When I first read Seth Grahame-Smith's July 1 blog in the Huffington Post I had a nice chuckle starting with the title, "All of McCain's Base Belongs to Us; Why It Won't Even Be Close." Grahame-Smith's over the top confidence in the certainty of Barack Obama's election victory was so gloatingly bold as to be quite hilarious in its assertions (emphasis mine):
It's over.
It's mathematically impossible for John McCain to win.
Were the great Tim Russert still with us, he would call the election for Obama at 7pm Eastern time. No, I'm not talking about November 4th -- I mean tonight.
Yup! It was all over as of July 1. However, Grahame-Smith was only getting warmed up:
Call it whatever you want: arrogance, a jinx -- but let's be honest with ourselves -- this thing is over. I know, I know. "A lot can happen between now and November." I know that we Democrats are used to scurrying around like we're on Meerkat Manor, with a sky full of Neocon hawks overhead. I know that we've perfected the art of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. But can't you feel it in the smog-kissed air? Feel that this year is different? This year, we've got a candidate who refuses to cower in the face of the old Rove/Atwater/Dobson line of attack. A candidate who understands that you can't change the world unless you win, and that you don't have to sell your soul to do it. And despite some bruises, we've got a Democratic Party on its way toward unprecedented unity and energy.
Uh-huh. We heard you, Grahame-Smith. It's over. In fact the election is a mere technical formality in the coronation of Barack Obama as president. Not content to just describe Obama's "inevitable" victory, Grahame-Smith also stomped on the grave of McCain's sure defeat:
I don't care if footage of Obama snorting coke off Scarlett Johansson's boobs surfaces in late October. All it will do is bolster his standing with white males. I don't care if McCain is introduced by a resurrected Jesus Christ at the convention. All it will do is piss off Joe Lieberman. McCain won't just be defeated, he'll be crushed. And not just Bob Dole crushed, but crushed in a way that redefines the political map for the next 25 years.
He'll be crushed so decidedly, that bartenders will coin a new drink called "The McCrush" -- vodka and Orange Crush over crushed ice, served in a hollow flip-flop with a sprig of pandering. The networks will switch over to infomercials at 10pm on Election Night, because they'll have nothing left to cover after Obama's victory speech. Webster's will add the word "McCained" to its thesaurus entry for "crushed." Gamers will start taunting each other with new words like "Obampwnd!" and "McNoob!." Somewhere, out there in the everlasting ether of death, Barry Goldwater will feel better about himself.
Well, that was Grahame-Smith gloating about Obama's "inevitable" victory on July 1. Now that the dog days of summer have set in, along with harsh electoral reality, Grahame-Smith's tone has suddenly changed. That happy slam dunk end zone victory dancing has been replaced by anger as you can see in his August 19 blog:
Dear Mainstream Media,
For all the attention you've lavished on John McCain's Saddleback "victory," not ONE of you has asked him ANY of the obvious follow-ups:
The now glum Grahame-Smith angrily puts forth a series of questions that he wants the MSM to ask of John McCain in the wake of Obama's disastrous performance at the Saddleback church forum. In fact, Grahame-Smith is now sounding so desperate that he puts his request as "An Urgent Appeal to the MSM." Here are a couple of the questions that he urgently wants the MSM to ask of McCain:
Question #1: "Did you err when you attributed the 'cross in the dirt' story to yourself, and if not, why didn't you ever mention it before 1999?"
Question #2: "Why weren't you sequestered during Senator Obama's conversation with Pastor Rick Warren as you were supposed to have been?"
The once overconfident Grahame-Smith concludes on a somewhat less than confident desperate note:
Look -- I realize that it's scary to test McCain in person. After all, there's always the chance he'll Hulk out and beat you to death with one of his $500 loafers. (See? I can say anything I want, because I live on the Internet, where John McCain will never find me). But for the love of Edward R. Murrow, will one of you PLEASE grow a spine and ask the obvious?
Please?
So why are you so worried, Seth? You already declared this election to be over back at the beginning of July and that "it's mathematically impossible for John McCain to win."
Perhaps Seth Grahame-Smith should view this Louie Award video warning about the dangers of overconfidence.
—P.J. Gladnick is a freelance writer and creator of the DUmmie FUnnies blog.




















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August 21, 2008 - 08:41 ET by FastEdfor re-posting in November - I'd be interested in the response then. Will we see such headlines as: "Robbed!", "Race WAS a Factor", "I was just kidding", or maybe "Never mind!".
