Roundup: Obama Crushes Romney, Lance Armstrong Steps Down From Livestrong, Beyonce at the Super Bowl
Emmanuelle Chriqui … underground bunker explosion … The Hills was only kind of fake … an explanation of Romney’s tax plan … Rafi will appear on Modern Family … Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will host the Golden Globes … waitress gets $3 million tip when customer wins lotto … do not be alarmed – it is Wednesday … space shuttle time-lapse … why Paranormal Activity should give us hope in movie making … world’s oldest dad … Obama much more aggressive in second debate … road rager gets his ass beat … student with nut allergy bullied by teacher with candle … people who own a Blackberry are ashamed … Khloe Kardashian will host the X Factor … woman accused of biting boyfriend’s son … machete attack … Bill Murray calls Kelly Lynch’s husband whenever her sex scene in Road House is on television … hilariously related: I watched Road House yesterday …
Oh, hello there South African Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. You’re looking very nice today. [The Roosevelts]
Lance Armstrong has stepped down from Livestrong. [Dallas Morning News]
The NHL proposed a 50/50 revenue split and want a full schedule. What’s next? [CBC]
Asian Football Confederation accidentally calls UAE national team “sand monkeys.” [AP/NBC Sports]
Beyonce will headline the Super Bowl halftime show. Next week we will announce where I’m getting my pizza and wings during the big game. [WaPo]
Justin Verlander threw 249 pitches in 8 1/3. Tigers beat the Yankees. Detroit can finish New York tonight. [New York Times]
This dude loves Smush Parker more than I love Jimmer. [Grantland]
Jarrett Jack has been warned about flopping. [Twitter]
A new profile on Jeremy Lin that doesn’t really reveal anything new about Jeremy Lin. [GQ]
The New York Knicks tip-off event was a trainwreck on par with their coming season. [CBS New York]
Texas Tech player blogs that West Virginia was the most selfish team ever. [Student of the Game]
Here’s a 2-year-old short video musical about a space telescope. Yup, still holds up.
Amusing, well-done, really sad.
An 8th grader kicking a 63-yard field goal? Good for him. You know what is great about kickers? No matter how big a leg he has, he’ll eventually shank a game-winner and everyone will hate him. [With Leather]
Guy faints on slingshot, wakes up and has no idea what he’s doing there.
- Bob Stoops: Home Was Burglarized, Had Car Stolen
- Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal’s KO of the Year Candidate Against Seth Petruzelli at Bellator 96
- Break-Up Song About Players Leaving Via Free Agency Should Make Fans Cry
- Fight Master: Bellator MMA: Freshening Up a Tired Format
- John Wall Tattoos Are of the Raleigh Skyline and ‘The Great Wall’
- PL StabbinKabin on Muhammed "King Mo" Lawal's KO of the Year Candidate Against Seth Petruzelli at Bellator 96
- PL StabbinKabin on Neymar's Silky Dribbling Schools the Mexican Defense, Sets Up Another Brazilian Goal [Video]
- VladimirCrouton on Bob Stoops: Home Was Burglarized, Had Car Stolen
- KC Resident on Break-Up Song About Players Leaving Via Free Agency Should Make Fans Cry
- A.P. on Break-Up Song About Players Leaving Via Free Agency Should Make Fans Cry
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October 17th, 2012 at 8:11 AM
Did this happen after the debate?
/jumps at the bait
October 17th, 2012 at 8:14 AM
Love her…top 3.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:18 AM
I have to give Romney credit because not just anyone can have binders full of women and have them all home in time to cook dinner.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:18 AM
And I will be at Comerica Park tonight to witness it.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:19 AM
You can turn on the tv anytime of day, anywhere on earth and Roadhouse will be on some random channel.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:23 AM
Just checking in to see if Jimmy “Fuck Fellatious Faggots” Chitwood had the first post.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:24 AM
Lol. Even NBC and CNN were not saying this post-debate. Gotta love this site.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:25 AM
I’m going to try and score WS tickets at 10:00 today.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:25 AM
You can turn on the tv anytime of day, anywhere on earth and Roadhouse will be on some random channel.
Or episodes of Friends.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:27 AM
I didn’t watch the debate live, just a few segments this morning. But I’m hoping “Please proceed Governor” becomes a meme. Let’s do this, people.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:27 AM
The way Romney walked slumped back off the stage before his wife met him let me know how he felt the debate went.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:27 AM
That lottery story is decades old, and yet I saw it three times yesterday. They made a movie about it in the 90′s with Nikky Cage. Is the world trying to screw with me?
October 17th, 2012 at 8:27 AM
This is fantastic.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:29 AM
fantastic.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:29 AM
The Bill Murray story is awesome.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:30 AM
If you’re going to link to a telescope vid, might I suggest any of the great scenes from Can’t Buy Me Love?
October 17th, 2012 at 8:30 AM
Ha!
I will find a way to use “went down like a sack of dirt” in a conversation today.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:30 AM
Now we have the foreign policy debate coming up, and the way the game show host performed on foreign policy last night, that’s another win for Obama.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:31 AM
TV – MA Intense Adult Language on that one. It is pretty great.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:32 AM
Romney: I will create 12 million jobs.
Romney: Government cannot create jobs.
I’m good friends with three unmarried mothers (not a binder sample size), little did I know that they are literally breeding gun violence, I shall make sure to wear a flack jacket around them in the future. Thanks Romney.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:32 AM
I KNEW he reminded me of someone. Mitt is totally Chuck Woolery’s brother from another mother
October 17th, 2012 at 8:33 AM
Interesting to see how last night’s beatdown plays in the polls. Lost in the “Romney is Back!” narrative is that he’s still only at 35 percent in Silver’s model and was losing a bit of ground even before last night. Curious to see what happens next week.
Also disappointed that neither candidate talked about the housing market.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:33 AM
fainting videos are the best for these kinds of rides or airplane stunts.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:33 AM
Obama looked pissed off the whole night. Like, he totally hates the Mitten Man and it showed. At least try to act a little presidential.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:34 AM
Awesome name. I loved those Bulls teams, when they drafted guys who “looked good in a suit sitting on the bench.”
October 17th, 2012 at 8:35 AM
249 pitches? Is he alive?
October 17th, 2012 at 8:35 AM
Obama: Low gas prices mean the economy is doing poorly.
Obama: High gas prices mean the economy is a juggernaut.
Obama (answering black dude’s question): Planned Parenthood….
October 17th, 2012 at 8:35 AM
Awesome.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:36 AM
Serious question: what can Romney say in an FP debate? Will he just attack Obama over and over again? Because A, Obama actually has a very strong FP record and B, Romney has zero experience, insulted London the last time he stepped overseas, and will get hit on his moronic press conference the day the American ambassador died.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:36 AM
The 872,000 Housting Starts rate this morning helps a lot. Plus the 894,000 building permits. Housing is starting to come back big, if it normalizes into the million range, GDP could really explode in the next year or two.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:36 AM
Amusing read, but my favorite takeaway is that the Broward Palm Beach paper has a post category named “Floriderp”.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:37 AM
that is fucking awesome.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:37 AM
I can get behind that. Needed to google her more, glad I did.
/approved
October 17th, 2012 at 8:37 AM
That happens to be correct. Its basic economics.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:37 AM
Cousin Ron, what did you do? Was her tweet straight up, or was she BSing? Roadhouse is Americana. She’s gotta be used to it by now.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:38 AM
There isn’t much the President can do about oil futures. You know, 1.4 billion people in China and 1.2 billion in India are demanding more and more oil. So, supply and demand.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:38 AM
Who won the debate?
CNN – Obama by 7
CBS – Obama by 7
Who is more qualified to handle the economy?
CNN – Romney by 18
CBS – Romney by 31
/just cause you say it don’t make it true’d
October 17th, 2012 at 8:38 AM
I love that movie.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:39 AM
My buddies and I came up with the name as it looked like Dickey had polio or some shit like that whenever he got in the game. Plus, he always seemed depressed. Ah, for the days of Jason Caffey!
