KOEB Meeting 06/05/08 Don't Want Your PAC/Lobby Money Edition

[Berry Cool]

:hi: Come join us.

"Charlie Rangel??"

[SeattleGirl]

1. Hi Berry! Howdy all!

I love that Obama rule!

:hi:

[ralps]

2. Hi BerryBush, Hi Everyone! Woohoo!! Kick Ass Barack!!

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[SeattleGirl]

4. Hi ralps!

:hi:

[ralps]

8. Hi SeattleGirl!!

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[WolverineDG]

3. JUST SAY NO!!!

FUCK NO to even OFFERING the VP slot to Hillary!!

:hi: everyone!!

dg

[SeattleGirl]

6. Hi DG!

I'm with you on that!

:hi:

[Berry Cool]

9. Yes indeed! Enough of the "dream ticket" crap!

To me it would be the NIGHTMARE ticket!!! :scared:

And Obama's making his own rules before he even gets elected!

[Botany]

10. Did I ever tell all of you that you are my Fav?

Drive by blog.

Obama gets a three - peat today

1) Hillary is a no go as V.P.

b) No lobbyist money

iii) Obama kicks some Lieberman ass.

Barack drags Joe to the corner and chews him a new ass.
:rofl:

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/06/obama-confronts.html

[SharonRB]

5. Hi, everyone

:hi:

[SeattleGirl]

7. Hi Sharon!

:hi:

[SharonRB]

11. Hi, SG

[WolverineDG]

15. I want that

consider it stolen. :evilgrin:

dg

[SharonRB]

16. Go ahead

I stole it from another thread! :rofl:

[Berry Cool]

12. Apparently some women still haven't gotten the memo

that as you age, you're supposed to go lighter with your hair, not dye it deep black. Or wear a black wig.

Unless you're Vampira, that is.

(Sorry, I'm full of the superficial snark tonight. Was just about to tell Keith the GSB suit doesn't really go with the Obama tie.)

That one supporter of Hillary's looked like Jan Brady trying for a new identity.

[SharonRB]

13. E-mail from Howard Dean re: new DNC policy

Dear Sharon,

I wanted to drop you a quick note about a major policy change here at the Democratic Party.

As we move toward the general election, the Democratic Party has to be the Party of ordinary Americans, not Washington lobbyists and special interests. So, as of this morning, if you're a federal lobbyist, or if you control political action committee donations, we won't be accepting your contribution.

This is an unprecedented move for a political party to make -- one that has sent shockwaves through Washington and has turned the debate on clean campaigns upside down. We've unilaterally agreed to shut lobbyists out of the process, and are we're relying on people just like you.

Just imagine what hundreds of thousands of Americans donating $20, $30, or $50 at a time can accomplish together. Imagine the signal that it sends to anyone who looks at John McCain's political machine and the special interest money it needs to fuel every move it makes.

We have a chance to change the way business is done in this country, and we're taking the lead. Will you join us and make a contribution right now to help us elect Barack Obama?

http://www.democrats.org/nonlobbyists

I've written before about guys like Charlie Black and Rick Davis, lobbyists who are at the highest levels of McCain's campaign. But they're just the start -- John McCain and the RNC suck up lobbyist money millions of dollars at a time.

In May, McCain had his best fundraising month of the campaign, and it was directly because he refuses to shut special interests out.

But we did, and we need your help. This is an example of the kind of White House Barack Obama would run. Make a contribution to help elect him:

http://www.democrats.org/nonlobbyists

I'll be in touch later about our plans for the general election, but I wanted to let you know about our policy change right away.

Thanks,

Howard Dean

[Berry Cool]

14. YIPPEEEE!!!!!

:bounce: Now, Senator McCain, THAT's change we can BELIEVE IN!!!!!!!!! :rofl:

[Berry Cool]

17. Can it be true?? Is Rupert Murdoch going to can Roger Ailes???

I only wish he would.

Then again, he can probably always find a job with the McCain campaign. You know, he can come up with a TV commercial that shows scary black men going through a revolving door and says "If you vote for Obama, who knows who might get elected President next?? WILLIE HORTON???" :scared:

[Patsy Stone]

18. Hi, all!

I have an earache/sinus headache, so I'm listening with my eyes closed. I just wanted to come by and say hello.

Helllloooooo!

[SeattleGirl]

19. Hi Patsy! So sorry you're not feeling well.

:hug:

[Patsy Stone]

33. Thanks, SG!

And here's Richard Clarke to make me feel better. :hi:

I'm going to go now and lay back down on the fainting couch (as Steph would say).

[Berry Cool]

20. HELLOOOOOOOOO PATS!!!!!!!!

:hi: Here's hoping Keith takes pity on you and gives you your marijuana reference early tonight!!

[Berry Cool]

23. Watch us, folks.

Ohio is going to do as Ghoulardi advised and "turn blue."

