I can't believe "Ahh, there's a spider on your back!" didn't make it. Even "And they want to give them constitutional rights (BOOOOO BOOOOO)" was cut. Ah well.

"Where's my gay prostitute?" strangely missing.

Twenty reminders of shear idiocy.

The number one quote isn't even from your nominee? If that doesn't tell you how boring and sleep inducing that speech last night was nothing will.

"In politics, there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers. And then there are those, like John McCain, who use their careers to promote change."

You can't run on a platform of "change" (lol obamaniacs suxxorz) when your party has been in charge the last eight years and you've supported Bush 95% of the time.

Also, what no "DRILL BABY DRILL"?

Pffft.

I should be more surprised the "best" quotes from the convention all contain empty rhetoric and no policy or even suggestions of ideas.

that has to be the most angry convention that i've ever seen from an incumbent party. i was half expecting an effigy of obama to be lowered from the rafters, covered in texas crude, and lit aflame with an american flag zippo.

"Drill, baby, Drill!" didn't make it?

Odd. I thought that was the defining quote...

GAT_00: I should be more surprised the "best" quotes from the convention all contain empty rhetoric and no policy or even suggestions of ideas.

That's because according to McCain's campaign manager, this election isn't about issues.

smeegle: Twenty reminders of shear idiocy.

IRONIC tag.

Ten posts without someone drinking from a sprinkler?

These sound bites are such a pathetic collection of hypocrisy, spin, and hot air that I'm still trying to figure out if this is intended as satire or not.

If it's NOT, it's even funnier.

Now, being a POW certainly doesn't qualify anyone to be President. But it does reveal character.

How so?

I'll admit to not knowing the specifics of McCain capture -- which may reveal character -- but simply *being* a POW does nothing to reveal character.

If he was captured trying to rescue/protect his wounded comrades, then that reveals character. Though I suppose if he was captured, pants full of his own shiat, running away from battle that reveals character, too.

Needs more

i also think the crowd should get honorable mention for cheering and booing at awkwardly incongruous times.

oldfarthenry: `You got splooge on mah banjo!'

I laughed.

Lundah: That's because according to McCain's campaign manager, this election isn't about issues.

Obviously, because if it were, Obama wouldn't even be able to put up a fight. Rudy Giuliani summed up the biggest issues the blind American public is focusing on, best:

"Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy."

Hey submitter! HURRR!!1!

thomps
that has to be the most angry convention that i've ever seen from an incumbent party. i was half expecting an effigy of obama to be lowered from the rafters, covered in texas crude, and lit aflame with an american flag zippo.

Awesome. That would play great with the base. The GOP should hire you for their next convention!

1) "Now our opponents tell you not to worry about their tax increases.

They tell you they are not going to tax your family.

No, they're just going to tax "businesses"! So unless you buy something from a "business", like groceries or clothes or gasoline ... or unless you get a paycheck from a big or a small "business", don't worry ... it's not going to affect you." -- Fred Thompson

I hate hate hate hate hate HATE the bullshiat "more taxes on businesses means higher prices" stance. If businesses would actually PAY their taxes instead of skipping through loopholes and they actually passed on savings to consumers, this would be a moot point.

But let's face it folks...businesses nowadays exist more to separate you and me from our money than to provide a product or service. Whenever ANY business incurs an additional cost, it's ALWAYS passed on to the consumer. When they lower the cost or operate more efficiently, the savings is NEVER passed on to the consumer. It's all about the company's stock price...which in turn is all about the rich folks keeping their money.

So, 20 strawmen arguments and lies, yes?

::checks::

Yup.

While we're quoting strawmen:



I haven't got a brain... only straw.

But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking... don't they?

I'm not afraid of her. I'm not afraid of anything - except a lighted match.

I've got a way to get us in there, and you're gonna lead us.

And, of course:

Oil can what?

ZachF81:

Lundah: That's because according to McCain's campaign manager, this election isn't about issues.

Obviously, because if it were, Obama wouldn't even be able to put up a fight. Rudy Giuliani summed up the biggest issues the blind American public is focusing on, best:

"Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy."

There's an insane amount of idiocy in what you just said.

