Craig Crawford's Trail Mix

"Country First" (campaign theme or mortgage company?)

well lets hope the seech is better tha the intro

Jack

From the desk of the always fair and even handed journalist, Jonathan Alter. And you ask if their is a media bias. LMFAO. If only the MSM had looked into the BHO's life with as much vigor. It is what it is, just have to deal with it.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/156982/page/2

well at least they got rid of the podium that looked like a Hershey bar

hmmmm, poor staging. we could see shots of the text on his teleprompter

I'm not watching so you'll hafta fill me in... just the lo-lights, please

McCain now has 6 or 8 boxes to live in.....? How's that working out for him?

Jack,

We are talking manufacturing jobs, not marketing jobs, not engineer jobs. BHO specifically said, manufacturing jobs. So since he is so specific on bringing back manufacturing jobs, all I was asking which manufacturing jobs. It won't be steel, it won't be cars, it won't textile, it won't be anything that can be purchased from foreign that is of equal quality and can be purchased at a lower price. Not to long ago one of the last great American names in home products could no longer hold out, Hoover Vacuum Cleaners of N. Canton, OH, sent their manufacturing end to Mexico. They didn't want to, but Dirt Devil was kicking their butts selling a similar product for $150 cheaper. Hoover will not be returning to N. Canton. At some point a company has to ask themselves how many times can we withstand for our ledgers to end up in the red. Look at a non-manufacturing job, airlines. They have reduced the number of employees, they have cut back or eliminated benefits, they have reduced their retirements, they have started charging passengers for everything over and above their basic seat. Some have even gone as far as not taking off with a full tank of fuel to try and save overhead. Yet they are still losing $$$$ hand over fist.

This country runs on fossil fuels and to think you can just stop using them and still stay the worlds only true power is just plain foolishness. As TBoone Pickens said, while building and new sources of energy, wind, solar, thermal, nuclear, cng, etc, we still need to drill, drill, drill.

Now I am off to listen to JM

cool tie, but kind of a sloppy knot

new drinking game: take a shot every time he says, "My friends"

The shot looks like John's on a green screen (like F/X shots in movies!)

geez, can't believe he praised Bush in the opening sentences

I've always enjoyed Fry's commercial breaks.

Hecklers! holding sign says "McCain votes against vets"

Can't play,Craig...it took me two glasses of wine to get through Cindy's "speech"

Get on with it

hahaha..tell McCain the old comedian's line.. "Hey! Do I come down to YOUR job and tell ya how to sweep up???"

didn't they learn last time that green was not the right backdrop

ha, gidget, we might stay sober -- so far sounds like his handlers finally cured him of the "My Friends" obsession

That USA USA chant is a tad scary...

nice shout out to Obama world. classy

LOLThe thankyous are going on all night.

speech speech speech

I think they've been located...the entire 25% or so who actually believe GWB has done an acceptable job as Prez.

drink up

CC-
There's still 43 minutes to go...I have hope.
HA! there it was

Do you think they saw my post, cuz the screen just changed.

first "my friends" -- take a shot

ok.. i drank.. but you'll have give me updates.. lol

second "my friends" and then a "my dear friends" -- two shots

well the nut cases are having their fun, it always backi fires tho

Not sure the blue screen is working either.

geez, the "USA" chanters trying to overcome the hecklers are more disruptive than the protesters

Yikes! Pretty soon I'll be that over-friendly stranger that drapes his/her arm around your shoulder, schloshing my words..

And the crowd, in their efforts to drown out the hecklers, are really throwing McCain off....

OK...I'm playing....it may be the only way to ge through this.

getting the most applause for sarah palin so far

back to the thankyous and intros how far are we into this?

Is this ticket upside down too?

LOL Jack

Craig-
What's with the alligator hats...is that the Florida delegation?

"change" lines were effective

"does anyone else find his smile kinda creepy? i think there's something weird about it."

don'tcha expect him to say hey hey hey and give the person standing next to him a poke or a pinch. It's like he is remembering his favorite dirty joke.

hmmmm, he's getting back to the the ole 2000 reformer lines -- like it

I bet someone by the end of the speech you will think he is calling for Shrub's impeachment.

