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Mandark · « **Reply #20340 on:** October 22, 2012, 10:34:40 PM »

Quote from: Thomas Householmes Lane on October 22, 2012, 10:26:58 PM

romney laying the SMACK DOWN on OBAMA

Hey guys, remember how much more effective this was in the first debate when all the board's liberals were already freaking out? This time only BN is biting.

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #20341 on:** October 22, 2012, 10:34:52 PM »

Wow. Hearing Romney talk about working across the aisle made me throw up in my mouth a little.

TakingBackSunday · « **Reply #20342 on:** October 22, 2012, 10:36:14 PM »

Quote from: Mandark on October 22, 2012, 10:34:40 PM

Quote from: Thomas Householmes Lane on October 22, 2012, 10:26:58 PM
romney laying the SMACK DOWN on OBAMA

Hey guys, remember how much more effective this was in the first debate when all the board's liberals were already freaking out? This time only BN is biting.

I wasn't here for the first one

AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #20343 on:** October 22, 2012, 10:36:26 PM »

Romney reduced to a whimpering simp. Obama should make him Secretary of Agriculture and keep him in a trunk in the Lincoln bedroom.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #20344 on:** October 22, 2012, 10:36:48 PM »

Romney talks about bipartisanship like it's one-way street.

tiesto · « **Reply #20345 on:** October 22, 2012, 10:37:26 PM »

cool breeze · « **Reply #20346 on:** October 22, 2012, 10:37:31 PM »

How many Romneys are there? Will we get a Romney-Romney ticket in a few years?

MIMIC · « **Reply #20347 on:** October 22, 2012, 10:37:34 PM »

Carville summed it up perfectly: Romney in debate #3 = Obama in debate #1.

He was either agreeing with Obama or just babbling without even saying much. Obama addressed specific things in a lot of Romney's points tonight.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #20348 on:** October 22, 2012, 10:38:23 PM »

The Repubs on CNN are saying this debate didn't matter.

AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #20349 on:** October 22, 2012, 10:38:36 PM »

Ari Fleischer: Romney was great, appealed to women by saying he would go to the UN. btw the debate didn't matter

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #20350 on:** October 22, 2012, 10:39:57 PM »

Romney tried to be a hardass about foreign policy in the second debate and got slapped down. I guess he figured tonguing Obama's asshole would provide better results this time around.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #20351 on:** October 22, 2012, 10:40:45 PM »

Quote from: fryinghigh on October 22, 2012, 10:37:31 PM

How many Romneys are there? Will we get a Romney-Romney ticket in a few years?

Could be a Romney-Romney-Romney ticket if we don't stem the flow of Chinese counterfeits.

tiesto · « **Reply #20352 on:** October 22, 2012, 10:42:13 PM »

Quote from: Creepy Old Guy on October 22, 2012, 03:10:09 PM

This is kind of where I'm at.

http://www.270towin.com/2012_election_predictions.php?mapid=NQO

Although every day something else happens that freaks me the fuck out. Today, it's TPM moving PA to a swing state. I looked at the polls and can't really figure out why, though.

I wanna say same as your map but with Obama taking FL.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #20353 on:** October 22, 2012, 10:45:13 PM »

Republicans are the party of peace now I guess, watching CNN.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #20354 on:** October 22, 2012, 10:45:49 PM »

Repubs on CNN sound desperate, Dems look like they're having fun.

TakingBackSunday · « **Reply #20355 on:** October 22, 2012, 10:46:30 PM »

http://mashable.com/2012/10/22/tweet-of-the-night/

cool breeze · « **Reply #20356 on:** October 22, 2012, 10:47:32 PM »

Quote from: Joe Molotov® EDGE™ on October 22, 2012, 10:45:13 PM

Republicans are the party of peace now I guess, watching CNN.

Republicans are the party of peace. And America is the hope of Earth.

TakingBackSunday · « **Reply #20357 on:** October 22, 2012, 10:51:18 PM »

according to fox's twitter:

"During the debate a marine tweeted us to inform us that the marines still use bayonettes, so it may not be clear who doesnt understand what the military currently uses"

fucking LOL

fox and cnn are an absolute JOKE right now

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #20358 on:** October 22, 2012, 10:53:36 PM »

Romney looked like Obama in the first debate; he barely defended himself and often seemed rather reserved. And when he wasn't reserved, he was agreeing with Obama.

TakingBackSunday · « **Reply #20359 on:** October 22, 2012, 10:57:36 PM »

Big Bird, Binders, and Bayonets.

TakingBackSunday · « **Reply #20360 on:** October 22, 2012, 11:06:25 PM »

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #20361 on:** October 22, 2012, 11:09:54 PM »

I saw nothing from the debate. Honest assessment, my Bore bros?

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #20362 on:** October 22, 2012, 11:15:48 PM »

Boring as fuck. Obama took Romney out behind the woodshed but nobody cares. Romney promised to do exactly what Obama has done, only with 12 million more jobs and stronger "leadership." In conclusion, the Republicans are the party of peace and bipartisanship, who - unlike Democrats - realize there are some problems you can't just kill your way out of.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #20363 on:** October 22, 2012, 11:16:13 PM »

Quote from: Mr. Gundam on October 22, 2012, 11:09:54 PM

I saw nothing from the debate. Honest assessment, my Bore bros?

