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It’s a hoot! I chortled, guffawed and sniggered all at the same time.

Anyone know what the status is THIS week of:-

“Undivided Jerusalem” and “Iran is a tiny country (that poses no threat”

I like the video - shame about the message.

Well, Obama was right when he said Iran posed no threat to the USA. I really do wish the US will get out of the habit of feeling “threatened” by tin pot regimes in the Mid East, with military spending of, say, 1% of the US military budget (Iran), or with no air force or a bunch of Soviet era tanks lacking spare parts (Iraq). Its really most bizarre. Oh, WMD, yeah, I feel a sense of deja vu…

I think I’m in love with her.

It’s good but, on balance, I prefer her Please Donate To The War video.

Hahaaah! Awesome. :D

Doesn’t Sarah know that the Heebs are already in the bag for Obama? The silly bitch.

57% are.

http://www.ajc.org/site/c.ijITI2PHKoG/b.4540689/

30% for McCain is high. I recall the last several elections ranged from 18% to 23%.

I think that she is fabulous and original and the McCain team definitely should employ her as part of their ‘Stop Obama’ campaign.

I feel that she needs a man. (Oh! Was that sexist???)

Great stuff. “Vote for McCain, to me you’re a shit stain.”

57% are.

http://www.ajc.org/site/c.ijITI2PHKoG/b.4540689/

Most interesting in that poll is the approval of Obama’s vp choice compared to McCain’s.

I think that she is fabulous and original and the McCain team definitely should employ her as part of their ‘Stop Obama’ campaign.

I doubt she’s for sale in that way.

Most interesting in that poll is the approval of Obama’s vp choice compared to McCain’s.

I noticed that yesterday. I wonder what’s going on there?

I noticed that yesterday. I wonder what’s going on there?

American Jews may be a contentious bunch, but I think there’s a consensus among them that Sarah Palin is kind of creepy.

If you like that, you will also like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9b3_05qL7k

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Vote bank politics are dangerous.

Gene American Jews may be a contentious bunch, but I think there’s a consensus among them that Sarah Palin is kind of creepy.

I wouldn’t use ‘creepy’. But she frightens me. I am turned off by hunting for pleasure. I am for abortions almost on demand.

Still, if she is what it takes to stop Obama, so be it.

Problem is, she’s not stopping him.

I would imagine that the eventual decision that will be formulated this week on how to stave off a financial collapse will have a determining effect on who wins. Much more that Palin’s candidacy. Much more that McCain’s age or competency. The one who is perceived to have ‘directed’ the final decisions will be perceived as the future leader.

It seems that Iraq has all but disappeared from the ‘menu’.

Still, if she is what it takes to stop Obama, so be it.

No way. The Couric interview was a complete train wreck. Worse than Gibson. Some of her responses were almost word salad. Even conservative commentators are giving up the charade that she’s any sort of viable candidate. As far as Palin is concerned, it’s now a question of damage limitation and getting through day by day.

The one who is perceived to have ‘directed’ the final decisions will be perceived as the future leader.

That was McCain’s little game those last few days. It hasn’t worked; I await his next stunt.

MB.
The last time the Republican candidate got over 30% of the Jewish vote was Bush Senior.
He stood against Dukakis, so its possible to argue that there may be som ethnic voting going on.

As for Palin, I’d imagine that she’s perceived as very right wing and very religious.

McCain has finished his idiotic flounce and will debate.

Even Republicans think McCain made a prick of himself.

CNN) – Former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said Friday the John McCain made a “huge mistake” by even floating the possibility he would not appear at the first presidential debate as planned.

If you liked Sarah Silverman’s appeal to Florida’s Jewish community to vote for Obama, you’ll love this

“Anybody toting guns and stripping moose don’t care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks,” he said, explaining what he will tell his Jewish constituents. “So, you just think this through.” ~ Florida Democratic Congressman Alcee Hastings

Palin had a meeting meeting with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko. This is part of the pool report:

“McCain then looked around the room and gestured as if to welcome questions. The AP reporter shouted a question at Gov. Palin (”Governor, what have you learned from your meetings?”) but McCain aide Brooke Buchanan intervened and shepherded everybody out of the room.

Palin looked surprised, leaned over to McCain and asked him a question, to which your pooler thinks he shook his head as if to say “No.”

Are you surprised Benjamin?
The interview last night was a tram crash.
She’s dimmer than Quayle.

Nice one Gene, have just been watching the Sarah Silverman show, which is airing again in the UK. Hilarious.

tim

I can’t wait for the VP debate. I whole new crop of YouTube clips.

Once again, we have a whole bunch of people who confuse glibness with intelligence and/or knowledge in the case of Palin.

Has anyone here seen the now confirmed reports that Couric–with the concurrence of CBS management has forbidden the practice of addressing her as “Governor” in order to belittle her as much as possible?

Luuuved the Silverman bit–funny as hell

And her bit about the airspace thing is real–even if inarticulately
explained. Soviet reconnaissance aircraft constantly penetrate
Alaskan/US airspace to test our defense reaction times–which is what Palin was alluding to.

Where has that been confirmed?

Our correspondent in Hong Kong on planet Zog:

Obama was right when he said Iran posed no threat to the USA

Utter nonsense. Any war in the Middle East is a threat to the world.

Stop confusing people with facts, Virgil: their tiny minds might explode.

Of course, those who get their information from Al Beeb are bound to be confused already; the state broadcaster cannot report on the USA without mixing in propaganda (on tonight’s “news”: ‘McCain blinked first’). Straight from the Ministry of Truth.

I have elderly Jewish relatives in southeast Florida living on Social Security and in some cases meager pension. To a person they are voting Dem. One aunt surprised me given her previously expressed view on pigment.

