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To: pompsander who wrote (24752)	10/28/2008 4:52:42 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

Some things are beyond comprehension.

To: pompsander who wrote (24752)	10/28/2008 8:51:55 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25737

What About Bobby? 28.10.2008 blogs.tnr.com To follow up on Suzy's item, I wanted to note that, while there are plenty of 2012 GOP presidential aspirants who have reason to be unhappy with the McCain campaign's decisions over the last couple months (and, in particular, the Palin choice), a case could be made that no one's nearish-term prospects have been hurt more than Bobby Jindal's. Though rarely explicit (and certainly not exclusive) a large portion of the GOP's closing argument this cycle has been to stoke white, working class fear and suspicion of the Other. The dark-skinned man with the foreign-sounding name may be a Muslim, or a socialist, or a friend of terrorists, or a racial huckster, or a fake U.S. citizen, or some other vague kind of "radical." You may never be sure which he is (maybe all of the above), but in your gut you simply don't "know" him the way you know the other candidates. This is not, to put it mildly, a message likely to benefit Bobby Jindal. Now, yes, four years is a longer time in politics than it used to be. But I still don't see these toxins leaching out that quickly, particularly from a GOP that will, in all likelihood, continue trying to raise subliminal doubts about Obama's Americanness. Add to this the blunt fact that the GOP probably can't afford to lose racist white voters, especially in the South (you think a Jindal - Obama race wouldn't invite a conservative, white, third-party candidacy?), and I think Jindal's chance of being the nominee in 2012 is, despite his obvious talents, pretty close to nil. The GOP isn't going to be looking for its own Obama; it's going to be looking for an anti-Obama. --Christopher Orr

To: pompsander who wrote (24752)	10/29/2008 4:12:59 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 25737

THE MAVERICK WEARS PRADA ----------------- October 29, 2008 Op-Ed Columnist For Your Consideration By MAUREEN DOWD nytimes.com ---------------- 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 been seconded to SARAH PALIN. On the TV, MSNBC’s DAVID SHUSTER is asking ANNE KORNBLUT about rumors that PALIN has gone AWOL after McCain advisers anonymously labeled her a rogue “diva” and a “whack job.” NICOLLE (hissing) How’d she get away? TRACEY SCHMITT, another blonde sorority type in pearls, also a Bush person who became a McCain person who was then sent over to manage PALIN as her press secretary, sits slumped in a chair, dejectedly checking her BlackBerry messages. How the heck should I know? She told me she was going to the bathroom to change out of the Jimmy Choos into something more Target for the Joe the Plumber “They’re Not Smears, They’re Just Facts” Bus Tour. She never came back. I called Todd. He’s not picking up. NICOLLE Steve’s freaking out. You know how he is about message discipline, much less completely losing a candidate. He’s got enough on his plate scaring the nursing-home Jews in Florida and painting Obama as a Palestinian Marxist Madrassa Child. Maybe all of those dudes painting their chests for Sarah and screaming “2012!” have her looking past the old man. Steve says he will annihilate her if she sabotages this campaign to get started on the next one, or if she plants negative stories about me — I mean McCain — with the base. Are the clothes gone from the belly of the plane? TRACEY It’s not like we were ever gonna return them anyway. NICOLLE Think like a diva. Where would you go rogue? TRACEY Sean Hannity’s pocket. Could he pant over her more? Or maybe she’s hiding in Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s dressing room at “The View.” NICOLLE She’s probably at The Weekly Standard, plotting her shining city on the tundra with Fred Barnes and Bill Kristol. I can’t believe Barnes called me a coward because I tried to update that $30 Wasilla beehive that made her look like the girlfriend in an Elvis movie and upgrade her from pleather to leather. And besides, she’s not going to find real Americans at Saks and Neiman’s. She’s got to go to Barneys and Armani for that. TRACEY Between us, Nicolle, she doesn’t look $150,000 different. Maybe we should have spent that money on getting Henry Kissinger to put on his snowshoes and best leer and tutor her. NICOLLE Look, Tracey, maybe Sarah doesn’t know who Berlusconi is, but she does know who Valentino is. She saw those labels. She knew we were being sartorial socialists and spreading the wealth to Neiman’s and Saks. She liked being pampered like a movie star. We should have learned from W. If you can keep a war off budget, why can’t you keep a wardrobe off budget? I told the press if someone wants to throw me under the bus, my personal belief is that the most graceful thing to do is lie there. TRACEY That’ll be the day. NICOLLE I’ll be glad when this blind date from hell is over and I can get away from the dysfunctional Palin clan and back to walking my dog, Lily, in Central Park with my pinko liberal friends. I knew Katie would be brutal, but thank God I arranged that interview because now I can go back to my gig as a political analyst at CBS. TRACEY I’m gonna miss Todd. He’s hot. NICOLLE I won’t miss him or his 20 calls a day playing stage dad. He’s probably the one who masterminded her breakout. (Her BlackBerry rings to the tune of “Eye of the Tiger.”) Uh-oh, it’s Steve. (She listens and then hangs up.) TRACEY (sardonically) Does McCain know the maverick’s maverick has gone all mavericky on him? NICOLLE McCain is calling off the search. TRACEY (shocked) Huh? NICOLLE He’s fed up with her getting bigger crowds and contradicting his message. He’s fed up with her interrupting him on TV interviews and taking them over. He’s fed up with her drilling him on drilling. He’s fed up with never being able to discuss anything with her, like the latest violence in the Congo. He’s weirded out by the way she keeps trying to explain the Rapture to him. His exact words to Steve were: “For my End of Days, I’d prefer to finish the race with Lieberman.” So forget Sarah. Let’s find Joe. TRACEY You betcha! Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company