Romney sounded and looked a lot like Obama in the first debate. Very reserved, almost disoriented, and didn't defend himself from some pretty direct attacks. And when he wasn't being passive, he was agreeing with Obama. I gotta say I was 100% wrong on this debate: I assumed Romney would come out with the bluster and "strength" conservatives champion. Instead he tried to sound...like Obama, and it failed.

Eric Erickson (Red State/CNN) is pretending like the debate was a wash, but I can't imagine Romney's camp being happy about what happened. More interestingly I want to see what the neoconservatives have to say about his performance and answers tonight; they can't be happy about Romney giving a deadline for Afghanistan, for instance. And like Obama when he claimed Romney's Social Security support was the same as his in the first debate, Romney basically agreed with Obama's Iran sanctions 100%. Amazing...

Obama dominated the entire debate. I thought Romney did great at the very end when he got to list off the various bad economic data to Obama, but that was it.

TakingBackSunday · « **Reply #20364 on:** October 22, 2012, 11:22:17 PM »

neocons are spinning like crazy already PD

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #20365 on:** October 22, 2012, 11:24:15 PM »

Romney basically tried to portray himself as a bigger peacenik than Obama, they know they'll get their war but can't be happy about his mealy-mouthed appeasement.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #20366 on:** October 22, 2012, 11:25:56 PM »

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #20367 on:** October 22, 2012, 11:27:42 PM »

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #20368 on:** October 22, 2012, 11:31:38 PM »

Spurgeon · « **Reply #20369 on:** October 22, 2012, 11:35:10 PM »

Did Mitt get visibly red as the debate progressed, or did my color settings reset when my electricity went out?

ToxicAdam · « **Reply #20370 on:** October 22, 2012, 11:36:15 PM »

I didn't watch a lick of this, but judging by the reaction, Mitt was playing to the 7-10% undecideds. Don't want to look too aggressive and you're not going to win those people over by scoring points on what to do with third world countries. Basically, just look 'presidential' and hope the undecideds have had enough of a stalled economy and joblessness.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #20371 on:** October 22, 2012, 11:42:08 PM »

Quote

According to the CBS News instapoll Romney won debate one 46 to 22.

According to the same poll, President Obama won this one 53 to 23.

Absolute slaughter.

Atramental · « **Reply #20372 on:** October 22, 2012, 11:42:50 PM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on October 22, 2012, 11:31:38 PM

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Beautiful.

Barry Egan · « **Reply #20373 on:** October 23, 2012, 12:06:22 AM »

All the polling so far shows a decisive Obama win, like an inversion of debate one. Personally I thought the real slaughter was the second debate and that this one was far less interesting for both candidates, but what do I know. hopefully the win can give Obama just enough of a push to close this thing.

ToxicAdam · « **Reply #20374 on:** October 23, 2012, 12:07:28 AM »

I hate the binders meme .. but this one cracked me up.

Oblivion · « **Reply #20375 on:** October 23, 2012, 12:48:08 AM »

Quote from: Barry Egan on October 23, 2012, 12:06:22 AM

All the polling so far shows a decisive Obama win, like an inversion of debate one. Personally I thought the real slaughter was the second debate and that this one was far less interesting for both candidates, but what do I know. hopefully the win can give Obama just enough of a push to close this thing.

It's mainly cause Romney looked waaaay more weak, frail and scared in this debate than the last one.

Anyway, the best of the twitters:

Himu · « **Reply #20376 on:** October 23, 2012, 12:52:54 AM »

Missed the debate but it doesn't look like I missed much. I'll watch it tomorrow on my dvr.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #20377 on:** October 23, 2012, 01:04:14 AM »

Romney's solution to the Iran situation:

Have the UN arrest and try Ahmadinejad for war crimes.

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #20378 on:** October 23, 2012, 01:12:13 AM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on October 23, 2012, 01:04:14 AM

Romney's solution to the Iran situation:

Have the UN arrest and try Ahmadinejad for war crimes.

It fits well with the Simon Says rules lawyering he applies to debate moderators and Benghazi

Himu · « **Reply #20379 on:** October 23, 2012, 01:41:27 AM »

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/22/foreign-policy-presidential-debate

Hmmmm

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #20380 on:** October 23, 2012, 01:44:20 AM »

Quote from: Stringer Bell on October 23, 2012, 01:41:27 AM

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/22/foreign-policy-presidential-debate

Hmmmm

shocking

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #20381 on:** October 23, 2012, 01:59:46 AM »

Mandark · « **Reply #20382 on:** October 23, 2012, 02:02:08 AM »

Quote from: Greenwald

but I believe in the power of reason, ideas and - especially - persuasion

Funny cause it's wrong, and cause Greenwald is only 50/50 on using reason and persuasion, rather than magical thinking and accusations of bad faith.

