"A black sheriff?!": The Official Topic of Obama and New Era American Politics

[Mandark]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=43291800&postcount=4842

 

 

[Phoenix Dark]

CBS

Obama 37
Romney 30
Tie 33

[Mr. Gundam]

Now now, share with the class.

[Human Snorenado]

The sad thing is, if that had been the performance he gave in the first debate, this shit would be over

Barring something weird, it should be over now but Obama bled for a few weeks needlessly.  Harumph.

[Himu]

Someone on c-span just said "Obama had a hard time answering questions"

[CajoleJuice]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=43291800&postcount=4842

 

perfect.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

CBS

Obama 37
Romney 30
Tie 33

"According to a CBS poll, only 1 in 3 people think Obama won the debate!"

[Himu]

http://bindersfullofwomen.tumblr.com/

[Great Rumbler]

That Libya moment really is incredible. You can just see this look in Mitt Ronmey's eyes. "I've got him. I've got him stone cold on this." And Obama just sits back and says "Please proceed, Governor." and Romney proceeds to do exactly what Obama wanted him to do: hang himself with his own rope on live TV.

(Image removed from quote.)

http://bindersfullofwomen.tumblr.com/

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/google-binders-full-of-women-rising-search-term

I have a feeling that off-the-cuff remark is going to get some play in the next few weeks.

[Mandark]

The sad thing is, if that had been the performance he gave in the first debate, this shit would be over

Barring something weird, it should be over now but Obama bled for a few weeks needlessly.  Harumph.

Well, I think a lot of Dems were getting a bit too giddy during the post-convention phase when everything was coming up Milhouse.

[Himu]

The sad thing is, if that had been the performance he gave in the first debate, this shit would be over

Barring something weird, it should be over now but Obama bled for a few weeks needlessly.  Harumph.

Well, I think a lot of Dems were getting a bit too giddy during the post-convention phase when everything was coming up Milhouse.

I agree with this but I think Romney's 47% comments and the subsequent Gallup polls helped birth this attitude than the DNC. Though of course, the convention contributed.

[Barry Egan]

for those who may have missed the definitive moment of the debate:

[Great Rumbler]

It blows my mind that Mittens actually bit on that line of attack and thought it was going to be the knock out blow against Obama.

[Himu]

for those who may have missed the definitive moment of the debate:

[Mr. Gundam]

Good lord, undecided voters are dense.

[Himu]

With a month until election day how can anyone be undecided?

[Barry Egan]

Good lord, undecided voters are dense.

MSNBC right?  I swear to God you would get more thoughtful answers from middle school kids. 

[Mr. Gundam]

Yep. These people are fucking idiots.

I really want to believe they're just attention whores.

[Great Rumbler]

I can understand not really knowing much about local or state races up until close to the election, but national races? PRESIDENTIAL races? Good grief, people.

[Great Rumbler]

Mitt Romney raised eyebrows during the presidential debate Tuesday night when he claimed that as governor of Massachusetts, he had been so dismayed at the lack of female cabinet candidates that he sent women's groups out to find them.

"I went to a number of women's groups and said, 'Can you help us find folks?' and they brought us whole binders full of women," he said.

In fact, Romney did not direct women's groups to bring him female candidates, Boston Pheonix reporter David Bernstein points out. A non-partisan collaboration of women’s groups called Massachusetts Government Appointments Project (MassGAP) was responsible for the effort in 2002, when the group's leaders realized that women held only 30 percent of the top appointed positions in the state.

Romney boasted that during his term as governor, Massachusetts had more women in senior leadership positions than any other state in America. "Now one of the reasons I was able to get so many good women to be part of that team was because of our recruiting effort," he said.

This statement, too, is misleading. While 42 percent of Romney’s appointments during his first 2-1/2 years as governor were women, the number of women in high-level appointed positions actually declined 27.6 percent during his full tenure as governor, according to a 2007 MassGAP study.

Oops!

[bachikarn]

holy shit, how is this not an Onion headline

http://nation.foxnews.com/mitt-romney/2012/10/15/romney-smokes-obama-pre-debate-coin-tosses

Romney Smokes Obama In Pre-Debate Coin Tosses

[Himu]

This just in: Romney eats his pre-debate dinner faster than Obama!

[Phoenix Dark]

[Great Rumbler]

First of all, according to MassGAP and MWPC, Romney did appoint 14 women out of his first 33 senior-level appointments, which is a reasonably impressive 42 percent. However, as I have reported before, those were almost all to head departments and agencies that he didn't care about -- and in some cases, that he quite specifically wanted to not really do anything. None of the senior positions Romney cared about -- budget, business development, etc. -- went to women.

