Good news, Obama supporters!

[Coexist]

after the few morning shows, I have been watching CNN and MSNBC pretty much nonstop for the past couple hours after getting my eyes dialated, and...

- stingray kills woman in Florida

- How to negotiate with your lender if your payment is too much for you with an ARM

- huge kiddie porn ring arrest in Polk County, FL (of course, that place is scary!)

- Floods in the south

- McCain pissed at Obama's speech where he called him a doddering old fool not to be trusted with the country

- No revote in Michigan

- How to protect yourself in a troubled economy

- How to prepare for alzheimers

- Iraq - 5th snniversary

- Cheney is still a Dick


What is missing? Hmm....







you tell me!

[Cant trust em]

1. It can't possibly be hot for too long

It came at a great time for Obama. Four weeks before the next big contest. How long can we talk about one thing?

[Drunken Irishman]

17. Exactly.

This went on longer than I expected, but do people really believe it was going to dominate the news every day through March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October and then November?

Hardly.

[Cant trust em]

21. Frankly, this isn't interesting enough and there won't be new developments

for this story to last. It's not like Lewinskygate where it seemed to go on forever because it was juicy and we kept getting new information. This is a decent sized controversy, but there's plenty of time for Obama to work his magic.

Alakazam and Jeremiah Wright disappears!

[ginnyinWI]

27. I had predicted Tuesday, so it was two days late for me.

Still not bad. Not bad at all. The Speech probably helped put it to bed. The last people to see this seem to be some DUers.

[Coexist]

29. it was just a short blurb, followed by Clinton/NAFTA issue (much longer)

I think it is petering out

[roguevalley]

38. it was probably a tactical mistake, thank god, for it to come this

early. amateurs. If they wanted to knee cap this man, they should have done it closer to the Penn campaign. It is awful that some campaigns believe poor and working people are kneejerk racists. That would make sure I never voted for them.

[Cant trust em]

39. If I wanted to kill the Obama campaign,

I would have dropped this on the Thursday before the voting on Tuesday.

[ericgtr]

2. Side not on Cheney..

that guy IS a total dick, I couldn't believe what he said when he was asked what he though about the fact that 3/4 of America no longer supporter this war.. "So?" with a fuck you expression. That guy is a prick.

[Alter Ego]

3. That poor woman...

[backscatter712]

4. "stingray kills woman in Florida"

"Look! A dead white woman!!!"

She's white, right?

How long till they dig up Natalie Holloway again? or Anna Nicole Smith?

[Coexist]

7. they haven't shown her yet, but the stingray is friggin HUGE!

and the damn thing JUMPED INTO THE BOAT and impaled her.

Every time I heard it, I thought of Steve Irwin.

[comrade snarky]

30. It's tragic

But as Bill Maher said "It's not called a HUG Ray!"

[bluestateguy]

15. Right now, I would love to see the media indulge us with more Natalie Holloway

For once, I will not complain about it.

[Cant trust em]

19. There was a story on Elizabeth Smart the other day

You know, the cute little white girl from Utah or something that got kidnapped a few years ago. Apparently she's going to college this year. This is why I have to cherry pick my news on the internet. What cable news blasts in front of my face is totally unwatchable.

[TwilightGardener]

5. Stingray attack? OK, that IS news. Because dammit, I lived in FL

and used to go swimming at Treasure Island beach in St. Pete every weekend with my kids, and we used to watch rays swim by all the time, and do the stingray shuffle. Yikes!

[Coexist]

9. read Post 7 - it jumped into the boat

unreal. I remember going snorkeling and feeding them.

[TwilightGardener]

14. Egads! We used to say, Wow, stingrays! Cool! We were not too afraid

of them, but then we moved to the land-locked corn and wheat fields of Nebraska before the Irwin incident. Now I'd be a chickenshit, going to the beach today.

[SoCalDem]

20. CNN blondette was gaga and asked the fish & game guy if there would be an investigation

surrrrre lady, we're gonna interview all his family & friends.. and they will say..

