Haha, we have no idea how Rebecca broke the internet! But here we are!
10:56 OMG Barry is totally doing a clip show here!
10:59 This, fellow students of Rhetoric, is what ya call a “peroration.” And it freakin’ ROCKS.
11:02 “Hello, Sailor” jokes will only be allowed for the next 17 minutes. After that, the site breaks again.
11:05 Whew…we have fixed the Wonket, for now. And now my PBS digital signal is going kerflooey. At least I have beer.
11:07 We see. The Teevee came back on, and then the speech was over. This is a handsome family, is it not? The tweeterz are saying they are not in love with the speech. It got us going in places. Citizenship, beeyotchez!
11:09 Hey, folks, Rebecca really does need to know: Should she wash her armpits and put on a red dress and go downtown (WHICH INVOLVES LIGHT RAIL, AND WALKING) or should she just lie there on the couch some more?
11:12 David Brooks is making our beer taste funny, so now we will listen to the DNC livestream where Kal Penn is… uh… also quite boring, actually.
11:15 Ah, OK, CSPAN. “Forever Amen.” We just heard the best part of the awful Cardinal’s thing, we think.
11:17 Antoinne Vinaigrette is a placeholder here. He’s entertaining a motion. It is paradoxically not entertaining.
11:20 Here is a thing! Were you watching Barack’s teeth? We were not, in between listening and trying to fix the whole internet that our Editrix broke. Which maybe includes Twitter now?
11: 25 No, apparently Twitter works, because we just saw a tweet from Jim Newell:
I’m still sad that Gary Johnson wasn’t able to borrow Wonkette’s convention pass last night from the editor on acid whose phone was dead
AP Fact-checkers are looking into this.
11:29 Fox News analyst Monica Crowley tweets:
“Clinton gave a barnburner last night so Obama would look lame by comparison. It worked. “
Ana Marie Cox replies, “// Yes this is exactly how that worked. ” We have never actually heard the sound of eyes rolling through our computer speakers before. How did she do that?
11:33 On C-SPAN, “Sally from Sun City” called to say she does not like Barack Obama, especially the way he is bringing all the troops home, because we are going to have a war right here! We feel just a little bad mocking her, but not that bad. Haha, she’s a dope, really.
11:39 HAHA! The Obama campaign bought some kind of Twitter ad that will pop up if you Tweetz about search for the term “Literally.” We don’t really understand what this is, We understand this, and misread the article the first time, but it is good. Opportunistic, maybe.
11:42 Caller to C-SPAN just pointed out that “we are not a democracy, we are a Constitutional Republic, and it seems people DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS.” We think people like this are a national treasure. Literally.
11:50 Andrew Sullivan’s livebloog wrap-up: “I don’t think it was a game-changer. I do think it sets an optimistic tone for the campaign and a stark choice for Americans this fall.”
11:52 Just noticed that, for the first time [since] we have been reading Your Wonkette, an obscenity-laced test comment is the highest-rated comment. USA!! USA!! USA!! USA!!
11:55 Nerdy fun! Word clouds for Romney’s speech and Barry’s speech
12:15 It is after midnight for you silly people in Eastern time, and so we are going to wrap up. Editrix has apparently “headed out for a smoke,” which, with the kind of day she’s been having, means that people in the Charlotte NC area should prepare for either a massive wildfire, or, we don’t know, maybe a plague of frogs. Very, very stoned frogs. We wish you luck. The DNC is, as they say, all over but the animated .gifs, so here is one of those, too:
DANCE, JENNIFER GRANHOLM, DANCE!!!
12:25 We lied about shutting down the liveblog, because we just have to quote commenter ChernobylSoup FOR TRUTH:
“DNC 2012 – Four days of not running away from liberal ideals.”
OK, now we are shutting down the liveblog.
12:28 Fact Check: Three days, actually. We are really, really tired but not all that beery.
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Fucking test comment goddamn Jesus Christ bullshit twat cunt.
Tell us how you really feel.
Here's how I feel: Everyone who reads this should click the Up-thumb and make this the most liked Wonkette comment ever with 300+ up-thumbs.
I've broken 100+ several times with stupid dumb jokes, so I know we can do this, people. Thumb the commeigirl. Do it.
I couldn't agree more!
Is that what they mean by "acid-tongued"?
Sweat love.
Now, that's a good comment.
It's ok babe. We got your backup.
i think you mean communist demon rat snake abhortion, no?
I check yes. But I want pictures.
Motherfucking test comment cocksucking goddamn bitch Romney Jesus H. Christ bullshit anus asshole twat vagina cunt.
Shut your fucking face, unclefucker.
Donkey raping shiteater.
Toilet sucking shitfucker
Eat penguin shit, you ass spelunker
Get some goddamned creativity in your fucking cursing, twuntnozzle!
Amen.
We all still love you.
Try Michelle Malkin ping pong ball sailor. Always works for me.
Put on the red dress…
What're you psychic?! That's exactly what Mitt Rmoney was thinking tonight.
Jackass piece of shit mother fucker! That is my go to profanity explosion.
JAPOSMF for short (the F is silent)
I have a Amiga 1000 that never crashes. Will sell cheap!
Pics please.
You had me at "Fucking".
The site likes it when you sweet talk it like that…I have to say, I'm a little red faced and swoony right now myself…
Don't forget retard skullfuck machinegun poop.
Why not skullpoop machinefuck?
This one's for you…
Instant Hippie by Drain: http://youtu.be/-OF49uZeknI
Yeah, what you said.
Has this test comment been tested for acceptable bug content?
If you need a fucking-test subject, I'm in.
Trix, if I didn't love you, I'd hate you.
Needs moar Shitting Dicknipples.
Damn … wish I'd stayed up late last night. I missed the fucking goddamn Jesus Christ bullshit twat cunt commenting fun.
Did anybody say buttsechs yet?
We broke Wonkette! Or was it Barry's sexual power?
Maybe some Sexual Healing is in order…
For me it will always be the thought of Michelle O group hugging Scarlett Johansen and Eva Longaria…that's some diversity I can believe in!
I'm no longer just a candidate… I'm the president. Bitch.
Fuk yeah!!!
fuck a duck
Rich Lowry @RichLowry
Speech lame so far
12m TBogg TBogg @tbogg
@RichLowry No boner, eh? Bummer.
Yeah…well he did call Victoria Jackson earlier and got his starbursts worked out….but don't worry, she's not an obese slut who sleeps with dorky, pansy-assed conservative losers, she's just like Nancy Reagan…er, uhm…..
Let's bring Rmoney to his knees.
Gimme a 2 x 4.
With votes!
Thanks Herr Doktor!
if barry talks about the wounded vet's hands…
Somebody go downstairs and let the blog maintenance guy in.
And we need more ice!
Can I vote for Michelle this time?
It's a two-fer!
Come on guys, let's ditch the others again.
I'm really glad Barry has given a few nods to science and environment. It's hard to put Federal dollars toward those areas when the economy is down as its been. If we don't, we'll risk our health, lose natural resources that can never be put back right if we're being honest, and we won't have the basic science advances that are the foundation for our technological wonders and our quality of life.
Tell me about it.
Amen, Terry.
