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That went better than I expected. I doubt Biden's good performance did much to attract swing voters (of whom there are very few at this point anyway), but it probably did a lot to encourage the Dem base, which was on the verge of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, in our classic tradition.

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Speaking purely as a former spectator, I approve of this comment.

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Old Handsome makes <em>everything</em> entertaining. Although, him on the same stage as ZEGS will be kind of an irresistible force vs. immovable object kind of thing on the entertainment front.

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In the case of the current crop of Brits fucking that nation up even more, I'd certainly be forced to agree with you. If they thought there was any way they could get away with it without literally being mobbed, Cameron and Osborne would sell off the NHS in a heartbeat, and their own grandmothers with it. Sadly Tony Bliar gave a patina of respectability to policies undermining the service gradually by backdoor privatization, one of the two main reasons I'll hate him until he's dead, and hopefully long thereafter.

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Right now that almost sounds like some kind of buttchugging reference.

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"What are you doing?"

"I'm listening to the Voice of Reason." <a href="http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/popularity-high-romney-ditto-obama-110519458--abc-news-politics.html" target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://news.yahoo.com/popularity-high-romney-ditt...">http://news.yahoo.com/popul...

Nobody said this was going to be easy. Almost everyone said it was going to be close. Stop whimpering like that soldier in "Patton" and get out there and FIGHT!

Andrew Sullivan picked a hell of a time to pull a Duh Gov' and try to make this all about him.

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Mitt wins, I'm getting a t-shirt with a picture of Mitt and Dubya together that says "Still haven't learned yet, have we?" and one with just Mitt that says "This is why we can't have nice things."

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Well, yeah, but in this case, there's a particularly powerful argument that, given the deluge of MSM reports about how Mitt Romney totally sliced Barry open and fed him his own intestines while making sexytime with Michelle, on Barry's anniversary no less, Romney supporters would be considerably more eager to spend half an hour talking on the phone with a stranger and/or robot about how awesome their guy is than Obama supporters.

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Nice to know, after all these years, that ONE good thing may have come out of that election.

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Was the Pew poll, by any chance, based on data collected before the new unemployment numbers came out? Because even the brain-dead undecideds should be able to look at a <a href="http:\/\/assets.dstatic.org\/imgs\/blog\/20121005-jobs_chart.gif" target="_blank">chart</a> and see what Bush did, and what Obama's done, for jobs.

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John McCain might disagree.

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Next debate Hopey must punch Mittens in the mouth and stomp on his balls then look directly into the camera and say.... "One for the Gipper."

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the fuck is wrong with this country? romney hasn't had a good day since he lost his $10,000 bet, started a war with britain and told half his fellow citizens to fuck off.

now he's ahead because <i>barry was tired?!?!?</i>

if every country gets the government it deserves, i want to know what i did to earn my fellow citizens.

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When Alexander the Great had an enemy army in retreat he moved in and finished them off. Looks to me like our man got a wee bit too over-confident.

When Reggie Jackson left Oakland for the major leagues he took a childhood friend with him. Not be be his posse or crew. But to every so often say "I knew you when you were just Reggie Jackson in Oakland you still ain't shit."

It was folly to lighten up at this stage. Mr. Obama should have finished him off.

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Between colleges I worked as a cashier in a large Chicago-area supermarket. Food stamps could only be used to purchase food to eat.

When seniors purchased cans of cat good I just rang 'em up, because I never wanted to hear "I don't have a cat. That's for me."

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Fuck them and their fucking juiceboxes.

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