agreatnotion: OOPS!

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agreatnotion) wrote,
@ 2004-07-06 11:52:00

OOPS!
i know that the NY Post is not exactly a bastion of journalistic excellence. in fact, i've always thought that the only people who read it and consider it NEWS live in Queens. but come on. how do you screw up THIS badly and still call yourself a "newspaper"?

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(picture courtesy of The Carpetbagger Report, one the best political blogs i've read)

in a way, it gives me a bit of hope that breaking into journalism is not as difficult as i once thought it might be. i mean, these people are idiots. at least i'm not a moron -- that's my leg-up.

how totally embarassing. they have since changed it... but no joke. the NY Post announced that Gephardt is Kerry's running mate today.

can someone in NYC please send me a copy if they haven't all been pulled yet? i'll love you forever.

and if you don't believe me, i'm sure you'll believe Reuter's. the part about the NY Daily News sending over champagne is so hilarious.

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	radioethiopia 2004-07-06 11:56 am UTC (link)
	oh, how i wish it were true... (Reply to this) (Thread)

	agreatnotion 2004-07-06 12:10 pm UTC (link)
	why, are ya scared now? ;) (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

radioethiopia
2004-07-07 07:47 am UTC (link)

gephardt. ha. no ma'am. i'm glad it wasn't mccain. he would never involve himself in such treachery.

I'm glad he put Gephardt on the ticket (if that headline is true). Gephardt uniquely has the potential to alienate both centrists and those on the leftmost edges of the party. If Kerry put him on the ticket he destroys his image. Instead of an experienced moderate leader with a progressive bent, you have a pair that can be caricatured as two aging, pro-tax rumpleforeskins of Washington, both of whom backed the president's war in Iraq for purely opportunistic reasons and both of whom want to transform the American healthcare system with a massive government give-away instead of balancing the budget. Assholes.

Gephardt is a failure at life. It's not entirely clear that he can deliver his home state of Missouri, and there's even less polling data suggesting he would bring an electoral bump to the Kerry campaign nationwide. Muahahahhaha. The latest six data points show that Dick Gephardt is an electoral loser. Under his leadership, the Democrats lost the House of Representatives in 1994, and then failed to regain it in four successive elections. Unapprehensive about party losses in 1996, 1998, and 2000, G-Unit took them to defeat again in 2002, the first mid-term election in which a first-term president's party gained seats since 1934, and then left his leadership post to run in the 2004 presidential primary, which he once again, inevitably, lost because he sucks more than George Michael in a men's restroom.

He's a one trick pony, too. He can only get union voters in the caucus, and well...not really...the most powerful national unions, AFSCME and SEIU still refuse to back Gephardt.

Gephardt is the last of the big-spending liberals during a deficit-scorched economy. Also, Gephardt is most associated with enabling President Bush's intervention in Iraq out of all of the other Democrats. That's not Left-wingers cup of tea. Let us not forget Gephardt's little Dean-bashing committee that hid its donors and ran a TV advertisement in SC effectively comparing Howard Dean to Osama bin Laden. Rather than bringing the leftmost wing of the party back into the fold, a Gephardt candidacy would drive anti-war voters and not a few former Deaniacs under the comforting wing of Ralph Nader while simultaneously turning off moderates and failing to attract anyone outside of the unions.

so yes, i am shaking in my boots.

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	agreatnotion 2004-07-07 08:59 am UTC (link)
	no no he didn't put Gephardt on the ticket, that's the point. he chose Edwards. the Post fucked up! Gephardt is a master tool. he looks like an alien and is possibly the most boring, cautious, and practiced politician the democratic party has ever known. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	radioethiopia 2004-07-07 09:04 am UTC (link)
	ah, the point. ha. well. yes. i wish it were true. IF he had chosed Gephardt...I would have said the following with oh such vigor... limps off with crimson cheeks ahaha the post. that's hilarious. for a moment i was excited. but no. of course not. edwards. meh. better than g-unit, i suppose. but. meh. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	agreatnotion 2004-07-07 10:27 am UTC (link)
	:) i kinda like john. he's so... nice. and amped all the time. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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radioethiopia
2004-07-07 11:09 am UTC (link)

yeah, but he can't make a decision to save his life. i like bush because he isn't running around taking polls to see what everyone wants. he makes his decision even though he knows it might cost him his next presidency. he isn't out there to be a crowd pleaser, he just does what he thinks is best for the country and doesn't waver or vascillate. expedience is something i like in a president. i love a president that doesn't give into democrat caterwauling. i love reagan, and he was my favorite president but beirut is a perfect example of him caving into democrats and that didn't work out too terribly well.

i don't like john kerry because he is more radically democratic than hillary clinton or ted kennedy. He wants to reverse the dividend tax cuts for top earners. Since May of 2003, when President Bush signed pro-growth tax cuts into law, the economy has been growing at an annualized rate of over 5 percent. This is the fastest pace since 1984, the year following big tax cuts signed by Reagan. Kerry wants to punish those who invest in and help our economy. Lame.

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	5 percent? wevah 2004-07-07 04:58 pm UTC (link)
	On June the annualized growth rate was revised downwards from 4.4% to 3.9% by the US Commerce Department. Q1 profits were down 5.7%, and the trade deficit doubled. I don't know if I'd want to go out on the limb of referring to the divident tax breaks as being an economic tour de force. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	Re: 5 percent? wevah 2004-07-07 04:59 pm UTC (link)
	"On June 25", that is. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ghostnha 2004-07-06 12:11 pm UTC (link)
	they look like they iz going to make out (Reply to this) (Thread)

	agreatnotion 2004-07-06 12:14 pm UTC (link)
	isn't it romantic? (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	me so hoooorrny. me luvvv you loooooooong time ghostnha 2004-07-06 03:44 pm UTC (link)
	it looks like in some of the pix that posted that he wants to do more than kiss. more along the lines of get and give suckie suckie (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Impressive! effoveks 2004-07-06 07:52 pm UTC (link)
	dayum! you got boing-boing'ed!! nicely done. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: Impressive! agreatnotion 2004-07-06 10:30 pm UTC (link)
	3rd or 4th time! (Reply to this) (Parent)

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