Photos & Video: White House Hallowpalooza

More pics here.

Halloween PhotOh! Robert Gibbs as Darth...Cheney?

By GottaLaff

The resemblance to Cheney is uncanny:

(click on image to enlarge)

I wonder if he shot anyone in the face.

PhotObama: Halloween edition

By GottaLaff

Boo!

(click on image to enlarge)

They look great no matter what they're wearing.

GOP VIDEO: Dems running to replace Kennedy are scary

By GottaLaff

This video is brimming over with bad:

The video takes aim at the four Democratic candidates for [Ted Kennedy's] seat, making them out to be characters in a horror film and giving them nicknames like "Cap and Trade Capuano" and "Call My Sister Overseas Coakley.

A high school audio visual techie could do better.

::whisper:: I see unskilled Rushpublic people!

Video- HCAN's "Health Care Mash"

Have you ever wanted to be Sarah Palin?

By GottaLaff

Here's your big chance!

Then again, you can save yourself a few bucks by just acting really dense, applying lots of lipstick, speaking in run-on sentences that end in "also", hiring ghostwriters, opening a Facebook account, quitting anything and everything, blaming others for your egregious ethics lapses, and doin' some fancy pageant walkin'.

Also.

H/t: DAKgirl

Cartoon of the Day

Click to enlarge, via.

Poll: Obama Should Go as Superman for Halloween

The 27% that picked Charlie Brown is probably the actual "27%". The other options are a bit more benign.

• Confident Superman: 38%
• Hapless Charlie Brown: 27%
• Thoughtful Albert Einstein: 19%
• Comeback Kid Bill Clinton: 9%
• TV Dr. Derek Shepherd: 7%

Source: The Synovate eNation Internet poll was conducted October 1-5 among 1,000 nationally representative households by global market research firm Synovate.

Halloween witch-o'-the-year: Candy for McCainers only

By GottaLaff

What is really upsetting to me is that I'm not surprised to hear something like this about a Gramm-pa McCain supporter. The mean-spirited nature of his campaign has crossed every line. This is only the latest example of vile, hurtful behavior.

Way to take it out on the kids, Shirley Nagel:

A suburban Detroit woman has decided to scare up the vote among neighborhood children by just offering treats to John McCain supporters.

Shirley Nagel of Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., handed out candy Friday only to those who shared her support for the Republican presidential candidate and his running mate Sarah Palin. Others were turned away empty-handed.

TV station WJBK says a sign outside Nagel's house warned: "No handouts for Obama supporters, liars, tricksters or kids of supporters."

Nagel calls Democrat Barack Obama "scary." When asked about children who were turned away empty-handed and crying, she said: "Oh well. Everybody has a choice."

Call me confused, but I thought McCain/Palin supporters were anti-choice. But that's not important now. What is important is that we organize a posse and t.p. this witch's house... among other things.

Here's an idea: Let's show her what real treaters can do. Let's win this election.

Close encounters of the Obama kind

By GottaLaff

A child dressed up as Barack Obama for Halloween encounters the real Obama.

H/t: Kerry

The View: Boo!

By GottaLaff

These photos creep me out:

Which costume freaks you out the most:

• Barbara as George Washington
• Elisabeth as Ronald Reagan
• Sherri as Abraham Lincoln
• Whoopi as FDR
• Joy as Teddy Roosevelt

From the Department of WTF? Joe the Mask

By GottaLaff

I've searched everywhere for photos (I saw one on the Tee Vee Machine), but couldn't find one, so this will have to do:

A shop in northwest Ohio is offering a Joe the Plumber Halloween mask.

No, they don't have speedy mask makers at the Costume Holiday House in Fremont. The latex Joe face is actually one for another bald man, professional wrestler "Stone Cold" Steve Austin.

Even his mask is a fake.

Even so, I hope nobody wears one around the kiddies. It would scare them silly.

VIDEO-- Now THIS is how you make a scary Halloween campaign video: "Robots Attack"

By GottaLaff

Nader tried, but once again, Obama shows everyone how to do it effectively and with style:

Fight John McCain's robo calls. Get out the vote! Elect Barack Obama!
http://www.barackobama.com/

Worst. Video. Ever. Brought to you by Ralph Nader

By GottaLaff

Wow. No, seriously. Wow:



Boo.

Happy Halloween!!

Hey McCain, BOO!!!

WWL Poll: Obama-McCain in virtual tie in Louisiana

Video: Watch the Story NEW ORLEANS - An exclusive new WWL-TV statewide poll shows the contest for president may be closer than many had predicted among Louisiana voters.

In the telephone survey of 500 registered voters, conducted by pollster Ed Renwick, Republican Senator John McCain earns 43 percent of the vote, while Democrat Senator Barack Obama receives 40 percent. Renwick said that amounts to a statistical tie, since the poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 points.

“It's closer than I thought it would be,” said Renwick, adding that the higher the turnout, the worse it might be for McCain.

Quote-O'-The-Moment: Joe Biden's Halloween treat edition

By GottaLaff

Joe gives us a treat:

"I know Halloween is coming, but John McCain as the candidate of change? Whoa, come on," Biden said during an outdoor rally in the capital city's downtown. "John McCain and change? He needs a costume for that. Folks, the American people aren't going to buy this."

Gramm-pa got tricked. Boo.

BFCE: Barack-O-Lanterns-- Yes We Carve!

By GottaLaff

BFCE!*

A new site, YesWeCarve.com, provides downloadable stencils and professional directions for voters who want to hammer trick-or-treaters with an Obama appeal. Forget mass-made yard signs, say the organizers, and carve your own “Barack-O-Lantern.” Emphasis on The O — get it?

While Get-Out-The-Vote programs typically send volunteers to knock on doors, this effort capitalizes on a night when swing voters are the ones going door to door.

The project has a sleek, open-source feel, with logos that hew closely to the Obama campaign’s official design patterns, and an interface that invites visitors to upload their own homemade designs and lanterns. While the site’s major stencils feature standard Obama logos, for example, visitors can also see a more offbeat pumpkin headshot of Obama, submitted by Manuel Guzman from Tuscon, Ariz. [...]

Meanwhile, Obama has taken a lead in Halloween masks in some cities — beating McCain by two to one in Boston.

Are pumpkins elitist? Is this some sneaky new form of terrorism? Oh no! Trick or treat!

No. Just treat.

*Best F***ing Campaign Ever!