June 05, 2012
— Gabriel Malor It's only Tuesday morning and this week is shaping up to be the tipping point to despair and desperation for the President and his supporters. Obama's campaign is publicly bracing for it and that may be doing more than anything else to drive home just how far off the rails the campaign has gone.
Yesterday morning, Obama campaign manager Jim Messina had a special video message for supporters that simply reeked of flop sweat. This is an actual quote:
We knew this was going to be a tough race. And we knew that, once Mitt Romney locked up the nomination, Republicans would get behind him and this race would be tight just like we always knew it would be.
What did you know, Jim? Tell us, we're not sure yet. Also, Messina is not an actor; you should see him shake his head when he repeats for the third time in two sentences that they knew it would be tough. Guys, this is a scripted message and that's the best they could do? He sounds ridiculous while protesting that the campaign is all going according to plan. Indeed, he claims:
We're following the strategy we've had since day one. And we can't afford to lose focus on that.
Please, Jim, from this Republican and with utmost sincerity, don't change a thing.
Later in the day, Obama advisor David Axelrod held a conference call with reporters in which he exhorts them to stop giving Gov. Romney a free pass. Axelrod is, of course, living in a fantasy world where Romney hasn't been closely scrutinized by the media and the voters. Out here in the real world, Axelrod's pleas for the media bullies reporters to pick on someone other than the President are laughable, pitiable, forgettable, stupid. Only idiots would buy this. Greg Sargent rushed to repeat Axelrod's line at WaPo, as did Steve Benen at MSNBC's Maddow blog.
The icing on the cake is that no reputable reporters seem to have bought Axelrod's argument. They have, however, noticed the scent of desperation on the campaign and that makes for compelling television. ABC World News ran this segment last night (watch the whole thing, it's brilliant):
There are several tried-and-true tropes of television news used here, but my absolute favorite has to be when the camera pans a long line of people standing outside what we are to assume is an unemployment office. My other favorite part of the segment is the observation that Obama's remedy after "reeling from the economic bodyblow of Friday's jobs report" is to fly home to Chicago and take a walk.
While Obama was walking around Chicago this weekend, he wasn't campaigning in Wisconsin, since he doesn't want to associate himself with what looks like a losing campaign to unseat Gov. Walker. But he's not fooling anyone. Remember the nationwide protests that followed Walker's reforms? This recall election was supposed to serve national Democrats as a vocal rejection of conservative governance. Instead, Obama is hiding from it.
It's Tuesday morning. Obama's week is going to get worse from here.
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Please, let it be so. Here's to hoping that Scott Walker wins the recall in WI and tightens the screws on Barry.
Posted by: GMan at June 05, 2012 03:30 AM (sxq57)
Posted by: Kevin at June 05, 2012 03:36 AM (3o64G)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 05, 2012 03:36 AM (MCDCp)
Posted by: Dagny at June 05, 2012 03:37 AM (WCAIB)
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at June 05, 2012 03:37 AM (nUY/O)
Posted by: zeera at June 05, 2012 03:38 AM (XtxRN)
Posted by: Cricket at June 05, 2012 03:39 AM (DrC22)
Posted by: Blacksheep at June 05, 2012 03:40 AM (mOq7t)
Yesterday morning, Obama campaign manager Jim Messina had a special video message for supporters that simply reeked of flop sweat. <<<
Great turn of phrase. Can't wait until the voters tell this asshole to go back to Chicago and get his fuckin' shinebox.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at June 05, 2012 03:42 AM (JDIKC)
Posted by: Dagny at June 05, 2012 03:43 AM (WCAIB)
Posted by: Eric at June 05, 2012 03:44 AM (YvVsN)
I like it! And, while I generally never wish bad for any other person, the Dog-Eater-in-Chief gets an exception: I hope his week is worse than anyone -- except those of us who have long been praying for Congress to grow a pair and impeach an unqualified, traitorous president -- can imagine.
Hell, if his week is bad enough, maybe Tepid Air will actually criticize him instead of giggling about his "Obamateurisms."
Posted by: MrScribbler at June 05, 2012 03:44 AM (MQc8e)
Posted by: Dagny at June 05, 2012 03:44 AM (WCAIB)
They aren't turning against him so much as toning down the most extreme displays of sycophancy, in the vain hope that they will retain a shred of credibility going forward. This implicit acknowledgement by the press that their hero could lose is a major turning point.
Posted by: pep at June 05, 2012 03:47 AM (YXmuI)
Posted by: BurtTC at June 05, 2012 03:47 AM (2pG7H)
Well...that's all that was keeping him afloat so......
Posted by: Beto at June 05, 2012 03:48 AM (cYQg0)
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at June 05, 2012 03:50 AM (nUY/O)
Posted by: MJ at June 05, 2012 03:50 AM (/x4oj)
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at June 05, 2012 03:51 AM (nUY/O)
The ...Bellwether, so to speak, of the future.
And the Dead Tea Party's gonna' park in Romney's ass until he responds positively.
