Neoconservative Hipster Thinktank: Politics Thread

Postby Woody » Thu Aug 14, 2008 09:08:22

:shock:
you sure do seem to have a lot of time on your hands to be on this forum? Do you have a job? Are you a shut-in?

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Postby mpmcgraw » Thu Aug 14, 2008 09:20:07

which part of that are you :shock: at

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Postby jerseyhoya » Thu Aug 14, 2008 11:30:29

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lish7obpl24&e[/youtube]

I can haz Sarah Palin?

Also, Parnell beating Don Young would be pretty awesome.

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Postby Laexile » Thu Aug 14, 2008 15:54:46

In July the national polls were much closer than the state polls. The state polls seem to be catching up. Electoralvote.com now has it 284-241 after having it as high as 325-199 a month ago. In the last two weeks here is the change in polling data with how much each has gained in points:

McCain gains: Arizona 7, Connecticut 7, Florida 6, Idaho 3, Iowa 5, Kentucky 3, Massachusetts 5, Missouri 7, Montana 6, New Jersey 5, Nevada 5, New Mexico 1, New York 4, Oregon 2, Pennsylvania 1, Texas 2, Washington 7, Wisconsin 6

Obama gains: Alabama 1, Alaska 3, Kansas 5, Michigan 3

No change: North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia

The rest haven't had new polls. Being still more than two months to the election it doesn't mean a lot. Some of these states where McCain is making gains he has no shot anyway. Obama should get a bigger convention bump than McCain, although McCain going second could dull that.
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Postby philliesr98 » Thu Aug 14, 2008 15:57:51


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Postby FTN » Thu Aug 14, 2008 15:57:56

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Postby Woody » Thu Aug 14, 2008 15:59:52

baha

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Postby FTN » Thu Aug 14, 2008 16:01:52

all that photo is missing is a smug looking dog

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Postby jerseyhoya » Thu Aug 14, 2008 16:05:03

I really don't like him, but what prompted that?

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Postby Woody » Thu Aug 14, 2008 16:08:30

Hannity's Internet dating service, called "Hannidate," matches conservative or Republican-leaning singles, straight and gay. Begun in 2005, it is described as a "place where people of like conservative minds can come together to meet."


jersey, you should give this a shot and report back to us. It would be a good ongoing board bit

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Postby jerseyhoya » Thu Aug 14, 2008 16:10:42

I feel pretty confident in stating that I would not want to date any girl whom I met through a Sean Hannity website.

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Postby Woody » Thu Aug 14, 2008 16:12:21

jerseyhoya wrote:I feel pretty confident in stating that I would not want to date any girl whom I met through a Sean Hannity website.


I know, that's why it would be an awesome bit.

(I'm sure some of them are goers, though)

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Postby steagles » Thu Aug 14, 2008 16:25:09

Woody wrote:
Hannity's Internet dating service, called "Hannidate," matches conservative or Republican-leaning singles, straight and gay. Begun in 2005, it is described as a "place where people of like conservative minds can come together to meet."


jersey, you should give this a shot and report back to us. It would be a good ongoing board bit
i think i can have some fun over there. is it still going? i'd check myself, but i have to report to housh on the depths of my depravity.

cross your fingers.
if you don't know what the wrestlers are trying to do--how certain moves and holds are supposed to work and so forth, then it might just look like too sweaty guys rolling around on a mat.

Oh. I'm replying to a Steagles post. Um. OK.
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Postby Houshphandzadeh » Thu Aug 14, 2008 16:26:11

I was hoping it would all be in the link.

At least with a conservative broad I won't have to pretend Stewart and Colbert are still funny.

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Postby Philly the Kid » Thu Aug 14, 2008 17:51:27

Great discussion/analysis of Russia - Georgia - USA -- with some history on Caucuses, analagoies to Kosovo, and reminding that putting American Fleet there is like Russian fleet in the great lakes...not just one view shared and got in to the oil and the McCain support for campaign. Goes about 30minutes.

took NPR to task

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Postby Philly the Kid » Thu Aug 14, 2008 17:55:53

Part II of the Ron Suskind interview with John Conyers on the line as well.

here's an excerpt for the most of you who won't take the time...

"...The Iraq intelligence chief is a one-year saga that started in January of 2003. The United States and Britain get together. They open a secret back channel to this man. He slips out of Baghdad, meets with a British intelligence official in Amman, Jordan. The information flows up through the White House. They’re the real customer here. And he says, from the start, there are no WMD. He of course has real credibility here as the Iraq intelligence chief, the number one man. He oversees the biological program himself, and he said it’s over.


He also said the mind of Saddam Hussein is something you all don’t understand. He’s really afraid of the Iranians and their nascent nuclear program. He doesn’t want them and others in the region to see that he’s a toothless tiger, that he has no weapons. He doesn’t even believe the United States would ever want Iraq.


All of this ends up being made very public later. It’s all briefed right up to the White House to the President starting in January of 2003. The final report’s delivered in February. At that point, we cut off the channel to Habbush. But, of course, we already have an arrangement with him, the United States. We resettle him in Amman, Jordan. As the summer unfolds, it becomes clear to the world, the things that Habbush told us ahead of time. We pay him $5 million, the United States. We hide him.


And then the letter. In the fall of 2003, when the White House is facing the most serious charge of the Bush presidency, that we went to war under false pretenses, they come up with a plan of how they might use Habbush, the White House. They order the CIA to have a fabricated letter created ostensibly in Habbush’s hand, backdated July 2001, solving all the White House’s political problems. As one of the key on-the-record sources says, it was a check-the-box for all of the problems politically the White House was facing in the United States.


That, of course, is illegal. You cannot have the CIA run disinformation campaigns on the American public. Just imagine the havoc that would ensue if that were not a law. That’s why right now Congress is investigating.
..."

it may be late but it's important

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Postby Phan In Phlorida » Thu Aug 14, 2008 18:23:25

Woody wrote:
Hannity's Internet dating service, called "Hannidate," matches conservative or Republican-leaning singles, straight and gay. Begun in 2005, it is described as a "place where people of like conservative minds can come together to meet."


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Postby The Dude » Thu Aug 14, 2008 19:18:11

Is the fake letter the one about the yellow cake uranium?
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Postby jerseyhoya » Thu Aug 14, 2008 19:33:02

Philly the Kid wrote:Great discussion/analysis of Russia - Georgia - USA -- with some history on Caucuses, analagoies to Kosovo, and reminding that putting American Fleet there is like Russian fleet in the great lakes...not just one view shared and got in to the oil and the McCain support for campaign. Goes about 30minutes.

took NPR to task


If we had just invaded Canada, maybe.

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Postby Stay_Disappointed » Thu Aug 14, 2008 21:38:53

Does anyone think Obama's kinda losing his edge? poll to follow....
I would rather see you lose than win myself

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