October 17th, 2012 at 8:39 AM
Me too. Last year, I had a hard time getting WS tickets, but was able to get a single seat. Too bad it went unused.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:39 AM
Coming up next week: a 4500 word magum opus on Pooh Richardson
October 17th, 2012 at 8:39 AM
Yeah, that’s why I wanted it discussed (new housing starts matter quite a bit to my place of employment). Surprised Obama mentioned neither the improved housing market or the strong September job numbers.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:40 AM
Really? Obama f-ed up the Libya killings with a lame cover up. Fast and Furious is a bloody mess…literally. He tried to be friends with the Syrian dictator/murderer in 2009. That didn’t work out so well.
I’d say Romney has plenty of material to hammer him on.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:42 AM
I just cant watch the debates. I don’t really feel I’d gain info on anything about these candidates we havent already heard.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:42 AM
Another thing I don’t understand: why does Obama not call Romney out on his endless “I’ve spent my life in the private sector, I know how to run a government” line?
If I apply for a job in finance and in the interview I say “I’m qualified for this job because I spent my entire life working in the restaurant industry,” I’d be escorted out by security. But no one challenges this. It’s bizzare.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:43 AM
I do this to one of my best friends every time Mike Vrabel is shown on tv, as my buddy’s wife has old history with him. It was great when he would score touchdowns, especially in the Super Bowl.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:44 AM
that was one of the dumbest questions picked last night.
i mean, if you really think the government can control gas prices, i don’t think any explanation could satisfy
October 17th, 2012 at 8:44 AM
My business is directly related to housing and commercial building, so I more than anyone am hoping the last part of your statement is true. But I can assure you, housing is not starting to come back big as of yet.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:44 AM
Judging by the hashtag, she was joking. Which is awesome. I feel like my
inflammatoryserious and factual headline is taking away from the Kelly Lynch tweet.October 17th, 2012 at 8:45 AM
/quickly scans first 50 comments…
//slowly leaves RU
October 17th, 2012 at 8:45 AM
This is all cute.
Obama has pulled US troops out of Iraq, killed dozens of terrorist leaders (including UBL with a BALLSY raid he personally approved), ordered the execution of Somali pirates, and helped Libya overthrow Qhaddhafi.
I don’t think you understand what happened in Libya or with F&F, and the “friends with dictator” thing sounds CRTL+C from a Glenn Beck message board.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:45 AM
or how the game show host continues to use this experience as the prime example of his experience in creating jobs when this is far from the case.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:46 AM
problem is romney’s a proverbial nail that lacks hammering ability…because much like you need thumbs to hold a hammer, you need an actual foreign policy record to hold water.
“you did this and this and this and this.”
well, mittens…you’re a foreign policy virgin about to join the itnernational gangbang.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:46 AM
then he’s doing exactly what his challengers did in the past with his community organizer experience.
and i don’t think it’s terribly presidential to belittle a challenger like that.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:47 AM
Bradley Beychok in DC already registered the domain name “binder(s)fullofwomen.com. Motherfuck.
Bill Murray is the man, The Razor’s Edge is a surprisingly good movie to get drunk while watching.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:47 AM
Order quantities of our products plus conversations/polling with resi and commercial builders suggest otherwise. In fact, it’s been up for months.
It will never reach 2006-2008 levels and shouldn’t. But its coming back pretty well right now.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:47 AM
Cousin, you are the man! Hob-nobbing with the big shots.
Lynch sounds real cool, then.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:48 AM
I’m going to try and score WS tickets at 10:00 today.
You should be able to score some. In the years I’ve gotten tickets for Finals or WS I go for Games 6/7 or last possible home dates. I’ve gone StubHub for these. While there is a surcharge, if the games dont occur they just credit you back the $$$ without drama. No charge. If your team does make it, you’ll be so jazzed up you wont care about the charge. I always buy an extra pair to sell off for profit to cover the cost of my own tickets. Good luck on this.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:48 AM
i may be looking to sell my home in 4 years, so banhammer willing, i’ll be using you as a barometer when it’s a good time to sell/buy a new home.
so, don’t leave TBL, haha
October 17th, 2012 at 8:48 AM
Bill Murray calls Kelly Lynch’s husband whenever her sex scene in Roadhouse is on television
I hope he doesn’t do the same to Patrick Swayze’s wife.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:49 AM
I was at game 1 in ’06. Pretty cool experience to the point I’ll pay face value, but not secondary market price.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:49 AM
Binders full of women.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:50 AM
This is baffling, too (although its up to Obama to make the point). Romney spent his entire career eliminating jobs and working with companies who shipped American jobs overseas, and he gets on stage and claims that he’d do the exact opposite as president.
To his credit, Obama spent a lot of time last night pointing out Romney’s endless position changes, repeating quotes he used when he was Conservative Romney against those uttered when he was Moderate Romney. That was effective.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:50 AM
well, mittens…you’re a foreign policy virgin about to join the itnernational gangbang.
I was playing ping pong in Ding Dang. Was in thick match in an opium den… Turns out these guys didnt like to lose.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:50 AM
Sounds like Lance Armstrong’s day isn’t off to the best of starts.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:51 AM
I love ” Lost in Translation”. I got to meet him the night I got engaged. We had dinner in the Murray brothers restaurant. Very cool.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:52 AM
i guess you could say lance armstrong…
/sunglasses
…dropped a ball.
/YYYYEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
October 17th, 2012 at 8:52 AM
i was at game 1 in 1998. strongly recommend a WS game, regardless of team, for any sports fan to put on the bucket list.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:53 AM
I actually loathe LiT. But I owe it another watch.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:53 AM
mittens should see if joe binder will run as his veep.
/veal
October 17th, 2012 at 8:53 AM
I watched Roadhouse yesterday …
You are now a certified man.
/pours one out for Swayze
October 17th, 2012 at 8:54 AM
Saw a tweet last night that said Bain never had a woman on its board during Romney’s tenure.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:54 AM
Yeah, conversations and polling aren’t paying the bills, but I agree it’s showing signs of life. It couldn’t of really gone much lower.
And yes, as long as banks don’t start giving mortgages out to anyone with a pulse again, 2006-2008 levels will never be seen again.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:54 AM
the first, and only basketball jersey I have ever owned.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:54 AM
ddmcd74.
/Sees CRM did the Roundup
//ddmcd74?
October 17th, 2012 at 8:54 AM
no, he did the right thing though with stepping down.
not that Peter King is a bellweather for anything common sense, but he did write in his latest MMQB that he doesn’t understand why people still wear livestrong if Lance is a cheater. I don’t know anyone that wears livestrong bracelets b/c of Lance, but if that’s the layman’s interpretation then he needed to distance himself from the organization.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:55 AM
Talk about a successful bizness
October 17th, 2012 at 8:56 AM
they were tiny binders back in the day, qualified women hadn’t come out of the kitchen yet.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:57 AM
I think its Road House. Not Roadhouse. This is the confused title war of our generation.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:58 AM
but they had plenty on their backs, amirite?
/high fives
October 17th, 2012 at 8:59 AM
Our products are about half home-infrastructure centric and half upsell products (home audio, automation, lighting, security). The infrastructure piece has been steady for a while but the upsell stuff — the stuff that’s the first to get cut in a bad economy/market — has been taking off since early 2012. It’s still October, but our division is projected to finish about 12 percent over budget, which is astonishing.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:59 AM
No matter how many times I see this playing on TNT, I stop and watch 10-15 minutes of it. Don’t care too much for Kelly Lynch, but do like to get another view of Julie Michaels . NSFW
/Team Trashy Hot
October 17th, 2012 at 8:59 AM
I was given one for work and I hate it.
I’m still not sure why they don’t just give me a phone stipend and let my personal smart phone get company email.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:00 AM
There’s a lot of people that were so heavily intothe Livestrong mantra and equated to their personal loss of somebody with cancer that just throwing all their LS stuff in a fire or Goodwill bag is still a little raw. Also that LS stuff is pricey.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:00 AM
Them, and most American companies don’t.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:01 AM
No, we won’t see the levels that we did in 2003-2006 (when the majority of the crappy mortgages were underwritten). Plus when you have four-six major players in the mortgage market (Wells, Chase, BofA, Citi, Ally, USBank), the likelyhood of this mess hapenning again are reduced.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:01 AM
i refuse to get a blackberry. I won’t replace my shitty android phone i got for free through work until my company finalizes their BYOD policy.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:01 AM
No doubt. But if you’re running for president and talk about binders full of women, you should probably make sure you can back up the statement.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:02 AM
Eh, fuck both side. Call me when the puck drops.