Posted by: Beto at June 05, 2012 03:53 AM (cYQg0)
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at June 05, 2012 03:55 AM (nUY/O)
Posted by: Tonawanda at June 05, 2012 03:56 AM (iuHbc)
It used to be a chic but relatively dangerous neighborhood, but with the Obama's there, it's marvelous and safe.
Don't you dare say that Obama hasn't accomplished anything!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 05, 2012 03:56 AM (nEUpB)
Posted by: someguy at June 05, 2012 03:57 AM (sEXZ/)
Posted by: Vermin at June 05, 2012 03:57 AM (dAIU+)
Posted by: .... at June 05, 2012 03:57 AM (oZfic)
The weather this week is a pleasant surprise after the shit we had last week.
http://scoamf.us/2harbors
And I'm nervous as hell about Walker tonight. Here's to a double digit womp.
Posted by: Drunk Minnesotan at June 05, 2012 03:58 AM (tRce/)
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at June 05, 2012 03:59 AM (nUY/O)
What exactly does it mean that the DOJ is monitoring that election?
Posted by: .... at June 05, 2012 04:00 AM (oZfic)
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at June 05, 2012 04:00 AM (nUY/O)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at June 05, 2012 04:01 AM (jucos)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at June 05, 2012 04:02 AM (jucos)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at June 05, 2012 04:05 AM (8y9MW)
He'll ask for one even if he falls outside the legal limitation.
They'll drag this carcass through the streets caterwauling for a couple of months
Posted by: Beto at June 05, 2012 04:05 AM (cYQg0)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at June 05, 2012 04:08 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at June 05, 2012 04:08 AM (nUY/O)
Posted by: someguy at June 05, 2012 04:09 AM (sEXZ/)
What exactly does it mean that the DOJ is monitoring that election?
Posted by: .... at June 05, 2012 08:00 AM (oZfic)
From what I gather, the DOJ wants to insure Hispanics have access to spanish language ballots or something. Milwaukee is an extremely racially polarized city (only chicago is worse IMO). You have a 100% black neighborhood and then across the street you have a 100% hispanic hood. The yuppie whitie libs live along the lake and the blue collar folk live in south MKE and the burbs surrounding the lake.
Each group hates each others guts. Apparently the machine there has tried to screw over hispanics so the DOJ recently put the county on their VRA watch list. Recently the WI supreme court stepped in and rearranged a couple Milwaukee state assembly districts in order to make it easier for hispanic pols to get elected. Kind of funny because it resulted in some white liberal incumbents getting fucked over.
I wouldn't read much into it. MKE Hispanics will turn out in extremely low numbers tonight anyway because frankly they don't give a shit about Walker or PEU's.
Posted by: Drunk Minnesotan at June 05, 2012 04:10 AM (tRce/)
Posted by: Sponsored by Jim Messina's little shoe collection at June 05, 2012 04:11 AM (Ni3W8)
Posted by: Lincolntf at June 05, 2012 04:12 AM (HethX)
Posted by: *more coffee at June 05, 2012 04:13 AM (HOOye)
So look for unreasonable unemployment drops and GDP increases as we get closer to Nov.
And yes, the WI election today will be a harbinger of things to come.
Posted by: Vic at June 05, 2012 04:14 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at June 05, 2012 04:15 AM (nUY/O)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at June 05, 2012 08:02 AM (jucos)
Thanks!
After spending the school year down at the U in Minneapolis, it's always great to be back at home. But honestly it's not as amazing here as out-of-towners think. A)too many damn liberals and unions and B)not enough high paying jobs. Sucks because as soon as I finish school I won't be able to live here anymore if I want to make a moderately decent income.
Posted by: Drunk Minnesotan at June 05, 2012 04:17 AM (tRce/)
Posted by: The Hammer at June 05, 2012 04:17 AM (wo1YR)
Posted by: Michael Rittenhouse at June 05, 2012 04:18 AM (2Oas0)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at June 05, 2012 04:19 AM (ZAFTx)
Posted by: *more coffee at June 05, 2012 04:19 AM (HOOye)
I can see why the person dreading the recount was dreading it.
Posted by: .... at June 05, 2012 04:21 AM (oZfic)
Posted by: Sponsored by Jim Messina's little shoe collection at June 05, 2012 08:11 AM (Ni3W
Stands to reason since the libtards are always telling us, "It's for the children!"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at June 05, 2012 04:21 AM (ZAFTx)
Posted by: Lincolntf at June 05, 2012 04:22 AM (HethX)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 05, 2012 04:22 AM (wtvvX)
Jim Messina looks like a pedophile.
At the very least he looks like he's allergic to shellfish and been hitting the shrimp bar 3 times a day.
I've never actually seen him before, I was expecting someone a little more...imposing given the stories you hear about him being the fraudster in chief or whathaveyou.
Posted by: tsrblke at June 05, 2012 04:24 AM (22rSN)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at June 05, 2012 04:25 AM (8y9MW)
You'll pass away... that's one good thing.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at June 05, 2012 04:26 AM (ZAFTx)
Posted by: Barack (c)Hutzpah Obama at June 05, 2012 04:27 AM (HOOye)
I'm starting to think that this campaign season the MSM might not be quite the Obama Dem propaganda arm it was in 2008. Still biased, of course, maybe mostly in the tank but not utterly and completely submerged in it. But it's too soon to tell.
It's a funny thing about Schadenfreude. Obviously this is something people feel toward their opponents or antagonists... but a sneakier Schadenfreude is felt toward those we admire, especially erstwhile idols who've disappointed us or over whom we've made fools of ourselves. There just might be a little bit of a perverse kick for many in the MSM (even among those who championed Obama in 2008 and throughout his term) in cutting him down to size a little-- in watching him be humbled, in recording and commenting on his stumbles and-- let's hope-- fall.
Cf. Maureen Dowd: she'll kick O when he's down. The MSM will have the long knives out for Romney, of course, but I don't think they'll be quite as protective of O as they were in 2008.
Posted by: lael at June 05, 2012 04:28 AM (T6tvG)
Jeez, Messina looks like vintage 007 Sean Connery compared to Axelrod. Rumpled, Salvation Army clothes, cheesy 'stache and out of control combover.
And he's the face of the administration?! Wow.Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 05, 2012 04:29 AM (MCDCp)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 05, 2012 04:30 AM (MCDCp)
I'm not entirely sure how that would happen, assuming a vast (like 95 to 100%) of the walker votes also go to kleefisch.
Posted by: GMan at June 05, 2012 04:30 AM (sxq57)
"He" being Messina.
Posted by: .... at June 05, 2012 04:32 AM (oZfic)
Rendell has the appearance of someone into personal loans....of the shark variety. He's got a leg breaker visage if ever there was one.
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 05, 2012 04:36 AM (vOMX+)
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at June 05, 2012 04:36 AM (nUY/O)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 05, 2012 04:36 AM (MCDCp)
1) someone on the ground at the time they walked through Hyde Park said Obama was almost sprinting/walking so fast that Jarrett couldn't keep up. He's so self-absorbed, not even common courtesy to his chief bootlicker.
She's his minder, he's doing his damndest to get away from her and her awful strategeries. That ABC piece is a classic: from V-Jar remaining a respectful distance behind her charge, LBD attired...to SJP's stylist doing a spectacular job of distracting from her features by employing a great haircolor job and too much eye makeup. Anna Wintour was just the icing on the cake,haughty and proud as the proles line up to apply for a job on the dirty sidewalk below.
Well at least Obama's Hollywood/UES base is still showing up for him.
Posted by: kallisto at June 05, 2012 04:39 AM (jm/9g)
Posted by: Captain Hate at June 05, 2012 04:40 AM (hzYnh)
Posted by: .... at June 05, 2012 08:00 AM (oZfic)
That polls must remain open till midnight due to questionable Rethuglican tactics preventing people from voting
Posted by: Red Shirt at June 05, 2012 04:41 AM (FIDMq)
So far, Romney has been flawless with the glaring exception of yesterday's hiring of Mike Leavitt to head the transition team (which alarms me).
Seems a bit early to be hiring a transition team leader anyway. Plenty of Time for Romney to change his mind.
If the "Evil Right Wingers" like us can force out the gay guy*, surely we can force out someone we actually, and forcefully disagree with!
*Yes, I realize that the "Evil Right Wingers" didn't actually raise any stink, it was all a media shell game. Point still remains, if this drags Romney, he'll axe him.
Posted by: tsrblke at June 05, 2012 04:43 AM (22rSN)
Posted by: Dagny at June 05, 2012 04:47 AM (WCAIB)
What exactly does it mean that the DOJ is monitoring that election?
It means Holder's Peeps will have backup.
Posted by: garrett at June 05, 2012 04:47 AM (FJcD2)
According to the reporting I saw, this is actually about the time most nominees do it. I guess you need someone to watch the issues of the day from a "how do we actually fix/react to it" kind of way instead of a "how do we use this to get elected" sort of way.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at June 05, 2012 04:48 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: nickless at June 05, 2012 04:48 AM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 05, 2012 04:50 AM (05RcU)
He knows so much more than we do.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at June 05, 2012 04:51 AM (USExO)
"He said that Obama may compete in states he lost in 2008 such as Georgia and Arizona"
In that same vein, I might find a million dollars in a bag on a park bench.
Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at June 05, 2012 04:54 AM (JxMoP)
Just because the MFM smear job hasn't work doesn't mean that they aren't doing it. But it really points out that the MFM is nothing but foot soldiers for the Democrat Party
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 05, 2012 04:54 AM (1Jaio)
Posted by: Lincolntf at June 05, 2012 04:55 AM (HethX)
Posted by: TheLittlShiningMan at June 05, 2012 04:55 AM (PH+2B)
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at June 05, 2012 04:56 AM (nUY/O)
Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at June 05, 2012 04:57 AM (6BgmB)
The people in the highest echelons of his campaign all look like registered sex offenders.
Posted by: ironbill at June 05, 2012 04:58 AM (8HjJL)
Was there a montage? (MONTAGE!)
Posted by: HeatherRadish at June 05, 2012 04:58 AM (ZKzrr)
"We're following the plan we had from day one".
-------
I'm pretty sure that plan assumed he'd be running against a McCain type who would never knock them off balance. Romney is much more formidable, and can knock him down on a daily basis.
