Just to Be Clear
When it comes to the auto bailout, as with pretty much everything else, Mittens is dissembling his ass off.
Also, I’m happy that Obama didn’t take the extra-drowsy cold medication before this debate. Meanwhile, Romney’s bullying entitled douche is really coming through tonight; I expect him to pull out a pair of scissors soon.
…Don’t worry ladies! Roe v. Wade will be overruled, and you might lose contraceptive coverage, but Uncle Mittens has a little black book BINDERS AND BINDERS full of women!
…personal to Mittens: you never open your mouth unless you know what the shot is. Proceed, governor.
…I mean, if your strategy is to be a complete dick, you’d better at least be right.
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Man, fuck
Bill O’ReillyMitt Romney.Mittens gets knocked off his game whenever You People (in this case, the Effing President of the Effing United States) don’t automatically defer to his natural superiority instead of just assuming the position.
Mitt’s getting his ass kicked.
Yes.
You’re thinking of the old way of evaluating debates. It was just decided that arguing with the moderator and refusing to answer questions so that you could get the last word in the previous exchange is, in fact, winning the debate. And you get double debate points for getting called out on your lies. So, in fact, Romney is winning again.
Romney wins on points, Q to 12!
er, Q to 12.
I like the Romney plan to end workforce discrimination against women. Improve the economy enough so that employers will be desperate enough to actually hire women.
They can be flexible because ladies need to cook at home.
He’s got binders of ‘em so folks know where to look.
That whole answer was about Boss Men hiring women, and coddling women employees. And Obama called him on it in the next exchange, with the employer-controlled contraception coverage issue, on which Mitt flat-out lied.
Also, if anyone can spot the difference between what Mitt said he did and Affirmative Action, I’d love to hear it. Also, an investigation of Mitt’s hiring at Bain, which I’m betting was a sausage fest.
a WHITE sausage fest, heavy on the Mormon, would be my guess.
Bratwurst with real brats, and the worst.
Mitt, Presidents don’t ‘file’ legislation.
That’s going to change when Mitt starts running the government like a business.
Right after Mitt convinces the board to give him an eight-figure retention bonus.
Well, being President already comes with a pretty good golden parachute. Though not as good as the one Mitt already has.
From the NYT live blog on the Yankee game:
“Any other baseball fans wondering why the phrase “binders full of women” from the presidential debate is all over twitter?”
Heh.
Fuck the Yankees and fuck Mitt Romney.
Romney is going to fire the shit out of somebody after this debate.
It’s the only thing that would make him happy again.
Fortunately he likes being able to fire people.
If he fired himself then at least 47% of the country would be happy, too.
The inevitable tumblr. And an early contender for the meme du jour.
There’s nothing that I like about these things, but Obama kicked Romney’s ass.
He started out strong, and Obama started out shaky, but hoo boy did the tide turn.
Precisely the reverse.
Well maybe not precisely, but precisely in a Kurtzian way.
Exactly, Mr. Kurtz! Nobody could think Romney was a rich phony after tonight!
There’s nothing like being fact-checked in real time by the moderator to prove that you’re SO NOT A LIAR.
I didn’t watch the debate, but based on what I know about the hack-gap, this article means Obama totally won, right?
He didn’t kick Romney’s ass by any means – he let the “apology tour” thingy float right on by, for example — but he was awake for this one and did well enough that I think/hope he’ll be called the winner. Romney needed to win or draw to come out ahead.
He let the stupid double the deficit nonsense pass as well. That’s such a stupid line. Aside from inheriting a huge overhang and the congress blocking everything, how is going from 1.4t to 1.1t doubling?
Romney has a lot of experience cooking books, he would know about these things Anthony!
His 5 point economic plan . . . it’s a, OMG it’s a COOKBOOK!
It’s a fisting, you mean.
Yeah, that bothered me a bit too. The only reason I can think of to let it go is that once you start arguing about numbers, the audience tunes you out – kind of like when you argue over whose turn it is to speak.
And the Congressional obstructionism, while a very real thing, would most likely come across as whining to a lot of low-information voters. Plus it would give Mittens an opportunity to come back with “I won’t have that problem – they’ll work with me because I’m so awesome and reasonable.”
Still, a strong showing from the President.
Great job by Obama, but I am baffled as to why he continues to let Romney misrepresent his record on the deficit. Is this really so hard to say: “I inherited a 1.4 trillion dollar deficit from President Bush, and its now down to 1.1 trillion, and it will be even lower after the troops are withdrawn from Afghanistan and President Bush’s tax cuts for the top 2% expire. My opponent wants to extend those tax cuts for the wealthy and has questioned my decision to withdraw the troops.”
I dont think its good politics to repeat that the deficit has been $1 trillion a year for the last few years. Dont argue numbers on this issue.
I agree. No voters really care about the number. If you say “No, it’s $1T down from $1.3T” they’re just going to hear “it’s a lot!” and keep thinking about it.
You don’t want them thinking about it. They’re already considering voting for Romney, it’s safe to say they aren’t mentally prepared for the theory of deficits.
Fair point. Then state that “the deficit is down more than 20% since I took office.” Just don’t concede the deficit issue to a person who is not serious about the issue.
Romney, I’m talking to you, shithead. Anyone in this office lives on his wits. What you are hired for, is to help us. Does that seem clear to you? To HELP us. Not to FUCK US UP! To help men who are going out there to try to earn a living, you fairy. You company man. I’ll tell you something else, I hope you politicize every American death overseas, maybe I can tell our friends here a little something that might help them to dismiss you.
When I find out whose cousin you are, I’ll have your job.
I’m watching Yankees/Tigers. I’m ignoring this debate like Romneytron 2.1 ignores the truth.
You see the Yankee offense? Romney didn’t do quite that well.
Is it over yet? Is it safe to reenter the intertubes?
Tigers leave them on base ad nauseam. After a long at bad, Nunez hits HR. 2-1 in the 9th.
Women should get married before they have kids and that will solve gun violence and women can go home and cook dinner for their families after work and that will make them ever so much more employable at sub minimum wage at the sweat shop.
Binders
Full of women!
I am pretty sure that Mittens just loves putting women in “binders.”
Creep factor ten!
Yeah, binders in his crawlspace.
Women should get married before they have kids
“Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.” – Brigham Young
The google searches for “Bound Women” are going to be all fucked up for some time now.
“Gagged” still works
Another debate, another un-taken opportunity to declare that property is theft, to call on us to expropriate the expropriators.
What’s wrong with this country?
Pretty much.
That’s why I hate these things.
LET ALONE the horror that is DENTISTRY.
WHICH IS THEFT.
No, that’s popery.
Popery is theft!
Whoops, looks like I’m a little rusty.
Potpourri. Potpourri is theft.
Pope’s Hill is in Dorchester. I’d start looking there.
Pope’s Landing is in Danvers, and has a nice picnic area, with a lovely gelato place, so I’d start there instead.
Oh hey.
Looks like both Romney and the Yankees lost tonight.
If anyone here is familiar with SB Nation’s “This Week in Schadenfreude” series, you might appreciate the Red State open thread:
http://www.redstate.com/2012/10/16/the-debate-and-post-debate/
Things begin with everyone cheering, then start going downhill fast:
“Don’t kid yourself. O’s problem is that he’s sure he’s the best there is at everything and he’s dismissive of everyone else. See A Hitler for a similar personality trait.”
“did i just hear Obama say “please proceed” instead of answering Mitt’s question? And then did Crowley support Obama? This moderator sucks in my opinion”
“The ABC poll is garbage.”
“BTW —- undecideds in NY? Give me a break. As one who lived most of my life in the “People’s Republic of New York” trust me ….these people are not undecided.”
“I’m tired of looking at that cow.”
“can i call her a bad name? no I guess i shouldn’t. But we all knew before it started that’d she’d not be fair Romney”
“Romney should have brought up the Opportunity Society. Equality of opportunity, not jealousy.”
“Mitt looks a little tired, but he’s still dominating Obama!! Mitt’s been busy out campaigning, and Obama has been resting and preparing between golf games.”
“I think Crowley was biased both in the questions she chose and the times she bailed out Obama. The questions were perfectly teed up for lefty talking points.”
“Romney succeeded regardless but I’m tired of these debates moderated by far left activist journalists. Why can’t we get one moderated by Jake Tapper or Brit Hume or Bret Baeir?”
“I’m reading the Hotair comments and that Gumbyandpokey guy’s gone gaga.”
“I don’t think I can watch anymore. I will vote, but it makes me angry that Republican leadership sets us up to lose debates playing against a loaded deck.”
Bret Baer moderating a debate. LOL.
I read that as “Br’er Rabbit.” I should probably go to bed.
Where is the classic “Why do all the facts have such a liberal bias!?”
No, no, no, no , no!
It was Roy Jones Jr v Montell Griffin II:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCr_igXBWRk
Obmama is much more like RJJ, who was not a natural aggressor but changed styles to adapt. The normally cool-headed RJJ lost the first fight. The 2nd one was his revenge.
This works much better, tho I admit…I cannot supply you with a study from left-leaning academics to make my case. Joyce Carol Oates, notwithstanding.
What’s the matter with Manju?
Answer: He didn’t cite DW Nominate as the basis for his opinion in this thread.
The Yankees’ batters bogarted it all.
Last night was a trifecta for me: Obama, Tigers, and Bristol Palin booted from DWTS
Serious question regarding Benghazi:
Can someone explain to me why Spontaneous Reaction to Video vs. Terrorist Attack, where they’re mutually exclusive, is NOT a false dichotomy? Because if it were that would make Mitt’s whole line of criticism as pointless as it is false.
Because they are Muslims, who are, by definition, terrorists. Pam Gellar told me so, and there is no way she would be wrong on a matter of such import.
And nobody should be at all concerned with the Two Degrees of Separation that is Mittens -> John Bolton -> Pammycakes.
It all makes sense now!
Sorry, Scott, more appropriate video
Please don’t compare Romney to the late, great Smoking Joe. I much prefer my Tex Cobb comparison below.
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I think this video is fight more appropriate. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZROK-t5Pmo
Re the video: why is no one calling Rmoney the “Great White Hope?” Too obscure? But that’s certainly how a large swath of Republicanville thinks of him.
They don’t really like him. Jim Jeffries was popular. Mitt … Mitt is white.