This morning I’m feeling a bit better, because I’m reading that the single most talked-about moment of Wednesday’s debate was Mitt threatening to kill Big Bird. God bless America.
See also the photograph of the President in Wisconsin, taken yesterday.
See also Charles Pierce on the new jobs figures.
As Nate says, it’s too soon to see a response to the debates in the polls. However, I think that unless there is a substantial shift in the polls, Mitt might find himself worse off than before. The word before the debate was that Mittens had to be more human and likable, and I don’t think he did that.
Yesterday the Obama campaign came out with this —
From Charles Pierce:
Sesame Street is brought to you today by the number 7.8
Excellent.
And that Madison, WI rally photo! It looks like 2008, not this week.
Yeahh, then there’s this, from HuffPo:
Well, at least the idiots spelled “Muslim” right.
Well, in all fairness to Mitt, reagrding PBS, he was just ‘folloving zee orderz!’
The Koch Brothers HATE puppets who aren’t directly on their payroll.
Awe 7.8%, too bad the racist-hate orgy spawned by Willard’s bullshit session a couple days ago had to come to a premature end. Poor Willard he just can’t get any momentum, it seems he just can’t keep it up!!! It’s interesting that now many republicants are saying the number is rigged to help the president get re-elected. It seemed the calculation was just fine last year when it was up over 9%, something must have changed?
Obama is lucky the jobs numbers came in where they did. Someone else commented, “expect a revision after the election”. Thank God for that video and the Truth Team.
President Barack Obama’s campaign building in Des Moines, Iowa, was vandalized with the words “Muslim Lier,†spray-painted on a large banner.
I’ve been reading about all kinds of anti-Obama billboards put up by Tea Party types in the outback. This blows me away, I don’t think I’ve ever seen so much of this in my life.
Yeah, Mitt did better than expected (or Obama did worse) but all people seem to specifically remember is the Big Bird thing. And it’s very clear Romney lied repeatedly. He tried very hard to come off casual and fun and (to me at least) he just seemed nasty and at time entitled (I get the last word, Jim!)
When Erinyes was talking about training as a Toyota Sales Associate, it reminded me of a time I was looking at a classic old beater on one of the many, many used car lots in North Tampa. The salesman pointed out that the body and upholstery were in in great condition, or something like that. I could see some sloppy bondo, a cheap paint job and cheesy seat covers over the original upholstery. The only thing I could think of was that the lies were so blatant that the target (me!) would be at a loss to come to grips with it. In other words it would be so obvious that it would be hard to believe anyone would attempt it.
That’s how I see Romney and his party. They sell snake oil and they know they are good at it. He has the ability to look look you straight in the eyes and tell you any lie he thinks you’ll swallow. I don’t think that’s a quality anyone would want in a president.
goatherd…I once had a Kirby vaccuum cleaner salesman try to sell me a Kirby with the idea that with the attactment I could use it to polish and buff furniture, an automobile, floors…when he noticed that I was a wookworker he tried to launch into a spiel that I could use it for woodworking/carpentry…I’m surprised he didn’t mention food proceessing.
One way to judge a serious mechanic is by his tools…Makita, DeWalt ,Porter Cable, Milwuakee…Kirby.
Wait’ll you all read Santorum’s response to the bird issue.
Government support for PBS is 12% of their budget..I know the wingnuts are using the logic that you have to start somewhere to lower the defecit..But whatever the yearly dollar figure is in cost to the American tax payer it could never equal the benefit in educational dividend for America’s children…Maybe the cost of 6 cruise missiles and 3 smart bombs.. An hour in Afghanistan?
Mitt and Paulie don’t like Big Bird because they are big shit birds.
“Cutting PBS support (0.012% of budget) to help balance the Federal budget is like deleting text files to make room on your 500Gig hard drive”
Tweet from Neil deGrasse Tyson
Iosue,
I!’s like trimming your toenails to make yourself believe that you’ve lost weight.
Mitt isn’t going to accept those job numbers until Paulie gets to crunch them. Paulie’s the man! Yo, Yo.
I am hoping that the police find out who tampered with the Obama sign in Des Moines..however i think the police here are a little bit distracted today after killing a 6’3 150 lb MOUNTAIN LION !(wild not a pet) hanging out in my neighborhood (in town) near 2 grade schools…i checked his paws….no signs of spraypaint.
