Phuking Republicans!

[El Kabong]

The media coverage doesn't shame AMERICA it shames NBC because of their HORRID coverage (MSNBC is the guilty party).


Kirkland I don't disagree that politics involves pandering to an extent but what you fail to admit is that the Democrats do it too....but it's just another thing they suck at

[Kirkland Laing]

NBC is owned by GE, a conglomerate who make over 40% of their profits from government contracting. In any other democracy in the world it's illegal for a company that does government contracting to own any media outlets for fear of corruption of their news output, however everything you watch in the US is owned by firms that do. But I digress.

As usual you've fallen for the latest bit of GOP propaganda. Sarah Palin is an unqualified bs artist with endless questions hanging over her, so anybody asking those questions is getting stamped on by the GOP. The White House did the same at the start of the Iraq war, creating a similar manufactured controversy over how liberal MSNBC was and managed to get them to cancel their highest-rated show (Donohue) because he was actually asking questions (that the media now admits it should have asked) and refused to allow the "retired generals" on his show that we now know were part of a Pentagon propaganda programme to bs the American people into supporting the war, something you can read about here :

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/wa...0generals.html

I didn't see any of the GOP convention coverage (you've seen one white power rally, you've seen them all) but I'm sure it was up to its usual standards of completely ignoring the fact that the GOP don't ever mention any policies, they just attack and smear the opposition. The US media never actually cover anything relevant like policies or positions in elections, they just cover the horse-race aspect of the campaigns, who's winning, who made a gaffe, who said what about who. It's not reporting or analysis it's gossip.

If they were actually reporting on stuff they'd cover the huge bailout of Fannie and Freddie at the weekend, something you'll personally be paying for for decades and all due to GOP economic policies a few years ago, the Bush administration having scrapped decades of banking regulations which would have prevented the current fiancial crisis. An ever-increasing part of every American's daily labour now goes and obviously will continue to go to subsidise Wall Street by the socialisation of risk. It's socialism for the banking class and savage capitalism for you. Why doesn't that get covered in the media? Why is nobody asking McCain why he's planning on scrapping even more regulations and has policies which will create even bigger financial problems in future? The US media is a sick joke.

[boozeboxer]

To think that Palin will out-debate Biden is similar to my cheering for Baldomir against PBF. It isn't going to happen.

Biden is a heavyweight politician. He is by far the most qualified of the four (P and VP). To have picked someone like Palin whenever you are a cancer survivor/poor ass health I believe is a most unpatriotic move (pure politics).

[Spicoli]

I do think they are wearing the shite out of the "Maverick" label .Might distance them selves right into a puppet theater.Biden runs a slight risk of coming off as abit flip and overbearing in the Debates.......fine line in with Palin who's backers will pounce.You can see it coming.

side note,I dont care what your politics are.........but can some one tell 'Elmer' lieberman to sit down and STFU already,what a bore!!

[Kirkland Laing]

'Elmer' lieberman

Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVPxi...eature=related

[Kirkland Laing]

Now the link doesn't work for me. Can anybody else see that video? If not go here and click the first link

daily show lieberman droopy foghorn - Google Search

[amat]

Politics have began to bore me severely, this whole election has began to run on fumes. I will say though that I do believe Obama has the right ideas and I think he handles himself just fine without a teleprompter, he may not be articulate at times but the points he makes are usually good. Uhh, what else. Oh yeah, the pick of Palin was a complete joke though Spicoli nailed it with the schoolteacher thing, but that was a desperation pick no doubt and that executive experience card is a joke. She was the mayor of a small town and governor of one of the richest states in the union with 600 thousand people. Gavin Newsom has executive power over 4 times as many people as the mayor of San Francisco. That executive experience card is complete shit. And she's a wack job anyways, Rush Limbaugh with lipstick essentially. I think sex with Palin would be more satisfying, though I think Bilbo would actually prefer Rush Limbaugh in lipstick. Or maybe his feet would be to big for the high heels

But yeah, this whole thing has gotten very boring, very boring. Obama did vote for the FISA bill, that's fairly inexplicable I don't know wtf he was thinking there as that is a terrible terrible intrusion on our rights, but that kind of defeats your theory of Obama not wanting to anger the left Lyle as that was one of the more divisive bills out there.

I just hope McCain doesn't win. I think it's funny he's running on change now, hah, some change.

[Gandalf]

I just dont know how anybody could vote repulican. Its an anti human, dead eyed type of person that does that. Two of the most awful terms in American history and McCain is just the front for a perpetuation of the same old crap. If the election is even close then that will be quite sad.

Obama is clearly the best choice and its a little more human and lively eyed than the god awful alternative.

[Trainer Monkey]

I just dont know how anybody could vote repulican. Its an anti human, dead eyed type of person that does that. Two of the most awful terms in American history and McCain is just the front for a perpetuation of the same old crap. If the election is even close then that will be quite sad.

