Pride, fall, etc.

There's so much creamy, delicious goodness in this article from the UK's Telegraph about the Obama campaign's arrogance that it's hard to pick an excerpt, but here's a taste:

The Democratic strategist told The Sunday Telegraph: "They think they know best. They don't return calls. There are governors and senators calling them up with ideas. They don't get back to them.

"These are senior people from the border states and the South who know how to beat Republicans, and they're being ignored. They ignored everyone during the primaries and they came through it, so they think they can do the same again."

Mr Obama has never won an electoral contest against a strong Republican candidate. David Axelrod, his chief strategist has been hailed as a political genius for beating the Clinton machine, but Democrats now point out that he has never run a successful campaign in the heartland states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Virginia, which will decide the election. His expertise is in mobilising young, educated and black voters in urban areas.

Mark Cunningham of the New York Post summed up the private views of many: "If it suddenly seems like the Obama campaign doesn't have any idea what it's doing, maybe that's because it doesn't."

Having never read anything by Cunningham, I'm not sure what his political leanings are, though the Post is generally regarded as right-leaning, but most of the people mentioned in the article (with the exceptions of Peggy "Bullshit" Noonan and some GOP strategist) are generally the kinds of foax you'd imagine are already in the tank for Obama. And they seem to think that his campaign is flailing. They're afraid.  Like that unnamed Dem strategist, who says, "These guys are on the verge of blowing the greatest gimme in the history of American politics."  Mmmmmmm...that's tasty right there.

There's still a lot of time before November, and things could change dramatically between now and then, but being a Republican hasn't been this fun since, well, late 2004.  And if things do pan out for Palin and Whatshisname, won't it be awesome to see some of the following from the Kos Kiddies?

Ouch.  It'll be hard for them to do "compassionate head-tilts" without, you know, heads.

(Via heh-indeedpundit.)

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Obama's EPIC FAIL

This ad released today where the Obama campaign was sneering at McCain because he doesn't do email?

Yeah, that'd be because McCain has trouble using a keyboard because of what happened to him at the Hanoi Hilton.  Smooth move, Team Obama.

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...and another

Liberal columnist goes to a McCain/Palin event with the intent to goof on it and the people there, but realizes that her party may well get steamrolled because of precisely that type sneering condescension, inability and refusal to understand those different then themselves.  It lost the funny for her real quick.  Heh.

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In the Obama campaign war room

Dave in Texas put this together on some widget that lets you add dialogue to that scene from Downfall.  Someone put it up on youtube,

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Dr. Doniger, Constitutional scholar

Allahpundit's quote of the day from last night over at Hot Air comes from one Wendy Doniger, a perfesser of religious history at the University of Chicago, and it has to do with Wendy casting aspersions on Sarah Palin's womanhood. That's interesting, sure, but I'm more interested in Doniger's Constitutional scholarship:

Joe Biden's views are most relevant to the question at hand, since, as a Catholic, he shares much of Palin's embryological theology: he believes life begins at conception. But he has gone out of his way to insist that he would not impose his personal views on others, and has indeed voted against curtailing abortion rights and against criminalizing abortion. That is the right answer. It's in the Constitution. It's not in the Bible, or the Qu'ran, or the Bhagavad Gita. It's in the mother-lovin' Constitution.

Really? Where in the "mother-lovin' Constitution" is abortion mentioned? To which amendment are you referring?

Look, I'm not much of a social-con. I've never been married, and I've never been in a serious relationship where a baby might come into play, so I feel like I don't have much to say on a personal level about abortion.

That said, I think the legal reasoning behind Roe v. Wade was atrocious, and it should be left to the States. Some people here might disagree, but we're truly the "Big Tent" Party. And I think we're the people who believe, ultimately, in the idea that Supreme Court Justices should be "Strict Constructionists," and not the kind of people who believe that one of our founding documents is open to whatever the hell we want it to be.

So, really, Prof. Doniger, when you want to give me a lesson on Hindu theology (and it seems you may not be the expert I want to consult) instead of Constitutional Law, let's hang out.

