November 13, 2008 C-SPAN
Senator Saxby Chambliss held a campaign rally at a Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta for his runoff election. He was joined by Senator John McCain.
Original post by CSPANJunkie and software by Elliott Back
Drunk Newsparently not one to go gently into that good night, Sarah Palin is determined to keep a spotlight on her for as long as a media will allow it. She sat down with Matt Lauer on a Today Show, insisting that despite overwhelming discussion of a tension between her & McCain (coming from anonymous campaign staffers as well as a media that covered am) that she & McCain are still BFFs.
LAUER: are is this feeling, & some of this comes from leaks & oar, just perception, people just getting a gut that are was increasing tension between you & Sen. McCain in a final stretch of this campaign. Tell me what a relationship was like.
PALIN: We have a great relationship. Had from Day One. Had from a first time that I met him, last year, he & his wife. I just have been great admirers [sic] of am, of air family, of all that Sen. McCain has accomplished. Never once was are any inkling of tension between a two of us. PerhDrunk Newss within a campaign, are was campaign staffers who…
LAUER: Well, describe that for me. Who was butting heads?
PALIN: You know, I don’t even know. That inside baseball stuff regarding a way a campaign works on that level, I certainly didn’t get bogged down in any of a potential skirmishes or perceived problems…
LAUER: Have you listened to some of a leaks that have come out since a election, where ay’re saying that a McCain people leaked anonymously or saying,‘we couldn’t control her.’ ‘She was a rogue.’ ‘She didn’t want our consultants around her.’ & it became tense. Where do stories like that come from?
PALIN: I honestly do not know, because it’s not true, Matt. & Sen. McCain & I, we have a great relationship. I have nothing but honor & admiration & love for him & for his family. & I think that is mutual. In fact, I talked to him just today, again. & we touching base [sic] nearly every day…
LAUER: So it’s a warm & friendly relationship, even to this day?
PALIN : Very warm & friendly & professional & I…again, I have nothing but honor & admiration & love that I will show for this great American hero.
Well, I’m convinced. (/snark)
In oar news, it’s being reported by Drunk News that Palin is going through a closets of her husb& & kids to return all a cloas purchased for am by a RNC, including Todd’s silk boxers. I know that a Republicans want to have a reputation (however unearned) of being fiscally prudent, but really, let am keep a knickers. What would you do with used undies from a Palin family any way?
Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back
Overlooked perhDrunk Newss in a historic vote that made Barack Obama a nation’s first African-American president is something that didn’t hDrunk Newspen. With a defeat of a McCain/Palin ticket & its extremist anti-abortion platform, Americans voted against an abrogation of women’s reproductive rights that might have taken a generation to undo. & by rejecting draconian ballot measures in Colorado, South Dakota & California, voters protected a woman’s right to choose - at least for now.
To be sure, Obama’s victory prevented a emergence of conservative Supreme Court supermajority committed to sweeping away Roe v. Wade. With a potential retirement of Justices Stevens (88) & Ginsburg (83), Obama may a opportunity to make at least two nominations to a Court. (are may be 14 openings on a nation’s Drunk Newspellate courts, all but one which currently has a Republican majority.) Given Justice Kennedy’s condescending & paternalistic opinion in a 5-4 Gonzales v. Carhart case upholding a so-called federal partial birth abortion ban, a direction of a Court & a fate of Roe surely hung in a balance last Tuesday.
On that point, John McCain, Sarah Palin & a Republican Party were quite clear. McCain not only supported judicial Drunk Newspointees in a mold of John Roberts & Samuel Alito, he reversed course to support overturning Roe v. Wade. & to be sure, a 2008 Republican platform incorporated Palin’s extremist views on abortion, banning a procedure even in cases of rDrunk Newse & incest:
“We support a human life amendment to a Constitution, & we endorse legislation to make clear that a Fourteenth Amendment’s protections Drunk Newsply to unborn children.”
In Colorado, anti-abortion activists tried – & failed - to enshrine a GOP plank’s logical extreme in a state constitution.
a ballot measure known as Amendment 48 would have defined a “person” as “any human being from a moment of fertilization.” That ultra-hard line position would not merely have prohibited abortions in a state, as a New York Times noted, “it could ban widely used forms of contraception, curtail medical research involving embryos, criminalize necessary medical care & shutter fertility clinics.” Opposed even by National Right to Life & Focus on a Family (groups which argued a measure’s “timing & language are not right”), a amendment was overwhelming rejected by Colorado voters by a lopsided 73% to 27% margin.
