Sensible Erection | McCain Suspends Campaign

Wednesday, 24 September 2008

quote [ Republican presidential candidate John McCain announced Wednesday that he is suspending his campaign to return to Washington and focus on the "historic" crisis facing the U.S. economy. ]

[politics] [by sensibleb@7:52pmGMT] [+9 WTF]

Comments

sacrelicious said @ 7:54pm GMT on 24th Sep
interesting gambit.

Nihil said @ 11:11pm GMT on 24th Sep [Score:1 Interesting]
Very much his style. I think I've mentioned in another thread that (a younger) McCain would probably make for a pretty damn good local- or state-level politician. Personal charisma and sheer go-for-the-throatness (in Italy we'd say "hard-cocking your way around") help a lot more there, and he'd not have as many nuanced policies to work on.

But to hand him the nuclear missile codes and the Command in Chief of the USA Army? Folly. On that particular aspect of the presidency, he'd be even more dangerous than Bush.

utah said @ 1:51am GMT on 25th Sep [Score:1 Insightful]
+1 Hard-cocking

KingPellinore said @ 7:56pm GMT on 24th Sep
What the hell is that even supposed to mean, especially when such a "move" (if it can truly be called that) is easily viewed as a political campaign ploy, itself.

Empty words from a desperate man chained to an ignorant religious zealot for a running mate.

King of the Hill said @ 9:53pm GMT on 24th Sep
Funny.

Harry Reid and other democrats YESTERDAY suggested that McCain should be present to vote on the bailout.

Today, McCain suspends his campaign to return to Washington and who's crying it is a political move? REID.

It's not a move on McCain's part to control the polls, it was a move initiated by Reid and company to push McCain where they wanted him.

Lighten up... It is just politics.

Oh... And I'm still not voting this year.

sythe said @ 12:14am GMT on 25th Sep
Don't worry, more than enough blue people in the city to make up for you. Sadly, not enough to make up for the bright red "rural" areas.

Context said @ 5:00am GMT on 25th Sep [Score:1 Insightful]
I don't see why him being present for the vote should prevent him from being present at the debate.

arrowhen said @ 5:23am GMT on 25th Sep [Score:5 Insightful]

revchoppy said @ 6:25pm GMT on 25th Sep
I'll let you figure out the fucking difference between "return for a vote" and "SUSPEND PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN".

bbqkink said @ 7:56pm GMT on 24th Sep
WoW! you got to give it to him, He isn't afraid to throw the "Hail Mary"!
Obama has to be careful with this, or next week will all be his fault.
He is a better politician than I gave him credit for.

bbqkink said @ 8:33pm GMT on 24th Sep
Obama can't let this work..
Obama "I can understand why McCain and Palain want to avoid the news media, but I think its important especially now that Jo and I make ourselves available to the american people.
If the Republicans want to run and hide let em, we will be out here every day!

taeyn said @ 9:22pm GMT on 24th Sep
Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., a close adviser to Obama, called the idea “the longest Hail Mary pass in the history of either football or Marys.”

NOW WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE!

Jewbacchus said @ 9:33pm GMT on 24th Sep [Score:1 Insightful]
I like Barney Frank.

bbqkink said @ 9:45pm GMT on 24th Sep [Score:1 Funny]
thank you..I mean me too

King of the Hill said @ 9:49pm GMT on 24th Sep
Too bad he's one of the core individuals who's powers of oversight were not being practiced on the financial sector...

He's avoided answering why he was asleep at the wheel as of yet.

hellboy said @ 5:37am GMT on 25th Sep [Score:-2]
He wasn't driving, Phil Gramm was, you fucktard.

vahid said @ 7:59pm GMT on 24th Sep [Score:1 Underrated]
what a douch3. he can't run away from his record by suspending his campaign.

vahid said @ 10:28pm GMT on 24th Sep [Score:3]

mister said @ 3:30am GMT on 25th Sep
BINGO !

ring riot said @ 8:00pm GMT on 24th Sep [Score:2 Funny]
The Obama campaign said in a statement that Obama had called McCain around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday to propose that they issue a joint statement in support of a package to help fix the economy as soon as possible. McCain called back six hours later and agreed to the idea of the statement, the Obama campaign said. McCain's statement was issued to the media a few minutes later.