"what you fight for is the real test" -- nice

hic! I've decided --- I'm an aspiring elitist!

who speaks for our 4000+ dead soldiers, from the Iraq war, who can't speak about being sent in ill-equipped and under-manned

attacking "some" republicans for corruption -- good stuff, but no applause

he's talking about reforming the republican party, something conservatives are very much focused on

lol
He is taking on the whole world, like he was never part of it. lol
the insider outsider.

tieing bush to the democrats

3 of our soldiers were blown up yesterday -- on their way to the airport to come HOME.. They'd finished their tours in Afghanistan. I'm SO pissed off .......

I agree with you Craig, he is trying.

Good evening everyone. Has he mentioned the B word yet? I didn't hear h even mention Bush -- except in code-speak -- 41 and 43.

now he sounds like a kindergarten teacher

Yep he is.. VERY trying

All the same GOP clap-trap that has served us all so well the past 8 years.

decent opening, dreadful middle, needs a big finish

LOL Tylenol!

how?

New opportunities -- polar bear bounty hunters to clear the ANWR oil fields?

How is he going to pay for all of this?

that "how?" was aimed at the tv...sorry

Piper Palin is looking pretty tired. Shouldn't those young'uns be in bed by now?

my thought exactly Gidget

Alicia

but not corrupt so it will work;-0

Look at him hit all the suburban class important button.

oops just screwed it on education
maybe not it is for those urban schools

As a mom, I'm all for school choice!! Could do with a little less Standardized testing though.

Big finish -- he says Sarah Palin 15 times. Crowd goes wild.

ha - when is the last time he visited the by laws of teacher's unions?

They're YAWNING!

700 billion?

were getting out of Iraq

My friends again -- Drink!

arthritis

Drill now! Yes, do. Would rather listen to that instead of this speech.

He smiles at the darndest times...

"My friends" alert -- another shot

damn I'm going to have to go out and get a new jug

I wish all the candidates would stop promising everything and focus on a clear way to solve just a couple of important things.

Second bottle openned....

scary scary scary

Hey.... do lemonsh have legsh?

No?

OMG.. I just squeezed your canary into my drink!

yeah the last eight years have been great --- your party has done wonders

"MF" -- one more

and georgia got its butt kicked for being stupid.
are we bring that billion dollars home too?

and another

war war war ....that's all he talks about

crowd losing interest -- hecklers could now steal the room

damn and I had damn near a half gallon

War war war terror terror terror be scared be scared same same same McCain

we have seen more images of war during this convention than we have seen in the last 6 years on TV all put together!

*stares forlornly into empty glass*

here ty let me pour you a shot

not only a poorly delivered speech but miserable writing -- "in america we change things that need to be changed" -- such poetry

And when these veterans come home, they're going to open up their mailbox and get a letter that says "Your benefits have been cut."

oh damn again

MF alert

you have had how many year to make a change????you are a career politician.....holy cow......you have been there in D.C. the last...forever years...and now you say you can change it ??

Yer a gent, Jack!! :)

It is my unbiased opinion that he has undone all the GOP happy buzz from Palin's speech ....

OK..not SO unbiased.

This sucks , can we push the restart button

Jon, Cindy McBush's face looks like it's going to crack

tylenol, it's really "OBEY"??

I was going to sit this one out so I can keep my skin on.

Guess not.

tt

MF alert

What a horrible speaker McBush is. He apparently has NO memory and reads the teleprompter very badly.

Hey, that Palin woman's showing A LOT of skin. Remember the production over Hillary's neckline once?

WHO are the protesters? Are they Repub Ron Paul folks??

tt

McCain -- never mind how long I've been in DC. I'll do it differently now.

CODE PINK

tt

their the pink folks

No way in hell Bush sees the inside of a jail cell, or Cheney. If Obama wins, you might see a few BushCo scapegoats thrown under the bus, a la Scooter Libbey. If they did prosecute Bush, it would set a precedent to which they themselves might be subject someday. Fantasy and an empty promise.

ok, he's reeling back in with the pow stuff.

Did anyone see Obama on O'Rielly tonight? He was pretty good, much more animated than this.

POW POW POW

His daddy and daddy's daddy were 4 stars.