If McCain beats Obama on the issues then why are they saying the campaign isn't about issues?

Head, asplode.

WalkingCarpet: If McCain beats Obama on the issues then why are they saying the campaign isn't about issues?

Cool, a question that anwers itself!

I watched a few seconds of it and was sickened. The psychological feast of old men and flag-humping war fetish bullshiat was just too much. The republicans represent the dark side of America.

WalkingCarpet: There's an insane amount of idiocy in what you just said.

If McCain beats Obama on the issues then why are they saying the campaign isn't about issues?

Head, asplode.

It would seem that way when you look at the the campaigns quote out of context, as it is always presented on Fark. They say the election isn't about issues, meaning that a large percentage of voters are voting for reasons more shallow than the true issues at hand. They're not saying that is their campaign strategy, just how a large amount of voters, most of whom support Obama, are looking at the election

1. POW!
2. Obama sucks!
3. POW!
4. [lie about Obama]
5. POW!
6. [lie about Obama]
7. POW!
8. Obama sucks!
9. POW!
10. Obama sucks!
11. McCain is awesome!
12. [lie about Biden]
13. POW!
14. Obama sucks!
15. POW!
16. [lie about Obama]
17. POW!
18. [lie about Obama]
19. POW!
20. Obama sucks!

pootsie: WalkingCarpet: If McCain beats Obama on the issues then why are they saying the campaign isn't about issues?

Cool, a question that anwers itself!

What I meant was that if he's saying McCain beats Obama on the issues then why isn't the McCain campaign focusing on the issues?

All I hear from the McCain camp is:
9/11
Moose burgers
Vagina
POW
Liberals

Lionel Mandrake: 1. POW!
2. Obama sucks!
3. POW!
4. [lie about Obama]
5. POW!
6. [lie about Obama]
7. POW!
8. Obama sucks!
9. POW!
10. Obama sucks!
11. McCain is awesome!
12. [lie about Biden]
13. POW!
14. Obama sucks!
15. POW!
16. [lie about Obama]
17. POW!
18. [lie about Obama]
19. POW!
20. Obama sucks!

You forgot "9/11".

WalkingCarpet: If McCain beats Obama on the issues

How can we make a determination? Both sides have been pretty lean on offering up any hard details.

1. WAR
2. VIETNAM
3. OBAMA SUX
4. WAR
5. WAR
6. OBAMA SUX
7. WAR
8. WAR SOLVES EVERYTHING
9. WAR 4 EVER
10. I'M PSYCHOLOGICALLY BOUND IN WWII
11. MY VP HAS A PUSSY
12. WAR
13. WAR
14. TURRISTS, WAR
15. WAR
16. OBAMA SUX
17. WAR IS SO GREAT I WANT TO HUMP IT
18. WAR
19. OBAMA SUX
20. WAR

Their rhetoric and narrative stink, and they stink bad.

Lundah: You forgot "9/11".

oops...that wonderful video they showed really should have been at #1. That was my mostest favoritist part of ALL.

Lundah:

How can we make a determination? Both sides have been pretty lean on offering up any hard details.

Well, I'm biased but I heard more talk about the issues at the DNC than I heard at the RNC.

I can't see anyone who watched both coming away with the idea that the Republicans talked about the issues more.

All they talked about is how awesome Sarah Palin is because she has a working vagina, how much liberals, people living in cities, community organizers suck, 9/11 and how great a president McCain will be because he's a POW.

WalkingCarpet: You can't run on a platform of "change" (lol obamaniacs suxxorz) when your party has been in charge the last eight years and you've supported Bush 95% of the time.

Actualy, the GOP was in charge for six and the Dems have had the last two. Both have supported Bush 95% of the time so it's really not worth debating.

"Is that Geezer Rock?"

"Turn it up, man!"

Crosshair:

so it's really not worth debating.

So is it written, so let it not be debated.

WalkingCarpet: Lundah:

How can we make a determination? Both sides have been pretty lean on offering up any hard details.

Well, I'm biased but I heard more talk about the issues at the DNC than I heard at the RNC.

I can't see anyone who watched both coming away with the idea that the Republicans talked about the issues more.

