Liveblogging The RNC – Day Four

Damn it. I forgot to refill my valium!

And I’m out of wine…Let’s start on a happy note – the Obama campaign has raised over $8 million since Caribou Barbie’s speech last night. Well done everyone!

Before the fun begins, let me sneak in here and give you a great big hug and a thank you!!!You have a stronger stomach for the media than I do, Bob. This week I’ve laid low, trying to maintain the optimism and hope from the DNC, which now seems like ages ago.I can’t get past the hate, the racism, the hypocrisy, the pretzel logic, the lack of compassion demonstrated by the other party and their MSM enablers. Thank god, you can!! Keep on ‘em, Bob.Your loyal friend,~K

I LOVE Rachel Maddow–she just made Stephen Hayes look foolish–can’t wait for her show. He just made a number of false or misleading assertions, and she was there to call him on every one. Ahhhhhhh, the truth–what a concept.

Trace Adkins – star of the upcoming blockbuster “American Carol”, right? And it begins…

Maddow rules!Okay, I’ve got my Obama Underoos-and-bra and beer (and was one of the 130k to make another donation today after I recovered from the crap shoveled at me last night–shrilly in some cases). I rarely drink. I think, for my mental health, that I will have to either watch this shite solo or only do the live blog. Since the live blog and drinking are not a good mix, I may be in the hot tub alone. Damn.

McCain is scheduled to speak between 9 and 10pm after his video.I suppose any later would be past his bedtime.

Caribou Barbie ……….. priceless!

Ah, the masochists queue up for another one… And I’m out of bourbon… Not sure if I’ll make it thru… So much bullshit and so little time to debunk it.But alas, the truth-seekers are once again united at the brilliant Mr. Bob Cesca’s blog…Cheers friends!Let the memes begin!

Here we go again with Democrats blocking “driil, baby, drill! After 1 1/2 years of a slim majority in the House and a virtually non-existent majority in the Senate we Dems are responsible for high gas prices!Please! Shoot me!

Everyone heard the uppity comment today right?

Brad – oh yeah. I was worried we’d reach election day without a Republican elected official using the word “uppity” to describe Obama, but they never let me down!

Ensign praising Saint Reagan!That’s a pig we’re long overdue to take the lipstick off of!Reagan was no saint! He ran this country into the toilet we’re still in!Clinton gave us a small reprieve, but otherwise we’re still headed into the crapper!

Wait a second – He’s starting his speech at 9:11 his time??? ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME??I’m sorry – this constant use of 9/11 for political gain is disgusting. This is just ridiculous.

And here’s Colbert showing America what a special kind of moron Lynn Westmoreland (the rep from GA that used “uppity” to describe the Obama’s) really is!CLASSIC!http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/videos.jhtml?videoId=70730

How come people from Alaska don’t say “of America” when they say “United States”? I noticed that twice in Palin’s speech yesterday and the Alaska delegate just did the same thing. Is that some kind of code for the Independence Party?

“I’m sorry – this constant use of 9/11 for political gain is disgusting. This is just ridiculous.”amaraya,Especially when you consider that the warning to Bush about an impending attack was met by, “All right. You’ve covered your ass, now.”It’s like saying, “we’ve fucked you every time you’ve needed our help, let us do it some more”!

OMG. Now they want us to drill holes into their heads.

Here’s a guy talking about how caribou will snuggle up to the warm pipelines when we drill in anwar!

PREDICTION: McCain will call for drilling in ANWR tonight.–and if that happens, the BBQ media will eat it up–facts be damned.

Marsha Blackburn is talking about women not allowing men to tell them when “they’ve reached too far!!!”Wait a minute, didn’t Hillary sort of reach a little higher, accomplish more and the only reason she isn’t the Dem nominee is because her campaign was run by a truly inept group of people?

Caribou Barbie!! I just got it!! Duheeee…

just watched CNN fact check Palin’s lie laden speech–pointed out the falsehoods and contradictions, but the tone was very much NO BIGGIE–mmmmmmmm BBQ.

Can I just take a moment to say Thank GOD this is almost over?

Did anyone else have Sarah Palin nightmares last night? I woke up in a cold sweat sreaming, “COMMUNITY ORGANIZER!” My wife had to calm me down and tell me to stop blogging so late.

Isn’t it scary that behind the scenes Palin is getting a crash course on foreign policy? She’ll basically be a carbon copy of McCain’s perspective. Somehow I can’t picture Obama sitting Biden down and saying “Okay, here’s where we stand on everything.” Nope, two intelligent people who can share each of their ideas and probably debate some things.

Hey! An Iraq vet on MSNBC ticking off the talking points list – agent of change – reach across party lines – they really train them well, don’t they?

“Here’s a guy talking about how caribou will snuggle up to the warm pipelines when we drill in anwar!”amaraya,Yeah, and science be damned! Fuck the permafrost! Who gives a shit when you’re headed towards Soylent Green!

“just watched CNN fact check Palin’s lie laden speech–pointed out the falsehoods and contradictions, but the tone was very much NO BIGGIE–mmmmmmmm BBQ.”JG,Is “lie laden” a cousin to Bin Laden? Maybe she’s an underground terrorist!

“How dare people question Sarah Palin on her experience!”

$10 million raised by Obama since Palin speech. EAT IT, REPUBLICANS! Just heard Sen. Lingle (R) Hawaii, interviewed by Andrea Mitchell. It really is amazing how the GOP can get those talking points out. Who keeps the master fax list?

“How dare people question Sarah Palin on her experience!”MakeitStop,Or her most extremist views!How dare we?

Eric Kantor – “She (Palin) doesn’t need to talk about the middle class. She IS the middle class.”WHAAAAAA?!?!??!

If they make fun of her for taking 6 years or whatever to get a degree, Rove will ram that back down their throats. Oh, she’s not Ivy League enough for you?

@ MakeitStop – it’s not the fact that it took her 6 years, it’s the fact that she went to 6 colleges in 6 years. What the fuck is up with that?!

Chris Matthews is slurring his speech. Either he’s drunk or having a stroke. Wait he’s drooling… oh, nevermind. He always does that.

Is that true, Carl? I thought she went to the Univ. of Idaho (the “I may be broke but I’m not flat-busted” t-shirt). Was that only for like 1 semsester?

