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

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It seems to me there's some pretty clear differences between the 2 parties this cycle. I know there's a lot of overlap, esp. in areas like foreign policy and national security which tend to be more consensus driven, but on questions about the scope and purpose of government, social welfare, etc., there seem to be pretty stark differences.

― o. nate, Thursday, 23 August 2012 21:55 (thirteen years ago)

there has basically been very little difference between the two party establishments on foreign policy (or 'national security' if you prefer) since the '50s. there are still pretty distinct differences on other subjects.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 23 August 2012 22:04 (thirteen years ago)

I'd hate to think this is true (the why more than the what), but, underscoring the Ta-Nehisi Coates piece, it might be.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/08/a_sleeper_issue.php?ref=fpblg

― clemenza, Friday, 24 August 2012 00:16 (thirteen years ago)

Not to worry! Kevin Williamson says Gawker should mind its own problems with offshore accounts.

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 August 2012 02:36 (thirteen years ago)

I'm surprised he was able to write that without accidentally fondling himself.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 August 2012 02:39 (thirteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/mGjs8.png

― lag∞n, Friday, 24 August 2012 02:40 (thirteen years ago)

lol mordy left a comment!

― goole, Friday, 24 August 2012 03:33 (thirteen years ago)

oh man they never post my comments! i don't even check back anymore

― Mordy, Friday, 24 August 2012 03:41 (thirteen years ago)

they've gone back to disqus, looks like

― goole, Friday, 24 August 2012 03:42 (thirteen years ago)

did not realize gorge soros owned gawker

― lag∞n, Friday, 24 August 2012 03:44 (thirteen years ago)

wheels within wheels n shit

― Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Friday, 24 August 2012 04:42 (thirteen years ago)

pretty sure nick denton isnt running for president

― johnathan lee riche$ (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 24 August 2012 05:09 (thirteen years ago)

exactly. Pareene knows where all the bodies are buried, no doubt

― Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Friday, 24 August 2012 05:12 (thirteen years ago)

ABC is reporting on the leaked documents:

abcnews.go.com/Blotter/bain-documents-romney-offshore-investments-blockers-avoid-taxes/story?id=17067015#.UDcPGERV47D

― timellison, Friday, 24 August 2012 05:22 (thirteen years ago)

Sorry, bad link.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/bain-documents-romney-offshore-investments-blockers-avoid-taxes/story?id=17067015#.UDcPtkRV47A

― timellison, Friday, 24 August 2012 05:23 (thirteen years ago)

http://f.cl.ly/items/2F3b3x0v231P0z420D3i/Screen%20Shot%202012-08-24%20at%206.26.17%20AM.png

― max, Friday, 24 August 2012 10:26 (thirteen years ago)

THE FIX IS IN

― a bag of andy capp's hot fries (stevie), Friday, 24 August 2012 10:34 (thirteen years ago)

srsly tho didn't john cook acknowledge this in his Romney piece?

― a bag of andy capp's hot fries (stevie), Friday, 24 August 2012 10:35 (thirteen years ago)

yes

― max, Friday, 24 August 2012 10:35 (thirteen years ago)

Romney should make it a priority to get to the bottom of this Gawker business the second he takes office.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 24 August 2012 12:53 (thirteen years ago)

SLICK NICK

― lag∞n, Friday, 24 August 2012 13:34 (thirteen years ago)

nick denton is some kind of libertarianish tory, right? and a hyperaggressive weirdo? and so now wmson/drudge are saying, he's like mitt romney?

does this scan, i mean, at all?

― goole, Friday, 24 August 2012 14:05 (thirteen years ago)

h8rs

― lag∞n, Friday, 24 August 2012 14:06 (thirteen years ago)

thats a fairly accurate denton gloss, no clue what wmson or drudge think theyre saying tbh

― max, Friday, 24 August 2012 14:06 (thirteen years ago)

man i hadnt looked at drudge in so long, glad its still exactly the same

― lag∞n, Friday, 24 August 2012 14:07 (thirteen years ago)

well to be totally fair i guess, regardless what denton does with the $$, gawker is part of the democrat media complex. right there in the middle of that whole complex.

― goole, Friday, 24 August 2012 14:08 (thirteen years ago)

the "gawker does it too!" reaction vaguely less infuriating than the aggressively over-it reactions from financial journalists

― max, Friday, 24 August 2012 14:08 (thirteen years ago)

financial journalists being all duh everyone does it is some exquisite expert level point missing

― lag∞n, Friday, 24 August 2012 14:10 (thirteen years ago)

i do think its interesting that gawker is in the caymans tho, did not know that

― lag∞n, Friday, 24 August 2012 14:11 (thirteen years ago)

NYT summarized the financial documents dump today.

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 August 2012 14:11 (thirteen years ago)

extradite denton!

― lag∞n, Friday, 24 August 2012 14:11 (thirteen years ago)

Hey, you know what I haven't seen yet? Any tandem Obama/Biden 2012 swag. Just Obama stuff. Are they waiting until after the convention?

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 24 August 2012 14:12 (thirteen years ago)

its cause biden is gonna be replaced w/denton

― lag∞n, Friday, 24 August 2012 14:12 (thirteen years ago)

the most important swag of your lifetime

― Mr. Que, Friday, 24 August 2012 14:13 (thirteen years ago)

What is Denton's official nationality?

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 24 August 2012 14:15 (thirteen years ago)

hyperaggressive weirdoian

― lag∞n, Friday, 24 August 2012 14:15 (thirteen years ago)

Biden for veep of the caymans

― velko, Friday, 24 August 2012 14:15 (thirteen years ago)

I bet the government in the Caymans lives large.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 24 August 2012 14:24 (thirteen years ago)

this tax guy saying mitt cheated http://victorfleischer.com/archives/306

― lag∞n, Friday, 24 August 2012 16:07 (thirteen years ago)

p4reene is going to Tampa; love the guy but kinda hope he has some hurricane fun after that pro-Tony Scott column.

― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 August 2012 16:09 (thirteen years ago)

so you hope he drowns because he wrote something you don't agree with?

― Mr. Que, Friday, 24 August 2012 16:12 (thirteen years ago)

buy a fucking sense of humor, you wonderful man

― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 August 2012 16:13 (thirteen years ago)

nah he just hopes he ties himself to a bridge with skink tyree

― catbus otm (gbx), Friday, 24 August 2012 16:15 (thirteen years ago)

apparently Romney named the hospitals he and Ann were born at and then said "nobody's ever asked to see our birth certificate...they know where we were born and raised..."

― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Friday, 24 August 2012 16:41 (thirteen years ago)

Noah Milmann: the Dems are Tom Friedman's conservative party.

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 August 2012 17:00 (thirteen years ago)

"No one's ever asked to see my birth certificate, they know this is the place we were born and raised." - Romney at campaign event moments ago, via MSNBC.

― very sexual album (schlump), Friday, 24 August 2012 17:14 (thirteen years ago)

WTF

― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Friday, 24 August 2012 17:31 (thirteen years ago)

so if someone asked to see mitts birth certificate then

― lag∞n, Friday, 24 August 2012 17:42 (thirteen years ago)

how provocative

― goole, Friday, 24 August 2012 17:49 (thirteen years ago)

*twists fingers into the shape of a birth certificate*

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 August 2012 17:50 (thirteen years ago)

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