It's hard to put dollars to either when the opposition party thinks the bible is a science book and thinks global warming is the latest in a long line of communist consipiracies (weight loss, women being people, babies not being dropped off by the stork, rich people not being god's chosen elect, tax cuts causing deficits, incest being negative, reading, writing, math, science, science, black folks being people, brown folks being people, Republicans mandating doctors stick probes up womens vaginas being big government, Republicans creating a secret police being big government, unions not being demonic) the list goes on and on….
"thinks global warming is the latest in a long line of communist consipiracies (weight loss"
Weight loss is not a communist conspiracy — it's a myth, like unicorns and gypsies.
Intense Debate Goes Flaccid.
Owned by Republicans?
If so then one of the gay Wonketteers need only find it some discretionary gay porn for "research" ala weirdo Christianist Quist that Bachmann calls her mentor. That chick attracts gay Republicans like a magnet…or maybe he's Marcus's greek style master-apprentice guy…
Does Intense Debate want the truth? Intense Debate can't handle the truth!
Did wonkette break or is she just having a cigarette after a giant 30-minute orgasm?
I couldn't do it in a timely fashion, so let me say it now: Barry slamming Romney for his Britain misadventure was frickin high lare ee us.
so GLAD they didn't let that go.
it was a terribly revealing (business people do not automatically equal good leaders) and was completely ignored here at the height of the summer.
Hilarious? Yes… yes it was.
So much so, that Barry talked me out of another $250 donation last night, goddamn it!
I've got some 'splainin' to do with my Amex card this weekend.
Barry befriends a young sailor. No one on his team questioned this narrative?
They made him add the whole bit about Walter Reed Hospital.
Jesus, I don't own a TV and depend on Wonkett for my news! WHAT IS BARRY SAYING?? IS HE THE SEXIEST PRESIDENT ALIVE??
Help me! These are questions that must be answered!!
Yes, we are all pregnant and will give birth to wonderfulness in November.
I feel so BLESSED!
you SLUTS, I leave you for five minutes alone with Barry and he impregnates ALL of you? Damn…that guy IS good….
Two days ago, I would have said, "Yes, he is the sexiest President alive". Then Bill Clinton made a speech. Now they're tied.
Dang, I love this speech. And I love how he's telling off the Repubs. Damn, he sounds like a preacher–do those twats still think he's a Muslim????
SIKHS FOR OBAMA!
Yeah, there were a lot of them tonight.
SHEIKHS FOR OBAMA, TOO, ALSO!
Rock the Casbah!
oh yes. i will vote for you and citizenship.
* taps submit button * Is this thing on?
Yes, you've been beamed up.
And I had just posted the absolute most best comment ever that probably would have gotten 492.9 gazzilion upfists and I forgot it….
*sob*
Rebecca is adding 10 p-ness points to all of this evening's contestants. Thanks for playing!
Rebecca better add a bunch of Ps after tonight's clusterf*ck.
Pee points are like farts.
They're fun but they don't mean anything.
LOL.
Yeah, but I bet you know what yours is.
Going for downfists: Longest. Phrase. Interrupted. By. Periods. For. Dramatic. Effect. Ever.
…and even the Cephalopods are Getting it On!
WOOHOO BARRY!
yes!
Wrong clip.
"Sexual Chocolate! SEXUAL CHOCOLATE!"
(stomps twice, drops mic)
Now in a commanding voice: “Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadily down to meet the eyes.”
Oh jeez. I got all chills up and down my arms with that last sentence. It was like listening to the MLK dream speech.
That's odd—I heard something about "only thing to fear is fear itself." Huh.
YAY! Just in time to say goodnight! I love you all! BRUUUUUUUUUCE SPRINGSTEEEEEEN PLAYING PRES O off the STAGE!!! MY NIGHT IS MAAAAADEEE!!!!
Submitted for your Approval.
I approve! I approve!
Awesome!
We Take Care of Our Own. He couldn't have done better had he written that song just for tonight.
Can't hear anything where I am (nerdlet gaming night) so I just read the prepared transcript. This is a Barry speech – it doesn't do the Brandeis-brief Clinton did last night, but that would be overkill (and not fit his best style). Didn't change biology, but did make me weepy and proud.
Bill "feels your pain" and makes you want to do what he says – Barry takes away the pain and replaces it with inspiration, which also makes you want to do what he says (but you think it is what you would have done anyways).
Good insight. I like that.
I got my Bruce!!!
Springsteen. "We take care of our own." Fuck you republicans.
Don't tell anybody I said this, but Springsteen sucks.
Don't you dare say that about my secret boyfriend. Bruce is an awesome song writer.
Blasphemy! Go listen to Lee Greenwood, you apostate!
He's in a five-way tie for my second-favorite artist, after Dylan. (The other four are Prince, Joan Jett, David Bowie and Gladys Knight). Springsteen is awesome.
Just so long as Tina Turner sings it.
Yeah, I'm old. But I'm also right.
Bowie rules.
Yeah, but nobody does lyrics like Michael Hurley….
Have you ever seen him live?
I thought he was way overrated until I saw him in the "No Nukes" movie.
Unfortunately, he has blown out his vocal chords now, (too many 4 hour concerts), but the pre Born in the USA stuff is magic.
(Actually, I love all of it, but the throaty stuff is an acquired taste.)
*raises hand*
"Tunnel of Love" tour. Halfway through the show, he turned the stage around so the people in the cheap seats could get a good show.
It took me a long time to kind of like him. I grew up in Nebraska and never could figure out what the hell he was talking about.
I grew up in NJ. Saw him a few times at the Uptown in Asbury Park right around the time Greetings from Asbury Park came out and still can't figure out everything. That and pretty much having my mid-range hearing all shot to hell in Vietnam.
I mean more of a cultural thing I guess. I'm not saying he was unheard of around here. They played him on the radio and such, but people weren't goo goo gah gah over him. Just couldn't identify with all that Jersey stuff. It all sounded like such a tough miserable living. When Cougarcamp came along, he was bigger around here. He was kind of like the Midwest's Springsteen. He was more identifiable than Springsteen was. Life can be tough around here too, but it's a different kind of tough. Cougarcamp songs were more about our kind of tough than Springsteen's songs. I'm not a huge Cougarcamp fan, but his songs were just more relevant to the Midwest than Springsteens.
I was going down the Jersey Shore after work in my summer motorcycle shop job and my 40 year old memory serves that much of what we were hearing in the clubs was also other stellar groups from the time like Southside Johnny.And when I got back to Pittsburgh my roommate at the time and I were out in a giant record store and they had not heard of Greetings from Asbury Park. I would guess that as a part of the American Culture Springsteen didn’t hit until the mid-80’s and Born to Run came out. Even then I heard Sesame Street’s “Born to Add” more having a young child in the house.I like Springsteen but I remember when we came out of either the Uptown or the Stone Pony after hearing him for the first time. My opinion was along the lines that ‘He’s trying to sound like an amped up Talking Blues Dylan but Dylan did it better.’ So I sort of hated him. I do like Melancamp and the older Bonjovi (if my leg is not acting up I can take a long walk down the beach to his house) but I don’t have their songs on my smartphone mostly because they aren’t in the local library collection. But then I’ve got Glenn Miller, Louis Armstrong and Robert Johnson albums on there.
Overall, I'm not a huge Bruce guy, but Nebraska is one of the best albums ever made. I hear you though; I'm from right-to-work Texas and to this day I still have no idea who exactly blew up the chicken man in Philly last night along with his house, or who the chicken man was for that matter.
"Yes, our road is longer but we travel it together. We turn no-one back, we leave no-one behind."
I can already see Rush and Assity talking about how divisive this speech was. But you know what — that was some fine shit right there, Rush. That was a contrast, too, wasn't it? I mean, you know where the difference between President Obama and Job-Killer Romney is, don't you? I think this should be a telling election.
listen to 'em bitch:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/republica…
How can they attack him when he quotes Scripture?
See, they haven't read it and aren't going to, so just say it's Scripture and let the fact-checkers bore it to death.
"We turn no-one back, we leave no-one behind."
I can already see Rush and Assity talking about how divisive this speech was."
Yeah, how divisive can you get, including everybody like that?
Dr. Zoom is my new super hero. Fuck off Greeen Arrow.
Well Green Arrow didn't even notice when his own sidekick – who he even called Speedy! – got addicted to non-specific drugs, way back in the 70s.
"God Bless these United States."
Terrists can't stand saying Amerka!
i wonder when you give Uncle Joe a hug if he smells like my Uncle Joe ?
Scotch.
Biden probably smells like Old Spice and soap.
"I'm on a horse."
I'm crying – just like on election night!!
I'm watching CSPAN and the camera lingered on a lovely Ginger girl sobbing with joy in the audience. I think that there's a lot of that going around.
Oh God, I think I need to change the sheets again.
Jesus fuck on a fucking crutch, I haven't felt this pumped by a speech since Hilldawg came out in her tangerine dream pantsuit and turned my body to goo in 08. Followed immediately by Barack and his dulcet tones sending shivers down my spine.
Long live his Barryness!
You're an absolute poet!
Yeah, the wifey preferred Bill last night and I just internalized my thoughts on that (WTF, are you on drugs?)
But then, she had a shitty day today, so that's probably why. Too bad she was asleep by the finale because that was some rousing shit right there. Fired up, ready to go.
Damn the older daughter is almost as tall as Barack now; and she's probably not yet done growing.
Not like she is going to need a basketball scholarship or something.
Walk on.
And so attractive. Good genes.
On that, I'll just say she's fourteen years old, so I won't say anything.
That is one gorgeous family.
Good thing their parent's have predator drones – better than the shotgun my dad had – because those two girls are going to have all sorts of boys (and girls!) banging down the doors of the White House to get at them.
Yeah; and let me tell you that I am very happy that your dad seems to like me.
"Good thing their parent's have predator drones – better than the shotgun my dad had"
Phone: Ring ring!
Uncle Rocco: Hello. Who? You want to talk to my daughter? Who is this? Jeffrey what? SPELL THAT LAST NAME!
I think she looks a lot like Obama's mother: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,…
Barack's 6 foot plus (I wanna say 6' 2", but could be a stretch), Michelle is in the 6 foot range, and her brother Craig is something like 6 foot 6, so yeah, pretty likely they will both be pretty tall for women.
Tall is a good thing.
I'll cover over here now and enjoy the post-coital bliss.
Seriously, they are such a great family!
MY party looks like MY family!!!!
USA!USA!USA!Bruuuuuce!Bruuuuuuce!Bruuuuuce!Those two extended families are beautiful, and indelibly American as hell. There was even an Oriental in there!
Are you sure? According to Sharrrron Angle, it could've been a Mexican.
pretty sure that is The Prez's nephew via his half- sister Maya.
Hooray! There IS a reason for Idaho!
EDIT: Clearly I am referring to Dr. Zoom who resuscitated the Wonk in case any are confused by my otherwise-bizarre proclamation of admiration for my state.
P.S. Glad you were prepared with beer this time. If I had been following the liveblog last time I would have been happy to phone any of my three nephews in Boise and have them drop off a case at your place while you were doing the (Wonkette) Lord's work.
OT, but did Vlad the Impala ever get fixed after breaking down on the way to the Seattle Wonkette Drinky Thing?
Vlad is parked out front at this very moment. Valiant Wonketteers donated nearly 2/3 of the repair costs, bless 'em. I have utterly failed to even start on getting the promised gifties out to people, because I have the organizational skills of a pithed wombat.
I want them to be my parents and I'm older than both of 'em!
Wow, what brings tears to my eyes (among other things) are the Obama girls, like new foals moving around their parents. Like my girls!!!!
And sort of embarrassed and shy and self-conccious, too. So cute, and so typical of that age.
Three nights of "This is why I am a Democrat." Thank you.
Exactly. I am so proud of myself for seeing the light so long ago.
FOX is criticizing Obama for having non specifics. I recall after Romney's speech, they were too busy covering up how bad a speech it was to notice that he had no specifics.
This after three days of being slapped down by the Dems.
Quelle surprise!
And the chair.
The cardinal dude is evil. Google him. Why do Dems have to be fair and balanced about shitheads?
Just looking at these people, I love them.
I'm really sorry I couldn't say that about the Republican Convention.
Ha, I'm not!
Trying to appear nice, here. Don't blow my cover.
"I'm really sorry I couldn't say that about the Republican Convention. "
I'd be really, really worried if I could.
The "you did that" section was sublime, goddammit. Sublime.
I believe that is called "nailing the dismount." While disemboweling your opponent.
*golf clap*
Nice when Barry was punching Mitt right in the nuts
I really want to see how Romney's people deal with this beat down.
Really,Wonkette you broke the interNet? Who did not see this coming?
We always break the Internet. It's what we do.
With votes.. aherm.
That's why we can't have nice things.
I wish they had Cardinal McCarrick rather than Dolan. McCarrick's done great work with immigrant communities and disadvantaged people. He's a moderate, too.
I am totally confused that Dolan popped up after his diatribe on CBS against the Obama Healthcare ruling on providing birth control to employees in religious institutions. When I heard he was giving 'the benediction at the convention' and saw him in Tampa, I erroneously concluded that was that.
What kind of stick is this guy (Obama) carrying. I concentrated so hard on trying to hear clear whistle words about life begins at conception and person hood that I got a headache.
Dear Bishop whoever you are:
Take a hike–you suck like a vacuum cleaner.
Signed,
Your biggest fan
the speech boils down to this: "do you want to live in a country that values shared sacrifice for the common good over "i got mine so go fuck off"? if you do, you have to make it happen."
elegant and simple. common fucking sense.
DIRTY WORD!! THE PUNDIT LADY SAID A DIRTY WORD!!!
Even Grandma Robinson has changed over these four years. She looked so happy and relaxed tonight. Like she belongs up on that stage. She didn't look like that in Denver. She was lovely and dignified, but she looked really nervous. Not tonight.
Let's skullfuck Romney. With votes. For reelz.
And cyncism just groaned beneath the crushing weight of real hope, tonight.
Now I know why Romney didn't watch tonight's speech.
His money was lonely and needed a hug.
Hard to hug something in Switzerland or the Caymens.
He probably has a few sacks of gold in each home just for when he feels lonely.
That's for "you people" to do
Because Ryan tied him up and pegged him, you mean?
and then lied about it, natch.
The Romney campaign limited press access and photo shoots made it look like he was talking to the "Concord, NH veterans' in somebody's mobile home.
Mitt, the time for that is two years before the election in the flat lands of Iowa.
