Won’t be vacationing overseas? You mean like the Obamas vacationing overseas in the State of Hawaii?

Rilly? (Jesus G_d all of those ‘daughters-in-law’ look exactly like Mommy Ann. Are we quite sure that plural marriage is no longer practiced?

Jackasses. Could you all not just move to Provo and STAY THERE?

Well, GEEZ, now that you put it that way TBogg, I surely DO have reconsider my vote!!!!!! Why didnaya say so before? Sheee… woulda avoided a lotta grief, my man.

Agree with GWPDA: none of ‘em fancy exotic vacays to the likes of furrin Hawaii, which is clearly a province of MuzlinKenyaIndonesiastan. After all, didn’t Sheriff Joe Arapio recently send Deputies Dog & Fife to furrin HI to endlessly demand that someone-or-other give Sherriff Joe that goddanged furrin birf sirteefikat pronto, tonto???11!!

But … but … DRONES!!!

Can you give them all red eyes, like the Wasilla gang? That would be way cool.
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With the Romneys it will be like being forced to spend a weekend at the Osmond’s house watching home movies for eternity. It’s going to be like Politico meets Cute Overload. … Just give it some thought, that’s all I ask…

If that’s really the choice, it’s Obama for me.

Mitt Romney – where America confronts its deeply schizoid self. The perfect dysfunctional candidate.

Exactly! How many overseas vacations has Obama taken? None that I can think of. He has taken trips abroad in his capacity as President, but so did Bush and even Saint Ronald of Reagan.

Well, Cheney and Rumsfeld used to have houses in the south of France, but can’t use them much anymore ’cause, you know, they’ll be arrested for war crimes. Perhaps the bazillions of cherub-cheeked Romneys could, maybe, sublet for a bit of time for a holiday treat? They’d probably get a break in the rent bein’ in the same crime…er, political party and all…

Someone counted them, over at the Great Orange Satan, and found exactly two overseas vacations, one of them being Michelle taking her daughters to Spain. All the others were inside the US.
The Obamas don’t have multiple multimillion-dollar estates to vacation at, either.

Romney’s whole, admitted, campaign will be one of lies. Now that it’s out there, its accepted by most. However at this point only dweebs like us and the rabid hate radio followers are even paying attention to the candidates.

Yeah, well, it’s all fine and dandy now. But if he loses the election he’s gonna have to downsize and sell off some of those grandkids. Can’t keep them all and still have those horses. Might have to let one or two of the sons go as well. (Buh-bye, Tagg.)

I guess that cuts out the commencement speech at Breed-Em-Young-Hawaii.
and visits to the “Polynesian Cultural Center”
and dipping non members in the oldest “Temple” outside of the continental states.

etc,etc…

I thought, when Mitt(What kind of fucking name is that!?!?! Did his Dad pick up an Alaskan book of baby names/home repair manual?)said that he meant that he owned a small country or an island where they vacationed.

Oh noes! Surely NOT.

The Mitt and family are the most boring people ever. I can’t imagine spending a vacation with them – unless I get to ride the car elevators up and down.

The Romney clan will be balls deep in wholesome family entertainment that is for sure. Perhaps a return of the variety show as tv staple. more hee-haw, carol burnett and the mandrell sisters type entertainment. the all jug band might even become a revival act that plays the shed in the middle of nowhere ciircuit. lollapacornmash.

Here’s the thing you have to remember about Mormonism: Its closest relative, religiously speaking, is Scientology. Both were founded by con men with elaborate stories of alien intervention (Moroni, et al, for the Mormons, Xenu for the Scientologists) and an earnest guarantee of having the secret truth about life and the universe.

The big difference between the two is approach. Mormons figured out how to lay low and pretend to be normal. After Joseph Smith got whacked, they decided that blending in was better than appearing to foment rebellion against the government. Scientologists, being especially nuts, went the other way. Yeah, they *try* to appear normal, but even breathe on the surface and the crazy springs out like something from Alien.

But beyond that? No difference. Joe Smith = L. Ron Hubbard. Elect away, America.

The Mormons are a combination of old-time-religion and 19th (and maybe 18th) century fraternal organizations like the Masons and the local good-ol-boys club. Which, IMO, puts them one step closer to genuine religion than the Scientologists. (The Mormons aren’t against medical treatment, and aren’t funding their operation by demanding ever-more-money from the members and wanna-be-members.)

Don’t freak out there! The grand kids will be given drones to kill the little people….

Business Casual?

An “Out by a lake in the woods family portrait” in Business Casual?

Given that the Obamas seem to vacation in Hawaii and Martha’s Vinyard, I’m thinking that Ann Romney’s concept of vacationing overseas might be a bit sketchy. Or she’s got a talented handler.

Postum and a Left Behind movies marathon.

“… aren’t funding their operation by demanding ever-more-money from the members …”

Yeah, anything more than the 10% tithe is strictly voluntary.

WJR Detroit’s Frank Beckmann, who asked Romney if her family would be vacationing abroad as frequently as the Obamas.

The question was as slow and right down the middle of the plate as it was a falsehood. I wonder if it was prearranged.

Thank you,all. I was racking my brain for even one “overseas” vacation by the Obamas…I do vaguely recall Michelle and the kids taking that trip to Spain (was it Spain?).

Remember all the criticism they got for going to (gasp!) Martha’s Vineyard?!!Ohmigawd! Overseas! Well, it is in the water, and you can’t quite drive there from the mainland…you gotta take a ferry (it’s one of the few tony places I’ve actually been to myself, although I took a bus from Boston, and was a guest at someone’s summer rental house). Supposedlly only rich folks can vacay on the Vineyard, and they shoulda gone somewhere more downscale…I believe the Clintons got the same sort of sniping, for the same Vineyard.
And somehow this little interview with Mrs. R. implies that the Romneys taking their vacations at their own homes makes them more down-to-earth jes’ folks than the Obamas….who only own one home! Maybe not even one, I’m not sure. But just like the Clintons, they don’t have any vacation mansions to spend their time off at, but have to accept invitations from people richer (at least in homes) than they.

Yet somehow, this makes the Obamas (Michelle, Southside of Chicago, daughter of a school custodian, compared to Ann, daughter of a rich man) the elitists…

Can someone explain this to me? Oh, right, I forgot..he’s a Democrat…a black Democrat…

Oh, and have the Obamas ever vacationed WITHOUT their kids? They are a tad young for the grandkid thing…

Most amusing: They claim to believe that once they’re dead they’ll be sealed together for eternity on their own little planet, yet they still want to spend what little time they have here on earth w/ each other.

These are not normal people, but disturbingly tribal & clannish.

eeewwww, that photo! They breed like roaches! eeewwww.

Mormons figured out how to lay low and pretend to be normal. After Joseph Smith got whacked, they decided that blending in was better than appearing to foment rebellion against the government.

Well, OK… if you ignore that whole exodus to Zion and the Mountain Meadows Massacre and Old Port (“The Destroying Angel of Mormondom”)and the Danites and the Mexican/Canadian colonies and etc etc etc.

Yep, other than that(and the stereotypical Stepford wife style noted in previous comments) then they blend right in.

Romney doesn’t lie. He is a bullshitter. There’s a significant difference:

_On Bullshit_ by Harry G. Frankfurt
Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ Press, 2005
ISBN 0-691-12294-6

(54-54) This is the crux of the distinction between him [the bullshitter] and the liar. Both he and the liar represent themselves falsely as endeavoring to communicate the truth. The success of each depends upon deceiving us about that. But the fact about himself that the liar hides is that he is attempting to lead us away from a correct apprehension of reality; we are not to know that he wants us to believe something he supposes to be false. The fact about himself that the bullshitter hides, on the other hand, is that the truth-values of his statements are of no central interest to him; what we are not to understand is that his intention is neither to report the truth nor to conceal it. This does not mean that his speech is anarchically impulsive, but that the motive guiding and controlling it is unconcerned with how the things about which he speaks truly are.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction.

(63) Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about.

If Mitt Picks Sarah for VP, think Tagg and Track and Trigg and Todd and Tripp and Josh and Ben and Bristmprsngkasf skr

Well, yeah, but those are 19th century bits of foolishness that the 20th century church learned how to suppress with great success. I’d guess 95 percent of most devout Mormons these days have no idea about the unsavory parts. The point was that Mormons learned how to keep the freakish aspects of the religion — a universe for the purest to create! — to themselves, lest they sound like non-Christian cultists. The Scientologists’ belief in past lives and a gazillion-year-old galactic battle for souls is really no different than the Mormons’ belief in a pre-existence and the war for domination between god and satan. Both are merely fairly tales wrapped in successful corporate religiosity.

And then I was telling my daughter about the Mormon planetary fantasticalness and she said, “Oh, tell me about transubstantiation again; it’s on of my favorites.”

Why does Mitt want this job? His stated answer smacks of bullshit:

“My family got me into this again,” Romney said in a crowded diner. “My dear wife was the one that convinced me to run again, believing that having spent my life in the private sector, having learned how jobs come and go, that I was in a good position to get this private sector, this economy moving again. I want to help small business, I want to help small business succeed and thrive.”

Bless that odious turd Newt; from the same link:

At the final debate before the New Hampshire primary, an exasperated Newt Gingrich called him on this, saying he should “drop the pious baloney.” Gingrich may be on to something.

So what’s the real reason? That topic is getting batted around here-and-there; over in Cole’s comments, for example, the most popular viewpoint seems to invoke a combination of daddy issues – wants to succeed where papa failed (oy vey, another GWB scenario?) – and a desire to be the Great Hero to his Mormon tribe for future generations, bringing them the same national acceptance that Jack Kennedy brought to U.S. Roman Catholics. Lacking an honest answer from the man himself, that sounds to me as good an explanation as anything.

There is one interesting spin-off theory, concerning the White Horse Prophecy (also in Wikipedia), supposedly originally uttered by Joseph Smith hizzownself. The references say the WHP has long been repudiated by the LDS hierarchy, but seems to still have a lot of adherents, at least among the old-school believers.

The Mittster himself has denied that he is the Man of the Prophecy, though the quotes at that link ain’t exactly Shermanesque to my eyes, and non-Mormons who appear(?) to be more familiar with these folks than me seem to think there might be something to this. Could be I suppose, although I think the Mittster’s motives can be explained without such lore.

[Funny side note: a couple years ago, the Dick Whisperer reported that this prophecy was also one of the things driving that whackaloon Glenn Beck (link to article). Whatev...]

Then again, it could just be that the Romneytron is the advance unit for a battalion of invading robot creatures. In fact, that seems more plausible – I’ve seen him interact with Teh Hoomans, and he ain’t natural, no he is not.

Of course it’s business casual out by the Lake.

Or, put another way….Even six year olds like the little tyke front row left should always be closing.

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Man of Prophecy. I think I read something about that in this book called Revelations. Or else it was on a Love album in 1967. I experienced a lot about LDS in a dyslexic sort of way in the sixties.

Having Mormon in-laws, I’m entirely too familiar with the stepford nature of these folx. My in-laws are bright, intelligent people who subscribe to one of the most outlandish religions around. I think the robotesque thing is a result of cognitive overload. This song sums it for me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWA_jr-AwyA

In other countries people eat dogs while on vacation; in real America, people strap them onto the roof of the car!

Hol-i-day ro-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oad!

asked Romney if her family would be vacationing abroad as frequently as the Obamas….“I doubt that,” Romney replied. “Our vacations and our happiness come from being with our children and our grandchildren.”

So I assume she’s taking a pass on the trip to London to watch her horse compete?

Mitt and Ann(s) have three lovely homes. Is that like three separate households? How exactly does that work?

Michelle Obama went to Spain to visit some friends. Allegedly (most likely) the Obama’s paid for this trip out of their own funds, but the US taxpayer was on the hook for her security.

MO also took her daughters to Africa, where MO did some official duties. Then she took her daughters on safari at the personal expense of the Obamas. Undoubtedly US taxpayers footed the bill for security.

Of course, most FLOTUS’ in recent decades have traveled overseas doing the exact same thing: spending some time on “official” visits, and then doing some vacay. Laura Bush took the twins to Africa several times, and I doubt that any of the rightwingers had one iota of a problem with it. Of course, Mrs. Stepford Bush wasn’t trying to destroy Obama’s Kenyan birf sirteefikat (like MO did), so it’s all good.

Typically insanely wealthy Rmoney’s play into the H8te radio line that somehow the Rmoney’s are “jess folks” with whom you’d enjoy a decaf coke with… and how they would never ever “waste” your tax dollar$$ because they’re whitey-white-white-white (got it?? nudge nudge wink wink say no more).

Except that, as TBogg has pointed out, the Rmoney’s get a nifty $70k+ per year tax write-off for Mrs. Stepford Rmoney’s hobby horsing around, often in furrin’ countries.

As a prior blogger pointed out, though, most citizens could give a rat’s patoot about any of this hoo-hah, except for us dweebs here & the heavily propogandized H8te radio crowd.

Onwards….

There was a Twilight Zone episode where a hip guy (John Astin?) dies in a car crash and ends up in a house where an elderly couple are showing vacation slides. He can stand it and says they are “boring”, but it turns out that they are in Heaven and he is in Hell.

This is brilliant. A liar, then, does violence to the truth, a conception of which he at least shares with you. A bullshitter, in his indifference to that, does violence to your very concept of reality.

In this respect, Mittens is an evolutionary step in evil–an evilutionary step–beyond Bush. He’s “crazy” in the sense that we have no idea what his notion of reality is, and how (if at all) it coincides with ours.

The wife in the front row, right, holding a kid on her lap? She looks unhappy.

Anyone else seening a big uptick in “I’m a hip dude/lady, and I’m a Mormon” ads like I am? Anyone else find that interesting, what with it being an election year that has a Mormombot prez candidate?

Years ago I was in SLC and decided to do the Temple tour for giggles. The tour is carefully designed to give that “jes’ reglr ‘Murikans” feeling, starting with the story of the plucky westward-expanding Mormon pioneers, through the architecture of the tabernacle. The columns look like marble, and the wood like oak, but it is all faux finish – such stuff was too expensive to obtain back then but God’s cool with an ernest effort apparently. No mention of course that at the time the Mormons were intent on having no interaction with the outside world, even trying to create their own language (see Krakauer, Jon – “Under the Banner of Heaven”).

Then we entered an obviously newer building with an upward spiraling ramp, the walls covered with the same pre-1960′s bible, Kincaide-esque paintings of all the Bible stories I recognized from childhood; the docent gave a nice little talk at each one. The next step is into a projection room, where I’d get to see the seamless transition from the bible stuff you are indoctrinated with as a kid, into the origin of Mormonism and how it is just the natural yet cosmic extention of what I already ‘believed’. This is where they gave the group the option of bailing or you can sit right down while they start the projection machine. I bailed; TFW for me, though I could see how it would work for someone who needs a ‘magic answer book’ approach to life because thinking for yourself is just too darned hard.

How many time do I have to repeat it?

It doesn’t matter who you appoint to the Supreme Court – -
When the Constitution has already been shredded.

So spare me the S.C. canard.

Not sure if Hawaii counts as over seas, but here’s the list.

The Obama Vacation List

– President’s Day 2012, Michelle and the first daughters in Aspen, Colorado to ski.
– Christmas 2011, the first family in Hawaii for an extended vacation.
– Summer 2011, in Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., for the annual beach break.
– June 2011, the first lady, her mother and daughters traveled to South Africa and Botswana.
– President’s Day 2011, the first lady and first daughters travel to Vail to ski.
– Christmas 2010, in Hawaii.
– August 2010, the first family traveled to Panama City Beach, Fla., for some sun and fun at the beach.
– August 2010, Obama spent the weekend alone in Chicago for his 49th birthday bash.
– August 2010, the first lady and daughter Sasha traveled to Spain for a mother-daughter vacation.
– August 2010, summer vacation again at Martha’s Vineyard.
– July 2010, the first family went to Mount Desert Island, Maine.
– May 2010, the first family had a four-day trip to Chicago.
– March 2010, first lady and daughter spend Spring Break in New York City.
– Christmas 2009, Hawaii again for the annual break.
– August 2009, at Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Canyon for a short vacation.
– August 2009, their first summer vacation as first family at Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.

Another silly Republican distraction. Since they don’t know how to solve any of the real problems this appears to be all they have.

Probably more often than typing your opinions into a little box on the intertubes.

thank you.

We Americans are a generous people. We taxpayers help pay for the “dressage” (dancing ) horses, that amuse and entertain the Romney cult. “Rafalca”, what a beautiful name.

And Hedge Fund Managers, such as Mittens get the special bargain ultra low tax rate, that the Hedge Fund Managers bribed Congress to get.

And don’t forget, Mittens baptizes dead non-Mormons.

The Romneys declared a loss of $77,000 on their 2010 tax returns for the share in the care and feeding of Rafalca, which Mrs. Romney owns with Mr. Ebeling’s wife, Amy, and a family friend, Beth Meyers.

When do you plan to storm the Bastille?

Huzzah:

Also, in case you didn’t get Ann Romney’s point: the Romneys have children and grandchildren… shitloads of them. And you will hearing a lot about them until November and possibly longer if Mitt Romney becomes President. And if Mitt Romney becomes President his crazy-eyed sons, their docile and vaguely pretty wives and their cookie-cutter Children of the Corn offspring are going to be in the news always and it won’t be fun news like the drunken/whoring/intern-killing/actress-banging/messy-divorcing/bootlegging/drug-addicted/plane-crashing/crushed dreams Kennedy kind of fun news that America loves to slurp up like it was coated with high-fructose corn syrup and bacon. Nope. With the Romneys it will be like being forced to spend a weekend at the Osmond’s house watching home movies for eternity. It’s going to be like Politico meets Cute Overload. It will be the slightly less crazy Duggars on your TV 24/7.

I assume that jamawani will be in charge of making the big street puppets. Because you can’t have change without big street puppets.

Also, too, jamawani’s Supreme Court statement was supremely stupid and repeating it doesn’t make it any less stupid.

Er, esteemed host person, did you mean, “can’t have change without puppets”?
Just askin’.

Actually, he’s both. A double diagnosis is called for here.

Fxded.

The Constitution isn’t a piece of toilet paper. It can be put back together. But if you’re looking for an excuse not to care — or to work towards putting it back together — then by all means keep confusing reflex reaction with thought.

Ann “noted the Romney family has their own places for that (vacationing)” ?? Maybe like John McCain, they have to check with their accounting staff to see if they have another mansion and estate they forgot they own.

sit right down while they start the projection machine

I know you’re used to sixteen or more–sorry, we only have eight. AND THE WORD OF THE ANGEL MORONI, of course.

Keeping three homes supplied with toilet paper must be a headache.

I’m just glad I don’t have that problem.

You may remember, John McCain couldn’t remember whether he had 6 or 7 houses.

Wow. That’s very interesting, PW. You are always so informative whilsy still being entertaining.

do you have a similar comparison for asshole and dickwad???
Just curious. I always have trouble making that distinction.

unless, of course, it is abortion or tubal ligations we are talking about.

the Romneys have really, really WHITE children and really, really WHITE grandchildren…

But beyond that? No difference. Joe Smith = L. Ron Hubbard.

Nah. Issac Asimov didn’t bet Joe Smith $10 he couldn’t create a religion.

I am outraged!

All that vacation time, and no brush cleared at all! SCOTUS should just appoint Romney President now and be done with it.

“Those who criticize the cost of Obama’s Christmas vacation don’t want you to know that George W. Bush spent at least $20 million taxpayer dollars just on flights to his ranch in Crawford.

(snip)

The problem is that W. wasn’t thrifty. He was the most expensive vacation president in US history. Not only did Bush spend more days on vacation than any other president, but he used Air Force One more often while on vacation than any other president.”

http://www.politicususa.com/cost-obama-christmas-vacation-bush.html

“They don’t take chances
They seem so removed from romance”

Gary Wills explains it all for you: http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/jun/18/curse-political-purity/

People like you are why I have totally quit political activism on the left. Nasty ad hominem attacks. Notice in my post I called the Supreme Court line a “canard” – challenging the idea itself. You, on the other hand, suggest that I lack the ability to think.

This has been going on with Obama folks since the early primaries. Also happened during the Lamont/Lieberman race and lots of other times, as well. Even though I despised Lieberman, I suggested that calling his supporters liars and thugs was not an especially effective way of winning them over.

So, my dear Phoenix Woman, you can be assured that this progressive will NOT be voting for a person who has grown the military industrial complex, reinforced the corporatocracy, gutted basic Anglo-Saxon legal protections in placed since the Magna Carta – - etc., etc., etc.

Just the opinion of a person who thinks deeply about political actions.

TBogg –

I am not looking forward to the onrushing GOP juggernaut –
But I will get in a good laugh at your expense come November 7.
Your political skills are seriously lacking.

Elena Kagan on extrajudicial indefinite detention –

Kagan backs the Obama administration’s policy of indefinite detention, a blatantly unconstitutional and dangerous position that continues the Bush era assault on what is left of our liberties – and she would even extend it, if we take seriously her colloquy with Sen. Lindsey Graham. Asked by the Senator if she would apply “battlefield law” instead of criminal law to someone suspected – suspected – of providing material support to a terrorist organization, such as al Qaeda, she answered that she would indeed.

Going further than even the Bush administration, Kagan insisted that the “battlefield” extends far beyond any war zone – including the Philippines, in the context of Senator Graham’s question, and, theoretically, even the US. So if, for instance, some little old lady is bamboozled into giving to a charity that supports, say, Hamas – designated a terrorist organization by the US State Department – she could be charged with giving “material support” to a terrorist entity, and held indefinitely, without trial, for the rest of her natural life. If the whole world’s a battlefield, then there’s bound to be a lot of collateral damage.

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/05/11/the-world-is-kagans-battlefield/

With Supremes like that – -
who needs a mountain high enough?

Sorry, I was not clear. I wanted to refer to the “accountants” factor. I do not have enough business affairs to employ 1 accountant. It blows my mind to see an individual use it in the plural. But maybe that only applies to McCain too.

“I suggested that calling his supporters liars and thugs was not an especially effective way of winning them over.”

I seem to have missed the part where you explained who will be on the ballot for President whom you will be supporting. Although I fully expect that the answer will be somewhere along the lines of either:

A) I live in a blue/red state so my vote won’t matter because blah blah blah
or
B) I’m voting for a vanity candidate from a fringe party that has yet to win a city council seat to say nothing of anything of consequence nationally.

Yeah. We’ve seen that movie already.

I doubt anyone is trying to win you over since you have made it perfectly clear that you are perfectly safe and warm in your deep thinking cocoon of righteousness. But I’m happy that you are looking forward to having a bitter laugh at my “expense” and also at the expense of minorities and women and kids and the elderly under President Mitt.

Don’t hurt yourself laughing…

And don’t forget, Ann Romney can blackmail a vagrant sex offender into fixing the garage ruff for a sawbuck faster than you can say, “Utaw!”

B) I’m voting for a vanity candidate from a fringe party that has yet to win a city council seat to say nothing of anything of consequence nationally.

Nah, jamawani’s past comments claim that jamawani has removed jamawani’s self from this election cycle.

Action through Inaction! Go Team Zero!

Mitt loves you.

Winston Churchill’s and Lady Astor’s antipathy towards each other was legendary. Dinner hosts would often seat them together for the entertaining exchanges.

At one such party Sir Winston supposedly asked,
“Lady Astor – - would you sleep with me for a million pounds?”

Lady Astor responded,
“I’d think about it.”

Churchill continued,
“Then would you sleep with me for five quid?”

Lady Astor puffed up with indignation,
“What do you think I am – - a common prostitute?”

Sir Winston sniggered,
“We’ve already established what you are –
now we are just bickering about the price.”

Hooo, BOY! is gunbeforebutter gonna feel that!. Oh, wait, your purity is so bright, it blinds the vision, rendering you invisible to us poor, mere mortals.

Shine one, you crazy diamond.

Hey –

I don’t care whether or not you are complicit in the murders of thousands of innocent people under the orders of President Obama – or of the abrogation of basic constitutional rights. Of course, when Dubya was doing it – I’m sure you were apoplectic.

The “ethics of convenience” of so many here – let alone at the Big Orange – is a self-indictment. So, now it becomes a “purity” issue when you state that Obama does not deserve reelection.

Pathetic.

So now I’m complicit in mass murder – how very straw-manish of you! Of course as a a former service-member, I’m sure in your eyes that I am very much a murderer of the innocents.

As for your “ethics of convenience” I see yours are certainly convenient. Easier, I reckon, for you to ‘dis-engage yourself’ from the two-party system we have here in the US, and by your very inaction – not voting – you are actually fulfilling the very role that Karl “Butt Plug” Rove and his future co-defendants want you to have – a non-voter.