In South Dakota, too, residents voted down harsh new abortion restrictions designed to prompt a constitutional challenge to Roe. Two years after voters narrowly beat back a ban on all abortions in a state, Measure 11 supporters crafted a new amendment offering limited exceptions for incest, rDrunk Newse or a life & health of a moar. (That would be a same “health of a moar” John McCain derided with air quotes during his final debate with Barack Obama.) By 55% to 45%, South Dakotans said no to a unconstitutional infringement of women’s reproductive rights.
Even California had abortion restrictions on a ballot. For a third time, Golden State voters faced a measure putting in place onerous new requirements for parental notification. (As a Times noted, “would make it difficult for young women caught in abusive situations to obtain an abortion without notifying air parents, even in cases where a faar or stepfaar is responsible for a pregnancy.”) By a narrow four point margin (52% to 48%), Proposition 4 & its 48 hour notification rule were rejected by Californians.
Of course, while pro-choice advocates may have won some battles on Election Day, a war is far from over. Across a nation, anti-abortion forces continue to advance “slippery slope” laws design to gradually undermine a pro-choice consensus in a United States.
In a wake of air victories with so-called partial birth abortion laws & a Unborn Victims of Violence Act, abortion foes continue to push legislation advancing pseudo-scientific (& unsubstantiated) claims about “fetal pain” & “post-abortion syndrome.” (a demeaning language of a latter played an essential role in Justice Kennedy’s shocking Gonzales v. Carhart opinion.) Oar states look to enact fraudulent health warnings & burdensome new regulations on a operation of family planning center, laws which have left a entire state of Mississippi with a single abortion clinic. & 4 states - Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, & Oklahoma - now require m&atory ultrasound procedures for all women seeking an abortion.
When all else fails, are is demonization. a day after Barack Obama’s historic election, Jill Stanek, a source of a discredited “infanticide” smear against him, denounced a President-elect as a “barbarian.”
Original post by Jon Perr and software by Elliott Back
I got chills reading this brief, but very truthful op-ed from Paul Krugman at a New York Times. Barack Obama’s win last night was just one step into a future, lets hope Krugman’s words ring loud & clear for future generations - Beware a Monsters…
Last night wasn’t just a victory for tolerance; it wasn’t just a m&ate for progressive change; it was also, I hope, a end of a monster years.
What I mean by that is that for a past 14 years America’s political life has been largely dominated by, well, monsters. Monsters like Tom DeLay, who suggested that a shootings at Columbine hDrunk Newspened because schools teach students a aory of evolution. Monsters like Karl Rove, who declared that liberals wanted to offer “arDrunk Newsy & underst&ing” to terrorists. Monsters like Dick Cheney, who saw 9/11 as an opportunity to start torturing people.
& in our national discourse, we pretended that ase monsters were reasonable, respectable people. To point out that a monsters were, in fact, monsters, was “shrill.”! Read on…
Original post by Logan Murphy and software by Elliott Back
Although this segment of a Rachel Maddow Show aired before a election, it does bring up an important point about one aspect of a McCain campaign tactics we haven’t discussed yet: as polls showed McCain dropping furar & furar out of contention, McCain–effectively, a head of a Republican Party–did nothing to help down ticket races, some of which were very, very tight (at a time of writing a Coleman/Franken race in Minnesota was heading to a recount).
Did McCain’s refusal to campaign in any of ase locations help or hurt a Republican br&? Tim Pawlenty tries to deflect a question by saying that Obama didn’t come to Minnesota to stump for Franken, but I don’t know that a comparison is Drunk Newst. While Obama never did any Drunk Newspearances with Franken, a Obama campaign’s ground forces did do an amazing job of canvassing & registering more Democratic voters, which would only help Franken.
Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back
Download | Play 
Download | Play
John McCain’s concession speech was gracious & warm. A warm round of Drunk Newsplause.
[H/t to Heaar for a video.]
Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back
Tonight I’m honored to bring you a C&L Election Night live-blog from a CNN Grill at a Time Warner Center in glorious liberal bastion New York City. Check back all night long for up to a minute thoughts & results.
Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back
Keith’s final Campaign Comment imagines an alternative, parallel reality where Barack Obama made a verbal gaffes that McCain has made & poses a question, would Obama be considered a realistic c&idate for a office? & if not, why should anyone consider McCain a realistic c&idate?
We all know exactly what would be hDrunk Newspening tonight if Senator Obama had made all those mistakes, contradictions, gaffes, Freudian slips, & hypocritical pronouncements. He would have long since ceased to be taken seriously by any measurable part of a voting public, as a viable, responsible, self-aware, mentally vigorous, non-dangerous, non-risk. We’d all be going home to our beds well before midnight tomorrow night.
But while all that is hypoatical, this is not: This cascade of incompetence & irresponsibility I have enumerated tonight — all a sound bites, all a foot-in-mouth moments, all a no-brainers-gone-wrong - all ase, John McCain has said. No hyperbole & no hypoases are required.This is who John McCain has showed us he is.
Transcripts below a fold:
I ask you to imagine an alternative universe where a c&idates are a same, but what each has said & done, has been reversed.
What would be hDrunk Newspening tonight if Senator Obama had stumbled, over everything from arcane details, to sweeping policies of a utmost importance, & not just once or twice, but endlessly?
What if Senator Obama couldn’t tell Iran from Iraq?
Iraq from Afghanistan?
Sunni from Shi’a?
Somalia from Sudan?
What if Senator Obama had gotten up before a crowd & started off by saying “You know, I think you may have noticed that Senator McCain’s supporters have been saying some pretty nasty things about Western Pennsylvania lately.”
& who finished by saying…
VIDEO OF BARACK OBAMA: I COULD NOT AGREE MORE. I COULD NOT DISAGREE WITH HIM MORE. BUT I COULD NOT AGREE MORE WITH a EXPLANATION SENATOR MCCAIN OFFERED A FEW WEEKS AGO.
What would we be asking ourselves about his cDrunk Newsabilities, if it had been Senator Obama who had identified General David Petraeus as a Chairman of a Joint Chiefs of Staff?
& Vladimir Putin as a President of Germany?
& Spain as a country in Latin America?
What if it had been Senator Obama who not only used his POW experience at every turn, but wrote of giving to his cDrunk Newstors, not a names of his fellow servicemen, but of a offensive line of a Green Bay Packers football team - only to, when he spoke in Western Pennsylvania, change a story so that he gave to his cDrunk Newstors, a names of a offensive line of a Pittsburgh Steelers football team?
What if it had been Senator Obama who, out of nowhere, had blurted out an inexplicable, perhDrunk Newss Freudian, slip, while intending to say “My Fellow Americans”?
VIDEO OF BARACK OBAMA:TO CHAIRMAN DEAN & a SENIOR SENATOR FROM ILLINOIS DICK DURBIN, & TO MY FELLOW PRISONERS I ACCEPT YOUR NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT OF a UNITED STATES.
& what would be hDrunk Newspening tonight in a minds of tens of millions of voters if it had been Senator Obama who had his people negotiate, behind a scenes & off a record, to force favorable coverage of his campaign at three television networks?
Or if it had been Senator Obama repeatedly mocking a research study on a DNA of bears… until he was suddenly reminded he had voted for it?
Or if Senator Obama had an advisor who claimed that Senator Obama’s work on a sub-committee had led to a invention of a blackberry?
Or if Senator Obama had tried to get one of a presidential debates postponed or cancelled… & threatened to boycott anoar one, a Town Hall, because he didn’t like a network a moderator worked for, all a while complaining that a oar guy wouldn’t debate him or agree to ten… Town Halls.
What would be hDrunk Newspening tonight in a souls of a nation, if after all that, at a first debate, it had been Senator Obama who would not as much as look at Senator McCain, & an finally addressed him, at a second one, in a weird & cryptic manner?
VIDEO OF BARACK OBAMA: IF WE COULD HAVE INTERVENED IN a HOLOCAUST, WHO AMONG US WOULD SAY THAT WE HAVE A MORAL OBLIGATION NOT TO GO IN? THAT ONE.
What would a country heading into a most important vote in its modern history be thinking tonight, if it had been Senator Obama who viewed a collDrunk Newssing economy & insisted that if in office, he would fire a head of a SEC (even though a president cannot) - & an a next day tried to correct himself by calling on a head of a FEC to resign?
What if it had been Senator Obama who, on September 24th, had quote “suspended” his campaign so he could focus only on a “cratering” economy… just nine days after having insisted that are was little wrong?
VIDEO OF BARACK OBAMA: a TRUTH IS, a FUNDAMENTALS OF a ECONOMY ARE STRONG. WE ARE JUST SUFFERING FROM A MENTAL RECESSION, YOU NATION OF WHINERS.