In the mean time, I’ll spend my disposable income elsewhere.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:02 AM
dude, he’s mormon…i think we can take him on his word about taht one.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:03 AM
Binders full of Women is my favorite indie band.
/I probably subconsciously stole that line
October 17th, 2012 at 9:03 AM
When I beat them, they beat me. They worked me over good. And this is hard to say. They held me down and shoved a ping-pong paddle up my ass
October 17th, 2012 at 9:03 AM
Quit printing money and strengthen the dollar. We’ll be back under two bucks in no time.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:04 AM
Lance Armstrong has stepped down from Livestrong.
More like Liestrong.
A new profile on Jeremy Lin that doesn’t really reveal anything new about Jeremy Lin. [GQ]
Oh, Will Leitch is still around writing sappy sap stuff?
October 17th, 2012 at 9:04 AM
Sigh…….
October 17th, 2012 at 9:06 AM
I do. I support Armstrong and the use of steroids in sports. Jesus baseball has been a bore without the juice.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:06 AM
might as well just issue an executive proclamation to all gas stations to lower gas to $2.00 a gallon, right? that’s how it works, after all.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:07 AM
We stamp steel that is used in residential and commercial steel doors, so our business pretty much runs in sync with the housing market. It’s been a wild 4 years or so. Once we got through 2008/2009, I knew we were in good shape. Thank God for very little debt and an experienced, well compensated, NON-UNION workforce.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:08 AM
Lauren Mellor is 100X Kate Upton
October 17th, 2012 at 9:09 AM
Inflation? Same reason I used to pay 5 bucks for a pack of chicken breasts and I’m now up around 8.50 to 9 bucks depending on the weight.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:10 AM
Lauren Mellor is 100X Kate Upton
Agreed. That’s the next swimsuit star. South Africa has some hotties.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:11 AM
let’s hold on crowning the Tigers. This is the Yanks we are talking about. And CC is going to be on the mound.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:11 AM
i was at game 1 in 1998. strongly recommend a WS game, regardless of team, for any sports fan to put on the bucket list.
As an O’s fan in year 13 of O’s depression in 2010, went to Lincecum-Halladay NLCS Game 1 with a Phillies fan buddy. Just an awesome atmosphere, even for someone with no rooting interest.
/baseball – the sport that is on death’s doorstep
October 17th, 2012 at 9:11 AM
Important issues on the minds of “independent” voters:
AK-47s, a woman’s “right” to the government paying for her birth control, Blame Bush, how we can get illegal immigrants on our health care and education bill, and a black Obama voter asking what he’s going “to do” for him.
If last night’s Obama had showed up in the first debate, this race would probably already be over. But he left Romney an opening, and no debate performances after that will matter one bit. Romney is the frontrunner. All he has to do is hammer The One on his ghastly economic record.
And all POTUS can do in turn is cry about oil companies, the millionaires and billionaires, and the people with their private jets. He has lost the white, middle-class, working vote. He is left to pander to 90% of the black + Hispanic vote that will vote for him regardless, the recently unemployed college graduates who don’t know any better, the 46m people living off food stamps, the countless other millions collecting a check from the government and who feel like taxpaying citizens owe them something, and the white-guilt liberals who put their feelings over their brains.
And if that group of people — Obama’s base — is now the new majority in this country, then it’s not a bad strategy. He may even win. While the rest of us are just screwed.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:11 AM
It’s funny that you dislike Obama so much, as it was his actions that got you through that time period.
Not singling you out or anything. I’m glad you have a job. It’s just a line I hear a lot from people around here — every one of whom has improved their standing financially since Obama has been president — bitching about Obama’s policies while taking jobs created by stimulus money, using the tax cuts to buy consumer goods, and getting raises because their businesses have more customers.
Just doesnt make sense, IMO.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:11 AM
no way those titties are real.
/not that I’m complaining.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:13 AM
still not sure what you think can be done since it’s simple supply and demand global economics. demand is high, supply is limited. cost rises. go to an OPEC meeting and ask them to increase production so American’s can have lower gas prices.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:13 AM
It’s funny, I haven’t watched a single inning of baseball since the Os were eliminated. My interest in baseball is fully dependent on the Orioles’ fortunes. The sport itself holds no value to me once my team is eliminated (usually by June). I can watch college football, soccer, the NFL and college basketball all day, though.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:14 AM
So Mike NYC is Pat Buchanan? Explains a lot.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:14 AM
That drought in the midwest killed the corn crop, which is the main feed for chickens, causing the price to increase. Have you ever studied micro or macroeconomics?
October 17th, 2012 at 9:15 AM
Blololol, nope.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:15 AM
Once we got through 2008/2009, I knew we were in good shape. Thank God for very little debt and an experienced, well compensated, NON-UNION workforce.
Same boat. In the earthwork/site development biz.
/staying away from politics but like a good biz discussion
October 17th, 2012 at 9:15 AM
even going to the 2007 ACLS game 2 when the red sox got shelled and Schilling pitched like shit, it was an awesome experience as a fan of the red sox going to a playoff game for the first time in fenway.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:15 AM
/looks in wallet
//looks in mirror
yep, nailed it again.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:15 AM
You serious, Clark?
October 17th, 2012 at 9:16 AM
No way you typed that with a straight face.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:16 AM
I’ll give you on the pretty factor, I’m team Brunette as well, but she needs some hips.
/Team Curves
October 17th, 2012 at 9:16 AM
Pat Buchanan without the racism.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:16 AM
The 872,000 Housting Starts rate this morning helps a lot. Plus the 894,000 building permits. Housing is starting to come back big, if it normalizes into the million range, GDP could really explode in the next year or two.
i believe many of those building permits are tied to multi family, which is the hottest segment in real estate right now. the home starts are up from essentially zero, the new starts are simply offsetting horrid markets. when it happens for 4 quarters in a row, then get happy.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:17 AM
The Michigan/MSU game is this weekend and you wouldn’t even know it with the Tigers in contention.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:17 AM
that was a long post to just simply say that you know Romney took a beating last night.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:18 AM
Sept. Housing permits 545k Single Family, 349k Multifamily
October 17th, 2012 at 9:18 AM
nflation? Same reason I used to pay 5 bucks for a pack of chicken breasts and I’m now up around 8.50 to 9 bucks depending on the weight.
How many chicken breasts are you buying? I don’t even pay $5 for a pack.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:19 AM
The chick that A-Rod flirted with >>> Kate Upton
October 17th, 2012 at 9:19 AM
In name only. They’re dead and even they know it.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:19 AM
The space shuttle rolling down the street video is really cool.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:20 AM
He is left to pander to 90% of the black + Hispanic vote that will vote for him regardless, the recently unemployed college graduates who don’t know any better, the 46m people living off food stamps, the countless other millions collecting a check from the government and who feel like taxpaying citizens owe them something, and the white-guilt liberals who put their feelings over their brains.
Agreed.
/steps out of RU
October 17th, 2012 at 9:20 AM
That was an utter deconstruction of Mitt Romney. For better or worse these debates are about memorable moments. Obama was awful in the first debate, probably slightly worse than Romney was last night. But he still managed to avoid any mockable moments. Mitt produced at least two: binders full of women and his ghastly flubbing of the Libya question.
Then of course there’s the awful suggestion that single motherhood is responsible for gun violence and the proliferation of semiautomatic weapons. And Mitt’s wholehearted embrace of Obamacare (again).
He wasn’t as awful as Obama in the first debate, and the media has a horserace narrative to uphold. But on substance and on style, Mitt got murdered.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:21 AM
Wait…what? Mike buddy, despite our differing politics, I consider you a pretty smart guy. And I know you don’t actually believe that.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:21 AM
Did you get the “whole” picture from that photo? Tim Ryan I believe had a link to the girl with a better view than the cropped version
Women’s got a pretty square chin there……………Kate Upton wins. In reality don’t we ALL with in Kate Upton????