@ ceu – That’s what the AP is reporting.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/04/palin-attended-5-colleges_n_124036.html

Arrrgh, my Snowflake Senator just spoke.I’ll be back after I vomit a few times!

@ ceu- I didn’t mean to exaggerate. It was FIVE colleges in 6 yrs. Not six.

One of those colleges was in the EXOTIC locale of Honolulu, Hawaii.

hi! Sorry I’m late.

anyone watching orally interview Obama tonite?

Oh for fuck sake! They’re using the OKC bombing for political gain?How? The assholes that did this were radical conservatives!I may really have to start drinking heavily!

what time is that on, jane?

“anyone watching orally interview Obama tonite?”Huh, I knew Obama agreed to going on Faux news, but did he agree to go on during McCain’s acceptance speech?If so that was stupid!

Madame 6546, 8 pm EDT but apparently he’s holding him for the end segment. I’m taping, just repeating an internets rumor

fucking sick bastards.

“what time is that on, jane?”I’m not Jane, but it’s on right fucking now!

Hey, 9/11 pandering time. Video tribute to victims of 9/11. Iran hostages, USS Cole, Osama Bin Laden. AND THERE IT IS! The World Trade Center. Motherfuckers…

Fearmongering 101. Waiting for the chants of USA! USA!

I fear Bob may be right about the effigy thing.

I know!!! 8pm!! Sick bastards!!Oh. Never mind.

What the hell is this??Is this not the creepiest thing? This is like propoganda!”And kill us, they did… The enemies are wrong. America will win”….This is bizarre

McCain’s motorcade tonite is apparently smaller than his convoy to Starbucks the other day.

ty much. i may switch over to that if/when this gets unbearable.sorry ’bout that….IMing at the same time, and the 9/11 “tribute” came on….i want to kick something.

There it is! I called it. USA! USA! USA!

If Obama knew this was going to be aired the same time as the last day of the RNC this was totally boneheaded!

OMGKeith!! YES

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!THANK YOU KIETH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi folks..i just wanted to thank you all for amusing me and keeping me company during this incredible awfulness. I cannot bring myself to watch, so I will be relying on your keen insights to paint a picture the goings on in Minnesota.Continue…

KO is flipping out. Paraphrasing: “If we as a network showed that much 9/11 graphic footage, we would be eviscerated, and rightly so.”

damn heartless souless bastards…i live in ct.you could see the smoke from the beach by my house.if there is one iota of justice in this sad sad sad world, what Kieth just said will be echoed everywhere.

Damn it!!!! What did Keith say?!?!?

@ mme – I live in NYC. Worked an overnight gig and came out to panic in the streets. I saw one of the towers collapse through my rear view mirror. Just typing about it makes me upset. But I have to say, I’m not surprised they played the 9/11 card. I almost expected it.

The teleprompters aren’t working?? HA!

Now it appears that was an excerpt from a future pre-recorded interview!Consider the timing!And earlier today I saw a Palin bio on FOX that was clearly biased to her adavntage!It’s time to boycott every product advertised on Faux propaganda network!

i was reading on another blog and someone stated that Jesus was a community organizer. and Pontius Pilate was a governor

@ carl..me too.except im a fucking sucker, and i WAS surprised…how can they DO that?!? and then go to commercial like its fucking nothing…..

YES!!!!THERE IS A GOD, AND HE BROKE MCCAINS TELEPROMPTER!!!

McCain will have to rescind that veto on beer and take a couple of swigs before his speech sans teleprompter – although it may work to his advantage because he sucks at that too. The cynic in me thinks it’s all a ruse. It’ll magically work just before he comes on, and the McCainstream Media will gush over his calm, cool, collected self before realizing it was “fixed.”

Dudes. I’m on DVR delay, and you are telling current me that future me gets to see McCain w/o his talky points???

Hi kids, new guy here (liberal artist for obama)I’d like to vent my disgust here if you don’t mind.I doubled my wine ration from last night and have already taken my advil, so I’m good to go.Off to a banner start with the fear, and more importantly, the revenge card……And Oooops, it seems they’re having problems with the tele-prompter….. isn’t THAT good for McCain too?

Hey..anyone checking Bob’s Liveblogging on HuffPo too? I just refreshed and it says its closed for comments…wtf?!??

And in Afghanistan… What? Where?

Wasn’t watching (repeat of Colbert was on…priorities) so if someone will be so kind as to what it was the RNC showed re: 9/11? I’m in CT, too, mme, but about 100 miles from NYC. I knew only one person who died in the Towers, but I have noticed that people directly affected by that day are LESS likely to support the GOP.

Lindsey Graham makes me puke. Touting the surge. So if it’s working and we succeeded, can we leave now, please?

Lindsey Graham must be sucking helium. That would explain the voice and the assertion that “the surge has worked.”

I thought Barack Obama’s campaign was built around change? If it really is about the R’s being wrong in Iraq, Obama for America’s messaging sux…Eat a bucket of shit, Graham…

Hi ya, gallery. Rant away!

John McCain is RESPONSIBLE for the surge working! Wow! I didn’t know that! I guess I WILL vote for him.

Hey, Barack Obama has “buddies” at MoveOn.org according to Graham. And now he’s saying that McCain going against his party was political suicide. I would’ve just settled for suicide.

Welcome gallery, it appears you are joining quite a budding group of drinkers in there… But is there any other way to watch this tripe?

They even closed the comments for Andy Borowitz and his hilarious diary of Levi the sperm donor.Things are getting pretty tight assed over there.P.S. I can’t stand Lindsey

re the 9/11 video- I keep rewinding cause it sounds like a bad political commercial:”The first attack began in Iran (1980)”

dude….he’s sucking on something….but i dont think its helium.

Man, I wish the USA still governed by the rule of law… Just another casualty of outsourcing I ‘spose….

is it just me, or does the army guy look real uncomfortable?

Good to see the Reverend Sum Yung Moon and his lovely wife…

FOX news should be declared as a political entity after tonights bull shit!Every dollar they get from advertising should count against RNC money collected!Money whores! And the money whores are responsible for todays financial crisis.

