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

I <3 Shep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuF03PTNpp8

Yeah, he's ok for an Ole Miss guy.

Courtesy of Mark Shields...

Newt Gingrich: "Why do people take such an instant dislike to me?"

Bob Dole: "Because it saves them time."

Good to see Tom Millar getting work.

A lot of fun for a little while.

http://bcove.me/8ge1a398

I lasted about 90 seconds! A new record!

oh wow that thing is amazing & great. RIP your ludicrous campaign you hellbound asshole

The really good news is that I'll be getting 21 hours of my life back, as I had already penciled in seven three-hour Lincoln/Douglas-style debates on the calendar for September and October.

I want a DVD that's just hours of clips of Shep Smith take-downs, asides and moments of humorous/righteous bewilderment.

The NYT mag this weekend addresses Obama and Wall Street's relationship. I can't even...wau:

One of the guests raised his hand; he knew how to solve the problem. The president had won plaudits for his speech on race during the last campaign, the guest noted. It was a soaring address that acknowledged white resentment and urged national unity. What if Obama gave a similarly healing speech about class and inequality? What if he urged an end to attacks on the rich? Around the table, some people shook their heads in disbelief.

“Most people in the financial world,” a top Obama donor later told me, “do not understand how most of America feels about them.” But they think they understand how the president’s inner circle feels about them. “This administration has a more contemptuous view of big money and of Wall Street than any administration in 40 years,” the donor said. “And it shows.”

big money and of Wall Street 'Cause you're speculators not real new wealth creators or 'cause your wealth is used to game the system and corrupt the government. What part of that do you fail to udnerstand?

that's an anecdote for the ages.

"This administration has a more contemptuous view of big money and of Wall Street than any administration in 40 years,” the donor said. “And it shows.”

even wealthy Wall Streeters get butthurt ...

also, when i see Jon Corzine, Henry Paulson and other Wall Street crooks being frogmarched into federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison then i'll believe that Change We Can Believe In truly is "contemptuous ... of big money."

"This administration has a more contemptuous view of big money and of Wall Street than any administration in 40 years,” the donor said. “And it shows.”

First comment: 40 years ago, big money had not amassed the overwhelming mountain of privileges that it has now. Big money and finance in general have made out like bandits under every administration in the past 40 years. So, if the main points of comparison in terms of 'contempt' are presidents Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush, then basically we're talking about a level of 'contempt' evinced by still kissing both ass cheeks, but wiping one's mouth afterwards.

Second comment: Gosh! Perhaps Wall Street and "big money" have done something recently that might reasonably increase one's contempt for them - but, what could that be?

and yet, the entire election depends on getting money from these assholes

the economy relies on these assholes too

http://i47.tinypic.com/b8qy5c.jpg

I love how Poppy looks more hammered than the rest.

the speech suggested by the Wall Street satrap is akin to a suggestion by a Confederate officer to Lincoln to make a speech indicating that the President urged an end to the swiftness with which Southerners freed their slaves.

Isn't that Gergen in the background? Reminding everyone to imbibe in moderation?

yep

and Cronkite

"This administration has a more contemptuous view of big money and of Wall Street than any administration in 40 years,” the donor said. “And it shows.”

Loooool.

i guess that Obama could be seen as more contemptuous of Wall Street than every President from Nixon up to him b/c (a) he occasionally says "mean" things about them; (b) he had the unmitigated audacity to enact some relatively mild reforms and now they have to pay their high-priced lobbyists even more money to completely emasculate even these mild reforms; (c) he talks about wanting them to pay more taxes (lol); and (d) back in 2008, a few of them thought that he was "one of them" (e.g., he went to Harvard).

damn the lords of the universe are such pussies. i mean, give your money to whomever you want, but for god's sake stop with the whole self-pitying thing

and while i agree with u eisbaer, i think that we can no longer use the word 'audacity' for at least a generation

Well it makes sense when you consider Goldman Sachs used to be Obama's #1 contributor and now they're Romney's. I guess we'll be hearing alot this year about class warfare and such.

Still, I see "And it shows" and I think of the trillions of dollars we've given big business over the past 4 years and....ugh

“This administration has a more contemptuous view of big money and of Wall Street than any administration in 40 years”

A lot of good it's done us, eh?

Sometimes my only comfort is hoping that Bill Clinton and Barack Obama secretly hate themselves.

I mean, they have to, right?

can't imagine being president and not developing some severe issues

p. sure those issues do not involve self-hatred

Clinton used to drown his sorrows by eating lots of cheeseburgers and greasy pizza till his arteries got clogged. Obama probably has probably had killer nicotine fits nowadays.

to be president these days and not go insane i suspect you basically have to have a serious personality flaw that just happens to shield you from the full implications of the shit you've done -- totally spaced-out and clueless (reagan), an egomaniac (clinton), ignorant and incurious (bush). god only knows what obama's deal is.

You don't have to be nuts to be President...but it helps!

But Ann Romney wore a $990 t-shirt on tv the other morning

CBS

CHANTILLY, Va. — The fashion house that makes the nearly $1,000 blouse worn by Ann Romney on morning television earlier this week tells ABC News that they had nothing to do with the wardrobe choice, remarking that they’d prefer to stay out of politics.

“We had nothing to do with it,” a rep for designer Reed Krakoff said. “She must have bought it from Saks or Bergdorf’s, we definitely didn’t send it to her.”

“It’s 100 percent a Reed Krakoff shirt, but we 100 percent didn’t send it to her,” the rep added. ”We don’t get involved politically.”

The shirt, an item in the label’s 2012 Spring/Summer collection, retails for $990, and for those shopping, is called the “The Reed Audubon Silk Shirt.”

The price of the shirt was first reported by the style blog Stylite.com.

Mrs. Romney does not have a stylist, according to an aide with the Romney campaign, and is likely to have purchased the shirt on her own.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Ann%20Romney%20900%20shirt

http://www.politico.com/blogs/click/2012/05/ann-romney-wears-shirt-122264.html#.T6Fy_BFMcDc.twitter

Blousegate. Love the url "Ann Romney Wears Shirt."

hahaha thank you, Ann Romney, for giving us a respite from your endless sprees of public nudity

So you're saying the Mormon nudist camp rumor starts here.

I originally typed that as 'Mormom,' which is both completely obvious and strangely fitting.

so, "julia"

smh @ america

half of what I say is meaningless.

nro was railing against julia's "drab, soviet-style existence" and also had a whole post about how the campaign would cause problems in obama's base because hipsters would be forced to mock julia

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/03/Obama-Campaign-Women-Are-Helpless

conservative ranting about Julia here is so over the top

that is an...unfortunate URL.

Under the Obama administration, self-respect and personal responsibility are unnecessary when the federal government saps resources from the private sector to clean up your messes. Julia can be a professional student and study web design for a frillion years so she can build flash-heavy websites.

Annnd Obama is still president.

these ppl are so stupid

http://www.freep.com/article/20120504/NEWS15/120504045/Mitt-Romney-Richard-Grenell-campaign

well that lasted about as long as i expected

The Prez spoke at my son's high school yesterday. Did his spiel about the Republicans wanting to let federal loan interest rates double

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2012/0504/Student-loans-Do-Republicans-really-think-program-is-socialist