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[Oblivion]

He sent Gordon Brown a bust of Ramsay MacDonald. #saturdayobamasurprises

So bizarre

He should have sent a bust of Gordon Ramsay instead.

 

[Ember128]

All I know about the recent chicken politics is this.

I would not support Chick-Fil-A if they were in my area, and KFC has been the worst since Pepsi took over.

I am left with no option for any fried chicken because it all sucks now.

 

[The Chosen One]

John Kerry would have beaten Bush if the economy was this bad.

I could say Al Gore might have beaten Bush if Bill Clinton didn't get his nob waxed in the Oval office. (Which btw would have also spared me from having my honors History teacher in high school read the Star Report like it was erotic literature to the class. She also made us all read it aloud, which I'm pretty sure that was some form of abuse...)

Point is, every election has a unique set of circumstances and adding/subtracting specific factors is a useless exercise. John Kerry was an experienced legislator and a decorated war hero (which Obama was neither), yet those things became a liability for him in the '04 campaign. In '04, the economy wasn't the hot button issue at the time. Terrorism was since it was the first election since 9/11. So even if the economy was this bad in '04, Bush could have easily brushed it off as the after-effects of the 9/11 attacks and almost everyone would have given him a pass.

Like I said, making those kind of comparisons is a useless exercise.

 

[NullPointer]

If you are not intelligent enough to see the difference, then you are not intelligent enough to avoid being banned.

This would be the perfect line to engrave on the GAF banhammer. Believe.

 

[speculawyer]

All I know about the recent chicken politics is this.

I would not support Chick-Fil-A if they were in my area, and KFC has been the worst since Pepsi took over.

I am left with no option for any fried chicken because it all sucks now.

Popeye's?

I still love KFC extra crispy but it is a guilty pleasure that I try to only occasionally eat.

 

[Mike M]

All I know about the recent chicken politics is this.

I would not support Chick-Fil-A if they were in my area, and KFC has been the worst since Pepsi took over.

I am left with no option for any fried chicken because it all sucks now.

Popeye's Chicken is the shit.

Quasi-relevant story: Last time I ate at Popeye's was in the eve of the 2004 election, and my family were the only white people in the restaurant. I forget the details, but my brother was going on about how senators Kerry, Kennedy, and some other K-named senator were called the KKK on the hill, completely oblivious to the context of talking about anything KKK in a restaurant full of black people...

 

[Oblivion]

I feel like such a pariah sometimes. I LOVE KFC, but seems most people don't.

Which infuriates me, because KFC SHOULD be cheaper than Popeye's, but it's NOT!

 

[The Technomancer]

Popeye's?

I still love KFC extra crispy but it is a guilty pleasure that I try to only occasionally eat.

Man, is it just the Popeyes by me that's crappy and its amazing everywhere else in the country? I need to find another one sometime. I mean, everyone says KFC is shit but its fairly decent chicken for fast food and its better than anything I've ever had from my Popeyes

 

[ErasureAcer]

Heidi heitkamp is up 6 in a poll of north dakota senate wocka wocka doo doo yeah.

So Nebraska is the only Dem seat that's sunk in the Senate for sure? lol. Republicans will probably get Missouri as well but Montana and ND I think will stay blue in the Senate. Dems will pick up Maine(Indy) and Mass to counter those losses. No way the Repubs get the Senate.

 

[Chumly]

Thought the Obama add was good during the Olympics. First time I saw it

 

[CHEEZMO™]

http://www.kimatv.com/news/local/Billboard-compares-president-to-suspected-gunman-164067056.html

 

[Dr. Pangloss]

Thought the Obama add was good during the Olympics. First time I saw it

Was definitely good and positive. Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfQxHHQPtI0

 

[ChoklitReign]

By that definition, ever president has been a murderer. Extreme pacifism is whack.

 

[RustyNails]

http://www.kimatv.com/news/local/Billboard-compares-president-to-suspected-gunman-164067056.html

Context, how does it work? Might as well call D-Day soldiers murderers because they killed Nazis

 

[PhoenixDark]

Context, how does it work? Might as well call D-Day soldiers murderers because they killed Nazis

First liberals claim Obama killed Bin Laden, now they compare him to WWII heroes? Shameful.

 

[RustyNails]

First liberals claim Obama killed Bin Laden, now they compare him to WWII heroes? Shameful.

5/10

 

[Chumly]

Man what will we do without kosmo. Thread is gonna be slow!

 

[kehs]

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[PantherLotus]

Maybe somebody can volunteer to post a few antagonistic, unsupported, and irrelevant false equivalencies each day?

why don't you shut your mouth and stop acting like a republican

 

[Chumly]

Maybe somebody can volunteer to post a few antagonistic, unsupported, and irrelevant false equivalencies each day?

I don't have 10 gigs worth of false equivalency pictures.

