Craig Crawford's Trail Mix

Craig and Obama girl...woohoo!!!

Obama Fever is the beginning of the cure for what ails us after 8 years of malfeasance and wasted opportunities and wasted lives.

Now Craig, repeat after me:

Yes we can!

And say it with gusto!

one step at a time, brian

CSpan caller: anything they want to do on education or health won't happen unless we have our freedom. We take a chance on losing our freedom if we don't vote GOP. Yeah.

"Reports of strong support within John McCain's presidential campaign for Independent Democratic Sen. Joseph Lieberman as the Republican candidate for vice president are not a fairy tale. Influential McCain backers, plus McCain himself, would pick the pro-choice liberal from Connecticut if they thought they could get away with it.

At this writing, nobody knows McCain's choice. He is keeping the selection process secret, and his closest aides are in the dark. Could he still name Lieberman after being told by Lieberman himself that it is not a good idea? Nobody absolutely rules it out."

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=28254#continueA

Great speech by Bill Clinton. And -- surprisingly -- by Kerry.

You seriously gotta ask who the repugs are going to put up to counter this. Whether you agree with them or not, every night the speakers at the Dem convention have been stars. What stars do the repugs have. I'm not being flip, I'm being serious.

That smile looks more like appletini fever

But Gordo no one really cares who McCain is going to pick.

CSpan says NYT reporting McCain has chosen his VP and choice may leak out tomorrow; event scheduled for 11 a in Dayton Ohio on Friday.

Any guesses? I guess it's Romney... but no clue!

I thought a good choice for McCain would be Kay Baily Hutchinson,,,but on CNN Chuck Todd (I think) said today that everyone knows Kay and John hate each other..interesting

JFTR...

Obama Girl's real name is Amber Lee Ettinger ;~)

Obama Girl! Can Paris be next?? KEEP US POSTED !!
Where's Andrew with the video camera when you REALLY could use him!?

I think Tom Ridge

Dog I just have the feeling it's going to be Lieberman, which as you know is who I'm hoping for.

Craig,
Don't know if you're going to the Twin Cities, but if you do we'll expect a photo of you and the McCain girls sharing a hot tub. rofl. Equal time and all.

Joe song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iMaINmI7pc

Brian-
I'm betting Tom Ridge....
I don't think Rudy can pass vetting...
supposedly he hates Hutchinson and Romney...
Lieberman could cause a serious floor fight.
JMO.
Gidget

Tweety and Cruella de Ville
can't change the channel fast enough

who is Cruella?

Craig, you should pay me to come on here. At least your TM group has someone else to kick around and not each other.

Jamie,

I sure seemed to have “worked you up so much” in that last thread, but it would seem that most of the Clinton supporters are on the bandwagon now. Why don’t you join the group? It’s usually more fun when there are more than a few! Also, I don’t recall ever calling HRC any four-letter words. Maybe thunder thighs, but that’s about it; but Clinton’s unethical remarks during the campaign brought on attacks anyone rightfully could make about her. I’ve even heard several people who supported her, but chose to move on to someone else, because of the “evil” and “unethical” way she went after Obama because “she thought she was to have been the chosen one”. That will be McBush’s undoing as well. She has moved on. It's time for the rest of you to do so if you can. That's the question; I don't think you can move.

Here’s what I will say and see what you can make of it, which I’m sure you will.

“God Bless America”.

Now go for it. Bash away. I know that’s what makes your day.

dog

Claire McCaskill

Lieberman would be great, two old white guys in love with war!

"McCain girls sharing a hot tub."

Rez
Are you talking about his daughters or his wives?

KGC-
Ha! She certainly had the color scheme going!
~Gidget

When McCain is elected POTUS -- Lieberman would be perfect for VP. What a great punishment for the Dems. Can you imagine having to deal with "Holy Joe" for 4 years? If something happened to McCain -- just think about that. President Lieberman! Sounds great. Dems deserve to suffer for their betrayal of the Clintons.

The Repubs don't need "stars" -- they have the TRUTH from his "hidden" past. SoetorObama will be seeing "stars" after the Repubs have finished beating him to a pulp.

Gidget
Credit to Jamie who first thought of it but it is a perfect fit.

Another gift from Bush and Company

Bankruptcies Soar for Seniors

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1836747,00.html

KGC,
Haven't you seen/heard the McCain girls video, equivalent to Obama girl?

