The Obama campaign gleefully sends over an announcement of a major endorsement.... for John McCain... by Dick Cheney.
This isn't, perhaps, the story that McCain headquarters wants in the news, though the press is undoubtedly going to play it up. Cheney is, after all, the Vice President.
If there was one GOP official less liked than George Bush it is Cheney. His popularity remains only among the rabidly conservative base who - a year ago - chanted "four more years" when he spoke at the Conservative Political Action Committee conference in Washington D.C. - Huffington Post

LOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOL

It was a joke Asmo.
Mycroft--as much as I--wish the science budget was upped by ten fold.
Anyway, the vice-president has little power.

>> ^thain:
Hehe. It's funny because it's true.

Except that in this sketch, they portray Palin as someone who has an idea of what the Vice President's job is.

I love when you add an unnecessary addendum to your rants.

"This is why I don't think Nobamamarx should be blacking up the White House. And did I mention the Gulf of Tonkin?!"

>> ^quantumushroom:
Does Thrill Matthews really need a OBAMARX CAMPAIGN SPOKESMAN there to back him up? Can't do a simple "interview" without interjecting a (free) political commercial for the messiah and his boy blunder?
Makes both these men look laughably weak.

"There is no controlling legal authority that says this was in violation of law."
Actual Vice President Al Gore, who broke the law WHILE IN THE WHITE HOUSE

Section 607 of Title 18 of the U.S. Criminal Code

Does Thrill Matthews really need a OBAMARX CAMPAIGN SPOKESMAN there to back him up? Can't do a simple "interview" without interjecting a (free) political commercial for the messiah and his boy blunder?

Makes both these men look laughably weak.



"There is no controlling legal authority that says this was in violation of law."

Actual Vice President Al Gore, who broke the law* WHILE IN THE WHITE HOUSE


* Section 607 of Title 18 of the U.S. Criminal Code

Why the Republicans must Lose

Radley Balko makes the libertarian case for Obama as the lesser of two evils. It's a must-read for any center-right libertarian-inclined voter:

The Republican Party has exiled its Goldwater-Reagan wing and given up all pretense of any allegiance to limited government. In the last eight years, the GOP has given us a monstrous new federal bureaucracy in the Department of Homeland Security. In the prescription drug benefit, it's given us the largest new federal entitlement since the Johnson administration. Federal spending—even on items not related to war or national security—has soared. And we now get to watch as the party that's supposed to be "free market" nationalizes huge chunks of the economy's financial sector...

While I'm not thrilled at the prospect of an Obama administration (especially with a friendly Congress), the Republicans still need to get their clocks cleaned in two weeks, for a couple of reasons. First, they had their shot at holding power, and they failed.

They've failed in staying true to their principles of limited government and free markets. They've failed in preventing elected leaders of their party from becoming corrupted by the trappings of power, and they've failed to hold those leaders accountable after the fact. Congressional Republicans failed to rein in the Bush administration's naked bid to vastly expand the power of the presidency (a failure they're going to come to regret should Obama take office in January). They failed to apply due scrutiny and skepticism to the administration's claims before undertaking Congress' most solemn task—sending the nation to war. I could go on.

As for the Bush administration, the only consistent principle we've seen from the White House over the last eight years is that of elevating the American president (and, I guess, the vice president) to that of an elected dictator. That isn't hyperbole. This administration believes that on any issue that can remotely be tied to foreign policy or national security (and on quite a few other issues as well), the president has boundless, limitless, unchecked power to do anything he wants. They believe that on these matters, neither Congress nor the courts can restrain him.

That's the second reason the GOP needs to lose. American voters need to send a clear, convincing repudiation of these dangerous ideas.

But isn't the title a bit misleading? She discusses it? Granted, there is not evisceration, decimation, destroying or other warcraftian annihilation, but she discusses it.

Her understanding of preconditions is a bit off. She says "You have to have a strategy" and of course, but that's no a precondition.

I'm not only sure she is not competent to be vice president, I fear she's not competent to do an interview.

>> ^deedub81:
The Vice President may also be assigned additional duties by the president but, as the Constitution assigns no executive powers to the vice president, in performing such duties he or she acts only as an agent of the president.



Damn straight deedub.

And Tweety was sincerely at his best in this segment. He's pissed, and looking for a senate seat in 2010, and I'm loving every minute of it.

"We'll talk about this after the election." -- ha!!

The Vice President may also be assigned additional duties by the president but, as the Constitution assigns no executive powers to the vice president, in performing such duties he or she acts only as an agent of the president.

"During the twentieth century, the role of the vice president has evolved into more of an executive branch position. Now, the vice president is usually seen as an integral part of a president's administration and presides over the Senate only on ceremonial occasions or when a tie-breaking vote may be needed."

- http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Vice_President.htm

Does Sarah Palin seriously think she is going to redefine the current accepted role of the VP in relation to his/her senate duties? In what is almost certainly going to be a democratic party controlled senate to boot!

LMAO!!!!

Turns out that Joe Wurzelbacher from the Toledo event is a close relative of Robert Wurzelbacher of Milford, Ohio. Who’s Robert Wurzelbacher? Only Charles Keating’s son-in-law and the former senior vice president of American Continental, the parent company of the infamous Lincoln Savings and Loan. The now retired elder Wurzelbacher is also a major contributor to Republican causes giving well over $10,000 in the last few years.

http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/joe-plumber-more-joe-keating-family-

Joe the Plumber^TM for Vice President!



*news

In reply to this comment by paul4dirt:
yeah - its dead again. sadly, it was already a copy bc the original was removed, now this one too. according to the original updater, it should be up online again soon: update on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6SJvxwUFt4

In reply to this comment by dotdude:
Your video got pulled.

http://parody.videosift.com/video/Vice-President-Sarah-Palin-ft-John-McCain

566 views in a couple hours for a random girl wrestling a random boy while (for example) lykke li and bon iver get only 20 views in more than a day? :'(

maybe i should spam more? (even http://www.videosift.com/video/Vice-President-Sarah-Palin-ft-John-McCain gets only 6 views from logged in members)

Agreed.
And so begins my campaign for Long for a channel '08!

I humbly accept, here today, your nomination, for moderation of the Long channel!
I commmit to ensuring the channel has proper 10minute-minimum videos, to the second, no less. For sifters, everywhere.

Hear that Swampgirl? CoffeeMug for vice-president / co-moderator!