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Another liberal sees why they might lose

Peter Feld, a Democrat strategerist who I think may have been one of Kirsten Powers' contributors on her now-defunct site.  He sees the trouble the Democrats are in because once again they can't help themselves but sneer and show their open disdain of middle America, and he's trying to warn the media and liberal elite that they're blowing it.  He has pieces up at Radar and Gawker, but I'm gonna make you go to Patterico's in the link above to see them.  However, this one made me laugh, so I'm highlighting it,

I wouldn’t have counted on Maureen Dowd to illustrate the cluelessness of the liberal media who are losing the election for Obama. But she did.

The conceit of today’s Dowd column — burdened, as so many of hers are, with an ill-fitting pop culture framework (My Fair Lady, this time) — is that Sarah Palin’s interview later today with ABC’s Charlie Gibson is a moment of high peril for the putatively unprepared VP candidate.

Mwahahahahahaaaa!!!!  You wouldn't?  C'mon, Peter, you were doing so well there!  As for the ill-fitting pop culture framework in her columns, those give me an excuse to link one of my favorite pieces from the Moron-in-Chief.

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Despair

Those tears, why, they're...just delicious:

A major Democratic fundraiser described it a good bit more starkly after digesting the polls of recent days: “I’m so depressed. It’s happening again. It’s a nightmare.”

I know, I know, it's a long time until November, but I'm enjoying myself far more than I ever thought I would just earlier this Summer. And I think a lot of you would agree.

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MATT DAMON!

MATT DAMON! 

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Unhinged

Someone named Cintra Wilson has an odious column at Salon today, spewing all sorts of bile about Sarah Palin. For example:

It is a kind of eerie coincidence that Sarah Palin is being sprung on the public at the same time as the bimbo/frat-boy titty comedy "House Bunny," which features a poster of a beautiful young lady with Playmate-style bunny ears, big, stupid eyes and her mouth hanging open like someone just punched her.

And that's some of the cleanest stuff from her column, too. Seriously, the whole thing is a cesspool. If someone at, say, NRO or the Weekly Standard wrote a comparable column about Barack Obama, heads would roll and Krazy Keith would have a spittle-flecked "Speshul Komment" that would feature his head exploding at the end. Seriously, it's that bad.

Do you think that maybe, just maybe, these folks are rattled?

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Last Hope of Preventing Palin Vice Presidency Fails*

Back to plan B, I guess.

The Large Hadron Collider, the greatest atom smasher ever created, the world's biggest machine, was switched on today at CERN, the European nuclear research centre outside Geneva. And the result: rather less than earth shattering.

"Five, four, three, two, one, zero - nothing," joked Lyn Evans, leader of the LHC project, before a fuzzy dot appeared on a monitor.

It was 9.30am local time when a stream of protons was introduced into a short stretch of the circular 17-mile underground racetrack, buried in the Jura Mountains on the Franco-Swiss border.

The fuzzy dot registered their arrival, and then - well, not a lot. But to the scientists who have devoted their working lives to the project it was a moment of consummation.

Protons streams were then introduced into more and more of the machine until less than an hour later - far earlier than predicted - a stream whizzed around the entire circumference of the particle accelerator at a shade under the speed of light. The LHC had passed its first crucial landmark.

Looks like the Earth will continue to spin and Obama's campaign will continue to panic regarding a certain hot librarian moose hunter.

* - I know this is a bit of a stretch but I have an obsessive need to tie physics news to my rampant Palinmania.  Sorry.

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Nobody asked you

Ah, it wouldn't be election season if some Euro-tool didn't presume to tell us how we should be going about our business, and right on cue, here comes the Grauniad's Jonathan Freedland predicting global doom and gloom should the Obamessiah lose come November:

If Americans choose McCain, they will be turning their back on the rest of the world, choosing to show us four more years of the Bush-Cheney finger. And I predict a deeply unpleasant shift.

