Symmetry required it: 2012 american general election thread #2

Marathon I ran
1 hour...no wait I'm wrong
Maybe 2, I think

You get a sonnet -- a sestina, a rondel, a villanelle -- when you're on the st ump

Will read that Conor Friedersdorf piece. Sullivan spends most of the day ridiculing Romney, just like most everyone here (me included) does. If you account for his susceptibility to wild overstatement when first reacting to the news of the day (Romney drops fork = unfit to govern), I find him as worthwhile as anything else I check regularly. Now and again, he'll write something about Republican silliness that's very lucid.

Most of us confine our worship of tough-daddy figures to the gay thread though.

His still-standing Obama swoon is part of what I account for (not exactly in those terms...). Sometimes, like the Newsweek cover, I find it funny. I've never felt the need to use the term trolling before, but that's what that cover headline feels like to me (unintentionally, and whether he wrote it or not)--an attempt to trigger aneurysms in Reagan worshippers.

the comparison's very apt in a way: democrats care about [insert greenwald twitter wall here] about as much as republicans care/cared about his awful record on civil liberties and subversions of the constitution.

agh, how'd that happen? let's try again:

the comparison's very apt in a way: democrats care about obama's (insert greenwald twitter wall here) about as much as republicans care/cared about reagan's awful record on civil liberties and subversions of the constitution.

Apt:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b126IDuCkVw

The Friedersdorf piece is good--he makes exactly the same points that Sullivan does day in and day out (to the point of "enough already, I get it").

One more thing I now have to account for: the thought of Sullivan weeping over that Reagan speech. Thanks a lot.

i usually avoid politico like a fetid pot-o-potty; is this typical for them?

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81618.html

It's typical for Roger Simon. Meaning that all that needs to happen is for Mark Russell to set it to a song.

Roger Simon is POLITICO’s chief political columnist.

good luck Politico

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJJKW7ea1oc

This has probably been posted before, but I'm just seeing it.

"My goodness, what's going on here today? Look at this. This is terrific."

Though Ryan had already decided to distance himself from the floundering Romney campaign, he now feels totally uninhibited. Reportedly, he has been marching around his campaign bus, saying things like, “If Stench calls, take a message” and “Tell Stench I’m having finger sandwiches with Peggy Noonan and will text him later.”

i don't believe this for a second

I think 5% of that column is true, the rest is inept satire

I don't think anything in that piece is strictly accurate; dude's trying to be a SATIRIST but is ending up a COCK

Stench and Gilligan?

What's with all the Gilligan's Island references this election?

Thurston Howell III and Gilligan vs who?

I'd say Professor and the Skipper...

Tell Stench I’m having finger sandwiches with Peggy Noonan and will text him later.”

uh this doesn't sound right

Yeah, I'm pretty adverse to using 'finger' and 'Peggy Noonan' in the same sentence.

don't mind "stench" though

"Smell my finger. It is ripe with Peggy Noonan stench."

^^ that should please both of you, then

How's Gilligan going to maintain his 6% body fat eating finger sandwiches?

BAN DJP

lawl

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

http://www.technodisco.net/img/tracks/g/george-clinton/2894777-george-clinton-hey-man-smell-my-finger.jpg

http://www.mediaite.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Picture-77.png

"Hey man...smell my finger"

day = ruined

:D

I'd say Professor and the Skipper...

irl lol, this is pretty apt! (No other choices tho given remaining castaways were women.)

7-11 offering rival Obamney cups! The Coke v Pepsi metaphor nearly goes retail.

So you're voting RC Cola?

not a shop

http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/intel/2012/09/24/152673920.o.jpg/a_560x375.jpg

some jazz fest iirc

good cardio workout there, madeleine

When one of our reporters interviewed her last week, Albright supposedly said at the end, "I rule!"

So you're voting RC Cola?

Just a cup of rapidly melting ice for me.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2012/09/24/Style/Images/DSC_7378.jpeg?uuid=Eox0DAZqEeKFilMR34arBA

it's like an epidemic

South Florida politics at its finest:

A self-described “Republican bad girl,” Alliegro doesn’t appear to be cooperating with authorities investigating Sternad’s campaign. The political newcomer and part-time hotel worker lost the Aug. 14 Democratic primary race to Rivera rival Joe Garcia, who faces Rivera in the Nov. 6 general election for the Kendall-to-Key West seat.

Alliegro initially planned to cooperate with the FBI and make a statement on Thursday, Sept. 6. But she was a no-show.

The day before, she met with Rivera, who faces a separate criminal investigation into his personal and political finances.

The investigation into Sternad’s campaign concerns laws prohibiting money laundering, intentionally filing false campaign reports and conspiracy. No charges have been filed against Sternad, Alliegro or Rivera.

And it’s not the first time Alliegro has faced legal problems.

Two weeks ago, right after FBI agents raided her apartment and seized her computer, Miami Police arrested her on an old warrant for driving with a suspended license. She spent the weekend in jail, where she complained about the smell and view from her cell.

In 2009, she was arrested for shoplifting a pair of $29.99 sandals from Ross on Biscayne Boulevard. The charge was later dropped.

In January 2007, she was arrested in a dispute with her ex-husband, Moshe Cosicher, at his Tigertail Ave. home in Coconut Grove. They had been divorced for two years, but Alliegro wanted to get remarried, according to reports from Miami police and prosecutors.

“We are going to Vegas,” she told Cosicher, a report said. The report noted that when Cosicher refused, she grabbed a gun, which appeared to be a .45 that she kept at bed side.

She then sat naked at a desk with her leg up and compared the gun to a male sexual organ.

“If you think your [expletive] is powerful (showing the gun), this is mine,” Alliegro told Cosicher, who tried to ignore her by going to make coffee, a report said. Alliegro followed him and told him to sit on the couch.

She fired a round into the ceiling.

was Ciccone's endorsement noted? Below the lede, my fave words are "For better or for worse."

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2012/09/madonnas-bizarre-obama-endorsement-we.html

xxp who is the unimpressed lady behind the ride cymbal?

alfred that is awesome

http://i.imgur.com/nvXzk.jpg

ಠ_ಠ

"...where she complained about the smell and view from her cell."

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Reagan_with_Peggy_Noonan.jpg/220px-Reagan_with_Peggy_Noonan.jpg

"Hey, Ron, smell my finger!"

He looks worried she might pull him out of his chair.

http://dl7.glitter-graphics.net/pub/16/16407bv4zrbjoxk.gif