To magic_titty's comment before the world crashed…
"Can anyone remember when the Demoncraps sounded so patriotic? "
No, I haven't. What an excellent point. I wonder why. The republicans have defined themselves as THE lovers of America for so long anyone else must be haters. Could it be that schtick has worn thin or are we turning into republicans? Damn you for making me think at this time of night. GAH!
Perhaps it's controlling the definition of the narrative, the dream. The dream has changed as the economic demographic has changed.
It may because they've spent the last four years shouting how much they hate America.
I tried to reply to that, too. Glad you brought it up again. Never in my adult life have Democrats been united in this way. I can remember when the attitude about the Rainbow Coalition was, "Yeah, I know, we have to let THEM in here, but I don't really like it." Today the unions were a rainbow, the veterans were a rainbow, when you looked at the delegates, the white men were a noticeable minority. Huge numbers of women, people of every nationality (Brazilian-American, crack me up), people of every faith and race and age. In the end, Jesse Jackson won.
typed in something Forbidden, so I'll try again:
The Republican party's "Patriotism" has always been built upon a tissue of nationalism, propaganda and falsehoods and it had to fall at some time. When they were compared to the Obama-Biden Real Deal it all started to come crashing down.
Republican leaders love America like Col. Sanders loved chickens.
That comment is why I love Wonkette.
Thanks!
Thanks to our friends in Bangalore for fixing the Wonkette for us dum murkans.
I love how he shoved that "we built it" crap back in their faces without using the words. As I said before, GREAT speechwriting.
Which with Obama comes down to great writing by him, really. Favreau (I assume he's still the guy) may scribe it, but when you take his books, the 2004 DNC keynote, the Philly race relations speech and everything else he is acknowledged to have written, they are all of a piece.
That's, to me, what makes him so extraordinary when compared to Reagan, either Bush or even Clinton – he is a gifted writer who made himself into a gifted speaker, not the other way around.
Great point.
rebecca: stay on the couch and avoid socialist rail at all costs.
also: eat something and don't sleep with weigel.
YEAH FUFLANS! Fuck all those people who want me to not be on this couch right now! PFFT
"There is such a thing as an acid hangover," said the Virgil to my Dante before I took my first tab.
It was a wonderful experience, but I had my last guitar lesson before going off to college the next day. And while I thought I was okay by that time, when the sheet music to the Bach piece I was supposed to play was open in front of me, all the notes on the page turned green and started swimming around.
"Um" I said to my guitar teacher, "Do you think we could just do some blues improv for a little while?"
It was worth it every time, but you've gotta allocate that second day for recovery only. Oh, and DC is a very pedestrian-friendly town — very good for one's first trip, especially around the Mall.
Has Weigel read your morning opener yet?
Feel free to fool around with anyone named Castro, though.
Everyone, now it's time for a Giant Cuttle Kiss!
Chthulu??
Wonkette fhtagn!
I so used to hate my US Divers single hose regulator.
Wonder if she has a Shemale top.
I think the key is to separate Malkin from ping pong by at least five words. That should slide right on through.
STEVE HOLT!
OK, great, now I'm pregnant.
We were warned about this.
Let us know if it looks like us!
Morning after pills are on aisle 3.
Great fun, all. Thanks.
FOX News is now giving the Romney point of view of the speech. NB: They did not do the opposite for Romney's speech.
Though I tend to be a cable news watching gal, I made it through the conventions almost entirely on cspan and I am so happy I made that choice. Each night as the big speeches ended, I’ve switched over to msbc and (cnn on occasion/commercials) and omg the pundits are fricking driving me nuts… why do we even have them? Everything in the whole world should be shown on cspan from now on, no more talking heads trying to tell us what we thought we saw or felt. What a bunch of dicks.
Me too. C-SPAN seems to assume that we are smart enough to form our own opinions, and not rely on a pundit to make up our mind for us. Much as I like Rachel Maddow, I prefer the company of Wonketteers…
I switch from C-Span right after the speeches because the callers are painful to my ears, makes them bleed when I forget to take out the hearing aides.
xxx-xxx-0001 Republican
xxx-xxx-0002 Democrat
xxx-xxx-0003 Independent
xxx-xxx-0004 Brainless, Spineless Troll trying to make everyone think he is a DEM
xxx-xxx-0005 Asshole shut-in who REFUSES TO MUTE THE GODDAMN TELEVISION WASTING EVERYONE'S TIME
Back in the old days of vacuum tube radio (1968-1970) a high school buddy was doing a call in show for a respectfully high MHz college station in Cleveland. He had a technique to blast those folks with a squeal that went back through the phone pot but didn’t go through the main mixer.
I miss feedback. That's exactly what CSPAN needs: Fail Safe melting telephone level feedback.
xxx-xxx-0006 Idiots who immediately begin with "Please don't cut me off but…" and who should be immediately cut off.
"You have doubts about the Republicans now. The Republican Party looks worse as a result."
That was David fucking Brooks. I thought being a hopeless wet noodle was his concession of defeat, but he actually said the Republican Party looks worse and that they presented no solutions. I am shocked.
He'll forget all that tomorrow, after a good night's rest in his mansion, and after he receives his paychecks from the NY Times, NPR, PBS, his publisher, et al. Then he'll say to himself; "Alright, today's column: Why Herman Cain's 9-9-9 Flat Tax Plan Deserves a Closer Look"
David Fucking Brooks drives me crazy. He'll actually knock one out of the park pretty regularly. I remember driving this work commute I used to make, and him kind of flipping out about Harriet Miers on NPR. And I think that was about when he said that Roe v. Wade was a done deal, and there is never going to be such a thing as "small government", and the Republicans needed to talk about things the middle class is concerned about, like health care. He obviously had little respect for Bush. And then, much more recently, he wrote a great piece on how the GOP had become tax-cut-bots, with no ideas, and how this is terrible and alien and awful. But other times, dammit, he writes total shit. I want his better angel to fucking possess him. I really do. But then, I went to church (Episcopal) during the Bush presidency, and we have the common prayer thing where we pray for the President, and I would try to be good, and pray, you know, for a better angel to possess Bush. And if RMoney wins, I'd tweak that Prayer Trooper of mine some more–except, now, mostly I go to the pool on Sunday mornings and swim laps.
What you have to remember is, David Brooks is obsessed with seriousness. By which I don't mean actually being serious about solving problems, but being serious about seeming serious to David Brooks, which typically just means talking occasionally about centerism, and most importantly having a Village-approved credential. There was no case that could be made to even the laziest of minds that Miers was of the mainstream of American politics, and she clearly lacked the aforementioned Temple Pass for admission to the inner sanctum of the High Church of Broderism. So, David Brooks flipped.
Do you remember this Dubya joke? http://www.43rdstateblues.com/?q=node/2884
His ratio of honest to dishonest statements is getting worse with time, but he still occasionally speaks the truth. By the next day, he'll usually contradict himself, though.
Somebody tuck Rebecca into bed and give her a goodnight kiss. DO NOT let her operate machinery or push buttons or pull levers and switches.
Cue Romeny TV Ads Fade to black,He should be already writing his concession speech.
Ahhhhhh anybody got a smoke? I just had and Obamagasm.
Damn he is good.
Oh, Becky we love you! Are you even in Charlotte? Are you drinkin' white lightenin' in the Smokey Mountains with some cretins from "Deliverance"?
Today was the last day she can kayak that river before the dam becomes operational. I hope any buttsecks is totes consensual! (If not, at least her body can shut that whole thing down – women, what wonders their bodies behold).
