Comments on: Michi-Gone http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/02/michi-gone/ Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:32:44 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: oldtree http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/02/michi-gone/comment-page-1/#comment-103791 oldtree Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:41:17 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/02/michi-gone/#comment-103791 <p>of some concern would be trusting the McImpalin camp of saying anything truthful. They have not yet done so, and believing that they are doing something they say they are doing would put the believer in the realm of fantasy. If they can’t get the votes, wouldn’t they want to quietly disenfranchise the voters that appear to not like their candidate?<br /> look in the background. the “team” that went to Alaska is going to run out of work shortly. Or is there already a “team” in Michigan? “pack” or “wolfpack” might be more appropriate for the type of collection of beings looking to steal an unalienable right from another.</p> of some concern would be trusting the McImpalin camp of saying anything truthful. They have not yet done so, and believing that they are doing something they say they are doing would put the believer in the realm of fantasy. If they can’t get the votes, wouldn’t they want to quietly disenfranchise the voters that appear to not like their candidate?
look in the background. the “team” that went to Alaska is going to run out of work shortly. Or is there already a “team” in Michigan? “pack” or “wolfpack” might be more appropriate for the type of collection of beings looking to steal an unalienable right from another.

]]> By: Rayne http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/02/michi-gone/comment-page-1/#comment-103676 Rayne Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:12:03 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/02/michi-gone/#comment-103676 <p>Oh, we’re getting on the flotation devices and the lifeboats. It’s going to be deep. This state has lots of haters, something like 25 identified groups here. Some of my African American friends call this “Northern Mississippi” because it’s as racist as MS.</p> <p>But there is a schism in the MIGOP here, between the fundies and the old school Repubs; McCain’s campaign was held hostage by the fundies here who said they were not going to vote for McCain if he didn’t give Huckabee a bigger role in the RNC Convention or make him veep. Palin is the bone they threw them to keep the fundies on board without caving into them entirely. I wonder whether there is a remaining undertow here from the fundies, who may have been partially placated by Palin, but are still very unhappy because of some other policy positions or on the economic crisis.</p> <p>I’ll point to a sermon that a mega-church pastor and Republican operative gave this past week in which he said both Obama and McCain were damned and not to bother voting for them. That’s completely out of sync with fundie activities in other states…</p> Oh, we’re getting on the flotation devices and the lifeboats. It’s going to be deep. This state has lots of haters, something like 25 identified groups here. Some of my African American friends call this “Northern Mississippi” because it’s as racist as MS.

But there is a schism in the MIGOP here, between the fundies and the old school Repubs; McCain’s campaign was held hostage by the fundies here who said they were not going to vote for McCain if he didn’t give Huckabee a bigger role in the RNC Convention or make him veep. Palin is the bone they threw them to keep the fundies on board without caving into them entirely. I wonder whether there is a remaining undertow here from the fundies, who may have been partially placated by Palin, but are still very unhappy because of some other policy positions or on the economic crisis.

I’ll point to a sermon that a mega-church pastor and Republican operative gave this past week in which he said both Obama and McCain were damned and not to bother voting for them. That’s completely out of sync with fundie activities in other states…

]]> By: prostratedragon http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/02/michi-gone/comment-page-1/#comment-103664 prostratedragon Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:40:02 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/02/michi-gone/#comment-103664 <p><i>So maybe this means we’ll still get the money–just that it’ll be big, ugly racist money.</i></p> <p>Yeah, my interpretation of the news headline was that MI would be getting all the dirty stuff, the stay-behinds, etc. Get out your hip waders.</p> So maybe this means we’ll still get the money–just that it’ll be big, ugly racist money.

Yeah, my interpretation of the news headline was that MI would be getting all the dirty stuff, the stay-behinds, etc. Get out your hip waders.

]]> By: Boston1775 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/02/michi-gone/comment-page-1/#comment-103402 Boston1775 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:08:25 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/02/michi-gone/#comment-103402 <p>OT -<br /> She held that baby, hanging there as she walked down the stairs of the plane.</p> <p>“He should’ve been in one of those things,” my husband said, “one of those things with a handle. He was just hanging there.”</p> <p>Was she wearing heals?</p> OT -
She held that baby, hanging there as she walked down the stairs of the plane.

