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Countdown Friday: Unity or Bust

Posted: Friday, June 27, 2008 8:59 PM by Countdown
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Unity or Bust:  To hear the newspaper recount it, the top Republican and McCain supporter simply sauntered in to its Washington bureau and dropped the first overt racism bomb of the general election. If it sounds like Grover Norquist's suggestion that Barack Obama was just "John Kerry was a tan" was meant to upstage the Obama-Clinton Unity Love Fest... In our fifth story on the Countdown: he did not quite succeed. Full coverage of Norquist's remark, presently. First: They didn't go to Smiley, Pennsylvania. They didn't go to Compromise, Mississippi. They didn't even go to Happiness Park, Illinois. The forecast: 76 degrees and cloudy this afternoon in Unity, New Hampshire.

Dis Unity:  How do you smear a guy as unpatriotic, without smearing him as unpatriotic? You claim he loves something else... more than his country. Our fourth story tonight, the McCain campaign debuts its anti-Obama strategy. Obama puts himself first, partisanship and party first... over country. The McCain camp memo going out yesterday, with the heading, "Country First versus Self-Serving Partisanship." So who got the memo?

ODDBALL: A bathtub in a tree, a man splashes into water, and a brothel on a bus.

Grover's Trash Mouth:  The story literally walked itself into the Washington bureau of The Los Angeles Times, figuratively bit the editor on the backside, and they put it... on a blog. Our third story on the Countdown: three days after chief strategist Charlie Black's conclusion that a terrorist attack on the U-S would help John McCain's campaign...Republican grandee Grover Norquist crossed the racial line to which McCain had been trying to cleave; crossed it by about 5,000 miles.

Worsties...see below.

WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD:  Congressman Bill Delahunt of Massachusetts and David Addington, Richard Johnson, and Sean Hannity vie for tonight's top honors.

Life On Mars:    Somewhere - H-G Wells is smiling. "The probability is very good for microbial life on Mars" Our number one story on the Countdown - that - the conclusion of the head scientist of the Phoenix Lander Project. That, and we should look out for Martian Asparagus -- probably not super-intelligent Asparagus, but possibly super-nutritious.

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There are not that many people posting on here daily, so I cannot figure out why most of my postings never make it...

Camille M, Lithonia, Georgia (Sent Friday, June 27, 2008 11:58 PM)

Saw the new Obama family ad that's running in Ohio and other similiar states. The values that he implies in this ad is a direct contradiction to what he and his family have been listening to in church (Reverend Wright) over the last 20 or so years.

Full Moon (Sent Saturday, June 28, 2008 10:36 AM)

It was good to see Sen. Obama and Sen. Clinton getting along well in public for a change, which is critical to Sen. Obama's winning in the Nov. election.  The name of the town couldn't have been a better location for this meeting.  With their differences now put aside, they can now focus on what has to be the number 1 priority, getting the Democratic party back INTO the White House, and start repairing the tremendous damage that eight years of GWBush as President has done to the United States and to our Constitution.

Susan, VA (Sent Saturday, June 28, 2008 6:17 PM)

Off topic: no show email address listed, pass this along?  Worst Person nominee... Dumbo at ESPN who ran a crawl promo for Sunday soccer finals WITH names of the teams, during the most exciting last minutes of the first semi-final, Germany-Turkey. Ahh...H E L L O... ESPN, push your broadcast but ruin both semi's by being a bonehead!

Paul S Orlando, FL (Sent Saturday, June 28, 2008 7:25 PM)

I hear X-US Ambassador Bolton crawled out from under a rock to proclaim more fear/hate woes; this time pointed to Israel threating to attack Iran if Obama is elected.    Such a shame ... some children never grow up.

David Blailock (Sent Sunday, June 29, 2008 2:13 AM)

I think most of the media has been soft on John McCain, with the exception of Countdown, Huffington Post, and Newsweek.  It has come out that he and his wife haven't been paying their taxes. How can this be?  Someone that is running for president and not paying taxes.  Good grief!  What chance do the rest of us slobs have.  We go to jail and do not pass Go!

JoAnn, Moundsville, WV (Sent Sunday, June 29, 2008 11:57 AM)

I can't find the appropriate place for this so my apologies, but the layout for this site isn't very intuitive.  Where's the contact link?  (I can only find the main MSNBC.com one.)  Where's the "tips" link?
I've been looking for a while, but fair warning: too much longer and my hate mail will only be dislike mail.

SD, Los Angeles, California (Sent Monday, June 30, 2008 4:25 PM)

Florida is at it again.  Governor Christ has restored the right to vote to 115,000 former non-violent felons.  That's the good news.  He then cut the budget to the department who notifies them that their rights have been restored.  30,000 of these are African Americans and about half are democrats.  After the last fiasco here in Florida maybe Keith can get the word out on this one ahead of time so that the exfelons can get registered and vote. I referenced the front page of the St. Petersburg Times , July 6, 2008, for these statistics. I hope you can help us out down here in the sunshine state.

Patricia Foley (Sent Sunday, July 06, 2008 2:59 PM)



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