Circumsupersized — now THAT is witty.

She’s very funny. I’ve never heard of her before.

“If you can’t use facts, use threats”. LOL

Venichka.

This was all over the place earlier this year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLG3S5WzHig

“Has anyone here seen the now confirmed reports that Couric–with the concurrence of CBS management has forbidden the practice of addressing her as “Governor” in order to belittle her as much as possible?”

She’s a news employee; how is she in any position to “forbid” anyone other than the person who does her make-up to call anyone anything?

“Stop confusing people with facts, Virgil: their tiny minds might explode.”

Facts are usually not so obviously baseless, NO; see above.

She’s very funny. I’ve never heard of her before.

I highly recommend “Jesus is Magic”:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Silverman:_Jesus_Is_Magic

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Tim,
I attempt to be in the world but not of it (and I’ve not had a TV set for most of the last 15 years, and very seldom watch Hollywood movies). Indeed, all I know of Matt Damon (or about him, or who he is, or anything about him) is that he got the piss ripped out of him for being apparently unintelligent and inarticulate in “Team America; World Police”

You sound like a Seventeenth century Stephen Fry.Until you used the term “piss ripped out of him”
How vulgar.

Don’t be a cunt, Tim, we’re in England, we’ve always cussed like fuckers here.

Conversely, when I lived in Russia (well, Ukraine - but whatever) my landlady, who was constantly calling her son a “svoloch” (and he was one: approx translation -literally “dregs”, but “scum” would be more colloquial), whipped out some Chekhov where he used the word (which really isn’t that strong) so that she could prove to me - and for the sake of Russian national pride and her social standing as a cultured person - that it was a “literary word”

And there instantly my mind was drawn to this (great URL, too) - and thought, ah, the English are and long have been a lot less puritanical than the Russkies

I generally prefer the 12th century to the 17th: in fact I can’t think of any century (in England) that I would have been less delighted to be alive in than the 17th

I generally prefer the 12th century to the 17th: in fact I can’t think of any century (in England) that I would have been less delighted to be alive in than the 17th

I think you’d have hated the 18th more: a Whig oligarchy; the Hanoverians on the throne and the Jacobites being suppressed; drunkenness, gambling and whoring being the favoured recreations of high and low alike; the Enlightenment, deism and irreligion providing the spiritual backdrop; and foppish and rococco men’s fashions. Ah, what a great age it was altogether.

As much as I gag at the prospect of Veep Palin, I can’t help wondering if there isn’t some unequal (sexist) treatment here. Bush gave the appearance of being clueless at the outset (General? general.) I do not support the lazy left caricature that he is ridiculously dumb, but he was never stellar. As for Reagan, I lived in the USA for part of his reign and he came across as a clueless amiable buffoon at that stage too, yet some people (not me) think him one of the greatest Prezes. How come Palin isn’t being cut the same slack on her learning curve?

Ami.
I think there is one substantive difference.
Bush and Reagan were accessible to the media,indeed both built their personas, Reagans sunny uplands,Bush’s beer buddy through precislely that.
Palin has been picked,vetted and rolled out in reverse order.

McCains age was always going to put extra focus on his VP choice, it reflects on him that he put Palin in this position, as it reflects on the producers of the X Factor when they put someone out of their depth on your TV.

Its almost cruel.

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

Its almost cruel.

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

At least this girl had an excuse: she was 18 and not running as Vice-Prez:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww

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ami - ‘How come Palin isn’t being cut the same slack on her learning curve?’

Sorry I didn’t keep the links to short videos ami but I saw Sarah Palin talking to some of her constituents and she was harping on the jesus thingey until if frightened me. Now her supporters in the McCain camp may say that she was just ‘doing her thing’ to get the Christian Right on board but I see it differently.

If she could stop Obama, fine. But it’s not working. She is becoming more and more of a liability to the undecided center who will actually decide the election.

THis is the basic problem for McCain. Sort of pity that she doesn’t have a heart attack and die now. At least McCain would be given another chance to choose another running mate and Hilliary would be my choice.

Sorry. I meant ‘another Vice Presidential running mate’.

The chance of her ever becoming the US President if McCain won are very very small considering the medical attention that he will get BUT, the thought still frightens me.

The thought of a complete liar and delusional no-talent bully like Obama holding any public office frightens me.

‘I feel that she needs a man. (Oh! Was that sexist???)’

CH, don’t you know that she’s f***ing Matt Damon?

Very funny, this Silverman lass.

Ven -the fourteenth? Black death?

Nineteenth? 14 hours a day in a cotton mill?

Or in your historical dreams are you swanning about on a charger cutting down sturdy peasants and ravishing the prettier ones then getting absolved for your sins in a brand-new Early English cathedral?

KBPLayer - I live in South Essex, for Gawd’s sake, I could pretty much do that now.

(The rather smart Cathedral in Brentwood by Terry Quillian or whatever his exact name is about 15 years old).

Pretty sure I’d have been a peasant myself then as now….

I thought Sarah Silverman was funny, but she was not accurate.

My father is 84, and I will be visting him in late October and I will find out for sure. He thinks that Sarah Palin is ruthless. He voted for Clinton in the primary and so did I. I am pretty sure that he is going to vote for Obama.

I just read that Obama has a gender gap with Jewish voters. Jewish women are much more solidly pro-Obama than Jewish men, It’s the Jewish grandfathers that need convincing. Altough my own father is voting for Obama.

Silverman really isn’t that funny, but I agree with her politics. And she has a genuine point in this video: Florida has been a critical swing state. They should get the retired Jews to vote…and also the blacks.

I don’t get it!

why is everyone talking about this girl? She really isn’t very funny and if she wants to persuade people how to vote it might be an idea to mention some actual policies.

Jackie Mason’s vid is much better