Jack -- yer killin me.. hahahaha

Easy to bash teachers. Looks like the only choice I'll have under McBush is where my kids go to school.

Private? They can't find teachers now because they don't pay anything. No one wants to do that. Also the teachers don't have to be certified.

He knows nothing except, drill baby drill.

So grim.

tt

Ya know I made a foolish statement today, I said nobody writes their own speech these days. I was wrong.

I feel like I am listening to a broken record......I think I have heard his story one million times, about what happened in the 1900's

yeah many actually died, and are still dying on your watch!

this is working

How can I make CHOICES when "they" have taken away all my options and rights?

Who is it McBush's gonna change from??? Why that'd be themselves, the Repubs.

tt

As if anyone cares what McCain has to say now. It's Palin v. Obama unless she screws up. Showtime was last night.

referring to a fellow pow as "my friend" -- doesn't count, no shots

If we had made the drinking game everytime we heard POW tonight...we would be passed out by now and no longer listening to this dreadful speech.

He talks about the Hanoi HIlton -- but never about his time in Paradise Gardens. Wonder why?

but vote against funding for our current vets? what's up with that?

in the arena, craig.. only in the arena..

He really took a lot of pot shots at the government that's there for themselves.

That'd be BushCo, no?

BTW, his mother seems younger than he is.

tt

nanny

lets take up a collection we get enouigh money maybe we can hire a bounty hunter.
it is getting hard to type

Hey!! too late!! took my shot!!

A bush of vacuous, BS Repub rhetoric AGAIN!

tt

"i'm not running because i think i'm blessed, that history has annointed me" -- very good stuff

as good as last night was this is as bad.
Then again maybe I'm just a horny old bastard

My friends, this is torture porn.

Sun Tzu - not fighting is how you win

What jobs is he gonna train folks for? All that's left are service, as in food, laundry, etc.

He's going to have the government bridge the low pay of the people until they get a good paying job? BS.

tt

Stand up and fight? Umm.. Okay.

Now I can put my skin back on.

tt

Title of a children's book I saw at Borders:

"Barack Obama: Child of Promise, Man of Hope" Pretty much sums it up. Lot of promises, hope he can deliver!

LOL MD

country music....not surprised

um jack? this IS bad.. and you ARE a horny old bastard..

OH MY GOD! I have never seen a more weird part of a speech. He was supposed to be PASSIONATE, to the crescendo of the crowd, and he just couldn't do it. Oh, that was bad.

What's with the funny hats?

Craig?

tt

Craig...

What effect does it have that the VP nom is so much more ppolitically talented than the Prez nom?

well i just don't know whether that was one of the most authentic speeches ever given, or just painfully awkward. either way, it was certainly different. i'm leaving the building. have at it.

Just read my NyQuil box. Don't think the "my friends" game was a good idea.

Craig,

Does it look as if Hannah or Ike will be a problem for your parents?

maybe I haven't paid this close attention before, but that "my friends" was a freak show.

Jamie-
I thought the took the alcohol out of Nyquil ?

Cindy out-pearled Sarah...

Wash down all that Pinot Noir with some Perrier!

NyQuil... reminds me of a Dennis Leary bit.. *L-ing my ass off*

Balloon drops are so 8 years ago....

Obama Lawsuit -- "Hidden Past"
=======================
Berg v. Obama Update -- Wednesday, September 3

Summons Reissued, Obama to be Served by Tomorrow

While the original summons was accepted ten days ago by the U.S. Attorney's office on behalf of the Federal Election Commission, also a named defendant in Berg's suit, proper service never reached the Democratic National Committee or Barack Obama's agent for service. Today's procedure will ensure that proper service is made, but the reasons behind the procedural hiccup remain a mystery to everyone involved.

This time, rather than relying solely upon the court to mail the summonses following the filing of the complaint, the papers were faxed to a court service company in Washington, D.C."

http://www.americasright.com/2008/09/berg-v-obama-update-wednesday-september.html

LOL Alicia

Awww...the GOP gets balloons AND fireworks after JM's speech....that's OK...the DNC got a great speech!

He never said George Bush or Dick Cheney.