October 17th, 2012 at 9:22 AM
I think my favorite guy at the round table debate was the dude who could only muster up enough effort to wear a polo shirt and cords and looked like he was falling asleep.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:23 AM
The chick that A-Rod flirted with >>> Kate Upton
Ohhellyeah is Cracker Jack?
October 17th, 2012 at 9:23 AM
I intensely dislike the 4pm start for the NLCS game.
/trying to change the subject.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:24 AM
Has anybody been to SAF? What’s the covert racism like down there? Like old people here in the US presumably?
October 17th, 2012 at 9:24 AM
I was scrolling through the comments and when I first glanced at this I thought it said Chick fil A flirted with Kate Upton.
/RIF
October 17th, 2012 at 9:24 AM
I dunno, this statement made me cringe a little
“a black Obama voter”
October 17th, 2012 at 9:24 AM
I’m doubling down on my comment. Kate Upton is nothing more than a huge rack of tits on a meh body with a cute smile. The best trait about her is probably her personality. Yeah, I said it.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:25 AM
Lauren Mellor is 100X Kate Upton
link fail! i cant see it!
October 17th, 2012 at 9:25 AM
Bill Murray calls Kelly Lynch’s husband whenever her sex scene in Roadhouse is on television … hilariously related: I watched Roadhouse yesterday …
Yes, it’s been on the HBO loop for like a month.
And this furthers my belief that Bill Murray should be declared Overlord of America.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:25 AM
There just isn’t any part of this statement that’s true. That’s the trouble with this line of thinking, that Obama and goverment can bail anyone out of a crisis. You know what got us through that time? We designed and patented new door designs that took off in the marketplace, helping to offset the dropoff in business. And we worked harder, got leaner, paid down debt with whatever money we did make, and made it through. So yes, I get offended when Obama tells business owners that “we didn’t build it” or takes more of our money for bailouts and freebies. And Obama trying to tell the American people that he saved the auto industry is the biggest joke in political history. Obama did the same exact thing as Romney wanted to do, he just wasted 8 billion dollars before he did it, and Government Motors is rapidly on it’s way back to spilling red ink all over the place.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:26 AM
That is awesome.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:26 AM
this
October 17th, 2012 at 9:27 AM
I watched baseball while listening to a How Did This Get Made about Super Mario Bros. and reading Twitter musings, that’s how all debates should be enjoyed
October 17th, 2012 at 9:27 AM
So, let me get this straight, are we voting for President based on each candidates’ record and previous achievements, or are we voting for the person who can speak well publicly or on stage?
October 17th, 2012 at 9:28 AM
Not a political expert but I think it’s unwise to lump Hispanic voting patterns the same as black voting patterns.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:28 AM
I vote based on who I’d rather attend a dressage event with…so I’m voting Bill Murray
October 17th, 2012 at 9:28 AM
MDU is definitely a large part of it. We’re seeing a ton of growth in that space, so much that orders are outpacing projections and inventory on hand.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:28 AM
kaboom
October 17th, 2012 at 9:29 AM
i agree with a lot of this, tho im not sure romney’s the frontrunner…it feels pretty close, but i dont know what to make out of polling data so…
October 17th, 2012 at 9:30 AM
Sept. Housing permits 545k Single Family, 349k Multifamily
must be thinking texas. MF is all we are doing here.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:30 AM
Great Activision game for Atari back in the early 80s.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:30 AM
I prefer BMI + ability to carry an Al Green tune. Science and stuff.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:30 AM
I’ve seen polls showing each candidate leading by a few percentage points. Regardless, it’s pretty close.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:31 AM
I’m assuming the roundup pic is some emaciated child being used to drive donations to food pantries. Disgusting.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:31 AM
I’m gonna go ahead and disagree a bit here. I think she’s got a pretty nice body and is quite attractive.
The thing is, age is on her side right now. She has the type of body where, if she doesn’t keep herself in shape and watch what she eats, she will get chunky.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:31 AM
Romney: It took you 14 days to call the attack on Libya a terrorist attack.
Obama: Actually I said it the next day, look at the transcript.
Candy: Yeah Governor, he did.
kaboom
October 17th, 2012 at 9:31 AM
Let’s just write in Bill Murray. Done.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:31 AM
This guy gets it.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:32 AM
i was surprised last night at how many times romney just bitch slapped the pres. didnt know he had that in him. i dont think that gave him a win, just shocked to see it.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:32 AM
Popular vote? Yes, absolutely. Electoral vote? Not really that close.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:32 AM
Kate Upton is nothing more than a huge rack of tits on a meh body with a cute smile.
Go watch her do that kitty kat dance in that video from last night and tell me again how that’s a meh body.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:32 AM
Candy: I was wrong about that.
reverse kaboom
October 17th, 2012 at 9:33 AM
Obama would have wrapped it up last night had he said “Proceed Governor” like Billy Madison talking to the penguin
October 17th, 2012 at 9:34 AM
Agreed. Still think Obama wins with over 290 EVs.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:34 AM
It’s things like this that make me genuinely fear for my country and avoid FB during and after a debate.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:34 AM
I’m doubling down on my comment. Kate Upton is nothing more than a huge rack of tits on a meh body with a cute smile. The best trait about her is probably her personality. Yeah, I said it.
you are a fucking jerk for saying this. she is gorgeous, and has a perfect body.
/runs away crying
October 17th, 2012 at 9:35 AM
There are what, five states that matter at this point? Florida, Ohio, Virginia, Colorado, and? OK, four?
Our system is so weird.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:36 AM
Five Thirty-Eight
has it at 287. That number should shift some pretty quick.
/waits for those people to say it’s wrong because it’s NYT blog.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:37 AM
Romney: It took you 14 days to call the attack on Libya a terrorist attack.
Obama: Actually I said it the next day, look at the transcript.
Candy: Yeah Governor, he did.
he said at the end of the transcript we dont negotiate with terrorists. that is it.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:37 AM
Is this true? Wow, that’s a lot of stamps.
Wasnt the biggest bailout of all the banks, and wasn’t that done by the Bush administration? Just asking, seriously.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:37 AM
Did everyone see the tweet from chick (I doubt if she’s even old enough to vote) calling the president the N word then saying she’s not racist? That was fun.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:38 AM
was Romney channeling Blazing Saddles when he said he walked in and saw his cabinet and said ‘where are all the women at?’ before he talked about having his binders full of women?
October 17th, 2012 at 9:38 AM
And Obama really only needs to win one of those. I might throw Wisconsin in the mix as well, too, but that’s about it.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:38 AM
Did you have customers to buy those doors? Then Obama gets some credit. The economy was gone. Without government intervention, our current way of life was done. It was that serious.
I didn’t know people still believe the whole “WE DIDN’T BUILD THAT” nonsense.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:38 AM
Obama was so convinced it was a terrorist attack, his ambassador spent the next week talking about how it was a mob that didn’t like a YouTube video that, if you’ve seen, is a total mess and couldn’t piss anyone off.
I think Obama pressing the Benghazi issue will only show how really ineptly they handled that situation, before and after the attack.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:38 AM
October 17th, 2012 at 9:39 AM
Please. I mean, the audience openly laughed at Mitt and applauded twice when she fact-checked him. I’ve never seen an attempted setup like that go so spectacularly wrong. I mean, if he had merely screwed up the facts that’s one thing. But he made this big show of wanting to get it “on the record,” pausing for effect and staring down the president. And then Mitt got it exactly, 100% wrong.
That sequence, preceded by Obama’s bitch-slap about playing politics with an ambassador’s death, was just devastating.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:41 AM
I like how Obama supporters think this Lilly Ledbetter act is some kind of milestone in civil rights. I think, because of it, it has stretched the statue of limitations on a cause of action to something like 35 women who have filed suits for employment discrimination. Typical left wing nonsense – pass an essentially irrelevant law, and then act like Republicans hate a group of the population because they think the law is stupid.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:41 AM
/team pragmatic compromises
October 17th, 2012 at 9:42 AM
So glad we still have the electoral college because…..um….why do we have this again?