"Ray?...he was a quiet guy,..,kept to himself"..

[TwilightGardener]

23. It's a shame about Ray.

(for those who remember the Lemonhead song)

[Coexist]

25. lol!

[Arugula Latte]

40. Holy crap! What a weird, freak accident.

:wow:

[bluestateguy]

6. Yep

The Wright story will only go away when MSM gets tired of it, or some other major news breaks. Even Fox will follow this cycle, thoguht it will take them longer to move on, but they will.

[knixphan]

8. "- Cheney is still a Dick"

priceless.

[futureliveshere]

10. Waiting for Prime Time

Well, I have been saying that this has come at the right time for Obama for 2 reasons.
1. There is a large time gap b/w the primaries.
2. The next primary is PA which he is EXPECTED to lose even before this blew up. So no big deal. Any hope HRC had of getting the AA votes in Philly have vanished after this. Notice no one in the media is mentioning that anymore!!

I predict this will continue to be an issue for this week (morning and evenings) and then the press will begin to move on. The GOP will not want to release attack ads now and HRC cannot be seen promoting this issue. So this too shall pass and Obama will continue to win.

[comrade snarky]

33. I completely agree

The timing couldn't be better for Obama. Without new revelations this story will slowly fade over (I think) the next 2 weeks. There's just not enough to sustain it. It's not sexy, the media talking heads are running out of things to say about it and he's answered the questions. The Clinton camp could try to keep it simmering through surrogates but that will reflect badly on them after Obama's speech.

I do expect it to stay on the freeper radar, but then those people are obsessive and more than a little touched in the head. It will also stay in rotation in the RW media for a little longer but there is no way to keep it at the current fevered pitch for 7 months without something more. If there were more clips we'd have seen them by now.

This also means that when the 501c3's make the nasty little adds we all know they will in 6 months Obama can dismiss it as old news everyone with a brain has moved on from and onto real issues like the economy, the war and health care. And isn't it sad the way they keep trying to bring this old isue up.

Edited for spelling (D'oh!)

[knixphan]

11. time to start investigating 'The Family'

[Coexist]

12. 'the Family'???

[here_is_to_hope]

16. "The Fellowship", something about Hillary and her church? n/t

[Coexist]

18. ahhh.. I was thinking someone "now he has mafia ties?!"

[backscatter712]

26. Is Hillary's church group like the Manson Family? n/t

[Texas Hill Country]

13. Governors of NY and NJ gettin freaky

[blogslut]

22. Okay, that Polk county bit is interesting

Finally, old Grady Judd gets one right.

[Coexist]

24. Polk County *shudder* if those Preachers want to talk about God punishing an area

for its sins, Polk got hit by ALL THREE HURRICANES that passed across Florida a couple years ago. They crossed there, even though they came from different directions.

There are billboards there that bemoan the fact that a teenager gives birth every 15 minutes in Polk County. My husband used to have to drive through every day on his way to work - he was so grossed out by all the chemical and fertilizer plants there.

R. Kelly CHOOSES to live there.

Ick.

[blogslut]

28. I've never been there but

I know some folks from there and they don't speak fondly of it.

[Bullet1987]

31. I'm not getting my hopes up...wait for the primetime shows

like Hardball, Lou Dobbs, and Race to the White House. I predicted the end of the week.

[Teaser]

32. what is with the stingrays lately

Killing people, gettin' all gangsta and shit...

[comrade snarky]

35. LOL - Representin the shallow water!

[K Gardner]

34. You missed Larry Elder on CNN talking about about Wright, Obama and "stupid black men" w/

the wright footage running, and talking about what a fraud Obama is for attending a RACIST church. Larry is a black man, too. New MSM strategy.

[Coexist]

37. I'm sure it will get a little more mileage, but it is dying.

little by little.

[AntiFascist]

36. I must have missed the comment about McCain...

:rofl: