Apparently--according to CNN.com--McCain has inched ahead of Obama in national polls, but Obama has a steady lead in the most recent Electoral College estimates.
Forgive me, but it's always seemed to me that, if one candidate is deemed the favorite (read: winning in national polls), they ought to be the one the Electoral College goes for. I mean, I'm sure by now it's no secret which candidate I favor, but numbers are numbers.
Oh well. Anyway. Read the story here if you're interested.
P.S. This part cracks me up: "Although polls across the country are open on one day, the election is not a national poll but a series of 51 state-level elections that decide the members of the Electoral College."
Come on, CNN.com. Really?
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9.10.2008
definition of the day (?)
mav·er·ick 
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Audio Help [mav-er-ik, mav-rik] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation –noun
| 1. | Southwestern U.S. an unbranded calf, cow, or steer, esp. an unbranded calf that is separated from its mother. |
| 2. | a lone dissenter, as an intellectual, an artist, or a politician, who takes an independent stand apart from his or her associates. |
| 3. | (initial capital letter) an electro-optically guided U.S. air-to-ground tactical missile for destroying tanks and other hardened targets at ranges up to 15 mi. (24 km). |
[Origin: 1865–70, Americanism; after Samuel A. Maverick (1803–70), Texas pioneer who left his calves unbranded]
] —Synonyms 2. nonconformist, independent, loner.
9.09.2008
LONG post
I know this is a bit long, but my mother just forwarded this to me and I thought it was an important thing to post:
Palin: wrong woman, wrong message ...
By Gloria Steinem
September 4, 2008
Here's the good news: Women have become so politically powerful that even
the anti-feminist right wing -- the folks with a headlock on the Republican
Party -- are trying to appease the gender gap with a first-ever female vice
president. We owe this to women -- and to many men too -- who have
picketed, gone on hunger strikes or confronted violence at the polls so
women can vote. We owe it to Shirley Chisholm, who first took the
"white-male-only" sign off the White House, and to Hillary Rodham Clinton,
who hung in there through ridicule and misogyny to win 18 million votes.
But here is even better news: It won't work. This isn't the first time a
boss has picked an unqualified woman just because she agrees with him and
opposes everything most other women want and need. Feminism has never been
about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for
women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too
many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.
Selecting Sarah Palin, who was touted all summer by Rush Limbaugh, is no
way to attract most women, including die-hard Clinton supporters. Palin
shares nothing but a chromosome with Clinton. Her down-home, divisive and
deceptive speech did nothing to cosmeticize a Republican convention that
has more than twice as many male delegates as female, a presidential
candidate who is owned and operated by the right wing and a platform that
opposes pretty much everything Clinton's candidacy stood for -- and that
Barack Obama's still does. To vote in protest for McCain/Palin would be
like saying, "Somebody stole my shoes, so I'll amputate my legs."
This is not to beat up on Palin. I defend her right to be wrong, even on
issues that matter most to me. I regret that people say she can't do the
job because she has children in need of care, especially if they wouldn't
say the same about a father. I get no pleasure from imagining her in the
spotlight on national and foreign policy issues about which she has zero
background, with one month to learn to compete with Sen. Joe Biden's 37
years' experience.
Palin has been honest about what she doesn't know. When asked last month
about the vice presidency, she said, "I still can't answer that question
until someone answers for me: What is it exactly that the VP does every
day?" When asked about Iraq, she said, "I haven't really focused much on
the war in Iraq."
She was elected governor largely because the incumbent was unpopular, and
she's won over Alaskans mostly by using unprecedented oil wealth to give a
$1,200 rebate to every resident. Now she is being praised by McCain's
campaign as a tax cutter, despite the fact that Alaska has no state income
or sales tax. Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long
that he doesn't know it's about inviting more people to meet standards, not
lowering them. Or perhaps McCain is following the Bush administration
habit, as in the Justice Department, of putting a job candidate's views on
"God, guns and gays" ahead of competence. The difference is that McCain is
filling a job one 72-year-old heartbeat away from the presidency.