All they talked about is how awesome Sarah Palin is because she has a working vagina, how much liberals, people living in cities, community organizers suck, 9/11 and how great a president McCain will be because he's a POW.

Yup. I understand that conventions aren't supposed to be about issues and everything, and part of the point is to rally the base (in that sense both were pretty successful).

But the Independent/undecided voter that watched the Conventions is going to come away with a radically different view of each. And I think that will benefit Obama.

We'll see.

#15 was the best line of the convention. #16 and #11 were great as well. The rest were typical.

Crosshair:

Actualy, the GOP was in charge for six and the Dems have had the last two. Both have supported Bush 95% of the time so it's really not worth debating.

I wasn't talking about Democrats when I made the 95% comment, that was directed at McCain.

And I'd like to see that 95% figure as it relates to the Democratic Congress supporting Bush. I know those spineless pussies have rolled over for him but that number doesn't sound right at all.

Either way, McCain shouldn't be co-opting any theme about change so my point still stands.

DeltaXi65: #15 was the best line of the convention. #16 and #11 were great as well. The rest were typical.

16) "I'm not running for president because I think I'm blessed with such personal greatness that history has anointed me to save our country in its hour of need. My country saved me. My country saved me, and I cannot forget it. And I will fight for her for as long as I draw breath, so help me God." -- John McCain

If you can show me where Obama said anything remotely like this, I'll agree. This is a BS line like the rest.

And the whole "Obama is in it because of persona ambition" argument is null and void.

"I didn't decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to be president. . . . In truth, I'd had the ambition for a long time." (Worth Fighting For, by John McCain).

smeegle: Twenty reminders of shear idiocy.

Shear Idiocy = Running with Scissors.

Crosshair: WalkingCarpet: You can't run on a platform of "change" (lol obamaniacs suxxorz) when your party has been in charge the last eight years and you've supported Bush 95% of the time.

Actualy, the GOP was in charge for six and the Dems have had the last two. Both have supported Bush 95% of the time so it's really not worth debating.

Hum, Bush hasn't been president the last two years? You've got a little explaining to do.

Heck, I was in college before I found out it wasn't supposed to hurt to take a shower." -- Mike Huckabee

He discovered soap on a rope in college?

Lionel Mandrake: If you can show me where Obama said anything remotely like this, I'll agree. This is a BS line like the rest.

And the whole "Obama is in it because of persona ambition" argument is null and void.


Haven't you figured it out, yet?

Republicans = Creationists

Both rely on the public not paying attention to truth. Both rely on utter strawmen. Both ignore when their arguments have been rebutted and simply go on repeating the same old lines. Both are religously motivated with a veneer of public policy. Both require either stupidity, ignorance, or lying.

Same damn thing.

POW, September 11th...that's 9/11, POW POW POW, Great State of Alaska, POW, 9/11, Change, Maverick, POW.

Oh, that's 11.

Bonkthat_Again: 1) "Now our opponents tell you not to worry about their tax increases.

They tell you they are not going to tax your family.

No, they're just going to tax "businesses"! So unless you buy something from a "business", like groceries or clothes or gasoline ... or unless you get a paycheck from a big or a small "business", don't worry ... it's not going to affect you." -- Fred Thompson

I hate hate hate hate hate HATE the bullshiat "more taxes on businesses means higher prices" stance. If businesses would actually PAY their taxes instead of skipping through loopholes and they actually passed on savings to consumers, this would be a moot point.

But let's face it folks...businesses nowadays exist more to separate you and me from our money than to provide a product or service. Whenever ANY business incurs an additional cost, it's ALWAYS passed on to the consumer. When they lower the cost or operate more efficiently, the savings is NEVER passed on to the consumer. It's all about the company's stock price...which in turn is all about the rich folks keeping their money.

Thanks for validating his statement so well.

amindtat: Heck, I was in college before I found out it wasn't supposed to hurt to take a shower." -- Mike Huckabee

He discovered soap on a rope in college?

C'mon, I hate Huckabees, but that line was funny.

/learned at an early age not to scrub balls with Lava soap.

GAT_00: I should be more surprised the "best" quotes from the convention all contain empty rhetoric and no policy or even suggestions of ideas.

I know! It's like they took their cue from the DNC, or something.