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  • Tonka 12 Oct 2012 13:11:16 18,124 posts
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    Wrt this clip on previous page
    Well handled by the reporter. I love that kind of argumentation.

    A: Makes bold statement
    B: "Please elaborate"
    A: "Ehhh....."

    Edited by Tonka at 13:11:47 12-10-2012

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  • dsmx 12 Oct 2012 14:06:28 6,852 posts
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    Sometimes you don't need to push any more, that was the case there. Sometimes it's better just to not push and leave the person to their own thoughts about being humiliated on national TV.

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  • stephenb 12 Oct 2012 19:40:55 2,424 posts
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    I think you're giving her too much credit, I doubt she has the brain capacity to be humiliated.
    I am adopting her idea at work next week when my boss asks me something.
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  • Feanor 12 Oct 2012 20:44:51 13,595 posts
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    Someone in the Romney camp should have prepared Ryan for questions regarding his letters begging for government cash.

    http://www.businessinsider.com/paul-ryan-stimulus-money-letters-2012-10
  • Feanor 13 Oct 2012 13:42:03 13,595 posts
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    "Put the White back in the White House"

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/12/1143940/--Put-the-White-back-in-the-White-House
  • mowgli 13 Oct 2012 13:51:35 31,799 posts
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    Romney is a picture perfect president. You would have to be a deluded tool to deny that. The only hope is that people want a bit more than that from their president.

    Pissy pants.

  • Psychotext 13 Oct 2012 17:53:27 49,156 posts
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    Feanor wrote:
    "Put the White back in the White House"
    God, that t-shirt. =/

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  • Nades 13 Oct 2012 20:55:11 265 posts
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    Ahwell, it's only America, nothing important ;).

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  • localnotail 14 Oct 2012 00:51:18 21,427 posts
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    Churches launch Operation Black Vote in a bid to harness a million non-voters. It says they are non-partisan but it's hard to imagine the targets going for Romney.

    Fire up the Cobra!

  • meme 14 Oct 2012 01:00:05 15,325 posts
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    There's an interesting theory that, as the black and latino populous grows, the two-party system will be broken by the fact that the GOP will simply lack the ability to compete. Effectively, Mitt's 47% will eventually become the majority.

    This is a decade or two in the future, though, and could just be one of those social theories that turns out to be horseshit and just shows a snapshot trend. Plus if the GOP ever decide to toy with a black or latino candidate then that'll change the game. But it's currently not in their interest to, financially or voter...y.

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  • Mola_Ram 14 Oct 2012 01:08:04 2,316 posts
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    Well, eventually they're going to have to fix their problem with Hispanic voters, as they are steadily on the rise. You'd think they were a natural fit with the Republicans, given that most of them are religious and socially conservative.
  • meme 14 Oct 2012 02:44:18 15,325 posts
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    They may be religious and socially conservative, but they're also mostly poor, young, first and second generation immigrants (legal or otherwise), the kind of which Romney et al basically want to get rid of (or get them to "self-deport" as he puts it). Mitten's attempts to connect with the latino demographic has mostly come of as insincere pandering at best.

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  • Mola_Ram 14 Oct 2012 02:55:58 2,316 posts
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    That's why I meant by "they're going to have to fix their problem". The fact is that, yes, despite their social conservatism, Hispanics don't flock to the Republicans because they believe (with some justification) that the Republicans don't give a shit about them.

    This is becoming something of a big deal, and will continue in this fashion as the demographics of America lead to higher percentages of "minorities".

    Edited by Mola_Ram at 03:01:20 14-10-2012
  • Khanivor 14 Oct 2012 03:22:21 38,673 posts
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    @mowgli - yeah that picture of him smirking after giving what he considered a killer press conference scoring political point from the deaths of the Americans in Benghazi is just the sort of image that screams 'awesome president' to me.
  • mowgli 14 Oct 2012 03:37:03 31,799 posts
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    Point zoomed right over your head apparently.

    Pissy pants.

  • Khanivor 14 Oct 2012 04:21:20 38,673 posts
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    No, not really.
  • ecureuil 16 Oct 2012 18:36:54 74,084 posts
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    I assume the people reading this thread saw the stuff about Paul Ryan's soup kitchen stunt. Basically the Romney campaign invaded a soup kitchen in Ohio for a photo op of Paul Ryan washing dishes. Y'know, politics.

    Anyway, here's a leaked video of the event.

    How badly can you fuck up a photo op in a soup kitchen?!
  • Psychotext 16 Oct 2012 19:16:11 49,156 posts
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    lol

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  • DaM 16 Oct 2012 19:24:49 11,735 posts
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    I imagine the Soup Kitchen sector will be one that sees growth if Romney wins, maybe they were just doing research.
  • Bremenacht 16 Oct 2012 23:17:33 11,116 posts
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    :D " This is... really important.."

    To work!

    - Put pinnies on (H+S)
    - Find the only pan left around
    - It's already clean? Rub it with something anyway
    - Find a black persons hand to shake (wash carefully after)
    - Dash to next photo-op

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  • Bremenacht 16 Oct 2012 23:19:31 11,116 posts
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    Oh! And when you're in power..

    - cut any funding to soup kitchens. They appear to have nothing to do anyway.

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  • localnotail 17 Oct 2012 00:35:17 21,427 posts
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    I would very much like to stay up to watch this one but I'm having my guttering cleaned in the morning* so I should go to bed.

    The "town hall" debates always carry the chance of disastrous embarrassment. I wonder if it'll be in the World Service so I can listen & doze.

    Edit: *not a euphemism

    Edited by localnotail at 00:36:34 17-10-2012

    Fire up the Cobra!

  • RobTheBuilder 17 Oct 2012 01:31:55 5,655 posts
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    Is it viewable live anywhere? (UK)
  • Khanivor 17 Oct 2012 01:41:13 38,673 posts
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    Try YouTube. It's being streamed in loads of places.
  • RobTheBuilder 17 Oct 2012 01:49:07 5,655 posts
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    Ace, ta.
  • meme 17 Oct 2012 01:49:59 15,325 posts
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    BBC site usually does them live too.

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  • meme 17 Oct 2012 02:15:41 15,325 posts
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    Obama's a lot more assertive and aggressive this time. Definitely good to see.

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  • Mola_Ram 17 Oct 2012 02:20:30 2,316 posts
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    He's limited by the format though, in that he actually has to address the questions that people give him, while being assertive too. It's unpredictable.
  • Psychotext 17 Oct 2012 02:21:08 49,156 posts
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    He does seem better tonight.

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  • meme 17 Oct 2012 02:22:40 15,325 posts
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    Thought him and Romney were going to have a barney right on the stage just now.

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