Until now, anti-Americanism has been exaggerated and much misunderstood: outside a leftist hardcore, it has mostly been anti-Bushism, opposition to this specific administration. But if McCain wins in November, that might well change. Suddenly Europeans and others will conclude that their dispute is with not only one ruling clique, but Americans themselves. For it will have been the American people, not the politicians, who will have passed up a once-in-a-generation chance for a fresh start - a fresh start the world is yearning for.

And you know what, Jon? That's our fucking business. If you want a say in how we do things here, why don't you apply for citizenship? I don't give a damn what the rest of the world may be "yearning for," and that certainly doesn't affect how I cast my ballot.

And the manner of that decision will matter, too. If it is deemed to have been about race - that Obama was rejected because of his colour - the world's verdict will be harsh. In that circumstance, Slate's Jacob Weisberg wrote recently, international opinion would conclude that "the United States had its day, but in the end couldn't put its own self-interest ahead of its crazy irrationality over race".

Oh, yes. Because RRRRRRRRRRAAAAAACCCCISSSSMMM!!!1one! is the only conceivable reason why us backward, bitter Americans might not deign to vote for Obama. No, it couldn't have anything to do with the fact that he's monstrously unqualified for the most important job in the world, or that he's a crypto-socialist (and the crypto there is being cheritable), or that he tends to feel chummy with lunatic conspiracy-mongering racist preachers and unrepentant far-left domestic terrorists. Nope, it's because he's black. That's the only possible reason.

You know what, Jon, go fuck yourself. I'm tired of assholes like you presuming to tell me what I need to do to satisfy a bunch of effete pricks who don't have the best interests of my country in mind. Should Obama lose, I hope you and your pals cry hot, bitter tears into your lacy little pillows.

Not quite done: You know, we don't presume to meddle in other countries' elections.  I mean, when was the last time you heard an American tell someone from another country how they ought to vote?  When was the last time you saw an op/ed piece in one of our newspapers telling Brits to vote Tory or Labour?  Or telling the Frogs or Krauts to vote for whatever the hell parties they have over there?  On the twelfth of fucking Never, that's when.  But I guess that's part and parcel of Americans' "lack of engagement with the rest of the world," huh?

(h/t)

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Looks like Sully got a reprimand

Awesome.  Admittedly, it isn't 100% unless we see emails or letters or hear it from St. Sully himself, but the posts Ace highlighted seem to indicate that he at least got a warning.  There's no way Sully would just take a break now, not with the amount of traffic and people pouring in to all of the blogosphere lately, and the other posts smack of an attempt to make a cryptic statement.

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Interesting

A certain conspiracy-mongering retard who decided to "air" some "gob-smackingly vile" theories about Trig Palin's parentage hasn't posted anything at his blog on the website of a once-respected magazine since Monday afternoon.  I'd link to that particular retard, but, well, you know...

And I'm not the only one who's noticed, either.

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Is Obama gonna run out of money?

Can't say I'd be surprised, the Democrat primaries were grueling, the Clinton/Obama fight for the nomination had to have burned a lot of cash.  You just can't have that kind of primary fight and expect that people are going to have the resources to maintain that level of fundraising through November. 

Beyond that, the Obama campaign spent funds like crazy in states they had no chance in hell of taking, the 50 state strategy was risky.  It could have been devastating had McCain folded (which was entirely plausible had he picked someone else for VP).  With Obama largely unopposed, he could have won big and helped down ticket candidates with the 50 state strategy.  Thankfully it appears to be a costly blunder now. 

Another thing to consider is that some of the Clintonites might be holding back for a possible Hillary run in '12.  We know she wants to run again.  If Obama wins, he's going for the eight years, most people think McCain is only going to do four, which means if Hillary wants to president, McCain is more likely to give her that chance.

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Someone call a waaaaaahmbulance

I don't even know why I'm posting this, it's so friggin' obvious, but I couldn't really find anything else that caught my eye:

The decision by MSNBC to yank Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from anchor duty during live political events did not exactly send a thrill up the leg of liberal bloggers.

A number of them denounced the cable channel yesterday for making a change that had long been sought by NBC News veterans, saying MSNBC was caving into pressure from John McCain's campaign and the right wing.

[...]