October 17th, 2012 at 9:42 AM
Do prisons count as housing starts? What about internment camps?
October 17th, 2012 at 9:42 AM
I wonder how many of these do it on my own small businesses applied for and received loans guaranteed by the SBA? If all it took was “hard work”, we wouldn’t be in these economic tough times now. That was the gist of the “you didn’t build that” comment if anyone is interested in using the term in context.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:43 AM
Romney completely whiffed on setting up the embassy matter, no doubt about that. Candy should’ve kept her mouth shut though, especially since she later had to agree that Romney was correct.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:43 AM
Gary Johnson. That is all.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:43 AM
That sort of comment coming from the handle “AssaultWithAConcreteDildo”. That is the Internet. Captured in one beautiful moment.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:43 AM
She didn’t look old enough to vote anyhow…I’m guessing you can do a Twitter search on those magic words and find someone saying something of the sort just about every day
People should be more like my aunt who dances around her racism by sticking to the “Uh, he’s a Muslim” form of political discourse…doesn’t come off as abrasive
October 17th, 2012 at 9:44 AM
Is this just another way of saying /Team Bong Rips?
October 17th, 2012 at 9:45 AM
i dont cloud my profundities with camouflaged nonspeak, thankyouverymuch.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:46 AM
THE JAPANESE? Bosh! Flimshaw!
October 17th, 2012 at 9:46 AM
Don’t forget Obama’s speech at the UN where he was falling all over himself to apologize for the Youtube video that caused the riots (that didn’t really cause the riots because they were preplanned attacks.)
October 17th, 2012 at 9:47 AM
Why should she have kept her mouth shut? Romney was demonstrably, factually incorrect.
The best part of the exchange is actually the very end when Romney is so wounded he actually starts to ask Obama who said what and when. Romney is lucky Obama stepped forward and Candy tried to change the subject or he would have stood their flailing for who knows how much longer.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:48 AM
I honestly believe that Jimmy Chitwood takes pleasure in the deaths of Americans if it can reflect poorly on President Obama. You sir, are a cancer on this country.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:48 AM
I support him being in debates just to see if every answer would be “Not government’s problem, we’re cutting that”…do approve of Libertarian views on social issues though, have been saying taxable brothels will be out road to recovery for years now
October 17th, 2012 at 9:49 AM
So I think I’m jumping on the smartphone train this week. The new Droid Razr HD that comes out tomorrow looks very appealing.
/hello 21st Century!
October 17th, 2012 at 9:50 AM
lemme just fuck yall’s brains for a second…marijuana is an anti-carcinogen, therefore, it makes sense that marijuana being legal would also help fight conservative cancers on this country. IRREFUTABLE ANECDOTAL HYPOTHETICAL EVIDENCE.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:50 AM
So she can get home in time to cook dinner for her family.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:50 AM
More like Lauren Mellons, amirite?
/something something politics
October 17th, 2012 at 9:50 AM
Racism now has a wonderful sophisticated hue to it. People are so good at hiding it nowadays. You don’t need to join the KKK, you can hide in plain sight by using coded language.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:50 AM
Candy Crawley: Romney was actually right on Libya
October 17th, 2012 at 9:50 AM
Never understood why people have a problem with food assistance programs.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:51 AM
Romney was factually incorrect about an essentially meaningless point – that Obama used the magic “terror” word. Obama also didn’t seem to appreciate for a week WHO actually attacked the embassy, which, you know, is actually a kinda important thing. So Romney’s to blame for muffing the real point – but it’s this BOOM! TOLD YA! moment is pretty much in your own mind, and the mind of other people already voting for Obama.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:51 AM
Oh wait, one time, some guy got a nice steak while on food stamps so yeah, shut it down. Kids go hungry.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:51 AM
BONG RIPS FOR BROTHELS. we got ourselves a platform bro. you can be pres, i’ll be your gunslinging veep.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:51 AM
word, this happened? do you have the text?
October 17th, 2012 at 9:51 AM
TBL, “crushes” is definitely not the right word. Obama won but not by nearly the margin Romney won by in the first debate.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:52 AM
who the fuck cares what language he used to describe it? for fuck’s sake that’s such a meaningless thing to harangue about.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:52 AM
The fact that Romney held that stupid press conference is not getting enough attention and I hope Obama crushes him on it Monday. That really, really pissed me off. I never liked Romney because he’s an empty suit fraud. But that press conference made me begin to view him as an legitimate asshole. The 47 percent tape reinforced it, and his whining last night sealed the deal.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:53 AM
Well, if you HONESTLY believe it, since you know me so well and all, it must be true.
Also, I want to say, stop being such a baby.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:53 AM
KABOOM. That’s a solid household cleaner.
Also, I think KABOOM was the brand of cereal box that Vivica A. Fox had that hand cannon concealed in during Kill Bill Vol I.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:53 AM
Why don’t we have the scorekeeper guy from Around the Horn keeping score during debates?
October 17th, 2012 at 9:54 AM
This is the truth. I dont know why its so hard for the Romney peaps to admit this. I had no problem agreeing Romney won big two weeks ago.
Me either. Its like having a problem with unemployment.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:54 AM
he’s more corrupt than the russian judge.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:55 AM
The conservative obsession with Democrat President’s who don’t say “FUCK YOU MOTHERFUCKERS” to the world enough is maybe the weirdest thing going.
Apparently the ideal President travels the world with middle fingers raised dressed in an American flag suit and only eats cheeseburgers while in other countries. And leaves in a B52 that drops a nuke on the way out.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:55 AM
Well. Played.
/Golf clap for you, kind sir
October 17th, 2012 at 9:55 AM
Simone De Kock? Now you are just fucking with us South Africa.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:56 AM
to be fair, this man would have my vote.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:56 AM
This just plays into the theater of it all.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:56 AM
I also honestly believe you like to fuck babies.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:56 AM
And it is delicious:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/56/Kaboom.jpg
October 17th, 2012 at 9:56 AM
You are correct sir. Great scene. How was Vivica not Black Mamba?
October 17th, 2012 at 9:56 AM
It wasn’t factually meaningless. Romney set it up to be this big GOTCHA moment. He paused, he stared down Obama, he said he wanted it on the record that Obama didn’t use the word “terror” for 14 days. And he was completely, totally, exactly wrong.
He may have been right, or at least had a solid argument, about the larger point of uncertainty for two weeks. But that isn’t the argument he chose to advance. He wanted his gotcha moment, and he fucked it up royally. And he didn’t just get that fact wrong, he humiliated himself in doing so.
And the moment that happens, the fact that he has a solid argument about the broader point is completely irrelevant.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:57 AM
Goddamn freeloaders I tell you.
That being said, I’d rather see all food assistance programs use more of the WIC guidelines.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:57 AM
So, nobody else is creeped out by the weeping smiley face behind Ms. Pleather up there?
October 17th, 2012 at 9:57 AM
Leave Reali alone. He is good people.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:57 AM
The one thing that really pissed me off was the “apology tour” comment. Obama is just as much pro-Israel and anti Arab world as Bush and Clinton were.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:57 AM
I hope this is what you had in mind
October 17th, 2012 at 9:57 AM
This script is one Sly Stallone’s desk right this very minute.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:57 AM
If you feel this way about Obama’s recovery, you must kneel down and pray every Sunday to Reagan. Obama is now personally responsible for me having customers, lol.
Not quite clear on this one. Am I supposed to give BO credit for forming the SBA in 1953? Obviously it takes capital from an SBA or a bank to start and/or run a business. But capital is worthless without someone having an idea and the ability to run the business. Obama has spent 4 years borrowing money from China, throwing it mindlessly at the nations problems, and having very little to show for it. You say it takes more than hard work, I say it takes more than shoving a pile of money into the center of the poker table and going all in. You better have a fucking hand to play with.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:58 AM
sure do
October 17th, 2012 at 9:58 AM
If Barack Obama had a R next to his political affiliation, the right would call him the greatest, toughest most badass president since Lincoln. But because he waited on facts before talking about Libya he’s an effete pussy in way over his head.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:58 AM
Anybody play the Obama drinking game where you take a drink every time he says folks. Heard about it on the radio this morning on the drive to work.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:58 AM
Isn’t it ATL who likes babies? Tough to keep up
October 17th, 2012 at 9:59 AM
I only know this because my wife watches it, but that’s the calling card of the serial killer on The Mentalist.
