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		Rule #1 of meeting with MI6: You don't talk about meeting with MI6. Romney: "I just had a great meeting with the head of MI6 about Syria" (politico.com)		175
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Ed Finnerty		2012-07-26 06:36:01 PM

What a maroon.

Nadie_AZ		2012-07-26 06:37:06 PM

Ok. He's trolling us. Like McCain, he knows he's beaten and is just f*cking with us at this point.

I can't come up with any other reason. He isn't stupid. He knows how to keeps secrets and tax returns and hard drives private.

Beerguy		2012-07-26 06:37:45 PM

WTF Indeed		2012-07-26 06:39:28 PM

Ed Finnerty		2012-07-26 06:46:17 PM

When Willard was a young boy, he liked to play the board game Axis and Allies.

Young Willard never chose the Allies.

AdolfOliverPanties		2012-07-26 06:48:37 PM

He is trying to enter the competition for the Upper Class Twit of the Year.

www.cardinalfang.net

propasaurus		2012-07-26 06:52:48 PM

Nadie_AZ: Ok. He's trolling us. Like McCain, he knows he's beaten and is just f*cking with us at this point.

I can't come up with any other reason. He isn't stupid. He knows how to keeps secrets and tax returns and hard drives private.

Just wait till he announces Joe the Plumber as his running mate.

Ed Finnerty		2012-07-26 06:54:10 PM

When that red phone rings at 3:00am, Romneybot will accidentally conference in North Korea.

ib_thinkin		2012-07-26 07:04:22 PM

You know, I think attacking the President on his foreign policy is the way to go, Governor W.A.S.P.

serial_crusher		2012-07-26 07:11:05 PM

In some alternate universe, there's a Fark thread criticizing Romney for meeting in secret, and praising Obama for his transparency.

Ed Finnerty		2012-07-26 07:12:03 PM

serial_crusher: In some alternate universe, there's a Fark thread criticizing Romney for meeting in secret, and praising Obama for his transparency.

Free Republic?

kingoomieiii		2012-07-26 07:13:55 PM

serial_crusher: In some alternate universe, there's a Fark thread criticizing Romney for meeting in secret, and praising Obama for his transparency.

And in this universe, you mock Obama for not opening all of the government's files while simultaneously getting crazy mad about Wikileaks doing that.`

TheBeastOfYuccaFlats		2012-07-26 07:14:15 PM

Nadie_AZ: I can't come up with any other reason. He isn't stupid. He knows how to keeps secrets and tax returns and hard drives private.

No, his *people* know how to do those things.

He, himself, is just as stupid as he appears.

Ed Finnerty		2012-07-26 07:17:48 PM

TheBeastOfYuccaFlats: Nadie_AZ: I can't come up with any other reason. He isn't stupid. He knows how to keeps secrets and tax returns and hard drives private.

No, his *people* know how to do those things.

He, himself, is just as stupid as he appears.

Romneybot has assembled the finest team in history.

dtdstudios.com

BronyMedic		2012-07-26 07:21:28 PM

This is the man Republicans are not only wanting to beat Obama, but run the nation for the next four years?

My God. You people are desperate, aren't you? Stacking the senate with Tea Party retards who would rather watch the country burn than reach a compromise with the Dems and Independants not enough?

vartian		2012-07-26 07:21:29 PM

serial_crusher: In some alternate universe, there's a Fark thread criticizing Romney for meeting in secret, and praising Obama for his transparency.

That's sounds like a really terrible, though thankfully completely unlikely, place.

Elzar		2012-07-26 07:22:56 PM

Wait until he meets Captain Jack from Torchwood...

/ English Log Cottage Conservatives FTW!

Ed Finnerty		2012-07-26 07:25:27 PM

BronyMedic: This is the man Republicans are not only wanting to beat Obama, but run the nation for the next four years?

My God. You people are desperate, aren't you? Stacking the senate with Tea Party retards who would rather watch the country burn than reach a compromise with the Dems and Independants not enough?

I'm not convinced.

A part of me thinks Mittens is taking a spectacular dive paving the way for a Palin revolution at the convention.

ShawnDoc		2012-07-26 07:28:55 PM

Nadie_AZ: Ok. He's trolling us. Like McCain, he knows he's beaten and is just f*cking with us at this point.

Even the most optimistic polls give Obama only a few points lead. He's in it. All he has to do is shut his mouth, and hope for more poor/mediocre economic news.

cameroncrazy1984		2012-07-26 07:29:07 PM

Ed Finnerty: BronyMedic: This is the man Republicans are not only wanting to beat Obama, but run the nation for the next four years?

My God. You people are desperate, aren't you? Stacking the senate with Tea Party retards who would rather watch the country burn than reach a compromise with the Dems and Independants not enough?

I'm not convinced.

A part of me thinks Mittens is taking a spectacular dive paving the way for a Palin revolution at the convention.

This, while awesome, is a fantasy.

cameroncrazy1984		2012-07-26 07:30:23 PM

ShawnDoc: Nadie_AZ: Ok. He's trolling us. Like McCain, he knows he's beaten and is just f*cking with us at this point.

Even the most optimistic polls give Obama only a few points lead. He's in it. All he has to do is shut his mouth, and hope for more poor/mediocre economic news.

Good thing national polls don't mean anything. Nate Silver has Obama with a huge EV lead, something like a 300 vote total.

Nadie_AZ		2012-07-26 07:33:26 PM

cameroncrazy1984: ShawnDoc: Nadie_AZ: Ok. He's trolling us. Like McCain, he knows he's beaten and is just f*cking with us at this point.

Even the most optimistic polls give Obama only a few points lead. He's in it. All he has to do is shut his mouth, and hope for more poor/mediocre economic news.

Good thing national polls don't mean anything. Nate Silver has Obama with a huge EV lead, something like a 300 vote total.

I'm no fan of the Electoral College. But it really saddens me that he's still doing so well with the popular vote. If I were moderate Republicans, I'd demand a new candidate. He's terrible.

TheBeastOfYuccaFlats		2012-07-26 07:41:53 PM

Nadie_AZ: cameroncrazy1984: ShawnDoc: Nadie_AZ: Ok. He's trolling us. Like McCain, he knows he's beaten and is just f*cking with us at this point.

Even the most optimistic polls give Obama only a few points lead. He's in it. All he has to do is shut his mouth, and hope for more poor/mediocre economic news.

Good thing national polls don't mean anything. Nate Silver has Obama with a huge EV lead, something like a 300 vote total.

I'm no fan of the Electoral College. But it really saddens me that he's still doing so well with the popular vote. If I were moderate Republicans, I'd demand a new candidate. He's terrible.

There's two types of moderate Republicans left in the actual GOP, those who are unaware that the GOP has become a party of irredeemable nutjobs and those who harbor a fantasy that somehow it can be fixed.

ShawnDoc		2012-07-26 07:45:39 PM

cameroncrazy1984: Good thing national polls don't mean anything. Nate Silver has Obama with a huge EV lead, something like a 300 vote total.

Yeah, but only a tiny popular vote lead.

TheBeastOfYuccaFlats: There's two types of moderate Republicans left in the actual GOP, those who are unaware that the GOP has become a party of irredeemable nutjobs and those who harbor a fantasy that somehow it can be fixed.

I'm the latter. Honestly, if Romney ran on his record in Mass, he wouldn't be that bad of a candidate. Instead though, he's all over the place, taking every side of every issue, distancing himself from his own record, and making gaffe after gaffe.

/Will likely vote for Obama, who's done a good job as a moderate Republican while in the White House. Now if only the Republican's in congress can grow up and do their damn job.

ib_thinkin		2012-07-26 07:46:41 PM

TheBeastOfYuccaFlats: ...those who harbor a fantasy that somehow it can be fixed.

God bless David Frum.

ib_thinkin		2012-07-26 07:47:49 PM

ShawnDoc: cameroncrazy1984: Good thing national polls don't mean anything. Nate Silver has Obama with a huge EV lead, something like a 300 vote total.

Yeah, but only a tiny popular vote lead.

TheBeastOfYuccaFlats: There's two types of moderate Republicans left in the actual GOP, those who are unaware that the GOP has become a party of irredeemable nutjobs and those who harbor a fantasy that somehow it can be fixed.

I'm the latter. Honestly, if Romney ran on his record in Mass, he wouldn't be that bad of a candidate. Instead though, he's all over the place, taking every side of every issue, distancing himself from his own record, and making gaffe after gaffe.

/Will likely vote for Obama, who's done a good job as a moderate Republican while in the White House. Now if only the Republican's in congress can grow up and do their damn job.

Farkied as "Moderate Republican. No, really."

TheBeastOfYuccaFlats		2012-07-26 07:49:03 PM

ShawnDoc: Will likely vote for Obama, who's done a good job as a moderate Republican while in the White House. Now if only the Republican's in congress can grow up and do their damn job.

This would be a pretty interesting campaign slogan to run parallel to the main campaign thrust for Obama. He is pretty much a Rockefeller Republican. It'd be super entertaining to see him peel off moderate Republicans in notable numbers.

Coco LaFemme		2012-07-26 07:50:28 PM

I would think it fabulous if someone from MI6 came forward and said they never met with Romney, have no idea what he's talking about, and would never meet with someone who was not a head of state and discuss any kind of policy matters with them.

Krymson Tyde		2012-07-26 07:53:29 PM

Ed Finnerty: When Willard was a young boy, he liked to play the board game Axis and Allies.

Young Willard never chose the Allies.

To be fair it is fun to play the Axis.

ib_thinkin		2012-07-26 07:57:32 PM

Krymson Tyde: To be fair it is fun to play the Axis.

Like watching the first few seasons of Heroes and white-knighting Sylar.

"I can feel the good in him. The conflict."

Twitch Boy		2012-07-26 07:59:09 PM

He probably saw someone respawn in the air duct and ran full speed to the bathroom for the cheap frag.

/N64 multiplayer: all about who can be the biggest asshole
//misses Goldeneye

djkutch		2012-07-26 08:08:10 PM

Elzar: Wait until he meets Captain Jack from Torchwood...

/ English Log Cottage Conservatives FTW!

I hate to be that guy, but Captain Jack is an illegal immigrant from the 51st century.

vernonFL		2012-07-26 08:45:50 PM

"I don't know much about the MI6, but I do own several classic Aston Martin automobiles."

cameroncrazy1984		2012-07-26 08:58:10 PM

ShawnDoc: Yeah, but only a tiny popular vote lead.

So? Do you think either candidate is campaigning based on what the popular vote looks like?

Kevin72		2012-07-26 09:32:17 PM

ShawnDoc: Nadie_AZ: Ok. He's trolling us. Like McCain, he knows he's beaten and is just f*cking with us at this point.

Even the most optimistic polls give Obama only a few points lead. He's in it. All he has to do is shut his mouth, and hope for more poor/mediocre economic news.

Spoken like a true dizzbrain addicted to the lamestream media. Obama had 365 EVs against McCain. He will give back IN, NC, and Omaha, so he is at like 340 EVs. The only question is Florida, so 340 or 311. The horse race is for horses' twats.

Peter von Nostrand		2012-07-26 09:46:36 PM

I guess I've never really paid attention before but is this kind of thing normal for a Presidential candidate? I work with a bunch of right wingers and some of them today were kind of surprised that Romney is over in England doing "Head of State" type meetings at this time (their words, not mine)

dahmers love zombie		2012-07-26 10:00:26 PM

Peter von Nostrand: I guess I've never really paid attention before but is this kind of thing normal for a Presidential candidate? I work with a bunch of right wingers and some of them today were kind of surprised that Romney is over in England doing "Head of State" type meetings at this time (their words, not mine)

Do a mental exercise. Imagine if in 2008, Barack Obama had been jetting around Europe meeting with MI6 and government opposition leaders, and insulting the British state. What would the right-wing Bush fellators have said? They'd have absolutely popped a goddamn gasket. They'd be yelling about treason and national security and OMG IT'S DISRESPECTFUL TO THE PRESIDENCY. But M. White Romney does it, and even the "librul media" simply tuts about gaffes. No, it's not even CLOSE to normal for a Presidential candidate.

ShawnDoc		2012-07-26 10:01:37 PM

cameroncrazy1984: ShawnDoc: Yeah, but only a tiny popular vote lead.

So? Do you think either candidate is campaigning based on what the popular vote looks like?

My point is that its amazing with all the gaffe and how poorly run the Romney campaign has been, he's still got a surprising amount of support. Makes me sad.

Captain_Ballbeard		2012-07-26 10:02:06 PM

You people should be asking why the Media pretends this guy is a good candidate at all. But no, you argue the debate they frame for you.

Enjoy.

/Go China

tony41454		2012-07-26 10:03:00 PM

Why is this any different than Obama leaking classified info to make himself look good?

wildcardjack		2012-07-26 10:03:28 PM

No he didn't.

They know better.

RadioAaron		2012-07-26 10:03:46 PM

tony41454: Why is this any different than Obama leaking classified info to make himself look good?

Just in time! Popcorn is done!

gameshowhost		2012-07-26 10:06:26 PM

Just wait. Pretty soon he'll be referring to himself as "Mitch".

/wtf is that guy's problem?

NateGrey		2012-07-26 10:06:59 PM

tony41454: Why is this any different than Obama leaking classified info to make himself look good?

Sarah Palin saw the meeting from her house.

Virtual Pariah		2012-07-26 10:09:47 PM

Captain_Ballbeard: You people should be asking why the Media pretends this guy is a good candidate at all. But no, you argue the debate they frame for you.

Enjoy.

/Go China

That question has an obvious answer in the current scene though. That's probably why it's overlooked.
The MSM wants a horserace. In a "fair" situation Mitt's issues would have flushed him out of the running earlier on, but the stable was so weak this time round that he's what is presented to our 2 party system (now lets not talk about how the 2 party system is broken in principle).

So basically, to keep interest the the race, the MSM has doped the Romney Horse. They will create a false drama between the 2 candidates because that's what sells.
We discuss it, mostly because it's what we have. Realistically, you aren't going to get another candidate in either party nor, a strong 3 party created in the short time we have between now and November.

After that, well, Then we kind of forget all this nonsense. (except the losers, who are called upon to shed sweet tears for the next 4 years.)
Rinse/Repeat.

serial_crusher		2012-07-26 10:11:03 PM

dahmers love zombie: Peter von Nostrand: I guess I've never really paid attention before but is this kind of thing normal for a Presidential candidate? I work with a bunch of right wingers and some of them today were kind of surprised that Romney is over in England doing "Head of State" type meetings at this time (their words, not mine)

Do a mental exercise. Imagine if in 2008, Barack Obama had been jetting around Europe meeting with MI6 and government opposition leaders, and insulting the British state. What would the right-wing Bush fellators have said? They'd have absolutely popped a goddamn gasket. They'd be yelling about treason and national security and OMG IT'S DISRESPECTFUL TO THE PRESIDENCY. But M. White Romney does it, and even the "librul media" simply tuts about gaffes. No, it's not even CLOSE to normal for a Presidential candidate.

Yeah I've never heard of it, but it does seem like a good strategy though, getting endorsements from our allies. It lends more foreign policy cred than just being able to see Russia from your house.

Or you, know, maybe it's part of his plot to have the UN take us over and form a true one-world government. Obama hasn't been moving fast enough taking all our guns away, so the guys in charge over there are shopping around for other options.

Psychohazard		2012-07-26 10:11:43 PM

tony41454: Why is this any different than Obama leaking classified info to make himself look good?

Because when Romney leaks classified info, he does it in such a way as to make himself look bad. (Possibly because he is, in fact, awful. Yet, amazingly, he was still better than most of the people he competed against for the Republican nomination.)

Curse of the Goth Kids		2012-07-26 10:15:08 PM

Psychohazard: tony41454: Why is this any different than Obama leaking classified info to make himself look good?

Because when Romney leaks classified info, he does it in such a way as to make himself look bad. (Possibly because he is, in fact, awful. Yet, amazingly, he was still better than most of the people he competed against for the Republican nomination.)

Yeah, pretty much that. It's different because Romney sucks balls at it and in general I'd recommend he just start pretending that other countries don't exist.

odinsposse		2012-07-26 10:15:26 PM

Curse of the Goth Kids		2012-07-26 10:16:21 PM

Psychohazard: the people he competed against for the Republican nomination

Oh god. I just imagined Michele Bachmann going over there to act all presidential.

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