Graham just stole Obama’s line: ” I’m not saying Barack Obama doesn’t care, I’m saying that he doesn’t get it.” This whole speech is the mirror image of last week, only this time Obama was wrong on the surge and McCain was right.

Disgusting, they can’t even create their own speeches.

damnit….i keep getting outraged, starting to type, then RE-outraged, and forgetting what i WAS typing…and i end up with a lot of garbled swearing and “!!1!!11″i hafta put my brain on six second delay or something.

WE achieved victory…. we’re on the road to victory?WTF dude… pick a tense and run with it.

Hey, wait a minute… I thought McCain was the maverick…. That’d make her “Goose.”Insert creepy, forced John McCain smile here:

The Palin video? NOW?!?!

Pathetic!

@ carl….i dont think they’ve had an original thought since regan…..

With very cheesy sythesizer music to boot. Goddamn, these people are stuck a good 25 years behind the technology. I’m guessing they’ll discover cell phones in a few years.

A love for the environment?! DRILL BABY DRILL!!!!!!Oh, and if the surge worked and we’re winning, why does Sarah Palin’s son have to be deployed to Iraq on September 11th of this year?Hmmmmmmm….

Mother, moosehunter, maverick….oh, puke.How many times have they said “maverick”?? Obviously, they don’t know what that word means.

Do you think lindsey wore his cock ring while he practiced this macho pinnochio fest in front of his mirror?

Since we’re all drinkers…how about a new drinking game? Take a shot every time Palin or McCain is referred to as a “maverick” tonight.

This Palin video is awful.

Mini McMaverick

Obviously, they don’t know what that word means. I don’t know what they think it means, but I always substitute the word “cocksucker” for “maverick.”

yea it is….

According to the 9/11 video we’ll be safe if we JUST DON’T BELIEVE IN GOD.

Hey, where’s Elvis tonight?!?!

the 9/11 video never really says who this “THEY” are

I don’t know, but I’m missing Mr. The Elvis Dingeldein’s wit.

You know what would have made a great 9/11 tribute? CATCHING THE MOTHERFUCKERS WHO DID IT.

the 9/11 video never really says who this “THEY” are

THEY = non-Whites. Didn’t you know that, Jane? No offense to whiteys here of course. Anyone different than they are, are the enemy.

Can somebody please saw one of the legs off of tom brokaws’ chair……. PLEASE?

Mini McMaverick I like that. Mind if I borrow it??Why the fuck is Cindy Lou speaking again?? Can you imagine if Michelle Obama had hogged all the speech time at the DNC?! Maybe they can’t find enough speakers to fill the time….

“Since we’re all drinkers…how about a new drinking game? Take a shot every time Palin or McCain is referred to as a “maverick” tonight.”Since you suggested this, I’m willing to bet one of us would die before the end of this evening…

I think Chris Matthews has been hitting the same bottle I have tonight.And how can we forget that McCain is a war veteran…he reminds us EVERY SINGLE DAY!!!

McCain is a war veteran? Well, I guess I’ll vote for him then!

“Obviously, they don’t know what that word means. I don’t know what they think it means, but I always substitute the word “cocksucker” for “maverick.”LMAO!!!!Good one Broadway Carl…

JohnGalt….I’m just trying to be as numb as possible before McCain starts speaking…

And because of all of these lame biographies, I’LL NEVER WATCH ANOTHER MOVIE WITH GARY SINISE IN IT AGAIN….

Is that Gary Sinise narrating the McCain video? Man…and I sorta liked CSI:NY….

Do you think they’ll skip the part where Cindy starts whoring around with a married veteran who needs help getting dressed? And then meets John McCain because she just can’t stop sucking married cock?

Borrow away, and thanks for the welcome.Btw, where is that palin prop that cindy lou was pretending to touch last night?Poor kid, don’t they know that babies need sleep and fresh diapers, like their candidate for prez?

Well, at least we know Lt. Dan is still following Forrest Gump around…I can just see McCain right now:Lt. John, ice creeaammm!

John meeting Cindy…. “He was 41″ and MARRIED!!!

Aww, lying from the start about their ages. And a continued relationship of lies and deceit was born.

And then she stole Vicodin from her own charity and got off with probation…

Cindy Lou video – he lied about his age, she lied about hers. It was love at first sight (they omitted the part about him being married at the time) A match made in heaven, don’t you agree?

Cindy’s a pilot and bought an airplane from some idiot deciding to sell one on Ebay.

The Cindy McCain video was officially the most nauseating thing I have ever sat through. “Make the world a better place”??? Perhaps she could convince her husband to drop out of the presidential race…that would be a good start.

Is it me or did they skip a couple of minor points? It must just be me…

What happened to her cast? Will it be back tomorrow?? I kinda miss its ever changing colors…

WHY THE FUCK IS THIS WOMAN SPEAKING AGAIN??Enough! Enough already!

Duty… Travelled country…beep…boop… beep… Does not compute. Does not compute. Beep.

Cindy’s looking pulled a little extra tight tonight…It looks like she decided to plaster on the makeup like a trollop, that c***.

Yes, Cindy…families are worried about losing their homes…because we don’t have 7 to fall back on.

Cindy said it! It must be true. Government just needs to get out of our way!Same old shit! After the taxpayer bails out the fat cats!

UGH!!! I can’t take it! Lincoln again. Fuck these people.

Cindy could help a few of us out here in Realityville by selling her banana dress on Ebay and paying off a few our our mortgages…

We love Cindy! We love Cindy!

I just realized tha John S. must be packing serious wood!

There are three fire trucks on my street right now, one’s a crane truck (one story houses here, folks!) and I can’t see anything.

I hit a homerun with John McCain, but then I had to retire from baseball because he kept breaking my arm in manic rages.

@ jane – maybe they’re there to fix your cable?

Pistol packin’ mama!yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

kansasdem…that is a disturbing mental image….

That was an interesting description of Palin… did anyone hear “foreign policy wonk” in that diatribe?

POWPOWPOW

LOL!!!! My dad never made a big deal of his service… JUST LIKE MY HUSBAND!! Holy shit!

Hmmmm, she must’ve really loved her daddy to have married just as shitty a pilot…

Our son Jack will graduate from the Naval Academy next year, hopefully a little higher than 894th of 899 in his class. We’re shooting to break 850!

