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

its really weird that no one has put him in clothes that fit yet, what a particularly poor look for someone who already seems too young

maybe he thinks it make him look less skinny idk

http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/intel/2012/08/30/29_PizzaP.o.jpg/a_560x375.jpg

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/08/30/paul-ryans-speech-in-three-words/

That's really pointed criticism on points two and three--amazed that Fox would put that up.

holy shit

how'd they let that one through?

Paul Ryan should run for something with Rand Paul, just for maximum lols and confusion.

Someone at Fox is gonna lose a job.

The over/under on how many hours before Sally Kohn is no longer a FOX News contributor is 36. I'm taking the under.

https://twitter.com/sallykohn/status/241173766137327617

Basically what I was thinking, except it was "How long will this piece stay up?" It's 10:06 now--down by noon, I'd say. (On the other hand, it'll get lots of attention and lots of views, which they'll welcome.)

"See, we really are fair and balanced! In other news, due to her schedule and other conflicts, Sally Kohn will no longer be a contributor with FOX News."

I didn't know Fox had hired their own Rachel Maddow. Interesting.

this is the last year demographically the republicans can run on an old white guy serving apple pie

This is like thinking that it's the last year rank 'n file Dems will make like mynah birds going "BRAAAAK!! The Supreme Court! BRAAAK!" as a shit-sandwich antidote, as if Dem senators didn't have to confirm assholes like Thomas and Scalia.

Morbius/Mynah Bird 2016

chill out guys fox is crazy but like... shep smith has been working there for years

this chick didnt "slip in" she wrote an op ed

update fox news got hacked

Pretty sure she hacked foxnews.com and posted a manifesto from the liberal agenda without anyone knowing about it.

http://www.foxnews.com/archive/author/sally-kohn/index.html

foxnews.com engineers frantically pulling wires and tapping their shift keys rapidly, hoping it will soon disappear.

We were promised jet packs and a new demographically-necessitated political paradigm

fox noodz twitter hacked

Jake Tapper ‏@jaketapper
So: Ryan referred to a commission he was on as "they/them." And described "their" "urgent report" without mentioning he voted against it.

lmao

NPR mentioned that too, but y'know, buncha Greenpeace members listening

I noticed that the last election was probably the last we'd see for a while with a military vet as a candidate. Are there many Gulf War vets in politics? I know a few Dems are, right, like Tammy Duckworth? Not that her service has earned her any respect from her asshat opponent.

This is like thinking that it's the last year rank 'n file Dems will make like mynah birds going "BRAAAAK!! The Supreme Court! BRAAAK!" as a shit-sandwich antidote, as if Dem senators didn't have to confirm assholes like Thomas and Scalia.

no it's not

Of course it'll stay up, the same way FOX will bend over backwards to keep Shep Smith.

the idea is based on the demographic make-up of the country, not optimism about a party's message xpost

Yeah, when you look at that archive of her stuff, it's clear she's been doing this for a while. (xpost)

not a perfect correlation true, I just mean the lives of these parties will depend on these same pitches, and then the Apocalypse.

xp

Those Sally Kohn headlines are great: "Obama's right, Americans can't succeed without government," "It's Time to Raise Taxes," etc. You'd swear she's not really real, and that someone at Fox is having a great time.

I just mean the lives of these parties will depend on these same pitches, and then the Apocalypse. --Paul Ryan

which has nothing to do with what i wrote, but anyway

does anyone on this thread have or know of an antidote for a shit sandwich?

it kinda did, but maybe I'm just a muddled racist. xp

Suicide, I'd have to assume xp

the amen chorus of one's Dem FB friends

I haven't tried Pickapeppa on a shit sandwich, but it makes pretty much everything taste better, so.

Obama/Pickapeppa '12

it kinda did, but maybe I'm just a muddled racist. xp

i do wonder why you can't acknowledge that, while both parties are run by industry-coddling war criminals feeding us bullshit, the winner of the election will affect the lives of people who aren't old white men like you. that one is pretty fucking lucky if you've only got the apocalypse to worry about. but your determination to brush aside those differences in agenda might just be solipsistic misanthropy, which only looks like racism when racism is what you're declaring irrelevant.

Obama/Pickapeppa '12

^^ muddled racist.

A day late so maybe this was already posted, but...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/Christie_GOP.jpg

da croupier, I do acknowledge the winner of the election will affect the lives of people... to a greatly exaggerated degree.

I might be willing to view the racist bile heaped on Obama as the prism though which to look at American racism if I thought Obama intended, on balance, to improve the lives of Americans. I don't.

that makes no sense, but ok

I think Pierce at Esquire is competing with Taibbi:

think it was when he went to tears, one dab at each eye, while talking about his mother, that it became extraordinarily clear to me that there's a lot of old Dick Nixon in young Paul Ryan, the zombie-eyed granny-starver from Janesville, Wisconsin

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/paul-ryan-convention-speech-12188956

nah.... taibbi is still way over the top -- both are amazing tho. pierce is so great on politics.

I might be willing to view the racist bile heaped on Obama as the prism though which to look at American racism if I thought Obama intended, on balance, to improve the lives of Americans. I don't.

this manages to both a) brush aside racism towards obama beccause you don't believe obama intends to improve lives and b) pretend the only racism going on in an election riddled with voter id laws and lies about welfare is directed towards obama.

though i guess if you're self-involved enough to think it doesn't make a difference which party wins, you're probably self-involved enough not to care about which voters are being disenfranchised and which party is doing the disenfranchising.

pretend the only racism going on in an election riddled with voter id laws and lies about welfare is directed towards obama.

never said that.

Dems seem "self-involved enough" not to factor in the presidential racism of incinerating brown kids at funerals then joking about it to the Jonas Brothers, but ain't that America, you and me?