Don't Fact Check Me, Bro: The Politics Thread

Re: Don't Fact Check Me, Bro: The Politics Thread

Postby Monkeyboy » Mon Sep 17, 2012 18:14:11

According to Romney, I don't pay any taxes. I think he must have me confused with himself, the ultimate leach on the American people, outsourcing our jobs to make enormous profits, and hiding his money in foreign accounts.

Mitt Romney paid no taxes and he's complaining about some others doing the same. And he seems to think that those others are all democrats. Mitt Romney paid no taxes on all the money he hid in foreign accounts.
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Re: Don't Fact Check Me, Bro: The Politics Thread

Postby td11 » Mon Sep 17, 2012 20:09:45

http://content.usatoday.com/communities ... FNeb42PXTz

A GOP-controlled board in Kansas is trying to decide whether to remove President Obama from the state ballot over objections about his birth certificate.

The State Objections Board -- consisting of three of the state's top Republican elected officials -- ruled Thursday it did not yet have enough information and postponed a decision until Monday.

"I don't think it's a frivolous objection," Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach told the Topeka Capital-Journal. "I do think the factual record could be supplemented."
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Re: Don't Fact Check Me, Bro: The Politics Thread

Postby pacino » Mon Sep 17, 2012 20:15:42

he backed down due to public outrage
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Re: Don't Fact Check Me, Bro: The Politics Thread

Postby td11 » Mon Sep 17, 2012 20:33:40

o thx pac, that's good to hear
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Re: Don't Fact Check Me, Bro: The Politics Thread

Postby td11 » Mon Sep 17, 2012 20:34:21

it is sad that this issue still keeps getting legitimized and not just by fringe voices on the right like trump and/or palin but by actual GOP officials
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Re: Don't Fact Check Me, Bro: The Politics Thread

Postby CalvinBall » Mon Sep 17, 2012 20:37:54

romney too

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Re: Don't Fact Check Me, Bro: The Politics Thread

Postby td11 » Mon Sep 17, 2012 20:43:13

enjoyed this ann romney anecdote:

During a taping of “Live! With Kelly and Michael,” potential first lady Ann Romney said she once walked in on former President George W. Bush receiving a massage in the White House, according to a pool report.

“We had the unbelievable pleasure of spending the night at the White House and the next morning I was like, exploring everywhere,” Romney said when asked to name the most embarrassing thing she had ever done. “And I was supposed to be at meetings and Mitt was like, ‘Ann, you’re supposed to go,’ and I said ‘No, I’m exploring.’ I went into one door, I was with Anita Perry, by the way. I’ll put blame on her. And Anita and I were like ‘We wonder what’s behind this door?’ It was George Bush having a massage.”

“He was covered up,” Ann Romney said. “But I was so embarrassed that the next time I did see him, I didn’t know what I was going to say to him. We were going down the elevator from the White House going to an event together, and I walked up to the elevator and am just blushing, blushing, blushing. And he looks at me and he winks as he does and says, ‘I look pretty good, don’t I?’”


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Re: Don't Fact Check Me, Bro: The Politics Thread

Postby jerseyhoya » Mon Sep 17, 2012 20:43:30

CalvinBall wrote:romney too


Romney sneakily legitimizes the idea that Obama wasn't born in America by saying Obama was born in America. Higher level reverse psychology jujitsu shit.

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Re: Don't Fact Check Me, Bro: The Politics Thread

Postby pacino » Mon Sep 17, 2012 20:49:38

jerseyhoya wrote:
CalvinBall wrote:romney too


Romney sneakily legitimizes the idea that Obama wasn't born in America by saying Obama was born in America. Higher level reverse psychology jujitsu #$!&@.

yes, he, like so many republican officials, 'accepts him at his word'

what a joke
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Re: Don't Fact Check Me, Bro: The Politics Thread

Postby CalvinBall » Mon Sep 17, 2012 20:51:19

jerseyhoya wrote:
CalvinBall wrote:romney too


Romney sneakily legitimizes the idea that Obama wasn't born in America by saying Obama was born in America. Higher level reverse psychology jujitsu shit.


i was talking about that funny joke he made

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Re: Don't Fact Check Me, Bro: The Politics Thread

Postby Doll Is Mine » Mon Sep 17, 2012 21:27:01

Evidently, Mother Jones will release more of the Mitt Romney secret video soon. I imagine it's pretty juicy if they've saved it for another time.