October 17th, 2012 at 9:59 AM
So POTUS believed from the very beginning that it was an act of terror, and then proceeded to have his administration lie to the American people about it for two straight weeks, including his embarrassing performance in front of the U.N. Do I have that right?
Look to the transcript:
He first refers to the Beghazi attack in the framework of “denigrating” other religions. Then he brings up 9/11. Then we get the “acts of terror” line.
To any rational thinking human with even basic reading comprehension, “acts of terror” clearly = “9/11″.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:00 AM
i think his biggest mistake is not cleaning up his fucking speech. DUDE, STOP SAYING UM AND UH AND TAKING PAUSES!!! FUCKING SPEAK WITH AUTHORITY LIKE A GOD DAMNED LEADER.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:00 AM
This describes about 4/5 of all the debates. Arguing for over minute details while neither candidate tells you exactly how they are going to fix anything. The energy debate is so feckless.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:00 AM
I look forward to a debate with Senator Jersey devolving into a profane shouting match about the greatness of Michael Jordan…you’re free to do whatever you want against heldover
October 17th, 2012 at 10:00 AM
Anybody play the Obama drinking game where you take a drink every time he says folks
Me and buddy played the one titled 2012 debate drinking game. “Let me be clear”, there was a 15 minute stretch that was pretty rough
October 17th, 2012 at 10:00 AM
I 2nd that, though I would fail miserably and would be this site’s Woody Paige.
Summed up in 3 lines
October 17th, 2012 at 10:00 AM
The only problem with that is Bobo his not so bright brother-in-law would be a heart beat away from the presidency.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:01 AM
It’s not an opinion.
Reagan merely lowered too-high tax rates and deficit spent to shit. That was his “brilliant” plan. If you think that in any way compares to Obama inheriting a complex global economic meltdown in 2008, you should probably vote for Romney.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:01 AM
The face is indeed creepy, but Emmanuelle looks amazing as always.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:02 AM
Reagan followed Keynes.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:02 AM
im sorry heldover…it’s nothing personal, just business.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:02 AM
Jordan Peele’s impression doing this is what raises it to the next level…also if Obama wins and is playing with house money the next four years it’s time to bring a real life Luther on board for a State of the Union
October 17th, 2012 at 10:02 AM
I’d settle for him blaming the organized terrorist attack rather than blaming a Youtube video that he and his cronies helped popularize. But I like your idea too.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:02 AM
Apparently the ideal President travels the world with middle fingers raised dressed in an American flag suit and only eats cheeseburgers while in other countries. And leaves in a B52 that drops a nuke on the way out.
There were many replys to this initial comment. I’ll presume he’s riding a Velociraptor as well.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:03 AM
I’d vote twice for this.
/yay no Voter ID!
October 17th, 2012 at 10:03 AM
mike…could you dumb down your point above? im not following.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:04 AM
Jesus Christ.
The best thing about Romney’s coming loss will be the relegation of nutball statements like these back to the kook fringes of society.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:04 AM
I have more of a problem with the defense department giving out bloated contracts for weapons/materials we don’t need than people getting help eating.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:04 AM
Anybody play the Obama drinking game where you take a drink every time he says folks. Heard about it on the radio this morning on the drive to work.
i dont need silly games to tell me when to drink.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:06 AM
I’ve always advocated welfare and other assistance programs tied to educational requirements wherever possible.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:06 AM
Not a fan personally. I think she is overrated and uses way too much eyeshadow.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:07 AM
$100 for a hammer…brilliant. DoD needs their budget cut in half, learn to buy a hammer at Home Depot.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:08 AM
I’ve always advocated welfare and other assistance programs tied to educational requirements wherever possible.
agreed, thats a good idea.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:08 AM
Could someone explain why he kept on and on talking about this video? He had already been crystal clear that this was a premeditated terrorist attack, right?
October 17th, 2012 at 10:09 AM
This morning walking to the subway I started petting this alley cat literally in an alley. It was lightly raining. I must have pet that cat for 5 minutes (my hand smells terrible)and told the cat “have a good one” upon leaving. At that point I realized I was still drunk.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:09 AM
I really think you overestimate the ability of today’s GOP to look itself in the mirror, so to speak. Look no further than the three debates from last Thursday and last night. Democrats get crushed in the first one and (rightly) blame the candidate/campaign. Republicans get crushed in the second and third and it’s everyone’s fault BUT their own.
It is a party that is inherently incapable of admitting that it is part of the problem.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:09 AM
i know where we can find another $22 billion AND redistribute their jobs to other government agencies where their skills can be utilized.
/makes get a load of those assholes at the DEA motion
October 17th, 2012 at 10:09 AM
So if Obama inherited a “complex GLOBAL economic meltdown in 2008″, then I guess we can’t pin all the blame on Bush, huh? If you think Obama running up the deficit and creating zero net jobs is a real recovery, then you should probably vote for him again. But in 2-4 years when we’re where half of Europe is right now, don’t go hiding on me.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:12 AM
Emmanuelle Rossum >>> Emmanuelle Chriqui
October 17th, 2012 at 10:13 AM
Is that how much will be saved annually on the war against marijuana?
October 17th, 2012 at 10:13 AM
I keep reading this sentiment from the site’s leftward leaning posters, but where is your evidence for this, particularly regarding last night’s debate? I understand that’s your personal feeling, but polls show Obama winning by around a 7% margin…certainly not a crushing. Sure, the polls may be off, but how else are you gonna judge such a thing?
October 17th, 2012 at 10:13 AM
The only reason Romney has a chance right now is because he’s run away from every single right-wing position he adopted during the last two years. Suddenly, he cares about everyone. He’s not going to cut taxes on the rich. He’s not going to deport Mexicans. He loves healthcare.
Nutball conservatism doesn’t thrive in the spotlight. You can’t succeed with that platform, which is why Romney 3.0 appeared a month before the election.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:13 AM
Yes. I love Emmy Rossum.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:13 AM
Sees lots of Obama’s with “Command F.”
Does “Command F” for MikeNYC.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:13 AM
The point is simple. If POTUS really believe from the outset that it was truly an act of terror, then how do you explain this, from his cowering U.N speech?
October 17th, 2012 at 10:13 AM
The GIIPS issue is caused by the fact that they can’t devalue their currency and that Germany is being a bunch of dicks. Part of the issue of the single currency. And in FY2008 (last Bush budget) the US was running a $1 trillion deficit anyway.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:14 AM
that’s the DEA’s budget that’s essentially a pile of money being lit on fire.
money coming in isn’t why it should be legalized, it’s the money going out to do absolutely nothing that is.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:14 AM
I dont really know where to start with any of this, so I won’t.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:14 AM
Begone is performing at halftime for this years Super Bowl.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:15 AM
Beyone god damn iPad autocorrect
October 17th, 2012 at 10:15 AM
Why would anyone expect the president of the united states — and president — to immediately call something a terrorist act if they’re not sure?
I’m not sure why this is even a thing.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:15 AM
Also, I watched that Obama 2016 movie the other day because it was on my UVerse PPV. I think the premise was probably legitimate but that guy made some awfully speculative “predictions” about where Obama is headed because of his past.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:16 AM
Actually I liked your first one better.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:16 AM
Makes me think they’ve got the Joker there just burning mounds of cash.
/Team Legalize, Regulate and Tax It
October 17th, 2012 at 10:16 AM
that he believed it was an issue with a lot of different angles that can’t just be lumped in as an “act of terror” until proper intelligence has been gathered and vetted?
what i fail to see is how this is important in the slightest? im more concerned about romney’s policy ambiguity and disconnected demeanor he’s shown, not thru a speech, but through decades of being a businessman sans ethics.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:17 AM
That’s more sad, pathetic than people donating to Penn State.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:17 AM
Good call YYSA.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:18 AM
But not quite as sad, pathetic than MLB ratings?