 

[PantherLotus]

Someone just say something stupid Romney has done and I'll see if this kosmobot program I got in the mail is working.

 

[Oblivion]

Maybe somebody can volunteer to post a few antagonistic, unsupported, and irrelevant false equivalencies each day?

*straightens tie*

How is what Chik-fil-A did any more offensive and homophobic than what Obama did before he supported gay marriage? HMM?!?!?!?!?

 

[reilo]

Someone just say something stupid Romney has done and I'll see if this kosmobot program I got in the mail is working.

I have a feeling PD will pick up the slack.

 

[Oblivion]

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnbcs-maria-bartiromo-hammers-barney-frank-over-banking-reform-specifics/

What is Ms. Baritomo arguing here, exactly?

At least that other CNBC chick has a huge rack to make up for her dumbness.

 

[Aaron Strife]

So Nebraska is the only Dem seat that's sunk in the Senate for sure? lol. Republicans will probably get Missouri as well but Montana and ND I think will stay blue in the Senate. Dems will pick up Maine(Indy) and Mass to counter those losses. No way the Repubs get the Senate.

Nevada too. Heller and Berkeley are neck and neck in the polls, which heavily lowballed Hispanic turnout in 2010 (polling average had Reid down by 3, he won by 6).

Wish we'd get more polling out of Indiana, everything's indicating a tied race there.

 

[RustyNails]

I thought Ron Paul gambit was no longer in play after the Paulites failed to secure enough delegates in Nebraska...but why are they contesting Louisiana delegates now?

(CNN) – The Ron Paul 2012 campaign is preparing to challenge the entire slate of Louisiana's 46 delegates selected to attend the Republican National Convention next month in Tampa, Florida.

Paul's campaign asserts the final list of delegates released Friday that were selected during the state party's convention last month were chosen against the rules. At the time, Paul supporters held their own rump convention, or protest vote, in the same room, which composed a majority of those attending.

"We believe that they grossly and blatantly and repeatedly violated their party rules and elected a delegation that was improper," said Paul's campaign chairman Jesse Benton. "We believe that our rump convention is the legitimate delegation and they have a right to be seated at the Republican National Convention."

And reuters is reporting that Ron Paul is still a thorn on RNC Convention's side

Perhaps as many as 500 delegates out of the 2,286 total at the gathering will be Paul loyalists, keen to see the Republican Party accept his message of radically shrinking government onto its convention platform.

This has some Republicans worried that Paul and his often noisy supporters could upstage Romney and interrupt the tightly choreographed convention, just as the party needs to close ranks ahead of a tough fight against President Barack Obama and the Democrats at the November 6 elections.

"If I were Romney, I'd prepare for the worst," Republican strategist Ford O'Connell said. Although he has almost no chance of winning the nomination, Paul is Romney's only Republican rival who has not withdrawn from the presidential race, and he refused last week to endorse Romney.

I wish I knew where Paulites hang out so I can read what they're planning

 

[Tamanon]

I thought Ron Paul gambit was no longer in play after the Paulites failed to secure enough delegates in Nebraska...but why are they contesting Louisiana delegates now?

And reuters is reporting that Ron Paul is still a thorn on RNC Convention's side

I wish I knew where Paulites hang out so I can read what they're planning

I thought a lot were on Reddit.

 

[Aaron Strife]

Nate Silver's got Obama at 69.1% to win the election - the highest since he started tracking it.

just fyi

 

[RedSwirl]

Why have I still only seen like two different Obama ads up here in the DC area?

 

[pigeon]

Why have I still only seen like two different Obama ads up here in the DC area?

Romney could promise to personally buy everybody in the District a convertible and he'd still lose DC. There's no reason for anybody to spend any money in that market. We probably won't see very many ads here in Cali either.

 

[Paches]

Nate Silver's got Obama at 69.1% to win the election - the highest since he started tracking it.

just fyi

But the cable pundits keep telling me it is a "dead heat" and "neck and neck"!

 

[Measley]

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnbcs-maria-bartiromo-hammers-barney-frank-over-banking-reform-specifics/

What is Ms. Baritomo arguing here, exactly?

At least that other CNBC chick has a huge rack to make up for her dumbness.

Baritomo's husband is a CEO of an investment company, and her father in law is the corporate raider Saul Steinberg. She's not dumb, she just has a huge bias.

Good on Barney Frank for holding his ground against Baritomo's bullshit.

 

[Tim-E]

Nate Silver's got Obama at 69.1% to win the election - the highest since he started tracking it.

just fyi

He has Ohio at a nearly 70% chance of Obama victory, too.

 

[XenodudeX]

Ahh if only the election were tomorrow.

 

[B-Dubs]

But the cable pundits keep telling me it is a "dead heat" and "neck and neck"!

Well they are lacking a thing called critical thinking. "Obama is at 70% to win? That looks closer to 50 than 100...it's a dead heat!"

 

[Jackson50]

Heidi heitkamp is up 6 in a poll of north dakota senate wocka wocka doo doo yeah.

Hm, it seems to be an internal Democratic poll. I'd wait for additional data before placing much stock in its results.

Did you guys see Chuck Todd's interview with one of Romney's foreign policy advisors? He asked him why Obama sucks for having a time table withdrawl for Afghanistan, but not Romney for doing the same thing?

I'm sure Jackson50 would enjoy the clip.



ezsnark back on sucide watch.

Yeah. It just magnifies the intellectual destitution of his foreign affairs agenda. He's cognizant of the public's weariness on Afghanistan, so he's not going to propose expanding our mission. Yet he's desperate to traduce Obama on every issue. So he effectively adopts the tenets of Obama's plan, which should be accelerated, while adding a meaningless quip about consulting our commanders. He attempts to play both sides on every issue. It's remarkable, really.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/07/watch_this_space.php?ref=fpblg

Sure, he'd be contravening international law and the policy of previous administrations. But the Middle East peace process is irremediably fractured. We may as well hasten its combustion.

 

[KtSlime]

Wow man how does Romney keep fucking up over and over again, is he really THAT bad of a candidate

This international trip has been nothing but a disaster for him

I've been kind of out of the loop, is his new campaign slogan "We Did Build It"? Sounds very strange no matter how many times I read it, very unnatural.

 

[AniHawk]

I've been kind of out of the loop, is his new campaign slogan "We Did Build It"? Sounds very strange no matter how many times I read it, very unnatural.

maybe because it's so redundant. it basically is 'we did do it', like it's the answer to a question a confused person asks themselves. 'did we build it?' 'we did build it.'

'we built it' three syllables, easy to remember, kinda catchy. i mean come on how do you fuck that up.

 

[Piecake]

maybe because it's so redundant. it basically is 'we did do it', like it's the answer to a question a confused person asks themselves. 'did we build it?' 'we did build it.'

'we built it' three syllables, easy to remember, kinda catchy. i mean come on how do you fuck that up.

It even comes with a theme song

 

[Aaron Strife]

Hm, it seems to be an internal Democratic poll. I'd wait for additional data before placing much stock in its results.

What's more telling to me is that there haven't been any response polls from RNC or Berg's side.

 

[Pimpwerx]

http://www.kimatv.com/news/local/Billboard-compares-president-to-suspected-gunman-164067056.html

Wait...when did Obama kill thousands? Even with his continuation of the occupation, there haven't been that many deaths. They should put Dubya on there with horns and pitchfork then. PEACE.

 

[Diablos]

Nate Silver's got Obama at 69.1% to win the election - the highest since he started tracking it.

just fyi

I thought Silver became irrelevant after 2010?

Or is it only when he tells us what we want to hear?

Why have I still only seen like two different Obama ads up here in the DC area?

Uh, Obama has a better chance waking up as a woman on Nov. 8th than he does losing DC.

 

[Aaron Strife]

I thought Silver became irrelevant after 2010?

Or is it only when he tells us what we want to hear?

What?

Silver's projections in 2010 were pretty good.

I don't remember exactly what his House projections were (55-60 range I think) but he said Democrats would lose 7 seats in the senate and it turned out to be 6 - but that was based on bunk poll data in Nevada, which everyone missed.

Just because someone isn't predicting doom for Democrats doesn't mean they're wrong.

 

[speculawyer]

After Romney dissed the UK, a passage from his book has become passed around the UK:

England [sic] is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn't make things that people in the rest of the world want to buy. And if it hadn't been separated from the continent by water, it almost certainly would have been lost to Hitler's ambitions.

Yeah he's really winning friends over there now.

 

[Opiate]

Why wouldn't people listen to Silver? In aggregate, he's been the most accurate forecaster over a the last decade.

Why do you think people are not listening to Silver now, Diablos? Honest question.

 

[Aaron Strife]

Why wouldn't people listen to Silver? In aggregate, he's been the most accurate forecaster over a the last decade.

Why do you think people are not listening to Silver now, Diablos? Honest question.

Because Diablos always believes against all common sense that Obama is doomed and will lose in a bigger landslide than Dukakis.

The only difference between him and PD is that PD actively roots for Obama to fail.

 

[thezerofire]

But the cable pundits keep telling me it is a "dead heat" and "neck and neck"!

And my dad tells me that Obama is getting clobbered!

 

[Triple U]

http://www.kimatv.com/news/local/Billboard-compares-president-to-suspected-gunman-164067056.html

So we shouldn't freak out over the aurora shooter or what?

I don't get it

 

[Hobbestetrician]

So we shouldn't freak out over the aurora shooter or what?

I don't get it

I think they are just starting a marketing campaign to get him into consideration for the Nobel Peace Prize next year.

 

[PantherLotus]

You're making a mistake if you're ignoring Nate Silver.