So Obama calls McCain to issue a JOINT statement from both campaigns. McCain calls back, agrees to it - and then issues a statement that HE is suspending his campaign and ASKING Obama to?

THANKS, JOHN. I didn't think you could tell even MORE lies.

King of the Hill said @ 8:47pm GMT on 24th Sep
WHo do you believe?

Wrong answer.... You can't.

BlutStein1984 said @ 9:18pm GMT on 24th Sep
Sounds like McBama has a personality disorder.

yevishere said @ 8:01pm GMT on 24th Sep
Is this an onion article?

sacrelicious said @ 8:16pm GMT on 24th Sep
it should be.

I mean that. it would be better for the country if it was an onion article and not a CNN article.

TM said @ 8:01pm GMT on 24th Sep
'Desperate' is exactly the right word, although I'd add that McCain's problems include being chained to an incumbent ignorant religious zealot he hopes to replace.

I try hard not to be cynical, for the sake of my children and my blood pressure - in that order - but this strikes me as a transparent attempt to jump-start McCain's failing campaign. Whatever happened to defending principles even if one loses? Is the man so bent on the presidency that he will truly do whatever it takes to win the election? (My incredulity is based on McCain's having cultivated the image of the maverick and outsider, now clearly false).

-_- said @ 8:03pm GMT on 24th Sep [Score:1 WTF]
Wasn't someone just asking the other day how Bush43 was going to stay in office a third term?

Looks like this might work.

All they have to do is declare a National Emergency and a HUGE body of oddly oppressive law activates (martial law, suspended elections, etc).
But hey, tamp can tell you a lot more about that (with footnotes and linked references) than I can.

Oh dear God I hope I don't see something like that happen in my lifetime :(

sacrelicious said @ 8:14pm GMT on 24th Sep
actually, I'm not so sure bush43 even wants to be president anymore. seeing a recent press conference of his he did not seem to be the same old happy go lucky retarded guy we've always known him as. rather, he seemed to be a very sad and stressed out retarded guy.

-_- said @ 8:17pm GMT on 24th Sep
Maybe that's because his Dads friends (his handlers) told him he's going to have to keep playing figurehead while they loot the country and destroy the morale of the average US citizen enough to send us begging to Mexico and Canada to help us form a North American Government that even the US citizens don't want to see the US try to lead.
After all, you can't build a "New World Order" when the Old World Order is going strong.

BlutStein1984 said @ 9:41pm GMT on 24th Sep
When I first heard he was suspending his campaign the first thing I thought of was Bush staying in power. Although I don't like it, I think McCain campaign is really smart call suspending the campaign and returning to Washington D.C.. It might not be the answer but it forces Obama to react and makes McCain look like a leader during this whole mess. Americans what action after all and not just more talking.

It also fits nicely with his Iraq comment of how he would rather lose the campaign than lose the war.

Pisses me off that this might help him.

-_- said @ 8:14pm GMT on 24th Sep
What I mean is that if the election gets postponed due to the financial crisis then Bush gets more time in office, if a National Emergency is declared because of the financial crisis then elections get suspended too I believe.
Even so, if McCain and Obama "suspend" their campaigns then we're dealing with a relatively unprecedented situation aren't we?
No telling which way it might break.
This is either dirty politics, very dirty politics, or EXTREMELY dirty politics in my opinion.