In the liberal blogosphere, Olbermann -- an occasional contributor to the Daily Kos site -- is viewed as a heroic truth-teller who has now been undermined by network suits whose company is owned by General Electric. Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo called the move "pathetic," writing: "It seems pretty obvious that the network got cowed by complaints from the McCain campaign."

Salon's Glenn Greenwald called it "extraordinary for a media company to publicly embarrass, diminish and tarnish its own principal asset. It is plainly doing so for ideological, not ratings-based, reasons: namely, it fears doing anything to anger the White House, the McCain campaign and the right in this country."

Ah, yes, of course "Constitutional Scholar" Gleen Ellison Ryan Wilson Ellers Ellensberg "Socks" Greenwald (who, you jealous wingnuts should note has a New York Times bestseller, has inspired articles in major newspapers, and whose blog posts have been read on the Seante floor—GOOD DAY, SIR!) is right.  I mean, it's not like we have any reason to doubt his word.  It just has to be the fault of that mean old VRWC! It has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that Giggles and Bathtub Boy were being widely ridiculed (by Bill Maher, even!) for their increasingly embarrassing sycophancy toward Obama.  Nope.  Move along people, nothing to see here.

God, the nutroots are so damned predictable.

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Sick freak

Randi Rhodes, who we all know is batshit crazy, apparently stated on her radio show today that she thinks John McCain is lying about his time in Hanoi Hilton (h/t), and claimed that the NVA treated McCain well. 

Here's a guy who can't lift his arms above his head because of NVA torture sessions and has dentures because the NVA goons knocked his teeth out, has other living vets who suffered alongside him and can tell the story, now he has to put up with slander like this?  And no, unlike this twat at HuffPo, I have no interest in censorship, but she's still vile.

Question: What MSM outfit starts questioning McCain's experiences in that hellish dungeon first, or will they only heap slanderous and libelous abuse on Sarah Palin?  And no, St. Sully of the Milky Load doesn't count.

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More Hollywood silliness

Rosetta got to have fun with celebrities propagandizing for Obama on HuffPo earlier, well, here's one more via STACLU, though this guy isn't as well known.  Genius too, he's claiming the GOP has some great advantage and will win...wanna guess what that advantage is?

So what is this house advantage the Republicans have? It's the press.

Heh.

Anyway, our actor puts together a plan,

1) We give definitive clear speeches like Biden and Obama gave the other day about how no one talked about any issues at the Republican Convention and how they outright lied. But we do them over and over again. 2) We use the one place where it's still a 50-50 game -- the internet -- as much as we can. 3) But most importantly we should bring up re-regulating the media and who owns it and what that conflict of interest is a lot more.

Of course, state-controlled media! Nothing fascist about state-controlled media!

Moar genius,

Obama and Biden should also create a "master sound bite sentence" and repeat it hundreds of times. It should be so true that even the corporations can't screw with it when it makes the airwaves. Here's my attempt: "Katrina, four dollar gas, a trillion dollar war, rising unemployment, deregulated housing market, global warming...no more."

Or, as it will later become known, the "Master Bite."  Eventually the Master Bite will just turn into, "War is Peace!  Freedom is Slavery!  Ignorance is strength!"

This race should be about whether the Republican Party is going to be dismantled or not after the borderline treason of the past eight years.

To the reeducation camps with you, neocon untermensch!  Does this twat realize what a fascist he is?

This is it folks. If McCain takes power we fade and become Australia in the seventies: a backwoods country with occasional flashes of relevance. Except we've got a way bigger military and we're angrier. People will get hurt and we'll pay the bill for the bullets. I'm telling you, unless we wake up, we're gonna lose this frickin' thing.

Good grief, this guy is pathetic, I'm just gonna play along with his paranoia.  Hey nutroots,

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New York, New Mexico, New...what?

Must be one of those seven mystery states.

(h/t)

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Celebrity takedown

Rosetta has fun with the latest HuffPo piece written by a celebrity demanding you vote for Obama.

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Attack of the "concern trolls"

The first few comments to this post would make Moby himself proud.  Seriously, though, who do these idiots think they're fooling?

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