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You are here: Home / Elections / Election 2012 / Is Invisible Obama drinking Mitt’s milkshake?

Is Invisible Obama drinking Mitt’s milkshake?

by Dennis G.|  August 30, 201211:27 pm| 186 Comments

This post is in: Election 2012, Open Threads

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I have to agree with John. This is the weirdest stuff I’ve ever heard at a GOP convention. I listened to it on NPR and when the clock struck 11 pm our local station just ran the 11 o’clock news update concurrently with Mitt’s word salad.

And to answer Mitt, I felt pretty fucking glad I voted for President Obama when Health Care passed, when the auto industry was saved, the War in Iraq ended, when Bin Laden was killed, when DADT ended and for a thousand other things that President Obama has done.

And I’ll feel even better when I can vote for him in November and send Mitt back to wandering between his four or five estates and cheatin’ on his taxes…

Cheers

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  1. 1.

    Princess

    August 30, 2012 at 11:31 pm

    Am I better off than four years ago? Damn straight. I teach at a university and four years ago this autumn, when the banks began failing, I thought our endowment would vanish and parents wouldn’t be able to afford to pay their fees. I thought I’d lose my job. Now, my job is safe.

    And if we could see Mitt’s tax returns, we’d have confirmation that he’s better off too.

  2. 2.

    Poopyman

    August 30, 2012 at 11:32 pm

    Obama drank that shake months ago. Mittens still hasn’t figured it out.

  3. 3.

    Mary G

    August 30, 2012 at 11:33 pm

    I’m better off. This the first year that I haven’t hit the Medicare D “donut hole” and had to cut way back on meds by now.

  4. 4.

    rikyrah

    August 30, 2012 at 11:34 pm

    am I better off? yes

    that Eastwood bit is the craziest shyt I’ve seen in a long time

  5. 5.

    Culture of Truth

    August 30, 2012 at 11:35 pm

    Holy crap. This convention has been an utter disaster.

    Also, Romney was terrible.

  6. 6.

    Zattarra

    August 30, 2012 at 11:35 pm

    I’m better off. I work in the US auto industry. ’nuff said.

  7. 7.

    Elizabelle

    August 30, 2012 at 11:37 pm

    Is Invisible Obama drinking Mitt’s milkshake?

    He will.

    Once he stops laughing.

  8. 8.

    b1narys3rf

    August 30, 2012 at 11:37 pm

    Rmoney is a terrible candidate and a terrible political persona. Watch his speech with the sound off, ignoring his pinched, grating voice (already a big liability) and notice how uncomfortable, full of excess tension he looks. And how his eyes dart. It may already be too late by then but when he gets on the same frame as Obama in the debates, only the dead-end 27% won’t have their stomachs turn at the contrast.

  9. 9.

    mai naem

    August 30, 2012 at 11:40 pm

    I would crawl over broken glass to vote for Obama again. And furthermore, I would then walk over hot coals to make sure that I vote for Obama just to deny Mitt Romney a vote. So called Christian can go fvck himself.

  10. 10.

    mike in dc

    August 30, 2012 at 11:42 pm

    Invisible Obama is in their base, killing their dudes.

  11. 11.

    BruceFromOhio

    August 30, 2012 at 11:42 pm

    And to answer Mitt, I felt pretty fucking glad I voted for President Obama when Health Care passed, when the auto industry was saved, the War in Iraq ended, when Bin Laden was killed, when DADT ended and for a thousand other things that President Obama has done.

    This. He ain’t perfect, and I got some pretty serious issues with this Executive, but Gaia help me, he is a damn sight better than the alternative.

  12. 12.

    Water balloon

    August 30, 2012 at 11:43 pm

    Is twitter not loading for anyone else?

  13. 13.

    Dennis G.

    August 30, 2012 at 11:43 pm

    @Elizabelle: Well said!

  14. 14.

    Ann Rynd

    August 30, 2012 at 11:44 pm

    Im not better off after having seen Eastwood whose movies I love and having this image put into my head.

  15. 15.

    Doggie D

    August 30, 2012 at 11:45 pm

    It is not an invisible Obama who is consuming Mitt Romney’s milkshake in my opinion. I really doubt there is even such a thing as an invisible Obama, as he is transparent. If anything is drinking Mitt Romney’s milkshake, my money would be on Hanuman The Monkey God.

    Hanuman is no stranger to politics, having previously dispatched the Demon King Ravana. So when it comes to consuming Mormon milkshakes, Hanuman would very likely be one thirsty God, if you know what I mean.

  16. 16.

    Violet

    August 30, 2012 at 11:45 pm

    My local news recap of the convention is leading with Eastwood.

  17. 17.

    Hawes

    August 30, 2012 at 11:45 pm

    @Ann Rynd: At least Reagan has the good sense to retire from the limelight when his dementia set in.

    What’s the opposite of “bounce”?

  18. 18.

    Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God

    August 30, 2012 at 11:47 pm

    The 17yo stepdaughter came upstairs while we were watching Clint Eastwood. Paused it, explained that she lives in a country where people’s votes are swayed by an old man yelling at an empty chair.

    Can’t imagine why her and her friends have zero interest in politics.

  19. 19.

    Hawes

    August 30, 2012 at 11:47 pm

    And you KNOW you need to see this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hXJMFW25nY

  20. 20.

    amk

    August 30, 2012 at 11:48 pm

    mittbot – 2x$9 >>>1x$22, you fucking peons.

    And the fucking peons cheer.

    Mebbe fucking ‘murka does deserves this ratfucker.

  21. 21.

    Ann Rynd

    August 30, 2012 at 11:48 pm

    Eastwood gets all the water cooler talk tomorrow. Romney convention planner epic fail.

  22. 22.

    Culture of Truth

    August 30, 2012 at 11:48 pm

    Kelly O’Donnell, just now:

    “It was one of those crazy nights”

  23. 23.

    Anya

    August 30, 2012 at 11:48 pm

    I called grandpa (a big Eastood fan (former)) what he thought about Eastwood’s performance. Grandpa: I instructed your grandmother to take me to the nearest death panel if I start to ramble on to an invisible chair.

  24. 24.

    mai naem

    August 30, 2012 at 11:49 pm

    There was this christian thing that really bothered me during tonight’s convention. I don’t know if it was just me but practically every speaker(except Clint Eastwood) they had on today including the Mormon friends of the Romneys with the sick kids who make comments about Mitt being a christian/church going/god fearing in such a way that it was a dog whistle that Obama was somehow not a christian.

  25. 25.

    SatanicPanic

    August 30, 2012 at 11:49 pm

    @Princess: That pitch would have worked if the financial crisis had happened after Obama because president, not right before it. Obviously we’re all better off than a time when we thought the entire financial system was going to collapse.

  26. 26.

    TaMara (BHF)

    August 30, 2012 at 11:49 pm

    Am I glad I voted for Obama? I work in the renewable energy field and because of stimulus was able to hire more people, order more from our vendors (90% locally owned), reduce homeowners and business energy costs and now start my own business on the side. You know what all that did? It helped stimulate the economy. And there were no vulture capitalists involved anywhere.

    Fuck yeah, I’m glad and I can’t wait to do it again.

  27. 27.

    Dennis G.

    August 30, 2012 at 11:50 pm

    @Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God:

    …explained that she lives in a country where people’s votes are swayed by an old man yelling at an empty chair.

    Well, that’s one form of American Exceptionalism…

  28. 28.

    Violet

    August 30, 2012 at 11:50 pm

    @Hawes: Thud.

  29. 29.

    Cassidy

    August 30, 2012 at 11:50 pm

    Did Mittens use a teleprompter?

  30. 30.

    Richard

    August 30, 2012 at 11:50 pm

    With regards to Clint…

    http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/clint-eastwood-strange-address-invisible-obama-rnc-023242832–election.html

    Many in the blogosphere suggested it was the most unscripted and bizarre convention appearance in history. Erick Erickson, editor of RedState.com, tried to change the subject with references to Vice President Joe Biden. But Twitter accounts @InvisibleObama and @ClintsChair were buzzing around the Internet as soon as the speech was over.

  31. 31.

    Comrade Mary

    August 30, 2012 at 11:51 pm

    They really should have re-tooled the Reagan hologram to be an Eastwood hologram.

    The especially sad thing is that Eastwod is a talented guy whose ego outstripped his common sense tonight (and any time he supported or voted for Republicans, of course). I saw an ad for his new movie tonight where he apparently plays an elderly man who repeatedly shows himself to be dangerously incompetent. What an awful way to make life match — well, not art, because the movie looks crappy, but you know what I mean.

  32. 32.

    Mike in NC

    August 30, 2012 at 11:51 pm

    No dead cat bounce coming up for these clowns…

  33. 33.

    Spaghetti Lee

    August 30, 2012 at 11:51 pm

    RNC 2012: Old man yells at chair.

  34. 34.

    Dennis G.

    August 30, 2012 at 11:52 pm

    @Richard: The hash tag #romneyshambles will never be out of date…

  35. 35.

    jwb

    August 30, 2012 at 11:52 pm

    @Doggie D: Man, you really do sound like BOB.

  36. 36.

    SarahT

    August 30, 2012 at 11:52 pm

    Getting a Mammogram & Pap Smear tomorrow, which I can finally afford because now our hospitalization-only policy covers it. HELL YEAH I’m better off.

  37. 37.

    patrick II

    August 30, 2012 at 11:52 pm

    That is the best speech I have ever heard Mitt Romney give. It had a kind of whiney earnestness that a teenager who wants you to like him might have. It was considerably better than his normal smug robot persona.

  38. 38.

    CaliCat

    August 30, 2012 at 11:53 pm

    I heard Lawrence O’Donnell was fawning all over Rombot’s speech. What’s up with that?

  39. 39.

    Spaghetti Lee

    August 30, 2012 at 11:53 pm

    I like Clint Eastwood. He’s made some great movies. I wonder why he thought this would be a good idea.

  40. 40.

    Villago Delenda Est

    August 30, 2012 at 11:54 pm

    @Violet:

    Oh shit.

    That is NOT a good sign for OvenMitt.

    It is, however, great news for the country. Because it’s great news for John McCain!

  41. 41.

    Spaghetti Lee

    August 30, 2012 at 11:55 pm

    RNC 2012: We built it, we bought it, and now we can’t return it.

  42. 42.

    Violet

    August 30, 2012 at 11:55 pm

    @patrick II: I agree. He delivered it well. But all anyone will talk about is Clint Eastwood. How could Romney let HIS convention get away from him like that? Why not put Clint on yesterday? Or first thing tonight? Not in prime time to mess up that schedule.

    If Mitt’s such a great manager, why was this convention such a mess? Wasn’t he in charge?

  43. 43.

    Dexter's new approach

    August 30, 2012 at 11:56 pm

    This convention was a gift. I admit Ryan got the crowd pumped up with his obvious lies, so they scored there. But tonight it was: flat, WTF? And really flat

    Rubio’s speech was good in content for the crowd, but they treated him like the opening band for Bon Jovi. Clint was an (predictable) epic disaster. Rombot was himself – half the TV audience went to jerking off to Palin half way though, the other politely clapped until he mentioned Obamacare. BOOOO. Goodnight, God Bless America!

    I will sleep better tonight.

  44. 44.

    jwb

    August 30, 2012 at 11:56 pm

    @Ann Rynd: Well, perhaps. On the other hand, Clint’s performance was so bizarre it becomes the lightning rod that absorbs much of the weirdness of the rest of the convention, and Twitter at least is telling me that Mittwit didn’t come off as a complete dick, even if lied his way through the speech.

  45. 45.

    Bokonon

    August 30, 2012 at 11:56 pm

    When exactly the GOP become the anti-GITMO, anti-war party?

    Come on, Clint. Stop pissing on our leg and telling us it is raining. That is what you might WISH the GOP represented, not what it is.

  46. 46.

    jwb

    August 30, 2012 at 11:57 pm

    @Cassidy: Yes.

  47. 47.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    August 30, 2012 at 11:57 pm

    @Comrade Mary:

    I saw an ad for his new movie tonight where he apparently plays an elderly man who repeatedly shows himself to be dangerously incompetent.

    Are you sure you aren’t confusing that with tonight’s speech?

  48. 48.

    JustAnotherBob

    August 30, 2012 at 11:57 pm

    @Doggie D:

    If it’s Hanuman then I’ll bet Ganesha put him up to it.

    You know the patron of arts and sciences and the deva of intellect and wisdom has to be pissed at Republicans for debasing pachyderms.

  49. 49.

    GregB

    August 30, 2012 at 11:57 pm

    I think it was brilliant stage craft to put Clint Eastwood on in order to make Mitt Romney look normal in comparison.

  50. 50.

    Spaghetti Lee

    August 30, 2012 at 11:57 pm

    I don’t know about you, but I’m proud to live in a country where an Invisible-American can be elected president.

    BTW, what are the odds that Obama was waiting for this shitfest to be over so he could drop some bomb about Romney, Ryan, or both on next week’s news cycle? My preliminary guess is “pretty fucking high.”

  51. 51.

    Cassidy

    August 30, 2012 at 11:58 pm

    @jwb: Awesome.

  52. 52.

    Bokonon

    August 30, 2012 at 11:58 pm

    As someone just tweeted:

    @BenariLee: Clint Eastwood just summed up the GOP’s entire strategy: made-up one-sided arguments against an enemy that doesn’t exist. #RNC

  53. 53.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    August 30, 2012 at 11:59 pm

    I am not better off than I was four years ago, but that has nothing to do with Obama. That’s all on the company I used to work for, which decided to send tens of thousands of American jobs to India.

  54. 54.

    trollhattan

    August 30, 2012 at 11:59 pm

    @GregB:

    Reagan’s actual corpse would have been even bettah.

  55. 55.

    piratedan

    August 30, 2012 at 11:59 pm

    @Hawes: i believe you’re looking for ‘Cratered’…. and with luck, this will have everlasting effects downticket

  56. 56.

    danah gaz (fka gaz)

    August 30, 2012 at 11:59 pm

    Am I better off under Obama?

    That’s a complicated question. I don’t evaluate my well-being based on who is in charge. So far I suppose, I’ve been lucky enough to be able to skirt the state of the economy, and most other things that would generally tie me to having to consider that.

    For instance, I make next to nothing right now, but if I wanted to (like always), I could fire off my curriculum vitae and go shopping for a six figure job. I seriously doubt the state of the economy would effect me much. I admit, that probably puts me in a minority – and again, I’m lucky in that regard.

    That said, I am concerned about how my neighbors are doing. It seems like they are doing better than they were in 2008. Things are still rough, but people are getting jobs (I know this to a certainty because my s/o works for a Worksource office here in WA).

    My main political concerns are around the social safety net, and issues of social justice. While I’ve been sorely disappointed with Obama sometimes with regards to this, overall Obama is far better in those terms than Romney would be, and could ever be.

    Also, I have a backup plan. I’m fully prepared to skip the country if it comes to that. Since I’m near certain that Romney will lose this election I don’t see that happening for awhile, but it’s nice to know I can escape if it comes down to it.

  57. 57.

    Comrade Mary

    August 30, 2012 at 11:59 pm

    @Just Some Fuckhead: Possibly.

    What an awful way to make life match—well, not art, because the movie looks crappy, but you know what I mean.

  58. 58.

    Rommie

    August 31, 2012 at 12:00 am

    Boy, while I thought the Wingluarity would be stranger than can imagine, it turns out it’s stranger than you *CAN* imagine.

    I can’t believe the Democrats will lose to those people. I think the rest of the world has a justifiable reason for a Declaration of War against the U.S. if they do – Skynet wouldn’t be as dangerous as this crew with nukes.

  59. 59.

    Dennis G.

    August 31, 2012 at 12:00 am

    @Bokonon: Perfect

  60. 60.

    Spaghetti Lee

    August 31, 2012 at 12:00 am

    @jwb:

    Ooh, that crafty Mitt! If that’s really what he was going for, well…let me just say that if your strategy is “Let a rambling octogenarian actor steal the spotlight so people forget about me at my own coronation/convention”, you don’t have a strategy. I don’t know what that is, but it ain’t strategy.

  61. 61.

    jwb

    August 31, 2012 at 12:01 am

    @Cassidy: Here’s an image from rehearsal/tech check.

  62. 62.

    Comrade Mary

    August 31, 2012 at 12:02 am

    Fucking CBC has been fucking awful on this convention. First they kept playing bits of Ryan’s “amazing” speech over and over again, and just now they played Mitt’s slow, painful ramble about Obama promising to heal the world while Mitt just wants to help you and your family.

  63. 63.

    CaliCat

    August 31, 2012 at 12:02 am

    Looks like the soft bigotry of low expectations is in full effect even here at BJ regarding Rombot and his hollow, self-serving bs.

  64. 64.

    Shawn in ShowMe

    August 31, 2012 at 12:02 am

    @CaliCat:

    The talking head consensus is that this was the speech of Mitt’s life. Considering how robotic he’s been in the past, I wholeheartedly agree with that. But Clint Eastwood is his Tina Fey moment. There’s no way getting away from it.

  65. 65.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    August 31, 2012 at 12:02 am

    @Bokonon:

    @BenariLee: Clint Eastwood just summed up the GOP’s entire strategy: made-up one-sided arguments against an enemy that doesn’t exist. #RNC

    lolz

  66. 66.

    Anya

    August 31, 2012 at 12:03 am

    @Spaghetti Lee: I tried to watch it but it’s really painful. Hologram Reagan would have been more dignified.

