Stewart, Colbert Recreate Controversial Obama Cover

From:
Head of State
http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/09/mccain-and-bushs-kabuki-theatre-mccain.html
Thursday, September 25, 2008
McCain and Bush’s Kabuki Theatre: McCain Contacts Bush To Set Up Meeting To Prop Up His “Suspension”
Now we know why McCain hired the Bush contingent.
It emerged in the White House briefing today that McCain called Bush and asked him to initiate a meeting today at 4 pm at the White House, putatively for him to “deal with” the crisis.
That is, McCain asked Bush to help him create an avoidant trifecta: To try ti\o lend some credence to McCain’s desperate assertion that a suspension of his campaign is necessary, in effect avoiding a debate in which he would face critical questions about his stance on the economy; attempting to co opt the financial crisis thereby trying to put an end to his plummeting in the polls created by his flailing positions on the economy–perhaps best reflected by his statement days ago that the “fundamentals of the economy are strong”; and, while avoiding his own debate, also buying more time for Sarah Palin after her embarrassing photo op at the UN yesterday, by moving her debate forward as well.
Here’s how it happened, according to Q and A at the WHB:
McCain emailed Bush asking for the 4 P.M. meeting. Now, one reasonably might ask, why is today such a necessity for McCain, if his interest is solely the national good?
Because it is before the debate. McCain hopes to stage a meeting at the White House, thereby, with Bush’s cooperation, lending plausibility to his claim to need to suspend his campaign. Then, if Republicans, in their own electoral interest, can be persuaded to come to agreement after the meeting, and before the debate, he would claim–in an act of utter stage management–to have “resolved” the crisis. Thereby hoping to take the heat off on his past careening stances and sliding polls and staunch the bleeding on the polls–before the debate.
This is Kabuki Theatre masquerading as substance–no different than what we saw at the U.N. yesterday.
It is utterly stage managed, utterly cynical, and utterly unrelated to the substantive deliberation necessary to actually resolve these matters on the merits and for our nation’s future, rather than for short-term and desperate political advantage.
These occurrences are equally important for what they indicate about McCain’s governing style as they are for their impact upon democratic process: impulsive acts that rely on drama and theatrical posture rather than substantive reasoning and long-term deliberation; a strong willingness to sacrifice substantive reasoning, deliberative process, and even prior structures and agreements to immediate political need; an attempt to reach outcomes through last minute stage management rather than substantive argument.
These should create deep concern for anyone who wishes for a change in governmental process from the past eight years.
We have an economy, rather than a campaign, to rescue. Putting nation before politics means putting all attempts to resolve it before political attempts to co opt it–and to move towards one’s commitments, rather than towards a more immediate and short-term salvation.
Cite:
Head of State
http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/09/mccain-and-bushs-kabuki-theatre-mccain.html

WELL SERIOUSLY!!
“In light of the collapse of Fannie and Freddie, both John McCain and Barack Obama now criticize the risk-tolerant regulatory regime that produced the current crisis. But Sen. McCain’s criticisms are at least credible, since he has been pointing to systemic risks in the mortgage market and trying to do something about them for years.
In contrast, Sen. Obama’s conversion as a financial reformer marks a reversal from his actions in previous years, when he did nothing to disturb the status quo….All the Republicans on the Committee supported the bill, and all the Democrats voted against it. Mr. McCain endorsed the legislation in a speech on the Senate floor. Mr. Obama, like all other Democrats, remained silent….If the Democrats had let the 2005 legislation come to a vote, the huge growth in the sub prime and Alt-A loan portfolios of Fannie and Freddie could not have occurred, and the scale of the financial meltdown would have been substantially less. The same politicians who today decry the lack of intervention to stop excess risk taking in 2005-2006 were the ones who blocked the only legislative effort that could have stopped it.

lmfao…look at Colbert’s facial expression…dude, that has me rollin…

Frankly, I’m kinda bored watching Stewart and Colbert dry hump Obama’s leg for the past two years.

That is BEAUTIFUL. Too, too good. See? *That’s* what “satire” looks like!
Colbert and Stewart keep us sane.

It’s time someone exposed Stewart and
Colbert for what they are, Left Wing
political hitmen!
What they call humor is nothing more
than a daily attack on Republicans and
specifically President Bush, John
McCain and Sarah Palin!
It is not done in a comedic way either!
It is nasty and vicious!
They have a constitutional right to
free speech but they should each be
required to state before each program that they are members of Barack Obama’s
campaign!

Stewart and Colbert are so passe. You saw the real deal with the writers strike. It wasn’t pretty … or funny. That’s when I stopped watching. They are just like Bush and Obama with their speechwriters and teleprompters. Nothing’s real anymore.