First Palin packing a pistol and now her son is strapping on his weapons….Cindy’s got a thing about firepower, doesn’t she?

Michelle Obama she IS NOT…

Why the hell am I watching this shit?I live in a town and county that’s more than 80% Republican?What the fuck is wrong with me?

I live in a town and county that’s more than 80% Republican?

Time to move, KansasDem.

So much rage and so little resolve… But we’ll stay above the fray, much as Obama has, and not slam their well-fed children…What?I said “so little resolve…” Thankfully Senator Obama has much more resolve than I.

I’m just getting in. Did Cindy mention that her old man was prosecuted by the Feds “and convicted of multiple counts of falsifying liquor records in a conspiracy to conceal illegal distribution of whiskey against post-war rationing regulation”? Did she mention that in the whole Western Values thing? Or that he was partners with a bookie and had ties to organized crime? Anyone? Anything?

Pretty gutsy move to show all her surgeries through the years.

How many times can you vomit before it causes serious medical problems?

Did I miss something? It’s usually the State of the Union addresses when they starting whoring out children and “heroes.” Perhaps since they know they won’t make it to the State of the Union, they are getting it in now.

She’s blinking a bit slowly, I think. Perhaps pulled to tight or maybe back on the Vicodin?

Let’s take a good close look at you, Cindy Lou. Where do they hide the nip/tuck staples? What’s the tensile strength of the cables they have to lay under that face job to keep it that taut?

Yo! Elvis is in the house!

Howdy Elvis. And no, and neither did she mention John being married when they met

Rode hard, and put away wet.I’m cindy lou and I’ll take your man.

Elvis! Welcome! No, she ran out of time for those points…but she did manage to talk about Mother Theresa, Vietnam and “Straight Talk.” You know….the ones they put on the Cindy-bot teleprompter.

John McCain – a loyal, loving, and true husband…unwavering…devoted to his family…always keeps his word…his vow is his bondWhat’s wrong with this picture? Oh right…the wife he lied to and cheated on.

I stopped listening about 10 minutes ago. My brain is offically numb. I see her lips moving, but she’s speaking jibberish. I think I’m stroking out.

I’m longing for the dowdy librarian from crawford……. she at least knew when to shut the fuck up.

Now, this pisses me off! I’ll never be able to enjoy Johny be good again!

Did they mention in the Cindy Video that her old man was given a liquor license even though he had a felony on the books and shouldn’t have been allowed one? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

@ ceu – She wasn’t talking about his first wife and family, silly.

And Sarah’s letting Levi get awful close to the youngest daughter.I guess it’s all good as long as it’s in the family!

This is an Amway commercial right?Do I have to buy some soap or something to be able to stop watching?

The Cindy bio video was horrible. Did you notice that “she got all of Daddy’s time”? And he had two other daughters…but, as a devoted father, he lavished his time on her!

@ Elvis – No, they kinda skimmed over the minor points, the felonies, the investigations, the scandals, the infidelity… they got the POW thing in though and how he doesn’t like to make it an issue.

I haven’t seen the black guy yet.Seriously! They pan out and it’s nothing but white on white!

They’re playing the Dallas theme song!

POWPOWPOW

Kansasdem…you missed the “Hispanics 4 McCain” guy? They showed him at least twice…. Bet they’ll show him again too since he’s the only one they’ve got.That is a serious vanilla crowd though…

POWPOWPOW!

Wait….he didn’t love his country until he was a POW????? OMG…..

WTF? Wasn’t that a black-and-white picture of Ahmadinejad?

Why do I have a feeling they’re going to skip from POW to Senate post Keating 5?

Where in history? Uh…fuck, I don’t know, let me go way the fuck back to…uh…Kennedy? Eisenhower? Grant?

Kennedy got his ship cut in half, swam 7,000 miles with 50 sailors on his back, ate a dozen sharks and built a nuclear device out of a fucking coconut to blow up Hiroshima. Suck THAT, McCain!POWPOWPOW!

Yeah, they skipped it.

Ya know what kills me?How these douchebags talk about “keeping your money in your own pocket”How the fuck do they think they get paid?

Hey, look at that! They used a black dad and his little black baby for the “American family” cut-in! How inclusive of those racist motherfuckers!

“What a life. What a faith. What a family.”What a fucker.

What the fuck is THIS shit? Blackout theater and Fred Thompson Voice Overs?? Have I died and gone to fucking hell?

I think part of my guts came up, I may need to call 9-11. Oh shit there’s no 11 on my phone1

Is that a Frederick of Hollywood voice over?

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT!? IS DAVID COPPERFIELD GOING TO BURST OUT OF THE DARKNESS AND SHOUT, “IT’S MAGIC, BITCHES!” ?????

Wow…. THUNDEROUS APPLAUDS

The McCain Bio over and over and over and over… Just once, I’d like to hear about his policies, the issues he represents… What does he stand for? All they talk about is the past, what about the future?They don’t say because the special interests haven’t told him yet. Just like GWB….But you know who I think is more like GWB than McCain?Sarah Palin…

Did they have to black the stadium out like that so no one saw them wheel McCain in on a stretcher and prop him up?

God help us all. I don’t know if I can take this.

“What the fuck is THIS shit? Blackout theater and Fred Thompson Voice Overs?? Have I died and gone to fucking hell? “Nope! It turns out we’ve been in hell all along!

Did that douchebag just have a sign that said “Peace Through Leadership”?? Have these people been paying attention?

What do you think, guys? Any policy initiatives? Place your bets.

Zoiks….. it must be the wine, but I swear he looks 4 months younger!

Did you see Sarah adjusting her cleavage?She knows what to use and how to use it!

I can’t believe they put a green screen behind him again! What the fuck is wrong with this campaign?!

(DVR delay again) OMG Lindsey! How anti-climactic! And him talking about the strong soldiers (like on Jeff Gannon’s porn site)

What’s with the green background? Didn’t they learn from the cottage cheese/lime green jello fiasco back in June?