Forget your meds again Gordo. You sound a bit hysterical. BTW what happened to that plan you kept telling us about. You know the one where Hillary snatches the nomination away from Obama at just the last minute?

Jamie you're very quiet tonight. gone fetal listening to Peter Allen again?

Rez
Are you talking about the "Raining McCain" video.which I hope never to see again.

Crackers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx5FFFDfAdY

Karolenna

I got on the bandwagon a long time ago. Do try to pay attention. And yes you did say all sorts of foul accusations and comments about the Clintons. It was truly ugly. I believe I even offered you a bar of soap for your mouth.

Crackers

ROFLMPANTS OFF as Jason would say. :)

Just watching TV Brian.

I guess you can visualize the hot tub photo! :)

They need RuPaul to make it work
they have a sequel too --but once is enough!

I guess you can visualize the hot tub photo! :)

stabbing out my mind's eye! gak!

wading into this briefly: Karolenna is not a Hillary admirer, that's for sure.

But looking at the comment that set this off -- it's innocuous; think you reacted to the fact that it was Karolenna posting rather than anything in that comment.

I do not understand what was objectionable about the comment; it was kind of cryptic anyway ...

Here you go Brian

One of my favorite Allen songs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOQKxeoLj2c&feature=related

Dog

You do have a point. It was just mildly snarky, but it came on the heels of months of ugly so I tend to react even more strongly to Karo than I do to Brian and that is going some.

MSNBC is going to show Kerry's speech again, if you missed it. (Probably hilites) but it was a red meat speech ...if he'd been like that as a candidate, we would have been saved the last 4 painful years.
~gidget

Did ya mount her, boy?

"but Clinton's unethical remarks during the campaign brought on attacks anyone could rightfully make about her"
I respectfully disagree!! This is BS!! Hillary didn't then or doesn't now deserve the treatment she recieved...Its time now for the Democratic Nominee Barack Obama to get himself elected and inspire us all!!

Believe it or not, xrep, I've been a registered Democrat, but never a Republican. I sport a big ol' 'I' now, because I'm cool like that.

A humorous blast from the past...

"The end of Bill Clinton's presidency in 2001 closed a remarkable chapter in the New Democrat (i.e., DLC)success story. Yet it also marked a new beginning -- the passing of the torch to a new generation of New Democrat leaders. Here we feature 100 who are making their mark in cities and states across our land. "

Including...
Barack Obama, State Senator, IL

Guess they didn't watch him close enough...

http://www.ndol.org/ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=251581&kaid=104&subid=210

Spike

That is an interesting list. It would be a nice project to do a "Where Are They Now?" update on all the names on the list.

I didn't say that. It wouldn't work that way. No "fingerprints" is the requirement. For all we know, Hillary and Bill put on this performance at the convention to convince many of the Obamabots that they want to help SoetorObama win. Actually, it would be more clever to drop the "scandal" bombs on him after he got the nomination. If he was forced to drop out, how could Biden (9,500 votes in Primaries - Fox News) get the top of the ticket over Hillary (18 million votes). Hillary would need Obamabot votes in Nov to win.

You are taking some of my scenarios as predictions.

CSpan's coverage was great; sorry to hear that CNN viewers missed Kerry's speech because its anchors were jawboning about a possible GOP VP pick. That's inane.

I think it's the only Kerry speech I ever enjoyed or sat through. It was effective.

Could make a real difference, whether people see the speeches in their entirety or framed by the yakking and GOP analysts ... how fair is that?

Spike
That's an interesting list -- The California group is a mixed bag -Phil Angelides not so much....but Gavin Newsom is now mayor of SF and talked about as a potential candidate for gov.
Michael Nutter is mayor of Phila now and and Coleman, mayor of Columbus Oho has an excellent reputation.
I'd be curious if people know what's happened to the leaders of tomorrow.

"You are taking some of my scenarios as predictions. "

More like psychotic breaks.

I think Rocky Delgadillo had to resign in disgrace. He might even be in jail

100 to Watch: Ron Gonzales - he defintely resigned in disgrace over the trash contracts and he had an affair.
This list is amazing.

KGC

I've been away from California quite awhile and not paying attention. How corrupt are the angelides ties proving to be or not to be. There was lots of gossip, but I hadn't heard any updates.