So, is Bush telling Obama, McCain must win this campaign? Does Bush want a third term, that bad? Is an old promise going to be kept? Do you have a Mac computer? How about a color filter? Do you know how to read between the lines? Ever read Plato-’The Cave’?
Life can be pretty interesting, when you understand ‘vision’. More to come later.

How much Bank scandel actually follows McCain? Well, He was investigated and largely exonerated in a political influence scandal of the 1980s as a member of the ‘Keating Five’. His connection to Rick Davis, who imbezzeled money from Fannie Mae, as early as last Month. And was one of his sons, who was a bank auditor, mysteriously left his job , two months before going bankrupt.
I have a question, about any other organizations, he may be a part of.
Americans may be curious to know which one. I suggest transparency be implemented. At least that is McCains platform. It still is, Right?
And guess what, about Todd Palin?
:)
Of course, Sarah could not join. But she could speak at a group meeting. She’s a Female. Only Men join this group. Women join the OTHER ONE. :)
Who wants the answers?
Who is waiting for the book, to come out?

I knew it! Jon Stewart is a Muslim and and Stephen Colbert is a terrorist! There is a picture to prove it!!! ;-)

I Love Colbert and Stewart! I’m also laughing at the comments from reaganfan and brad. It’s a comedy show people! Learn to laugh and learn to recognize the hypocrisy our politicians practice! Don’t be another dumb American please.

Lisa Again, have you been under a rock?

Guess what Colbert/Stewart….I do not see any humor in your little stunt whatsoever! Your like Bill Clinton………..just can’t get over it hey? Ha! Ha! Ha!
The American people always has the last laugh.
Obama/Biden ’08

Lisa Again,
Barack and Michelle Obama were seen toughing fists in a manner that is similar to a “high 5″ in populat culture.
Inexplicably, some conservitives claimed that this was a greeting used by terrorists and in using this gesture the Obamas were signaling sympathy for terrorists.

How much Bank scandel actually follows McCain? Well, He was investigated and largely exonerated in a political influence scandal of the 1980s as a member of the ‘Keating Five’. His connection to Rick Davis, who imbezzeled money from Fannie Mae, as early as last Month. And one of McCains sons, who was a bank auditor, mysteriously left his job , two months before the bank went bankrupt.
I have a question, about any other organizations, he may be a part of.
Americans may be curious to know which one. I suggest transparency be implemented. At least that is McCains platform. It still is, Right?
And guess what, about Todd Palin?
:)
Of course, Sarah could not join. But she could speak at a group meeting. She’s a Female. Only Men join this group. Women join the OTHER ONE. :)
Who is Senator Ricaed Shelby…
Who wants the answers?
Who is waiting for the book, to come out?

The ole terrorist fist bump. Obama taught them well.

Stewart and Colbert are NOT pundits or comedians. They are critics DISGUISED as pundits. Same thing with Maher. These are wanna-be politicos with self esteem issues. I think they are both dolts and not once has either one of them even made me chuckle. The only people who support them are college kids, and 30 something single people with no lives. What a legacy. Totally irrelevant. Not funny. Shut up already please.

“It has cast the first African-American presidential nominee, the oldest [non-incumbent] presidential nominee, and a really wild cork vice presidential candidate completely out of the picture,” Stewart says. “The press is six-year-olds playing soccer; nobody has a position, it’s just ‘Where’s the ball? Where’s the ball? Sarah Palin has the ball!’”
That’s about the best take on the situation I’ve heard.

Wow, I love how all the right wingers are talking about Stewart and Colbert being hacks for the Dems. Are you freaking kidding me, ever watch FOX news?!? Wake up Republocrits, the truth hurts sometimes. Your party has our country in shambles. The Daily Show piece on Karl Rove totally contridicting himself by supporting Sarah Palin isn’t left wing propaganda. It’s just the sad truth!!

ANYBODY but Obama!!

The thing about both the Daily Show and the Colbert Report is that they both rely almost exclusively on exact quotes. They then go back, sometimes as little as a day or two, and find the contradicting statements that show how full of **** the politicians are. They do this for both parties, as can be seen in last night’s Daily Show drubbing of Biden. They go after hypocrites and liars, it just so happens that after 8 years of the most disinenuous administration in history and now the McCain campaign that believes that truth is less important than image, it leads them to bashing Republicans more. Yes, they seemingly support Obama this election, but they still call him on his bull when it occurs. It’s not surprising they support Obama as they actually follow the news and the issues, unlike so many of the McCain supporters who still believe Iraq attacked us on 9/11 and that Palin was against the Bridge to Nowhere. As a proud Independent, I use both shows to help me see through the bull in politics, and it just so happens that one side is more full of it than the other. Hence, Independent for Obama….