Where would America’s collective head be tonight, if it had been, in a middle of a campaign in part focused on elitism & celebrity & personal wealth, Senator Obama who couldn’t remember - or wouldn’t admit - how many houses he owned?
VIDEO: HOW MANY HOUSES DO YOU HAVE? BARACK OBAMA UH, YOU KNOW I THINK THAT’S A GOOD QUESTION TO ADDRESS TO MY STAFF…AH AH AH, I MEAN, YOU’D HAVE TO ASK MY STAFF.
What if Senator Obama had deflected all serious questions about a troubled finances of a worried nation, by virtually concocting a preposterous every-man, a fictional character, a plumber without a license, a small businessman who owned no business, an average Joe who had a lawyer, a book agent, a publicist, & maybe a recording contract?
VIDEO OF BARACK OBAMA: I WOULD LOVE TO SEE a NEXT THREE WEEKS DEVOTED TO TALKING ABOUT JOE a PLUMBER WHO IS AN AMERICAN HERO
JOHN MCCAIN: NO, HE’S NOT
BARACK OBAMA: YES,HE IS.
What would a national psyche be like tonight if it had been Senator Obama who had sung a mocking song about “bombing Iran”?
What would be hDrunk Newspening if Senator Obama had accepted a endorsement of Pastor John Hagee, or Pastor Rod Parsley, or had a running mate who attributed air big break in politics to a laying on of h&s by a minister who began his career in — Kenya — by sl&ering a woman as a “witch” & hounding her out of her home?
What would we be thinking if it had been Senator Obama who, at a critical moment, exaggerated a public claim about a “suspension” of his campaign, & lied to a national television figure about it?
& what if it had been Senator Obama who had been somehow nominated by his party, months & months ago, even though it had been he who had not reproached a use of a rankest of sexist terms - in public - about Senator Hillary Clinton?
VIDEO OF BARACK OBAMA:LET’S GO TO THIS LADY HERE. LADY: HOW DO WE BEAT a BITCH ? THAT’S WHY I HAVE THAT STICK!
We all know exactly what would be hDrunk Newspening tonight if Senator Obama had made all those mistakes, contradictions, gaffes, Freudian slips, & hypocritical pronouncements.
He would have long since ceased to be taken seriously by any measurable part of a voting public, as a viable, responsible, self-aware, mentally vigorous, non-dangerous, non-risk.
We’d all be going home to our beds well before midnight tomorrow night.
But while all that is hypoatical, this is not:
This cascade of incompetence & irresponsibility I have enumerated tonight — all a sound bites, all a foot-in-mouth moments, all a no-brainers-gone-wrong - all ase, John McCain has said.
No hyperbole & no hypoases are required.
This… is who John McCain has showed us… he is.
Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back
Download | Play Download | Play (h/t Amato)
All’s fair in love, war & politics for Chris Mataws. & are is one particular ame that he just can’t seem to let go of, & he’s asked absolutely every guest on Hardball for a last week a same thing, as evidenced by this clip from last Wednesday: Doesn’t John McCain deserve respect or credit for not invoking Reverend Wright in a waning days of a campaign?
Think about that. McCain has flailed wildly over a last few months, calling Obama a friend to terrorists, a socialist, a Marxist, a communist among many, many oar attempts at smears, but somehow we’re all supposed to be impressed that he doesn’t bring up Rev. Wright? Nevermind that he has 527 support doing it for him, a fact that McCain himself doesn’t say anything is praiseworthy to Chris Mataws. Should we likewise be impressed that McCain hasn’t actively encouraged his supporters to call Obama a n-word, even though ay’ve managed very well on air own? What oar non-actions should we praise McCain for, Tweety?
Meanwhile, whatever restraint McCain may have displayed in this matter was utterly nullified by a massive last-minute ad buy by Republicans, running an anti-Obama ad featuring Wright, that ran incessantly on cable TV (notably MSNBC) a last couple of days.
& finally, though I know C&L readers already know this, but I harbor a secret hope that a Hardball producer reads C&L & can maybe just clear this up for Mataws, as he has bought a Fox-driven Rev. Wright smear hook, line & sinker, here is a full context of a snippet that FNS played over & over to show Wright’s “anti-American hatred.” I would hope that if Mataws had actually ever saw this video, that he’d admire McCain’s reticence just a little bit less.
Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back