Suggestions!?
Am wondering - is his "mathmatics" based on what he learned in public school, or at the knees of dead Chicago voters?
There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V
Suggestion 1.0
August 21, 2008 - 10:57 ET by neighb***** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE *****
(AP) Jan. 21, 2009 WHITEHORSE, YUKON TERRITORIES
Long-time internet blogger Seth Grahame-Smith was found dead today in his plywood treehouse from what appears to be a self-inflicted wound
Grahame-Smith had recently moved to Whitehorse from Blogosphere, California after the sweeping victory this past November 4th by John McCain over Barack Obama. Fellow tree neighbors like bears, owls and woodticks said that Grahame-Smith had seemed hyper-depressed over the past several days and had been seen despondently sitting at his computer slowly shaking his head and sobbing quietly.
Grahame-Smith had been well known in Blogosphere as a happy-go-lucky and somewhat boastful chap who was known to at times be rather drunk on Kool-Aid. But after McCains unexpected victory and Obama's check-in to the Betty Ford Center to receive treatment for his cocaine and "uh, er, uh, uh, you know, uh, er" addictions, Grahame-Smith had become extremely despondent.
After the election, Grahame-Smith to some had seemed dillusional as he kept saying to friends that he'd been seeing pigs fly and claimed that he was certain that Hell had frozen over. Grahame-Smith quietly slipped out of the Blogosphere, CA area in early December and was reported by friends as being missing until his body was discovered here in the Yukon Territories this morning.
Authorities say that Graham-Smith's body will be removed from his treehouse within days unless, "Vultures get to it first" and that, "an autopsy will be performed on whatever is left."
Burial services are pending.
I love it.
August 21, 2008 - 08:44 ET by superconThe lefties are still crying about Saddleback and the best they can come up with is the cone of silence thing.
Question #2: "Why weren't you sequestered during Senator
Obama's conversation with Pastor Rick Warren as you were supposed to
have been?"
Maybe he shoulkd get Patrick Fitzgerald to investigate it.
Obama's numbers have been dropping ever since his glorious world tour that he thought would give him foreign policy gravitas.
It made him look like a pompous rookie.
Then McCain smoked him at Saddleback to make it even worse.
Obama has one last chance at his convention next week to shore up his poll numbers. If he doesn't get a significant boost from that then he is toast.
Victory in Iraq.
Liberals suck.
McCain for Preznint.
If He Cheated-----
August 21, 2008 - 09:45 ET by CaringwhiteguyThat would indeed make McCain a clear choice for President. Imagine, taking all that he gleaned from "secretly eavesdropping" on the other guy for a few minutes and turning it into the excellent presentation he gave - - - Wow! McCain's skills are phenomenal! And right on the issues too.
If he cheated?
August 21, 2008 - 09:59 ET by Cool ArrowThis clip is just funny because it shows how articulate Obama's followers are.
"Oratator"? h/t Popular Tech
I ♣ my seal
Seth Grahame-Smith
August 21, 2008 - 08:44 ET by Cool ArrowAhhh that's true Liberation. Looky there! He kept his maiden name.
I ♣ my seal
What a clown
August 21, 2008 - 08:44 ET by PurdueMattWho actually reads drivel like that?
I wouldn't call this guy
August 21, 2008 - 09:00 ET by BruzillaI wouldn't call this guy arrogant, just optimistic. This is a very unusual election. On the one side you've got a guy with little going for him experience or ability wise, and on the other side you have a guy that many in his party don't like. In that environment anything is possible. Even worse, both candidates are displaying tendency to do stupid stuff like foreign trips or considering running mates who are an anathema to his core voters. At this point any prediction about the outcome of this election could be correct.
I would call that blog a lot
August 21, 2008 - 09:15 ET by motherbeltI would call that blog a lot of things; optimistic isn't one of them.
Say what?
August 21, 2008 - 19:04 ET by CobraMan"This is a very unusual election."
I don't see how you can make this claim. It looks just like every other election that I have witnessed over the last 40 years.
"On the one side you've got a guy with little going for him experience or ability wise"
How is this unusual? There have been literally HUNDREDS of candidates without any real experience who ran for public office over the last 200 years. A lot of those ran for president too. And quite a few have actually won their elections! How DO people get experience anyways? Are they born with it?
"On the other side you have a guy that many in his party don't like."