I see no reason why the campaigns or the election should need to go on hold for this, this is why we need an election ... our present leadership is incompetent.
seriously, has Bush43 done anything that strengthened the US, or which has even helped the US ... or has it all been ill advised moves that seasoned professionals spoke out against and which are now crumbling down around our ears?

sacrelicious said @ 8:27pm GMT on 24th Sep
if successful this will set a precedent and create a strategy for future campaigns. the republicans have already tarred candidates in the past with the "he missed such and such vote... because the selfish bastard was too busy campaigning!" brush. what this will mean is that any time there is any even slightly pressing issue (and guess what: there always is!) a candidate can play the hero and attend to that issue while his opponent appears to be neglecting his duties by running for office. if this strategy is then applied to more than just presidential elections it could potentially place the entire democratic process in a state of suspended animation as candidates indefinitely postpone campaigning, their opponents must do the same or lose votes, thus rendering representative democracy mandated by the vote of the people moot because few further election will be held. the public get's used to it, complacent, and the only elections held would be those to remove a politician from office, which would be entirely motivated by the will of the ruling party.

and then it's just a matter of time before they start talking about appointing an emperor for the sake of convenience.

sanepride said @ 10:44pm GMT on 24th Sep
If we could hold an election in the midst of a civil war we can hold an election...and all the requisite campaigning and debates...now. Despite the dire predictions of the current regime (they've been banking on fear for seven years now) things are not truly bad...yet. I'm not saying there isn't a serious financial crisis brewing, but drastic pronouncements of suspending campaigns and debates is just irresponsible fear mongering and crisis escalation. A wiser tact was taken by Franklin Roosevelt as he assumed office in the midst of a real crisis...when people were unemployed and desperate and feeling real pain from economic collapse. It rings even truer now: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself". Seems this is the opposite of the message now being conveyed by McCain and his campaign.

sacrelicious said @ 8:07pm GMT on 24th Sep
the way I see it this would almost certainly stall progress on legislation. here's a guy who is in the midst of fighting to become the next president, and as such has an interest in stances that serve him best politically. he will not bend, will not compromise or stray from the most politically advantageous positions for him, and he will be the leader of his side of the debate by default. this will create gridlock. doubly so if Barrack meets his challenge to do the same, as all of those same points will apply to him as well. we will get a solution to an urgent problem that is not made in the interests of the urgent problem, but rather the interests of an urgent campaign. although we may see some interesting debates on the senate floor.

both candidates are obligated to recuse themselves i think, as this is more likely to be nothing but a presidential pissing contest if they involve themselves directly.

verycleanteeth said @ 8:17pm GMT on 24th Sep [Score:1 Insightful]
I agree, although it does seem like a crafty political move by McCain. It can only help boost his poll numbers on the economy.

If Obama agrees to stall the debate, then McCain looks like a leader and Obama a follower.

If Obama refuses, it looks like all he cares about is getting elected and fuck the economy.

This does remind me of the Palin pick. Depending on how Obama responds, this could change a few things.

-_- said @ 8:19pm GMT on 24th Sep
._.

shiftace said @ 8:40pm GMT on 24th Sep
Don't cry, still time to buy a gun.

swiggy said @ 10:20pm GMT on 24th Sep
And thanks to rebuplicans, you can buy an assault rifle in some states. Isn't it a funny world?

swiggy said @ 10:20pm GMT on 24th Sep
...rebuplicans?

Mr. Langosta said @ 3:08am GMT on 25th Sep
I like it.

Rebuplicans. Lunboks.

Barnabas_Truman said @ 4:15am GMT on 25th Sep [Score:1 Funny]
HEERYOR LUNBOKS. HEFFA GUD TAY ASKOOL.

revchoppy said @ 8:20pm GMT on 24th Sep [Score:3 Interesting]
very true.

What Obama needs to do is say:

"America NEEDS a discussion about the economy. Too much information is flying around, and we need to talk about the what's going and what needs to be done. Let's do that on Friday night.... in lieu of the debate on foreign policy. We can reschedule a debate about foreign policy later, but John and I need to have a frank and open discussion with the American people about the economy on Friday night."

What's McCain going to say to that?

-_- said @ 8:24pm GMT on 24th Sep
Oh please make it McCain/Palin and Obama/Biden all on the same stage.
please please please please please please please please.

sacrelicious said @ 8:31pm GMT on 24th Sep
three men and one woman enter, two men or one man and one woman leave!

valen85 said @ 9:01pm GMT on 24th Sep
three men and one woman enter
bukkake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Vampire_X said @ 9:42pm GMT on 24th Sep [Score:2 Funny]
thats a horrible fuckin mental image right there

Tirade said @ 10:29pm GMT on 24th Sep
Horribl....y funny?

verycleanteeth said @ 8:26pm GMT on 24th Sep
That... That would be the perfect response.