Way up Wisconsin close to Butternut
Way back up in the woods among the little huts
There stood a old shanty made of earth and iron
Where lived a blue eyed boy named Paulie B. lyin’
Who never ever learned to tell the truth so well
But he could crunch numbers just like a ringing a bell
Go go
Go Paulie go
Go
Go Paulie go
Go
Go Paulie go
Go
Go Paulie go
Go
Paulie B. Lyin’
He used to carry his calculator in his Jansport pack
Go sit beneath the cottonwoods on the railroad track
Oh, the towns folk would see him sitting in the shade
Crunching numbers with the rhythm that the river made
People passing by they would stop and say
Oh my that little Paulie boy can crunch all day
Go go
Go Paulie go
Go
Go Paulie go
Go
Go Paulie go
Go
Go Paulie go
Go
Paulie B. lyin’
His mother told him “Someday, Paulie you might be a man,
But you’ll never be a the leader in this big ole land.
Many people coming from miles around
To watch you crunch your numbers till the sun goes down
Maybe someday your name will be in lights
Saying Paulie B. Lyin’ tonight.”
Go go
Go Paulie go
Go go go Paulie go
Go go go Paulie go
Go go go Paulie go
Paulie B. Lyin’
Be sure to have your crying towel handy! This would make Leona Helmsley sob uncontrollably.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/mitt-romney-gets-personal-florida-012508174–abc-news-politics.html
Knock, knock… Mitt says: Can Billy come out to play baseball?
Oh,no, Billy is a quad.he can’t play baseball.
Oh that’s alright , we just want to use him for third base.
Goatherd:
That’s a big point, but even more importantly, they have people who will support them.
I like some Republican ideals, but I’ll never trust a Republican until I see them denouncing the echo chamber lies. There was a time, they angrily denounced FISA because it let President Clinton *spy* on *American citizens* and all he had to do was get some crummy warrants from a rubber stamp court! You see them denouncing George W. for not even getting the warrants? I’m sure some minor number did – most crowed about how it was legal and necessary for our protection. I even saw some gleefully pointing out how no one could lawfully have standing to sue because the information was all so tightly classified that, to have it would be evidence of a crime.
I’d lost respect for them before then, but that was when I realized that they were devoid of actual ideals . (And the Schiavo fiasco proved that there were no depths to which they would not sink.)
Moonbat,
I’m in my 8th decade and I have never seen this much hate. And have never seen this much unwillingness to work together. Defeating Obama is so much more important than fixing the economy — to the TeaPartiers, that is.
Chief …I’m all about love. I just want be like the good Samaritan and help the morally infirmed Paulie Ryan back through the narrow gate onto the path of righteousness.
Swami, you know you want to send Pauli Ryan back to 1313 Mockingbird Lane.
Oh, the Humanitah!
I thought we had freedom of religion in this country, all them wingnut bible thumpin’ constitution talkin’ right wing folk with internet names like “Texas Patriot” and “flag wavin’ Fred” seem to have forgot that when the religion is Islam.
Maybe the FBI should treat certain activities as hate crimes against Muslims. Maybe offending Muslims with rude films and burning Qurans should be viewed with the same distain as tagging a Synagog door with a swatstika.Maybe we need a national Muslim Jar, kinda like a “swear jar”, when you have to put a dollar in it every time you say something nasty about Muslima just because.Or maybe a Jar you have to put a buck in every time you say something stupid about anything. The national debt would be paid off in a year or two, and we’d once again have sunshine, flowers, and rainbows! Now, I’m just being silly….
I agree with Chief;I’ve never seen this much hate, and it seems to be getting worse .
Any day now, Obama is gonna install that there “Sharia” law, and we’ll all be speakin’ Muslim and bowing to Myakka !
We need to start a new movement: Occupy Sesame Street!
We can make a movie about it: The Muppets Take-on Mitt.
Too bad Big Bird only has 4 fingers, or he could flip Mitt the middle one.
Instead, since he doesn’t even wear any pants, maybe Big Bird can just grab his egg-maker, shake it at him, and yell, ‘Hey Mitt – Suck On THIS!”
(Or does Tom Friedman get residuals whenever someone does that?).
Mitt’s objective in attacking Big Big was to reinforce the idea that we’re indebted to China. Nationalism really stirs up the molecules in the wingnut mind. Eff dem chinks, we’re Amuricans..
Not big big..big Bird…:)