Himu · « **Reply #20383 on:** October 23, 2012, 02:07:48 AM »

I have been researching the Party for Socialism and Liberation and its members because it fascinates me that a party would put someone who is under the age for presidency eligibility and a foreigner as their presidential candidates. They are fucking insane. I thought it was a socialist party due to the name, but then I went to wikipedia and....

I googled for PSL criticisms and there's one community of communist sympathisers who are members of the PSL, and they call each other "comrade"

and one guy even said he agreed with Mao.

Himu · « **Reply #20384 on:** October 23, 2012, 02:13:00 AM »

Holy fuck, I am laughing so hard.

Steve Contra · « **Reply #20385 on:** October 23, 2012, 12:24:31 PM »

I was tuning in and out of the debate, but I'm guessing my suspicion that the Euro crisis wasn't mentioned at all, save for Mitt's jabs at Greece? I mean sure Middle East posturing and giving Bibi a televised reach-around are important, but maybe a few words about a colossal multi-year crisis that threatens the stability of an entire block of our closest allies would be good for you know, a foreign policy debate?

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #20386 on:** October 23, 2012, 12:29:45 PM »

Quote from: Steve Contra on October 23, 2012, 12:24:31 PM

I was tuning in and out of the debate, but I'm guessing my suspicion that the Euro crisis wasn't mentioned at all, save for Mitt's jabs at Greece? I mean sure Middle East posturing and giving Bibi a televised reach-around are important, but maybe a few words about a colossal multi-year crisis that threatens the stability of an entire block of our closest allies would be good for you know, a foreign policy debate?

Not only that, if the Euro crashes it's gonna have a lot greater effect on our economy than whatever backroom shenanigans the Ministry of Currency Manipulation has planned.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #20387 on:** October 23, 2012, 12:37:41 PM »

About half the debate was the Middle East and a little about a China. The other half was domestic issues.

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #20388 on:** October 23, 2012, 12:41:08 PM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on October 23, 2012, 12:37:41 PM

About half the debate was the Middle East and a little about a China. The other half was domestic issues.

Romney was only being fair: to Barack Hussein Obama, American policy IS foreign policy.

Steve Contra · « **Reply #20389 on:** October 23, 2012, 12:42:29 PM »

Quote from: Howard Alan Treesong on October 23, 2012, 12:41:08 PM

Quote from: Great Rumbler on October 23, 2012, 12:37:41 PM
About half the debate was the Middle East and a little about a China. The other half was domestic issues.

Romney was only being fair: to Barack Hussein Obama, American policy IS foreign policy.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #20390 on:** October 23, 2012, 02:37:26 PM »

Quote from: Steve Contra on October 23, 2012, 12:24:31 PM

I was tuning in and out of the debate, but I'm guessing my suspicion that the Euro crisis wasn't mentioned at all, save for Mitt's jabs at Greece? I mean sure Middle East posturing and giving Bibi a televised reach-around are important, but maybe a few words about a colossal multi-year crisis that threatens the stability of an entire block of our closest allies would be good for you know, a foreign policy debate?

Sorry Steve Contra, I'm pretty sure all Very Serious People have accepted the idea that austerity just gives them a boner.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #20391 on:** October 23, 2012, 02:38:19 PM »

Tangent- does anyone remember a graph showing the tax rate on top earners vs. median middle class income that was going around a while ago? Did I hallucinate that? Someone is wrong on the internet and it's important I make them look stupid.

Mandark · « **Reply #20392 on:** October 23, 2012, 02:49:56 PM »

What data you need specifically?

ToxicAdam · « **Reply #20393 on:** October 23, 2012, 02:54:42 PM »

It's probably important to note that much of the disparity of the rich/poor comes from capital gains (the explosion of property prices and the Dow) and the lessening of the taxes on those gains. Not to mention the shift of executive pay from salary to stock options.

So until that issue is fixed, raising income taxes on the rich is only going to slightly slow down the problem and not correct it.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #20394 on:** October 23, 2012, 04:08:59 PM »

Quote from: Mandark on October 23, 2012, 02:49:56 PM

What data you need specifically?

I think I remember an awesome graph from about 1980 onward showing income for top earners vs. median middle class income? Something like that.

Basically, someone is asserting that "all economic indicators" lead one to the assumption that trickle down economics does, in fact, work for everybody.

It's honestly probably a waste of my time but I'd like to see the figures anyway and my google fu has sucked

Positive Touch · « **Reply #20395 on:** October 23, 2012, 04:18:23 PM »

Barry Egan · « **Reply #20396 on:** October 23, 2012, 04:44:14 PM »

Sam Wang on the idea of Romney momentum. Feels good man.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #20397 on:** October 23, 2012, 04:49:02 PM »

Trump is dropping a "bombshell" tomorrow. Twitter suggests it'll be on Michelle allegedly filing for divorce in 2000; a fringe anti-Obama book earlier this year had the same charge

TakingBackSunday · « **Reply #20398 on:** October 23, 2012, 04:55:21 PM »

who fucking cares

Steve Contra · « **Reply #20399 on:** October 23, 2012, 05:00:20 PM »

Obama can't even commit to getting divorced #gingrich2016

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