IMO, the election this year is as simple as the 1964 election.

Obama = a chance to survive, even thrive

Palin = nuclear war and the end of the world

This should be our simple message.

The bubba factor.....ready for a repeat?


Nation's Poor Win Election For Nation's Rich


The economically disadvantaged segment of the U.S. population provided the decisive factor in another presidential election last Tuesday, handing control of the government to the rich and powerful once again.


"The Republican party—the party of industrial mega-capitalists, corporate financiers, power brokers, and the moneyed elite—would like to thank the undereducated rural poor, the struggling blue-collar workers in Middle America, and the God-fearing underpriviledged minorities who voted George W. Bush back into office," Karl Rove, senior advisor to Bush, told reporters at a press conference Monday. "You have selflessly sacrificed your well-being and voted against your own economic interest. For this, we humbly thank you."

Added Rove: "You have acted beyond the call of duty—or, for that matter, good sense."

According to Rove, the Republicans found strong support in non-urban areas populated by the people who would have benefited most from the lower-income tax cuts and social-service programs championed by Kerry. Regardless of their own interests, these citizens turned out in record numbers to elect conservatives into office at all levels of the government.

"My family's been suffering ever since I lost my job at the screen-door factory, and I haven't seen a doctor for well on four years now," said father of four Buddy Kaldrin of Eerie, CO. "Shit, I don't even remember what a dentist's chair looks like... Basically, I'd give up if it weren't for God's grace. So it's good to know we have a president who cares about religion, too."

Kaldrin added: "That's why I always vote straight-ticket Republican, just like my daddy did, before he lost the farm and shot himself in the head, and just like his daddy did, before he died of black-lung disease in the company coal mines."

Kaldrin was one of many who listed moral issues among their primary reasons for voting Republican.

"Our society is falling apart—our treasured values are under attack by terrorists," said Ellen Blaine of Givens, OH, a tiny rural farming community as likely to be attacked by terrorists as it is to be hit by a meteor. "We need someone with old-time morals in the White House. I may not have much of anything in this world, but at least I have my family."

"John Kerry is a flip-flopper," she continued. "I saw it on TV. Who knows what terrible things might've happened to my sons overseas if he'd been put in charge?"

Kerry supporters also turned out in large numbers this year, but they were outnumbered by those citizens who voted for Bush.

"The alliance between the tiny fraction at the top of the pyramid and the teeming masses of mouth-breathers at its enormous base has never been stronger," a triumphant Bush said. "We have an understanding, them and us. They help us stay rich, and in return, we help them stay poor. See? No matter what naysayers may think, the system works."

Added Bush: "God bless America's backwards hicks, lunchpail-toting blockheads, doddering elderly, and bumpity-car-driving Spanish-speakers."

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30774

I thought the second Bush term was supposed to be the end of the world.

Frank Rich said something about how Obama should show us what the future looks like. I thought that was a grand idea. But Obama still needs to pound McCain/Bush over the economy WHILE he's showing the undecideds pictures.

Bush was just the finishing touches on the coffin the Republicans have been building for American Democracy for the last 40 years. McCain will be the nails, and Palin will be the pyre upon which it is burned, along with a number of interesting books.

The best thing is, that when we trounce them, we will be rid of both Magoo and scarah. forever. I bet he get's voted out upon his loss, and she will be served with divorce papers because Toad found a hot chick while on the snowmachine circuit.

If you have been paying attention to the financial news the last year (it's continuing and getting worse) and the fact that if the scandinavian countries hadn't held secret meetings with the main leaders of the fighting groups in Iraq resulting in a ceasefire (which the USA is crediting to the surge) and the NIE report saying Iran had quit their nuke program and that the rest of NATO recognized what the Bushies were up to and didn't allow Georgia in, and if Chavez wasn't so open with the CIA's efforts to wipe him out etcetera, etcetera,.

Bush's term is the end of the world for a lot of Americans with mortgages, with 401k's, working in the banking biz, having jobs outsourced, insourced....and could have created so much more chaos in the world if they hadn't been cut off by facts........but I digress...........

Of course a third McBush term would be...................?

Given that Enron-linked former senator, McCain economic advisor, and mortgage-industry-specializing banking lobbyist Phil Gramm has been credited as mover and shaker behind the very law that allowed the current financial meltdown to happen, I'd love to hear what McCain and Gramm think should be done to solve this crisis.

As of yet, of course, their only response is to deny that any of it is significant. No problem, everything's fine. Sure, people are losing their homes to foreclosure; sure, investors are being wiped out. But hey, aside from that, everything's peachy.

Nonetheless... since McCain has indeed pegged Gramm as "one of the smartest person in the world" when it comes to economics, I'm dying to find out what Phil Gramm thinks should be done to fix the problem that Phil Gramm and the other lets-deregulate-everything Republicans helped create.

McCain economic policy shaped by lobbyist

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24844889/

and

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/1.../517/496/599528

and

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html...752C0A9649C8B63

and

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/1.../011/623/599425

You linked to a story on The Onion?
Great website but its all satire.
I agree about "the Bubba factor", but come on, you had to have read that story and told yourself that it was over the top. Right?