"Inside Track" @ The Boston Herald h/t Jules Crittenden
Today the Track would like to implore all our loyal fans (especially you up there in New Hampshire!) to vote early and vote often: for John McCain.
Do it - not for the children - but for the Hollywood Obamaphiles who we would dearly love to see just shut the hell up.
Alec Baldwin, we love you. But you didn't move to France - as promised - when John Kerry failed to unseat George W. Bush in 2004. In fact, since we keep Track of these things, it hasn't escaped our notice that you are much better off than you were four years ago. You know, to quote a fellow actor.
By the by, Alec, perhaps you should mention to your multiple Emmy Award-winning "30 Rock" co-star Tina Fey that - should she make good on her plan to leave Earth if her doppelganger Gov. Sarah Palin succeeds Dick Cheney - she will lose a ton of TV facetime. A McCain-Palin administration is gold for you, Tina. Gold!
Now, four years ago we were in a similar pickle. The Democrat - John Kerry - was way ahead in the polls going into Election Day. The ubiquitous beautiful people were out in force - in Boston - awaiting the big celebration. The Track spent the afternoon knee-deep in Democratic merriment in the Fairmont Copley Plaza's Oak Bar. As night fell - and the polls closed - we ventured outdoors to scope out the slew of stars due to hit the ginormous stage the Dems erected in the middle of a bone-chilling Copley Square.
But a funny thing happened on the way to Kerry's coronation . . . .
Rock stars like Jon Bon Jovi and Sheryl Crow were supposed to start revving up the giddy gathering of a gazillion left-wingers at 7 p.m. But they started much, much later due to some "confusion" coming out of Kerry camp about the returns. Ahem.
The ubiquitous Black Eyed Peas were there to Get It Started, as were vintage flower children James Taylor and Carole King. But it soon became apparent that their big White House hoedown was turning into a Nightmare on Boylston Street! "It's been an honor and priviledge to work on this campaign," Sweet Baby James told the throng. "I think we've seen an awakening in this country."
Not quite, J.T.
Hollywood hunk Jake Gyllenhaal was in the Hub for the election night party. Oscar gal Hilary Swank, her then-hubby Chad Lowe, Mr. Brat Pack Matt Dillon and actor Fisher Stevens all took the Acela in from the Apple for the historic occasion. We ran into them after Ohio fell to Bush. They were walking through Copley Square like a pack of zombies out of "Night of the Living Dead."
We won't lie to you, it was a beautiful sight!
Later, a visibly shaken Sheryl Crow, who stumbled over the lyrics to "A Change Will Do You Good," tried to put on a brave face: "I think we will all wake up with a positive outlook. There's nothing like a little optimism," she said.
Even the international press was aghast by the political turn of events. "Blah blah blah Presidente Booooosh," spat one Latin American reporter, waving his leather-gloved hands into a camera. MSNBC bigmouth Keith Olbermann had nothing on this dude.
Kerry and his running mate, John Edwards, were scheduled to make an appearance on the Copley Square stage at 11 p.m., but that was a no-go. The vice presidential loser, however, was forced out of hotel hiding around 2:30 a.m, but the crowd had gone home. Ah, the sounds of silence . . .
You have the power to shut them all up again. The Oprahs, the Damons, the Afflecks, the in-the-tank media, the Olbermanns and Matthewses. Granted, Massachusetts is a lost cause. But we have faith in our neighbors to the north. Go, you Granite Staters! Remember, a vote for John McCain is a vote to put the Beautiful People in their rightful place: France.
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11/04/2008 08:50 ||
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France? Unless you are talking of Mururoa (that is where we experimented our nukes) you are asked politely but firmly (thta is do it what I mean or I shoot) keep your trash at home or send them to the Mariana trench
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Roger L. Simon of PJM (Not Politico's Roger Simon) said he's moving to France should Obama win - France is more conservative than the US and, besides, that's what Hollywood elites do.
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Unfortunately for us, fate has given us a socialist presidential nominee....
Simple fate? I suspect it's a bit more complex than that. I'd wager the endless screaming refrain to the Allmighty from the aborted partially born, in concert with entitlement Zeituni's and ethnic tribalism are more likely the cause.
So remember: In about 15 hours or so the rumors and leaks are going to start Its an Obama landslide! Exit polls show him winning North Carolina by 15 points! In Vermont, McCain will be the first major party candidate not to break into double digits
Its all rubbish. Exit polls skew Dem. In 2004, they overstated Kerrys support by 5.5 points. Which doesnt sound a lot. But, given that there were only ten states where the margin of victory was less than 5%, that was enough to make Kerry briefly appear the winner. The point of all the afternoon leakage is to depress turnout in the Florida panhandle and points west. Dont fall for it.
