From the debate: A 'look' at the candidates' words (On Politics, USA Today)
Courtesy of Janet Harris at Upstream Analysis, here are tag clouds that take the words used by the candidates at last night's debate in Nashville and "show" which ones they emphasized most:
Janet looks at the clouds and says McCain's "is full of nationalist/patriotic terms" while Obama's "seems mild by comparison, reflecting its mild-mannered speaker."
Kick 'Em While They're Down, Hit 'Em While They're Bleeding (by Tom Watson)
I know we're all supposed to be singing from the same hymnal on the left these days - the positive plans of the Obama-Biden juggernaut and all that , the change brand - but I'm breaking ranks. To this Democrat, used to suffering through disastrous election nights in the full knowledge that the results will further ruin his country, Obama's instinct to go for the vicious final punch, the head-snapping lights out political blow, is a thing of beauty.
Democrats can be SO proud. They are now equal opportunity violence advocates.—Caro
And equal opportunity ballot box stuffers:
ACORN office in Vegas raided in voter-fraud probe (AP)
Nevada state authorities are raiding the Las Vegas headquarters of an organization that works to get low-income people to vote. A Nevada secretary of state's officespokesman said Tuesday that investigators are looking for evidence of voter fraud at the office of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also called ACORN. No one was at the ACORN office when state agents arrived with a search warrant and began carting records and documents away. Secretary of State spokesman Bob Walsh says ACORN is accused of submitting multiple voter registrations with false and duplicate names.
But maybe not. Or maybe so. (Got whiplash yet?)—Caro
Democrats are now equal opportunity invaders of opponents’ privacy:
Tenn. student indicted for allegedly hacking into Palin's e-mails (On Politics, USA Today)
Twenty-year-old University of Tennessee student David Kernell has been indicted by a grand jury in Knoxville, Tenn., for allegedly "accessing without authorization the e-mail account of Alaska governor Sarah Palin," the Justice Department just announced. As the News Sentinel in Knoxville writes, Kernell is the son of Memphis Democratic state Rep. Michael Kernell. The senior Kernell has previously said he knows nothing about the hacking into Palin's e-mails.
Democrats can be especially proud that they are now the party of destroying your opponent by lying about him or her—especially a her.
Palin's negatives reach record levels in Alaska (Hot off the Trail, McClatchy)
A new survey by Anchorage pollster Ivan Moore Tuesday contains more bad news for Sarah Palin. As McClatchy's Chris Adams reported last week, Palin's popularity has been on the slide among Alaskans since she was named McCain's running mate. Moore's new poll shows that trend's continued — with those holding a favorable opinion of her slipping another 3 points to 65 percent. But Moore says the more interesting number is the number of Alaskans who now say they view her negatively — 30 percent. That's a record high.
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"both men blew it"--
Politico: The worst debate ever -- http://www.politico.com/news/stories/100... -- "... Place the gravity of the moment next to the blah-blah-blah artifice of the rhetoric and overall insubstantiality of the evening and this is what you get: The worst presidential debate ever.
The day after leaves behind a puzzle: How the hell did candidates manage to be so timid and uninspiring at a time when American troops are in two problematic wars, the world financial markets are in scary free fall and the Dow has lost 1,400 points since Oct. 1? This is a moment history rarely sees – and both men blew it. ..."
and that paper-dollitics thing is very powerful--thanks!
I'm just so disgusted.
I just hate the whole political process right now.
i actually had hope after 06--
but of course it's like the GOP is still in charge of everything--and both candidates are Repubs--in policy if not party id.
both funny and sad--
"An amused RNC spokesman sends around this clip from a Joe Biden rally in Tampa, at which he was s introduced as "the next Vice President of the United States, Joe McCain." -- http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1...
Lynn Sweet on Ayers--
and she's been a Chicago columnist for ages and ages and doesn't know all the details -- http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/10/...
-- When did Obama know about Ayers terrorist background? My search for Ayers and Dohrn --
"Since the McCain campaign has resurfaced the matter of Barack Obama's relationship with Bill Ayers--the former terrorist now Chicago education professor---there are some matters I am curious about. I say this as one who has explained time and again in print and on television Ayers, by the time Obama met him in the 1990s, was a respected academic who was welcome into Chicago's civic life. ..."
for Lambert--Goldman, Obama, Brokaw-private dinner in 07--
Obama interviewed by Brokaw at private Goldman Sachs dinner last year. -- http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/10/... --
"On May 3, 2007, Barack Obama attended an event at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan that was not on his public schedule and is only now surfacing--a private dinner for Goldman Sachs traders with a discussion on issues moderated for the Wall Street firm by NBC's Tom Brokaw.
Brokaw is the moderator of Tuesday's second presidential debate between Obama and John McCain at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn.
The dinner was not a fund-raiser for Obama, then in the early stages of his Democratic primary campaign launched February, 2007. Brokaw interviewed Obama for about 45 minutes on mostly international issues. Brokaw received an honorarium, donated to charity. The Obama campaign called the event a "moderated conversation" when I inquired on Monday.
Brokaw's appearance was arranged through Goldman Sachs--not the Obama campaign. It was the only session Brokaw did for Goldman. Brokaw's honorarium was given to a charity.
The employees of Goldman Sachs collectively would go on to become the top contributors to the Obama campaign. ..."
"Obama addressed the Goldman's annual partners meeting 2006"
"... An April 18, 2007 Bloomberg News article about top campaign bundlers noted that Obama addressed the Goldman's annual partners meeting 2006 in Chicago. " -- from there-- worth digging into, lambert.
Thanks, since G/S is my parasite!
Offhand, do you know if this is typical behavior, or out of the norm?
[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
i think not typical--he was junior senator
and not in NY/NJ/CT---you might want to dig around and see every Goldman-Obama connection from 03-04 til now--from when he first ran for DC office.
More G/S & Other Data Points, lambert
Via Anglachel, the NYT very helpfully names names and even does a graph tying all of the folks together who have been making deals, including Goldman and it gives various executives' names at Goldman and other firms. In total, all of these mega deal have been done by about 30 folks (only one of whom is female, when will we get our chance to rob the public, huh?). All of whom should be searchable in terms of campaign donations and other info.
Could explain the early seed money...
would be nice to see results of research on this.
"6 Degrees of Goldman" --
http://theboard.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/1...
Mayor Newsom Calls Out Biden--
http://mygaynerve.blogspot.com/2008/10/m... -- "Newsom on Biden - Dems:
"How about the debate two days ago? And I don?t mean this as a critique because I'm a Democrat like you and I'm very passionate about this ticket this year. But I'm frustrated. I'd be lying to you and misleading you and patronizing you as a Democratic Club that I was particularly proud of the only thing that Sarah Palin and Joe Biden agreed on is the notion that gay people should only run the 90 year dash on equality. That's what they said. Both of them said that. Sarah Palin agreed with Joe Biden. ..."