Do we HAVE to choose between Ann Curry and Contessa Brewer as the worst??? Can't we dump them both in a newly created Hall of Disgust? Ann for Acheivement in Soulfulness and Empathy, esp in her Katy Couric days when her hair was so artfully messed up because she was too worried re the world to comb her hair before she went on air --- Contessa for her
Fiery Recitation of the News someone else wrote for her with all the gusto and more than anyone could want with eye-rolling galore worthy of a fifteen year-old girl.

Lieberman loses, although he could raise tons of money among Miami's Jewish retirees. Falwell supporters figure that the AntiChrist is a Democrat Jew, alive and lurking in the Liberal UnBaptised Northeast. So, having Lieberman on the ticket would definitely cost the votes of Southern Baptists, besides those rabid Jew-hating Identity Christians & Preteriists, and probably most Southern Methodists. That would leave McCain only the Mammonists and the Orthdox Jews of Miami and Brooklyn (but not Manhattan, Chi, or LA) still willing to vote for McCain. In short, Joe Lieberman loses. Ask Al Gore.

I don't Angelides is corrupt - "just the least suited for running for office person" to ever run. He should have crushed that weasel Steve Westly when he had the chance.

There have been some allegations but nothing has come of it.
Of course the feds have been looking at Perata for SEVEN years and still no charges but the are still looking.

Spike's list includes Kwame Kilpatrick and Eliot Spitzer .... they've been in the news...

Gabrielle Giffords is a congresswoman now, married to an astronaut ...

Jamie ------------------------

Do you have any knowledge about anything that isn't reported by MSM? You probably think the Bill Ayers connection is a tin-foil creation. You're exactly the type person THEY want - controllable. You believe what you're told without question.

Bethy

Great description of those two - and I think your idea is a good one.

Dog
That's at least four with serious legal problems...

Larry King is interviewing Republicans about the Democratic Convention. They are trying vewy vewy hard to be bwave.

Oh, Champ !

Pardon me for mis-identifying you. I know how hard it can be hard to convert. So many people - like me - make erroneous assumptions.

Goodnight

Gordo

Boy do you have the wrong person. I just don't believe in conspiracies for one simple reason. ... never blame on conspiracy what can be explained by stupidity or greed. and of course Ben Franklin's very accurate warning:

Two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead.

More from SoetorObama's "hidden" past.
=============================
Swiftboating or Vetting?

"The Obama campaign is panicked that terrorist and Obama benefactor, Bill Ayers, has reared his ugly head into this campaign.

But is it really Swiftboating? There is a convincing case to be made that Obama is simply being vetted, something the media failed to do throughout his short national career. ...the charges are all true and that’s why they are panicked."

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/08/27/swiftboating-or-vetting/

The Republicans are really harping on

The "Annointed One' making his entry from "The Greek Temple"

We are going to hear a lot of that, so someone better come up with a counter arguement.

Mitt's out and Condi's in....
http://www.nationaljournal.com/conventions/co_20080828_1928.php

I see that mighty don young may not have won his primary against Palin protege Parnell. It will take 2 weeks to find out whether the Congressman will be able to spend all of his campaign money on legal defense, or whether he'll have to split it between the Campaign and the defense. This is what you get when you rewrite (forge) bills AFTER they've been voted on.

And Begich has a double digit lead in the polls over ted stevens. Imagine a beautiful blue Alaska, and America's prisons chock full of white suburban republican gangsters from Alaska. Oh, Brave new World that has such features in't. Good night to all the rest of you.

Gordo

May I remind you that forty years ago, Barack Obama was seven years old. The only logical thing you could make of his acquaintance with Ayers at the far out fringe of belief is leftist leanings and shared charitable goals.

Ayers may be an unreformed radical, but as far as I know Obama wasn't helping to light fuses from 6,000 miles away while in kindergarten.

"Two people can keep a secret if one if one of them is dead."
Thank you Jamie...that's been running around my brain all night...but I started on martinis before WJC spoke (nerves...too much MSNBC)
It's perfect to deflect the poison pills some post here.
~Gidget

Gordo are you on some form of public assistance, I find it hard to believe you are capable of self support.

Grrek temple??? That's the South Front of the White House. What blithering idiots they are.

Sound familiar???

"We Democrats are at a fork in the road. We have to stop playing off the failures of the other guys. We have to stop rearranging little issues every month like so many cards on the table. We need passion, we need big dreams, and we need to show a way into the future most importantly that resonates with the deepest values of Americans and with the hopes and dreams that they have for themselves and they have for their children."