Hey, Ty, you got that right. the wife is in new york city this week. It is her birthday I got to figure out some thing special in between looking for a resthome for her father.

why isn't some one addressing that problem every body I know is dealing with it.

Jack

FAke fireworks on the jumbotron

Nope

Nyquil is still 20 proof. Not great, but with a stuffy head your brainless to begin with.

Ohhhhhhhhh thanks, Gordo. WAY to kill a buzz!!

How much does this evening encourage me to give to Obama????

If you really want to get blasted..drink whenever someone on msnbc defines McCain as a maverick

If McCain plans to actually reform his party the people chanting USA at every hint of weaknesses in the economy are in for a very rude awakening. With a Democratic congress there will have to be a lot of compromise. Change will come if either man wins and the floor of the RNC will never look as hateful as it does today. These people are for killing wolves and polar bears for no other reason than that Dems hope to preserve them. Drill, drill, drill because the weak-kneed Dems are concerned about environmental damage.
“I hate war” got applause but no chants. “partisan rancor” got a timid response. He made the case for change but most of the RNC did not see it in front of them. Mr. McCain is hoping for Democratic crossovers but the honor and the service and the love of country and the flag and what it stands for have been grossly dragged through the mud of a spite-filled and pitiful RNC

balloons and confetti

Gotta love it

Jack - Cindy McCain might let you have those earrings at a reduced price!

I think they doped the poor Palin baby with Nyquil. He never cries, he's always knocked out sleeping --- even in this cacophony. I hope they realize they can OD the baby on that stuff.

U-B-
As amax'ed out HRC donor (and sore loser) I swore I wouldn't give Obama a dime....but McCain-Palin has convinced me that it will be a wise investment They scare me.
~g

Hey KGC,

Or when they say the words: game changer

I hope no one has a latex allergy in that crowd. OTH .....well .....

That's the trouble with a room full of far right Republicans. It feels like a horror movie in the making.

The Borg are coming and it is futile to resist or another version of the body snatchers, "They are Us".

ty

there was a time when Cindy would have been my definition of a perfect woman, but I am reeeformed. well almost. Hope they don't replay and of the my friends part

Jack

A painfully awkward speech. No doubt a portent of things to come.

KO just said that McBush said that Palin worked with her hands and her nose. *L*

tt

Please save your money, folks. You probably make fun of tele-evangelists who make their living the exact same way. And you think fundamentalist Christians are gullible!

If BHO can't beat this corpse with $250 mil, what's another $20 mil gonna do?

Andrea Mitchell has disappeared in the balloons.

Andrea drowned by balloons - OMG - toooo funny! Wish I hadn't taken all those MF shots...

Oooh -- I just saw an andro-couple. Interesting

Well, I know the 80+ crowd is happy tonight - they remember last century, and they actually have fond feelings for war.

haha..wish this HAD been a real bar.. we all woulda had a blast..

White punks on dope.

Thanks Jack, the interruptions realy ticked me off.

Tylenol -- Question: Does the Parliament have more power than the PM?

Have fun explaining that one Ty. Don't mention a vote of no confidence, they will all start sobbing.

Tweety's back in luv with McCain. He just predicted McCain will shoot ahead in the polls and could win in November.

KGC

It just proves what we all know
tweety is an idiot.

I stay away from that channel, thanks for the sacrifice.

Jack

No, Alicia. It's a little hard to explain but.. i'll give it a shot..

Canada is a constitutional monarchy.. we hold elections and territories are divided up into ridings (kind of like your counties). They add up the votes and the leader fo the party that gets the most votes then becomes Prime Minister. Parliament consists of two houses: House of Commons, Senate. House of commons seats those who are elected, with largest party winners on one side, and opposition winners on the other. The Senate is an appointed house. It is considered a house of "wise and sober thought" (although, I've known some senators who were far from sober). A law is passed by the House of Commons, it then goes to the Senate for "up" or "down". If it passes the Senate it is then law.

The Prime Minister can call an election at any time, but must call one within 5 years of his/her victory.

Forget issues -- all that will matter is SoetorObama's "hidden" past. Now the Repub TRUTH machine will begin the process of informing the American people.

'I Will Not Let You Down'

Sen. John McCain promises that "change is coming" to Washington as he accepts the nomination for president at the Republican National Convention.