Secondly, a UMass-Boston study found that the percentage of senior-level appointed positions held by women actually declined throughout the Romney administration, from 30.0% prior to his taking office, to 29.7% in July 2004, to 27.6% near the end of his term in November 2006. (It then began rapidly rising when Deval Patrick took office.)

Third, note that in Romney's story as he tells it, this man who had led and consulted for businesses for 25 years didn't know any qualified women, or know where to find any qualified women. So what does that say?

[Mandark]

My mom just liked "Binders Full of Women" on FB.  Sheesh.

[Oblivion]

http://www.theonion.com/articles/first-question-from-debate-audience-somehow-comes,29947/

[Joe Molotov]

http://www.theonion.com/articles/first-question-from-debate-audience-somehow-comes,29947/

I liked this one too:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/debate-cut-short-as-lantern-fire-burns-down-ol-tow,29949/

“I thank God that no souls perished today in this infernal blaze,” said local pastor Cyrus T. Jebediah, speaking to a coughing Soledad O’Brien as authorities assessed the damage to the building. “Everyone in Hempstead helped quell the flames. The women in their fancy gingham gowns and bonnets, the rowdy Rachom boys—why, even crazy Jasper Pike, his bottle of corn whiskey still in one hand. Made me proud to be a Hempsteadian, I’ll swear to that.”

[tiesto]

http://www.theonion.com/articles/first-question-from-debate-audience-somehow-comes,29947/

I liked this one too:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/debate-cut-short-as-lantern-fire-burns-down-ol-tow,29949/

“I thank God that no souls perished today in this infernal blaze,” said local pastor Cyrus T. Jebediah, speaking to a coughing Soledad O’Brien as authorities assessed the damage to the building. “Everyone in Hempstead helped quell the flames. The women in their fancy gingham gowns and bonnets, the rowdy Rachom boys—why, even crazy Jasper Pike, his bottle of corn whiskey still in one hand. Made me proud to be a Hempsteadian, I’ll swear to that.”

The best part of that is that Hempstead is the biggest ghetto on the whole island. As in, more dangerous than many parts of the boroughs... I got lost there once and got pulled over in a red zone b/c cops are so not used to seeing white people that they thought I was buying drugs there

My next-door neighbor took Soledad O'Brien to the prom

[Mr. Gundam]

My wife's cousin works at Hofstra, I guess she'd been running around like crazy the last month or so helping with coordination of the debate.

[Brehvolution]

According to Romney, the recession never happened. How stupid does he think people are?

[Brehvolution]

[Great Rumbler]

Perfect.

[Great Rumbler]

[Howard Alan Treesong]

I know that "binders full of women" is the quote getting the play, but there were two other real clunkers in that exchange; the first being, "if you're going to have women in the workplace..." like it's some hardship we need to work around, the second being the idea that you need to be flexible with women so they can get home to take care of their kids and cook dinner. (wtf)

The latter misstep in particularly struck me as insanely misogynist.

[Great Rumbler]

There's also the "we'll get people so anxious to hire that they'll hire women!" as if the only way to get women jobs is by making business owners desperate for workers.

[AdmiralViscen]

Yes, all four of those phrases are shit and write their own commercials

[Great Rumbler]

Later, he seemed to suggest that single moms were the primary source of gun violence in America.

[Steve Youngblood]

I know that "binders full of women" is the quote getting the play, but there were two other real clunkers in that exchange; the first being, "if you're going to have women in the workplace..." like it's some hardship we need to work around, the second being the idea that you need to be flexible with women so they can get home to take care of their kids and cook dinner. (wtf)

The latter misstep in particularly struck me as insanely misogynist.

Who else is going to take care of them?

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Yeah, stopping gun violence by preserving marriage was a bit of a social stretch.

And yes, the "once every man in America has a job, they'll have no CHOICE but to hire women!" was a bit condescending - like there's no room for women in the economy until it's boom times again

[Howard Alan Treesong]

I know that "binders full of women" is the quote getting the play, but there were two other real clunkers in that exchange; the first being, "if you're going to have women in the workplace..." like it's some hardship we need to work around, the second being the idea that you need to be flexible with women so they can get home to take care of their kids and cook dinner. (wtf)

The latter misstep in particularly struck me as insanely misogynist.

Who else is going to take care of them?

lesbian mom #2, the stay-at-home one. duh

[AdmiralViscen]

http://blog.thephoenix.com/BLOGS/talkingpolitics/archive/2012/10/16/mind-the-binder.aspx

[Great Rumbler]

Not only was it completely tone deaf and misogynistic, it was also a lie!

[Steve Youngblood]

lesbian mom #2, the stay-at-home one. duh

Oh, right right. I just wanted to make sure that you weren't suggesting that -- should my wife inexplicably abandon her duties and start working long hours -- I would actually take on some of these duties.