Play Rebecca! Play fer yer life girl!
As Designer sez, at least your bod will shut down. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzae_SqbmDE
Did Fox even show the convention, or was it Sun Myung Moon funeral 24/7?
Bwaaaaaaa!
AP fact checkers will make the call on the "I Am the President" line by morning.
Did you see their response to the criticism? FACTCHECK: Totally lame.
How can he be president if he is a Kenyan, Muslim, socialist, Nazi, Communist? Ipso facto, fact checked.
Obama cannot possibly be "I am the President" because Clinton got a blow job in the Oval Office.
Do we get to booo God one last time at the end?
I'm chanting " Baal, Baal, Baal……….."
No. Unlike Dan Quayle, I do not pick fights with fictional characters.
The internet broke JUST as he said "A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead." Coincidence?? Because, FUCK YOU, Republicans!!
Hopegasms achieved.
Nothing is deleted on the interwebs. Just find out where the Google cached it!
But what if editrix's body is writing checks that Google can't cache?
I hope Obama agrees to pay child support.
Thank you Becca and Dok and all you other crazy commies. I had to miss a lot of tonight because of a situation involving the neighbor, an old , broken Sunn amp, a large wedge of parmesan cheese , and a six foot cardboard mailing tube…..but the less said a bout that the better.
Thanks again…and ass WAS KICKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You should have used rebar and a Packard.
I could probably make a decent mortar out of those ingredients.
I'm assuming that's what you did. "Nuff said.
Could only crank it up to 10?
Oh for fucks sake, John King is at his "map". WTF is a pink state? Is that where those Sandra Fluke women live?
For realz??
Lindsey, Marcus, et al.
I got kinda excited when some pollsters promoted SC from red state to pink state, but it's all b.s.- nobody's done a presidential poll here since October.
It said right on the acid, "Do not operate heavy machinery"
Via Daily Kos, a tweet from @MexicanMitt:
I HOPE THIS IS THE PART WHERE HE SALUTES THE BRAVE MISSIONARIES SERVING OVER IN FRANCE #DNC2012
— @MexicanMitt via web
David Brooks with the 'uh, duh' comment of the year:
"The Republican convention looks worse in retrospect."
Jesus. Whatever they're paying him, they need a rebate.
I was looking at the crowd, and seeing African-American folks who are old enough to remember Jim Crow, and I flashed back to election night 2008, and seeing all those folks in tears that a black man was elected President. And damned if I'm not crying while I type this. Long way to go-the Republicans need to go the way of the Whigs-but, man, that was inspiring. And seeing Gabby Giffords waving a flag, obviously still suffering aftereffects of being shot. Damn, I'm a sentimental crybaby.
Umm, yeah-buttsechs! (Let's keep this Wonkette-worthy.)
That night was amazing. I was at a bar near Broad Street, and went out onto the street after the final results came in, filled with people celebrating; it was just amazing and awesome.
A week before the Phillies won the series, and that was awesome; but it was nothing compared to Obama's victory.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhE05g80cZU
we were in grant park and i got the most amazing picture of an older white lady and an older black lady holding each other looking down at the stage. they didn't know each other and it was the perfect spirit of the night.
i need to figure out how to post that somewhere that's not fb.
Bless you.
Oh God yes…
I remember being at the victory party in Los Angeles, before it was certain that Obama had won but right when PA had been called for Obama, being on the cell with my mom celebrating that our home state had gotten it right. As I recall, my exact reaction was to yell "Pennsylvania! We are not a bunch of racist thugs like McCain was hoping for, so HA!" This provided considerable amusement to the African-American family nearby.
Christ, I hope I can provide similar amusement in two months…
Ladies and gentlemen,
Obama has left the building.
YEEAAOOW!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5TqIdff_DQ
Economic populism, bitches. I've got some intellectual issues with it, sure, but goddamn it felt good to hear it take center stage. People, not banks.
Hey just after the speech Obama's already managed to send me an email asking for money; he's great at multitasking.
(Oh and again, I would if I could but I'm unemployed right now).
I got a txt message within a minute of the speech's end asking m to "chip again" yet again….they sure have figured out how to get those microdonations rolling.
I just got a bit of money, so I'll kick in a little extra for you.
Well that was pretty good!!!
Many sets of Genitals will be bumping into each other tonight in Charlotte, NC.
OK Hopey. You've accepted our invitation to the prom… let's dance.
Ok speech, but his lack of support for the British occupation of the Falkland Islands shows his raging anticolonialism.
Obvsly hates America.
Chuck Todd is on MSNBC. Blowing Goats, as usual.
Nice shout out for the troops from Korea to Afghanistan, but what about our WW-I, Spanish American and Civil War Veterans???????????
Forgotten!!!
Thems that manned the barricades in Paris in 1830? Huh? What about them?
And on the bicentennial of the War of 1812. For Shame!
War of Jenkins' Ear -NEVAR 4GET!
Once again, evidence of how much he hates America.
R.I.P. Rough Riders
John Edwards was on cable access selling whore diamonds tonight. Does that mean Johnny will be checking the babes diaper from my garbage can in 9 months for DNA? It was you sweet Barry "You did that" Baracky!
If you haven't watched Gov. Granholm's speech at the DNC, oh please do. "Who jump started our engine? Barack Obama!" http://current.com/groups/news-blog/93894782_watc…
We had our carpets cleaned today with some new allergy-preventing dry process. The guy who did it flies helicopters in the Air National Guard out of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base on the weekends. When I made the appointment, I heard a child in the background, so I asked if that was his daughter. He said, "Yes, the two of us are together a lot because my wife is in Afghanistan." Almost broke my heart. Mom's due back in November. She deployed last March. I told him I hope everyone thanks him for his service, but I'd like to thank his daughter for her service, too. Not a thing that should happen to a three-year-old. I thought about them all through that speech.
Goddamit, I've already cried enough times tonight.
His wife is the the one at war. We've come a long way baby… Welcome to the future.
If there IS an up-side, that's the only one I could think of. But to be fair to Daddy, he was deployed, too, both as a full-time soldier AND from the Guard.
Please get a hot dog at guero canelo for me.
Where should I send it? I can't eat those. I'm fat enough.
America
DrinksEjaculates and Goes Home.FZ would upfist you if he were alive…
I knew you would get that!
BTY, Props for the FZ Sofa #1 references in the Eastwood/Chair threads last week. Nicely done.
Dweezil plays it on one of his recent releases. Check the site for it. It's a two disc set and they even played Billy the Mountain (and take a slam at someone we all know and loathe here).
Fareed Zakaria is dead?! Srsly, who are you hipsters talking about?
ETA — Nevermind — I'm so uncool I can't even come up with Zappa. Sad.
I just checked Reuters/Ispos and they are saying that there is no sign of a convention bounce for President Obama.
They have somehow managed to conduct a poll in the last 30 seconds.
Seriously.
It's been 15 minutes, man, give it time.
That said, who are these independent undecided voters? They weren't watching tonight, or last week. I doubt the polls will change much before the election.
They're going to write in Honey Boo Boo.
Well it bounced me. I think I will set aside my hatred of humanity and volunteer for Bammerz tomorrow, even though i really wanted Hillary.
Don't even bother with Ipsos (or Rasmussen). Ipsos is conducted via the internet, which makes it even worse than most bad polls.
