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

Aaron David Miller, a distinguished scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, believes Romney can redeem his trip while in Israel.
"He knows and likes [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu and can convey quite naturally that he understands that Israel is a small country with a dark past living on the knife's edge,"

That would be a good Aerosmith lyric

LISTEN TO THIS BIBI

Was he at the opening ceremony? Because, if so, he got to hear author J.K. Rowling do a reading which honored "two of Britain's greatest achievements: its amazing body of children's literature and the NHS".

has anyone done a natesilveresque counterfactual about how the olympics in nyc woulda affected obama's numbers?

in a way if obama loses we can blame england

iatee, as in how many voters wd've moved out of NY?

haha yeah I was thinking about how relieved I was that england is picking up the bill for this crap, my office is fairly close to where a lot of the manhattan clusterfuck would be, and the 7 would be so bad that I would prob just have to walk to work or something

srsly, I was gonna leave

I hope Romney is basing this all on repeated watchings of 'Fear Her'

has anyone done a natesilveresque counterfactual about how the olympics in nyc woulda affected obama's numbers?

― iatee, Saturday, July 28, 2012 1:33 AM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

u mean chicago?

no I don't think that one woulda done much, nobody cares about the future, I mean the whole nationalism thing and obama parachuting out of a helicopter and giving a speech and high-fiving michael phelps and oh yeah no talk about the economy, at all, that would be worth a few points in the polls

oh I totally forgot NY was in the mix for 2012

ugh this israel thing, what a reckless thing to use to define a difference between him & Obama

http://i.imgur.com/rzV6A.png

Willard and Bibi: two irreproachable moral pillars. Or so they like to tell us.

"don't worry, after you die i'll totally baptize you"

http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t427/sayhey1/george.jpg http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t427/sayhey1/mitt.jpg

Sometimes they win.

hahaha Tomasky is my kind of troll

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-07-16/mitt-romneys-wimp-factor

less than 100 days til this shit is "over"

NO, I'M NOT A TECHNO-OPTIMIST by Niall Ferguson

how dare you accuse me of such a thing

"don't worry, after you die i'll totally baptize you"

― balls, Sunday, 29 July 2012 19:09 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

loool

"how i was schtuped by mrs assad"

what exactly did Bush I do that made him seem like a wimp instead of a strange old CIA spook?

Based on his WW2 history I'm pretty sure he could beat up Romney today.

George F. Will said he was a wimp therefore it was so.

vicious anti-connecticut sentiment was still acceptable

From vague memories of the '88 campaign (not endorsing any of these): 1) that the term was applied in contrast to Reagan, 2) the Ivy League/senator's son background, 3) his manner--cf. Dana Carvey down the road. I think it all went away when Dukakis hopped in the tank.

well first shot against it was poppy going off on dan rather right?

I was watching that night...I haven't played the clip, but the term "sleazy innuendo" comes to mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqwQw3THRvU

A big deal in early '88, I remember, and as usual the Beltway clowns ate it up.

yup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY4IuUByd_I&feature=related

omg the opening shot of Bush

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqwQw3THRvU

hello and welcome to my snuff film studio, I am George H.W. Bush

Mitt very smooth negotiating difficult areas:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/30/mitt-romney-israel-economic-success

John McCain zings the fuck out of Dick Cheney after Cheney tells ABC news he thinks Palin maybe wasn't the best veep choice:

McCain added that this is not the first time he's disagreed with Cheney. "I respect the vice president. He and I had strong disagreements as to whether we should torture people or not."

haha wow

of course there's no way McCain doesn't think his choice wasn't a mistake

ya its sort of a tell to go so heavy w/the zing

mccain being a little less of a dick lately
feel free to counter this w/under the radar details of shitty bills he's introduced but in terms of his public profile at least

Cheney should stick with how pleased he is that Obama turned out to be a police-state cretin like his wooden Dumbya.

xp I kind of guess mccain probably still feels strongly on the issue?

McCain eventually did sign off on torture so he should fuck right off.

didn't he cave on signing a torture bill, sometime 2007 or something? i'm not trying to be an asshole but just
xp

lol McCain buckled on that bill so that the party wouldn't give his nod to somebody else. he is the saddest story, willing to sell himself out for stuff he ends up not getting

My usual caveat that we've argued before: politically, Palin wasn't a dumb pick at that specific moment (the day after Obama's convention speech, weeks before the banking meltdown). Not in terms of maybe one day governing, just in getting McCain back into an election he was losing and in all probability was going to lose no matter what. Which she did, at least as measured by nationwide polling in the weeks after the conventions.

tories and bibi seem to be betting against this one

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/07/benjamin-netanyahu-on-israel-mitt-romney

“Israel’s current prime minister is not just a friend, he’s an old friend,” Mitt Romney, with whom Netanyahu worked at the Boston Consulting Group in the 1970s, told AIPAC in March. (Romney, Netanyahu suggests, may have overstated the tie. “I remember him for sure, but I don’t think we had any particular connections,” he tells me. “I knew him and he knew me, I suppose.”)

Netanyahu’s encounters with President Obama have been marked by slights, misunderstandings, mutual suspicion, and downright distaste. One Obama aide says they keep hearing Netanyahu has evolved but have yet to see any signs of it. At home, Netanyahu scores points with his every slight of Obama, to whom the Israelis have never warmed. But Netanyahu insists his relationship with Obama is friendlier than it has been portrayed. They are, he tells me, “two people who appreciate the savviness and strength of the other.”

w/ palin this would be the best-looking election in decades

― max, Friday, August 29, 2008 10:05 AM (3 years ago)

ew

― gabbneb, Friday, August 29, 2008 10:08 AM (3 years ago)

those comments make more sense reversed