This is uncomfortably hilarious...

This might be the funniest thing I've seen in quite a while

It needs no intro...this is just funny. And it sums up McCain supporters in 1:37...

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Part 7: NEWSWEEK's "Secrets of the 2008 Campaign"

http://www.newsweek.com/id/168017

Part 7 is the last chapter in the series, "Secrets of the 2008 Campaign." It gives you a glimpse into the final days of each campaign.

Once side is focused and even keeled, and the other side seems too busy looking back at what they did wrong. I'll let you decide who is who...

One of the more noble things this series has revealed to me is the Obama campaign's decision to not use the political tactic of "walking around money."

"Walking-around money" is an old and somewhat disreputable political practice of dispensing cash to local pols, grass-roots community leaders and preachers to get out the vote on Election Day, particularly in poorer areas inhabited by racial and ethnic minorities. As money changes hands, a certain amount of winking is typically involved; not all of the funds go to, say, hiring drivers or passing out leaflets, and the recipients are not shy about asking. (During the Robert F. Kennedy campaign for president in 1968, Kennedy operatives made sure not to bid up the going rate for walking-around money, or to hand it out too early, lest they have to pay twice.)

Now, I'm not saying the Obama campaign didn't do this at all, but at least they made it a point to not make "walking around money" a catalyst for their grass roots campaign. Instead of bribes, they just used good old fashioned enthusiasm.

Now that's change I can believe in.

So that concludes my summary of NEWSWEEK's "Secrets of the 2008 Campaign." If you have just been relying on my little blurbs, then you are totally missing out. I found the entire series INCREDIBLY interesting and I highly suggest anyone reading this post to go out and read all seven parts.

Part 6: NEWSWEEK's "Secrets of the 2008 Campaign"

http://www.newsweek.com/id/167950

Part 6 covers the three presidential debates. It talks about how Obama studied for all three debates like he was studying for the bar exam. And McCain almost practiced too hard for them. It seemed like McCain would be told to make sure and say this and do this and then when the debate would come he would take that advice and do it TOO much.

After the first debate, McCain and his handlers reviewed the videotape. Why, one aide asked him, did you never look at Obama? Because you told me not to! McCain retorted. It was true. McCain's debate coach, Brett O'Donnell, had noted Obama's tendency to look directly at an opponent while attacking, and he had instructed McCain not to get sucked in by meeting his gaze. But McCain had taken the advice a little too literally. "We didn't tell you not to look at him at all," one aide chided him.

And there is a little bit on Palin going rouge...

There was grumbling that Palin had jumped the gun by bringing up Ayers at her rallies before the campaign could properly do the groundwork with a rollout strategy and ads. (At one rally, she had talked about Obama "palling around with terrorists.") Palin was mad at her handlers. Reportedly, she felt that Wallace and Schmidt had poorly coached and advised her. One adviser later speculated that she impulsively talked about Ayers because she felt thwarted—she had really wanted to bring up the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Part 5: NEWSWEEK's "Secrets of the 2008 Campaign"

http://www.newsweek.com/id/167905

Part 5 covers the Palin pick and McCain's erratic response to the economic crisis. It is actually really sad to read about. It verifies everyone's suspicion that McCain was unable to rally his own party and that him suspending his campaign (just to have the bill shot down by the Senate) was a terrible mistake.

But when [McCain] returned to Washington from the debate on Saturday and asked to be included in the negotiations, he was rebuffed. McCain worked the phones anyway, trying to muster support for the bill. When the bailout legislation went down to embarrassing defeat that Monday, McCain's inability to rally his own party was painfully obvious. Not even the four Arizona congressmen, all of whom had endorsed McCain, voted for it.

Pathetic.

Part 4: NEWSWEEK's "Secrets of the 2008 Campaign"

http://www.newsweek.com/id/167865

This part covers McCain's campaign and how and why they went negative. It also touches on Obama's "New Media" department. These are the guys in charge of Obama text messaging his VP pick, creating an iPhone application, so on and so forth. And because I'm a geek, I found that part the most interesting...

At the end of August, as Hurricane Gustav threatened the coast of Texas, the Obama campaign called the Red Cross to say it would be routing donations to it via the Red Cross home page. "Get your servers ready—our guys can be pretty nuts," Team Obama said. "Sure, sure, whatever," the Red Cross responded. "We've been through 9/11, Katrina, we can handle it." The surge of Obama dollars crashed the Red Cross Web site in less than 15 minutes.

Awesomeness.

Part 3: NEWSWEEK's "Secrets of the 2008 Campaign"

Part 3 starts with the Clinton campaign after they won New Hampshire and ends with Obama winning a majority of the delegates.

Some of the highlights:

On Sunday, Jan. 13, [Bill] Clinton got worked up in a phone conversation with Donna Brazile, a direct, strong-willed African-American woman who had been Al Gore's campaign manager and advised the Clintons from time to time. "If Barack Obama is nominated, it will be the worst denigration of public service," he told her, ranting on for much of an hour. Brazile kept asking him, "Why are you so angry?"

This one is just odd...

Obama carefully conserved his energy. He was not a man of appetites, like Bill Clinton, who would grab whatever goodie passed by on the tray. Obama was abstemious. Indeed, to the reporters following him, he appeared very nearly anorexic. Most candidates gain the Campaign 10 (or 15). Hillary was struggling with her waistline, as she gamely knocked back shots and beers in working-class bars and gobbled the obligatory sausage sandwiches thrust at her in greasy spoons along the Trail of the White Working-Class Voter. Obama, by contrast, lost weight. He regularly ate the same dinner of salmon, rice and broccoli. At Schoop's Hamburgers, a diner in Portage, Ind., he munched a single french fry and ordered four hamburgers—to go. At the Copper Dome Restaurant, a pancake house in St. Paul, Minn., he ordered pancakes—to go.

Who eats just one french fry??? What the F?