The Salt Lake City Tribune just endorsed Obama. Again. Even though Mitt Romney saved Utah from eternal embarrassment over that whole Winter Olympics thing. Even though he’s the most famous Mormon since Gladys Knight lost her mind and decided to convert. Even though he has more money than God. He’s still clearly the inferior candidate.
Tell some lies, suppress some voter registrations, and buy voting machines. This is the strategy of the Republican party for this election.
Politics hasn’t been about the issues in a long time, but I think we can safely say that this election has clearly moved us so far out of the realm of substance that it’s not even about policy anymore.
A perfect election would look like this: This is what I believe and this is how I disagree with the opposition and if you agree with me, you should vote for me.
Our elections look like this: This is some of what I believe, fleshed out by some things that I might not totally believe but that sound good to this particular audience. This is how I disagree with the opposition, by calling him names and making him look bad and making you angry enough at him that you’ll have to vote for me.
And that’s both sides, Democrats and Republicans alike. But Republicans are going above and beyond our already dysfunctional campaign standard and pulling out tricks I never thought possible.
“We’ve got to name this condition that he’s going through. I think it’s called Romnesia. That’s what it’s called. I think that’s what he’s going through. Now, I’m not a medical doctor, but I do want to go over the symptoms with you—because I want to make sure nobody else catches it….You know if you say if you’re for equal pay, but you can’t say if you’ll sign a bill for equal pay, you might have Romnesia….If you say you think women should have access to contraceptive care, but you support legislation that would let employers deny contraceptive care, you might have Romnesia…..If you say you you’ll protect a woman’s right to choose, but you stand up in a primary debate and say you’d be delighted to ban abortion in all cases, then you definitely have Romnesia. This extends to other issues…If you have Romnesia, here’s the good news—Obamacare covers preexisting conditions. We can fix you! We can make you well.”
— Obama, on the campaign trail in Virginia. (source)
This is what happens if the Presidential election is a tie. Things get very complicated, very quickly, and we’re all basically fucked.
This is also one of the many reasons why the electoral college is an archaic system that no longer makes any sense in today’s modern age of voting and should be done away with.
That’s the only explanation I can come up with for the difference between that first debate and the second one. Obama was not even present for that first debate. This is basically what went down an hour before the first debate.
America: Romney…Obama…we’re gonna have a debate tonight, OK? Romney: Yes, I am ready for you. I have all my lies prepared and my hair is perfectly shellacked into place. Let’s do this. Obama: You know what guys? I’m not really here for this. It’s my anniversary. My idea of appropriate pre-anniversary-date-activities does not include deflecting lies from Mr. Wonderbread over there.
Regardless of your party, Paul Ryan should scare the crap out of you. Don’t be fooled by some clean-cut white man giving you platitudes about family values and real Americans and founding fathers. The man is selfish, misogynist, homophobic, greedy, and more than a little dumb. If you’re gay, old, female, poor, or elderly, Paul Ryan should make you want to strangle the nearest Romney supporter.
Let me spell it out for you: he doesn’t believe in climate change, his healthcare ideas are crap, he sponsors “personhood” legislation, he wants to make you poorer, and he’s anti-gay.
What else is necessary to prove this is a horrible ticket?
New poll results: Everybody’s voting for Obama!
