anyway hella nervous for tonight
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
I heard an "undecided Ohio voter" on NPR this morning and he was exactly as idiotic as I would expect an undecided voter to be. Here was his statement, summarized but not paraphrased: "Obama is really good with programs for the poor and taking care of people, but not really good with stuff about abortion and birth control. Those are religious questions. Romney is just the opposite. So I'd give Obama an A+ on programs for the poor, but an F- on limiting abortion, and the reverse for Romney. I'm just not sure who I'm voting for."
These morons deserve everything they get if Romney wins. May their doom be on their heads.
― C-3PO Sharkey (Phil D.), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
man that last debate was so weird
― beef richards (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
that person actually seems pretty informed and rational as far as undecided voters go!
― iatee, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, i'd agree w/ him that obama gets an F- on limiting abortion. i mean, a solid grade on not limiting abortions, but on limiting abortions he's been pretty mediocre
― Mordy, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:21 (eleven years ago) link
There's no such thing as an F-. He has totally been discredited.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
i fucking hate undecided voters, how can you possibly be undecided
― beef richards (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
That snl short was in fact a documentary.
― controversial cabaret roommate (Nicole), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
some dark part of me wants romney to win. i'd like to be alive for america's inevitable caligua phase.
― Spectrum, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
you already were
― iatee, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
i can only hope that right obama is pacing around an dusty warehouse punching walls and swallowing beef curtain jerky whole, psyching himself up
― down w/ obana...he is the reson were in dept (Z S), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
great, now Romney's Caligula. Can't wait to see where you guys head with this in 2 weeks.
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
libya thing worries me, biden looked v unprepared, now theyve got clinton taking responsibility
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
It's over.
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
who won?
― down w/ obana...he is the reson were in dept (Z S), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
nah if that woulda been a thing it woulda been a thing by now
xp
― iatee, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
The Libya thing...I'm not bothered that it took 3 weeks to get the story out to the public correctly. I am bothered that there was an intelligence breakdown that allowed it in the first place. Weird how the media seems to be focusing on the former.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
wasn't the Libyan envoy gay? why wd Repugs give a fuck then?
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
My mother is undecided I have no idea why the fuck why though
― homosexual II, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
romney's not caligula, but in my imagination he'd set the stage for a 200-year reign of intricately incestuous ruling families and their increasingly debased kin. but after g w b, i'm thinking lag~~n might be right.
― Spectrum, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:34 (eleven years ago) link
i don't think it'll be the end of the world if romney wins. america is pretty resilient and 4 years is not that long a time and romney will not get the chance to do too much dmg i don't think (and that's even assuming he wants to and doesn't just turn out to be technocratic moderate)
― Mordy, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
Just appoint a couple of judges to the Supreme Court and other federal appeals courts. No big deal
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
also, liberals can pretend to care about civil liberties & extrajudicial executions again.
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
why people care so damn much about abortion BAFFLES THE SHIT OUT OF ME
― homosexual II, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
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At this point, I'm honestly more interested in smart people saying reassuring things to convince me that things won't go to absolute hell if Romney does win.
― Gyrate For Physicet (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
it won't be the end of the world != it's no big deal
― Mordy, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, this is the scariest prospect, imo.
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, October 16, 2012 3:37 PM (56 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is not nothing!
― Mordy, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
then go back to not pretending. HILLARY 2016
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
i don't see any daylight between romney + obama on foreign affairs + war on terror except re tone. obama is more subtle, serious, discursive, romney would be more aggressive, threatening, both would probably deploy same # of drones, both would probably execute iranian strategy in same way (i think, this one i'm not sure of)
― Mordy, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
i don't mean discursive
but like analytic maybe
― Mordy, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
if Mitt wins only death will get a lib to leave the Supremes.
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
Too bad for Romney the death squads will be dismantled when he presumes office.
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
(i.e. panels; I'm out of practice)
i bet you $10,000 that if romney wins he won't touch obamacare
― Mordy, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
So let's say Romney wins, the house maintains a GOP majority, but the senate stays DEM. Any chance at all Obamacare actually gets repealed? Mitt can't veto anything, right? And it's already passed Supreme Court muster. I guess he could repeal with an executive order, but maybe he couldn't.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
romney much more likely to bring back torture -- can't really see obama reversing himself on that one.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
Ryan and the GOP already have a plan to pass his budget through another reconciliation magic trick, I read yesterday on Chait's site. I don't know if that's possible.
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
oh yeah, torture for sure coming back.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
thank god the mormons wait until jews are dead before they forcibly convert us whew
― Mordy, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
http://nymag.com/news/politics/elections-2012/obama-romney-economic-plans-2012-10/
― beef richards (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
i don't see any daylight between romney + obama on foreign affairs + war on terror except re tone.
Diplomatic skill, genuine interest and empathy, etc.
― timellison, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
that's just a morbz open basket imho
― Mordy, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:50 (eleven years ago) link
"empathy" there
Oh well.
― timellison, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
well who knows what romney would do re foreign policy if elected, the fact that all hes said abt it basically amounts to get tough leads me to believe he could be quite a bit worse than obama, unless hes just blustering and war w/iran is not really a thing he wants, which is completely w/in the realm of possibility
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
WHO DO YOU TRUST MORE ON IRAN
― timellison, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
hes just blustering and war w/iran is not really a thing he wants, which is completely w/in the realm of possibility
All of his wild west foreign policy words have been put in his mouth imo. Of course, if he'll do it in a campaign, he'll be just as much a piece of clay in office.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
my impression is that the circumstances that determine whether we go to war w/ iran or not has very little to do w/ whether obama or romney is in office
― Mordy, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:56 (eleven years ago) link