Sarah Palin, Republican Vice Presidential Candidate

[Day]

Do I get a birthday ban? It's Friday.

[Kuya]

I think that a lot of people will vote for two reasons: Financial crisis and a man of African descent running for the highest office; for better or for worse these are the things that will motivate a lot of those who have not voted before.

[Maxxthepenguin]

Fox has a rep for calling states earlier than everyone else, but I believe they all wait until the polls are closed.

Don't kid yourself, all the networks do that

[0ni0n]

I think that a lot of people will vote for two reasons: Financial crisis and a man of African descent running for the highest office; for better or for worse these are the things that will motivate a lot of those who have not voted before.

Yea, it's more of like a rude awakening that we can't afford to be stupid or ruthless when comes to elect president anymore. The guy who you want to have a beer with just won't cut it. I'd glad that our younger generations are taking the country back from the baby boomers who have done nothing but milking it ever since the 1970s.

[Kerberoz]

http://66.221.121.71/kerberoz/drilloceans.jpg

[Zosi]

Don't kid yourself, all the networks do that

Do what? Call states before polling closes? Nope. Call states prematurely when they're too close? Not after Fox's debacle with Florida in 2000. Thanks to that fuckup, they wait nowadays to avoid actual announcements until all the numbers are in. Every network is aggressive about it, Fox was the most aggressive until they went over the line and fucked it up. That's not a "lolfox", that's simple history.

[Deftscythe]

Palin just cast her vote in Alaska then "exercised her right to privacy" when asked who she voted for because "that's what's so cool about America."

Won't say who you voted for, ey Sarah? Obama '08, Palin 2012, amirite?

[Dimmauk]

Anyone watch the SNL presidential bash? There were new monologues from McCain and Palin. McCain was funny again. Palin was NOT funny at all. Palin's was kinda weird and scary.

[Beckwin]

yeah lol palin was... disturbing. she seemed really cynically and wanted this all to be over.

[Headspace]

I guess I missed some skits earlier in the election season, because I didn't see Will Ferrell as Bush endorse McCain, but I was rolling so hard.

[Rhinox]

Palin just cast her vote in Alaska then "exercised her right to privacy" when asked who she voted for because "that's what's so cool about America."

Won't say who you voted for, ey Sarah? Obama '08, Palin 2012, amirite?

haha

another Palinism in a growing list.

[Dimmauk]

yeah lol palin was... disturbing. she seemed really cynically and wanted this all to be over.

I got the same feeling about McCain, almost like he is glad he can soon go back to the Ol'McCain from 2000.

[Rhinox]

yeah lol palin was... disturbing. she seemed really cynically and wanted this all to be over.

Yeah, it's almost painful to watch because the audience was so quite.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/42315/satu...bash-gov-palin

[Dimmauk]

OK WTF?


California GOP Files FEC Complaint Over Obama Visit to Grandmother

By Matthew Mosk
Perhaps the most ill-timed press release of the 2008 campaign arrived shortly after 1:30 p.m. today, sent by the Republican National Committee.

The release forwarded word that the California Republican Party filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission, in part because of a visit Sen. Barack Obama made to his dying grandmother.

"Obama for America violated federal law by converting its campaign funds to Senator Obama's personal use," the release stated. "Senator Obama recently traveled to Hawaii to visit his sick grandmother. This was the right thing for any grandson to do -- at his own expense -- but it was not travel that his campaign may fund."

At issue was whether the trip should have been paid for with campaign funds, based on the law that forbids candidates from using such funds to pay for personal travel. The Obama campaign said the trip had been vetted with lawyers beforehand and was allowable. The Republicans argued that, because Obama did not campaign during the quick journey to Hawaii, it should not have been a campaign expense.

But filing the complaint today now seems to have been ill-advised, if not legally, then certainly politically.

[Correction]

Palin just cast her vote in Alaska then "exercised her right to privacy" when asked who she voted for because "that's what's so cool about America."

Won't say who you voted for, ey Sarah? Obama '08, Palin 2012, amirite?

Where's the source on this? It would be hiLARious for a Republican to assert a right to privacy in this day and age.

[ZarakiKujata]

its funny for any republican, but her even more so

[Deftscythe]

Where's the source on this? It would be hiLARious for a Republican to assert a right to privacy in this day and age.

I watched it happen on CNN but I'm having trouble finding video of it. All the videos stop right before she says it.

[ZarakiKujata]

Wow I just watched her SNL thing from last night and holy shit she scares me even more now.

[Olo401]

OK WTF?


California GOP Files FEC Complaint Over Obama Visit to Grandmother

By Matthew Mosk
Perhaps the most ill-timed press release of the 2008 campaign arrived shortly after 1:30 p.m. today, sent by the Republican National Committee.

The release forwarded word that the California Republican Party filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission, in part because of a visit Sen. Barack Obama made to his dying grandmother.

"Obama for America violated federal law by converting its campaign funds to Senator Obama's personal use," the release stated. "Senator Obama recently traveled to Hawaii to visit his sick grandmother. This was the right thing for any grandson to do -- at his own expense -- but it was not travel that his campaign may fund."

At issue was whether the trip should have been paid for with campaign funds, based on the law that forbids candidates from using such funds to pay for personal travel. The Obama campaign said the trip had been vetted with lawyers beforehand and was allowable. The Republicans argued that, because Obama did not campaign during the quick journey to Hawaii, it should not have been a campaign expense.

But filing the complaint today now seems to have been ill-advised, if not legally, then certainly politically.

The complaint is baseless. He obviously didn't spen campaign funds for the trip. And to insinuate anything else is not only frivolous in court, it's fucking disgusting.

But I've come to this level of douchebaggery from Republican party officials at every level, so I'm not surprised.

[Olo401]

Where's the source on this? It would be hiLARious for a Republican to assert a right to privacy in this day and age.

I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning..