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My thanks to commentor Lahke, because I like Steven Sondheim even more than I loathe Willard Romney.
And for the Obama Optimists among us, for your FaceSpace Pinterest wallboard tweets, via Matt Taylor at Slate:
Sam Stein at the Huffington Post gets hold of an Obama TV spot airing in key swing states (but unannounced by his campaign) that responds to Republican Super PACs that have been pummeling him with his “the private sector is doing fine” gaffe in their ads
Apart from the ever-popular setting one’s hair on fire, what’s on the agenda for this evening?
chrome agnomen
i got up at 5:00 this a m to walk fence and avoid the wyoming heat. it was already 79 degrees.
PeterJ
Been watching a live feed from Colorado and saw both this new Obama ad and the Romney attack ad during a commercial break.
Comrade Javamanphil
So awesome. Thanks for sharing. I will be performing in Sweeney Todd this summer with my daughter. Sondheim is a joy to sing.
Brian S
I know tt if I’m going to use this old Eddie Murphy standup (bits from Raw and Delirious) in my Comedy as Social Criticism class this fall, I have to watch them again. But they’re so dead and homophobic. I expect my students will freak at seeing The Nutty Professor ranting on and on about AIDS and such.
Roger Moore
Damn it, I thought it was our pants we were supposed to be setting on fire!
chrome agnomen
@Roger Moore:
romney’s pretty much cornering that market these days.
Roger Moore
@chrome agnomen:
We can’t let the Republicans win, not at anything. ETA:/snark
lamh35
Alright, I’m finally catching up on Track and Field Olympic trials. So don’t tell me who won.
BTW, this is what a decathlete looks like that damn Ashton Eaton kid…wooh.
Oh wait, who can forget Dan O’Brien
Hill Dweller
With the media reporting corporate profits being at an all-time high, I don’t think the Obama ‘gaffe’ will gain much traction.
jl
Good commercial. Thanks for pointing it out.
SiubhanDuinne
@Comrade Javamanphil: ST is as close to grand opera as the Broadway musical comes (okay, I’ll give you Porgy & Bess). Just a great piece of theatre. Do you and your daughter have parts? If so, which ones? Even if you’re ushers, I’m impressed!
lamh35
Who the hell is running Romney’s campaign..children?
Team Romney Heckles Another Obama Event
Fuck’n douchebags!
Dee Loralei
I’m so glad you front paged that Lahke link. I saw it at the end of a mostly dead thread and loved it, tweeted it, posted it to Facebook and I think I bore it’s first-born. Ron Zimmerman has another pretty funny Romney song that is making fun of Romney’s disharmonic singing of America The Beautiful.
I showed them both to my mother and she’s still giggling abut them.
I also saw a very cool domino crash of Van Gogh’s Starry Nights, you might want to save that for a future day. And some guy was doing Rubic’s cube art of MLK that was pretty neat.
Michelle Obama will be in Memphis on Thursday, and my OFA group is gonna have a rally at the convention center before the event to get folks to sign I’m In cards. I need ideas for cute and funny poster boards.
Also, I was informed I might actually get to meet her, my own little rotten self. My OFA leader asked today for all my personal particulars to turn in to the Chicago Office and the Secret Service. I’m keeping my fingers crossed and will keep y’all informed!
burnspbesq
In which we discover that Charles Pierce can even be stupid about an event as innocuous as the Olympic track & field trials.
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8093128/a-visit-american-track-field-trials
Mike in NC
Having fun getting used to our new iPad3.
MikeJ
@Dee Loralei: Over the weekend I saw TV ads of Burger King claiming to make Memphis style BBQ sandwiches. Have any been burned down yet? Tops4life.
Redleg
I saw that commercial here in Northern Kentucky today and thought it was pretty good. I don’t know if it will resonate with the rubes and bigots but it worked for me.
Dee Loralei
@MikeJ: Not that I know of, but are the whoppers wet or dry? YaknowwhatImean?AndIthinkyoudo. I haven’t seen any ads like that airing here, but they may not attempt to serve them here. We’d know if it was true or not. Then we might even start questioning whether the King really wants a whopper with mayo and ketchup and no mustard, LOL. We’d start questioning their entire premise dude, and then they’d be without an ethos.