(09-04) 20:05 PDT ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) --

John McCain, a POW turned political rebel, vowed Thursday night to vanquish the "constant partisan rancor" that grips Washington as he launched his fall campaign for the White House. "Change is coming," he promised the roaring Republican National Convention and a prime-time television audience.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/09/03/politics/p165654D60.DTL

This is the headline for the speech on SFGate

Gordo

I hope his past is more interesting than mine, I need the entertainment

Jack

If McCain says he fell in love with this country when he was a POW -- isn't that saying that he didn't love his country his whole life??

Did anyone notice that Ridge just responded with "John Bush" when Brokaw brought up the fact that the Repugs have had control of the government for the last 8 years.

Oh Jamie.. lol.. I forgot about votes of non-confidence.

In a situation like we have now, sometimes an election result is a minority government - that is, that no party wins a clear majority. The one with the slim margin forms a government, and in some cases does manage to do quite a bit of work because in order to get anything done, they have to work with those in other parties.

But sometimes, those in minority get a little too big for their britches and the leaders of the other parties bring in a vote of non-confidence. -- forcing the minority goverment to go to the polls again.

Gordo, can I plllllleeeeeeeeaaaaasssse please please please know what Obama's hidden past is? Please? Pretty Please? Pretty Please with powdered sugar? Please please please? I'll be your best friend. Please? The election is only like 2 months away. I promise I'll be good if you just tell me. Please?

Can I open one of my Christmas presents now, too? Just one of the small ones... please?

Also are all the balloons cascading around the Xcel center intended to cover up the fact that the convention hall is half full?

POW-erful story - we always love a well-told redemption testimonial. I wouldn't try to take away from that.

Nanny
IMO tonight has just been sad. You would expect better from a national figure. While I rarely agree with the republicans they usually put on a tough fight. tonight wasn't even acceptable. oh well.

Jack

Champ,

Here's one "secret truth" on Obama: He sometimes forgets to lower the lid in a house full of women. The HORROR!

damn jeffery tubin and I agree

Tylenol -- Thank you, my son wanted to know and I wasn't sure -- so I said to him, "Let's ask a Canadian!"

Thank you for your answer. He's been cogitating on whether a parliamentary govt would be better.

~Alicia

I only watched the last minute of the speech...trying to console a friend who had to put her dog down today...

GORDO, would you say McCain's attempt at being Churchill, speaking over a crowd in rapture is more or less "Hitlerian" than Obama's Denver speech?

I know you'll say much less, I'd love to know why?

Also, let's take bets which republican is the first to drop an N bomb...since I'm a roulette fan, we can bet person, position, state, etc...any takers?

LOL@ champ

Yea, I think it is time to open those presents

Jack

Jack: Gotta agree with you. On the replay of McSame's comments on MSNBC, the delegates just look disgusted and bored with him.

Jack,

Can I get a rundown of the speech, I can't watch him speak normally but I'll watch the rerack later...the hall seemed orgasmic but I was surprised that the NBC people spent more time tooling on Andrea Mitchell than talking the speech...also Ridge seemed a little down too...what happened?

Bear too late
read the previous thread. a good ole boy from georgia.
Gotta love em.

Jack

"He sometimes forgets to lower the lid in a house full of women. The HORROR!"

Posted by: Mr. Democrat | September 4, 2008 11:38 PM

What a misogynistic bastard!

Bear,

Ridge has never been too effervescent. That's him when he's happy.

I've posted info and links describing most of what will be revealed from SoetorObama's "hidden" past'. It'll be devastating.

Bear: It will be Lynn Westmoreland (obviously), Georgia (Rep.) on Monday, October 7.

Repost them please. You don't have to make it a Nancy Drew mystery, for Christ's sake.

Bear

imo as bad a speech as I've ever seen. It took him 15 min. just to get through the intros and imo it just went down hill from there. Remember when i said nobody writes their own speechs anymore? I was wrong.

Uppity isn't Nig@#$...though if you bet him...it will only pay 2/5...lol

Jack...if it was that bad, why is Chris Matthews saying McCain will be leading the polls and be the next president?

