James Urbaniak ([info]urbaniak) wrote,
@ 2008-09-04 23:50:00
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McCain camp falls off message
Obama moved to Chicago to work as a community organizer for three years from June 1985 to May 1988 as director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), a church-based community organization originally comprising eight Catholic parishes in Greater Roseland (Roseland, West Pullman, and Riverdale) on Chicago's far South Side. During his three years as the DCP's director, its staff grew from 1 to 13 and its annual budget grew from $70,000 to $400,000, with accomplishments including helping set up a job training program, a college preparatory tutoring program, and a tenants' rights organization in Altgeld Gardens. Obama also worked as a consultant and instructor for the Gamaliel Foundation, a community organizing institute.
-Wikipedia
Man. That Obama is pathetic. Give it to him, Republican National Convention!
Rudolph Giuliani:
"On the other hand, you have a resume from a gifted man with an Ivy League education. He worked as a community organizer. What?! [Crowd roars with laughter, cheers, chants 'Zero! Zero! Zero! Zero!'] He worked — I said — I said, OK, OK, maybe this is the first problem on the resume."

Sarah Palin:
"Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown. And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves. I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities!"[Wild cheers and applause]
Whoo-hoo! Yeah!! That's what I'm talkin' about! Drive it home, Maverick!
John McCain:
"We believe in the values of families, neighborhoods, and communities.

. . .

My friends, if you find faults with our country, make it a better one. If you're disappointed with the mistakes of government, join its ranks and work to correct them. Enlist in our armed forces. Become a teacher. Enter the ministry. Run for public office. Feed a hungry child. Teach an illiterate adult to read. Comfort the afflicted. Defend the rights of the oppressed."
Wait, what?!


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[info]box_in_the_box
2008-09-05 06:58 am UTC (link)
It was like he was on a completely different script from everyone else at the convention, especially when he took time to compliment Obama, after his fellow Republicans had talked eight shades of shit about him.

McCain is really his own worst enemy in this campaign.

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[info]urbaniak
2008-09-05 06:59 am UTC (link)
If these people aren't clear about who we're supposed to hate they're never gonna win anything.

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(no subject) - [info]box_in_the_box, 2008-09-05 07:04 am UTC (Expand)
(no subject) - [info]urbaniak, 2008-09-05 07:06 am UTC (Expand)
(no subject) - [info]box_in_the_box, 2008-09-05 07:10 am UTC (Expand)
(no subject) - [info]urbaniak, 2008-09-05 07:14 am UTC (Expand)
(no subject) - [info]box_in_the_box, 2008-09-05 07:15 am UTC (Expand)
(no subject) - [info]the_automatik, 2008-09-05 01:57 pm UTC (Expand)

[info]nykeyoung
2008-09-05 07:19 am UTC (link)
"I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities!"

So that's all you need? Responsibilities? You don't even need to meet them later on? Awesomesauce.

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[info]excusemesenator
2008-09-05 07:48 am UTC (link)
Ah, the responsibilities of firing people who won't ban the books you want banned.

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(no subject) - [info]the_fallen_, 2008-09-05 04:50 pm UTC (Expand)
I'm Just Sayin'
[info]prodigal
2008-09-06 04:56 am UTC (link)

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Re: I'm Just Sayin' - [info]scorchcake, 2008-09-07 12:15 am UTC (Expand)

[info]caindog
2008-09-05 07:22 am UTC (link)
Remember, we have it on the record from the McCain campaign that John McCain does not speak for the campaign. (I know, right?)

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[info]drd2001
2008-09-05 05:12 pm UTC (link)
That's only because he's channeling crazy dead people.

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[info]greyaenigma
2008-09-05 07:26 am UTC (link)
Some people are praying for McCain's death when he wins. Maybe even planning.

Save a life in November: Vote Obama

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[info]theotherjay
2008-09-05 07:02 pm UTC (link)
Some people are praying and planning for Obama's death when he wins.

Not that either of these facts should influence who we vote for. After all, don't we, the American public, pay to provide the President with the best security force in the world?

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(no subject) - [info]greyaenigma, 2008-09-06 04:26 am UTC (Expand)

[info]vforventure
2008-09-05 07:42 am UTC (link)
So, do the Republicans just not pay attention to stuff, or what?

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[info]the_automatik
2008-09-05 01:59 pm UTC (link)
Remember that whole "we create our own reality" thing? That. In spades.

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[info]dengler
2008-09-05 07:49 am UTC (link)
John McCain stood in front of his own constituents this evening and admitted to the American people that he and his Republican colleagues have become corrupt, unprincipled, and, despite prodigious experience in governing, "valued [their] power over [their] principles".

I cannot imagine why anyone would consider this a persuasive argument for electing him to the presidency. If you can't get your shit together after 26 years...

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[info]excusemesenator
2008-09-05 07:49 am UTC (link)
Old man yells at cloud

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[info]xbt
2008-09-05 09:11 am UTC (link)
I'll just leave this here.

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[info]betsyowl
2008-09-05 12:32 pm UTC (link)
Fake.

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[info]chad1
2008-09-05 11:55 am UTC (link)
Yesterday at work, we had two gentlemen in town from DC who work for the Republican party. I spent quite a bit of time helping them since this seemed to be their first time in Texas and politics came up and they both said that as much as it pained them "Obama would probably win because Palin doesn't know when to shut up", then looked at me and shook their heads.

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[info]ciliandis
2008-09-05 12:27 pm UTC (link)
Now one of them just has to come up with a new wacky entrance every time they walk up to the podium, and we're Emmy material.

I have to say, I've really started looking forward to your posts - they make being one of about three Democrats in a 40-person office bearable. (Also, I discovered yesterday, that - icing on the cake! - one is a creationist.)