Absolutely. It amazes me how much I've absorbed about the science of polling over the last few years. I never look at the numbers until I find the fine print that tells me who did the damn poll and what their methodology was. There is a political strategy (and funding) behind skewing the results for your purposes. It is much harder being an informed voter than I ever imagined.
Yeah, I didn't ever think I'd be looking at partisan samples and racial breakdowns and such. Polling has been particularly shitty this go-around.
Yes, all of that along with cell phones vs. land lines, then having to absorb the statistics on what percentage of the population applies to which and what percentage of those vote, and omg, if I understand any more of this shit I should get an honorary doctorate and a 6 digit pay scale to go with it.
Meh, the trouble with us libtards is always enthusiasm. And we gots it!
The online survey included questions to voters on Wednesday before former President Bill Clinton's well-received speech on the convention floor, so Clinton's influence has not yet been taken into account.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/06/us-usa-…
FFS, talk about whoring for page clicks…Reuters, you suck…
"they are saying that there is no sign of a convention bounce for President Obama"
/Colonel Potter/ Horse hockey, Son.
Strangely enough, Karl Rove did not like the speech. Apparently not enough promises to bomb brown people or reveal the names of CIA agents.
rove delivers his best speeches via rap.
My stomach still goes in a knot thinking about that. Same with that fool David Gregory dancing with him.
For Rove, I'd legalize waterboarding for a few hours
To paraphrase Dylan, "he'd break just like a little girl."
No, we are a constitutional fuckitallocracy.
Andrea Mitchell is on MSNBC, staring out of the Teevee at me exactly like Gollum. Exactly. Her eyes are huge. I think she's eating a catfish.
I think all of this LSD talk has given me contact hallucinations. Actually, I hope so.
"It " AKA The Creature (Mrs. Greenspan) is more real than real man
What!? Don't tell me these things. Not with all those Lizards around.
And someone's giving booze to the goddamn things!
Pretty soon her face is going to collapse into itself.
Like a sinkhole.
Yeah, like on the first Indiana Jones when they opened the Ark. But with less flittery phantoms.
Ask Jimmy Carter man, it's the only way! http://www.hulu.com/watch/4131
Ah, yes! Not since the 70's have I been talked down byJimmy. He's good. Gotta go flip the Allman Brothers LP over now. And Stare.
Orange Sunshine mang! Cheech & Chong, Have A Nice Day!
How did our editrix break the Internet, and was it hot?
She rolled over on it in bed.
Thank you, MR. PRESIDENT!
Wonkette Technical Difficulties = Coitus Interuptus
Oh, for fucks sake,
OT, and hate to be a killjoy here, but am I the only one who missed this at the RNC?
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnn-camerawoman-not-su…
Are you the only one? Maybe….
I think the Wonkette covered that specific story you linked to too.
God dammit. The things I miss…
Yeah, man, read the interwebz.
Thanks Wonkette!
We think people like this are a national treasure. Literally.
And we think such treasure should be buried. Literally.
We think people like this are a national treasure. Literally.
Can we just herd them up and put them in a museum to be seen and not heard? Please?!
Up top:
11:42 Caller to C-SPAN just pointed out that “we are not a democracy, we are a Constitutional Republic, and it seems people DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS.” We think people like this are a national treasure. Literally.
Thank you.
" “we are not a democracy, we are a Constitutional Republic" Wait, is this followed by a tedious explanation of why goooooold is the only real money?
Bitcoin LIBEL!!
Anyone calling from Sun City is too stupid to breathe…
I-I-I-I ain't gonna play Sun City!
Not even canasta? Harsh, dude.
somebody remind her the election is on Wednesday this time
We can console ourselves with the fact that Sun Cities are in states that would be red whether or not they had Sun Cities.
Dear Mistress,
Next time try mushrooms instead of LSD.
MG
Hold Out for Mushrooms Instead!
For reference…
Gabby Giffords Pledge:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEuWuqZigD4
Former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm's Barnburner:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKux363Dg64
And the MSNBC coverage ends – and then goes right into an ad for Cialis. Another fucking boner pill. Really, not all of us who watch the news are ancients who can no longer keep it up! Why the fuck do the people in charge of the news think they are only watched by geriatric Baby Boomers who need a pill to get a hard-on?
TV is for the oldz. The youth are all about the Twitter and Pinterest.
I still have no clue what Pinterest is, but I see women on the Facebook "pin" things involving dining room chairs and teapots.
I have no idea what Pinterest is either, except that most of my (older) cousins' wives seem to like it, while they talk about their grandchildren.
Sadly, I just joined Pinterest. It is addictive, but herein lies the flaw: one spends time "pinning" cool DIY ideas, but then has no time to DO the DIY. But it's cheaper than buying magazines and clipping the same ideas. And occasionally I do make something.
That's about it. Dining room sets and china stuff.
I will laugh and laugh, when you are old. That's right, I'm going to outlive all you fuckers!
upwardly mobile wonketteers: please please please donate and volunteer. the fundraising gap is real. citizens united is real. both parties are dependent on big money donors. ofa needs money in order to mobilize community organizers. mittens has no grassroots infrastructure. barry won iowa because he had the money to hire college kids. those college kids lived in iowa from june thru january and busted their fucking asses. they lived our creed and won because they literally got more people to participate in our democracy. please please please give barry the resources to empower his campaign to reach out to the americans who feel left out.
ofa 2012
disclaimer: i'm lucky enough to have a job and a vacation this year. my vacation will be serving as a deputy field organizer for barry '12 in colorado. colorado wonkettes: please don't get mad when i call you during your dinner.
I can say "thanks for your service," to you, too!
We're downwardly mobile, but we donated to Bamz and Elizabeth Warren in August. We'll also cough up something this month and next. I wish it could be more. My mother donated her church money. She actually told her priest TO HIS FACE, "I'm not going to donate any more of my Social Security money because the Church values my grandsons more than my granddaughters." She must have made it sound really convincing, because he didn't argue with her!
I live in GA, but I donate to Bammerz regularly. He's gonna win.
Where's my iPod?
I'm not upwardly mobile — financially or physically … well, at least one part still works well, and … ahhh fuck it, nevermind that shit.
I have NEVER given to a campaign in my life, nor worked for one.
This year will be the first.
I'm playing the Paul Ryan hidden object game, but can't win because I can't find the brain.
DNC 2012 – Four days of not running away from liberal ideals.
OK, your comment just got promoted into the liveblog.
Thanks Dok. I was just thinking how, although I love Bill Clinton, he did the DLC thing and never got more than 43% of the vote. Obama is the real deal.
I just posted the other day that the DLC seems to be dead. Even their website has not been updated since 2010.
However to be correct, Clinton got a shade over 49% of the vote in 1996 and Perot got about 8% and it is the longest running, meandering discussion over whose votes Perot took since if Dole got all of them (probably a statistical impossibility) he would have had 50+% of the vote. That possible out come is a rather interesting warning of the potential clusterfuck the Electoral College can become. Perot did not get a single electoral vote yet the likely switch to Dole were Perot not in the race is vastly short of the 111 Electoral Votes Dole needed to win.
Thanks for that. I didn't know Clinton got that that much in '96.
Hi kids! I am now just a smelly commenter like you!
Hey, I'll shower when Tibet is free!
Hey! That's either Mr Smelly Commenter or Mr. Filthy Slut, thank you very much!