The media have been hailing the inevitability of Obama ever since Iowa. To their credit, Democrat primary voters paid no heed. The more Chris Matthews and the rest of the gang insisted it was over, the more obstinately Hillary Dems turned up to vote for her. Captain Landslide wound up being dragged by the media across the finish line in slow motion. If the Democrat base declined to take its marching orders from Tingle-Me Elmo back in the spring, theres no reason for Republicans to do so six months later.
If this is to be a losing year, so be it. Its still better to lose 51-49 than 59-41. Thisll be a weird day, and history will be made however it turns out: first black president, first female veep, oldest president, most hair-plugged veep. That's excitement enough, without falling for exit poll rumors that will almost certainly prove false.
Posted by: Mike ||
11/04/2008 06:46 ||
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The media have been hailing the inevitability of Obama ever since Iowa.
Wait, I thought Hillary was the inevitable one. I really need to keep up.
What I do believe is that, if we're not all marching in party rallies in support of Fearless Leader in two years -- at the behest of our block coordinators -- the next four years are going to create quite a few new republicans. Hopefully that'll translate into more Republicans in 2012.
Posted by: Fred ||
11/04/2008 9:10 Comments ||
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I just voted. HEAVY turnout. On the ballot, the names were in alphabetical order: McCain, McKinney(!), Nader and down the page and dead last was Obama. I actively had to search it out to find it. McCain was easy; He was #1!
Posted by: Minister of funny walks ||
11/04/2008 9:52 Comments ||
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Results in at 10:00 Eastern. Pennsy & Ohio for Bambi. No way for John Boy to hit 270 now. Gains for Dummos in both House & Senate. Oh boy, fasten your seat belts. Now snug them up real tight, until you can barely breath. Lotsa good stuff coming. Look for a BIG health care bill coming out of the barn door first. Maybe second, after another larger "stimulus" package. Health care sheparded by Fat Ted. A gift and Memorial to him before he fades away. Say single payer in disguise. Long lines, here we come. If you're religious say a prayer. If not, just knock yourself in the head with a ball bat. I count on the Dummos to go apeshit and overplay their hand for two years just like under HillBilly. But it will be a looong two years.
. . . People also began speaking of the [9/11] attacks as a "tragedy," as if they were no different in kind from a catastrophic earthquake. This was largely a product of linguistic slovenliness. But as George Orwell once observed, "the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts."
To suggest that 9/11 was anything other than an outrage is one such thought, though really it's more like a form of ideological legerdemain. A tragedy involves no villainy or evil, except perhaps metaphorically; assigns no blame, except perhaps against fundamentally impersonal causes; and prescribes no remedy, much less any form of justice, other than the act of "healing" itself. Marking 9/11 as a "tragedy" thus becomes a way of signifying its political irrelevance.
On the most recent anniversary of 9/11, both candidates walked side-by-side into Ground Zero, presumably to underscore some baseline commonality of purpose. This was appropriate, but it was also in some ways misleading.
The animating impulses of Mr. McCain's life have always revolved around the act of confrontation: against the traditions and methods of the Naval Academy; against his captors in Vietnam; against "special interests," especially those connected to his own party; against Saddam Hussein, Vladimir Putin and the general threat posed by radical Islam. Most, though not all, of these were fights worth having, and 9/11 is a reminder of what happens when they are avoided.
By contrast, Mr. Obama's candidacy rests on the promise of transcendence, though in practice that often seems like a form of slipperiness. He has campaigned on the theme that the old categories no longer apply: not of race or class, or of blue and red states, or of left and right. And in the matter of race, the transcendence Mr. Obama offers is genuinely wonderful.
But not everything is susceptible to transcendence. Terrorists will not be less dangerous by being contextualized in a matrix of threats that includes climate change and global poverty, or because they will be mollified by Mr. Obama's middle name. Nor will Iran be deterred from developing nuclear weapons because a President Obama will restore faith in "brand America."
A global financial crisis has now given voters a fresh reason to turn the page on the 9/11 era and attend to a different set of fears. Electing a "transformational" president might even ease the transition. But it bears keeping in mind that America's second Pearl Harbor only took place when we were well on the road to forgetting about the first one.
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11/04/2008 06:26 ||
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Has to be a tragedy just like a natural disaster. Show and re-showing the pictures of the leapers would only reinforce the evil behind the act. So let's not let the American people see those every day, routinely. It'll only aggravate them. However, pictures from Abu Ghrab.... /sarcasm off
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Hell, the New York Daily Fishwrapper and Small Rodent Cageliner Times even worked Abu Ghraib references into its sports and business sections.
Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) ||
11/04/2008 9:58 Comments ||
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11/4, a day that has the makings of being a tragedy, one more day and we will know. Then it's either a sigh of relief or outrage....
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As argued or inferred long ago, before and after 9-11, the anti-US Islamist = Terror Threat [including aligned] is such that Americans may have to overtly formally conquer the World and OWG-NWO, whether they want to or not, like it or not, etc., in order to preclude another 9-11 event or worse upon America.
AT THIS TIME, DESPITE ITS MANY BATTLEFIELD SUCCESSES AND GEOPOL ENTRENCHMENT, US DOMINATION OF SAID OWG-NWO IS NOT YET ABSOLUTE OR CERTAIN, WHEREAS RADICAL ISLAM, ETC IS SERIOUSLY WEAKENED BY LOSSES BUT STILL REMAINS CAPABLE OF DEFEATING THE US = US-ALLIED, AND IS IN FACT GOING ALL OUT TO NUCLEARIZE + EXPAND THE BREADTH OF ITS JIHAD [Eurasia], ESPEC IN EAST-SOUTH ASIA.
* "GETTYSBURG", "NORMANDY", "CHOSIN", etc. DECISIVE BATTLE/CAMPAIGN ISN'T OVER YET FOR EITHER CAMP.
* E.g. INTERFAX/TOPIX > RUSSIA: CAUCASIA CRISIS IMPACTS THE WHOLE WORLD.
Russia = Vladvedev may not want to publicly admit it before the MSM-Net + World, but IMO they covertly recognize the Islamist threat to HISTORICAL/TRADITIONAL EURASIAN ORDER + ASIAN ORDER, + THAT BY 2020 THE GEOPOL, ETC. MAP OF EAST-SOUTH ASIA AS COLD WAR + EARLY 21ST CENTURY GENERATIONS KNEW IT MAY DE FACTO CHANGE!?
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I have noticed a distinct difference between "African-Americans" and 1st generation immigrants from who are from, you know, Africa. I don't know why there is a difference, but it is there.
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Well minister, some of those recent immigrants from Sudan certainly are leaving an impression.
The article points to statistical racism, that the potential employer expects a lesser capability from the black employee than the white one. Test done using CV's with overtly black names to create differentiation from white's CV's.
The test method doesn't pass the smell test to me. But the expectation has to be based on something. It is my fervent hope that the black community rejects the out-of-wedlock baby, gangsta culture that seems to pervade it so much these days. If Obama (or perhaps the hectoring Michelle) can get this community to focus on excellence then he will gain my respect and leave a very positive legacy for this country. Tall order though, and the usual government programs are not going to achieve my desired result.
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Remoteman. My personal experience is local to the Lewiston Maine Somalis. They originally tried settling in urban Atlanta but the elders had them move again when they started acquiring bad city habits. They've moved to rural Maine, learned English, and gotten jobs and off public assistance. They also appear to be pacifist. It's easy to see how they were forced out of Somalia; they don't fight.
They also can't drive, but THAT is another story.
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bullshit article. It's inner city culture that's the issue for the black community's general failures. Though many blacks are breaking out of that frame work and rising up the socio economic latter. Overall the victocrat mentality and lack of accountability makes urban culture bereft of most anything useful. I doubt Obama if elected will help this issue.
And don't believe the exit polls and other nonsense you encounter during the day tomorrow. You're going to hear and read all sorts of stuff that isn't true.
We'll be at the O-Club with the straight dope.
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11/04/2008 00:00 ||
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"Inside Track" @ The Boston Herald
By the by, Alec, perhaps you should mention to your multiple Emmy Award-winning "30 Rock" co-star Tina Fey that - should she make good on her plan to leave Earth if her doppelganger Gov. Sarah Palin succeeds Dick Cheney - she will lose a ton of TV facetime. A McCain-Palin administration is gold for you, Tina. Gold!
The ubiquitous Black Eyed Peas were there to Get It Started, as were vintage flower children James Taylor and Carole King. But it soon became apparent that their big White House hoedown was turning into a Nightmare on Boylston Street! "It's been an honor and priviledge to work on this campaign," Sweet Baby James told the throng. "I think we've seen an awakening in this country." 
Kerry and his running mate, John Edwards, were scheduled to make an appearance on the Copley Square stage at 11 p.m., but that was a no-go. The vice presidential loser, however, was forced out of hotel hiding around 2:30 a.m, but the crowd had gone home. Ah, the sounds of silence . . .
A simple reminder for today.