SiubhanDuinne
@lamh35: @lamh35:
Poor li’l thangs, it’s all they have.
Bless their hearts.
Valdivia
@lamh35:
saw that in another thread and someone mention he acts like a crazy stalker ex, I think someone should start some kind of meme about that.
and thanks for pointing that ad out. Very good.
Valdivia
@Dee Loralei:
you are one lucky girl! hope you get to meet her.
Yutsano
Going back to Seattle tomorrow. I got an initial rejection e-mail from my old job but my old boss found out and is gonna knock a few heads for me. As long as they can afford me I’m gonna go for it.
And I’m sitting on some awesome news. But hopefully someone spills it soon. She knows who she is. :)
Dee Loralei
@Valdivia: Thank you I hope so too, she’s an really admirable human being and fine First Lady. I think I’ll be more usher than hostess, but I’ve been told that she gives as good a speech as POTUS does. So that will be quite cool anyway.
Memphis is a very blue corner & a very poor corner of a very red state, so we don’t get lots of political attention. Mostly what we do get is people flying in for fundraisers, which is what this event is. But because I’ve been working with our local OFA team since last Aug/Sept, I’m as clued in as can be, without being a big dollar contributor, which is why my name was offered up. And I am well pleased.
burnspbesq
@Yutsano:
You and Dawg getting hitched?
Yutsano
@burnspbesq: He’s actually gone for a couple of weeks. Did I tell you he’s becoming a law Dawg?
@Valdivia: It’s in the delicate hands of the PTs. Those who know just laughed their asses off.
Valdivia
@Yutsano:
keeping fingers crossed for you. and good luck on the trip back. take care of that back!
burnspbesq
@Yutsano:
Did I tell you he’s becoming a law Dawg?
A USMC JAG officer? Ooh. Cool. Does he look as good in the uniform as Catherine Bell?
Yutsano
@burnspbesq:
How do I put this delicately…
RAWR!!
He wants to go to Harvard. I giggled.
Valdivia
@Yutsano:
I so know. Been going to PT for my sciatica. Joy of joys!
But while it kills at the moment, I see the difference right away the following morning.
NotMax
Rove/Romney theme song post-Citizens United/today’s Montana SCOTUS decision?
Jim C
Not for nothing, but that is an awful sentence (or sentence fragment).
Valdivia
@Dee Loralei:
I like this about the Obama team: they reward people who work, not just the big money guys.
Roger Moore
@Yutsano:
Uh, oh! Is fake hubby going to be replaced by genuine fiancee?
Upper West
OK — Here’s the version I wrote and posted on Kos in May (http://www.dailykos.com/user/Upper%20West/diaries/2) So far unrecorded. (Mine focuses on the prep school incident.)
Attend the tale of Romney Mitt.
A man devoid of taste or wit.
He roamed the halls with scissors drawn
From past midnight to the next day’s dawn.
He did whatever he saw fit.
Did Romney Mitt. The Demon Barber of Cranbrook.
He led a life of wealth and ease.
He knew the very best height for trees.
It all was grand until one day.
He saw a kid that he thought was gay.
Did Romney. Did Romney Mitt. The Demon Barber of Cranbrook.
Hold those scissors tight, Willard,
Cut him down to size.
Trim the locks of all who dare to sodomize.
The deed was done when he was a teen.
It must have been quite the brutal scene.
And though Mitt just forgets it all,
Those friends of his have total recall,
Of Romney. Of Romney Mitt. The Demon Barber of Cranbrook.
Attend the tale of Romney Mitt.
A man devoid of taste or wit.
Apologies, he will not make.
He’s running for office for goodness sake.
Is Romney. Is Romney Mitt. The Demon Barber of Cran. . . brook.
Comrade Javamanphil
@SiubhanDuinne: We are both in the ensemble for a community theatre production. I’m a tenor, she’s an alto. And thankfully, the show has no dancing.
lahke
Thanks for posting this, Anne. It makes me fell like a real Juicer. I’ve been lurking a long time and commenting occasionally, but it’s hard to jump into threads with my schedule. Also, I hope it gets Roy some more attention. He does a lot of good political stuff: here are two more of my favorites:
http://youtu.be/Ege_RBhh37A
http://youtu.be/qNi1sevKNd0