Sunday Funnies

Senators Obama and McCain at the Alfred E. Smith Charity Dinner

Senator McCain is actually pretty funny.

John McCain throws President Bush under the bus

"The last eight years haven't worked very well, have they?...Your savings, your job and your financial security are under siege. Washington is making it worse - bankrupting us with their spending"




Now that's what I call straight talk.

Gossip Girls being mean to McCain

So let me tell you a lil bit about me; I LOVE television series, absolutely love them. Well not all, actually only a few, but I really love the ones I love. Supposedly Gossip Girls is a lovable series to many of you "folks"(said with a Sarah Palin accent) out in changeland. I've haven't had the pleasure of catching any episodes but I see their billboards up around town and hear about watch parties so I figured you guys and gals would enjoy this:

28 Days Later

When we wake up twenty-eight days from today, our nation will be on the precipice of change. This will be the first major paradigm shift of the Twenty-First Century. The sliding plates above our ground but below the surface, the final count of our votes, will resonate high on the Richter scale for half of our country. The energy release will be universal after the long campaign process, but the momentum that has swept many into civic responsibility could be stifled if the president-elect represents an America that half of its citizens do not have faith in.

Like Danny Boyle’s film, 28 Days Later, there is a possibility of a morale breakdown of some citizens following the accidental release of a highly contagious virus. The virus? Change. Change is contagious and it is a process that cannot be reversed, although its path can be redirected…forded like a river. If the passion and momentum of this year’s election is a result of a true desire to see a change in our society – there will be one. If the intensity citizens are feeling are tied to campaigns and/or ideological representations presented by individuals running for office: a war veteran who can keep us safe (I will not use the word “Maverick” … damn, I just did), a Black man who reflects the core ethos of our society, or a woman who will keep us entertained (and Tina Fey PAID!) – a sense of betrayal could be felt if their candidate, and idea of America, does not win and they will continue to lose faith in our government. Currently, only 9% of Americans are satisfied with the way things are going in America according to the latest Gallup poll. But which America will we choose to support?

I’m no futurist. I just took a class on futurism. What will happen in twenty-eight days? We will have a new President-Elect. Will there be a public reaction? Absolutely. The change we are currently experiencing is the result of all the radical and hopeful schools of thought formed through the experiences of Baby Boomers. Have no fear. Rest assured that your Agents here at ALBC will be here to help you cope with whatever the result of the election is…and long after. We have always been committed to contributing the collective thought that will shape the next 28 years of American History. Check our track record. Change has always been here; we’re just now coming of age.

The Ring in the Cookie Jar

Back when he was Congressman McCain, he was also a member of the Keating Five. You ask who/what is the Keating Five; great, because we have the answer.

From Wikipedia:

The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The five senators, Alan Cranston (D-CA), Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ), John Glenn (D-OH), John McCain (R-AZ), and Donald W. Riegle (D-MI), were accused of improperly intervening in 1987 on behalf of Charles H. Keating, Jr., chairman of the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, which was the target of a regulatory investigation by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB). The FHLBB subsequently backed off taking action against Lincoln.

Lincoln Savings and Loan collapsed in 1989, at a cost of $2 billion to the federal government. Some 23,000 Lincoln bondholders were defrauded and many elderly investors lost their life savings. The substantial political contributions that Keating had made to each of the senators, totalling $1.3 million, attracted considerable public and media attention.

Words are nice, quite nice. But videos bring it home. So here's a video about the Keating Five scandal courtesy of Obama for America

Facebook Feelings II

BH: is thinking Gergen hit it on the head: It's too early to declare victory because Barack is black. Black = -6 pts!"

LA: Question from the internet--McCain looks toward the seats on the right looking for a woman named Internet.

SRW: is wondering why McCain would assume that man don't know who Fannie Mae is. YOU LOSE, T-Rex!

TT: is referring to his colleagues as "that one" from now on.

SK: Conservative Bill Bennett, "The strength of McCain's story just isn't matched by a strong campaign. He needed to win tonight and didn't."

CR: thinks David Gergen finally said what I've been saying at http://vexedinthecity.wordpress.com.

RB: will be so happy when "that one" is in the White House!

MMT: wants to tell McCain that he isn't his friend--unless McCain establishes a nice little trust for him or unless Cindy will get him some happy pills.

NM: wishes I was a blogger right now because this fool McCain and his "keep my hands behind my back" wife...OMG!!! SHAKE A HAND!!!

ATIV: is "That One".....

BH: is thinking that McCain refused to shake Obama's hand after calling him "that one". REALLY? UGH!

AP: is so over the circular, non-substantial, misquoted, cynical, disrespectfulness of that which is McCain.

GT: is voting for "THAT ONE!"

CN: thinks the debate would have been better if McCain hadn't thought he was competing on America's Crankiest Oldster.

***plenty more after the jump***

HP: is sorta creeped out by John McCain and loves Michelle Obama.

HOO: thinks that after tonight's presidential debate, she now understands Federalist Paper 10.

SG: wait, wasn't a town hall supposed to FAVOR mccain?

ME: says "I am not McCain's friend and I wish he would stop calling me so."

DCM: OMG!!!...one of Madame Tussauds wax statues has gotten loose and is now debating Obama. Where are the Tennessee State Troopers!?

AM: is omg- teddy roosevelt? reagan ok but come on.

SJ: is not happy with McCain misquoting Teddy Roosevelt! Damn it McCain..dont u remember the cartoon!!

DC: is laughing that all his friends have status messages that say John McCain is not their friend.

JS: does not like the sound of McCain's voice.....sorry 'my friend.'

SH: knows that she is not John McCain's "friend."

MH: is counting McCain's "my friends."

AG: ain't your friend, Johnny.

SRM: says a certain older man should be glad I'm clerking and can't comment on politics!! This "debate" in infuriating...

IS: "Tom, can I respond to this foolishness?"

DBG: if your not watching the debates, kill ya self, lol, but get it together.

Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bombed the Debate

Ol Johnnie Boy, you're one of a kind.

The Ackward Post

Politically incorrect? most likely
Funny? kinda
Do we hope her directive is followed? Yeah
Do we feel ackward posting this? Hell yeah...but we're doing it anyway.

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