Somebody forward this to the Obama campaign.

incpenners said @ 9:10pm GMT on 24th Sep

The topic of the debate this Friday is foreign policy, as agreed in the ground rules when the debates were set up.

Domestic fiscal policy was to be the topic of the last debate, seen as an advantage to the Obama campaign closer to the election.

-_- said @ 8:49pm GMT on 24th Sep [Score:1 Funny]
Maybe an aside of "If John McCain can't handle the stress of campaigning while dealing with the issues facing our nation then perhaps the American people shouldn't put him in the position of having to worry about it happening ever again, he's been in politics for sooooo long we sometimes forget he is human as well .. it's time for a rest for John McCain, it's time for him to relax and have a life where the problems can come at you one at a time instead of all at once."

micham18 said @ 9:49pm GMT on 24th Sep
too bad there is no funny but true mod. it was either funny or underrated.

arrowhen said @ 5:16am GMT on 25th Sep
FUNderrated!

brat#3 said @ 9:03pm GMT on 24th Sep
This was my thinking exactly, but put far more succinctly than I would have managed to accomplish.

Likewise any "we called him first" from the Obama camp just comes across as petty and counter-productive, when the republicans are focussed on 'the big picture'.

McCain's strategy: I know Obama is kicking my ass on the campaign trail, so if I can just get him to stop playing, I might be able to win..

sacrelicious said @ 9:10pm GMT on 24th Sep
the ol' 'take the board and go home' gambit.

sadly, it does make it alot harder for the other person to play.

iosef said @ 8:11pm GMT on 24th Sep
it will be sad day indeed if a sad, desperate political ploy like this pays off. unfortunately, a similar ploy already has paid dividends for McCain.

Excited Corpse said @ 8:15pm GMT on 24th Sep
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha h a ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Excited Corpse said @ 8:38pm GMT on 24th Sep
HA HA HA HA HA!!

danbar101 said @ 10:04pm GMT on 24th Sep
I'm laughing straight to the bank with this
ha! haaaa ha ha ha haaaaa!

vahid said @ 8:18pm GMT on 24th Sep
CNN Quick Vote:
John McCain's request to delay campaigning and this week's debate is:
-An effort to help the economy 27% 2471
-A political gimmick 69% 6436
-Something else 4% 372
-Total Votes: 9279

-_- said @ 8:22pm GMT on 24th Sep [Score:1 Insightful]
well at least a significant portion of the literate population is thinking it through, unfortunately we're outnumbered 2 to 1 by the illiterate population in the US.
60% of the US is "functionally illiterate"(according to government surveys) and gets all their news (and opinions) from TV.

Garr123 said @ 1:20am GMT on 25th Sep
I'm pretty sure it's more like 10-15%.

Aidentas said @ 2:40pm GMT on 25th Sep
Can you find a source for me on that.

sacrelicious said @ 8:32pm GMT on 24th Sep
what's the something else indicate?

brat#3 said @ 9:06pm GMT on 24th Sep
"He forgot he already had a sunset tan booked for that day"

conception said @ 8:09am GMT on 25th Sep
Sadly, online polls are worthless.

lilmookieesquire said @ 8:29pm GMT on 24th Sep [Score:5 Funny]
I just want Biden frothing at the mouth, screaming at Palin.

"What's the matter? Why don't you talk? Why don't you fucking talk?! Your god damn pussy hurt?!".

I don't know why. I just really really want to see that.

...

That makes me weird huh.

lilmookieesquire said @ 8:30pm GMT on 24th Sep [Score:2 Insightful]
you ever look at what you just wrote, and as you click the submit button, and go... maybe that wasn't my best comment...?

lilmookieesquire said @ 8:31pm GMT on 24th Sep [Score:2]
cause I sure the fuck haven't! Yehaw!!

lilmookieesquire said @ 8:31pm GMT on 24th Sep
Hint: I'm a splody.

lilmookieesquire said @ 8:33pm GMT on 24th Sep
PS I've found the key to Tamps medicine chest.

G. W. Bush said @ 8:50pm GMT on 24th Sep
so you going to share or what ?

lilmookieesquire said @ 8:55pm GMT on 24th Sep
I think the pink one is grapefruit!

Baxter_UK said @ 9:22pm GMT on 24th Sep
Don't touch the fucking pink ones, they're mine.

Baxter_UK said @ 9:23pm GMT on 24th Sep
... and, they're, uh, candy.

swiggy said @ 10:07pm GMT on 24th Sep
Bend over, I'll show you a little pink one.

No, wait, that came out wrong.

Bob LLama said @ 10:18pm GMT on 24th Sep [Score:2]
Bend over, I'll make it come out wrong.

Lord Hypnos said @ 12:54am GMT on 25th Sep [Score:3]
Stay away from that damned wizard's glass.

valen85 said @ 8:58pm GMT on 24th Sep
It would be more satisfying if no one replied to you at all and I could watch you feel all awkward...
but i couldn't help but reply.

cb361 said @ 9:31pm GMT on 24th Sep
You should have some of the ones I've typed in, paused, and then clicked 'back' instead of 'post'.

Context said @ 5:12am GMT on 25th Sep
THE WHOLE THING?

swiggy said @ 10:09pm GMT on 24th Sep
That very nearly sounds like a porn I saw once.

Baxter_UK said @ 10:46pm GMT on 24th Sep
It sounds like nearly every porno I've seen.

bbqkink said @ 8:37pm GMT on 24th Sep
"and seek a delay in this week’s planned presidential debate, so that he could return to Washington to try to forge a consensus on a financial bailout package."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/us/politics/25mccain.html?em

-_- said @ 8:43pm GMT on 24th Sep
Between this and the way they have been keeping the press away from Palin I'm starting to wonder if the republicans have a new strategy.
Apparently Palin playing "hard to get" with the press isn't hurting their numbers any after all.
Maybe it's McCains turn to try it.

sythe said @ 12:20am GMT on 25th Sep
DING DING DING DING This is really just an excuse to talk to the press even less than he has been.

VictorTyne said @ 8:43pm GMT on 24th Sep
McCain to Obama:

"Please stop campaigning. It's really getting in the way of my plans to be President."

scojam said @ 8:43pm GMT on 24th Sep
Somebody should be asking publicly if this is going to delay the election and get things really roiling. The market needs more turmoil.

anger_die said @ 8:46pm GMT on 24th Sep
Holy shit, my heart skipped a beat thinking this is the greatest news I've heard all year. Then, after seeing that he's only baiting Obama and stealing his original concept, I see this as being one of the worst stories of the year. What the fuck is wrong with this country when we let people like this even close to a government seat?

bbqkink said @ 8:57pm GMT on 24th Sep
I have to admit I was wishful thinking when I read the caption.

pleaides said @ 1:37pm GMT on 25th Sep
me too... :(

sacrelicious said @ 9:02pm GMT on 24th Sep [Score:2 Insightful]
problem is no one ever saw it necessary before to include a provision in the constitution requiring candidates to temporarily give up their seat in whichever office they hold for the duration of their campaign. lack of foresight on the part of our founding fathers, but really, who could have guessed that somehow campaigning in the first place could be turned into a political liability?

the founding fathers just weren't sleazy enough to imagine that possibility, and many of them owned slaves! and had sex with their slaves! and children with their slaves who themselves became their slaves!

hellboy said @ 5:42am GMT on 25th Sep
Still not sleazy enough.

Jewbacchus said @ 8:59pm GMT on 24th Sep [Score:3 Informative]
Obama's response was on point: "A president should be able to handle the issues and communicate them to the American public at the same time. I don't see why we can't do more than one thing at a time"

Also: martial law is a 'comin

-_- said @ 9:08pm GMT on 24th Sep
Hey, he stole my idea ;)

webbery said @ 11:36pm GMT on 24th Sep
Wow - doesn't this deserve a post of its own?

The 1st BCT’s soldiers also will learn how to use “the first ever nonlethal package that the Army has fielded,” 1st BCT commander Col. Roger Cloutier said, referring to crowd and traffic control equipment and nonlethal weapons designed to subdue unruly or dangerous individuals without killing them.

“It’s a new modular package of nonlethal capabilities that they’re fielding. They’ve been using pieces of it in Iraq, but this is the first time that these modules were consolidated and this package fielded, and because of this mission we’re undertaking we were the first to get it.”

The package includes equipment to stand up a hasty road block; spike strips for slowing, stopping or controlling traffic; shields and batons; and, beanbag bullets.

Sure looks like martial law to me.

PoTayToe said @ 8:33am GMT on 25th Sep
Remember: We're fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here.

And also so the people over here can't see all the fancy new gadgets were practicing with.

CompletelyIrrelevant said @ 12:48pm GMT on 25th Sep [Score:1 Original]
Oh God I'm so sick of that shit.
I hate slogan politics, and I especially hate that line.

"We're fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here."
ARGH!!!
The 'terrorists' can't mount a credible military campaign against the US. The CAN'T invade, and if they did, what good would it do them?
All they can do to the US is commit 'terrorist' attacks, and the army doesn't fight that, Intelligence agencies do.
So what are the soldiers in Iraq doing?
Politely walking into threat range.
We're fighting them over there because it's hard for them to shoot us otherwise!

It's almost as bad as the people that invoke the soldiers who died in WW2 to protect our freedom of speech, to prevent people from exercising that very right.
Clue, don't use a noble sacrifice as an example if your argument renders that sacrifice meaningless

-_- said @ 9:01pm GMT on 24th Sep [Score:5 Funny]
I love the Fark headline for this ..

Image links to Fark comment thread.

lost said @ 9:14pm GMT on 24th Sep
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/black_guy_asks_nation_for_change

swiggy said @ 10:02pm GMT on 24th Sep
That wins SO DAMN HARD I'm actually semi erect right now.

Dioxin said @ 11:53pm GMT on 24th Sep
wait until you see the entire headline when you sit up.

JOECAM said @ 10:14pm GMT on 24th Sep [Score:1 Underrated]

-_- said @ 12:32am GMT on 25th Sep
FOLLOW UP

McCain: Scrap Friday Debate for Bailout;
Obama: The Debate is On

vahid said @ 9:17pm GMT on 24th Sep
here are some thoughts on the economy:

I'm against the $85,000,000,000.00 bailout of AIG.
Instead, I'm in favor of giving $85,000,000,000 to America in a "We Deserve It Dividend".
To make the math simple, let's assume there are 200,000,000 bonafide U.S. Citizens 18+.
Our population is about 301,000,000 +/- counting every man,
woman and child. So 200,000,000 might be a fair stab at adults 18 and up..
So divide 200 million adults 18+ into $85 billion that equals $425,000.00.
My plan is to give $425,000 to every person 18+ as a "We Deserve It Dividend".

Of course, it would NOT be tax free.
So let's assume a tax rate of 30%.
Every individual 18+ has to pay $127,500.00 in taxes.
That sends $25,500,000,000 right back to Uncle Sam.
But it means that every adult 18+ has $297,500.00 in their pocket.
A husband and wife has $595,000.00.
What would you do with $297,500.00 to $595,000.00 in your family?
Pay off your mortgage - housing crisis solved.
Repay college loans - what a great boost to new grads
Put away money for college - it'll be there
Save in a bank - create money to loan to entrepreneurs.
Buy a new car - create jobs
Invest in the market - capital drives growth
Pay for your parent's medical insurance - health care improves

Enable Deadbeat Dads to come clean - or else
Remember this is for every adult U S Citizen 18+ including the folks who lost their jobs at Lehman Brothers and every other company that is cutting back. And of course, for those serving in our Armed Forces.