"But there is a very strange air about Republican operatives. In the last three weeks, I’ve talked to real insiders in VA, GA, AL and here. They all remind me of a unit waiting to cross the line of departure on an attack. Quiet, determined, last cigarette, last “can of peaches out of the ration,” radio checks, confident. They all use the term “safely nominated” when referring to Obama. That is weird.

They can’t wait to start taking Barack apart on the issues the media chose to ignore up to this point. And when the attacks intensify Joe Biden’s foreign policy expertise won’t matter one whit."

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/08/23/obama-tries-to-quash-ayers-ad/

Wait a second... Obama is really Mr. Haney, the amusement park director!

"And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids!"

gordo,

the stuff u posted is suppose to come out a person rear end not their mouth but seeing u are so full of... i see why it is easy for it to come out ur mouth and the pores of ur fingers

Bear

only being a politician keep him from saying uppity ni**er. Want to bet he has been saying it amoung friends all week?

Jack

Hee hee hee, to Bear's response on Uppity. And speaking of school girl giggles, is it just me, or is McCain positively creepy when he says that he can't wait to introduce Sarah Palin to Washington. This is becoming way too Cinemax late night!!! Or maybe he just thinks that she'll spike their mooseburgers like some demented Martha Borgia.

Bear

It is Matthews. nuff said

The folks on CNN were wondering if all the speech writers were assigned to Palin

Jack

Whisky,

Here's an evil thought...if Cindy McCain were black, we'd have video of him calling her a stupid f#@$ Nig@# Cu#$@...lol

Never trust a spook, Gordo.

I hope everyone remembers to drink lots of water and take an aspirin to head off tomorrow's hangover after drinking through all of those "My FRIENDS!" And they keep showing up in the replays (hiccup!)

Here's an interesting thought about the race going forward...

This morning I was listening to a Dallas radio show...I believe the 3 people are a gay man, a black guy who only dates white women and a white single mom. They were talking about how they have seen this election really cause some strains in relationships etc...

They offered a thought about why Obama would lose...

"McCain has already reneged on his plan to run a clean campaign without the negative stuff. He is proving that his will to win is more important than keeping his word"

"Obama's problem will be does he keep his word and stay clean, or does he say screw it and starts to beat up the old man. They fear that if Obama defends himself, he'll be bludgeoned by the Republicans as a hypocrite for breaking his word. If he keeps his word and maintains his honor, they will pain him as a wuss..."

Champ...what type of spook are your referring to? racial or intelligencia?

NEW THREAD

See that some of you are getting very upset. The MSM has promoted and protected SoetorObama by remaining silent about his "hidden" past. Finally, the Repub TRUTH machine can begin to "grind" SoetorObama down -- the "killer" info will be released late in the campaign.

whskyjack; 8:41 pm previous.......... I love the spectacle as well, and without traditions(role call) what history would there be? You know of course that this makes us, "old people who don't understand." .........................

tonyb39; 8:46 pm previous ........"Hillary's going to Florida", maybe he FINALLY came to life with the donors list to help with her debt.............................

Chloe;9:47 pm previous .......... It's called reverse racism and it's been rampant since SC...............

sea; 9:18 pm previous...............Being of the working class myself, even though my mother wasn't single and she didn't need food stamps, we worked damn hard - he just doesn't get it..........................................

wahwah; 10:35 pm........... "who speaks for the troops?"
Cindy Sheehan, if Pelosi would stop bugging her phone.....................................................................

Jennbe; 10:57 pm ...................O'Reilly is such an ass, showing it in 3 parts. Unfortunately, at least to me, he didn't look very - presidential - it looked like O'Reilly was pushing him around .............................................

Is it my imagination, or is Lindsay Graham the worst speaker in the world, except maybe for Mark Warner.

And one other thought; why is it that we have to be so ooooo interested in who's cheating on who, who's sleeping with whom, and who's pregnant and who's not. How voyeuristic do we have to be, to be part of the process - as much as I loved him, JFK would be spinning, so maybe it's time to stop the comparisons.

Rita

On an earlier thread theresa43 asked, "what do you call a woman who scorns with a smile?" If the dems don't get their act together very soon, they'll be calling her Madam Vice President................................................

Rita