And Barry comes out with a 2 minute ad, which I think locks up the win on the week on this whole Wall Street Goes POOF thing.
And our embassy in Yemen just got attacked -- which ought to cut against the Geezer, but may yet give him an opening to make a reasonable-sounding-yet-way-wrong attack that gullible voters out there might swallow.
My head hurts.
chicagobureau
· 1 year ago
Meanwhile, here's the Geezer look-into-the-camera-and-tell-me-you-love-me ad. Only 30 seconds (in truth, about 15 secondsish before the voiceovers start). Which is good, because he looks really fucking scary (w/ scary music to boot) and really has nothing to say except the standard platitudes that we all know and love.
Note the oh-so-subtle POW POW at the end of his blurb. Totes helpful.
llyn
· 1 year ago
On the site that must not be named, a commenter had this to say about Geezer's "The fundamentals are strong." Tawm riposted with "The fundamentalists are strong."
SanFranLefty
· 1 year ago
@CB: Wasn't an attack on U.S. interests in Yemen a prelude to 9/11? Fasten your fucking seatbelts and pray to the FSM or Borzoi in T&C that there's no international incident to distract voters from the Unicorn hammering on "It's the economy, stupid."
At this point, though, wouldn't PsychoGeezer want the Unicorn to be stuck with this steaming pile of shit sandwich for the next 4 years?
rptrcub
· 1 year ago
I have been contemplating life in a Geez/Talibunny world. I am desperately trying to think if there will be at least any inkling of brightness. My plan B is to finish my education in information systems, then perhaps vacate the country in 2010.
chicagobureau
· 1 year ago
@SFL: Yeah. If I were Geezer I would probably say "I'm too old for this shit" and throw the election (without saying so, of course).
Black Eagle, meanwhile, can try saying, "well, seven years later, we still haven't caught Osama, have we?" Of course, U.S. Americans have cared little because Iraq Is The Central Front On The War On Terror. But maybe Barry can make them believe that, in truth, Osama's the guy we want.
And now, if you will excuse me, my medication has arrived.
flippin
· 1 year ago
Maybe, just maybe, Unicorn could point out what Osama's hometown is in light of the Yemen attack? Although I'm with SFL that anything taking focus off broken economy and putting it on national security/Operation Precious Freedoms is bad for us and good for "U.S.A."-chanting, chest-thumping RWers.
HAL 9000 (MC)
· 1 year ago
@SFL, @CB True, but PG's got to protect Repub interests!!!! We wouldn't want Unicorn to do something for all those pitiful workers?
I don't think he can work miracles, but I think that he will do a good enough job to make life miserable for the Repubs in the next election because no one will be talking about "free market" solutions and deregulation unless they want to get chased by an angry mob.
TonyRamone
· 1 year ago
D in the WH, Ds in control of H and S, shit will get done, for better or worse. If I were Barry, I'd go balls out on a massive infrastructure rebuild plan out of the gate, something tangible that few people can gripe about. Health care too soon would gum up the works like it did with L'il Abner, and the war crimes tribunal can wait until mid-term elections.
Tommmcatt_Interrupted
· 1 year ago
@Tony Ramone
God yes, good old FDR style works programs. Healthcare would have to wait until the GOP was marginalized to the point of holding protest hearings in broom closets...which just might happen on Barry's coat-tails the following mid terms. Still, can you imagine the State of the Union Speech after we finally get Universal Health Care through?
Barry: ...And I have something to say to our colleagues across the aisle: Suck My Big, Black Single-Payer Health Care System! The state of the union is Fuck Y'all, Republican Thugs, we've got the Supreme Court now too!
If only....
prommy
· 1 year ago
Yes, yes, all as expected, though a little early, now we have Russia in Georgia, Al Queda in Yemen, Iran, Pakistan threatening to attack us with the F-16s we are upgrading for them, yes, war war everywhere, as planned, or not planned, it does not matter. The GOP wants a new war, the old one has gotten boring and confusing, and the world knows we can't fight another, so opportunistic aggression is occurring.