[Patsy Stone]

29. Nope, but he thanked us for the ratings

and mentioned Miami in the Uroclub story. :loveya:, KO!

Thanks, Berry. :hi:

[SharonRB]

22. Hi, Pats

Hope you feel better soon.

[Patsy Stone]

30. Thanks, Shar

I know you can sympathize. :hi:

[WolverineDG]

31. Aw Pats!

:hug: Hope you feel better soon! :hi: :loveya:

dg

[Patsy Stone]

35. Thanks, DG

I'd stay in an upright position, but I find it difficult to keep my left eye closed -- which is the only way I feel better. :)

[SharonRB]

21. Watch out for those voting machines

They better have enough everywhere to handle the HUGH!!!!! AA turnout.

[SeattleGirl]

24. You know it, Sharon!

I know that Obama can't do it anything directly, but I think he can bet people in the states to make sure that there ARE enough WORKING machines out on voting day.

[Berry Cool]

25. Things will be different this time out.

If Jennifer Brunner has her way, none of us will be USING machines. It'll ALL be on paper.

Anyway, at least Cuyahoga votes on paper. And guess who won't be voting for Stephanie Tubbs Jones if she still lives in this district in a year. Oh man! I could not BELIEVE she and Debbie W-S were supposedly going to write a letter strongarming Obama into putting Hillary on the ticket and then thought better of it!

[Berry Cool]

26. OMG

I had no idea Keith's sister was born on this day in 1968.

In 1968, yes, but not TODAY, of all days.

[Berry Cool]

28. Hey! We're all the 3rd Best Persons tonight!!!!

:bounce:

And that song about peeing was just too funny.

The Uroclub. I heard about that. Yet another useless-to-women object!

"Is that a nine-iron in your bag or are you just happy to see me?"

[SeattleGirl]

27. ROFL!!! That song at the end of Oddball!

:rofl:

[Berry Cool]

32. Wow, that screen shot and Keith's face just said it all.

The images of Bush and Cheney and "THEY LIED."

[Berry Cool]

34. Thanks for the KOOS, Richard Clarke.

And thanks for being honest and telling us that everyone who sold the war to us was full of &@%$#@!

[Berry Cool]

37. "I don't think we can just let these people back into polite society"

You said it!!!!! Why should they become the great and trusted political sages of the future, sitting on university boards? They should be in PRISON!

[SeattleGirl]

36. Am I the ONLY ONE who didn't "rally behind" Bush after 9/11?

I keep hearing people say that everyone rallied behind him after the attacks, but I didn't trust him any more on that day than I did the day before.

[SharonRB]

39. We must have been the only two. n/t

[SeattleGirl]

40. I just never got that.

He was an asshole on 9/10; I had no reason to believe he would be any different on 9/11, and I was right. (And so were you.)

[Berry Cool]

42. I didn't rally behind him, but I was willing to withhold judgment on him at the time.

I thought "Well, I had every doubt in the world that he'd make a good president. I guess we'll find out now just what kind of president he'll make. If he rises to the occasion and handles this well, my hat is off to him and I'll apologize for doubting him."

I never had any idea he'd botch it so badly.

As for Iraq, I remember having this depressed feeling that he was talking out his ass, but it didn't matter because he was so determined to go to war with them, God himself could not stop him from doing so.

[SeattleGirl]

45. I couldn't even go that far. One of my first thoughts was, "Oh god.

We are in so much trouble because of who is in the White House."

[Berry Cool]

47. And I even forgave him for his stupid use of the word "folks" to describe the terrorists.

Told myself he wasn't ready for the situation, it just popped out of his mouth.

Now I know better.

[GigiMommy]

51. THREE

Me too.:hi:

[SharonRB]

38. "We can't let these people back into polite society."

You said it, Richard.

[Berry Cool]

41. Guess I owe you a Coke.

[SharonRB]

43. Thanks, Berry

We posted at exactly the same time.

[Berry Cool]

46. OMG, I heart Keith so bad.

When he does Rupert Murdoch and he goes off on that pirate imitation...

"AAARRRRGGGGHHHH!" :rofl:

[ralps]

44. Today's worst person in the world is Rupert Murcoch! for firing Jane Friedman

for squelching Simpson's book "If I Did it" among other things! :hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[Berry Cool]

48. BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

CNN shows people at a restaurant watching election results...and they're watching MSNBC!!!!!!! :rofl:

[Berry Cool]

49. Whoa, Keith, your jacket's starting to look like a horse collar.

Sit on the back of it!

"A dream bus trip"?

[Berry Cool]

50. OH NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Dan's going to curse me with more of my congresscritter!!!!!!

PLEASE, DAN, NO!!!!! Even Debbie W-S finally straightened up and flew right!!!! But no, MY representative is still out there plugging Hillary!

I'm so ashamed. :blush: