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Seems a little rude, when you think about it, choosing his need to rebut versus the desire of a potential voter to get an answer.

So far this debate is more engaged than the first one.

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Obama’s “come at me bro” look. They’re having an oil fight. Fortunately, not with actual oil.

A small part of me actually thought it was gonna turn into a brawl.

This needs to be a real thing. Immediately.

I cannot stop watching this. I love it more for the old-school Mortal Kombat vibe, but either way it’s still hilarious!

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climateadaptation:

On alternative energy, Mitt Romney just endorsed Hitler’s method of liquifying coal. Not a joke.

“Liquified coal. Gosh, Hitler during the second World War…”

Via

Things no politician should ever say: Oh, that Hitler, he had such great ideas!

And finally I understand this Romney reboot: make so many mistakes, missteps, and gaffes that the populace feels sorry for you and elects you.

I think this is the same strategy that Steve Urkel used to get Laura Winslow.

Mitt’s Full Disclosure

I’m trying to watch the Mitt Romney “47% of Americans” video now, since I would like to be fully informed on this issue. It’s easy enough to get emotional about one side or the other, but to truly be informed, you have to sometimes sit and listen to something that you find offensive, to parse out the true details of it.

I will say though, sitting and seeing the ten or so people that are visible in the video, and realizing that each one paid $50,000 to sit in the same room with Mitt Romney… just wow. In other words, I’m seeing approximately $500,000 sitting in that room (not counting the people I can’t see). $500,000. It’s staggering to think that if a fraction of that money was spent toward something actually useful, like helping to fund care for returning veterans, improving our schools, or hell, spending that money in stores to increase sales (and the strength of capitalism), we’d be better off as a country.

$500,000. Hell, if they collectively used that money to buy 50,000 iPads, they’d still be doing more for the economy than sitting in that room.

I have to wonder if “Bug Fixes” translates to: “We realized that claiming that we are ‘Real Americans’ looks pretty silly when we can’t spell what country we are from correctly.”

Or maybe Amercia is actually the new Narnia…

mediahascookies:

Google Romney. A new site called Spreading Romney, is gaining traction in the search results.

The definition is a reference to a 1983 incident in which Romeny decided to strap his Irish Setter to the roof of his car as the family drove for 12 hours on a vacation to Canada. The dog was so terrified that it ended up defecating, at which point, Romney pulled over to gas station, hosed down the crate and put the frightened animal back on top of the car.

I think that’s a fair definition, and fits hand-in-hand with my campaign ad suggestion.

You know, I didn’t catch this the first time around, when Romney was running in 2008, so it’s still a little surprising to me that he would do something like strap his beloved family pet to the top of a the roof of his car for a trip from Boston to Canada.

As a dog lover and pet owner, emotionally I am shocked and horrified that anyone would think this is a good idea.  On the few times I’ve seen it (one specific memory of a driver in Missouri with his dog in the cab of his truck, standing on top of boxes and tied down with a simple rope still sticks in my head), I’ve had a visceral response of anger and disgust.

But then I thought, well, he’s running for President, and he’s been Governor before.  So clearly he knows what he’s doing and putting a member of your family on the top of your car as you travel is a completely valid option.  Further, why not do it, it frees up car space for longer road trips.  

I propose that from now on, we strap Romney to the top of any campaign buses he rides on.

In fact, I think his Michigan Campaign Ad (see ad below) would have been far more effective if he had one of his sons driving him around the city, while he was stuffed inside a dog carrier and strapped to the top of the car.

It might ACTUALLY make him appear human.