By November, I am expecting supertwisters to be ravaging the land, wars with Iran, North Korea, and Canada, soup lines, dust-bowls,
SanFranLefty
· 1 year ago
@Prommy: It's also too early for SFL to be reading about extrajudicial killing by the U.S. in Iraq. Missed hearing about that detail in other articles about Woodward's book: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/... Now the Woodward book reports a series of top secret special operations, launched in May 2006, to "locate, target, and kill key individuals in extremist groups," a campaign that may have been the greatest factor in reducing the violence in Iraq. President Bush told Woodward that the secret program was "awesome." Derek Harvey, the top intelligence adviser to Petraeus on the secret operations, told Woodward that the "lightning quick" assaults gave him "orgasms.".
rptrcub
· 1 year ago
Someone in the Bush Administration getting off on violence? I think that was a requirement to get a job there, besides swearing a blood oath on a Bible.
prommy
· 1 year ago
Whats Iraqi for "desaparecido?"
chicagobureau
· 1 year ago
My guess is that, in truth, the true October surprise will be the disclosure of Kim Jong-il's demise, which will send many in North Korea to a Jonestown-like scene of ritual suicide, and also lead to the misplacing of keys to the fissile material and centrifuge closet (end of the hallway, make a right, second door on the left). And thus Geezer will give everyone the heebie-jeebies in a final attempt to win without relying on "I won't vote for a black Mooslim radical" vote.
KurtGodel
· 1 year ago
@chicagobureau: I'm thinking it's gonna be the economy that tips the election. If Obama can't win on that issue, we may as well all move to New Zealand and herd sheep. Very good video you forwarded, btw.
prommy
· 1 year ago
But War and Tair trump the 'conomy, KurtGodel, every time. Durteee Bomb and Anne Thrax. For god's sake, there's a smoking hole in the ground, you libtard. Hopey, the "community organizer," wants to give in to the Tairists.
Thank you, Variations on a Nerd, that's an excellent read and very thought-provoking. I can't register at work for the moral test (cookie acceptance issues) but I'm bookmarking it to try at home. As a liberal Christian, I'm interested how that will be reflected in my results...hopefully the dissonence will not asplode the test!
KurtGodel
· 1 year ago
@prom: I don't think most people give a shit about foreign policy, or about our military adventures when there is no draft. If another smoking hole in the ground occurs here, say around mid-Oct, then yeah, people would care and look for leadership. I'm sure Sarah Palin will rise to the occasion.
HAL 9000 (MC)
· 1 year ago
@Nerdus Ceaser,
Great read. I like the morals test it links to.
KurtGodel
· 1 year ago
Attention musical theater fans: “I am Jean Valjean .... and I approved this ad!”
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And our embassy in Yemen just got attacked -- which ought to cut against the Geezer, but may yet give him an opening to make a reasonable-sounding-yet-way-wrong attack that gullible voters out there might swallow.
My head hurts.
Note the oh-so-subtle POW POW at the end of his blurb. Totes helpful.
At this point, though, wouldn't PsychoGeezer want the Unicorn to be stuck with this steaming pile of shit sandwich for the next 4 years?
Black Eagle, meanwhile, can try saying, "well, seven years later, we still haven't caught Osama, have we?" Of course, U.S. Americans have cared little because Iraq Is The Central Front On The War On Terror. But maybe Barry can make them believe that, in truth, Osama's the guy we want.
And now, if you will excuse me, my medication has arrived.
True, but PG's got to protect Repub interests!!!! We wouldn't want Unicorn to do something for all those pitiful workers?
I don't think he can work miracles, but I think that he will do a good enough job to make life miserable for the Repubs in the next election because no one will be talking about "free market" solutions and deregulation unless they want to get chased by an angry mob.
God yes, good old FDR style works programs. Healthcare would have to wait until the GOP was marginalized to the point of holding protest hearings in broom closets...which just might happen on Barry's coat-tails the following mid terms. Still, can you imagine the State of the Union Speech after we finally get Universal Health Care through?
Barry: ...And I have something to say to our colleagues across the aisle: Suck My Big, Black Single-Payer Health Care System! The state of the union is Fuck Y'all, Republican Thugs, we've got the Supreme Court now too!
If only....
By November, I am expecting supertwisters to be ravaging the land, wars with Iran, North Korea, and Canada, soup lines, dust-bowls,
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/...
Now the Woodward book reports a series of top secret special operations, launched in May 2006, to "locate, target, and kill key individuals in extremist groups," a campaign that may have been the greatest factor in reducing the violence in Iraq. President Bush told Woodward that the secret program was "awesome." Derek Harvey, the top intelligence adviser to Petraeus on the secret operations, told Woodward that the "lightning quick" assaults gave him "orgasms.".
Great read. I like the morals test it links to.
“I am Jean Valjean .... and I approved this ad!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3ijYVyhnn0