October 17th, 2012 at 10:18 AM
Romney is not going to win Michigan or Massachusetts. That says a lot and I can’t believe it’s being ignored.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:18 AM
Weren’t unemployment, inflation and interest rates all in the double digits when Reagan was inaugurated? Times were definitely not rosy.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:19 AM
That “documentary” has been thoroughly debunked as a steaming pile of shit. It’s nothing more than propaganda.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:19 AM
Because there was forewarning and the folks behind the walls were scared out of their minds in the days leading up to the terrorist attack.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:20 AM
I think the most damning political talking point about the Libya situation is that the administration gave more guns to the Mexican cartels than they gave to the security staff in Benghazi.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:21 AM
The speculative parts I could see through. But studying the President’s past to try and understand his life view is valid critique in my opinion.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:21 AM
Jebus there is a great deal wrong here.
1. Obama has the lowest spending since Eisenhower
2. Deficit increase has steadied
3. You need to increase spending during a recession (see Reagan)
4. What is Europe? Greece collapsed because no one paid taxes. Ireland was giving away 120% mortgages and bankers fucked them. Start reading some Michael Lewis on happened in each country.
5. There was a complex GLOBAL economic meltdown in 2008 exacerbated by constant deregulation in the derivative market so much so that Alan “Ayn Rand dick sucking” Greenspan said his worldview was 20% wrong or so.
6. Bush really, really, really sucked as a president.
People seem to think Obama mentioning the crash is a cliche, but it was the single greatest crash since the Great Depression and it occured only 4 years ago, feels pretty motherfucking relevant. Free Market dogma and coked out defense spending circle jerking is no the way out cunts.
/C’mon man, and I’m drunk what’s your excuse?
October 17th, 2012 at 10:21 AM
I dont really know where to start with any of this, so I won’t.
another good idea.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:22 AM
One man’s “ethics” is another’s “suave business move”.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:23 AM
Because the Hannitys and other right-wingers believe this is SO important. Like the POTUS calling it “an act of terror” (which he did) is going to magically bring those that were killed back to life.
It is stupid semantics. If Obama would have said “This terrorism in Libya was an act of terror done by terrorist in a terrorist country.”, they would then complain that his inflection was off and his flag pin was too small.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:24 AM
I thought Romney’s best moment was when he hit Obama hard on his failed ’08 campaign promises to cut the deficit in half and reduce unemployment to some level that I can’t remember.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:24 AM
It’s only an “issue” this morning because Candy Crowley forgot she wasn’t working for Obama’s campaign team and made it an issue herself.
A Republican has lost Mass. 8 of the past 10 elections, last winning almost 20 years ago. “Says a lot”, though.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:24 AM
They were not, correct. But the fixes were much easier/simpler. It’s a different, more complex economy now, necessitating infinitely more difficult, slower solutions.
Is Bush responsible for 9/11? There was forewarning.
Sometimes things just happen. In hindsight could the assassination have been prevented? Yeah, probably. Just like every other murder in world history. To act like the Obama administration — an administration with a sterling FP understanding and record — just let this one slip through is absurd.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:25 AM
This is exactly right. Romney and the GOP treat this as if it’s some run-of-the-mill recession and by God, why aren’t we out of it already? BECAUSE IT’S THE WORST THING ANY OF US HAVE SEEN IN OUR LIFETIMES. You don’t come back from that in a year or two.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:25 AM
Eh, you’re not who your parents or relatives are, IMO.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:25 AM
“I choose bizzzznesss ethicccccs.”
October 17th, 2012 at 10:26 AM
Context. Obama campaigned on a lot of shit that got completely swept aside because, you know, WORST FUCKING ECONOMIC CRISIS IN 75 YEARS.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:26 AM
Queefer – Fast and Furious was not sterling.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:27 AM
The thing is, Romney knows this. Most of the right knows this. They simply don’t care, and would rather destroy consumer confidence and paint America as a failure than admit no one could have done any better.
Were any former Mass governor’s running for president in any of those elections?
October 17th, 2012 at 10:27 AM
TBL, “crushes” is definitely not the right word. Obama won but not by nearly the margin Romney won by in the first debate.
100% agreed.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:28 AM
I think there’s a difference between studying and examining with bias while trying to reach a predetermined conclusion.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:28 AM
Pathetic
October 17th, 2012 at 10:28 AM
Al Gore didn’t win Tennessee in 2000, right?
October 17th, 2012 at 10:29 AM
a turd’s still a turd even if it’s wrapped in tin foil.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:29 AM
It wasn’t. I guess I haven’t considered that FP.
FWIW, it was the GOP congress that cut embassy security funding by $250 million. Just wanted to point that out.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:31 AM
I doubt it. He also didn’t win the election.
OR DID HE?!
October 17th, 2012 at 10:31 AM
Yet another thing the President isn’t responsible for.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:31 AM
Which means very little considering the current state of the economy.
Taking the claim on its face, it doesn’t square with #6, logically speaking. If Bush was a terrible president and clearly went on a huge spending spree, doesn’t it beg the question that Obama is the same for doing the same?
October 17th, 2012 at 10:31 AM
I think it is sort of tricky how to define it, but I’d consider it more foreign than domestic policy.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:31 AM
So when Romney gets Al Gore’d and wins the popular vote but loses the electoral college, are there going to be riots like Jimmy said there would be?
October 17th, 2012 at 10:32 AM
I’m sure you were one of those people against TARP which pretty much staved off a global depression. Had Citi, Chase or BofA gone under, we would be in Depression 2.0 .
October 17th, 2012 at 10:33 AM
Chit, I know you’re just playing the game here and you don’t really believe what you say. I’m giving you the benefit of the doubt that you can’t possibly be so stupid as to think that when a presidential candidate campaigns on debt/deficit reduction and lower unemployment, that when he walks into the worst economic situation of our lifetimes that he’s probably not going to be able to uphold those promises.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:33 AM
I don’t think it’s a cliche, I just think that if his policies were sound, we’d have been able to create maybe just 1 net job? I won’t even be greedy and ask for 2 net jobs…just 1.
/Of course he did save the auto industry!!!!
//No he didn’t
October 17th, 2012 at 10:34 AM
That’s the way the system works. I’d be disappointed, but I could live with it.
Reading comprehension a problem for you?
October 17th, 2012 at 10:36 AM
Big Hoss – stop it with the “you really can’t believe this stuff” bit. I think your viewpoint is utter ridiculousness, but I also assume you fully believe such nonsense.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:36 AM
I agree. But it isn’t all lost on bias and it’s up to an educated viewer to be able to make the distinction. I had no idea about Obama’s upbringing, including many of the people he was hanging around in his formative years. If nothing else, the “documentary” highlighted several key figures, not to mention Obama’s own words used in his biography, that I believe fit into the narrative of Obama’s worldview. The filmmaker use the same to say that Obama is anti-colonial and is using his power to more or less punish traditional colonial powers, but that’s the part that is speculative that I don’t agree with.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:37 AM
You said last recently that there would be riots if Obama lost, said it was all over the news. I was giving you a reverse kaboom scenario.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:37 AM
I agree. Which is why I laugh hysterically whenever Romney talks about how he’ll create jobs in this country.
/Obama’s plan isn’t much better
//probably would have voted for Huntsman*
*and hope to hell he stays away from roe v. wade
October 17th, 2012 at 10:38 AM
How many of those Republicans were former Governors of Mass.?
October 17th, 2012 at 10:39 AM
And yet Chit you really never say anything to rebut anyone’s point.
Step out of the conservative echo chamber. There’s a whole big world out there just waiting for you to explore.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:40 AM
Bush was a terrible president and clearly went on a huge spending spree
Pretty sure the unneccessary war in Iraq, abuse of executive powers, Bush tax cuts and advocation of deregulation here more in play than anything on his spending.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:41 AM
You keep running with that. It isn’t true, but run with it anyway.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:43 AM
A little self awareness on your part would be nice.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:44 AM
Infrastructure spending good ROI, invasion spending bad, huge legacy costs.