To: pompsander who wrote (24752)	10/30/2008 6:07:22 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 25737

Still No Palin Medical Records: Why? 30 Oct 2008 03:33 pm andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com Was that promise last week another lie? Again, I challenge Mark Salter personally. He called me crazy for asking questions about Sarah Palin's alleged fifth pregnancy. If you think questions are not worth asking, or based on nothing but partisanship and hate, please read this account of what is in the public records about it and make up your own mind. I think the bizarre circumstantial evidence easily rises to the level of material that should be addressed - as presumably could be done definitively - by the campaign. McCain chief aide, Mark Salter, said this about me to my colleague, Jeffrey Goldberg: "This whole story about how the baby isn't hers? Jesus Christ. Just crazy shit." Those are fighting words. Is Salter man enough to back them up? Or is he a coward? If it's such "crazy shit", why has the McCain campaign not released the readily available documents that can prove it's "crazy shit"? Here's what I wrote more than two months ago about the issue when the questions first emerged: There must be plenty of medical records and obstetricians and medical eye-witnesses prepared to testify to Sarah Palin's giving birth to Trig... So please give us these answers - and provide medical records for Sarah Palin's pregnancy - and put this to rest. Again, that was in August. It is not an answer to call bloggers "insane" because they are asking factual questions to which there must be evidentiary answers. (Yes, as Ed Morrissey notes, Biden, McCain and Obama have been bad on this as well, and this blog has criticized them for it, especially Biden where I've been relentless, given his aneurysm history. But only Palin has offered nothing at all. And only Palin has a core question of basic credibility at stake. Only Palin has used her medical history - her fifth child - as a campaign plank.) We were told last week - finally - that Palin's medical records proving her fifth pregnancy and birth would be forthcoming "early this week." I congratulated the campaign for some minimal transparency at long last, and looked forward to getting this whole sorry story blown out of the water before election day. But Tracy Schmitt lied to us. The question you have to ask is: why? Why does Sarah Palin refuse to prove that her baby - the baby that has been a campaign prop for two months - is actually one she gave birth to? Remember what we have been told by a McCain source about Palin: "She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else." If her own family doesn't trust her, why should we? I'm begging the McCain campaign to make me look like a total fool for even wondering. Please, blow my skepticism out of the water. Prove I'm full of "crazy shit." Permalink :: Trackback (0) :: Sphere It! :: Share This TrackBack URL for this entry: typepad.com