the most important election of your lifetime: 2012 american general election thread

and yet, the entire election depends on getting money from these assholes

the economy relies on these assholes too

http://i47.tinypic.com/b8qy5c.jpg

I love how Poppy looks more hammered than the rest.

the speech suggested by the Wall Street satrap is akin to a suggestion by a Confederate officer to Lincoln to make a speech indicating that the President urged an end to the swiftness with which Southerners freed their slaves.

Isn't that Gergen in the background? Reminding everyone to imbibe in moderation?

yep

and Cronkite

"This administration has a more contemptuous view of big money and of Wall Street than any administration in 40 years,” the donor said. “And it shows.”

Loooool.

i guess that Obama could be seen as more contemptuous of Wall Street than every President from Nixon up to him b/c (a) he occasionally says "mean" things about them; (b) he had the unmitigated audacity to enact some relatively mild reforms and now they have to pay their high-priced lobbyists even more money to completely emasculate even these mild reforms; (c) he talks about wanting them to pay more taxes (lol); and (d) back in 2008, a few of them thought that he was "one of them" (e.g., he went to Harvard).

damn the lords of the universe are such pussies. i mean, give your money to whomever you want, but for god's sake stop with the whole self-pitying thing

and while i agree with u eisbaer, i think that we can no longer use the word 'audacity' for at least a generation

Well it makes sense when you consider Goldman Sachs used to be Obama's #1 contributor and now they're Romney's. I guess we'll be hearing alot this year about class warfare and such.

Still, I see "And it shows" and I think of the trillions of dollars we've given big business over the past 4 years and....ugh

“This administration has a more contemptuous view of big money and of Wall Street than any administration in 40 years”

A lot of good it's done us, eh?

Sometimes my only comfort is hoping that Bill Clinton and Barack Obama secretly hate themselves.

I mean, they have to, right?

can't imagine being president and not developing some severe issues

p. sure those issues do not involve self-hatred

Clinton used to drown his sorrows by eating lots of cheeseburgers and greasy pizza till his arteries got clogged. Obama probably has probably had killer nicotine fits nowadays.

to be president these days and not go insane i suspect you basically have to have a serious personality flaw that just happens to shield you from the full implications of the shit you've done -- totally spaced-out and clueless (reagan), an egomaniac (clinton), ignorant and incurious (bush). god only knows what obama's deal is.

You don't have to be nuts to be President...but it helps!

But Ann Romney wore a $990 t-shirt on tv the other morning

CBS

CHANTILLY, Va. — The fashion house that makes the nearly $1,000 blouse worn by Ann Romney on morning television earlier this week tells ABC News that they had nothing to do with the wardrobe choice, remarking that they’d prefer to stay out of politics.

“We had nothing to do with it,” a rep for designer Reed Krakoff said. “She must have bought it from Saks or Bergdorf’s, we definitely didn’t send it to her.”

“It’s 100 percent a Reed Krakoff shirt, but we 100 percent didn’t send it to her,” the rep added. ”We don’t get involved politically.”

The shirt, an item in the label’s 2012 Spring/Summer collection, retails for $990, and for those shopping, is called the “The Reed Audubon Silk Shirt.”

The price of the shirt was first reported by the style blog Stylite.com.

Mrs. Romney does not have a stylist, according to an aide with the Romney campaign, and is likely to have purchased the shirt on her own.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Ann%20Romney%20900%20shirt

http://www.politico.com/blogs/click/2012/05/ann-romney-wears-shirt-122264.html#.T6Fy_BFMcDc.twitter

Blousegate. Love the url "Ann Romney Wears Shirt."

hahaha thank you, Ann Romney, for giving us a respite from your endless sprees of public nudity

So you're saying the Mormon nudist camp rumor starts here.

I originally typed that as 'Mormom,' which is both completely obvious and strangely fitting.

so, "julia"

smh @ america

half of what I say is meaningless.

nro was railing against julia's "drab, soviet-style existence" and also had a whole post about how the campaign would cause problems in obama's base because hipsters would be forced to mock julia

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/03/Obama-Campaign-Women-Are-Helpless

conservative ranting about Julia here is so over the top

that is an...unfortunate URL.

Under the Obama administration, self-respect and personal responsibility are unnecessary when the federal government saps resources from the private sector to clean up your messes. Julia can be a professional student and study web design for a frillion years so she can build flash-heavy websites.

Annnd Obama is still president.

these ppl are so stupid

http://www.freep.com/article/20120504/NEWS15/120504045/Mitt-Romney-Richard-Grenell-campaign

well that lasted about as long as i expected

The Prez spoke at my son's high school yesterday. Did his spiel about the Republicans wanting to let federal loan interest rates double

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2012/0504/Student-loans-Do-Republicans-really-think-program-is-socialist

Biden on Meet the Press = yes, we're worried.

about the adequacy of "Osama's dead and Chrysler isn't"?

^^ actually, that makes a damned effective bumper sticker for a MOR candidate

unless maybe if you don't work for Chrysler

appparently JoeJoe spouted that in the last 2 weeks

Joe's good at one-liners

Every time Joe opens his mouth I hear wookie noises.

*Biden smashes wrench into access panel on Amtrak engine.*

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/06/young-voters-are-abandoning-obama-but-not-running-to-romney.html

Young voters gonna stay home

which seems encouraging, but

Surprisingly, little support is expressed by 18- to 24-year-olds for the Occupy Wall Street protests, at 19 percent. (A plurality of 42 percent are unsure.)

where would they find out about it, right? HBO?

Of course jobs is #1, but smh at the rest:

The top-10 issues ranked in importance for this cohort were creating jobs, reducing the deficit, lowering the tax burden for all, becoming energy-independent, ensuring affordable access to health care, creating a world-class education system, addressing Social Security, preventing the spread of terrorism, protecting individual liberties from government, and preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. Combating the impacts of climate change fell near the bottom of the list.

college kids aping their parents shocka

Through facebook, right? Isn't this supposed to be the web.20 generation with their twitter revolutions and magic youtube text aps? Friedman and Bobo said so.

the legacy of the democratic party's failure to articulate a clear political philosophy of any kind for decades

^^^this