Wash your pits, then!
I'm not a blogger; I'm you.
This comment wins a recording of Carl Kasell imitating Dame Peggy Noonington on your home answering machine.
You're not smelly like me; I live in Portland, where everybody smells like patchouli.
Damn, I hate that shit!
BATHE YOURSELVES! BATHE YOURSELVES! BATHE YOURSELVES!
YOU FREAKS! YOU FILTHY FILTHY FILTHY FREAKS!
STOP RAPING PEOPLE (with votes)!!! STOP RAPING PEOPLE (with votes)!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4FprR_LNSU
OK, now that was just CRUEL
What? It's just a nice sunshine day; everybody's smiling.
They are totally lip syncing
Something to listen to while you stare through the windowpane:
http://youtu.be/s1813cEd8hI
There's a rumor going around that Doktor Zoom lost his cherry in the packed and sweaty upper deck. Or maybe I just made that up. I'm high.
I actually lost my cherry in the front seat of Vlad the Impala in 1979, and now I truly hope Kid Zoom does not read the liveblog.
Happily, because it is something his dad does, he is now no longer impressed with the Wonkette, so he tends to stay away.
Oh, you mean my blogging cherry? We don't talk about that.
lol In honor of either occasion… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXUrmYa8N08
It's so much less stressful to get pregnant through the TV.
But at 38 minutes long, 36 minutes longer than it normally takes…
Hey! no POTUS Interuptus.
Had it been someone less attractive, I would object, but he can sweat in my ears and make me hopey any day.
Michelle uses those ears as handles
There's a "greatest hits" of the Convention medley on cspan…yum.
Watching Charlie Crist's speech again on PBS made me think that the Dem's are being very smart in not neglecting the large number of mediocre voters.
I paid close attention to both conventions, and I can honestly say there were more babes I’d like to fuck at the Democrat’s than the Republican’s. Of course, I’m into dark-skinned chicks so that explains that.
At first glance I thought the headline read: Emergency Backup Liverblog. It'd probably be a good thing to have an emergency back-up liver. Cheers!!
I wish. To quote Punt & Dennis: "Famous Grouse? I don't recognise him!"
Rufus Gifford just thanked me for my Obama donation. I'll buy this election $6 at a time bitches!!
I thank you too, also!
I thought this was the perfect way to end this post:
“…an obscenity-laced test comment is the highest-rated comment. USA!! USA!! USA!! USA!!”
But my Wonkette always surpasses my expectations because then there was this:
“Editrix has apparently “headed out for a smoke,” which, with the kind of day she’s been having, means that people in the Charlotte NC area should prepare for either a massive wildfire, or, we don’t know, maybe a plague of frogs. Very, very stoned frogs..”
This is why I love my Wonkette.
"David Brooks is making our beer taste funny"
LMAO … almost wasted a mouthful of Maker's Mark, you sneaky bastard!
And as we sign off for another broadcast day…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7FPTsEkBaE
Scheila's just an amazing musician AND she's played both of my flutes in New York and when I had a lesson at my house. Woot! I don't know that I'll ever play that well, but she's certainly inspirational.
You lucky bastard.
I don't know what kind of Magnet Frank and Dweezil have, but it attracts some of the worlds best musicians.
And yes, Scheila's awesome live
It's not luck, it's skill (which I sadly lack, but I'm working on it).
Seriously, they tell me it's the music that attracts them. You gotta wonder why a talented woman like Scheila wants to sing "Dirty Love," but she loves the music and how fun and challenging it is. you can't play that stuff without getting better at what you do.
Yeah, figured as much. Not too many Rock drummers have to use sheet music.
Seeing Schelia sing "Call Any Vegetable" was one of my all time highlights.
Call us direct
Call us collect
But call us TODAY!
They go back on tour in November, but all in Europe. I would hope they do some US gigs in Jan/Feb like they did last year. They will do a tour in the NE in conjunction with Dwezilla (July 1-5 at the Full Moon Resort) for sure.
Here are a couple of fun comments from Free Republic about the DNC for the women here. First made by a woman, second by a man.
Wimin are not all that crazy about lesbians politically, to tell you the truth. Fluke going for the free birth control, abortions and penis removal rights doesn’t ring a bell. Women kinda like men with their penises attached. They love babies. They manage their own birth thing without the government in their bedrooms. They like jobs, too!
…
I’m not sure women will be impressed with Obama on an emotional level. I think women who are even halfway objective (i.e. not democrat ideologues) have a pretty finely-tuned BS detector. (Us guys give them plenty of practice in keeping it tuned-up). I think their reaction to Obama is going to be about the same as to a boyfriend who says he’ll never cheat again, or a husband who never quite gets around to cleaning out the garage. In other words, after four years of promises and excuses, women voters will be fed up with Barrys BS.
Finger on the pulse, these Freepers.
Of course, it's the pulse of Jefferson Davis, but hey.
edit: this was in a big discussion about how women vote with emotions and estrogen rather than logic, natch
"Penis removal rights"?? There's been no mention of that on NPR – fucking liberal media!
All kidding aside, Ba-rocked the house, Mittens is in the rear view mirror, Pundits are another form of sidewalk chewing gum on a hot afternoon, somewhat flat, oddly configured and will stick to anything that comes near.
Andrew Sullivan well, he's a lost and found party pooper, the folks here on my end of the festivities, think he did the country proud, lost just enough professor, made his case and oh yeah, OBL is dead…
A little bit of cynical economic analysis for the late night / early morning people:
Facts:
* we know that the DJIA (market indicator for the masses) is at its highest level since 2007
* we know that corporate profits are at an all-time high
Suppositions:
* There is "business uncertainty" as to who gets into the Big Chair after the election
* Large multinationals (e.g. GE) hide money offshore anyway
* Rmoney would cut corp tax from 35% to 25% and have some half-assed "amnesty" for offshored cash.
* Bammaz wouldn't cut corp tax that much, if at all
Clarification:
* When I talk about corporate profits, I mean publicly held (i.e. floated on stock exchanges) corporations, since those are the ones for which we can know the latest figures
Synthesis:
Companies are ready to hire more people. However, these corporations need to know how to account for 2013 and make predictions on EBITDA, dividend, etc for the street. Guess Romney and you might look a bit shitty if Bammaz doesn't lower corp tax. *That's* the uncertainty.
My guess is that corporations and the Mighty Economy will boom whoever is elected. Wall Street buy/sell (e.g. for mutual funds, pension funds etc) is sometimes predicated by projected growth and dividend; at least, in a rational market.
Re-elect Bammaz and the economy will go gangbusters. Hell, elect Romney and the economy will go gangbusters, it's just that the poors and everyone outside the 99% will get raped.
Know which I'd choose.
edit: to any real economists who post here, I do realize that this is jaw-droppingly naive from a model standpoint. My apologies.
Given that we hold presidential elections every four years and Congressional elections every two years, there's pretty much constant uncertainty. It seems like "business uncertainty" is a nice way of saying, "we're waiting for the economy to pick up" – without stepping on the talking points.
The media is already trolling the president's speech: It was "just" great and not amazing, which means the speech was a complete failure.
Fuck 'em.
Comments were turned off on foxnews.com for every single report of the Michelle, Clinton, Biden and Bammaz speeches.
Tells you everything you need to know.