It also sounds like there isn't a plan B to escape that.
Posted by: Jimmah at June 05, 2012 04:59 AM (cWkOB)
I see what you did there.
Posted by: Tunkhannock at June 05, 2012 04:59 AM (3AOLv)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 05, 2012 05:00 AM (05RcU)
He can get Plan B down at Planned Parenthood. Might have to pay for it, though, since his income's off the sliding scale and evil women-hating Rethuglikkkans keep trying to cut off their state and federal funding.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at June 05, 2012 05:03 AM (ZKzrr)
@AllenG,
I stand corrected then. Well, still time to change his mind I suppose. Alternatively, perhaps he knows something we don't or has a plan. I could see the upsides to hiring a proponent of various parts of ObamaCare even if you intend to oppose it. (The most notable one is that you have a person ready and willing to craft counter arguments right there, on your team, giving you ample opportunty to work with them.)
Posted by: tsrblke at June 05, 2012 05:06 AM (22rSN)
They're Democrats. That's a feature, not a bug.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at June 05, 2012 05:06 AM (sbV1u)
Actually found that on bow tox lips wiki page and thought it was oddly funny.
Posted by: .... at June 05, 2012 05:07 AM (oZfic)
The bastard wasn't walking. He was getting limoed around and shutting down streets during Friday's rush hour traffic
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 05, 2012 05:08 AM (1Jaio)
It's troubling, but I'm hoping (well, wish-casting, really) that this is purely an "administrative" position and that we'll still get solid conservatives in the places they matter (Chief of Staff, Sec State, Sec Int, etc.)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at June 05, 2012 05:08 AM (8y9MW)
This man doesn't care about coattails, especially when he has to make an effort.
He didn't care stealing an extra toke with the Choom Gang.
He really doesn't care about the unions in Wisconsin.
When you're lazy and self-centered, bad things eventually show up
Posted by: Donald Trump at June 05, 2012 05:08 AM (e8kgV)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 05, 2012 05:08 AM (05RcU)
Posted by: nickless at June 05, 2012 05:08 AM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Donald Trump at June 05, 2012 05:09 AM (e8kgV)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 05, 2012 05:10 AM (05RcU)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 05, 2012 05:11 AM (MCDCp)
Posted by: Baraka O - In Lincoln's League at June 05, 2012 05:12 AM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Roy at June 05, 2012 05:12 AM (VndSC)
@AllenG,
Yeah, basically that. Of course we won't know that for quite some time. I've seen multiple arguments for an against the whole "Build a Team to run with" thing, and given the nastiness of this campaign, the "Don't do that" option usually wins (smaller target for Obummer to attack.)
By the way, I think we've gone 50 posts without it being repeated:
Obama is a Stuttering Clusterf*ck of a Miserable Failure.
Posted by: tsrblke at June 05, 2012 05:12 AM (22rSN)
Posted by: Donald Trump at June 05, 2012 09:09 AM (e8kgV)
Yesterday a "true minion" advised me that SCOTUS will rule in his favor and surprise everyone, except him. The "true minion" suggested that this ruling will give him the momentum to secure his second term "handily". And yes, they looked me right in the eye and said this and you could tell they believed it in their soul.
Posted by: .... at June 05, 2012 05:12 AM (oZfic)
Posted by: Donald Trump at June 05, 2012 05:12 AM (e8kgV)
I hope you don't live in New Haven.
"A bus driver is suing Yale-New Haven Hospital, saying staff at an affiliated facility failed to promptly treat a painful erection and watched a baseball game on television while he waited."
Posted by: Sean Bannion at June 05, 2012 05:12 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 05, 2012 05:13 AM (MCDCp)
Posted by: Paladin at June 05, 2012 05:13 AM (4kpbt)
Why haven't they called on General Fluke to rally the troops?
Posted by: Soap MacTavish at June 05, 2012 09:11 AM (vbh31)
She's busy looking for reinforcements for her rear echelon
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 05, 2012 05:14 AM (1Jaio)
Posted by: phoenixgirl clinging to my bible, gun and coca cola at June 05, 2012 05:14 AM (Ho2rs)
Posted by: Caunotaucarius at June 05, 2012 05:15 AM (6lnww)
Posted by: nickless at June 05, 2012 05:15 AM (MMC8r)
The things you get away with when God was your Radio Mentor.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at June 05, 2012 05:15 AM (8y9MW)
If the SCOTUS strikes down ACA, this isn't necessarily bad for Obama.
The DNC has been beating the bushes telling mostly women that ACA will give them all kinds of free stuff, including Sandra "slut" Fluke's contraceptives. If the SCOTUS strikes down ACA, Obama will pivot to the "War of Envy" strategy where he blames the SCOTUS and the Republicans who filed suit of taking away all these freebies
Posted by: Donald Trump at June 05, 2012 05:17 AM (e8kgV)
Don't also forget the ad where they had Anna Wintour threatening to have lunch with donors. That was a hoot.
