By Denis Campbell
It was a great election (duh-dum) wasn’t it? A new Democratic President (duh-dum), bigger majorities in the House and Senate (duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh… duhdadeeee) and nothing can go wrong… AEEIIIIIII!!!!! Apologies to John Williams, Peter Benchley and the cast of Jaws, what the heck is going on in the Senate?!?
OK, it was cute that both [...]
Tag | Sarah Palin
Toxic Spill on Aisle 3, Bring Chlorine
Posted on 13 November 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 000 vote lead disappear, 000 votes to count, 3, 90, Alaska, banana republic with nukes, Bring Chlorine, Caribou Barbie, Chambliss ran adverts equating Cleland with Osama bin L, Cleland a war hero left three limbs on the battlefield, convicted felon for a Senator, D-Max Cleland, Denis Campbell, election, fear fear fear…, federal convict Ted Stevens, fivethirtyeight.com, Garrison Keillor’s state, Georgia, get final vote count correct in 49 other state with 4/1, getting out of hand, GOP mantra, great election, he now trails by 3 VOTES!, incumbent Republican Senator, irregularities, Keith Olbermann, Lake Woebegone, mandatory recount under Minnesota law, Minnesota, miss the Alaskan count by 20 percentage points?, Nate Silver, peace-keeping forces, R-Norm Coleman, Rachel Maddow, replay the NBC Decision ’08 theme song and graphics, Republicans despatching 120 lawyers to recount sites, Sarah Palin, Saxby Chambliss, sitting governor is on the ballot as a Vice Presidentia, still parts of the gene pool in need of chlorination, Toxic Spill, über statistician, UN inspectors to Alaska Minnesota and Georgia, voter turnout actually go DOWN, why an 84-year old felon even won this election?
Let Get Ready to Ruummbblleee!
Posted on 12 November 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (2) | Tags: 04 November electoral finish line was known for years i, 22-month campaign cycle, a man with the rumpled but somewhat pitiable if not lov, both parties, British politics are even bloodier than in the US, Brits think he is the steadier hand, called out, Cambridge, Conservative Party, could reverse this tide and win, David Cameron, David Cameron already has a transition team together fo, day after elections, Denis Campbell, element of surprise, Eton, Gordon Brown, have tea with Her Majesty, heavy underdog, highly entertaining, House of Parliament’s Prime Minister’s Question Time, I love my job, If you liked the US election, Joe Biden, keep his mouth shut, leading us capably through the credit crisis, least photogenic man on the Isles, Les Miserables, Let Get Ready to Rumble, London Mayor Boris Johnson, London’s West End, May 2010, McCain, Missouri, my Electoral Vote prediction in the US general election, not this 75-day transition period, not yet ready to make a prediction, obama, only one state missed, Palin went from front-runner to cocktail joke faster th, PM Brown can dissolve Parliament at any moment, PM Brown turns the economy around, polls favour Mr. Cameron, pre-measuring the White House drapes, pride of British public schools, Prime Minister, Sarah Palin, seize the spotlight, she calls for elections, the man you would least likely want to have a pint with, The Mousetrap, the once and future PM in waiting, Tony Blair's Chancellor, Tories Leader, unfortunately following a legend in his own mind, viewed as a steady hand on the tiller, who never met a camera he didn’t like or a group he cou, whose one great speech 4-years ago he hopes will lead h, Wicked, with possibly the most distractingly smarmy and sing-so, you’re gonna love the upcoming steel cage PPV match in
By Denis Campbell
If you liked the US election, you’re gonna love the upcoming PPV steel cage match in the planet’s greatest political theatre. Steps away from London’s West End houses offering titles: Wicked, Les Miserables and The Mousetrap, the House of Parliament’s Prime Minister’s Question Time should be highly entertaining as both parties attempt to [...]
The Maverick Wears Prada
Posted on 29 October 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: diva, Maureen Dowd, New York Times Op-Ed columnist Maureen Dowd, Op-Ed columnist, Sarah Palin, The New York Times
New York Times Op-Ed
Screenplay by
Maureen Dowd
Revised third draft
© Oct. 29, 2008
FADE IN:
INT. A HOTEL SUITE — in the middle of the day in the middle of Ohio.
