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

“We are holding an Olympic Games in one of the busiest, most active, bustling cities anywhere in the world,” Cameron said. “Of course it’s easier if you hold an Olympic Games in the middle of nowhere.”

burn

or in another of the busiest, most active, bustling cities anywhere in the world with an authoritarian government

Romney's visit getting great reviews.

itt Romney is perhaps the only politician who could start a trip that was supposed to be a charm offensive by being utterly devoid of charm and mildly offensive.

lol

the 'special relationship' is something that, oddly, american conservatives suddenly care about whenever it's in danger of being forgotten

Or when yr President needs some sap to help legitimize an illegal war.

arch

20 minutes ago

I don't have a clue where Salt Lake City is, it sounds ghastly.

Mitt's killin' it, huh

the 'special relationship' is about wasp sentiment, full stop.

xp lol 'ghastly'

davidknight

Today 03:23 PM

To be fair if the first person he meets is that ludicrous little twerp Miliband then I am not surprised he has misunderstood the British.

this is the most entertaining comment thread I've read in a while

is alex spillius the telegraph's house labourite?

Are you so lacking in self esteem you need the warm affirmation of someone like Romney?

What is happening to the UK? The wonderfully cynical country of my youth is turning into a set of fools who believe their own BS.

^^^After all these years, someone finally steps forward as the logical replacement for Stuart Smalley on Daily Affirmation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ldAQ6Rh5ZI

Sullivan is naturally going to town on Romney's London misaventures, but even taking into account the source, this is indeed really strange:

http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/07/the-persistent-oddness-of-mitt-romney.html?tw_p=twt

Reminds me in a way of Clarence Thomas at his confirmation hearing saying that he didn't watch Anita Hill's testimony. If someone brought false accusation against you, of course you'd watch--you'd be monitoring every last word spoken. Ditto, for different reasons, Romney.

"fuck that bitch and the horse she rode in on"

fuck that bitch and the pubic hair coke can i showed her

how is being bored by equestrian events and refusing to watch them in any way comparable to ignoring someone's televised sexual harassment accusations against you

I feel like you've gone beyond orders of magnitude and jumped universes

like, I think the punchline takeaway of "Mitt Romney doesn't give a shit about his wife" is funny enough on his own without comparing owning a horse to sexual harassment

"This is either a fib, designed to insulate him from whatever minimal fallout there is from owning a dressage horse"

yes it's a fib, dummy

"sure, he owns a dressage horse, but it's not like he watches it. he's a regular guy. just like me."

either that or horses, being animals, are not money or political power so mitt isn't particularly interested in them.

I wasn't comparing the circumstances, just how the fact of not-watching stretches credulity to the breaking point. I would think that, no matter how bored you might be by the event, watching your wife's horse compete in the Olympics would be automatic. That's all.

He's so rich he doesn't even have to watch the dressage horse

i think maybe i have a horse in the olympics or something, idk w/e lol

oh c'mon this is such a manufactured controversy who among us hasn't run a horse in the olympics? yawn.

srsly can we focus on the real issues here folks like how obama totally hates the small business people who are literally the beating heart of this great nation

Obama is beating the horse of this great nation

Romney hires a dude to watch his wife's horse compete in dressage. HE IS THAT RICH.

A wealthy married couple find themselves suddenly in strait circumstances

"Maybe you should learn to cook and clean so we can fire our maid," said the man to his wife.

"Maybe you should learn to fuck me and we can fire the gardener."

idk maybe that joke isn't pertinent, i just like it

I enjoyed it

Romney hires a dude to watch his wife's horse compete in dressage. HE IS THAT RICH.

And burnishing his reputation as a proven job-creator.

not to beat a dead horse but i hired someone to enjoy that joke for me

"Maybe you should learn to fuck me and we can fire the gardener sell the horse."

thinking abt romney calling into question englands olympic preparedness he really does seem to believe the salt lake games are his grandest achievement and is willing to preemptively attack anyone who might suppose theyre equal to the standard he set

lol he is a petty arrogant guy

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/502053/ROMNEY-ON-A-HORSE-TWO.jpg

you call this an Olympiad!

ROMNEY-ON-A-HORSE-TWO.jpg

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/romneys-dancing-horse-competes/story?id=16162590#.UBGK_DFSQqm

The Romneys' horse, Rafalca, will compete, however, performing to music personally selected by the Republican presidential candidate.

o mitt

awesome, the horse is going to perform to Metal Machine Music

isn't Rafalca the name of the Metallica-Lou collab?

the full, unedited romney quote is actually

I have to tell you. This is Ann’s sport. I’m not even sure which day the sport goes on. She will get the chance to see it, I will not be watching the event. I hope her horse does well. But dressage as a sport has really declined since the halcyon days when Rubinstein, the legendary stallion of yore, roamed the meadows. Where dressage was once noble, now it has descended to the reach of commoners like yourself. I have issued a memo, directed at Ann, to notify her of my disdain, but she persists in disobeying me. I am so riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

lolll

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/07/26/romney_book_britain_is_a_tiny_island_that_makes_stuff_nobody_wants

England 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.

romdog otm

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"Mitt Romney wants to know whether we're ready! Are we ready?" -Boris Johnson asks crowd in Hyde Park http://bbc.in/MMjOla #RomneyShambles

pitiful small roads and houses, just ghastly

man if bor-jo isn't down with your rich ass you have truly fucked it all up

thank you for the mental image of Boris Johnson in the Black Widow costume, dick

that is all you buddy

England 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.

haha idk why but this reminds me of gisele shit-talking the patriots

you have to admire the british joy in just straight up ragging on a guy