Their plan has been to make Mitt Romney look like an out-of-touch 1%er cold-hearted vampire capitalist, and to do so they bring out: Anna Wintour. She who was the inspiration for the evil sadistic boss in the book and movie "The Devil wears Prada", she who makes C. Montgomery Burns' cartoon super-villany look like a cross between the Easter Bunny and santa Claus, she who personifies the uber-urban, jet-setting, fashionistas.
That was the plan. Like I said yesterday "Anna Wintour? What, Cruella DeVil wasn't available?"
Posted by: Mikey NTH preparing to grill at June 05, 2012 05:17 AM (hLRSq)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 05, 2012 05:18 AM (05RcU)
Posted by: phoenixgirl clinging to my bible, gun and coca cola at June 05, 2012 05:18 AM (Ho2rs)
Posted by: Fart at June 05, 2012 05:18 AM (KLwh4)
Posted by: Dagny at June 05, 2012 05:18 AM (WCAIB)
"A bus driver is suing Yale-New Haven Hospital, saying staff at an
affiliated facility failed to promptly treat a painful erection and
watched a baseball game on television while he waited."
Well, a baseball game is about four hours long, and isn't that what those commercials claim is the threshold regarding priapism. They just used a baseball game instead of a clock. Shoulda been praying for a pitchers duel!
Posted by: boned to the bone at June 05, 2012 05:19 AM (BHM5V)
I'm trying to not be giddy until about 10 pm Eastern, but it's just not working.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at June 05, 2012 05:19 AM (ZKzrr)
Why haven't they called on General Fluke to rally the troops?
"We shall take it in either end...
we shall suck on the seas and oceans,
we shall suck with growing confidence and growing strength though they come in our hair, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be,
we shall fuck on the beaches,
we shall fuck on the landing grounds,
we shall fuck in the fields and in the streets,
we shall fuck in the hills;
we shall never surrender!"
Posted by: General Sandra Fluke at June 05, 2012 05:19 AM (FJcD2)
Posted by: Mikey NTH preparing to grill at June 05, 2012 09:17 AM (hLRSq)
Cruella was too nice.
Posted by: .... at June 05, 2012 05:19 AM (oZfic)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 05, 2012 05:21 AM (05RcU)
Posted by: Barack (c)Hutzpah Obama at June 05, 2012 05:22 AM (HOOye)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 05, 2012 05:22 AM (MCDCp)
Just like the rest of the country.
What will people aspire to when they can't get rich and be in the top 0.01% ?
Posted by: Donald Trump at June 05, 2012 05:23 AM (e8kgV)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 05, 2012 05:24 AM (MCDCp)
Posted by: The Hammer at June 05, 2012 05:24 AM (wo1YR)
And we have Schettino at the helm.
Posted by: Waterhouse at June 05, 2012 05:24 AM (+EoBq)
Posted by: Donald Trump at June 05, 2012 05:25 AM (e8kgV)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 05, 2012 05:25 AM (MCDCp)
Scott Walker can't win because the Tea Party is dead and never had any influence and are just bad guys? Is that right? LOL
Posted by: Dagny at June 05, 2012 07:44 AM (WCAIB)
What's sad is that commenters (and one cob I think) agreed with the "bad guys" part.
Posted by: Burn the Witch at June 05, 2012 05:26 AM (rX1N2)
And DoJ don't think there is enough voter fraud to investigate?
Posted by: Dagny at June 05, 2012 05:27 AM (WCAIB)
Seriously funny stuff. I'm glad I watched.
Posted by: Pecos, at June 05, 2012 05:27 AM (2Gb0y)
Posted by: Caroline Kennedy at June 05, 2012 05:27 AM (bAGA/)
The Magic Negro is a figure of postmodern folk culture, coined by snarky 20th century sociologists, to explain a cultural figure who emerged in the wake of Brown vs. Board of Education. "He has no past, he simply appears one day to help the white protagonist," reads the description
Posted by: Donald Trump at June 05, 2012 05:27 AM (e8kgV)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 05, 2012 09:25 AM (MCDCp)
Why didn't you come to me like a fuckin' man and suggest that 10 minutes ago!
Posted by: garrett at June 05, 2012 05:28 AM (FJcD2)
http://sweasel.com/archives/10203
Direct link to Daily Mail article in nick.
Posted by: Waterhouse at June 05, 2012 05:28 AM (+EoBq)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 05, 2012 05:28 AM (MCDCp)
And DoJ don't think there is enough voter fraud to investigate?
Posted by: Dagny at June 05, 2012 09:27 AM (WCAIB)
Holder is probably providing the bus drivers
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 05, 2012 05:28 AM (1Jaio)
Posted by: torabora at June 05, 2012 05:29 AM (UtmT+)
Posted by: The Hammer at June 05, 2012 05:29 AM (wo1YR)
Posted by: Dagny at June 05, 2012 05:29 AM (WCAIB)
Black guy named Mike on a bus coming out of Detroit
to vote in Wisconsin. He's being paid and given lunch, a union member.
Said he was loaded up at a park with other union members into 4 stuffed
Greyhound buses all coming out of the Detroit area.
That's my dawg!
Posted by: Eric Holder at June 05, 2012 05:30 AM (FJcD2)
Sweet Jesus, that's at least a six-hour ride each way. Eight hours at regular rate, more than four hours of OT...they're throwing a lot of money at this.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at June 05, 2012 05:30 AM (ZKzrr)
Posted by: Barack (c)Hutzpah Obama at June 05, 2012 05:31 AM (HOOye)
Posted by: Dagny at June 05, 2012 05:31 AM (WCAIB)
Eight hours at regular rate, more than four hours of OT...they're throwing a lot of money at this.
+ 4 Stimulus and Health if you use food stamps for any purchase.
Posted by: Dungeon Master Pelosi at June 05, 2012 05:32 AM (FJcD2)
Firefox and AdBlock.
Posted by: Waterhouse at June 05, 2012 05:33 AM (+EoBq)
Posted by: David Gillies at June 05, 2012 05:33 AM (OLivq)
Posted by: Soap MacTavish at June 05, 2012 09:30 AM (vbh31)
By whom?
Regardless I'm going to have to become an election official/poll worker for November.
Posted by: Dagny at June 05, 2012 05:33 AM (WCAIB)
Posted by: blaster at June 05, 2012 05:35 AM (7vSU0)
"Attack America, because America is the worst nation ever, kill freedom and free enterprise and then accuse Republicans of hating America and being anti-capitalist."
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 05, 2012 05:35 AM (X3lox)
Posted by: HeatherRadish at June 05, 2012 09:30 AM
It's an interesting commentary on the state of our nation that the government (state or federal, your choice) doesn't have police waiting at WI polling places to stop, question and arrest the "people" on these buses.
Using "black guys" is a nice touch -- it guarantees DoJ action if anyone questions the right of someone from Detroit to vote in WI.
Isn't vote fraud a felony? Only if you're a Republican, I guess.
Posted by: MrScribbler at June 05, 2012 05:35 AM (MQc8e)
Am I the only one who's incensed by these web ads showing a "chance to win dinner with Obama" or some such shit like that?
"Enter for a chance to win!"
It's a fucking sweepstakes?
"Fill out this survery and win!"
Zombie Ed McMahon is going to show up on your doorstep with some balloons and a menu featuring Indonesian canine delicacies to peruse in your limo ride to Mrs. Ed's house?
It's the fucking presidency FFS.
Posted by: Burn the Witch at June 05, 2012 05:36 AM (rX1N2)
Posted by: Dagny at June 05, 2012 09:31 AM (WCAIB)
It probably has something to do with your emails, since Yahoo reads them. I wouldn't worry about it since the ads are just costing the Dog-Eater money.
But, as mentioned above, get ad-block plus if it really bothers you.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 05, 2012 05:38 AM (X3lox)
Posted by: Charlie Gibson at June 05, 2012 05:39 AM (7vSU0)
In 2008 people caught intentionally committing voter fraud in Ohio for ACORN not only didn't get arrested (thanks Bush and McShame for not making a big deal of it) but were even allowed to have their illegitimate votes counted in their "home" states.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 05, 2012 05:40 AM (X3lox)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 05, 2012 05:41 AM (MCDCp)
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 05, 2012 05:42 AM (4q5tP)
I have invented a new word: "lachrymovore". It means "one who feeds on another's tears".
Posted by: David Gillies at June 05, 2012 09:33 AM (OLivq)
Maybe we could start our own little section at the top of the page touting what terms we've entered into the internet lexicon. Then we can come up with a mascot, something like "Tiny Yellow Baseballs".
Seriously though - good word. Hope it catches on.
Posted by: Burn the Witch at June 05, 2012 05:42 AM (rX1N2)
Only if you're registered as a Republican.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at June 05, 2012 05:42 AM (ZKzrr)
Posted by: Baraka O - In Lincoln's League at June 05, 2012 05:42 AM (FcR7P)
Sh*t just got real! I do hope the moronosphere gets a commission when it finds its way into the publishing world.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at June 05, 2012 05:42 AM (eHIJJ)
Of course, denying a State a Republican form of government is flat-out un-Constitutional but the Dem fleebaggers did exactly that and not only didn't suffer any sanctions but got support from the feral government (that's another impeachable act, for those keeping track) and ended up with this attempted recall of the governor of the Republican form of government they were denying Wisconsin up for a recall.
Yep ...
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 05, 2012 05:44 AM (X3lox)
In 2010, we had Quenchy, the Flaming Skull being dipped in pudding...
If we get a Cheesehead Flaming Skull, Imma call him Vince. Winning's not the most important thing, it's the only thing.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at June 05, 2012 05:44 AM (ZKzrr)
1) Jewish
2) Conservative
3) in the Military.
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That narrows the search quite a bit. As the President used to say, 'Focus like a laser."
Posted by: RioBravo at June 05, 2012 05:45 AM (eEfYn)
I'm wondering whether he'll bar himself in his room to watch ESPN all day and beg the network to let him predict the NBA draft choices or if he'll go full-on libtard.
If he does the former, he looks pathetic and loses in November. If he does the latter, he looks dangerous and gets CRUSHED in November.
Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at June 05, 2012 05:45 AM (e0xKF)
Posted by: Dagny at June 05, 2012 09:27 AM (WCAIB)
Where did you see that at?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 05, 2012 05:46 AM (1Jaio)
Posted by: Soap MacTavish at June 05, 2012 09:46 AM (vbh31)
Forget the law. We live in Empathyville, now.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 05, 2012 05:47 AM (X3lox)
Posted by: .... at June 05, 2012 05:50 AM (oZfic)
Posted by: Barack (c)Hutzpah Obama at June 05, 2012 05:52 AM (HOOye)
MINOS of Crete and his wife's bestial son the Minotaur, the story applies universally, but never better than now.
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...the blame resting in the King for having converted a public event to personal gain, whereas the whole sense of his investiture as king had been that he was no longer a mere private person. The return of the bull [sacrificed to Poseidon to fulfill Minos' pact] should have symbolized his absolutely selfless submission to the functions of his role. The retaining of it represented, on the other hand, an impulse to egocentric self-aggrandizement. And so the king "by the grace of God" became the dangerous tyrant Holdfast--out for himself. Just as the traditional rites of passage used to teach the individual to die to the past and be reborn to the furture, so the great ceremonials of investiture divested him of his private character and clothed him in the mantle of his vocation. Such was the ideal, whether the man was a craftsman or a king. By the sacrilege of the refusal of the rite, however, the individual cut himself as a unit off from the larger unit of the whole community: and so the One was broken into the many, and these then battled each other--each out for himself--and could be governed only by force.
The figure of the tyrant-monster is known to the mythologies, folk traditions, legends, and even nightmares, of the world; and his characteristics are everywhere essentially the same. He is the hoarder of the general benefit. He is the monster avid for the greedy rights of "my and mine." The havoc wrought by him is described in mythology and fairy tale as being universal throughout his domain. This may be no more than his household, his own tortured psyche, or the lives that he blights with the touch of his friendship and assistance; or it may amount to the extent of his civilization. The inflated ego of the tyrant is a curse to himself and his world--no matter how is affairs may seem to prosper. Self-terrorized, fear-haunted, alert at every hand to meet and battle back the anticipated aggressions of his environment, which are primarily the reflections of the uncontrollable impulses to acquisition within himself, the giant of self-achieved independence is the world's messenger of disaster, even though, in his mind, he may entertain himself with humane intentions. Wherever he sets his hand there is a cry (if not from the housetops, then--more miserably--within every heart): a cry for the redeeming hero ...whose existence will liberate the land. ... The hero is the man of self-achieved submission. But submission to what? That precisely is the riddle that today we have to ask ourselves and that it is everywhere the primary virtue and historic deed of the hero to have solved.
from the prologue "Myth and Dream", pp14-16
THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES
Joseph Campbell
Princeton Univ. Press, 1949, 1968, '72, '73
Posted by: Joseph Campbell at June 05, 2012 05:56 AM (lpWVn)
Posted by: Barack (c)Hutzpah Obama at June 05, 2012 05:57 AM (HOOye)
Posted by: dorothy at June 05, 2012 05:59 AM (gkTxZ)
Boortz just called Obama a "SCOAMF" on the air. Love it
The things you get away with when God was your Radio Mentor.
Boortz is the man. A decade ago, he got me looking at things a different way. I could never thank him enough. Atlanta had a treasure for 42 years.
Posted by: beaverhunter at June 05, 2012 06:00 AM (P72oI)
They're already there. A tad subtle so far, body language, facial expressions, a slight irritation in the voice.
As his campaign implosion grinds on over the summer, and world events keep breaking against him, they'll become less subtle. By Nov, I expect Axlerod will have him on a Thorazine/Xanax cocktail almost every day to keep him from exploding embarrassingly. When that sprightly walk turns into a shuffle, you'll know he's being medicated.
Posted by: Purp (@PurpAv) at June 05, 2012 06:02 AM (7bym4)
Posted by: president choom at June 05, 2012 06:04 AM (NG097)
Posted by: Barack (c)Hutzpah Obama at June 05, 2012 06:05 AM (HOOye)
Posted by: .... at June 05, 2012 09:50 AM (oZfic)
What did you say in response?
Posted by: Dagny at June 05, 2012 06:11 AM (WCAIB)
The one with the wagyu tail?
Can you debone him and marinate him in satay sauce?
I do hope that doggeh's for sale.
Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at June 05, 2012 06:16 AM (a5ljo)
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at June 05, 2012 06:18 AM (KOHFD)
Posted by: Barack (c)Hutzpah Obama at June 05, 2012 06:18 AM (HOOye)
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Don't you worry about that, they will be and more. But, due to another one of the laws of economics that the left has never learned, the law of diminishing returns, they will be far less effective.
And competition, the online right and online activist right is far more effective and organized than in 2008.
Posted by: jimmuy at June 05, 2012 06:22 AM (kSaUf)
This is totally un-American and fatally retarded.
Unbelievable. Well ... it's certainly believable these days, but beyond ridiculous. More of idiots in America trying to make us into Europe. Of course, Cali has its full load of idiots and they voted in a Eurotrash piece of shit for governor last time, so ...