You folks are brave!I’m watching the SC/Vandy game, but bless you all for making it through that nauseating experience.Just a side note; I made mention last night to a co-worker that I was going to watch the RNC and drink some wine and yell at my TV. I was just making a joke, but she thought it funny to bring that up at a lunch today for another co-worker that is leaving us.What a spectacle! All of my co-worker’s started bad-mouthing O with MSM talking points and talking about McCain the maverick (as Carl pointed out – I should have replaced that with “cocksucker”).I tried to explain about some of the exaggerations that Palin and other made last night and they just scoffed and said, “oh, all politicians are the same”.It’s pretty sad…I should know better than to talk politics at work, but it’s just sad to see that my co-workers (middle-class all) actually buy into this Republican whatever (ok, lie).So…from this rant…thanks for the outlet and it’s nice to share comments/snark/links with like-minded folks!

OMG! They’re doing it with a green screen? Did they learn NOTHING?? (rhetorical question)I HATE fucking typekey!

WTF, is he actually saying that an attack from Iraq (or EYE-RACK) was inevitable?

ROFL–the GREEN background–hilarious. That will certainly get a ton of comments.

Green screen? More Colbert comedy gold!

There’s going to be A LOT of him stepping on his lines and then REPEATING them……Oooops there goes the double arm maneuver with a takahashi dismount folks

What town do you work in Space, if you don’t mind me asking? Just wanted to figure out where NOT to live.

Green Background Comments = Great Minds Think Alike

Yep, more green screen!Stupid fuckers!What happened to the red white and blue?

It’s morphed into the green BLOB–run for your lives…

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Is he quoting the Declaration of Independence? Really? I was half expecting boos from the crowd when he was acknowledging Obama.

@ Carl…McCain country…Phoenix.

Ohhh…now’s it’s blue…it’s like a Republican acid trip. Maybe if they change up the colors enough, they can get us to ignore that their candidate looks like he might expire at the podium.

@ Carl…McCain country…Phoenix.So…maybe my expectations are too high?

Please don’t be distracted by people!

I bet Fox News called somebody about the green screen.

Protesters! WOW! You gotta love it. Good thing he dismisses it like it doesn’t matter. Dirty motherfucker.

was that Uma fucking Thurmond they just showed?(not the protester, bless her heart)

oooh sorry for you, Space. Been there long?

OK…I put it on, sadistic puppy that I am.What’s wrong with McCain’s arms?

Sad old sack of shit!

@ Jane – almost a year.Just waiting for a spell to get out though. I like the hiking and biking, but it seems to be pretty depressing at this point…”…and introduce her to Mr. Wee-Wee…”"…change is coming…”WTF?!?!

This speech is obviously going to go nowhere.

Damn skippy change is coming. And it’s not you, you do-nothing, old guard bastard.

God, he’s actually trying to literally RIDE palin into the white house.And it’s WASH, not WHRASHington you stupid old goat

The protesters are great! They make him say “my friends, my friends” repeatedly.

Yeah! I work for you, so I selected a far right idiot just because she has your interests at heart!

I fought corruption… after I was caught as a culprit of corruption.

“I don’t work for a party…I don’t work for a special interest…”Seriously! WTF?!?!?This guy voted with Bush 90% of the time.Arrrrrgghhhhh….meltdown…brain boiling within skull.

Thank you, gallery! I yelled at him that there is no R in Washington, but he’s not listening.

Damn those fucking union bosses. By the way, only 7% of the work force in the US is union.

“I work for you!”You know, YOU: Fat white rich war-mongering Christian conservative douchesacks. You know, you!

I just saw a sign with “Viva McCain” on it. Is that encouragement or a plea?

@ Mr. The Broadway Carl – It’s more like 12%, isn’t it? Still, that’s a huge loss to the Democratic Party.

In the end it matters less that you can fight. What you fight for is the real test. WOOHOOO! Washington! Woohooo! Pennsylvania! We’re losing jobs too! What the fuck is wrong with these people?!

I know Bill and Sue Neeby from Farmington Hills, MI! Those people are dicks!

I’ll stack more bodies up to make sure your son didn’t die in vein!

God, he’s awful. He’s bitching about all the things he voted FOR!

Holy shit, did you feel that? FDR just rolled over in his grave!

Obama passed another corporate welfare bill for oil companies?! This fucker wants to give them another $4 billion. FUCK THIS GUY. I can’t wait until the speech is scrutinized for the facts, or lack of.

You’re right, Elvis, about 12%. Still pretty fucking pathetic if you ask me.

anyone’s take on obama on orally tonite?

Did he clear this speech with RNC mainstays?How many lies can this guy say?

I think he was talking about Theodore, sweetheart. TR is his hero.

Do they have one of those blinking “Applause” signs hanging over McCain’s head which also flashes “Boo Now?”

Ah, now he’s kicking into Evangelical Wonderdouche Drive now, going after the pinhead Christophiles.

Get ready for the rictus grin folks…… heh heh heh he thinks he’s on a roll.

Um…correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Bush grow the government bigger than any other pres?Is he making a new Republican party here? There has to be some kind of disconnect here.

Is there a “Boo” prompter facing the audience? Pray tell, Senator McCain. Please tell us what you propose. Ahhh… trickle down economics. I suppose it could work….

He’s gonna train you to polish his shoes!

My friends, social security is DEAD if I become the boss

Space- I read (and have more on my list) New Phoenix times articles on mcCain…and cindy’s little problem…etc. well known in phoenix?

@ Katin – Great minds…. I’m shutting it down at work. See you guys ASAP at home. Let me know what happens. I’m guessing nothing.

My retinas are starting to fry out on the electric blue background. Instead of lime jello, it looks like cottage cheese floating in a pool of Berry Blue Kool Aid.

Carl, We’re beyond trickle down.It’s now a matter of eating the undigested kernels in the the big bosses shit!

These people aren’t even listening. They’re applauding at every pause. Now he’s on education. Aren’t public schools a SOCIALIST idea?

Another grinning chimp!

Oh, shit. Trickle down really means pissed on. Been there, done that. Didn’t like it.

@ Jane. Well known among a certain demographic, but it seems to be ignored by most.And the New Times reporters do some damn fine work too!

Thought bubble over the crowd.My GOD Biff, when can I get that fucking whiskey sour?This speech is as stiff as my brooks brother shirt.

