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

Condi Rice looks like she'd rather be tried for human rights violation by the Hague than give that speech.

ya she looks hella nervous

omigod give Tim Pawlenty a sweatshirt and he's a fourth tier comedian on the circuit

I swear her cadences sound like Peggy Noonan.

There's such a disconnect in her last three or four minutes. Does she know who's president?

she shouldve played to her strengths and cheerlead for mccians Syria war

You think Paul Ryan is going to say "baseline" in his speech tonight?

I think he's going to say "That dumb fuck Chris Christie" tonight.

I think he's gonna say 'epistemological'

Tom Brokaw, emphasizing how young Ryan is, just said that "He's 42 years old--meaning Ronald Reagan was into the second year of his presidency when Ryan was born." Not quite.

clem, this is your night!

lmao xp

math

Ronald Reagan was into the second year of his presidency when Ryan was born.

double reverse birtherism

Scott walker cryin like a bitch

I find Ryan's take-charge flourishes ("Let's get this done") a little hard to take.

he looks like a Shriner.

he has sad eyes

watched the Nationals game instead of this

lucky 4 u it's still on

I like the phrase 'my wonderful grandma janet'

they love this guy!

they r losing their shit

whats going on here

no way mitt gets nearly this response

all the speakers pretending like they thought Obama was fun and exciting when he was elected so they can act all disappointed now is p lol

"Before the math overwhelms us all"--you got that, Brokaw?

'before the math and the momentum overwhelm us all'

o no the math it's coming right at us

ha xp

hate the way this guy doesn't pronounce the U in 'regulatory'

omitting the U signifies the depth of our fiscal crisis.

what % of voters does the GOP think are smal business owners, feel like they're over doing it here

I keep un-muting the TV to listen between bouts of D'Angelo and, I dunno, but the crowd looks awfully thin. I don't know if previous campaigns sat 12 million people or if I was younger and more easily impressed by numbers.

hate the way this guy doesn't pronounce the U in 'regulatory'

Save it for the elite snobs, Commie. Why don't you go back to Harvard?

cool bands dude

In view of the speakers so far, and who's still left--the candidate, yikes--I'm sure the right will go completely crazy over Ryans's speech.

Please, please don't drag Led Zeppelin into this.

Wait, did Ryan actually say "I accept the calling of my generation?"

RIP John McCain

his iPod only goes from a to l

why do these speeches last so long

there's nothing in them

they're all exactly the same

Is all he said about Romney was that his taste in music sucks?

just annouced his challenge to christie in '16

isn't the meme that John McCain is somehow above the foibles of the GOP kind of played out at this point? I mean I don't doubt he's been ragingly angry at the party since 2000 but probably not for "good" reasons.

I want to put him to the test and see if he can name the first four Led Zeppelin albums.

David brooks pimping Ryan's heavy weight intellectual bona fides is so perfect and lol

I want to put him to the test and see if he can name the first four Led Zeppelin albums.

Everyone usually gets two of them wrong.

can't even afford late-series vowels, thanks OBAMA

speaking of music, would about 50 people please tell this hack that attacking the Beach Boys and Roy Orbison on behalf of the almighty partisan ad hominen impulse is.........counter-productive? tasteless? petty? stupid? UNHIP??

http://www.salon.com/2012/08/29/mitts_playlist_shoots_for_boomer_soul/