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

ah, spengler.

got to love the reasoning that goes from obama praising the social arrangements of poor indonesia as being at least more stable than those of poor chicago, to spengler using it as proof of preferring traditional pre-capitalism to "creative destruction." like, are you really going to argue that a '70s american ghetto is the best billboard for capital?

yes, Jim Treacher should come here. he seems a treat

Jim Treacher

jim treacher wears a diaper

also the comments on that voice article - in particular at jim treacher the diaper wearer's expense - are a traet

lol

The story of eating dog food in an impoverished third world country vs. tying your pet to the roof of your car. Yes, they both have dogs in them, but they really have nothing to do with each other. As much as I love dogs, the issue of their attitudes towards dogs aren't really important to me and secondary to these narratives. To me, Obama's is about someone who came from poverty and Romney's is about a robot dangerously out of touch with human behavior.

um, it's not dog food, guy

dog as food, more like

it's ok to eat pussy but not dog?

I went to the National Association of Broadcasters convention last week in Vegas -- had never been before -- mainly a tech and gear festival for all things broadcasted, even though the definiton of 'broadcasting' keeps shifting. But this article published in the wednesday daily really leapt out at me. Basically a cheerleading conversation about how great Twitter & Facebook has been for political news because there is now no shortage of content or stories; the 24 hour news cycle is no longer starving, there's always something to write about, so hooray. Then, in the last few paragraphs, a few tiny mentions about how accuracy is still important, and the challenge of making sure that unvetted twitter commentary can be verified before broadcast. The tiny stuff, you know.

The Las Vegas airport with a view of the main strip's skyline = perfect place to have my mind blown by this article

http://www.nabshowdaily.com/2012/Article/128458

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, would you listen to yourself.

http://us.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/cole123rf/cole123rf1007/cole123rf100700035/7404640-short-haired-kitten-playing-with-ball-of-yellow-yarn-with-reflection-on-white-background.jpg

l/r: Jim Treacher, ILX

i see no diaper. jim wears a diaper.

hey guys sorry I haven't been around but I hear that guy who wears diapers might stop by so I thought I'd say hey. You guys know about this guy? Big diaper dude, Jim something. Trecher maybe - Treacher? think so. Really into the whole diaper scene, if you see him give him my best

aero i think you mean jim treacher. i know he wears a diaper anyway.

And at Pajamas Media, David P. Goldman went for historical perspective: Obama's mother "was not only a Communist fellow-traveler," he wrote, "but the sort of 1960s woman who (as we used to say) 'put her body on the line,' first by marrying two Third World men, and then by spending her career in the Third World."

"Third World men"

American Politics: Yo Mama edition

pretty sure there was something else commie-hating right-wingers in the 60s used to call a white woman marrying a black man

"lucky"

Hey, did I hear that Jim Treacher might start posting here?

Can i smell diaper?

ahahahaa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfS1x5RnZZQ&feature=youtube_gdata

btw david p. goldman = "spengler", who's had this theme of obama's mom being a race-crazy whore for a while now

nu-spengler is ed anger of the blog ra

I don't even know who or what jerry treecler is, but I don't think his diapers should be near this thread.

trust me you don't want jerry without his diaper

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I loled

There's nothing like getting a "Clooney and me" email from Barack.

oh, dip. that email was rough. this sort of thing happens in every national campaign ever, but I prefer my bernie sanders emails. grayson emails jumped the shark a while ago.

i kinda feel bad i've deleted all my campaign emails. four years of those subject lines would make some kind of found poem.

the clooney business is ridiculous.

why? what's he gonna run on, his record?

this is how I imagine my date with clooney & obama:

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://cdn.fd.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/hunter-cusack-depp-and-a-blow-up-doll.jpg&imgrefurl=http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2011/03/awesome-picture-hunter-thompson-john-cusack-johnny-depp-a-blow-up-doll&usg=__NFqsIh4yjpv-HExiiO2sMLhdMyE=&h=393&w=525&sz=37&hl=en&start=1&sig2=DM2wqwFfcWOxVqNBGTZy2Q&zoom=1&tbnid=7vkRE5pNPzhbnM:&tbnh=99&tbnw=132&ei=BwCXT_TjM-Xm2QWo8-DgDQ&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhunter%2Bthompson%2Bcusack%2Bdepp%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disz:m%26tbm%3Disch&itbs=1

just some cool dudes talking retail politics

http://cdn.fd.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/hunter-cusack-depp-and-a-blow-up-doll.jpg

whats john cusack doing in that convertible

holding the legs

keeping charlie sheen company

why? what's he gonna run on, his record?

I dunno -- I liked Out of Sight.

Interesting round-up of how engaged--disengaged, more accurately--ex-presidents have been in elections over the years (in light of Clinton's sudden prominence):

http://www.salon.com/2012/04/30/bill_clinton_to_the_rescue/singleton/

Roosevelt's post-presidential life after 1912 was a menace but I suppose it's possible to think he would have made a decent president in 1920 (when he was all but guaranteed the nomination again).

a shame Billy Blythe didn't keep eating bbq

If things had turned out differently, would liked to have seen Kennedy in '68 and Nixon in '76 mixing it up from the wings (being so voraciously political, can't imagine that either could have kept away). Especially if Nixon still would have been the nominee in '68, which seems highly unlikely if Kennedy had lived to serve two terms.

Well I'm sold:

http://jezebel.com/5906640/ann-romney-awkwardly-describes-mitt-as-wild--crazy-man-just-waiting-to-come-out

Shame I can't vote in an American election because what I really like to do is vote crazy people into powerful positions.

brian beutler on why everything is so stupid: it's close

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/05/obama-romney-moms-sluts-dogs-women-voters.php

quite a url

standard right-wing response to Obama campaign's use of "forward" as a campaign slogan:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2012/apr/30/new-obama-slogan-has-long-ties-marxism-socialism/

x-post-- great closing bit there:

“[C]ynical minds might wonder if there is a strategic outsourcing of the below-the-belt attacks to surrogates not officially affiliated with the campaign,” wrote National Review’s Jim Geraghty. “Of course, if the Democrats want to make this race about which candidate is closer to a polygamist ancestor … we can play that game.”

Note his use of "we" and obvious message in the last sentence, after first referring to the campaigns in the beginning.

Obama campaign uses letter "O," long popular with fascists

lol