it just one big infomercial

The music certainly made it sound like one. All this easy-listening orchestral crap. Honestly, it really bothered me and made it seem like such a political infomercial. I wish he had picked Ludacris or Guns 'N Roses or whatever, anything with some balls. That would be awesome.

[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

Can someone notify Obama headquarters or whatever that I still haven't gotten my T-Shirt in the mail.

I want my damn T-shirt.

[Troy McClure]

The shit keeps flying from the RNC. I found this via www.vetvoice.com which a site run by veterans of the current wars, and have ripped McCain a new one throughout this campaign btw. If your a Democrat, being a vet doesn't mean shit.

http://www.vetvoice.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2109

Quote: (emphasis is mine)
VoteVets candidate Ashwin Madia is involved in one of the most hotly contested races in the country in the third district of Minnesota. Ashwin is a veteran of the Marine Corps, the Iraq war, and like myself, the JAG corps. An inevitable consequence of a close race is negative ads. It's politics, and it happens. But the NRCC has gone too far on behalf of Ashwin's opponent:


The posting points out that the photos used of Ashwin are shown to be darkened.










-Jason

[matt]

Originally Posted by gambit

What about Bob the Builder?

Well Bob's about to go to Number 1 in the UK charts with his comeback single Big Fish, Little Fish, Cardboard Box.

[King of Snake]

ok so Obama is up in all the polls. It looks like a done deal doesn't it?
Thing is that in a lot of states the race is close. Close enough maybe to be swayed to the republicans by, let's say, "influencing" the vote?

oh yeah and also:

[Deckard]

Just watched some of the joint campaign appearance with Bill Clinton and Obama. Paraphrasing Obama: "For the remaining 5 days, we need to WORK like our liiiiiiives de-PEND-ed on it" - delivered in that soaring tone that he does so well, while 'CHANGE' banners filled every corner of the screen.

At that very moment, what struck me again was probably what's struck all of us here at various times over the last few months, though we've not really touched on it that much - and that is, how cynically we'll all be viewing moments like this in a few years time when Obama has had some years in the White House - obviously assuming the election swings that way, and that no loonies decide to cut it short.

This whole Obama movement (and to many it does resemble a movement rather than a campaign) is carrying with it a truly ridiculous weight of expectation.

That's not to say he's not one of the most remarkable and talented presidential candidates to come along in recent times (certainly I think in my life time) or that the Obama/Biden v McCain/Palin choice isn't a no-brainer. He's an exciting candidate, and the excitement he generates is entirely understandable, particularly at this point in time.

But, DAMN, we're all going to cringe when we look at how we felt, spoke and acted back in 2008.... before he got elected, and went and..................

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Maybe it's just the memories of my country circa 1997, the New Labour 'movement' (nowadays that word would be applied to them in a very different way) led by the more photogenic, relatively youthful and easy-mannered Tony Blair and the campaign song "Things can only get better" signifying the end of Major and Thatcher's Tory rule, the nasty party, which remained in the political wilderness for a decade until it learned that it had to appeal to the centre ground once again.

Anyway, sod it. For now, I'm not going to resist - I'm going to enjoy the last 5 days, and let myself get caught up in it all.

After all, it's still possible that McCain/Palin could win this thing.....