Ohhhhhh, that was the Obama Underoo Creaming Moment just then: Read it wrong off the prompter, hit the wrong two words, stop, BACK UP, try again, hit the RIGHT two words, plow on. Ohhhh god that was sweet.

“…restore the health of our planet.” Seriously? More drilling = restoring the health of our planet? McCain’s hitting the same stuff Lindsey Graham is smoking.

We’re going to stop sending money to countries that don’t like us very much? Like Iraq? Saudi Arabia? Uh…France?

Be afraid, be very afraid!

WAR WAR WAR !

Dear BBQ media–Can we please call lies, LIES. The only reason why they do it, is because they can.

Save the planet! Drill it a new asshole!

Thank you JG.This is just obscene.

Wait, al Qaeda isn’t defeated? Lindsey Graham said they were! NOW I’M CONFUSED!!!

Subtitles……WAR WAR WAR !

Woohoo…”Fear Sells, but who’s buying”(apologies to MegaDeth here)

“I hate war” vs. “I’ll follow bin Laden to the gates of hell” Confusion is natural, Elvis.

These crowd-pans are priceless. Do any of these people look like they’re paying any sort of attention? The applause lines are petering out, he’s losing this crowd.

I’m thinking that maybe we did convince Saak’ashvili to take action against Russian occupied territories!Oh and McCrazy has scars!

@ The Space Cowboy…right on for invoking Megadeth. Dave Mustaine would be proud.

Isn’t it such a shame that Senator Obama doesn’t have deep physical and emotional scars? Ain’t that just a shame? He should have been born 25 years sooner so he could drop bombs on brown people in southeast Asia.

“Wait, Binky, am I supposed to clap when he says ‘share’? That’s kind of socialist isn’t it?”

OMG!His biggest line of the night slamming Obama sounded like something from PeeWees big adventure.I was blessed by being a shitty pilot.

So many trainwrecks. So little track to run off of.

I thought he didn’t like talking about his POW experience!He had no worries that he might not come back from that last mission. He learned NO lessons from having lost 4 previous planes.

*Waves at Jane* Hiya honey! How’s the Time-Warner tonight?

“I was POW for Christ’s sake. Vote for me.”

“I mean that sincerely.” Thank God he clarified. I haven’t been taking a damn thing else he’s been talking about sincerely.Did the crowd just laugh about the “angry crowd waiting to greet me” after he was shot down line?

OMG, more poor me! O-Biden vs. oh me, oh my!

and YES typepad sucks it big whoever mentioned that before.Ooooooo is he gonna talk about the gay vietcong dudes?That makes me HOT

Where do shameless and shameful meet?

cablt tonite -so far so good, but it’s almost the typical time of night for a “software upgrade”

Wait, they broke him? Did McCain give up national security secrets to the ‘Cong? They broke him? I haven’t heard this part!

“I wasn’t my own man anymore…I was Rush Limbaugh’s…”

hockey-momming. It’s a participle now

God these people want a drinknice stumble on “illiterate” dumbass

Mmmmm, hockey-momming.

Did he just being a “community organizer” is a good thing?Didn’t his VP mock that last night?

“Stand up. Stand up and fight.” Yes…stand up and hide that the arena is only half full.That was truly terrifying.

Damn straight kansasdem! Absolutely shameless.

Well, that was horrible. Don’t make me listen to that man ever, ever again!

I think Cindy took Sarah shopping wherever you spend $300,000 on an outfit. They’ve both got that shiny fabric dress suit thing goin’ on.

“community organizer” shoulda been the drinking term for the week

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT…… WAR WAR WAR !the shittiest speech I ever did witness.This is one time I would want to go back to my early bartending days, because there are gonna be a lot of people wanting to get shitfaced right about now in Saint Paul.We should have picked Mittens…..OY

One word…digusting.Now…I have to take a shower after seeing that. I just hope I can get the water hot enough to burn this dirt off of me.

One word…disgusting.Now…I have to take a shower after seeing that. I just hope I can get the water hot enough to burn this dirt off of me.

Ok…I now, too, hate typekey.Thanks ceu

Wow, 303 comments, Mr. The Bob Cesca! You go, boyfriend! We’re cooking tonight, brother!

I take back every nice thing I’ve ever said about Chris Matthews. Plus…he’s getting me drunk…I think he’s said “maverick” like 15 times in the past 2 minutes.

Where’s the black guy?

“McCain is a rebel” WTF?!?!Who just said that? I flipped over to MSNBC and walked out of the room.

Who’s the idiot reporter saying that McPOW was reluctant to talk about his experiences as a McPOW?

Oh yeah…thanks Bob and all posters here!Good stuff.

McCain is the head of the Republican Party already?? Really? Isn’t Bush still “president”?

Andrea Mitchell fighting the balloons is the fucking funniest thing I’ve seen all evening.

Pathetic. Just completely pathetic. Just when I thought it couldn’t be worse he started shouting stand up. So bad. I really wish I had never un-muted it.

“Wow, 303 comments, Mr. The Bob Cesca! You go, boyfriend! We’re cooking tonight, brother!”Elvis Dingeldein,Yeah, and I expect to see some updated douche!

I don’t know ceu…but the reporter was obviously wrong about McPOW, because McPOW would never exloit his experience about being a POW.McPOW.

Yeah, and I expect to see some updated douche!I’m trying, Mr/s The KansasDem, I’m trying. Working on a piece about Caribou Barbie’s speech last night (“PALIN “HITS IT OUT OF THE PARK”; BALL CRASHES TO EARTH KILLING SMALL BABY POLAR BEAR”), but The Darling Daughter took up all my time tonight. Which is just fine.

Thanks for letting me play in your sandbox tonight ladies and gentlemen.My television thanks you for not having to suffer the wrath of an ashtray becoming part of it’s screen.I am honored to have spent the night with such a smart and entertaining group of fellow progressives.Many thanks.

“Hi, I’m Tom RIdge and I don’t use pronouns.”

Come back mcsoon, gallery. Bob posts good stuff every single day…

It’s Mr-KD not that it matters at my age, but I love the Caribou Barbie theme!But could we change it to Barby? My last wifes name really was Barby!Don’t ask!

I have enjoyed the company tonight! Thank you all for allowing me to vent my snarky comments and to enjoy all of yours. I am now going to take something for my elevated blood pressure.