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Re: Don't Fact Check Me, Bro: The Politics Thread

Postby CalvinBall » Mon Sep 17, 2012 21:30:18

hope its a sex tape

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Re: Don't Fact Check Me, Bro: The Politics Thread

Postby Doll Is Mine » Mon Sep 17, 2012 21:42:55

CalvinBall wrote:hope its a sex tape


:lol:

Interestingly enough, David Corn of Mother Jones mentioned tonight that the owner of the house where this fundraiser took place held a party that was described as an orgy in one of his other homes.

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Re: Don't Fact Check Me, Bro: The Politics Thread

Postby dajafi » Mon Sep 17, 2012 21:49:14

It's unknowable whether or not the election would be closer if Romney didn't keep feeding the perception that he's an out of touch, empathy-deficient, more than occasionally maladroit jerkass. Probably wouldn't hurt, though.

I'm also still unclear on why lower and middle class people who receive benefits are parasites, but guys like him who get zillions in subsidies and pay a tax rate less than half of mine because of their access are virtuous.

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Re: Don't Fact Check Me, Bro: The Politics Thread

Postby pacino » Mon Sep 17, 2012 21:50:29

job creators create jobs for americans who are real americans who pay lots of taxes and win for america.


america.jobs. you and me. real americans. REAL americans.
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Re: Don't Fact Check Me, Bro: The Politics Thread

Postby CalvinBall » Mon Sep 17, 2012 23:00:59

fox news has barely mentioned the romney video. remember that one time all the conservatives were pissed about how msnbc mentioned the dnc god platform thing like 66% less times than fox? fucking liberal media.

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Re: Don't Fact Check Me, Bro: The Politics Thread

Postby Doll Is Mine » Mon Sep 17, 2012 23:28:04

CalvinBall wrote:fox news has barely mentioned the romney video. remember that one time all the conservatives were pissed about how msnbc mentioned the dnc god platform thing like 66% less times than fox? fucking liberal media.


FOX hadn't mentioned the Romney secret video at all until 10:21PM.

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Re: Don't Fact Check Me, Bro: The Politics Thread

Postby Doll Is Mine » Mon Sep 17, 2012 23:39:33

Josh Barro of Bloomberg

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-17/today-mitt-romney-lost-the-election.html

This is an utter disaster for Romney.

Romney already has trouble relating to the public and convincing people he cares about them. Now, he's been caught on video saying that nearly half the country consists of hopeless losers.

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Re: Don't Fact Check Me, Bro: The Politics Thread

Postby TomatoPie » Tue Sep 18, 2012 00:11:37

dajafi wrote:Interesting analysis of Romney's CEO candidacy:

Romney’s problem is not that he’s brought too little executive rigor to the job of running for president. It’s that he’s brought too much. He’s behaved too much like a businessman (or a consultant) and not enough like a politician. His campaign has all the hallmarks of being run by someone looking only at the numbers, someone who lacks a true politician’s appreciation for the other dimensions of a race—a feel for the electorate, a convincing long-term plan for the country. Were he forced to defend himself before a board of directors, Romney would actually have a pretty solid case for doing what he has done.
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The problem is that politics is about much more than a tactical, short-term reading of the numbers. Candidate skills matter, and the audience in a presidential election is much more variegated than a board of directors. There isn’t much, frankly, that a stiff guy can do to make himself warm and approachable. (Earth tones, anyone?) The glaring weaknesses in Romney’s campaign—the fuzzy details, the inability to convincingly articulate plan for growth, and above all the weird tics and gaffes—are not ones that a businessman’s skills can rectify.


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Re: Don't Fact Check Me, Bro: The Politics Thread

Postby The Nightman Cometh » Tue Sep 18, 2012 00:36:21

Jerz, curious about your outlook on the race now that the conventions are over
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