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Brian Tierney Now Being More Direct

Let’s see, there’s Joe Biden and… hey, Brian Tierney, aka Joe the Publisher. Good to see Tierney still in good spirits, fighting for his candidate ’til the polls close.

McCain/Palin/Phillies In 2008

Here, John McCain attempts a last-ditch effort to win the presidency with signs that say he is not for 28 more years of title-free baseball in this town. He is for a World Championship in 2008, and one in 2009, too. And 2010 and 2011 and 2012. Four more years of championships!

[via John]

Ralph Nader Celebrates Election With All His Friends

The Inquirer noted this last-minute Ralph Nader press conference at Independence Mall yesterday. What a hot ticket! The media may have gotten worse in the past eight years, but in 2000 a bunch of people probably would have showed up for this thing! So that’s, um, something.

Look, this thing’s already over. I’m pretty sure Obama already has enough votes to win Pennsylvania and polls haven’t even opened yet. Why not thank Ralph Nader for getting you seatbelts by giving him… oh, hell, I’m just kidding. If you see Ralph Nader, just give him a hug. I assume he needs it.

Pa. GOP Runs Rev. Wright Ad

The Pennsylvania Grand Old Party has finally released a grand old ad, indeed! This is that guy Rev. Wright, who Hillary Clinton was all angry about a billion years ago. Last April, or something? I only remember him because George Stephanopoulos asked Obama about him. “But you do believe he’s as patriotic as you are?” he asked. Oh, democracy.

I had never really paid any attention to Rev. Wright before, and, man! This guy’s hilarious. He turned “God Bless America” into a statement against America just like that! And “the You Ess of Kay Kay Kay Ay!” Why doesn’t this guy have his own TV show that advertises all the time like Frank Caliendo?

[via Wonkette]

Obama Totally Has This Wrapped Up

Wow, the night before the election and the Obama campaign is sending out Ed Rendell (”and other Philadelphia dignitaries”) and former 10! show host Lauren Hart. And apparently they’ve even taken away the Comcast Center to campaign for Obama somewhere else.

Yeah, folks, I think this one’s over.

McCain Camp Looks Good In Pottsville

Here’s a video taken by some liberal activists outside a John McCain rally in Pottsville. (This was helpfully posted to Young Philly Politics by a user named “journalists4mumia.” Ha, ha!)

And — surprise! — people at a political rally are dumb and say dumb things. “Bomb Obama!” doesn’t even really make any sense. But the best quote is, naturally, “I don’t want to sound racist, but I don’t want a black man running my country.” Oh, now that’s just fantastic.

Tom Ridge: I Shoulda Been VP!

At this point, John McCain would need a super secret brainwashin’ ray to have a shot at winning the presidency next week. Oh, wait, or he could have just picked Tom Ridge as his vice president!

“I think the dynamics would be different in Pennsylvania,” Ridge said when asked if he should have been chosen to run as vice president over Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. “I think we’d be foolish not to admit it publicly.”

Ha, yes, the guy with the color-coded terrorism awareness charts would totally help John McCain more than Sarah Palin; perhaps he’d have more than a 1% chance of winning Pennsylvania then!

Tom Ridge says Race Would be Different if he were VP [Clout]

A Torturing Pro-McCain Column


John McCain is a person who has given endlessly and unselfishly to his country, a person of unquestionable good character who understands the Middle East situation as only a military man who has suffered brutal torture can.

He understands the Middle East… as only a man who has been tortured brutally can!!

Wait, what?

This comes from an op-ed in the New Jersey Jewish News, always a daily read for me, of couse! And it contained a lot of awesome arguments so I’m going to make fun of it a bit more. As a bonus, a whole lot of people are making a lot of these awesome arguments, too! Let’s go over a few more awesome ones.

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Joe Biden Asked Hilarious Questions

Check out the clip above, where WFTV anchor Barbara West (whoever that is) interviews Joe Biden and quotes Karl Marx. No, really, she does. This new “Obama is a socialist/Marxist” meme is pretty awesome. Trust me, if Barack Obama were a Marxist I’d be encouraging you to vote for him every day. Not because I’m a Marxist but because it’d be so freaking awesome to have a socialist president. Think of the hijinks!

But I digress. The best part of this interview is how West’s doesn’t respond to any of Biden’s answers. It’s not an interview, really. It’s more like Biden got a list of questions he had to answer and he’s responding to them incredulously since they quote Karl Marx and ask if America’s days as a world power are over and such. And West just keeps asking seemingly fake questions even as Biden wonders if this is a Comedy Central stunt or something. It’s like she’s not even paying attention. Simply awesome.

John McCain, Jack Murtha Agree: Western Pennsylvanians Are Racist!

This video might make the campaign all worth it, really. I don’t think I’ve laughed harder in weeks. [via Wonkette]

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