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

alfred you could try to follow some of the dissident finance blogs but it's hard going and i never know who is batshit, frankly.

yves smith, but she's kind of more-greenwald-than-greenwald as a writer

zerohedge is a little too ron pauly but i think hoos reps for them?

treading water

All the invest bankers and traders at my work, regardless of party affiliation, feel like nothing major's going to happen until after the election; the rich and the corps w/stagnant capital aren't going to undo their purse strings until they know what's what.

alfred you could try to follow some of the dissident finance blogs but it's hard going and i never know who is batshit, frankly

this is the problem

i read ritholtz but i follow so little of it i don't know why i bother.

it's like, finance shit i don't get, left-field analysis i don't get, old meme, dadrock, car porn, finance shit i don't get, bizarre political analysis, etc.

zerohedge is awful, yves smith is eh

read Ryan Avent and Steve Randy Waldman

I only read rit for his links

yeah, i mean, i like a nurburgring vimeo as much as the next office dude

is that a cab or a merlot?

re upping bernanke was one of obamas bigger mistakes imho even if there still wouldnt have been enough votes on the fed board to do real things w/e shit can that guy, def speaks to obamas over reverence for those type of dudes, tho of course the weird thing is all of bernankes academic work contradicts his actions to date so maybe its not really his fault its just the illuminatie whatre u gonna do

baseline scenario also good

HAV U GUYS HERD OF PAUL KRUGDAWG

(googles)

economics is v interesting, i plan on someday attempting to understand it

Woody in Manhattan: "My accountant says I did this at a very bad time. My stocks are down...I'm cash poor or something...I got no cash flow. I'm not liquid, something's not flowing. They got a language all their own."

I always view impatience and frustration at NRO as a good sign.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/313043/de-bushing-romney-jonah-goldberg

love how liberal handwringing articles tend to be "obama needs to be more like the guy i thought he was in 2008" and conservative ones are "mitt romney needs to stop being mitt romney"

everybody stop being somebody sometimes

rortybomb!

"I have paid taxes every year" a classic non-admission admission.

Yeah, sales tax on his cars, property taxes on his homes ...

Loosely affiliated with the non-denial denial.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wYOqE4H4V6U/SnSaNptXGwI/AAAAAAAAAiU/V6wM4AMztEM/s400/ZieglerRon.jpg

Obama's fundraising birthday party today is sure to get some riled up

Do you need to show your birth certificate to get in? Because if so ...

Damn, I forgot I had 37 e-mail invitations to that. What time's it start?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/04/michael-tomasky-on-the-possible-coming-obama-landslide.html

someone on twitter said 'so well reasoned it must be wrong' lol

more http://www.tnr.com/blog/electionate/105743/romney-undecided-voters

if Obama loses in November, be sure to send Tomasky a bouquet.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/04/michael-tomasky-on-the-possible-coming-obama-landslide.html

someone on twitter said 'so well reasoned it must be wrong' lol
--lag∞n

http://www.politico.com/playbook/0812/playbook1869.html

politico ebook tries to get into obama's head

shorter: he's a jock, respected mccain, hates romney

his head is the least interesting place on Earth

open goal

this is almost too novelistic to be true

clinton played hearts
obama prefers spades

i mean

what the

what the +1

who else sees fundraising emails from the DCCC (they go straight to my Junk folder) from one "Robby Mook"? Great name/alias for someone parting you from your money on the D team.

why are you reading your junk folder, doesn't that defeat the purpose

prob the same reason I read NRO comments

sometimes good stuff goes to Junk; email doesn't work as perfectly as precise drone strikes yet.

Why would I READ them? They all say "omg the Repugs are taking money from billionaires." My stars!

What's a Robby Mook?

"exec director" of the Dem Congressional Campaign Com'tee

http://irregulartimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/robbymook.jpg

looks like Alex P. Keaton

former Hillary '08 flack

Okay--I thought it was a 400-pound Irish guy who ran a pool hall.

I think he also played the "MacGruber" character on SNL.

http://content9.flixster.com/rtactor/41/03/41031_pro.jpg

Try to catch this little clip CNN showed of Romney grocery shopping today. The camera catches him just as he's about to walk into the store; he stops, takes a look at the shopping carts, starts to go in again, doubles back and grabs a cart. You can almost see the thought bubble: "What would a regular voter do in this situation?"

http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/50201ac669beddfb71000010/mitt-romney-grocery-shopping.jpg

did he buy the grocery store and fire all the employees

campaigning must be a really bizarre life

acc to nymag he was asked, after coming out of a hardware store, what he bought, and he said: "hardware stuff."

but i don't have corroboration on that.