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

tbf ann romney might be confused and think that her family already owns puerto rico

the romneys prob own islands larger than puerto rico

ah xp

I am Barack Obama ask me anything

mr president, u just lost my vote, l8r nerd

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9ja3glNau1qat9xfo1_500.jpg

Tom Carson (mentioned above) on Night #1 (reporting from New Orleans, fwiw, apparently with his power off):

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/blogs/death-race/2012/08/tom-carson-on-opening-night-ann-aces-her-big-identify-with-the-hoi-polloi-test.html

"Just let me know your exact location, and I promise we'll get that information out to you, Dr. Morbius."

haha

fuck reddit, fuck that

how do we get obama to visit our website

best RNC dance moves set to "my neck, my back"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qaz0N-2LCZ0

so many white people

^said that like 10 times last night, its really striking

dying

ya that video is incredible

obama crashed reddit btw lol

"We need to start with passing the Disclose Act that is already written and been sponsored in Congress - to at least force disclosure of who is giving to who."

Whom, Mr. President. To whom.

its one word, friendzone, mr president, friendzone

Black dude in texas delegation

you're right, and there's the blond-haired black woman too. two black people! MLKs dream come true.

next stop, Youtube or Brooklyn Vegan comments.

the internet!!!

Date Time Person Attraction
29 Aug LIVE NOW Barack Obama President of the United States of America
29 Aug Link Dino Stamatopoulos Starburns, Writer: Mad TV, Late Show, Late Night with Conan O'Brien

I know people have all kindsa ~issues~ w/reddit but I think it's awesome that he did an IAmA

!!! from Rolling Stone: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-federal-bailout-that-saved-mitt-romney-20120829

mccain is speaking at the convention, i bet he'll say something like "for four years, we’ve drifted away from our proudest traditions of global leadership"

omg Mitch McConnell attempting to crack jokes is an incredible thing

he just tried one abt bama playing golf and absolutely no one laughed

wow did we do this one yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwFIEprF_9Y&feature=player_embedded

!!! from Rolling Stone: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-federal-bailout-that-saved-mitt-romney-20120829

in a sane world this article would decide the election, but i'm sure it won't convince a single voter. bc romney voters are nihilists.

lol rand paul is v sarcastic

he's giving a lil constitutional primer

also, the point that the article makes is greater than 2 out of 10 on the complexity scale. it takes longer than 10 seconds to explain. no one will listen.

plz make the tennis start

I've been watching tennis all day, yay DirecTV

i do wish obama would attempt to explain how mitt makes money. during a debate or something. that would be amazing to see. if he could somehow explain that mitt's fortune was created by a federal goverment tax loophole, that's not too hard to understand. he owes the government everything!

applause for Mccain lasted about 5 seconds

xpost To be 100% fair, Mitt's fortune was also created by being the son of a really rich guy. Who actually did make his fortune by doing good business and running a company right and all that kind of thing, as far as I can tell.

I mean, the contrast between Mitt and George is just bizarre, such a sad commentary on our nation's moral decline or something. Not that I'd be rushing out the door to vote for George Romney, but sort of amazing that no such person seems to exist today, or any GOP that would actually give him the time of day. Oh well.

He didn't inherit hundreds of millions from George Romney.

he inherited the ability to go to the right schools and meet the right people

Well yeah, I mean, George Romney didn't pass away until Mitt was already well established and very very wealthy, but surely there's some structural advantage there.

excuse me are you trying to say that he didn't build this? I was to assume that he did in fact, build this.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/jan/20/mitt-romney/mitt-romney-says-he-didnt-inherit-money-his-parent/

Didn't realize this - Mitt gave what he did get from Dad to BYU as an endowment. Which I guess is easy to do when you're worth a hundred million dollars and have political aspirations, but still, credit where it's due.

wonder where those stocks he had to sell when he was poor in college came from

glad to hear mccian is still so enthusiastic abt bombing everywhere in the world

giving money to byu doesn't deserve props, byu is a horrible place

based on twitter feed it seems that McCain has been wheeled out to damn the president for not invading Syria and Iran

yeah the taibbi thing is all about the father/son differences.

Mitt had a lot of stock in american motors before his dad died. Inheritance wasn't necessary.

glad to hear mccian is still so enthusiastic abt bombing everywhere in the world

this was hilarious