Why Tom Brokaw calls Ms. Mitchell “Boom-Boom” is something none of us, surely, wants to know. But I think we can all imagine the bourbon-and-viagra-littered motel rooms between New York and L.A…

Goodnite to you early birds. The big dogs will (stay up too late again and) keep typing and feel like shit tomorrow and we’ll LIKE IT!

BEST FREUDIAN SLIP EVER!!! TOM BROKAW INTERVIEWS TOM “RED, YELLOW, ORANGE, GO!” RIDGE, WHO SAYS:

Because uh John Bush (D’OH!) … John McCain is very much his own man.

Ohhhh, how I fill the Obama Underoos with love!

Why Tom Brokaw calls Ms. Mitchell “Boom-Boom”!!!!!!!!!!OMG!!!!!!!!!11

I need the audio clip “four more years…in HELL” from MCC’s video re his (wait for it) POW years.

John Bush. John Bush. John Bush. John Bush. John Bush.

no wait I need that tom ridge clip. cnn?

All I got from this was…”I was a POW…”"Fight, fight, fight…”"I’m a maverick (cocksucker – thanks Broadway Carl)…”

and was it Rudy last night said Sarah would learn foreign policy…right along John McCain? (post speeches)

Dear Michael Gerson : Please insert a rabid, feral, and deeply aggravated wolverine cub in your rectum and hang upside down by your ankles until it works its way to your filthy, filthy mouth.

alongside. whaever words are elitisrt too many letters

Thanks to Broadway Carl, ‘Top Gun’ is forever changed for me. As well as his relationship with Goose. You don’t think…??

Were these fuckers on frickin’ MARS for the last 8 years?? No wonder they suck at government – they don’t live on this planet!

You’re starting to lose some coherence there, Ms. Jane. Get it together, girl.

Although I have to say, if Michael Gerson is shitting on McCain’s speech then we’re probably in really good shape. Still: Wolverine, bung, filthy mouth. ‘Nuff said.

Buzzed Jane?Totally understandable.

A couple of observations, and a question.I saw more plastic surgery than on a Hollywood red carpet.I saw one guy holding up a “MAVRICK” sign, his spelling, not mine.What the fuck does “catching up with history” mean?

Well, as US history has proven, bring in a Democrat to fix the mess the Republicans have put us in (in the last century at least).

actuall more frickin tired than buzzed. Too tired to lift the beer to my mouth but the last coupla nites have killed me.

Has anyone but me and my hot girlfriend Jane noticed that The Daily Show has gone off the fucking rails this week in hammering the Republicans? Last night’s opener was 3 full minutes of hardcore gay love in the MSP airport men’s room, for The Christ™’s sake! They must be angry as hell, and perhaps they aren’t going to take it anymore. That would be nice.

No one knows, thruwithbuzz. But they thought it sounded cool, so they tossed it in there.

Chuck Todd is trying to say that humor is a John McCain trademark. I guess Chuck really wanted to hear that whole ape/rape joke again.

(justr now watching Mccain speech) how did anyone know the telepromptrer was broken? srlsy

ELVIS! you just killedf my the cable you bastard!

Colbert just pointed out that although Palin eventually said no the “the bridge to nowhere”, Alaska didn’t give back the money.

You know…after seeing this, I’m feeling a little more hopeful.McPOW/Failin have to deal with O and Biden in the debates and they’re going to have to suck up all of the lies during the RNC being put up as TV ads.This will be an interesting couple of months.

fuckit Im on to the daily shoe. at least that finished taping tonite.

@ The Elvis Dingeldein – you and your exceptionally hot girlfriend Jane are absolutely correct about The Daily Show. Today I emailed everyone in my address book the link to the clip about Sarah Palin and the gender card. It’s fucking genius.http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=184086&title=sarah-palin-gender-card

livebloging the daily show!!

um…”daily shoe”?Not that I’m in a position to judge, but…Luv ‘ya Jane…

Jeff Toobin from CNN just called it the worst acceptance speech since Jimmy Carter’s.The world was reminded of 2 things. This dude is really old, & the Republicans are out of ideas.

Boy i’m getting quite the rep on this thread. I would so disappoint IRL

Rob Riggle in a Grizzly Adams beard: My life is now complete.

stewart’s line about mace was so teh Elvis

“Mace: When ‘get the fuck outta here’ just wont do.”

Hey, hey, hey, Jane My Liveblogging Girlfriend: Leave the disappointing to me, honey. It’s what I do best. I’m so, so disappointing.

I love Rachel Maddow. I would become a lesbian for her.

I’m guessing I didn’t miss anything?

Best Mocking Nickname Ever: “Nine-Elevenington P. Heromayor” for Rudy Giuliani. Oh my fuck that’s priceless.Ms. The Judy™: I could never aspire to the 10th part of the 10th part of The Daily Show‘s brilliance.

hi carl just being a slut here and misspelling (hey!)

Katin: I love Rachel Maddow enough that I would get a sex-change operation and become a flaming uberdyke to get next to her. She’s glorious. GLOR-ee-USSSS!

Mmmmmmm, slut.

daily/colbert always wakes me up. and elvis (don’t call me E), chicks DIG humor its hotttt

Not at the RNC, Carl…but there’s been some good comments going on here.Here’s a recap of the RNC…I’m a POW.Fight, fight, fight…I’m a maverick

What I heard in McCain’s speech:Can you believe this monkey? Jesustapdacinchrist. This simian has ruined this place.(massive applause from the *Republican* gathering)I mean… no real energy policy after all this time? What a f–ing idiot.(massice applause from the Republican gathering)I just had to smile.

Oh, Cowboy…did you have to say maverick?And Jane…sluttiness is good. It’s been recently endorsed by the GOP. In fact…if Elvis could knock you up….

Oh my hell. This is where these Man On The Street interviews make me fear the fuck out of being an American. Samantha Bee is on site at the convention and interviewed some sloppy, shiny-faced NASCAR douche in a sleeveless vest festooned with Americana who actually says, in all seriousness,

One of the things that I really respect about Sarah Palin is that she makes Americans feel that anyone can be president.

Oh, Republicans! If only “anyone” included…you know…black people and whatnot.

