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

also THIS

http://i.imgur.com/7abv0.jpg

Jesus dude, way to put your county right at the top of Obama's to-conquer list.

In the gym last night Fox News was on one of the tvs and I saw a Fox host defending the labeling of rape with different names because he does not want his taxpayer dollars responsible for taking care of a child born from a consensual relationship between a 19 year-old guy and a 16-year-old woman/girl.

I don't want my taxpayer dollars responsible for firing missiles at other countries

guess what, you don't get to earmark your tax dollars

Supremacy of the Unborn American Fetus

If abortion became illegal, would they try the 16-year-old as an adult?

would give 16 yo the death penalty iirc

State Sen. Michael Baumgartner (R-6, Spokane), who’s running for US Senate against two-term Democratic incumbent US Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), appears to have sent me a bizarre email late last night...

As we noted yesterday, a main part of Baumgartner’s campaign platform is ending the war in Afghanistan.

eh we could do worse

True enough!

Meantime everyone read this

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/09/fear-of-a-black-president/309064/

Oh hey, a thousand pages worth of Bain files about Mitt's taxes.

http://gawker.com/5936394/

wow

uh oh

yah but it's Gawker and hence lamestream media

wowwww

Love this Fortune blogger:

https://twitter.com/danprimack

He's basically going "Uh yeah I had these years ago there's nothing interesting there." It doesn't seem to have clicked with him yet.

re: the TNC article, my largest hope for a 2nd Obama term is that, without the need to think of re-election, he actually goes ham on some idiots

^a golden oldie from 1996

Anagram for Elect Obama Biden:

A menace blob tide

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/opinion/sunday/coates-obamas-perceived-transformation.html?_r=1

Coates' other recent article re President Obama

this is the third time you've posted that article in two days, I think we've all seen it by now

you're right

Actually, WmC, how IS your bro in law taking all this?

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, August 21, 2012 7:24 PM (2 days ago)

Just to update -- yesterday I found out he's discovered Conservapedia, so... might as well write him off as bad debt, frankly. My only question at this point is whether my stridency pushed him farther to the right.

Hahah oh dear. Just tell him "Yeah, I heard that was a Obama sting operation so they could get your names. I'm sure that's not true."

call him up in the middle of the night and warn him that the black helicopters are on their way to his house

With the black men in them.

I wonder if I could convince him I'm Andy Schlafly and he's needed in Alaska for a very important undercover mission.

"The Walmart there needs cleansing. Pitbull visited."

Uhhh Joe Arpaio is going to speak at the RNC?

That is fucked up.

Hahaha well hell they might as well invite Akin now.

Uhhh Joe Arpaio is going to speak at the RNC?

That is fucked up.

I think you mean "awesome". hoping he's carted off to jail immediately afterwards.

wow, this gawker series is a really impressive piece of journalism and honestly, i've never had warmer feelings for gawker before

At least it's not from the podium:

http://www.ktar.com/?sid=1569428&nid=22

lol "I am giving a talk at a zoo"

re: the TNC article, my largest hope for a 2nd Obama term is that, without the need to think of re-election, he actually goes ham on some idiots

― Lil Swayne of Pie (DJP), Thursday, August 23, 2012 12:29 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^a golden oldie from 1996

― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, August 23, 2012 1:01 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya this unfortunately never happens, many of the forces constraining politicians dont really have anything to do w/reelection

there's a reason I said "hope" and not "expectation"

also I am just expressing a desire to see Obama yell at someone

Something like that health care summit where he pwned some fools, but, like, every week for four years.

then he would be angry tho xp

I want another event where GOPers invite him to get barraged by idiocy and he steps up to all their questions.

But then again my mindset is a product of the Enlightenment that is obsessed with accuracy and active, complex cognition, to where it interferes with political effectiveness and expediency. Also, that rational minds thru reason can surmount the hard-wired limitations of actual human brains evolved from off-the-shelf parts for living situations that havent existed for thousands of years before Abraham showed up.

So, yeah, a President actually smarter than me easily able to show up some fools thru the power of his brain and voice alone.

that rational minds thru reason can surmount the hard-wired limitations of actual human brains evolved from off-the-shelf parts for living situations that havent existed for thousands of years before Abraham Lincoln showed up.

^^ fixed

that rational minds thru reason can surmount the hard-wired limitations of actual human brains evolved from off-the-shelf parts for living situations that havent existed for thousands of years before Abraham Simpson showed up.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3e/Abe_Simpson.png

But he's not yelling at clouds in that pic

I want an event where Obama and GOPers get barraged by questions about the 98% of stuff they are secretly in lockstep on that would smash the "hopelessly divided" cover story.

but but... would the nation survive

98% huh

http://www.salon.com/2012/08/23/bishops_god_votes_republican/

re cardinal dolan's closing benediction at the convention, other recent coziness between gop and church

I want an event where Obama and GOPers get barraged by questions about the 98% of stuff they are secretly in lockstep on that would smash the "hopelessly divided" cover story.

― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, August 23, 2012 3:14 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

98% of congress are freemasons

what, freemasons have meetings, you saying they don't disagree about anything at the meetings, that's what happens at meetings

Stonemasons surely

I want an event where Obama and GOPers get barraged by questions about the 98% of stuff they are secretly in lockstep on that would smash the "hopelessly divided" cover story.

I guess when you consider all the possible things they could disagree on, 98% agreement is not too bad. For instance, both sides are in agreement on the feasibility of relocating Congress to Jupiter (not feasible), or whether or not the government should ban turtleneck sweaters (no). Human beings are about 99.9% identical genetically, and yet we still manage to seem pretty diverse.