xanadian: At least M*A*S*H is entertaining. These GOP debates are ...well, ok, they're entertaining, too

In a sort of overly moralizing maudlin way, yes.

BillCo: I'm pretty sure that Obama doesn't wish that it was over, because if it was he would be packing his bags right about now.

Hmm . . . Obama, a deeply disappointing, yet somewhat capable and sane president?

Or the batshiat insane escapees from Arkham Asylum?

Who do you think the American people will vote for?

These people should be happy they don't live in Iowa.

Hey, did you guys know Ricky Perry loves Jesus and not gays? I do, because I hear it on the radio every 10 minutes.

heinekenftw: Who do you think the American people will vote for?

Never underestimate the stupidity of the average voter.

BilltheThrill: These people should be happy they don't live in Iowa.

Hey, did you guys know Ricky Perry loves Jesus and not gays? I do, because I hear it on the radio every 10 minutes.

Sounds like an excellent reason for a self imposed media blackout..

BillCo: I'm pretty sure that Obama doesn't wish that it was over, because if it was he would be packing his bags right about now.

1/10. Simple and focused yet ineffective and retarded.

I really hate how NPR has been covering the GOP "debates" so heavily lately. It's not news, it's a gaggle of buffoons and charlatans pandering to unrepentant fools and I'm tired of hearing about it. I'm tired of hearing idiotic soundbites constructed of half-truths and talking points, I'm tired of hearing silly bumpkins talk about "family values" and I'm tired of hearing more than half a dozen dawdling nincompoops embarrass themselves and America every goddamn day that ends in Y.

And eventually we're going to throw Hopey McSpineless into the mix and he can add his stupid facade of concern and unflappable optimism into the mix and we get to start the stupid all over again with a whole knew set of bullshiat talking points and lies.

Politics really is for fools.

Splinshints: Hopey McSpineless

I wish Campaign Obama would run for president against President Obama.

Splinshints: I really hate how NPR has been covering the GOP "debates" so heavily lately. It's not news, it's a gaggle of buffoons and charlatans pandering to unrepentant fools and I'm tired of hearing about it. I'm tired of hearing idiotic soundbites constructed of half-truths and talking points, I'm tired of hearing silly bumpkins talk about "family values" and I'm tired of hearing more than half a dozen dawdling nincompoops embarrass themselves and America every goddamn day that ends in Y.

It is getting hard to listen to NPR anymore. "Gee, the House Republicans just blocked the payroll tax cut bill worked out by Democrats and Republicans. Hey Cokie Roberts, can you figure out what going on?"

It's economic warfare against America, you dolts!

Alphax: Splinshints: I really hate how NPR has been covering the GOP "debates" so heavily lately. It's not news, it's a gaggle of buffoons and charlatans pandering to unrepentant fools and I'm tired of hearing about it. I'm tired of hearing idiotic soundbites constructed of half-truths and talking points, I'm tired of hearing silly bumpkins talk about "family values" and I'm tired of hearing more than half a dozen dawdling nincompoops embarrass themselves and America every goddamn day that ends in Y.

It is getting hard to listen to NPR anymore. "Gee, the House Republicans just blocked the payroll tax cut bill worked out by Democrats and Republicans. Hey Cokie Roberts, can you figure out what going on?"

It's economic warfare against America, you dolts!

I think after the right-wing biatched at them a few times for trivial bullcrap, NPR is watching what they're saying. Even if what the GOP says is completely moronic.

Democracy is not popular right now. And I can understand why -- it's dysfunctional.

The 2012 campaign has been running for 3 years, now, and there's still $2 Billion worth of TV and radio ads to go through. How can anyone be tired of that?

DarnoKonrad: Democracy is not popular right now. And I can understand why -- it's dysfunctional.

Now that's an ominous sentiment.

BillCo: I'm pretty sure that Obama doesn't wish that it was over, because if it was he would be packing his bags right about now.

Who is your choice to succeed him?

I'm guessing that none of them are comedians.

DarnoKonrad: Democracy is not popular right now. And I can understand why -- it's dysfunctional.

We've become hyper-polarized, first by 9/11 and the ensuing wars, and that was made worse by the economic crisis. We're down to one war, which will be over soon, and the economy is continually clawing upwards. The pendulum will swing back toward moderation eventually.

xanadian: Mr. Coffee Nerves: I think there have been more GOP debates this year than reruns of M*A*S*H*

At least M*A*S*H is entertaining. These GOP debates are ...well, ok, they're entertaining, too. Kind of like a "trainwreck with mangled bodies everywhere" entertaining.

:-/

Less like a trainwreck, more like NASCAR. You sit, you cringe, you hate yourself for watching, and every once in a while there's an epic wreck for you. But then, sometimes, there isn't and you've just sat through 2 hours of watching traffic.

Fark politics, man. I'm done. It's all a friggen soap opera anyway, and it jumped the rails like two years ago. (The first year of Obama hate was pretty funny.)

It says alot about the GOP as an organization and its inability to police itself and retain some semblance of control of the whole process. There should have been half as many candidates, half as many debates and campaigning shouldn't have started over a year ago (looking at you Mitt Romney).

They've given easily-identifiable nutcases repeated exposure to associate themselves and make the argument that they're the true face of the Republican party. And as we saw from Herman Cain, they obviously weren't taking the necessary credentials for Presidency all that seriously.

It's not about being un-American and saying to someone "You don't have what it takes to be President," It's about the Republicans saying "You're not of muster to run as part of our party."

I guess when you have the "big tent" you're at the mercy of being represented by whoever wanders in, even if it is the guy that stands in the media strip yelling at cars.

Good luck guys.

monoski: BillCo: I'm pretty sure that Obama doesn't wish that it was over, because if it was he would be packing his bags right about now.

Who is your choice to succeed him?

N.E. ONEBUTT is my guess. Ben Dover might be what we really get.

Edsel: DarnoKonrad: Democracy is not popular right now. And I can understand why -- it's dysfunctional.

We've become hyper-polarized, first by 9/11 and the ensuing wars, and that was made worse by the economic crisis. We're down to one war, which will be over soon, and the economy is continually clawing upwards. The pendulum will swing back toward moderation eventually.

I hope so, but I do worry we've grown to take long term prosperity, equity, and political freedom for granted. There are *a lot* of people with deep contempt for democratic government and prefer the idea of "voting with their dollars" in some sort of market driven natural order.

Alphax: It is getting hard to listen to NPR anymore. "Gee, the House Republicans just blocked the payroll tax cut bill worked out by Democrats and Republicans. Hey Cokie Roberts, can you figure out what going on?"

Cokie Roberts wastes five minutes of my and NPR's time every week as she reads the front page of Politico over morning coffee. It's terrible and makes me switch the dial almost as fast as StoryCorps. Ugh.

BillCo: I like paste.

We know, Scooter. We know. Now, don't forget your helmet.

LockeOak: Alphax: It is getting hard to listen to NPR anymore. "Gee, the House Republicans just blocked the payroll tax cut bill worked out by Democrats and Republicans. Hey Cokie Roberts, can you figure out what going on?"

Cokie Roberts wastes five minutes of my and NPR's time every week as she reads the front page of Politico over morning coffee. It's terrible and makes me switch the dial almost as fast as StoryCorps. Ugh.

Mara Liaison is worse. She skips Politico and goes straight to RNC press releases.

I see that as a step up from the majority of America asking "What presidential election?"

/i don't hope for much

Can you blame them? Our election season is outrageously long. They've been running the 2012 campaign ever since the day after the 2010 election (and so on..)

BillCo: I'm pretty sure that Obama doesn't wish that it was over, because if it was he would be packing his bags right about now.

He would be going on vacation again? More money spent on secret service hotel rooms in Hawaii. What the Fark is that guys problem?

As wary as I am of Matt Taibii and his quest to become the Next Hunter S. Thompson, he really nailed it with this recent quote:

"The relentless sameness of the two-party political system is beginning to feel like a Jacob's Ladder nightmare with no end; we're entering another turn on the four-year merry-go-round, and the thought of having to try to get excited about yet another minor quadrennial shift in the direction of one or the other pole of alienating corporate full-of-shiatness is enough to make anyone want to smash his own hand flat with a hammer."

