The US election came and went, and now it’s time to laugh ourselves stupid at those who predicted an overwhelming win for McCain.

Political Lizard:

So sa (sic) we start this election We (sic) see that Obama starts off with approximately 36.8 million votes and McCain starts with 36.6 million votes. This is a 200,000 vote lead prior to independents being included. If these voters are evenly split We (sic) could have a situation where one candidate wins the popular vote and another wins the electoral college. A split in independents favors McCain. If McCain maintains his slight lead among independent (sic) he wins similar to 2004.

ChronWatch:

Obama’s biggest problem is that the majority of Americans racially are white. Even Hispanics, racially, are white. Once you get by all the usual politically correct blather about race, the likelihood that whites will vote for Obama is slim to none when they get in the privacy of the voting booth.

That is why John McCain, unless he selects a serial killer as his vice president running mate, is likely to be the next President of the United States of America.

When queeried (sic) on what he meant by this, the intrepid poster expanded upon this thesis:

The vast majority of homosexuals are atheist and liberal. That is a
fact. Also journalism is a favorite career path of homosexuals and
socialists.
Journalists are like lawyers. They create their own job via paper and
bullshit. Both are human barnacles on society that produce nothing of value.

Edward David Gil (cached, original deleted):

Here is how “the penny dropped” and I suddenly realized that McCain will beat Obama decisively in this November’s presidential election (as unlikely as it may seem now in July): it was when I read that the city of Denver has been giving the Democratic National Committee’s “Host Committee” members a pass on the city’s tax on gasoline for about four months, before it was disclosed.

Daily AntiKos

Reasons why:
1. Conservatives don’t participate in polls.
2. People have felt intimidated into saying they’re supporting Obama.
3. Sarah Palin will produce a turnout of the base as never seen before.
4. Coal states have shifted toward McCain.
5. God is conservative.

Owned. Every last one.

In a major boost to Barack Obama’s quest for the White House, a global survey has revealed that Australians will overwhelmingly vote Democrat at the November 4 presidential election. 76% of Aussie respondents indicated support for Senator Obama, with only 10% in the camp of Republican candidate, John McCain. (It is a mystery for whom the other 14% will vote. David Koch perhaps?) The problem is, of course, that Australians won’t be voting for the United States Prez in a couple of weeks because we’re, you know, Australian. So why is it that the same survey reckons 85% of Australians are paying attention to another country’s election campaign five months out (at the time of the survey), when 85% of Australians barely think about their own country’s elections until polling day?

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When Barack Obama correctly referred to John McCain’s “running mate’s” apparent refusal to stop racist taunts at Republican rallies, during the third Presidential debate on Thursday (Australian time), McCain, as is his wont, immediately got huffy and defensive. He said that he was “proud of the people who come to our rallies.”

Is that so, McCain? Then how come the McCain campaign, with three weeks left to go until Election Day, “launched a nationwide talent search to find angry audience members for their increasingly hate-filled rallies”, as admitted by McCain aides?

“People assume that when we hold a rally, angry white people just magically appear, but that’s not the case,” said McCain aide Hardin Carley. “The fact is, a lot of planning goes into this.” In order to stock their rallies with the requisite number of irate white voters, the McCain camp has reached out to Hollywood, retaining the services of casting agent Tracy Klugian, who found the angry crowds for the 2000 film “Gladiator.” “They were really clear about my assignment,” said Mr. Klugian. “They were like, we want the same kind of crowds you had for ‘Gladiator,’ only more bloodthirsty.”

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We all know McCain’s been getting desperate in recent weeks. It’s one reason why his running mate Sarah Palin was “unleashed” and allowed to fire off ugly and highly provocative rants during Republican rallies, such as this gem at a Florida rally on October 6, that Obama “launched his political career in the living room of a domestic terrorist! This is not a man who sees America the way you and I see America.  I’m afraid this is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to work with a former domestic terrorist who had targeted his own country.”

The day before was the risible and now infamous claim that Obama is someone who used to “pal around with terrorists who targeted their own country”. These repugnant statements backfired for McCain and tarnished his reputation as an honourable type of guy.

A poll following these attacks showed that “more voters [saw] Mr. McCain as waging a negative campaign than Mr. Obama. Six in 10 voters surveyed said that Mr. McCain had spent more time attacking Mr. Obama than explaining what he would do as president; by about the same number, voters said Mr. Obama was spending more of his time explaining than attacking.”

Elsewhere, specifically Gainesville, Virginia, state GOP Chairman Jeffrey M. Frederick knows that the McCain bid for the White House is failing miserably. Things are quite desperate, that they’re resorting further still to lies and baseless allegations:

With so much at stake, and time running short, Frederick did not feel he had the luxury of subtlety. He climbed atop a folding chair to give 30 campaign volunteers who were about to go canvassing door to door their talking points — for instance, the connection between Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden: “Both have friends that bombed the Pentagon,” he said. “That is scary.” It is also not exactly true — though that distorted reference to Obama’s controversial association with William Ayers, a former 60s radical, was enough to get the volunteers stoked. “And he won’t salute the flag,” one woman added, repeating another myth about Obama. She was quickly topped by a man who called out, “We don’t even know where Senator Obama was really born.” Actually, we do; it’s Hawaii.