Which is neither here nor there for me since I don't subject myself to 'conservative' media, neither on television nor the internet. It's bad enough that the 'liberal' cable news outlets I watch shit all over the president.
They were turned off for Gabby really early. Too many vegetable jokes, probably. Classy people, those Fox news commenters.
This morning NPR helpfully asked a National Review columnist what he thought of the speech and had Mara Liasson offer her thoughts, of course.
Always love that liberal NPR analysis, especially when that disingenuous and smarmy Steve Inskeep is involved! (I can't stand that guy. He makes me want to punch my radio in the face.)*
*with votes
Heading home.
Nice!
I am convinced that the pundits realize that if they raved about this fantastic speech, the thing would be over and no one would be coming back to read their tripe.
I like Obama, but certainly not a "true believer" – and I was pretty much electrified last night.
I feel that way about Clinton. I hated NAFTA and that DLC crap. And I think he disrespected his admirable wife appallingly. But I'd still vote for him. And I'd probably sleep with him if he asked. Liberal morality is such a minefield.
Jesus, the Wingnut callers are out in grouchy force this AM on CSPAN's Washington Journal, bitterly clinging to the "they booed GOD" meme like some sepia toned photo from the last century.
You folks stay here in the dust and yell nonsense about nothing in particular. We're moving forward.
Romney / Ryan 1912!
Bumper Sticker FTW! I had one that said Bush Cheney 1984.
Hey, isn't it like 0530 out there? You must have dogs.
My dog likes to sleep in. I work for a living.
I work also – thank goodness -but I'm also on Retriever Daylight time. There's no snooze alarm for that.
OK and now we have Kelleyanne Conway, Republican Pollster and president of "The Polling Company" telling me that Barack Obama's speech was hollow and not nearly as good as his last nominating speech and he was just going through the motions and an empty suit.
Goddammit, I was afraid of this. I've been pulled back through the Space-Time Rift into Republican Backwards Universe. Again. Fuck. This place sucks.
I hope I can get back out again, after November.
EDIT: She just said that according to her polls, no women care at all about birth control and she's Shocked – Shocked that the Democrats had the presidents of Planned Parenthood and NARAL speaking and how much better the Republican Convention Speakers were with the token minority women Governors. Jesus, what an impossible tool. OH, and her poll was taken for – the Lifetime Network! Fuck it's too early to drink
Did she mention any polls concerning how many women are impressed with the Republican platform edict that women who are pregnant from rape should be forced to carry the rapist's baby to term?
No, but I didn't stick around for that one because my Rage Meter was creeping into the red zone again. I'm sure she got around to it after she maintained that what Women really care about is the horrendously sucky economy and jobs outlook that Obama didn't turn around in his 3.75 years even though he promised.
This woman is a sterling example of the Right Wing epistemic closure machine. I can't tell whether she really believes her skewed polls with their massaged statistics and cherry picked data, but she sure talks like it. I am sure, though, that the people who want to believe what she's selling do believe it.
She's out of her mind. I can't tell you how much I appreciate that my birth control is covered 100% now. I fucking love it and I say a silent "Thank you Barry!" to myself every month at the Walgreens pharmacy.
Word. This is exactly why the Republicans want to kill the Affordable Hearth Care program ASAP. When people realize what it's doing for them they love it and begin to realize hey, government can do good things!
OH Ghod Fuck Toad is on Morning Joe reminding me why don't watch this drivel. He should be passed out in the gutter with no pants on, after last night.
Back to the vacuous blonde authoritarian propagandist and the MUTE button.
EDIT: That's it. I'm switching off this blond Goebbels. To awful for words. Here's The Weather Channel and Stephanie Abrams knockers. That's better.
When/if I can get up early enough, I catch Bill Press on Current. 3:00 in the damned morning is way too early to be getting up, but today I caught over an hour of his show.
Good, thanks! I can probably grab that online, as I refuse to give my local fascist cable company that kind of money to get the package which includes Current TV.
Steal it.
Hey, Wassila Snookie has commented on being mentioned in John Kerry's speech;
"I think he demeaned himself by mentioning my name".
bwahahahahahaha
I don't think that word means what she thinks it means. lol
Nor does Kerry demean what she thinks he demeans.
I demean myself every time I can't reach the MUTE button fast enough.
This is that broken clock being right twice a day thing Bill was talking about, right?
Hahahahahahahah.
Not a dry seat in the house.
96,000 jobs. Meh. The numbers are already baked in. So long as it's not a net loss, it's not going to matter, politically.
David Brooks is making the air smell sour – and I'm 1000+ miles away.
It's probably about time for a gang of Cephalopods.
Did I miss Barney Frank, or was he totally scrubbed?
Since you posted hours ago you've probably figured this out by now, but yes he was there. Barney did a humorous speech on Mitt Romney vs. Myth Romney.
http://www.c-span.org/DNC/Events/Barney-Frank-at-…
Actually, I just got back in the house, so I didn't know. I must've been in Home Depot when Barney was on stage. I had the radio in my truck tuned in to C-SPAN just in case, too. Anyway, thanks for the link!
The other day I got a debit card worth $250 for some equipment installations at work. Now 1.) They don't know I got it, 2.) They don't bother to apply for them if I don't because they are a bunch of rich elitist Republican Swine. 3.) I gave $100 to Obama and split the remaining $150 among six Democratic Congressional campaigns I like. With an additional C-Note thrown in for Tammy Duckworth. Not only does she deserve to serve, it will get that weasel Joe Walsh out of Washington.
You rockin' Socialist, you! The Fortune 100 I worked for paid someone handsomely to give their money away. SHE was BLAH, so they could get triple credit from the bleeding hearts. (She was also the first African-American ever invited into the Oakmont Country Club, right before a U.S. Open when they didn't need bad publicity.) So if you get caught, tell them you thought it was your duty to improve their terrible image with the community.
Our so-called company’s ruling elite is so old school republican when I go through older corporate files the original signed letters from historical figures is a little amazing. As I will probably have to spend some time doing a final dump of files I hope a few of them get caught under my shirt as I leave. And it is almost the epitome of modern day corporate hypocrisy having been started by a guy who would have been nothing were it not for the fact he had a dying company making a few parts for Curtiss-Wright Radial engines when WWII started. Now those who manage the company are typical “We Built It!” types. Fortunately I got them to start using email six years ago and I don’t have to talk to them and have ‘The Old Bat” as a sufficiently self-centered control freak secretive buffer between them and me.
Six years ago!So I take it they're not on Twitter.LOL.
Barry BUILT THAT BRICK HOUSE…
What a speech by Granholm! I caught it on tape this morning and fell in love.
You know she has a TV show of her own, don't you? The War Room, every day on Current TV (channel 358 on my DirecTV).
Jen Granholm's speech was awesome. Was she drunk?
Someone on the first live blog suggested an overdose of Red Bull.
That's my girl in my avatar.
Oh what a Cutie!
Thanks! Yours too!!??
Pretty! I was expecting more tentacles!
Thanks! I got all the tentacles in the family.
My younger brother from the POTS AT&T days knows all those codes and he gave me the one which produces a signal similar to a fax training signal but sharper and louder. I forgot it. He wouldn’t give it to me when I asked him last time. I think it could be valuable because it also dropped the Central Office to USER line on the other end. I guess it is the same with digital – AT&T never throws anything away it is all lurking somewhere in the system like a “The President’s Analyst” gone really bad.
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