What's your point? "Many" does not mean a majority, so who cares?
I can guarantee you that "many" Democrats don't like Obama, or Hillary, or any other Democrat, past and present. The same is true with every party that exists today or has existed in the past. How is this different than any other election?
"At this point any prediction about the outcome of this election could be correct."
Dewey Wins!
Obama: My job is above my pay grade
A Big Zero
August 21, 2008 - 09:10 ET by Lee Boggs0 - 0 = Seth Grahame-Smith.
Why even give this loser a headline?
P.J., that video is
August 21, 2008 - 09:18 ET by motherbeltP.J., that video is hialrious! You're going to crash Dollard's site LOL!
Oh, jeez, the "cross in the dirt" story...McCain gets pwned!
That's sooooo much more important than Obama lying about his vote on the BAIPA!
And already starting with the "McCain cheated at Saddleback!" whine.
Yup, Seth, if Obama loses, that will be the reason! Please explain how "McCain heard the questions" explains Obama's dismal performance.
Sheesh.
Saddleback
August 21, 2008 - 09:26 ET by Cool ArrowI look at all the questions asked, and consider the open book that is John McCain, and I think each answer he gave was perfect.
None of Obama's answers weren't believable because he hasn't let us know that much about him.
Obama's ventriloquist could use some practice too.
I ♣ my seal
The Louie Award
August 21, 2008 - 09:34 ET by BlondeRight you are, mb....that was hillarious. Put coffee down before viewing that link.
Did you read some of the comments there?
There's going to be a McCrush cocktail allright....however I think it might be called a Louie (quit jumping around like an idiot!) and it's going to be a based on cranberry juice, not blue curaco, if you get my drift.
David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive
MB, It's simple really. In
August 21, 2008 - 09:45 ET by MassConservMB, It's simple really. In their world, "McCain sucks worse than Obama" is an Absolute Principle. As such, the fact that Obama "augered in" (yes, I used to watch J.A.G.) at Saddleback has little objective meaning. Therefore, the only way that McCain could have done better than Obama is to have cheated by listening to the questions and his reponses.
It makes perfect sense. If you're a moonbat.
Alright, I know your request for explanation was rhetorical. ;-)
Yes, MassCon....but even if
August 21, 2008 - 09:50 ET by motherbeltYes, MassCon....but even if McCain heard the questions, how does that explain Obama's lousy answers?
PS Are you from Mass???? My husband and I both grew up in Worcester.
Exactly MB - Obama is responsible for his lousy answers
August 21, 2008 - 10:20 ET by Dee Bunkand even if McCain heard the questions and answers (which there is no proof of) the very most he could have heard was the first half. McCain's performance and style was consistent to the end.
Also, if he had heard there would have been no time to rehearse and memorize answers, especially for an old .coot like him. The whole accusation is paranoid and partisan. It's unbelievable that the media would forward this kind of thins is absurd.
MB, That's why I figured
August 21, 2008 - 11:32 ET by MassConservMB, That's why I figured that "McCain Sucks" covers all arguements. Obama's an empty suit and can't answer anything unscripted, so the fact that he did so bad can only mean that McCain answered better by "cheating". Not that I subscribe to that lame accusation.
Sorry, that's the best I can do without trying to get inside the mind of a moonbat. Really not somewhere I want to go.
PS, Yep, I'm from Mass. Still in state. I thought I remembered you saying some time ago that you were originally from Worcester. Me too. Born at Memorial and lived in the city until I got married 15 years ago. Then moved out to the "country" where the missus grew up.
Here are some bonafides:
Woosta, home of Coney Island Hot Dogs, "bubblers" and "tonic". ;-)
Born at Hahnemann. (Don't
August 21, 2008 - 13:03 ET by motherbeltBorn at Hahnemann. (Don't know what it's called now). Been away 37 years now, but I still say "bubbler." LOL
I tell people to pronounce it Wussta...like "what a wuss." That usually clarifies it for them.
MB, Hahnemann is still
August 21, 2008 - 13:09 ET by MassConservMB, Hahnemann is still there, sort of. Lets see if I can keep this simple... UMass acquired both Memorial and Hahnemann, so now it's called UMass Memorial - Hahnemann. Last time I checked it was strictly an out-patient facility.