“He should’ve been in one of those things,” my husband said, “one of those things with a handle. He was just hanging there.”

Was she wearing heals?

]]> By: Hmmm http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/02/michi-gone/comment-page-1/#comment-103383 Hmmm Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:36:24 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/02/michi-gone/#comment-103383 <p>Hostage-taking on the GOP podium. “Vote for me, or Caribou Barbie gets it!”</p> Hostage-taking on the GOP podium. “Vote for me, or Caribou Barbie gets it!”

]]> By: PJEvans http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/02/michi-gone/comment-page-1/#comment-103378 PJEvans Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:31:57 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/02/michi-gone/#comment-103378 <p>TPM has this up:<br /> Preview<br /> Voter suppression guru and US Attorney firing scandal luminary Hans Von Spakovsky says Obama will make the DOJ “partisan and politically-biased.”</p> <p>(link to <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/02/spakovsky-obama/" rel="nofollow">http://thinkprogress.org/2008/.....sky-obama/</a> )</p> <p>It’s either comedy, or the GOP has no self-awareness. (They’re also, while McCain is complaining that Obama isn’t bipartisan <em>enough</em>, running ads attacking Obama for supporting bills where one of the authors is Lugar. One of those bills is trying to prevent the smuggling of WMDs. Does this mean the RNC is <em>in favor of</em> smuggling WMDs?)</p> TPM has this up:
Preview
Voter suppression guru and US Attorney firing scandal luminary Hans Von Spakovsky says Obama will make the DOJ “partisan and politically-biased.”

(link to http://thinkprogress.org/2008/…..sky-obama/ )

It’s either comedy, or the GOP has no self-awareness. (They’re also, while McCain is complaining that Obama isn’t bipartisan enough, running ads attacking Obama for supporting bills where one of the authors is Lugar. One of those bills is trying to prevent the smuggling of WMDs. Does this mean the RNC is in favor of smuggling WMDs?)

]]> By: MarkH http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/02/michi-gone/comment-page-1/#comment-103373 MarkH Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:25:26 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/02/michi-gone/#comment-103373 <blockquote><p>McCain will go down ugly.</p></blockquote> <p>Do ya remember the death scene in Blade Runner where the robot Pris is killed? Darryl Hannah played the role and it was amazing. Put some raccoon eyeshadow on McCain and watch him thrash around.</p>

McCain will go down ugly.

Do ya remember the death scene in Blade Runner where the robot Pris is killed? Darryl Hannah played the role and it was amazing. Put some raccoon eyeshadow on McCain and watch him thrash around.

]]> By: BluePride http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/02/michi-gone/comment-page-1/#comment-103368 BluePride Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:02:42 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/02/michi-gone/#comment-103368 <p>Biden will be spending a good deal of time in Pennsylvania in the next month…</p> <p>Both have vision but Palin-DRONE’s is myopic. Gwen will bring that out like a pro!</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59mOukUZNUo" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59mOukUZNUo</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVwpMB8QAUU" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVwpMB8QAUU</a></p> Biden will be spending a good deal of time in Pennsylvania in the next month…

Both have vision but Palin-DRONE’s is myopic. Gwen will bring that out like a pro!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59mOukUZNUo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVwpMB8QAUU

]]> By: stryder http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/02/michi-gone/comment-page-1/#comment-103363 stryder Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:33:17 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/02/michi-gone/#comment-103363 <p>Still, all in all,it’s almost a disgrace that this is even a contest at all.<br /> I mean what do they have to do come right out and call themselves “The American Fascist Society” or something before everybody gets it</p> Still, all in all,it’s almost a disgrace that this is even a contest at all.
I mean what do they have to do come right out and call themselves “The American Fascist Society” or something before everybody gets it

]]> By: Elliott http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/02/michi-gone/comment-page-1/#comment-103361 Elliott Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:06:32 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/02/michi-gone/#comment-103361 <p>Can we all have a National Celebration Day November 6th so we can recover from the celebration the night before?</p> Can we all have a National Celebration Day November 6th so we can recover from the celebration the night before?

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