  67. 67.

    Suffern Ace

    August 31, 2012 at 12:04 am

    @SatanicPanic: Sullivan pointed that out. They like to pretend that Obama inherited Clinton’s economy and not Bushs fiasco.

  68. 68.

    patrick II

    August 31, 2012 at 12:04 am

    @Violet:

    The Clint idea was to raise ratings, which I would guess to their chagrin it did. It would have been a good idea if they had given Clint a short script with a few simple “love America” things to say, but they didn’t. Clint said some of the things that go over so well when bullshitting with the other rich guys at the country club bar but are just an embarrassment when said on that stage at that time.

  69. 69.

    GregB

    August 31, 2012 at 12:05 am

    The creepiest thing Mitt did was do the cutesy, school girl lip-bite thing when he delivered the line about President Obama stopping the rise of the oceans.

  70. 70.

    danah gaz (fka gaz)

    August 31, 2012 at 12:05 am

    @jwb:

    @Doggie D: Man, you really do sound like BOB.

    Being an old hand at this Internet thing, I’ve come to the conclusion that they mass produce them.

  71. 71.

    amk

    August 31, 2012 at 12:06 am

    Chris Rock’s tweet:Clint Eastwood on the phone with Obama now: “It all went according to plan sir”.

  72. 72.

    Bruce S

    August 31, 2012 at 12:06 am

    Pretty sure the only way for the Democrats to recoup after this amazingly powerful RNC is if they bring Spike Lee on before Obama’s speech to talk some unscripted shit about Mitt Romney to an empty chair. Time it for the beginning of prime time network coverage. Otherwise all is lost.

  73. 73.

    Violet

    August 31, 2012 at 12:07 am

    Obama’s camp response when asked about Eastwood’s speech:

    “Referring all questions on this to Salvador Dali,” LaBolt told Politico via email.

  74. 74.

    jwb

    August 31, 2012 at 12:07 am

    @Spaghetti Lee: I doubt it was a strategy, but the reality will be everyone talking about Clint being bizarre and we’ll undoubtedly be inundated with delightful parodies for the next week. Given the way the convention went up to the point of Clint’s performance, that’s probably the best thing that could have happened since it served to erase much of the rest of the convention. Now it was still a fucking waste of three days’ time, no doubt about that, but I think Mittwit is politically much better off with Clint’s performance than without it.

  75. 75.

    Comrade Mary

    August 31, 2012 at 12:08 am

    The Twitter machine is going to town on #Clint.

    Obama spokescritter: Responding to Eastwood’s speech, Obama spox @BenLaBolt replies: “Referring all questions on this to Salvador Dalí.”

    Bob Newhart: “I heard that Clint Eastwood was channeling me at the RNC. My lawyers and I are drafting our lawsuit…”

  76. 76.

    Doggie D

    August 31, 2012 at 12:08 am

    Behold.

    A Hanuman attempt to consume a fruit, only to determine that what appears to Hanuman to be perhaps an orange, is actually the sun. Hanuman is not usually the smartest God in the room which helps his followers with the whole self-esteem thing. Hanuman in his search for fruit perhaps intends to teach us that things are not always as they seem.

    The cave, the fire, the shadow. All mask that certain forbidden Truth, which cannot be found at the bottom of Mitt Romney’s milkshake, regardless of who slurps it up. Even the puppet itself is manipulated. In the world of Hanuman, those monkeys who are smart enough to recognize the difference between an Orange and that celestial body our Sun, recognize that the law of the jungle never changes. It simply goes into periodic remission.

  77. 77.

    MattR

    August 31, 2012 at 12:08 am

    @danah gaz (fka gaz):

    While I’ve been sorely disappointed with Obama sometimes with regards to this, overall Obama is far better in those terms than Romney would be, and could ever be.

    I can’t think of a single thing I dislike about Obama where Romney is not significantly worse.

  78. 78.

    SatanicPanic

    August 31, 2012 at 12:08 am

    @CaliCat: I am willing to own up to my anti-robot bigotry. It’s something I’ve been trying to work on, but I am just grossed out by them. I can’t help it. Maybe if I had grown up around more robots.

  79. 79.

    Elizabelle

    August 31, 2012 at 12:10 am

    That was such a strange, strange convention.

    If the nominees’ families had emerged at the end and started throwing ferrets into the audience, it would not have been much stranger.

