OH BOY OH BOY THE DEBATES ARE COMING! This week will be the first time that Barack Obama and Mitt Romney get on TV and have a thoughtful, earnest exchange about how their different visions will translate into policies to help the great country they both love ha ha we can't even finish this sentence because of course the whole noble debate concept has long been subsumed into the general presidential election horrorshow of spin and fuckery. We're still days away and already the mind games are starting. First up: expectations-lowering, in which each campaign tries to convince the press that their candidate will spend most of the debate gibbering incoherently and urinating on himself in terror, so that when he manages to string several coherent sentences together it can be spun as a win. Unfortunately, Mitt's people's attempts at this have been a little ...
Going off topic, does the AARP ad about getting the truth on Medicare cuts run in your area? The (very young for an AARP member) black woman, surrounded by cartoon word bubbles saying "Blah, Blah, Blah" cracks me up.
It's just gonna be the best reality show mini-series ever; for bizarre and feckless, nothing else will be able to touch it. I can't wait.
Mitt is so clearly uncomfortable in his skin. My hope for the debates: he becomes so totally uncomfortable and twitchy that he finally sheds his human skin to reveal his true, alien being to the world.
Here's my plan; I'm going to get home from work early and make a sextuple batch of air-popper popcorn, then drizzle it with two cups of melted butter full of grated parmesan cheese, then sprinkle liberally with popcorn salt and lightly with cayenne pepper. Then it goes into a 250 degree oven for about a half hour. Incredibly light and crispy!
Theorectally, those are good positions, but I can't see the corporatocracy getting behind them.
For the Romney unit, there will much beeping and gnashing of teeth.
Going off topic, does the AARP ad about getting the truth on Medicare cuts run in your area? The (very young for an AARP member) black woman, surrounded by cartoon word bubbles saying "Blah, Blah, Blah" cracks me up.
Is Beth Myers related to Dee Dee Myers? If she's not an alcoholic now, will she be one by the end of the debate?
After Mitt lands his best zinger, he'll drop the mic.
It's just gonna be the best reality show mini-series ever; for bizarre and feckless, nothing else will be able to touch it. I can't wait.
By the way, what are the drinking rules for this event?
Shit/The Bed have my vote.
Willard may well exceed historically low expectations, but the pity vote is likely to sway just two old ladies somewhere in Pennsylvania.
Mitt is so clearly uncomfortable in his skin. My hope for the debates: he becomes so totally uncomfortable and twitchy that he finally sheds his human skin to reveal his true, alien being to the world.
Didn't Mitt just finish something like 50 debates in the GOP primaries?
George Patton?
McCain tried this strategy in 2008 - it doesn't really work.
Here's my plan; I'm going to get home from work early and make a sextuple batch of air-popper popcorn, then drizzle it with two cups of melted butter full of grated parmesan cheese, then sprinkle liberally with popcorn salt and lightly with cayenne pepper. Then it goes into a 250 degree oven for about a half hour. Incredibly light and crispy!
Debates? If you believe Nate Silver why bother with the debates? Let&rsquo;s just hold the elections now rather than pulling that Band-Aid off slowly from the hairy parts. <a href="http://fivethirtyeight.blog..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/">http://fivethirtyeight.blog...
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Demosthenes?