Everyone on twitter seems to be freaking out what do you guys think, did Obama blow this hugely or is this nbd- A Concerned Canadian― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Wednesday, October 3, 2012 10:53 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
nbd― iatee, Wednesday, October 3, 2012 10:53 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark
From there to "I'm surprised when there's something surprising that happens" doesn't quite connect to me.
― clemenza, Saturday, 13 October 2012 01:56 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i was gonna say, clinton and reagan's re-elections seem like the only ones in the last few decades the ball was still in the air pretty close to the end. things weren't too suspenseful by election day on '08 but people were still so bewildered that we were actually going to have a black president that everyone was on the edge of their seats anyway. (xpost)
― some dude, Saturday, 13 October 2012 01:58 (eleven years ago) link
I still don't think obama blew it hugely, it just pumped up conservatives - the extent that it did was def on the higher end of what people expected possible, but like I said, I don't think that's something that can happen more than once
― iatee, Saturday, 13 October 2012 01:59 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i was gonna say, clinton and reagan's re-elections seem like the only ones in the last few decades the ball was still in the air pretty close to the end.
wait am I reading this correctly?
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 13 October 2012 02:01 (eleven years ago) link
er "wasn't" not "was" sorry
― some dude, Saturday, 13 October 2012 02:02 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think the reason for Romney's big comeback is mainly that he "won" the debate. I think it's more the way that he redefined himself and laid out his agenda in greater detail, aiming straight for the center of the political spectrum. That Obama was stiff and seemed disconnected was just the gravy. Up to the week of the debate, the Romney agenda had been strangely hazy, so the Obama campaign had been able to paint him in the most negative light. His main accomplishment in the debate was not "beating" Obama but redefining himself. At that moment, he suddenly started running the kind of competent, centrist campaign that everyone had been expecting him to run since he clinched the nomination, but that for whatever reason, he had been strangely unwilling or unready to do up till then.
― o. nate, Saturday, 13 October 2012 02:07 (eleven years ago) link
haha it's all good, ship -- I know shit about sports so I thought, "Oh, so THAT's what 'the ball in the air' means..."
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 13 October 2012 02:07 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― some dude, Saturday, 13 October 2012 02:14 (eleven years ago) link
i have to say i'm a bit surprised, i figured it would barely make any difference. but there may be a lot of people out there who don't like Obama but didn't trust Romney, and Romney may have given them enough moderate bullshit to seem like someone they could vote for.
― JoeStork, Saturday, 13 October 2012 02:30 (eleven years ago) link
i know things about sports and i'm not sure what that metaphor means
― la goonies (k3vin k.), Saturday, 13 October 2012 02:45 (eleven years ago) link
guys can we please not examine too closely whether the random phrase i used is an actual thing people say or whether i used it correctly
― some dude, Saturday, 13 October 2012 02:49 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/articles/eloquent-biden-brings-entire-audience-to-tears-in,29887/
i know this has been posted elsewhere but i'm posting it AGAIN because it's a true thing of beauty
― Raymond Cummings, Saturday, 13 October 2012 02:50 (eleven years ago) link
Joe Biden being this wacky off-the-cuff sort of figure is still a little strange to me since my first memory of him was a stiff dropping out of the primaries because his canned speeches were plagiarized.
― pplains, Saturday, 13 October 2012 02:55 (eleven years ago) link
i don't think anyone expected (or expects) obama to do what biden did last night, they just expect him to not look like he just got in a terrible argument with his wife that involved the smashing of a wedding photo against a wall, and to speak up and make a few good points every once in a while.
seriously awed by the poetry of this analysis
― *buffs lens* (schlump), Saturday, 13 October 2012 03:41 (eleven years ago) link
― pplains, Friday, October 12, 2012 10:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^^^ this
also, i have a hard time reconciling his "populist" schtick when i remember how he was MasterCard's go-to guy when he was still in the Senate.
― spicy bacon, bitch! (Eisbaer), Saturday, 13 October 2012 04:43 (eleven years ago) link
though i still greatly enjoyed watching Biden mop the floor with Ryan.
― spicy bacon, bitch! (Eisbaer), Saturday, 13 October 2012 04:44 (eleven years ago) link
Hasselbeck h. ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIS_Building_2000 attackOn the evening of 20 September 2000 the building was attacked by unapprehended forces using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile, causing superficial damage.[6] British Police recovered the discarded launcher at Spring Gardens park in Vauxhall, as well as finding remains of the missile which had exploded against an eighth floor window.[7]_How the fuck have I never heard about this?
_2000 attack
On the evening of 20 September 2000 the building was attacked by unapprehended forces using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile, causing superficial damage.[6] British Police recovered the discarded launcher at Spring Gardens park in Vauxhall, as well as finding remains of the missile which had exploded against an eighth floor window.[7]
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How the fuck have I never heard about this?
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 13 October 2012 09:01 (eleven years ago) link
Oh god guys. Zing disaster sry
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 13 October 2012 09:02 (eleven years ago) link
liberals totally Etch-a-Sketch when it comes to Biden's past horrors.