In light of the realisation that attacking Obama is not helping the McCain-Palin ticket at all, the pitbull with lipstick in recent days has softened her tone, saying things like “I don’t question at all Barack Obama’s love for this great country.” What a turnaround!  Desperate, devious, tricky and so utterly insincere. Win at all costs, no matter what.

I hope American voters, especially the undecideds, see just how full of shit the whole McCain campaign has been and make the right decision with their vote.

(Hint: Vote Obama!)

UPDATE:

Turns out that the “report” about the McCain campaign auditioning for “angry crowds” was written by a political satirist and comedian. My apologies for not seeing the fine print in the Huffington Post at the end of the article: “Andy Borowitz is a comedian and writer whose work appears in The New Yorker and The New York Times, and at his award-winning humor site, BorowitzReport.com.”

Having now read some of his archived work after a heads-up in the comments, yes, yes, the penny drops. He’s quite good though. I encourage you to read his stuff, even if the fucker tripped me up! Grrr.

Nevertheless, for McCain to declare he is proud of the people who attend his and Palin’s rallies shows just how silly and desperate the man is. He is not a racist and yet he’s practically endorsing the “people” who have been yelling out bigoted and racist epithets at Republican rallies, such as “Kill him!” (in relation to Obama) and “sit down, boy” at an African American sound man for a network.

Charming.

That’s right, McCain chased the Kaiser for diggity-six miles.

Mercilessly stolen from the Daily Kos.

Andrew Bolt, from his liveblog of Sarah Palin’s Republican convention speech last week:

12.35pm: “As the mother of one of those troops [about to serve in Iraq], [McCain] is exactly the kind of man I want as Commander in Chief.” Ding! Fries are done Hit the bell.

Whose bell? The only Americans prepared to be consumed by patriotic zeal upon hearing a platitude like that are bound to be Republican voters anyway.

More importantly, I’m not convinced that reminding the rest of the voting public about their nation’s involvement in a vastly unpopular war, and tying John McCain into the narrative, is such a great idea — no matter how many times Andrew has shot his Bolt declared victory for the US and its allies.

The denizens of the Rightardsphere have been busy rubbing several layers of skin off themselves since Sarah Palin was announced as John McCain’s vice-presidential running mate in the forthcoming US election — but perhaps none so vigorously as GrodsCorp’s favourite rhyming doctor, John “TingTong” Ray.

After reproducing a fawning post by US blogger Dick McDonald — in which he declares, among things, “My first impression is that we may have found our Margaret Thatcher”! — das gut Herr Doktor yesterday took the adulation one teensy-weensy step further:

I predict that she will one day be President of the United States.

Level-headed, insightful and well researched — as usual. Who could possibly argue?

Meet Sarah Palin, possibly the next vice-president of the United States, the fish that John McCain didn’t reject.

Just 44 and governor of that behemoth state Alaska for only 20 months, Palin is so grossly inexperienced she makes previous VP candidates Geraldine Ferraro and Dan Quayle seem like elder statesmen. But she’s the ideal policy foil for McCain’s timid conservatism. Palin is fiercely pro-life and has churned out five kids of her own; she’s against same-sex marriage and rights for gay partners; and she supports the teaching of creationism in schools. She’s a lifelong member of the NRA and in her spare time loves to go out killing things. Her views on climate-change are flakey (apparently in Sarah’s world it might not be a man-made event) and she vehemently opposed the federal government’s listing of polar bears as an endangered species. Probably because she wants to go a-drilling in Alaska’s protected wilderness reserves (it may come as no surprise that hubby works for ’big oil’).

McCain’s choice of Palin might prove to be a masterstroke, snapping up hardline conservatives and disillusioned female Hillary voters in one fell swoop. Or it might eventually be shown up for what it really is: optimistic, opportunistic tokenism, making use of an inexperienced and probably incompetent second-tier politician.

UPDATE

MK, the Internet Right’s own Beaver Cleaver, has pants-swelling conniptions over Palin’s nomination. “She definitely has my vote, too bad I can’t vote” says Matty, somewhat paradoxically.

Many of you may remember when David Hicks plead guilty in order to be freed from prison early. Keyboard heroes were aghast that anyone would admit to something they weren’t guilty of, in order to get a lighter sentence. MightyMatt on AnonymousLefty said that if he was innocent they could torture him indefinitely, and he would never confess, because he is in the right.

John McCain did:

If only life was as simple as black and white, right versus wrong.

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