So let's be clear: The culprit is John McCain. He may have chosen Palin out
of change-envy, or a belief that women can't tell the difference between
form and content, but the main motive was to please right-wing ideologues;
the same ones who nixed anyone who is now or ever has been a supporter of
reproductive freedom. If that were not the case, McCain could have chosen a
woman who knows what a vice president does and who has thought about Iraq;
someone like Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison or Sen. Olympia Snowe of
Maine. McCain could have taken a baby step away from right-wing patriarchs
who determine his actions, right down to opposing the Violence Against
Women Act.
Palin's value to those patriarchs is clear: She opposes just about every
issue that women support by a majority or plurality. She believes that
creationism should be taught in public schools but disbelieves global
warming; she opposes gun control but supports government control of women's
wombs; she opposes stem cell research but approves "abstinence-only"
programs, which increase unwanted births, sexually transmitted diseases and
abortions; she tried to use taxpayers' millions for a state program to
shoot wolves from the air but didn't spend enough money to fix a state
school system with the lowest high-school graduation rate in the nation;
she runs with a candidate who opposes the Fair Pay Act but supports $500
million in subsidies for a natural gas pipeline across Alaska; she supports
drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve, though even McCain has
opted for the lesser evil of offshore drilling. She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger.
I don't doubt her sincerity. As a lifetime member of the National Rifle
Assn., she doesn't just support killing animals from helicopters, she does
it herself. She doesn't just talk about increasing the use of fossil fuels
but puts a coal-burning power plant in her own small town. She doesn't just
echo McCain's pledge to criminalize abortion by overturning Roe vs. Wade,
she says that if one of her daughters were impregnated by rape or incest,
she should bear the child. She not only opposes reproductive freedom as a
human right but implies that it dictates abortion, without saying that it
also protects the right to have a child.
So far, the major new McCain supporter that Palin has attracted is James
Dobson of Focus on the Family. Of course, for Dobson, "women are merely
waiting for their husbands to assume leadership," so he may be voting for
Palin's husband.
Being a hope-a-holic, however, I can see two long-term bipartisan gains
from this contest.
Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most
women at the same time. A loss in November could cause the centrist
majority of Republicans to take back their party, which was the first to
support the Equal Rights Amendment and should be the last to want to invite
government into the wombs of women.
And American women, who suffer more because of having two full-time jobs
than from any other single injustice, finally have support on a national
stage from male leaders who know that women can't be equal outside the home
until men are equal in it. Barack Obama and Joe Biden are campaigning on
their belief that men should be, can be and want to be at home for their
children.
This could be huge.
...and there you have it.
Palin: wrong woman, wrong message ...
By Gloria Steinem
September 4, 2008
Here's the good news: Women have become so politically powerful that even
the anti-feminist right wing -- the folks with a headlock on the Republican
Party -- are trying to appease the gender gap with a first-ever female vice
president. We owe this to women -- and to many men too -- who have
picketed, gone on hunger strikes or confronted violence at the polls so
women can vote. We owe it to Shirley Chisholm, who first took the
"white-male-only" sign off the White House, and to Hillary Rodham Clinton,
who hung in there through ridicule and misogyny to win 18 million votes.
But here is even better news: It won't work. This isn't the first time a
boss has picked an unqualified woman just because she agrees with him and
opposes everything most other women want and need. Feminism has never been
about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for
women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too
many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.
Selecting Sarah Palin, who was touted all summer by Rush Limbaugh, is no
way to attract most women, including die-hard Clinton supporters. Palin
shares nothing but a chromosome with Clinton. Her down-home, divisive and
deceptive speech did nothing to cosmeticize a Republican convention that
has more than twice as many male delegates as female, a presidential
candidate who is owned and operated by the right wing and a platform that
opposes pretty much everything Clinton's candidacy stood for -- and that
Barack Obama's still does. To vote in protest for McCain/Palin would be
like saying, "Somebody stole my shoes, so I'll amputate my legs."
This is not to beat up on Palin. I defend her right to be wrong, even on
issues that matter most to me. I regret that people say she can't do the
job because she has children in need of care, especially if they wouldn't
say the same about a father. I get no pleasure from imagining her in the
spotlight on national and foreign policy issues about which she has zero
background, with one month to learn to compete with Sen. Joe Biden's 37
years' experience.