Jewbacchus said @ 9:21pm GMT on 24th Sep
You're speaking as if they're even functioning under the pretense of this being for the American people.

vahid said @ 9:39pm GMT on 24th Sep
my mistake.

buckaroo50 said @ 9:24pm GMT on 24th Sep [Score:1 Informative]
I think you're a factor of 10 off there.

f00m@nB@r said @ 9:52pm GMT on 24th Sep
that's still not chump change.

ENZ said @ 2:09am GMT on 25th Sep
It's only $125 more than the "economic stimulus" mailed out last year, and that hardly fixed our economy...

f00m@nB@r said @ 3:42am GMT on 25th Sep
yeah. ignore me. i should know better than to talk without running the numbers, first.

iosef said @ 9:54pm GMT on 24th Sep
He IS a factor of 10 off.... in base one thousand.

buckaroo50 said @ 10:04pm GMT on 24th Sep [Score:-1]
Hehe..

vahid said @ 9:58pm GMT on 24th Sep
this was about AIG, and not about the 700 bil.

maryyugo said @ 4:55am GMT on 25th Sep
a factor of 10? Try 1000: 8.5*10E10 divided by 2.0*10E8 = 4.25 * 10E2, or $425.

vahid -- the se rocket scientist -- bend over: we'll show how to use a calculator.

valen85 said @ 9:58pm GMT on 24th Sep [Score:-5]
KFC Stock will be through the roof because black people will order a bucket of chicken each.

As in each person, each meal.

Saint_Marck said @ 10:31pm GMT on 24th Sep
What the fuck?

-_- said @ 10:43pm GMT on 24th Sep [Score:3 Insightful]

valen85 said @ 12:22am GMT on 25th Sep [Score:-5 WTF]
I was talking about Black people.

In your terms, Nignogs.

sacrelicious said @ 12:26am GMT on 25th Sep
he was talking about you.

valen85 said @ 5:07am GMT on 25th Sep [Score:-1 Troll]
oh i'm not white.
I like black people more than i like white people.

benjamander said @ 6:01am GMT on 25th Sep
boring troll is boring.

shiney things said @ 9:59pm GMT on 24th Sep [Score:3 Informative]
85 billion divided by 200 million is only $425, not $425,000

Anti-fuites said @ 2:29am GMT on 25th Sep
Sounds a lot like an economic stimulus package to me

k0k0peli said @ 3:00am GMT on 25th Sep
Why am I not feeling stimulated? Where is my blowjob? A stimulus gig should include a few blowjobs, shouldn't it? Or is it. "Bend over, I'll show you an economic stimulus package!" ?? Haven't the US people been 'stimulated' enough already?

ENZ said @ 3:53am GMT on 25th Sep
I'd say it's the lack of stimulation that's the problem. Ironic, considering how popular $6 cups of coffee are.

vahid said @ 10:01pm GMT on 24th Sep [Score:1]
note to self, don't copy/paste shit off the intrawebs.

iosef said @ 10:08pm GMT on 24th Sep
interesting fact: those figures would be approximately correct if the proposed bailout of AIG was worth 85 trillion in us dollars, which is substantially more than the combined GDP of the entire world in 2007.

f00m@nB@r said @ 9:21am GMT on 25th Sep
it's just paper. we'll print more!

anonyx said @ 10:26pm GMT on 24th Sep [Score:-1 Overrated]
Hell, with that kind of money we might be able to buy you a fucking eduction. $425.00 won't cut it, though.

maryyugo said @ 4:57am GMT on 25th Sep [Score:1]
perhaps you need a bit of spelling eduction?

ComposerNate said @ 9:22pm GMT on 24th Sep [Score:5 Funny]

f00m@nB@r said @ 9:25pm GMT on 24th Sep
what's that from?

ComposerNate said @ 9:49pm GMT on 24th Sep

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=677548

ComposerNate said @ 9:50pm GMT on 24th Sep
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=677548

-_- said @ 9:29pm GMT on 24th Sep
real?

f00m@nB@r said @ 9:52pm GMT on 24th Sep
doubtful.