Ahhhhh, red-county New Hampshire. Sigh.

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[info]aquamarcia
2008-09-05 12:55 pm UTC (link)
Perhaps they can apply to the WWE to have pro-wrestling ring entrances devised.

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(no subject) - [info]faroffstar, 2008-09-06 12:59 am UTC (Expand)

[info]strangemuses
2008-09-05 12:53 pm UTC (link)
Some good has come out of the Republican convention:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/04/after-palin-speech-obama-has-record-10-million-day/

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[info]robolizard
2008-09-05 01:05 pm UTC (link)
Guliani's speech, complete with New York Twin Towerless skyline, proved that the audience was made up of pig people, but Huckabee's speech was my favorite, between the jokes about showering in lava as a kid, and the ramble about the veterans bringing in desks. It was pure art.

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[info]theclamsman
2008-09-05 01:16 pm UTC (link)

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/09/05/us-magazine-hit-hard-canceling-subscribers-after-palin-attack

Courtney Hazlett over at MSNBC's "The Scoop" is reporting that thousands of "Us Weekly" subscribers have not only called the magazine to cancel their subscriptions -- some reports say up to 10,000 cancellations have occurred -- but have also contacted advertisers and expressed their outrage that they are advertising with the celebrity news magazine that would so blatantly try to destroy Governor Palin.

Hazlett is hearing that the editorial board of "Us Weekly" had thought they pegged it right that media pressure and attacks would see Palin pulled from the McCain ticket even before her debut speech. Because the media had so quickly swarmed to destroy her, they thought she was toast before she even had the chance to accept the nomination.


Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

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[info]scorchcake
2008-09-07 12:28 am UTC (link)
"Reports vary that from 3,000 to 10,000 subscribers have canceled their subscriptions to the gossip mag scaring the pants off of the magazine industry. In a time when sales and advertising are both down, the magazine industry does not need this sort of imbroglio, for sure. Hazlett also reports that these many thousands of cancellations came before the attacks on Palin in "Us Weekly" were even printed and distributed."

Wait,I don't understand... A bunch of people canceled their subscriptions to Us Weekly before even reading the aforementioned inflammatory issue? What is the writer trying to say here? Were the readers psychic or is this article trying to attribute subscription cancellations to a completely unrelated instance of publication in an effort to further shame the elitist left-wing media machine?
Not that I am a fan of Us Weekly, but I'm genuinely confused by this. Please tell me I missed something.

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[info]clayfoot
2008-09-05 02:05 pm UTC (link)
A friend of a friend worked at a Chicago law firm when Obama was there as an intern. He would have liked to have commented on Obama's work at the firm, but Obama always seemed to be away from work at some community event or other. That said, I don't the Republicans can win points by ridiculing Obama's community organization experience. It's hard work, and only the most callous would see it as anything less.

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[info]malsperanza
2008-09-05 04:54 pm UTC (link)
For what it's worth, many law firms expressly allocate staffers to do pro bono on company time--sometimes as the majority of their workload. That's one of the things interns may be tasked to do.

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[info]chapel976
2008-09-05 02:38 pm UTC (link)
I hope the Daily Show picks up on this.
I noticed they picked up on your Karl Rove rant about Tim Kaine vs Sarah Palin as mayors.

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Sigh
[info]robjmiller
2008-09-05 02:48 pm UTC (link)
All of the bashing of Obama for being a community organizer in Chicago is just repulsive. Maybe the small towns of Alaska don't have to deal with poverty, awful schools and violence on a daily basis, but the south side of Chicago does. On top of that, racism in Chicago politics and media puts the south side on the absolute bottom of priorities. When a kid gets shot in Winnetka the whole city mourns and laws get passed, but when 50 die on the south side it gets a couple minutes on WGN and nothing happens.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reed/chi-town-activists-joke-i_b_124093.html

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Palin sure is a maverick!
(Anonymous)
2008-09-05 03:33 pm UTC (link)
[url/]http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20080904/cm_thenation/45354444;_ylt=AsDiop3gEjLCHVUbeeQPuXms0NUE[\url]

Apologies for my lack of link fu if this doesn't work. let's see, she mixes religion in her polotics, asks for pork out of one side of her mouth while deriding it with the other, and backstabs at avary opportunity. Sounds like the perfect Republican to me.

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Re: Palin sure is a maverick!
(Anonymous)
2008-09-05 03:34 pm UTC (link)
Rats. Much like McCain, I don't know how to use a computer it seems.

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Re: Palin sure is a maverick! - [info]nykeyoung, 2008-09-06 02:00 am UTC (Expand)

[info]clockout
2008-09-05 03:47 pm UTC (link)

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[info]the_fallen_
2008-09-05 04:54 pm UTC (link)
Proof reading apparently doesn't exist for the republican party?

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[info]kikilatrace
2008-09-05 05:27 pm UTC (link)
reading your blog, James, always makes me feel so much smarter.

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[info]syz
2008-09-05 08:24 pm UTC (link)
Hah! I posted about this in my journal last night, too. Adding you.

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(Anonymous)
2008-09-05 10:25 pm UTC (link)
Aw hell, they even lied about the stupid plane. She didn't sell it on eBay for a profit (as McCain claimed at a campaign rally), she sold it to some businessman at a loss to the state:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/05/plane_not_sold_on_ebay.html

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if you find faults...
[info]yezra
2008-09-06 12:50 am UTC (link)
"...Feed a hungry child. Teach an illiterate adult to read. Comfort the afflicted. Defend the rights of the oppressed."

Fight terrorism. End jihad. Except when it is our own jihad of course:

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told ministry students at her former church that the United States sent troops to fight in the Iraq war on a "task that is from God."

Sarah, Sarah, Sarah, didn't they teach you about "separation of church and state" in governor school?

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