The long election season is desperately needed by Team Obama to find a reason for people to get excited about him this time around.

Saying the GOP field is scary, stupid and dangerous probably won't do the trick with the great mass of indifference out there.

what_now 2011-12-19 09:55:09 AM

I for one, am deeply disappointed that Obama did not single handledly stop thirty years of damage in one third of one presidential term, while battling a Senate that set the record for filibustering and a Congress that is filled with people who would rather chew off their own arms than go along with any policy he championed.

Deeply disappoint.

Not only did he not stop it, he helped perpetuate the problems and caused even more damage. "Hey, our economy crashed from over leveraging. I know, lets borrow more money, that will solve the problem."

Cletus C.: The long election season is desperately needed by Team Obama to find a reason for people to get excited about him this time around.

Saying the GOP field is scary, stupid and dangerous probably won't do the trick with the great mass of indifference out there.

They elected GWB the second time around so stupid does not appear to factor into the decision making process.

DarnoKonrad: Democracy is not popular right now. And I can understand why -- it's dysfunctional.

Wrong. We don't have a functional democracy in the U.S. right now. We have what's technically called a massive clusterfark.

Judging by the group of has-beens and never-will-bes the republicans are tossing out there, it already is over with.

Already done here.
Going to vote for my dog.

Yeah, I mean, it's vote one way and keep the slow collapse going slowly or vote the other way and maybe speed the plow.

Don't want either. My conscience keeps me from playing this stupid game any longer.

heinekenftw: BillCo: I'm pretty sure that Obama doesn't wish that it was over, because if it was he would be packing his bags right about now.

Hmm . . . Obama, a deeply disappointing, yet somewhat capable and sane president?

Or the batshiat insane escapees from Arkham Asylum?

Who do you think the American people will vote for?

You say that like the inmates don't run the asylum of American politics. Given the idiocy of American voters, the continuing failure of the press, and the stranglehold of special interests and corruption, why...it's any scumbag's game to win.

what_now: I for one, am deeply disappointed that Obama did not single handledly stop thirty years of damage in one third of one presidential term, while battling a Senate that set the record for filibustering and a Congress that is filled with people who would rather chew off their own arms than go along with any policy he championed.

Deeply disappoint.

I have friends who regularly vote for a divided government. They argue it's best because it's slow, deliberative and a reasonable, middle-ground answer is found to most questions. Most of them have told me they're voting a straight Democratic ticket in 2012.

derpdeederp: "Hey, our economy crashed from over leveraging. I know, lets borrow more money, that will solve the problem."

Over-leveraging != debt...

Emposter: You say that like the inmates don't run the asylum of American politics. Given the idiocy of American voters, the continuing failure of the press, and the stranglehold of special interests and corruption, why...it's any scumbag's game to win.

That begs the question: where the hell is Batman when we need him?

Seriously though, you are right. The system is corrupt to the core.

heinekenftw: Emposter: You say that like the inmates don't run the asylum of American politics. Given the idiocy of American voters, the continuing failure of the press, and the stranglehold of special interests and corruption, why...it's any scumbag's game to win.

That begs the question: where the hell is FRANK MILLER Batman when we need him?

Seriously though, you are right. The system is corrupt to the core.

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what_now: I for one, am deeply disappointed that Obama did not single handledly stop thirty years of damage in one third of one presidential term, while battling a Senate that set the record for filibustering and a Congress that is filled with people who would rather chew off their own arms than go along with any policy he championed.

Deeply disappoint.

I am not sure what the big deal is, we know from long-standing GOP lore that the guy has a time machine, it should have been over before it began.

SilentStrider: HotIgneous Intruder: Already done here.
Going to vote for my dog.

I think I might write in Weaver95.

/might not be kidding.

Weaver95/PocketNinja 2012!

HotIgneous Intruder: Already done here.

I'm waiting for whoever the Greens decide on. Obama lost me with the NDAA and I'll be very surprised if he vetoes SOPA. The GOP alternatives are totally unacceptable, so 3rd party it is.

Since my vote really doesn't count (lib living in TX), I might as well vote with a clean conscience.