Palin has been honest about what she doesn't know. When asked last month
about the vice presidency, she said, "I still can't answer that question
until someone answers for me: What is it exactly that the VP does every
day?" When asked about Iraq, she said, "I haven't really focused much on
the war in Iraq."
She was elected governor largely because the incumbent was unpopular, and
she's won over Alaskans mostly by using unprecedented oil wealth to give a
$1,200 rebate to every resident. Now she is being praised by McCain's
campaign as a tax cutter, despite the fact that Alaska has no state income
or sales tax. Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long
that he doesn't know it's about inviting more people to meet standards, not
lowering them. Or perhaps McCain is following the Bush administration
habit, as in the Justice Department, of putting a job candidate's views on
"God, guns and gays" ahead of competence. The difference is that McCain is
filling a job one 72-year-old heartbeat away from the presidency.
So let's be clear: The culprit is John McCain. He may have chosen Palin out
of change-envy, or a belief that women can't tell the difference between
form and content, but the main motive was to please right-wing ideologues;
the same ones who nixed anyone who is now or ever has been a supporter of
reproductive freedom. If that were not the case, McCain could have chosen a
woman who knows what a vice president does and who has thought about Iraq;
someone like Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison or Sen. Olympia Snowe of
Maine. McCain could have taken a baby step away from right-wing patriarchs
who determine his actions, right down to opposing the Violence Against
Women Act.
Palin's value to those patriarchs is clear: She opposes just about every
issue that women support by a majority or plurality. She believes that
creationism should be taught in public schools but disbelieves global
warming; she opposes gun control but supports government control of women's
wombs; she opposes stem cell research but approves "abstinence-only"
programs, which increase unwanted births, sexually transmitted diseases and
abortions; she tried to use taxpayers' millions for a state program to
shoot wolves from the air but didn't spend enough money to fix a state
school system with the lowest high-school graduation rate in the nation;
she runs with a candidate who opposes the Fair Pay Act but supports $500
million in subsidies for a natural gas pipeline across Alaska; she supports
drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve, though even McCain has
opted for the lesser evil of offshore drilling. She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger.
I don't doubt her sincerity. As a lifetime member of the National Rifle
Assn., she doesn't just support killing animals from helicopters, she does
it herself. She doesn't just talk about increasing the use of fossil fuels
but puts a coal-burning power plant in her own small town. She doesn't just
echo McCain's pledge to criminalize abortion by overturning Roe vs. Wade,
she says that if one of her daughters were impregnated by rape or incest,
she should bear the child. She not only opposes reproductive freedom as a
human right but implies that it dictates abortion, without saying that it
also protects the right to have a child.
So far, the major new McCain supporter that Palin has attracted is James
Dobson of Focus on the Family. Of course, for Dobson, "women are merely
waiting for their husbands to assume leadership," so he may be voting for
Palin's husband.
Being a hope-a-holic, however, I can see two long-term bipartisan gains
from this contest.
Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most
women at the same time. A loss in November could cause the centrist
majority of Republicans to take back their party, which was the first to
support the Equal Rights Amendment and should be the last to want to invite
government into the wombs of women.
And American women, who suffer more because of having two full-time jobs
than from any other single injustice, finally have support on a national
stage from male leaders who know that women can't be equal outside the home
until men are equal in it. Barack Obama and Joe Biden are campaigning on
their belief that men should be, can be and want to be at home for their
children.
This could be huge.
...and there you have it.
yes, another one.
Not to post two Daily Show clips in a row, but I just found this--Mike Huckabee is quite hilarious in this clip, I think, so I figured I'd post it:
I know it looks like the same video I just posted below, but watch it--I promise it isn't!
