This debate was much less painful to watch. Transcript, after the jump!
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Liveblogging Sarah Failin
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008Bailout, plus foreign policy bits
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008- Barack Obama, John McCain, and Joe Biden, along with the rest of the Senate except Ted Kennedy, were in town for the bailout vote this evening. The text of the Senate resolution, which was approved 74-25, can be found here.
- We don’t feel expert enough to opine at great length about the bailout at this moment; what we will report is that the biggest portion of the student population here at Harvard College, including the editorial staff of the Crimson, seems to be in favor. We note that this is totally expected.
- Various events in international politics are surely slipping past many people’s radars due to the current financial crisis:
- The Senate decided to take care of some other random business before the bailout vote (because figured that Barack and John Sidney couldn’t hightail it out of there before they cast their yea for that?), like passing some motion for the railroad safety bill (more random tidbit: Joe Biden didn’t vote on that motion) that got a boost from the recent L.A. train wreck, and the U.S.-India nuclear deal, which was ratified 86-13.
- Potentially, India is our new China. (but who are the new Henry Kissinger and Zhou Enlai?) Depending on how the bilateral relationship pans out over the years, this could end up as the-one-universally praised-accomplishment-by-an-otherwise-terrible-president, i.e., exactly how Nixon is remembered with regards to his China policy.
- On the other hand, North Korea was in the news again—Christopher Hill (who is now more famous in Korea than Coca Cola) is in Pyongyang trying to save the disarmament deal after the North Koreans started rebuilding their nuclear facilities.
The ghost of Strom Thurmond returns from beyond, filibusters Senate bill on financial bailout.
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008…and this time he doesn’t have to go pee.
Take Your Dad to CBS Interview Day
Monday, September 29th, 2008Since basically everyone agrees that Sarah Palin bombed her first CBS interview and her initial folksy appeal dwindles daily, the McCain campaign today brought John McCain and Palin together to hold a joint interview with Katie Couric (read: Palin really screwed up). Behold how our once future president from the year 2000 blames “gotcha journalism” for Palin’s apparent gaffe:
Given that we are less than a week from the only VP debate, the campaign has sent Palin to McCain Intro 101 debate camp to make sure she can say things other than Alaska is next to Russia. We at K/P remember fondly our time in summer camps years ago…making friends, roasting marshmallows, and preparing to debate Joe Biden on foreign policy and the economy. We hope that by the end of camp she will realize she made a mistake and confused John McCain for Ron Paul.
We will liveblog the VP debate, probably from Mather House or Wasillastan. Stay tuned!
Sarah Palin doesn’t need to talk about the middle class. She is the middle class.
Saturday, September 6th, 2008…said somebody, some McCain surrogate giving an interview on MSNBC before the start of the fourth and final day of the RNC.
America’s new VPILF successfully blew off that pregnant-daughter thing; bringing that son-in-law-to-be on stage after her address seemed to pretty much seal it away, by showing Palin engaging in one of the finest traditions of middle American women:
…making a poor in-law’s life miserable. Seriously. Drag him out in front of 40 million Americans on prime-time television (we’re not talking Oprah here—oh God Sarah Palin wasn’t thinking of trotting out her kids on the Oprah show?) where the “elite media” is sure to point to his face with neon-sign caption “the baby’s father.” Does even John Edwards deserve that?* And even disregarding the baby thing, if America weren’t at the mercy of our beloved middle-class gals, the Bill of Rights would be eleven amendments long, and one of them would say that no man shall be compelled to present himself at a girlfriend’s family’s political convention. Well, something like that, maybe with broader language to protect every law-abiding citizen from situations of extreme awkwardness before an extended/quasi family and their 40 million friends.
But we digress. How about that other middle-class women thing, the part about having to make your ex’s life miserable? Unfortunately she can’t engage in this time-honored activity because she has been happily married to a high-school sweetheart (oh god)… or can she?
Remember, choosing Sarah Palin was McBRILLIANT (it must be true because you heard it on the Rush Limbaugh show). That can only mean that she is also McBRILLIANT; and yes, America, Sarah Palin has pursued a McBRILLIANT plan to allow her to “double down” on her appeal as the embodiment of the working middle-class American woman: she tried to ruin a ex-in-law’s life.
Hence we Sarah Palin fans can rest assured that troopergate is yet another step in her McBRILLIANT strategy of generating a barrage of “false flag” scandals in order to distract the evil media while highlighting and “doubling down” on her all-American character.
Also none of this matters because Sarah Palin is smoking hot.
*He does, actually.
Liveblogging WALNUTS!
Thursday, September 4th, 2008John S. McCain officially nominated, we get no LOLZ
Thursday, September 4th, 2008Ron Paul received five votes and Mitt Romney got two. Then someone made a call for “unanimous support,” the hundreds of Ron Paul supporters/secret delegates never appeared, and John S. McCain was nominated to less-than-thundering hoorays (what is the deal with this “S” stuff, anyways?). There was one moment during Sarah Palin’s speech when security removed a woman doing the peace sign from the convention center, but she was probably lost or something.
We will liveblog McCain’s speech tomorrow. Stay tuned!