[Great Rumbler]

lesbian mom #2, the stay-at-home one. duh

Oh, right right. I just wanted to make sure that you weren't suggesting that -- should my wife inexplicably abandon her duties and start working long hours -- I would actually take on some of these duties.

Oh goodness, no! A man leaving work early to take care of his children? What an amusing thought! Haha! I must tell this little joke to Reginald next time I see him down at the country club!

[Mr. Gundam]

I know that "binders full of women" is the quote getting the play, but there were two other real clunkers in that exchange; the first being, "if you're going to have women in the workplace..." like it's some hardship we need to work around, the second being the idea that you need to be flexible with women so they can get home to take care of their kids and cook dinner. (wtf)

The latter misstep in particularly struck me as insanely misogynist.

What really bothered me was Mitt's assumption that all women have children. Because you know, if you don't have a kid you're a total failure.

Later, he seemed to suggest that single moms were the primary source of gun violence in America.

That totally killed me. Gun violence is due to a lack of a mother or a father in a kid's life. All you have to do is get married and it all goes away.

There is a cycle of violence that occurs in some families, but to suggest that marriage can solve gun violence completely by itself is absolutely ridiculous.

[Phoenix Dark]

Well Obama was raised by a single mother, and he killed Bin Laden and America

[ToxicAdam]

There are probably millions of people doing the same thing on the internet today.

[Diunx]

If I had that body I would walk around shirtless too.

[tiesto]

I know that "binders full of women" is the quote getting the play, but there were two other real clunkers in that exchange; the first being, "if you're going to have women in the workplace..." like it's some hardship we need to work around, the second being the idea that you need to be flexible with women so they can get home to take care of their kids and cook dinner. (wtf)

The latter misstep in particularly struck me as insanely misogynist.

What really bothered me was Mitt's assumption that all women have children. Because you know, if you don't have a kid you're a total failure.

Later, he seemed to suggest that single moms were the primary source of gun violence in America.

That totally killed me. Gun violence is due to a lack of a mother or a father in a kid's life. All you have to do is get married and it all goes away.

There is a cycle of violence that occurs in some families, but to suggest that marriage can solve gun violence completely by itself is absolutely ridiculous.

Yeah, that whole part with the gun violence and talk about single parents was a real headscratcher... basically shit all over single parents too. These last few debates have really made me come to hate Romney as a person. I mean, Bush was a horrible president and dumb as dogshit but he was at least sincere (Cheney and Rove being the 2 big bastards). But Romney, he's so fake, such a liar, and is an outright asshole.

[Great Rumbler]

There are probably millions of people doing the same thing on the internet today.

Average American voters.

[Oblivion]

Later, he seemed to suggest that single moms were the primary source of gun violence in America.

That was by far and away the most  point in the entire debate. I mean, how the hell do you make that pivot?

[Himu]

There are probably millions of people doing the same thing on the internet today.

[Human Snorenado]

OH HAI GUYZ WHAT'S UP

http://polltracker.talkingpointsmemo.com/contests/president-12-latinos

[Great Rumbler]

If only Romney had been born a Latino, he'd be leading with them right now!

[Oblivion]

OH HAI GUYZ WHAT'S UP

http://polltracker.talkingpointsmemo.com/contests/president-12-latinos

Call me when Obama's leading in REAL Americans.

[Human Snorenado]

If only Romney had been born a Latino, he'd be leading with them right now!

DEM BOOBZ

[Oblivion]

Also, one thing I hope doesn't get lost in the shuffle (cause I haven't heard many people talk about it, but thought it was kind of important):

MS. CROWLEY: Mr. President, let me get — let me get the governor in on this.

And Governor, let’s — before we get into a vast array of who said what — what study says what, if it shouldn’t add up, if somehow when you get in there, there isn’t enough tax revenue coming in, if somehow the numbers don’t add up, would you be willing to look again at a 20 percent —

MR. ROMNEY: Well, of course they add up. I was — I was someone who ran businesses for 25 years and balanced the budget. I ran the Olympics and balanced the budget. I ran the — the state of Massachusetts as a governor, to the extent any governor does, and balanced the budget all four years.

"Of course they add up cause I used federal money to save the Olympics and was mandated by law to balance my state's budget!"

[Positive Touch]

OH HAI GUYZ WHAT'S UP

http://polltracker.talkingpointsmemo.com/contests/president-12-latinos

romney's dumb ass actually said "illegals" last night; cant wait to see his numbers drop from that

[Phoenix Dark]

If only Romney had been born a Latino, he'd be leading with them right now!

DEM BOOBZ

Still fine

I watched Do The Right Thing again a few weeks ago and oh boy...dat ice cube scene

[Oblivion]

Guess it was Obama that was the one that got destroyed in that exchange after all.

edit: wtf? Why can't I embed it?