Rob Ford’s support appears to be rising as the gap between him and frontrunner John Tory narrows with two months left in Toronto’s mayoral race, according to a new poll.

The Forum Research opinion survey also found that Olivia Chow’s momentum continues to slip.

The poll, which was conducted on Monday and Tuesday, put support for Mr. Tory at 34 per cent, 31 per cent for Mr. Ford and 23 per cent for Ms. Chow – the three leading candidates.

Come on Ford Nation, you can do it

President Obama on ISIS: 'We Don't Have a Strategy Yet'

That's cool. No rush. Maybe play a few more rounds of golf.

The best part is the pause between strategy and yet where his brain catches up to what his mouth just said, and he's like "Oh fuck me."

Talk about misleading headlines. He is referencing Syria.

'Maybe play a few more rounds of golf'. Shut up, really. You liked President Vacation.

jerseyhoya wrote:President Obama on ISIS: 'We Don't Have a Strategy Yet'

That's cool. No rush. Maybe play a few more rounds of golf.

The best part is the pause between strategy and yet where his brain catches up to what his mouth just said, and he's like "Oh fuck me."

wow, your quality's really declined. What next, cracks about birth certificates?

most importantly....what the hell was with that tan suit????

why doesn't ISIL go play some golf??? eh? golf? ISIS?

what's great jerz is you post, literally back-to-back, an entry that illustrates your oft-underscored view that governance is a game for drug-addled drunken losers, nothing to be taken seriously, and follow it with a petulant whine that the adult-in-chief isn't strategizing foreign policy fast enough to suit you - just as if you actually care

"ISIS? What about it? I already did the ALS challenge".

I do love BSG politics. Various nonpartisan journalists from the foreign policy side of Twitter slaughtering Obama over the comment, and the defenses range from an inane claim about a misleading headline to deflecting about birth certificates and My True Feelings.

Barbara Starr ‏@barbarastarrcnn
"We don't have a strategy yet" for ISIS in Syria. What do leaders of #ISIS, #AQAP #AlQaeda think of that admission i wonder? and Chuck Hagel

Noah Shachtman @NoahShachtman
If you had been working on State or Defense Department Syria desk for the last 3 years, how would Obama's "no strategy" talk make you feel?

Paul Danahar @pdanahar
Obama admin doesn’t "have a strategy yet" for ISIS because until recently Obama wasn’t taking them seriously & was mocking those who did.

Blake Hounshell @blakehounshell
The time to start developing a strategy for ISIS was months ago, btw. After they seized Falljuah, for instance.

Obama's Katrina

jerseyhoya wrote:I do love BSG politics. Various nonpartisan journalists from the foreign policy side of Twitter slaughtering Obama over the comment, and the defenses range from an inane claim about a misleading headline to deflecting about birth certificates and My True Feelings.

Barbara Starr ‏@barbarastarrcnn
"We don't have a strategy yet" for ISIS in Syria. What do leaders of #ISIS, #AQAP #AlQaeda think of that admission i wonder? and Chuck Hagel

Noah Shachtman @NoahShachtman
If you had been working on State or Defense Department Syria desk for the last 3 years, how would Obama's "no strategy" talk make you feel?

Paul Danahar @pdanahar
Obama admin doesn’t "have a strategy yet" for ISIS because until recently Obama wasn’t taking them seriously & was mocking those who did.

Blake Hounshell @blakehounshell
The time to start developing a strategy for ISIS was months ago, btw. After they seized Falljuah, for instance.

it was definitely your tacky use of the golfing narrative

It was a dumb comment. I'd still take his disengaged and occasionally off-key work over the greatest hits of Kristol, Bolton and Cheney.

He said "we don't have A strategy".

Barry played the handwringing commentariat again.

Because we have strateGIES

ooooooh, you're feeling all kinda dummy now, aren't you? You are, aren't you? Huh? Aren't you?

jerseyhoya wrote:I do love BSG politics. Various nonpartisan journalists from the foreign policy side of Twitter slaughtering Obama over the comment, and the defenses range from an inane claim about a misleading headline to deflecting about birth certificates and My True Feelings.

The thing is, there's no reasonable response to Obama's misstep there. You shouldn't have expected anything other than silence or a wide variety of logical fallacies. You should just be pleased you got the latter (false choice, non sequitur, ad hominem).

mine was a 5th option

That's true. Calling out the tan suit was a nice option.

Werthless wrote:The thing is, there's no reasonable response to Obama's misstep there.

the misstep is a misstep to who, except handwringing beltway nabobs?

help me with the catastrophic consequences of this "misstep".

Catastrophic, please, not some whinging bullshit

jerz, you left this tweet from a balls-out lefty off your impressive list of who the fuck anyway:

Joe Scarborough @JoeNBC
Do you really believe the president doesn’t have a strategy yet? Call me crazy but I don’t want the President showing his hand to ISIS.

But.... Golfing