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 05, 2012 06:24 AM (X3lox)
Posted by: Dagny at June 05, 2012 10:11 AM (WCAIB)
I laughed and then I sang him the first line of "paranoia" substituting "desperation"....
and he then said "you won't think it's so funny when you see the giant union rat out there ....
I was like "what giant union rat"? but of course he suddenly had to stop talking about it and "move on to other things"....
Adults behaving like 7th grade girls again...
Posted by: .... at June 05, 2012 06:27 AM (oZfic)
Isn't that the way the french run things?
Posted by: .... at June 05, 2012 06:28 AM (oZfic)
Posted by: .... at June 05, 2012 10:28 AM (oZfic)
I think many of the Euros use run-offs for whatever of the few individual elections they have, since Eurotrash don't like the idea of voting for individuals. Their party-people, tribalist scum. They also like to have multiple readings of legislation in their crappy legislatures so they can all say "I was for it before I was against it."
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 05, 2012 06:37 AM (X3lox)
The organization in question is the Rafi Peer Theater Workshop, a group in the city of Lahore that jointly developed the show with Sesame Workshop, the creator of the American series.
The show, which includes Elmo and a host of new Pakistani characters, first aired in December and was supposed to run for at least three seasons. The U.S. hoped it would improve education in a country where one-third of primary school-age children are not in class. It was also meant to increase tolerance at a time when the influence of radical views is growing.
U.S. Embassy spokesman Robert Raines said the U.S. Agency for International Development terminated funding for the program, but declined to provide further details.
The Pakistan Today newspaper reported Tuesday that the cause was "severe" financial irregularities at Rafi Peer, citing unnamed sources close to the project. Officials at Rafi Peer allegedly used the U.S. money to pay off old debts and awarded lucrative contracts to relatives, the sources claimed.
Faizaan Peerzada, the chief operating officer of Rafi Peer and one of several family members who run the organization, denied the corruption allegations. He said the U.S. ended its participation after providing $10 million because of the lack of additional available funds.
Even Pahkeestahn Elmo is messin'... what's the matter with you people?!?
Posted by: I Barack, Potentate of the Noble at June 05, 2012 06:41 AM (vhwRj)
Posted by: Lessons from the Ceramic Throne at June 05, 2012 06:44 AM (rz0yi)
Posted by: Lessons from the Ceramic Throne at June 05, 2012 06:48 AM (rz0yi)
Posted by: Slublog at June 05, 2012 06:51 AM (0nqdj)
AP has a good article out today on how Romney can win Pennsylvania. Includes lots of whistling-past-the-graveyard quotes from the Obama team. It also gets right the fact that PA will be decided in the Philly suburbs, and Romney is the perfect candidate to get those folks back.
One of my best friends just got a pink slip from GMAC's mortgage company, which recently declared bankruptcy. He's been there 16 years and has a son due to start college this fall. I'm guessing there has been a big layoff there, and all these people are suburban Philly voters with friends and neighbors. We aren't seeing things getting better around here. I have neighbors who have been out of work for two years, and some who have been desperately trying to sell their houses and can't. There is a huge spike in houses for sale in my area, and I don't think it's because everyone thinks the market is picking up. This is what a double-dip recession looks like.
Posted by: rockmom at June 05, 2012 07:06 AM (NYnoe)
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Posted by: Bring The Wee Wee at June 05, 2012 07:14 AM (6USwK)
Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known as Mr. Barky at June 05, 2012 07:17 AM (qwK3S)
Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known as Mr. Barky at June 05, 2012 07:18 AM (qwK3S)
#224:
Some union has a giant inflatable rat they bring out for their protests (sort of like the inflatable aniamls you see on top of auto dealers, but not as cute). It is there to mock their opponents.
Posted by: Mikey NTH preparing to grill at June 05, 2012 07:21 AM (hLRSq)
Posted by: theCork at June 05, 2012 07:39 AM (hbAdE)
Posted by: Judge Roy Bean at June 05, 2012 07:46 AM (jTwv3)
Posted by: Jim Messina at June 05, 2012 07:47 AM (4TBK2)
“It wouldn’t and shouldn’t be a f—ing surprise to anybody that I’m going to vote for Obama,” the singer recently told The Wrap. “But honestly Obama once again has joined the ranks of the lesser of two evils. The great parade of people that the progressives get to vote for who are the lesser of two evils and who don’t really represent what I believe in any overwhelming balance.”
Browne, who backed Obama in 2008, is feeling disenchanted with the president these days.
Posted by: Harry Potter at June 05, 2012 08:14 AM (e8kgV)
Confused Obama calls Romney "George" instead of Mitt.
Posted by: x vs. moochers at June 05, 2012 08:46 AM (lpWVn)
Posted by Harry Potter at June 05, 2012 12:14 PM (e8kgV)
You have to be pretty fucking old, as I am, to remember when anybody gave a shit about that cocksucker's music but certainly not his brainless opinion on anything other than contraband.
Posted by: Captain Hate at June 05, 2012 09:25 AM (hzYnh)
What does JEF mean. I get that it's a reference to Teh Wan, but I must have missed the explanation.
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