In 2005– Senator John McCain partnered with three other Senate Republicans to reform the government’s involvement in lending.
Democrats blocked this reform, too.
More… Not only did democrats not act on these warnings but Barack Obama put one of the major Sub-Prime Slime players on his campaign as finance chairperson.
UPDATE: The media is not reporting that the failed financial institutions are big Obama donors.

I have a funny one for ya……
OBUMA is real change
I was a Democrat/ he changed me to an INDEPENDENT!
I am an INDEPENDENT now voting for a
REPUBLICAN!
NOW THAT IS CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN!!
Now if we could just pick this pimple Obuma off the ass of America there would be HOPE!!

Community Activism, Chicago Style
A $100,000 state grant for a botanic garden in Englewood that then-state Sen. Barack Obama awarded in 2001 to a group headed by a onetime campaign volunteer is now under investigation by the Illinois attorney general amid new questions, prompted by Chicago Sun-Times reports, about whether the money might have been misspent.
The garden was never built. And now state records obtained by the Sun-Times show $65,000 of the grant money went to the wife of Kenny B. Smith, the Obama 2000 congressional campaign volunteer who heads the Chicago Better Housing Association, which was in charge of the project for the blighted South Side neighborhood.
Smith wrote another $20,000 in grant-related checks to K.D. Contractors, a construction company that his wife, Karen D. Smith, created five months after work on the garden was supposed to have begun, records show. K.D. is no longer in business.
Attorney General Lisa Madigan — a Democrat who is supporting Obama’s presidential bid — is investigating “whether this charitable organization properly used its charitable assets, including the state funds it received,” Cara Smith, Madigan’s deputy chief of staff, said Wednesday.
In addition to the 2001 grant that Obama directed to the housing association as a “member initiative,” the not-for-profit group got a separate $20,000 state grant in 2006.

You Mccain supporters are all afraid and you cannot see what Stewart and Colbert and many others know: that Barack Obama is entitled to this election. Nothing can stop him and nothing will stop him. The racist Clintons and their racist supporters could not stop him because he is the true candidate.
Stop being afraid and accept that the days of white supremacy are soon to be over.
“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
- Barack Obama, Super Tuesday

anyone in goverment that votes for this stupid bail out should be run out of office and colbert and stewart are terrorist. everyone knows that.

How about 700 billion to fight the stupidity crisis!!!
I am a repub and if you cannot laugh at these two you are either up tight or dumb or both.
I am not voting for the stupid (3rd dumbest at WEst Point) old guy and a mother of five from another world, USA who has been out of the country once, last year!! While we are in two wars? In the worst financial mess since the Depression?
Buffet said it two days ago when he put 5 billion in the stockmarket, “I always bet on brains”.
I am going with Harvard Law and Columbia.

Brad: maybe you should stick to “fair & balanced” FOX news HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA! What a joke that station is – I sure get a lot of laughs out of it -speaking of ‘dry humping’ – (nice image, by the way), did you see Sean H. “interview” Sarah? (“Sarah… did you see how bad Obama is? Yeah? Me too – he’s BAD! Sarah… do you think Obama is mean? Yeah? Me too – He’s MEAN!”… THAT’s an interview??????? Well, I guess for FOX it passes for one.)

Bush has used every scare word he could think of to push his scam on the American public: urgent, panic, risk, danger, harm, damage, harm, schare and all of the same words he used to push through the war in Iraq, the Patriot Act, wiretapping, etc.
This bill is one of the worst scams on the American public in history. Why should the average American pay for the party that Wall Street had? And, of course, they want to do it without any potential liability to themselves. Take a look a Section 8 of this rip-off bill:
“Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.”
It’s called covering your arse.

Sevres blue, funny I thought the same when I read HP Boston’s post. I thought that guy must be racist. I just thot it was interesting we were thinking the same on that.

Just because your liberal doesn’t mean you have a monopoly on the word “sh*t”. If Obama gets elected, it will be a lot worse than Bush Sh*t.

I liked the cover of The New Yorker a lot better, it was more realistic.

Most people believe Obama was a muslim and still has ties to his religion. Why was Obama doing business with Resko, a convicted muslim criminal, for 17 years?

I never did know what the problem was with the “fist bump” anyway. It is not a black thing anymore; it’s a kid thing. My three-year-old does it because the eight-year-old neighbor boy taught her the fist bump & the peace sign. We are as white as you can get; we even live on a golf-course in a country club for goodness sakes. Blonde hair; blue eyes & wear nothing but polo shirts & khaki pants… and we do the fist bump… what’s the big deal?

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Yay — comedianidates!
http://lifeisacookie.wordpress.com/2008/09/26/mock-the-vote/

“If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself,” Parker writes. Prominent conservative columnist Kathleen Parker, an early supporter of Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin, said Friday recent interviews have shown the Alaska governor is “out of her league” and should leave the GOP presidential ticket for the good of the party.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

TRUTHINESS!