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Two Days Until The Primary Madness Begins
TUESDAY JANUARY 1 2008 9:00 AM
Submitted by FearTheReaper. Edited By erin_broadley.
TAGS: Iowa Caucus
Well, we are officially in the shit. The Iowa Caucus will be held on Thursday. A bunch of Midwesterners will be allowed, for no apparent reason, to have a huge impact on the Republican and Democratic choices for president again. And the rest of the country will have to deal with their ignorant choice for months.
The polls are looking as expected. Huckabee and Romney are neck and neck on the Republican side, while Edwards, Clinton and Obama are pretty much in a dead heat for the Democrats. Giuliani is toast and has been since the news of his extra-marital affair bill paid for by taxpayers story broke.
The attacks have picked up. Mike Huckabee pulled one of the most bizarre and idiotic moves of the campaign yesterday, when he called a press conference to show a negative ad that he wasn’t going to air. Let me just repeat that. He asked reporters to come down to view something he didn’t want people to see. Here’s a tip, Huck, you don’t have to keep flogging yourself for Jesus. He doesn’t give a shit.
Here’s the Huck in his moment of glory.
The reporters obviously didn’t understand why he was showing them something he was not going to show people. Retarded.
Meanwhile, Romney is going positive. And cheesy!
Thanks for turning around the Olympics! That was a big deal for me. Oh, and also, thanks for boiling down what I care about.
Together we can grow our economy, stop illegal immigration, defend life and preserve the values that make America the hope of the earth.
Iraq, cough, cough.
On the Democratic side, Edwards and Obama began attacking each other a bit more.
In one of his standard riffs, Obama asserts that his career choices -- community organizer, civil rights lawyer, elected official -- underscores his commitment to public service and to bringing about political and social change. He always mentions the lucrative job offers he turned down, but today he added a new line.
"That's why I didn't become a trial lawyer," Obama told the Newton audience -- a clear dig at Edwards, who made millions in the courtroom.
Oooooo, he’s a trial lawyer. Hey, Obama, you’re a politician. That’s actually worse.
Edwards gave Obama a little slap back.
He related his familiar campaign mantra of battling interest groups inside the beltway, he implied that Obama just wasn't up to the task.
"I hear people say you can sit at a table with these people, negotiate with them, and they will volunteer their power away," Edwards said. "That is a complete fantasy. You can't ‘nice’ these people to death."
Obama often says he has ability to bring people together while forging compromises, making the idea a major cornerstone of his campaign's 'change' theme.
Ooooo, he's nice. Slam! Actually, that’s a politician's way of calling someone a pussy. Although, I can’t really agree with that assessment, because the Obama camp made one of the worst mistakes of the campaign last week, when they attempted to lay some of the blame of Bhutto’s assassination on Clinton.
AXELROD: Well, it puts on the table foreign policy judgment, and that's a discussion we welcome. Barack Obama had the judgment to oppose the war in Iraq, and he warned at the time it would divert us from Afghanistan and al Qaeda, and now we see the effect of that. Al Qaeda's resurgent, they're a powerful force now in Pakistan, they may have been involved -- we've been here, so I don't know whether the news has been updated, but there's a suspicion they may have been involved in this.
I think his judgment was good. Senator Clinton made a different judgment, so let's have that discussion.
Uh, what? Maybe wait until the body is in the ground, champ. Meanwhile, Barack’s commercials make him out to be the voice of hope.
Jesus, I almost cried.
Hillary has decided to do the one thing that can really, really help her:
Shut the fuck up. That is what one does when they are an unlikable person.
But what is striking about the final days of one of the most fascinating campaigns any of us have witnessed here in Iowa is how Clinton has avoided becoming the focus of attention. The national front-runner has become, if not invisible, virtually ignored -- and that seems just the way she wants it.
Shhh, be very, very quiet. And don’t answer questions from the commoners.
This afternoon in Fort Madison, Clinton took no questions. After her speech, she signed autographs for about 15 minutes then had to hit the snow-covered roads for her Muscatine stop.
Sunday night in Iowa Falls, after her 40-minute monologue ended shortly before 10 p.m, Clinton immediately began to pose for photographs and listen to caucusgoers’ concerns one on one.
Iowa Falls resident Alene Rickels, 51, when asked her thoughts about the event, told a reporter: “Her speech was really good, but it would’ve been interesting to see how she reacted to questions.
“I really thought she would take questions,” said Rickels, a middle school teacher. “It’s late in the day, so I’m assuming that that’s the reason. I don’t know what she did the rest of the day.”
Clinton took no questions from audiences at any of her stops earlier Sunday, in Vinton, Traer and Cedar Falls.
That message control raised eyebrows for other caucusgoers.
You go, girl! Maybe you can get a shrub to hide behind, too. Could you imagine Bill Clinton not answering questions on the campaign trail? But Clinton did release a new ad. It’s great, because it makes me want to punch someone in the neck.
Hey, thanks for fucking over people who made prudent financial decisions and helping the assholes who took shitty loans, you fucking asshole. I appreciate you reminding me why I will never vote for you.
So, there you have it. It’s a five-man race and one of them has a vagina.
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