Yeah, never knew they were called anything else until I met people who looked at me funny when I used that word. ;-)
I've managed to find my R's too. (Probably from watching too much TV)
Wussta is probably a better phonetical spelling. How many times have you had people ask you about Worchester, or War-kester? Probably not recently as least. :-)
Lord,
August 22, 2008 - 03:43 ET by kathleenirishLord, Help Us!
They call it 'Wooster' in England, where the name comes from, so I never understood people's problem with our pronunciation of that word.
I will never give up my accent! Would other parts of the country do so? No! So, why should we??? It comes from our first settlers being from eastern England, and that's fine with me.
It's WICKED!
Too bad no one says, "tonic" anymore. Gone the way of many local colloquialisms, unfortunately! That was always a very localized term, even so. Excuse me, gotta go eat my grinder and drink my frappe now.
Hey Kathleen, Wicked,
August 22, 2008 - 09:23 ET by MassConservHey Kathleen,
Wicked, indeed. Or is that wickid? ;-)
Yeah, at least we still pronounce the name correctly. My sister moved to PA a few years back and the Worcester down there is actually pronounced "War-kester". Go figure.
Hmmm... An Italian grinder sounds pretty good right now.
Wow
August 21, 2008 - 09:30 ET by Mark_for_SenateThat 'Reality-based Community' sure is smart. Apparently, today's education system(s) fail to teach anything about fact gathering, scientific method or cognitive reasoning. Facts are facts, regardless of whether they fit your idealogy. The R-bC has installed filters so that any 'non-conformance' data bounces off and is dismissed as non-existent. This 'feature' basically nulls any chance of 'learning' or acquiring knowledge and/or experience that may be helpful for advancement or even survival. It is comforting to see evidence that a majority of this nation have adequate 'reasoning' ability. Perhaps there is hope that Seth can some day actually become 'educated'? God help us all if Seth and his ilk are unable (or unwilling). Thank you, PJ, for what I'm sure was very painful research!
To know and not do, is to not yet know
Poor Seth- I guess he's
August 21, 2008 - 09:32 ET by charlietexasPoor Seth- I guess he's alittle Saddle-sore.
hahahhaha
Good one, charlietex!!
August 21, 2008 - 09:51 ET by motherbeltGood one, charlietex!!
Just more proof...
August 21, 2008 - 10:03 ET by AtillaKahunaThat this http://z.about.com/d... really should be the official seal of the Democrat party.
What a bunch of crybabies. Your lightweight, half-wit, empty-suit egomaniac is showing his true nature, and the people of the United States of America aren't going to put up with it any more.
Get over yourself, leave your ivory tower, and join the rest of us in reality.
Kahuna
I love the smell of Dem
August 21, 2008 - 11:08 ET by bassndudeI love the smell of Dem sweat in the mornings.
Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!
bass...
August 21, 2008 - 11:19 ET by Clear thinkerNot me. My first wife was a Dem.
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Oh my CT...glad to see you
August 21, 2008 - 11:22 ET by bassndudeOh my CT...glad to see you got rid of her.
Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!
Best move I ever
August 21, 2008 - 11:26 ET by Clear thinkerBest move I ever made!
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What lame follow up questions
August 21, 2008 - 12:29 ET by Dee BunkThey have nothing to do with the issues.
I've got some follow up questions for Obama that the media are afraid to ask not because he can clobber them with a good answer, but because they are afraid of not being invited to the next hip party in Hollywood.
Question 1. - Your only example of crossing party lines and supporting something against your party was The Ethics Bill with McCain and didn't that actually end badly with you backing out from party pressure? Is this the only time you even made a feeble attempt to temporarily go against the far left in your party?
Question 2 - You claim that the abortion question is above your pay grade but isn't it true that picking judges who decide these questions is the Presidents responsibility?
Question 3 - Is there anyone to the left of you on the abortion issue? Isn't yours the most extreme position out there if you support killing babies born alive and making exceptions for any "health" problem of the mother up until the point of birth?
Question 4 - You say you are against gay marriage but for civil unions but isn't that irrelevant when you would appoint judges that would force gay marriage on all the states?
Question 5 - How would you "confront" the terrorists and other evil people that you say exist?
Question 6 - You quoted a bible passage about doing for the least fortunate among us as one of the most important things about Christianity to you, why is it that when you and your wife were "super rich" by your definition of $250,000 you only managed to hover around 1% in charitable donations and even after your huge book sales put you in the millionaire club, you still didn't tithe (10%) which is considered customary in Christianity even for people less fortunate? Do you think Jesus meant to shift personal charitable responsibility of individuals to the Government?
