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Tuesday, September 2, 2008

These are the days, my friends

John McCain has never met "my friends" he hasn't liked.

So, to make this week go more smoothly, we suggest the Republican convention drinking game center around the presumptive nominee's love of "my friends."

Last week, my colleague Dan Rubin suggested the Dems drinking game be wedded, or rather liquored, in "change."

This week, let's hoist a St. Pauli Girl or three to "my friends," John McCain's mantra.

Slate.com has a wonderful post of the use of the phrase, and it's importance in political history.

Read it here slate.com
Posted by Karen Heller @ 7:33 PM  Permalink | 8 comments
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 9:12 PM, 09/02/2008
    cricketsssssssssssssssssssss Palin in '16!
    — jeffreyg61
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 9:26 PM, 09/02/2008
    Wow and she is paid for this drivel. Bye Bye Inky, bye bye.
    — bgpoppapump
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:21 PM, 09/02/2008
    when i canceled the inquirer home delivery, they asked why. I said, poor reporting incredible liberal bias.. hey brian t.. look at your post here and in daily news from the racist fatima ali.. sad state of affairs for the 4th estate.
    — stevejones
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:52 PM, 09/02/2008
    You know, I'm not impartial here, because these are "my friends," but there was a Democrat drinking game (ch-ch-ch-ch-change) and a Republican drinking game proposed on our blogs and I fail to see how that invalidated our impartiality. I need more, and, believe me, I see snakes in all party basements.
    — Bob Ford
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:34 PM, 09/02/2008
    Bob Ford is posting on a comment board, sliding further into irrelevancy. Why do you censor comments? Why won't Bunch take up our case!
    — jeffreyg61
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:37 PM, 09/02/2008
    BF- Spardaro is on line 2 ready to give you tomorrows copy.
    — jeffreyg61
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:53 PM, 09/02/2008
    Amazing how much negativity gets spewed on comment boards. Anywho, you know what else is annoying? The applause is so synchronized it is almost creepy. It sounds like a nonstop applause track, instead of a laugh track. Reminds me of drones or something. I know, I know, it's the nature of conventions but it is still creepy.
    — Jim C.


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About Karen Heller
This week Karen Heller is live-blogging the Republican convention in true blogger style - at home, surfing the Web and watching TV. She's covered five other conventions. Three were Republican, two were Democratic. Read all of Populist here.

Karen Heller has interviewed Philip Roth and Zsa Zsa Gabor, spent time with Pink and the Philadelphia Orchestra, the celebrated and the exemplary unsung. She's covered Miss America and political conventions. She's been a provocative voice at The Inquirer for nearly 20 years, garnering awards for criticism, feature writing and investigative reporting, and was a finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in commentary.

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