NICOLLE WALLACE, a slender, preppie-looking blonde wearing a string of pearls is pacing and frantically thumbing her BlackBerry. She is a top McCain adviser under STEVE SCHMIDT who has [...]
Ted Got Caught Is That The Moral?
Posted on 29 October 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 000 Ted Stevens gave to her campaign when he was indict, 13% of her time in North Carolina since being elected s, Alaska Governor and Vice Presidential candidate, Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, and only 20 days in the state in 2005, attacked via her spokeswoman, blood in the water, Communications Director Colleen Flanagan, conspicuously silent on the matter, Denis Campbell, Elizabeth Dole returned only a portion of the $21, Elizabeth ‘Libby’ Dole, launched for North Carolina Senate as a Kansan. America, McCain, Mitch McConnell, oh well, one of their own is in big trouble, opponent Kay Hagan, poor Ted just got caught, reported Dole spent 13-days in North Carolina in 2006, Sarah Palin, Senator Dole currently resides at the Watergate Hotel i, Ted Got Caught, threw Stevens under the bus, was registered to vote in Kansas for over 25 years, Winston-Salem Journal, ‘Country First’, ‘Save Me First’
by Denis Campbell
Look how the self-righteous are coming out of the woodwork to save their collective endangered backsides now that one of their own is in big trouble. John McCain led the charge calling on Alaska Senator Ted Stevens to resign from his Senate seat. Was that ‘Country First’ or ‘Save Me First,’ Senator?
The message [...]
What Happened To GOP Outrage Over $400 Haircuts?
Posted on 26 October 2008 by Charley James | Comments (0) | Tags: $400 haircut, 1st dude, Atelier, campaign wardrobe, GOP outrage, John Edwards, Manhattan, Nieman Marcus, RNC, Sarah Palin, Todd Palin, Young Turks
by Charley James
I suppose when the Republican vice presidential candidate is discovered spending $150,000 on a campaign wardrobe, it’s hard for the GOP to remember being shocked – Shocked, I tell you! – over John Edwards’ $400 haircut.
It’s even harder to be publicly outraged over the price of haircuts when the party can’t really figure [...]
Can They Still Win Alaska?
Posted on 26 October 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Alaska, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Anchorage Daily News, Bridge to Nowhere, endorsement, endorses obama, McCain, obama, Palin, Sarah Palin, Travelgate, trooper-gate
by Denis Campbell
Alaska was a shoe-in 3 electoral vote state for McCain-Palin. Yeah there was corruption everywhere and Senator-for-life Ted Steven’s jury still cannot throw the rude renegade jury lady out as they deliberate his fate. But Sarah was the golden girl?!? She was gonna energise the base. She got that pipeline goin’ for all [...]
Lipsticked Pit Bulls, Orange Jumpsuit Better Idea
Posted on 09 October 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: assassinated, Barack Obama’s middle name, Cindy McCain, Denis Campbell, dozen thoroughly disproven theories, free speech, Gaza, highly inflammatory and emotional speeches, Inciting riotous crowds crosses the line, inspired a young man to take the Prime Minister’s life, Karl Rove schooled Republicans laugh and think you are, Knesset, Lipsticked Pit Bull, McCain, Muslim background, needs to investigate, obama, opposition party inspired dissident student, Orange Jumpsuit, Palestinians, President, protect all four candidates, Sarah Palin, someone clearly yelled “Kill Him”, there is a line and these ladies crossed it deliberatel, to any lie they can think of, to his kooky pastor, to not being born in Hawaii, Vice President, wants you to focus on fear, where was the US Secret Service?, whipped up crowds into a seething frenzy, Wiliam Ayers
by Denis Campbell
When the circus act of Sarah Palin and Cindy McCain whipped up crowds into a seething frenzy; where was the US Secret Service? That is the group designated to protect all four candidates (and the President and Vice President) from threats. When the McPalin gals incited hatred and anger with their indignation, mock [...]