I have lots more but I"m out of time.
Right Challange, Wrong Phrasing
August 21, 2008 - 13:34 ET by CobraMan"Question 2 - You claim that the abortion question is above your pay grade but isn't it true that picking judges who decide these questions is the Presidents responsibility?"
You, and everyone else for that matter, are right to challenge Obama for his "above my pay grade" remark, but you should phrase that challenge differently.
I'd phrase it like this:
Senator Obama, you claim that determining a particular fact, like the moment that life begins, is "above my pay grade" as you have put it. As a Senator isn't it your JOB to determine such facts so that you may codify them into law? As we all know this to be true, that a Senator MUST make determinations of fact, are you actually admitting that you really are not qualified to be a Senator? If you're not qualified to be a Senator, as your statement implies, how can you be qualified to be the President, a position where it is even more likely that you must quickly determine a fact and act according?
Ouch! Cobra, I'd love to see
August 21, 2008 - 13:44 ET by MassConservOuch!
Cobra, I'd love to see someone ask the question that way.
Somehow I picture Obama responding in a manner similar to The Armadillo superhero character in the Capitol One credit card commercial.
Send it to Rush
August 21, 2008 - 14:07 ET by CobraManI have heard hundreds of people refer to the President’s ability to appoint Judges and use Obama’s statement as an example as to why he‘s Unfit For Command, so to speak, but I have yet to hear anyone remark that Obama thinks that his current JOB is above his pay grade!
OBAMA CLAIMS HIS JOB IS ABOVE HIS PAY GRADE!
People should send this message to every conservative news and information outlet in America. I want to hear this in the press, on the radio, and on TV EVERY DAY until the election.
New Sig Line
August 21, 2008 - 14:16 ET by CobraManI finally found a signature line that I like.
OBAMA CLAIMS HIS JOB IS ABOVE HIS PAY GRADE!
I like it. Might I add,
August 21, 2008 - 14:31 ET by MassConservI like it.
Might I add, Obama: Underqualified and Overpaid.
I like it too Cobra Man
August 21, 2008 - 16:02 ET by Dee BunkGood point!
Mathematically "challenged"
August 21, 2008 - 14:22 ET by CobraMan"It's mathematically impossible for John McCain to win."
You're wrong, dummy. It’s mathematically impossible to determine a winner or loser of any election when there isn’t any recorded votes for you to count. How do you count the votes that are yet to be cast?
Where did this idiot learn mathematics? I’d love to see the calculations that he uses to determine the number of apples in an empty barrel.
Insane Perhaps?
August 21, 2008 - 12:54 ET by AndyRSeth Grahame-Smith has consumed the Koolaid. If they had to put a picture next to the phrase, "Liberalism is a mental disorder" it would be Seth's picture.
Credit to Michael Savage on the quote.
Bob Dole ???
August 21, 2008 - 12:56 ET by LionKingBob Dole was crushed? Oh, that's right. Clinton was re-elected with less than 50% of the popular vote because of the Reform Party effect, but oddly, it had no bearing on Dole. </sarcasm>
Overconfident Grahame-Smith at the HuffPo
August 21, 2008 - 14:03 ET by AvitarGrahame-Smith is probably right in Obama's victory in the Smog-kissed air. His problem is that Obama will loose everywhere the air is not smog-kissed. Big cities with their political machines cannot deliver a large enough vote for Obama to win.
There is the David Dinkins effect where polling white democrats whose grand parents voted for Jim Crow laws and were members of the KKK eighty years ago gives misleading results. Because they lie and tell you that, they will vote for a black man. Then there is the Roe effect where the population of Children of Republicans has grown by a million over the population of the children of Democrats since the last Presidential election. Add in the that the Liberal lock on the media began to crack in 1994 and not even the media super heavy weights can get away with what Walter Cronkite got away with in 1964.
Grahame-Smith using the term Neo-Con is telling. How about Paleo-cons as a term for those of us whose conservative ancestors fought against both Andrew Jackson and Jefferson Davis when they were founding the liberal Democratic Party?
I have never enjoyed using
August 21, 2008 - 14:27 ET by bigtimerI have never enjoyed using the word desperation more than the last week....
...and all the little leftist critters are in panic mode now...desperation fits them all to a tee.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
Over-confidence
August 21, 2008 - 18:25 ET by KansasgirlThis guy is going to have a meltdown. I hope he survives.