But let us hear more about Obama – despoiler of dreams and all White Americans – and how electing Mitt “Whatever your for, I’m for it!!” Romney, who doesn’t even have the decency to pretend to have some sort of moral foundation.

As all you newcomers ’round here seem to lack awareness of, this here is no Obamer-love-in-orgy-fest. What you have walked into is the closed glass door of snark & low-brow humor, and now you’re all riled up ‘n rubbing yer nose with embarrassment. No worries, we all seen what you done, now walk if off like an Adult, & come back around when you have something for the pot.

Did I say I was not voting?

I was always deeply skeptical of Obama –
As liberal/gay/African American columnist David Ehrenstein wrote –
It was largely white/liberals who created Obama the “Magical Negro”.
And Obama, like any politician of any race, glad wore the garment.
(Nothing more clearly illustrates this than the Nobel Peace Prize.)
I viewed him as a smart, inexperienced pol who would be in WAY over his head.
But I worked, donated, and voted for him – despite my misgivings.
So honey, I ain’t one of those white folks who dreams were dashed –
Thank you very much.

(Also, I was in Birmingham, Greensboro, and Wilmington – BTW.)

I am disgusted by the racism much of the opposition to Obama.
People on the left criticized Nancy Reagan’s fashion expenses and gurus.
People on the right criticized Hillary Clinton’s role in the early 90s.
But nothing compares to the nastiness directed at Michelle Obama.

Yet, Barack Obama knew or should have known these things.
He has tried to be all things to all people –
(Note the banner ads proclaiming that Obama spends LESS!)
And in the process has become an empty suit – certainly for progressives.

MLK, Jr. wished to see the day when a person would be judged on the content of his character.
You may disagree with me – but I find Obama’s lacking.
And for that reason, I cannot vote for him.
There are many who share my perspective –
And all the insults in the world will do little but cement our views.

Every president in trouble for the past 50 years has channeled Truman. Few have succeeded.

At this juncture – with the economy, the racism, the Faux Newz –
It is highly unlikely that Obama will prevail in November.
Ask yourself – who voted for McCain last time who is voting for Obama? Vice versa?

I happen to have that old-fashioned notion that politicians EARN my vote.
If Obama loses, it is not the my fault or others who share my views –
The fault lies with Obama himself.

I reckon you hit that glass door a bit harder’n we all thought – it’s skewed you right a round!

It says here that you claim to vote – but if not FOR Obama, than it must be for some body else, leavin’ us all on tenterhooks ’bout which man filled to the brim with CHARACTER it’s a gonna be – at this stage it appears you’ll be casting your vote for nobody, since by your very own definition, Romney’s out.

But your entire post twists on itself like cottonmouth pinned by a stake – you’ve done built up and destroyed your own arguments better than two sparrin’ twins. Well done!

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Q 23: The photo above shows adverse reactions indicated by:

(1) brandy
(2) barbiturates
(3) benzodiazepines
(4) all of the above

(5) Quaalude.

Did I say I was not voting?

Seems like ya did…

Sorry honeychile – but I said,

you can be assured that this progressive will NOT be voting for a person who has grown the military industrial complex, reinforced the corporatocracy, gutted basic Anglo-Saxon legal protections in placed since the Magna Carta

Now, I know that for people who can only contemplate one electoral possibility – voting for Obama – that is tantamount to not voting. But, trust me, there are other actions one can other than checking the box next to “O”.

Nah, you wrote:

PS – I’m glad I’m completely out of this election cycle – for the first time in 35+ years. Yeah, the right are fucking nutcakes – but the left are shrill, intolerant, and woefully politically inept.

I’d rather take a hike in the woods.

“…But, trust me, there are other actions one can other than checking the box next to “O”.”

Let us know how the write-in campaign for the Blue Fairy goes…

And, as far as I can tell, the only President so far to NOT

“…grow(n) the military industrial complex, reinforce(d) the corporatocracy, gut(ted) basic Anglo-Saxon legal protections in placed since the Magna Carta…”

would be Eisenhower. I, for one, welcome our new Zombie-Eisenhower overlords.