I know it looks like the same video I just posted below, but watch it--I promise it isn't!
another one
The Huffington Post has posted a really good article regarding Sarah Palin:
Did Sarah Palin wrongfully push to have her ex-brother-in law fired? Was she really against the "Bridge to Nowhere?" Did she really sell Alaska's plane on eBay, or just list it on eBay? Did she actually have any substantial duties commanding the Alaska National Guard? The correct answer to all these questions is: who cares? Which isn't to say these aren't valid questions, or that Palin and the McCain camp aren't playing it fast, loose, and coy with each of them. The point is that Palin, and the circus she's brought to town, are simply a bountiful collection of small lies deliberately designed to distract the country from one big truth: the havoc that George Bush and the Republican Party have wrought, and that John McCain is committed to continuing.
Read the rest of the article, titled "Sarah Palin: A Trojan Moose Concealing Four More Years of George Bush," here.
9.08.2008
quote of the day
"Let me offer an advance warning to the old, big spending, do nothing, me first, country second Washington crowd: change is coming."
-John McCain, at the RNC, on Sarah Palin
-John McCain, at the RNC, on Sarah Palin
lies, lies, lies
Not to continue to attack the republican candidates, but honestly, guys? Hasn't the blogosphere proven already that the truth always comes out? The GOP convention was guilty time and time again for stretching the truth, and flat out lying in various speeches. Couldn't they just hire a fact checker?
Read more here.
Read more here.
9.07.2008
quote of the day, part 2
"Isn't it cute that Obama thinks he can be president? Isn't it cute that all those people are dumb enough to believe that just because his mouth makes pretty sounds, he'll make a good leader?"
Huffington Post Columnist Seth Grahame-Smith on McCain's new perceived campaign strategy.
Huffington Post Columnist Seth Grahame-Smith on McCain's new perceived campaign strategy.
Read the rest of his article here.
9.04.2008
upon further investigation...
The Onion has some pretty hilarious and great profiles of the two main candidates. Snippets and links below:
Barak Obama
Odds Of Pop-Locking During Inauguration: 1 in 12
Key Issues: Abortion: Did some crazy shit in the '80's, not going to lie.
Difficulty Catching A Cab: Moderate
John McCain
Thoughts On Torture: Doesn't support stuff he couldn't handle
Key Issues: Climate Change: Is against any kind of change at all.
Where He'd Be If Not Running For President: Dead
Check out their profiles (along with all of the "third party" candidates, as well as former potential candidates) here.
Barak Obama
Odds Of Pop-Locking During Inauguration: 1 in 12
Key Issues: Abortion: Did some crazy shit in the '80's, not going to lie.
Difficulty Catching A Cab: Moderate
John McCain
Thoughts On Torture: Doesn't support stuff he couldn't handle
Key Issues: Climate Change: Is against any kind of change at all.
Where He'd Be If Not Running For President: Dead
Check out their profiles (along with all of the "third party" candidates, as well as former potential candidates) here.
food for thought
Found at DailyKos.com:
Flee the Press
Flee the Press
by georgia10
Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 09:00:35 AM PDT
It's been five days now and John McCain has not allowed his vice-presidential pick to be interviewed by the press even once.
If the McCain-Palin ticket is about "tranparency" and "reform," why are they so afraid about letting Sarah Palin talk to the press?
Oh, that's right. Because as a result of John McCain's two-minute "vetting" process (Rush Limbaugh loves her, so it's a go), reporters (and bloggers, for matter) have undertaken the real vetting process. And if John McCain is so intent on keeping his vice-presidential pick away from questions, well, what does that have to say about how she might answer?
i GUESS we can talk about him...
The Onion is a great read, every time, and you should absolutely bail on me right this minute to check in on them and make sure they're doing a stellar job, as they always do.
...Still there? Neato.
Right now I'm most amused by their latest article on McCain:
"John McCain is one of only two men who has a chance to become president of the United States of America, and by running an entire 600-word article about him, we are acknowledging that we are aware of that fact," a statement from the newspaper's editorial board read in part. "Even though we are certain that the presence of Sen. McCain's name and image on the front page will result in a decrease in reader interest, sales, and web traffic, running this story was, regrettably, the right thing to do."
The article is on the front page of their website, under "recent news," with the title "Top Story On John McCain Run Out Of Obligation."
Awesome.
...Still there? Neato.
