Voters across the nation are going to the polls today to vote "Yes" or "No-Good Elitist Bastard" on Barack Obama, our nation's president and only member of our government, and most people think most people in most places will choose that latter option. And since this is vote is not actually a complex array of hundreds of individual elections, and nothing a "Congress" has done the past two years will affect it in any way, we can totally say this is a direct referendum on the president. And
yeah, and Bush was elected on platform of bringing "honor and dignity to the Oval Office". Epic fail.
We may look back on Obama's first years as the last time bi-partisanship was seriously considered. With ideological news platforms, separate sets of facts, silo'ed voters, there's no reason to compromise.
And yet Obama's average approval rating has hovered on 45% for months, his personal approval is higher, and there are undoubtedly at least a few percentage points that are disappointed liberals, all while still mired in the middle of a a terrible economy and two years now of shrieking "He's a Muslin!" from the right. Could reality and "the narrative" be not entirely in sync? Unpossible, I know, but maybe we should consider the possibility.
The TP'ers and Repubicans HATE "elites". But we tried a "C" student in the White House last time and it was a fucking nightmare. So I vote (literally) for the "A" team. But the TP'ers are serious, they should nominate the most non-elite candidate they can find: Sarah Palin, unexceptional in every way.
I stopped watching/listening to Tweety long ago. Is he still asking that question he started in 2005?
yeah, and Bush was elected on platform of bringing "honor and dignity to the Oval Office". Epic fail.
We may look back on Obama's first years as the last time bi-partisanship was seriously considered. With ideological news platforms, separate sets of facts, silo'ed voters, there's no reason to compromise.
And yet Obama's average approval rating has hovered on 45% for months, his personal approval is higher, and there are undoubtedly at least a few percentage points that are disappointed liberals, all while still mired in the middle of a a terrible economy and two years now of shrieking "He's a Muslin!" from the right. Could reality and "the narrative" be not entirely in sync? Unpossible, I know, but maybe we should consider the possibility.
The TP'ers and Repubicans HATE "elites". But we tried a "C" student in the White House last time and it was a fucking nightmare. So I vote (literally) for the "A" team. But the TP'ers are serious, they should nominate the most non-elite candidate they can find: Sarah Palin, unexceptional in every way.
i guess this is good news for john mccain.