Keynote by Gov. Phil Bredesen at the 2007 Democratic Leadership Council National Conversation

http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?kaid=106&subid=122&contentid=254419

Thank you, XR...
I've been saying that all day and eveyone I said it to said it was the temples of Rome or Greece, I have too many Rebublivcan friends!
~Gidget

Jamie-------------------------------------

Often, conspiracies are not kept secret -- info leaks out. But people like you refuse to believe what is in front of your eyes.

Gordo

I refuse to believe in made up and doctored evidence. Have you hunted for Big Foot recently?

Good Night All. Late for me. I'll let the night shift take over.

Brian--------------------------------

Why don't you ask your pal Barry about the "Purple Room".

I remember a deli in detroit named the Purple Pickle, but I don't know of any purple rooms. Not a favorite color of mine.

Jamie ----------------------------

"I refuse to believe in made up and doctored evidence."

You believe SoetorObama's made up and doctored evidence. If you would research this COLB/BC story, even you might understand that SoetorObama is hiding something. It's so easy to end all this -- just make arrangements for examination of the "vault" copies of his two BCs.

Brian-----------------------------

Then ask Larry. Understand now?

Lots of rumble here about Ridge. Romney was in Henderson NV sounding very vice presidential, raving on about how "John McCain will fight to keep the government out of health care..", among other regular McCain talking points.
It's going to be Romney, Romney is dynamic,and Romney can stay with Joe Biden and even out-talk him, I suppose. Romney is a strong family man with a wife that can match Mrs. Biden in the beautiful family and what I guess I will call "wholesome good looks" department. So on the cosmetic side, Romney can equal Biden, on the substantive issue part of the deal, Biden will appeal to us, and Romney can lock-up the millionaires and the poor people who are ignorant and like McCain for whatever reasons.

Brian
-What do you understand...is Larry a friend of your's?

Dexter,

Kay Bailey Hutchenson is getting some play on Intrade. Romney fell quite a bit today. Don't know if there's something in the air, or just some interim profit-taking...

Larry who? I had a friend in summer camp named larry, but that was about 35 years ago, and to the best of my knowledge he doesn't know Senator Obama.

Thanks spike...is McCain considering Kay Bailey Hutchison to reel in scorned HRC supporters strictly on the gender factor?

Gordo,

A Vault? I'll send FOX and Geraldo right over!

Jamie------------------------

"May I remind you that forty years ago, Barack Obama was seven years old.

Ayers may be an unreformed radical, but as far as I know Obama wasn't helping to light fuses from 6,000 miles away while in kindergarten."

Are you just repeating the SoetorObama campaign response? Or are you uninformed about the Ayers/ SoetorObama relationship? It's hard to believe you don't know what this is about. It's about telling the TRUTH! SoetorObama is lying - Ayers was not just "a guy who lives in my neighborhood".

Craig...you lucky bastard. LOL!

Party unity this week. Blog unity sometime in the future...

We are going to hear a lot of that, so someone better come up with a counter arguement.

Posted by: Jamie | August 28, 2008 12:53 AM

Funny how you feel obligated to rationalize his megalomaniacal behavior.

Passing thru on my way to the next reception but wanted to let you know I just saw Kwame Kilpatrick out in front of my hotel. I didn't think he was coming to the convention but he is here. I was with a woman from Michigan and she pointed him out to me...mmm.

Craig sighting tonight at the convention...he wasn't with Obama girl though.

Didn't see Ann Curry...I think she is afraid to come out of the booth.

I did see Bill O'reilly though. I wanted to take a picture but he kept looking at me. I think he was wondering why I wouldn't acknowledge him. That was worth more than a picture. Later.

I like Ann Curry..a good Oregon girl..

Hope Kwame had permission to go.

Good Morning! Anyone up yet?

Observations:

Big Bill strikes again......when youre down in Politicsville, old Bill is still the king......

Michelle gets a case of the old fish-eye....... and sits next to (drum roll please) Theresa Heinz Kerry......good move.......lol.....

Corey hits the "Unity" nail on the head.

nasty people are nasty people no matter whom they support.

Gordo roils the waters, and briannyc, who sits day after day furiously typing onto his 5 computers from his mom's basement wonders if Gordo has visible means of support........lol

Craig poses with the obama goil......there's so many teeth in that picture, I had to squint to see it.......lol

Huzzah!
a laugh a minute upon reading el threado.

Priceless!