The Jane™ said, chicks DIG humor its hottttListen, sister, if years and years (and years) of reading the Interview page of a Playboy centerfold while fighting the urge to doze off in post-self-coital bliss has taught me anything, it’s that The Hot Girls love them the sense of humor. And also Corvettes. And money. Yeah, mostly it’s the money.But a sense of humor is always a distant third.

I’m a maverick

Space, you forget the substitution.

I’m hoping I’ve abused my system too much to be impregnable. or fertile. or something.

Um…I’m on the West coast and I’m not catching the Daily Show for another hour.Spoilers!(All good…I’ll just enjoy it with it all of it’s gooey freshness – for me anyway.)

@ Carl…nice catch!

maybe for them. I never got the guy with the money and the corvette. maybe i’d be the same way.no, no I wouldn;t.

Wow, The Jane™, you are so fucked up right now. I want some of whatever you’re drinking-and-or-smoking.

Damn Elvis. I thought them centerfolds liked pale, skinny guys.At least, that’s what I read.Oh yeah…and money too.

sorry space. get in the cone of silence

Damn you all and your Daylight Saving Time!

Money is nice….but nah, not Corvettes. And sense of humor ranks higher than third.

So what does it say about a Republican National Convention with no overt “Republican” signs in the arena, no douchebag Republican monkey-president and no shoot-you-in-the-face vice president? The top two members of the Republican party were nowhere to be seen.

Matthews is talking about it now… condemning your own party leaders so you can be elected.

OOOH! John & Cindy McCain confetti! Also, a Sarah Palin impersonator and a couple of guys with John McCain hand puppets. Not the first time he’s had a hand up his ass.

You and I are truly soul brothers, Mr. The Broadway Carl. I say we merge our efforts and become The Broadway Clusterdouche, what say you, sir?

boy on boy action…

Come on, people. Seventeen more comments to The Big 400. Let’s honor our host by rolling those numbers over and hitting the big four-zero-zero, you lazy fuckers!

Don’t pretend you don’t love it, The Jane™. Boy-on-boy is the best action, sister!

I’m not lazy, I’m just drunk.

Just caught Evan Bayh on Larry King live.I think that’s the most life he’s ever shown and I still want to drop into a coma!

are you serious? thats a lot of carp talk. crap.

I’m getting there myself, Mr. The Space Cowboy. It’s been a long, long week.

Mr. The Elvis Dingeldein: I’m honored that you would consider my occasional quip worthy of such an esteemed compliment. A Broadway Clusterdouche merger is a wonderful thought. That and all the Obama Underoos talk makes me hot.

(typing onehanded)

Or carp. I’ll take carp.

ahhhh…..its safe to come back to teh interwebs.:)hadta retreat. when i yell at the tv ithe felines object.just wanted to jump back on an say ‘night.

“The Broadway Clusterdouche” Sounds like a fantastic musical. Perhaps Andrew Lloyd Webber could write the score? And I think Pat Buchanan would come to see it – he just mentioned something about McCain and “mano a mano,” so I think he likes that sort of thing.

nite madame. we’ve moved on to daily show and talking shit.

“I’m not lazy, I’m just drunk.”Never, ever say that in front of a Republican!You’ll end up in a mens room in some strange city, and no idea how you got there!

last night I watched the fat cat throw up and the kitten rush to eat it. I realized after a minute I wasn;t watching the tv anymore

Woohoo…can I get’s me some Obama Underoos and make it a 3-way?(Though, I certainly don’t have the eloquence or the snark capabilities of you fine gentlemen.)

Andrew Llyod Webber has so already written The Broadway Clusterdouche, Katin, haven’t you ever seen an ALW show? Jesus The Christ™ (Superstar!) they’re insufferable!

hmmmmmm…..sounds like a plan…minus the typing. ttyl

I’m going to copy and paste your compliment and post it on my blog, Mr. The Elvis Dingeldein, for surely no one would believe me if I said, “You know, back in aught 8, one Mr. The Elvis Dingeldein asked me to join forces for a Broadway Clusterdouche extravaganza. Then the Republicans won back the House in 2010 and I threw my laptop out the window. I never heard from my Bob Cesca friends again.”

I’m not afraid to get my hands dirty but i dont get the credit sarah palin gets!

Now that we’re over 400 — and now that The Jane™ is finally typing one-handedly and so I know she’s Taking Care of The Business — I’m off to bed. It’s been a blast, y’all. Thanks for taking the time to blog the living shit out of these conventions, you all smell terrific!

So does that mean that Jane is singing “Don’t Know How to Love Him?” Perhaps McCain’s first wife could fill in if Jane is otherwise occupied.

Or she could be singing, “What’s The Buzz” not realizing it’s her vibrator.

“last night I watched the fat cat throw up and the kitten rush to eat it.”At least you have a kitten. I just throw a towel over it until the maid shows up.And then after I run out of towels I realize I haven’t paid the maid in over a year!

Lot’s of fun folks…(thanks again Bob!)See you on the flip side!

nighty night Elv sweet dreams!

night space you left coast early bird

Hey, what a surprise. Palin won’t be available for the media as she must attend Goober-natorial duties back in Alaska. How… convenient.

kd- usually the fat cat eats it later on. I cant be bothered cleaning up every time a cat throws up around here. The normal one threw up tonite. Must have been watching tv with me.

Thanks for hosting Bob…over 400 comments! And trust us, it wasn’t that the show was that amazing – it was the company (trigger the flashing “awwwww” sign now).

HOW LONG must we wait to hear sarah speak in front of any audience Rove didn’t vet?

Bob, thanks for your liveblogging and your awesome hosting. I feel like I’ve become friends with my fellow commenters. It’s like a virtual Republican overload support group. And cheaper than actual therapy. Goodnight.

sam bee kicked ass tonite.

night carl! guess I’ll lock up. Should I leave any lights on? anyone?

okay thanks Bob! for letting us crash at your place while you were out. You’re the best.And I will totally understand if this thread were to get “lost” somehow;)

Still here Jane, but getting out soon. 6am awaits. Stop by my site or send me yours. If not, I’ll see you during the debates if our gracious host will have us.

Damn, Arianna’s on Larry Live!If only I had a little money and didn’t drool so much.