Right now I'm most amused by their latest article on McCain:
"John McCain is one of only two men who has a chance to become president of the United States of America, and by running an entire 600-word article about him, we are acknowledging that we are aware of that fact," a statement from the newspaper's editorial board read in part. "Even though we are certain that the presence of Sen. McCain's name and image on the front page will result in a decrease in reader interest, sales, and web traffic, running this story was, regrettably, the right thing to do."
The article is on the front page of their website, under "recent news," with the title "Top Story On John McCain Run Out Of Obligation."
Awesome.
9.03.2008
how to win the female vote
McCain: ask some chick from Alaska to be your VP. A phone interview and 15-minute one-time meeting should be all it takes to determine that she's the one.
Obama: Rail McCain for his ideas about overturning Roe v. Wade. That'll...win...some...ok, buddy, come on. Talk about negativity. I thought we were making changes and being hopeful and positive?
Jeeze.
Obama: Rail McCain for his ideas about overturning Roe v. Wade. That'll...win...some...ok, buddy, come on. Talk about negativity. I thought we were making changes and being hopeful and positive?
Jeeze.
Perez v. Palin
It's no secret that I'm a huge fan of Perez "The Jesus" Hilton. I don't always totally agree with his views, but generally we're pretty spot-on in terms of who we like and who we don't (although I don't totally understand his burning hatred for all things Cyrus--I mean she's annoying, but come on, she's 15!). That said, he's had his hands full the last few days with posts on Sarah Palin...
(all "photo credit," as it were, goes to Mr. Hilton)
Sarah Palin has officially taken over where Phelps left off (and let's not forget Spears), and frankly, here's my issue: she was named as Johnny's running mate on August 29th. Today is September 3rd. Already, having done limited research, I know that she doesn't "believe" in global warming (I mean, c'mon. Even McCain knows it's important to talk about how he's going to make the end of global warming a priority if he gets elected), she's got a 17 year old daughter who, by the way, is preggers (I'm having a hard time with the nasty rumors that Palin's 4-month-old is allegedly her daughter's child as well--but lord, wouldn't that be juicy?!), scandal, scandal, "scandal," let's not forget her foreign policy experience, and honestly, Sar, I'm willing to forgive you for not knowing what the title of VP stands for (because honestly, how many people can rightfully claim they do?), but I'd advise, in the future, not openly admitting that you don't.
Now. It took me slightly over 45 minutes to find all of those links to back up what I learned in about 5 minutes. 50 minutes total, to learn 7 things that pretty much support the theory that McCain (and/or his camp) didn't look AT ALL into his potential VP. I mean, I know, what with having to look over such a hefty resume (ZING!), they might have missed all of those things, but really?
...Really?
(all "photo credit," as it were, goes to Mr. Hilton)
Sarah Palin has officially taken over where Phelps left off (and let's not forget Spears), and frankly, here's my issue: she was named as Johnny's running mate on August 29th. Today is September 3rd. Already, having done limited research, I know that she doesn't "believe" in global warming (I mean, c'mon. Even McCain knows it's important to talk about how he's going to make the end of global warming a priority if he gets elected), she's got a 17 year old daughter who, by the way, is preggers (I'm having a hard time with the nasty rumors that Palin's 4-month-old is allegedly her daughter's child as well--but lord, wouldn't that be juicy?!), scandal, scandal, "scandal," let's not forget her foreign policy experience, and honestly, Sar, I'm willing to forgive you for not knowing what the title of VP stands for (because honestly, how many people can rightfully claim they do?), but I'd advise, in the future, not openly admitting that you don't.
Now. It took me slightly over 45 minutes to find all of those links to back up what I learned in about 5 minutes. 50 minutes total, to learn 7 things that pretty much support the theory that McCain (and/or his camp) didn't look AT ALL into his potential VP. I mean, I know, what with having to look over such a hefty resume (ZING!), they might have missed all of those things, but really?
...Really?
birthday birthdayyyyy
first thing's first:
happy belated to Republican hopeful John McCain!
rock the hell on, old man.
happy belated to Republican hopeful John McCain!
rock the hell on, old man.
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