Obama is clearly the best choice and its a little more human and lively eyed than the god awful alternative.

Thats what I dont get about why its even close,McCain proudly proclaimed he's voted with Bush 90% of the time,he was one of the disgraced Keating 5,he cheated on his first wife with his socialite second wife, and nobody can name a single thing this current administration has so much as looked at it didnt break.
Have people lost their minds?

[SigmaMu]

I just dont know how anybody could vote repulican. Its an anti human, dead eyed type of person that does that. Two of the most awful terms in American history and McCain is just the front for a perpetuation of the same old crap. If the election is even close then that will be quite sad.

Obama is clearly the best choice and its a little more human and lively eyed than the god awful alternative.

I liked McCain, I even respected McCain but in the last 24 hours they have been doing some very nasty negative campaigning which does nothing for his credibility. Not only are the campaigns negative, they are bold faced lies! Take the latest ad that claims Obama is in favor of teaching children sex education That is not true. Obama was in favor of teaching children about inappropriate touching as in good touch bad touch, which in my opinion is a sound good idea which could prevent pedophiles from continuing to abuse their tiny victims for years on end. If children were taught to report such things, kids would be safer.

The other ad says that Obama called Sarah Palin a pig. That is another lie. Obama was was not talking about Palin nor did he ever even mention her name when he made that statement.

The republican party has nothing to run on but fear tactics, lies and more lies. If they are willing to lie to us before they even get into the white house, should we expect them to be any more truthful once they have been elected? I think not.

[Mad_Dog]

To think that Palin will out-debate Biden is similar to my cheering for Baldomir against PBF. It isn't going to happen.

Biden is a heavyweight politician. He is by far the most qualified of the four (P and VP). To have picked someone like Palin whenever you are a cancer survivor/poor ass health I believe is a most unpatriotic move (pure politics).

bro you are giving Biden WAAAAAY too much credit. Have you ever seen him in action. Dude says the sky is blue one minute then he tells you its yellow the next. I have never seen anyone quite like him. It baffles me that he keeps getting reelected.
As far as heavyweight....maybe if the heavy's weighed a buck o' five. Dude has been wrong on everything as far back as I can remember. He is one of my five least favorite politicians.

my least favorite is Gil Cedeno state legislator in my great state of California.

[Gandalf]

I had a mad moment. Post erased.

[Kirkland Laing]

To think that Palin will out-debate Biden is similar to my cheering for Baldomir against PBF. It isn't going to happen.

Biden is a heavyweight politician. He is by far the most qualified of the four (P and VP). To have picked someone like Palin whenever you are a cancer survivor/poor ass health I believe is a most unpatriotic move (pure politics).

bro you are giving Biden WAAAAAY too much credit. Have you ever seen him in action. Dude says the sky is blue one minute then he tells you its yellow the next. I have never seen anyone quite like him. It baffles me that he keeps getting reelected.
As far as heavyweight....maybe if the heavy's weighed a buck o' five. Dude has been wrong on everything as far back as I can remember. He is one of my five least favorite politicians.

my least favorite is Gil Cedeno state legislator in my great state of California.

I don't think the debates will make much difference. High school juniors can learn enough in a set period to do replicas of these debates so a professional politician like Palin can be briefed adequately with enough talking points and information in the time they have before she debates. If she doesn't make a serious blunder it'll be spun as a Palin win too.

My favourite politician is James Traficant for his honest wig and his amazing dress sense, plus standing up and telling Congress that they'd all love to have the courage to wear bell bottoms to work too. I'd vote for this guy anytime.

[Kirkland Laing]

Lehman Brothers is one of the top few investment banks in the world. Today their shares lost 40% of their value, the kind of drop we saw happen to Bear Stearns before they were bailed out by the Fed. Wall Street firms like Bear and Lehman don't add value to the economy, they just charge fees to manage money and help investors and corporations do business.

If and when Lehman do get bailed out it's going to mean the printing of huge quantities of dollars to add on to the huge quantitiy of dollars the Fed has already printed in the seven bailouts it's Ok'd since the current crisis started. Every US taxpayer is going to pay for these bailouts, but in real yerms (and disproportionately compared to the wealthy) the prudent will pay for this, and not in some future taxes to pay for the debt (they'll pay those too) but via inflation as the number of dollars printed continues to increase. The unstated message of all these bailouts is that you're now prudent at your own risk if you don't buy into each bubble that comes along you're going to see the value of your savings and assets slashed and burnt.

If the media were doing their job they'd be all over this story as there's nothing more important to Americans (or the way they vote)than the economy. Instead they're asking does Obama really love America ans scaring Americans over nonexistent threats like Iran. These bailouts are going to cost working families thousands over the next decade via inflation and new debt but the whole issue is ignored by the media. It's like watching Pravda cover the old Soviet Union.