Taking Skin (Muscle and Tissue) Out of the Game
Posted on 08 October 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: $20 million dollar debt, $6 million dollars+ of his own money into his failed pr, $66 million dollars in one month, $7 million+ of it owed to one Washington insider, 000 a month from Fannie and Freddie before they cratere, 3eDC received payments from the McCain campaign for Web, campaign manager, candidates running for President in 2008 will have rais, clinton, Daily Kos, Davis Manafort, deferred compensation through an Internet firm he owned, Denis Campbell, Dr. Seuss, earned $15, foregone his salary the last two months due to a campai, It’s gonna cost ya!, Mark Penn, McCain, Multi-millionaire former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Ro, national campaign operative, National campaigns, Newsweek, on literally everything, Pssst buddy wanna buy a Presidency?, Rick Davis, Sarah Palin, squeeze points out of every deal, take money out of the game, Taking Skin (Muscle and Tissue) Out of the Game, theirs are the first piggy noses in the trough, to cut your own party’s man as badly and deeply as she, ultimate Washington insider gravy train, was making $20000 a month, when a person with money meets a person with experience, “Drill baby drill!”
By Denis Campbell
Pssst, buddy, wanna buy a Presidency? It’s gonna cost ya! A truism in life I learned, is when a person with money meets a person with experience, the person with the experience ends up with the money and the person with the money ends up with an experience.
National campaigns are the ultimate Washington [...]
Just Smile and Wave Boys, Smile and Wave…
Posted on 08 October 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 20 years ago, 27 day, angry, bi-partisan support and working together, blatantly use smear tactics that are simply lies, both should have grabbed the microphone and stopped it, call him Hammas’ best friend, calm, cannot be good for McCain, cesspit (below the gutter), Clinton supporters into the fold after a bitter fight, CNN flash poll result shows Obama winning, collected, condescending and patronising language, debate tonight was a push, democrats, Denis Campbell, favourables continuing to rise, hollered by audiences this past weekend in stump speech, How will anyone govern after this bitter fight?, how will he govern?, injecting blatant racism, Just Smile and Wave Boys, Leaving the debate hall early, link Obama to terrorists, McCain, McCain and Co., McCain needed to win decisively, McCain was asked “how do we beat the bitch…”, McCain was tense, mischievous penguins in the kids film Madagascar, more of a true Town Hall moment than at any other point, needed to hit it for six, not helping him, Obama looked cool, Obama stayed behind and talked to everyone who wanted t, only place McCain can go to win, patronising, polarised after the primaries, rancour between Dems and Repubs is toxic and hurtful, Sarah Palin, should have said “no Senator Obama is a committed and d, slight win for Obama, Smile and Wave…, this is ridiculous, threatening someone under United States Secret Service, tougher task this time around, UK Tories and Labour do not like each other, unthinkable for a national party leader to play the rac, will so alienate the country and the world, “Kill him” and “terrorist”, “that one”
By Denis Campbell
“Kill him” and “terrorist” were hollered by audiences this past weekend in stump speeches by Sarah Palin and John McCain. Just as when McCain was asked “how do we beat the bitch…” he smiled and waved like the mischievous penguins in the kids film Madagascar.
Sorry but threatening someone under United States Secret Service [...]
In the Microcosm of America, Everything Is Required Reading
Posted on 03 October 2008 by Charley James | Comments (0) | Tags: Charley James, even with the damning piece I wrote about them yesterda, Everything Is Required Reading, Governor Sarah Palin, In the Microcosm of America, Journalists sense of self-worth should be just a little, Literally All of it, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin doesn't hate you, She actually kinda likes you, So much she reads all your work, Supreme Court decisions, This Is All Becoming a Baffling Parody of Itself Daily, Vice Presidential candidate
by Charley James
Journalist’s sense of self-worth should be just a little bit higher today, even with the damning piece I wrote about them yesterday: Sarah Palin doesn’t
hate you! Or resent you or fear you or think she’s better than you or whatever! She actually kinda? likes you! So much, in fact, that she reads all [...]
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