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 13 October 2012 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
Horrors! Just in time for Halloween. I'm going as Biden during the Clarence Thomas hearing.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 13 October 2012 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
i'm going as 09 biden advising obama against a surge and in favor of immediate troop drawdown from afghanistan that way when women ignore me it'll be in character.
― balls, Saturday, 13 October 2012 22:01 (eleven years ago) link
I'm going as Jim Lehrer. To make it look good I'm wearing real pancake makeup.
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 13 October 2012 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
I'm going as Jim Lehrer with an actual pancake on my head, in honor of Dan Lacey.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 13 October 2012 22:13 (eleven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/charlesdavis84/status/256910514184130560
― zvookster, Sunday, 14 October 2012 00:40 (eleven years ago) link
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Saturday, October 13, 2012 9:39 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i don't think you're using the metaphor correctly, but i do know what you mean. because it's the same thing you mean in every single post you make to ILE.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Sunday, 14 October 2012 00:47 (eleven years ago) link
it would only be redundant if the thread had any sustained chat at all about how biden implied he didn't vote for war on a credit card or about the consequences of his albright-like gusto for crippling sanctions or about his being proven a remarkable liar and plagiarist and so on
― zvookster, Sunday, 14 October 2012 01:14 (eleven years ago) link
plagiarist thing is just lol, nobody writes their speeches anyway
― iatee, Sunday, 14 October 2012 01:24 (eleven years ago) link
Holy shit, I forgot all about Biden dropping out of the race in '88 due to plagiarism.
― pretty even gender split (Eazy), Sunday, 14 October 2012 01:26 (eleven years ago) link
Remember when obama was plagarizing deval patrick?
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Sunday, 14 October 2012 02:48 (eleven years ago) link
― zvookster, Saturday, October 13, 2012 8:14 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
except this is a thread about the debate. not about joe biden in general.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Sunday, 14 October 2012 03:20 (eleven years ago) link
and morbs never deigns to actually explain himself (herself? what do i know.) at length, just pops in for a would-be devastating bon mot. frankly i think if s/he were party to a conversation IRL and behaved her/himself like this, s/he'd get punched in the face. why we countenance her/him here is beyond me.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Sunday, 14 October 2012 03:23 (eleven years ago) link
If ILX were a real life party, there would be a lot of people with busted schnozzes, in fairness.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 14 October 2012 07:31 (eleven years ago) link
lol @ ms. morbs
― buzza, Sunday, 14 October 2012 08:19 (eleven years ago) link
xxp yeah this is why i will never go to a FAP lol
― Nhex, Sunday, 14 October 2012 08:28 (eleven years ago) link
Dr. Mrs. Morbius
― some dude, Sunday, 14 October 2012 11:13 (eleven years ago) link
http://cartoonoveranalyzations.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/whatsoperadoc.jpg
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 October 2012 11:54 (eleven years ago) link
l-r Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Dr. Morbius
― www.toilet-guru.com (silby), Sunday, 14 October 2012 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
"yeah this is why i will never go to a FAP lol"
every ilxor i have ever met in the world is like the pussiest pussy cat that has ever catted. they are doll babies! and a treat to hang with. and nothing like their onlineness. the internet just does things to people.
― scott seward, Sunday, 14 October 2012 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
it's the same thing you mean in every single post you make to ILE.
I'm consistent... bitch.
amateurist, wtf? Yeah saying shit on the internet is completely diff from real life, overexplaining myself on this fucking thing would be a massive waste of time, I am a man, and at least wait til my cancer is under control before you punch me in the fucking face. And God fuck America and politics.
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 14 October 2012 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
Morbs pleas for politeness and tact
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 14 October 2012 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.movieactors.com/photos-stars/eileen-brennan-privateben-5.jpg
― pretty even gender split (Eazy), Sunday, 14 October 2012 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
Well, anyway.
― pretty even gender split (Eazy), Sunday, 14 October 2012 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
i'm glad morbz posts in these threads -- just as i'm glad mordy, alfred, m. white, clemenza, iatee, scott seward, and a bunch of other people with disparate opinions and posting styles post here. hell, i wish we had a couple of conservatives. these threads are more interesting when they take unpredictable turns.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Sunday, 14 October 2012 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
i suppose you all want to re-elect the muslim, eh
― omar little, Sunday, 14 October 2012 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVdz1Neuuzg
― Bummy G. Baumgartner (buzza), Sunday, 14 October 2012 21:44 (eleven years ago) link
^^ says nothing whatsoever, but looks and sounds good in doing so. Read a transcript and it will have all the substance of wet tissue.
― Aimless, Sunday, 14 October 2012 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
well that ad has the creepiest "I'm _____ and I approve this message" coda that I've heard in a few years.
― Clay, Sunday, 14 October 2012 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
I'm Mitt Romney, and I'm speaking to you from inside your house. I'm standing over your children. Do what I say, and nobody gets hurt.
― *buffs lens* (schlump), Sunday, 14 October 2012 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
― Clay, Sunday, October 14, 2012 5:10 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
seriously. he sounds like he's speaking the words while standing over the body of someone he's just bludgeoned to death.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 15 October 2012 00:12 (eleven years ago) link
Also looks like they edited Biden's laughs in.
― timellison, Monday, 15 October 2012 00:38 (eleven years ago) link