Fucking Reagan your spending $68 billion a year on prisons (not included policing costs) and $2100 per person on defense. There’s your fucking debt load right there, not in women’s access sexual health (which lowers social safety net costs), Big Bird (which is an education investment).
October 17th, 2012 at 10:46 AM
No, just have an understanding that you didn’t do it on your own, which was the actual meaning of “you didn’t build that”, which Repubs have chosen to distort. Understand that when some small business comes up with some brilliant idea to make the latest and greatest in doors, that’s my hard earned tax dollars being used to support that endeavor.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:47 AM
You sound like Obama last night just shaking his head and stating that he didn’t run GM and Chrysler through bankruptcy. Umm, yes he did. Doesn’t fit with his “I saved a million jobs” rhetoric though.
I do want to go on the record as agreeing with all of the libs here stating that Bush sucked as a President though. He was even worse than Obama has been.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:47 AM
The unnecessary war that Congress voted for?
The executive powers Obama has also “abused?”
Bush tax cuts? Please. Deregulation? Didn’t Clinton deregulate in the 90′s? Didn’t lead to an economic meltdown then.
The point is, it’s much more complicated than blame Bush.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:48 AM
Ohhh, I see. You are drunk.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:49 AM
Sigh…..
October 17th, 2012 at 10:51 AM
Same time, same place tomorrow? I’m leaving my echo chamber now.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:53 AM
RE: His “cowering UN speech”.
Obama is flying giant robots over countries who have explicitly told him not to and killing their citizens, at least some of whom are innocent bystanders.
Maybe we should lay off the “President is a wimp” nonsense. It has no relationship with reality.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:53 AM
I do want to go on the record as agreeing with all of the libs here stating that Bush sucked as a President though. He was even worse than Obama has been.
i would like to also go on record that clinton built the snowball that caused this mess. bushed just pushed it down the hill. somehow this is never brought up. clinton is the ray lewis of politics.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:57 AM
Honestly, if I’d been one of the “undecideds” in the audience, I’d have asked Romney, “Can you assure me that you’ll spend 4 years focused on jobs and the economy, national security, and NOT worry about who’s marrying who or what women want to do with their bodies?”
Said it before and I’ll say it again: if Republicans backed off on abortion and gay marriage, they could probably go off on a long string of victories nationally.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:59 AM
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No it’s not. The combination of tax cuts and war spending along with Medicare D was devestating to the economy. The fact that the devestation was temporarily offset by a housing bubble artificially created by abuses of the Clinton de-regulation under the Bush administration is probably criminal
October 17th, 2012 at 11:01 AM
I never once said Bush’s terrible run related to Obama in any way. For people to prop up some of this stuff like the Iraq War is crazy though. At that point you’re just so tied to hating an opposing political opponent you’re just raging at the world. It’s the very closemindedness that makes people stop listening to anything a person like that has to say, from either end of the spectrum.
October 17th, 2012 at 11:04 AM
Maybe we should lay off the “President is a wimp” nonsense. It has no relationship with reality.
THIS. But that’s the decades-long narrative: Republicans = hard asses on all things defense, Democrats = cowering pussies.
October 17th, 2012 at 11:05 AM
Obama’s now at fault for shrinking government payroll? Logical consistency from conservatives please.
2009 to 2011 Loss of Public Jobs
Teachers 3,942,700 to 3,721,938 -220,762
Policemen 666,579 to 610,427 -56,125
Emergency responders 69,370 to 39,170 -30,200
Air-traffic controllers 23,959 to 17,128 -6,831
Fire fighters 233,051 277,158 +44,107
That’s 268,000 lost jobs in 2 years in the public sector on some austerity bullshit.
Increase in private sector jobs last four months:
June 176,000
July 163,000
August 189,000
September 162,000
690,000 private sector jobs in 4 months. Simply math indicates more than 1 job created. Fuck. Shrinking government payroll and new private sector jobs and GOP is still bitching. There is very little intellectual honesty in your arguments.
/Sorry this doesn’t fit on a bumper sticker you fucking twat
//Again still tipsy mostly hungover what the fuck is wrong with you?
October 17th, 2012 at 11:09 AM
Also true. Clinton fucked the entire country (figuratively anyway) and he’s worshipped.
October 17th, 2012 at 11:10 AM
Republicans are hard asses in general until they’re called out on something. Then they start pulling their cards from the deck: the liberal media card; the unpatriotic card; the you’re playing the race card, card. It never fails
October 17th, 2012 at 11:10 AM
The point is, it’s much more complicated than blame Bush
.
No it’s not.
love the mentality, although its not shocking in the least. cant you quit crying about bush and focus on getting the godam job done?
October 17th, 2012 at 11:18 AM
Run your math to calculate 7.8% unemployment jackass. And using the 7.8% is fucking generous on my part…I’ll actually give him credit for the creation of shitloads of part time jobs that don’t pay enough to allow people to have actual discretionary income.
October 17th, 2012 at 11:19 AM
Here’s my effort:
Man, the Nats really went down like a sack of dirt in the ninth inning of game 5 last week, n’est-pas?
/ Now I feel bad about tweaking The Beloved Commenter
October 17th, 2012 at 11:20 AM
But you just blamed Clinton, its the same thing. Always the “other guys” fault.
October 17th, 2012 at 11:21 AM
Most concise description of Obama’s entire career (both in and out of politics) that I’ve ever seen. Thanks for this.
October 17th, 2012 at 11:22 AM
If it was that simple, then Romney agreed with Obama’s actions in the bailout, right? Duh! The difference between the 2 plans was Romney said let them go bankrupt and allow the chip to fall where they may. The President’s plan was through a managed bankruptcy, provide the funding and at the same time have the companies reorganize at the top at the same time getting in other things such as increased gas mileage for vehicles. Through the managed bankruptcy, backed by the U.S. Government, the auto industry was able to survive, save a million jobs, and turn a nice profit for the Feds. The question to ask yourself is what alternative under the Romney plan could have possibly fostered a better result?
October 17th, 2012 at 11:24 AM
This was foretold by The Simpsons, in “Bart Gets an Elephant.”
October 17th, 2012 at 11:26 AM
Can we just have this election on Friday and be done with it? I don’t think I can put up with another 2 weeks of this. I know who I’m voting for and, as far as I can tell, so is everyone else but a small bunch of neutrals who love being so damn neutral they’re turning grey.
So let’s just roll out the machines, get it over with and let’s move on.
/And if I don’t make it, tell my wife “Hello”
October 17th, 2012 at 11:29 AM
Fucking hilarious.
–Washington Post
October 17th, 2012 at 11:29 AM
But you just blamed Clinton, its the same thing. Always the “other guys” fault.
no, i didnt blame clinton. just pointed out that he passed the bills that made this mess possible.
October 17th, 2012 at 11:31 AM
The mentality is called being informed. Blustery faux machismo doesn’t replace being informed. Being informed would be understanding that the job is “getting done”. Being informed is understanding where we are is tremendously better than where we would be if this President didn’t make the tough decisions that confronted him as soon as he hit the office. Get your mentality right and get informed.
October 17th, 2012 at 11:35 AM
Yes, make sure you are as “informed” as someone who thinks we turned a profit on the auto bailouts.
October 17th, 2012 at 11:35 AM
Nada, I can’t count on much in this world. I can count on you. High five, brotha…
October 17th, 2012 at 11:36 AM
It’s all in fun, SROD. You know we all luv you, man.
October 17th, 2012 at 11:39 AM
C’mon, Nada. It’s the ‘Net. It’s all to the good. I’m giggling here, when I’m not dealing with the effects of yesterday’s turkey chili.
/tousles Nada’s hair
//farts
October 17th, 2012 at 11:40 AM
In the event of someting happening to me
There is something I would like you all to see
It’s just a phtograph of someone that I knew …
Or:
Though I’m past one hundred thousand miles
I’m feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Tell my wife I love her very much, she knows …
October 17th, 2012 at 3:48 PM
“Obama crushes Romney” – seriously, TBL? Stick to posting about sports and an occasional babe. If I want an ignorant side dish of politics with snarky junvenile sports reporting, I’ll go back to Deadspin/Gawker.