Presidential Politics
tomierna
(Admin)
– December 07, 2007 09:43PM
Every election is the most important one.
porruka
(Admin)
– August 22, 2011 02:18PM
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John Willoughby
Normally, yes, but as Obama is from Chicago he's got the dead vote sewn up.
An enThralled constituency.
John Willoughby
– August 22, 2011 03:43PM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
A Myth: The Fallen Lords reference? Wow. That takes me back...
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– August 22, 2011 03:45PM
Awesome t-shirt, tliet!
ddt
– August 25, 2011 09:01AM
Will Dan Savage be able to make
"talking about baseball" more successful than "lifting my luggage"? Reaching "Santorum" levels is out of the question, of course.
ddt
John Willoughby
– August 25, 2011 09:18AM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
For some reason, I read that as "Doc Savage," which confused me terribly.
porruka
(Admin)
– August 25, 2011 09:41AM
"The Man of Bronze" and that article really, really, shouldn't be associated with each other.
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– August 29, 2011 03:38PM
UNFIT FOR OFFICE!
Let her set up a church...
John Willoughby
– August 29, 2011 06:28PM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
Let's see... the hurricane went near our capital, without significant damage to it, and hit a whole lot of churches, a number of which were damaged. I think that the evidence is clear: God hates Christians.
(Attempting to use Bachmann logic, not an actual opinion.)
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/29/2011 06:29PM by John Willoughby.
johnny k
– August 29, 2011 07:48PM
Yes, but that's because gays put curses on those churches.
ddt
– September 07, 2011 05:21PM
Oh man, I missed the Repub debate. And this happened, according to TPM: "Jon Huntsman defending science on stage at GOP event and the crowd goes silent like a candidate were forced to explain a NAMBLA membership."
ddt
johnny k
– September 07, 2011 09:28PM
I missed it too. I have to admit TPM is a guilty pleasure when I'm feeling partisan. I like Huntsman.
El Jeffe
– September 08, 2011 12:41AM
What a journey.
ddt
– September 08, 2011 02:40PM
I admit I've only half-listened to only some of it but... is Obama at least speaking in sound bite-able ideas, stressing what we've all benefitted from government-wise, and actually sounding a little... passionate?
ddt
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– September 08, 2011 09:28PM
If only she had gulped ddt - but then what would the goopers have had to froth and lather about...
porruka
(Admin)
– September 09, 2011 12:19PM
By the nature of my social media usage, I get connected to many RWNJs, so I get the "privilege" of seeing all sorts of garbage. I'm passing this one along just as a data point, because it exemplifies the "fuck you" attitude.
Intentionally unattributed because these tweets are more the point than who said it (three in a row, same person, comments mine )
"Obama trying to make Congress jump at his command but he had 3 yrs to create jobs.His lack of planning is not our emergency @SpeakerBoehner" (no matter that his own party considered abortion more important than jobs)
"I have seen this in business when a CEO is trying to save his ass. Numbers are down beat on the execs TODAY. Then he gets fired. Like Obama!" (gotta mention the election instead of solutions...)
"Verily I hope Congress creates their own jobs bill and if Harry Reid and Obama don't like it.. Tough luck for them. #digin @SpeakerBoehner" ("I'll conveniently ignore the fact that the opposite is where it stands right now, there is a jobs bill presented, if Boehner and Ryan and McConnell don't like it, tough luck for them." Apparently math wasn't this guy's strong point; "controlling" - loosely described - 1/2 of 1/3 of the gov't branches ≠ majority.)
ddt
– September 12, 2011 08:32PM
Yeah, Huntsman seems relatively sane, but in this crowd of Republican candidates, all that means is that he doesn't throw his own feces _in public_.
More substantially: sad to say, his published tax proposals are regressive, anti-economics, and about as realistic and helpful as Steve Forbes's were. That alone is a DQ.
ddt
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– September 13, 2011 03:45PM
How the hell has Obama managed to screw the pooch so badly here?
He's a real chance of being a one-termer and the GOP/Tea party alternatives are all terrifying...
Bring back Clinton...
El Jeffe
– September 13, 2011 04:18PM
What a journey.
If he and dems have good reason to believe the economy will tank further, or actually help that happen, it might make a real poison pill to 'throw' an election.
James DeBenedetti
– September 13, 2011 07:00PM
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Tony Leggett
How the hell has Obama managed to screw the pooch so badly here?
He's a real chance of being a one-termer and the GOP/Tea party alternatives are all terrifying...
Obama is basically GWB redux; who would you vote for?
John Willoughby
– September 13, 2011 09:19PM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
GWB was able to actually enact his policies. Obama can't even get his own party to follow him. Hillary was the leadership's choice; the people flouted them and screwed the plan up. So we get four years of clusterfuck and in 2012 the New Dark Age really kicks in.