King of the Hill said @ 10:01pm GMT on 24th Sep
given the other content... yah it is a spoof.

ComposerNate said @ 10:00pm GMT on 24th Sep
In a perfect world, yes, absolutely.

sacrelicious said @ 11:25pm GMT on 24th Sep
don't know about the full page ad, but the story of McCain using barracuda and Ann and Nancy being pissed because he did so without their permission or approval is real.

King of the Hill said @ 4:11am GMT on 25th Sep
Which is pretty funny as artists don't get to screen who is paying to license their works. It is really a free market in that respect. So to claim the McCain camp didn't have permission or ask permission is misleading.

tuba_man said @ 4:32am GMT on 25th Sep
Where'd you pull that one from?

f00m@nB@r said @ 4:57am GMT on 25th Sep
bend over...

k0k0peli said @ 10:50am GMT on 25th Sep
Yeah, sure, then you'll show us your 'permissions' and we'll all gag.

King of the Hill said @ 1:11pm GMT on 25th Sep
The fact that I worked for a company that also had a significant advertising and event marketing group. We were part Interpublic Group. Even when they were doing mock ups, they'd have to pay license for the songs they were using. There is no party that checks to make sure that the entity paying to license the track meets the political views of the artist.

vahid said @ 10:13pm GMT on 24th Sep [Score:1 WTF]
Goldman Sachs Group Inc., seeking to improve not only its balance sheet but its standing with investors, has undertaken a huge capital-raising program that includes an investment of at least $5 billion from Warren Buffett and a common stock offering for another $5 billion.

guess warren knows a huge bailout is coming and he's found himself a bargain.

Nihil said @ 11:05pm GMT on 24th Sep
It's quite bad when the fucking National Review is for the most part panning this move.

zkhan said @ 11:12pm GMT on 24th Sep
God DAMN it! Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?

zkhan said @ 11:16pm GMT on 24th Sep
Note: not an invitation to the fringenut Lords of Westmorland to actually rid me of this meddlesome priest

vahid said @ 11:12pm GMT on 24th Sep

EPT said @ 12:46am GMT on 25th Sep [Score:1 Insightful]
What is this 'triith'? Is it an alaskan delicacy made from polar bears?

vahid said @ 1:54am GMT on 25th Sep
that's tripe.

bbqkink said @ 12:05am GMT on 25th Sep
And if it turns out that the candidates must be present in the Senate on Friday, "We've both got big planes. We've painted our slogans on the sides of them. They can get us from Washington, D.C., to Mississippi fairly quickly."

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/24/obama_debate_should_go_on.html?hpid=topnews

Ifrit said @ 1:29am GMT on 25th Sep
WTF? American politics are so much more fun to read about. What was going on here in canada on TV with Canada's next top Prime Minister? Something about the a leader having 5000 art students living in his riding and a dude who wants everyone in Vancouver to speak French?

zkhan said @ 3:42am GMT on 25th Sep [Score:1 Funny]
Tell me more about this living in his riding.

anger_die said @ 3:48am GMT on 25th Sep
A mayor down here in Or. got sacked for posing for photos in her underwear at a fire station. A mayor in BC on the other hand posed naked for her husband in the mayor's office and no one seems to give two shits except us horny U.S. voyeurs.

Two different worlds.

k0k0peli said @ 9:33pm GMT on 25th Sep
pixpls?

brat#3 said @ 4:05am GMT on 25th Sep
Reading that fast I got the impression that the Canadian Prime Minister was going to be chosen via a reality TV show..

I would seriously watch a season of "Canada's Next Top Prime Minister."
Especially if Tyra was a judge.

justbeamensch said @ 4:27am GMT on 25th Sep
After he loses the election, he'll get a bundle from the diaper company. Is John having a good day? Depends.

teknokracy said @ 6:42am GMT on 25th Sep
Um, isn't Obama suspending his campaign too, then?

aganlex said @ 7:16am GMT on 25th Sep [Score:1 Funny]
Obama can multitask. He probably uses alt-tab.

f00m@nB@r said @ 9:20am GMT on 25th Sep
that's what she said.