    They’re arguing that Obama has failed, and they cannot (a) run a convention, (b) even allow their GOP congressional leadership on stage and ( c ) they lie and applaud lies like nothing I have ever seen.

    And then everyone gets upstaged by ranting at an empty chair.

    We are nearing peak wingnut.

  80. 80.

    Suffern Ace

    August 31, 2012 at 12:10 am

    @Comrade Mary: Jus like Bush didn’t want that nation building role…Romney inexplicably wants that to make that big army even biggehusk no one will attack us, yet surrounds himself with hothead mangers like Bolton. I pity the countries whose democracy he’s planning to promote. But to pretend he’s mr domestic policy help your family small plans is one of those dangerous lies.

  81. 81.

    murakami

    August 31, 2012 at 12:11 am

    Invisible Obama is watching you masturbate.

  82. 82.

    CaliCat

    August 31, 2012 at 12:12 am

    @Shawn in ShowMe: you wholeheartedly agree? why not just agree? And who the hell cares if he sounded less robotic – the whole thing was a complete farce.

  83. 83.

    Villago Delenda Est

    August 31, 2012 at 12:13 am

    @amk:

    You have to wonder if that was exactly what happened.

    It’s hard to believe that Eastwood could be that incoherent. I know he’s no spring chicken, but even Reagan could deliver lines during the end of his second term, when he was obviously in the early stages of Alzheimer’s.

    I had this fantasy that Eastwood would go totally off-script and say, in the steely manner of Harry Callaghan, “You people are too stupid to listen to me, but if you give the slightest importance to your own interests, don’t vote for this lying sack of shit Romney.”

    This may be just as effective.

  84. 84.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    August 31, 2012 at 12:14 am

    George Takei, FTW:

    Clint Eastwood’s RNC speech was to imaginary Obama in an empty chair. I’m drafting a DNC speech to imaginary Romney in an empty factory.

  85. 85.

    danah gaz (fka gaz)

    August 31, 2012 at 12:14 am

    @MattR: I completely agree with you. That does not mean that I completely agree with Obama. =/ Just that Romney would range from bad to infinitely worse.

    For starters, it’d be nice if Obama gave a shit about the expansion of executive powers, and if in some of his executive orders, he’d maybe stopped deporting record numbers of brown people. Still, I won’t condemn him, because frankly I don’t have to make the kinds of choices he does, he doesn’t have complete control of our government, and he’s not a perfect person. Overall, I’m glad I voted for him the first time. If I don’t vote for him this time, it’s only because his electoral vote is absolutely safe in my state. Lacking a 3rd party candidate that I like, I’ll probably vote for him again. (And no I don’t expect a 3rd party candidate to actually win, and no I’m no firebagger – and in any case I have, and will continue to donate, and shill for Obama =) )

  86. 86.

    ? Martin

    August 31, 2012 at 12:15 am

    So, spent the evening at my son’s first performance, then went for a run, and am just now sitting down. The twitters are saying that Clint needs to stop speaking extemporaneously now, which makes me sad, because I love Clint, but also happy because if he was going to embarrass himself in public, it really couldn’t have happened at a better place and time.

    And then Mittens was a ginormous meh.

  87. 87.

    trollhattan

    August 31, 2012 at 12:15 am

    @Violet:
    Ouch. Mark, they haz left one.

  88. 88.

    jwb

    August 31, 2012 at 12:16 am

    @Comrade Mary: #eastwooding is even better.

  89. 89.

    Suffern Ace

    August 31, 2012 at 12:16 am

    @MattR: This.

  90. 90.

    Corbin Dallas Multipass

    August 31, 2012 at 12:16 am

    @murakami: Look straight into those invisible eyes and stroke away.

  91. 91.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    August 31, 2012 at 12:17 am

    @danah gaz (fka gaz): All I heard was I’MAFIREBAGGERFIREBAGGERFIREBAGGERLOOKATMEMYBAGISONFIREFIREFIRE!

  92. 92.

    jl

    August 31, 2012 at 12:17 am

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    Hollywood star ego plus Romney camp contempt for the help. I wonder if they pissed him off and he came out and phoned it in, with a little bad acid subtext. Looks like Bob Newhart noticed the resemblance.

  93. 93.

    danah gaz (fka gaz)

    August 31, 2012 at 12:17 am

    @Just Some Fuckhead: hahaha

  94. 94.

    patrick II

    August 31, 2012 at 12:18 am

    @GregB:
    He got that move from Bill Clinton.

  95. 95.

    Spaghetti Lee

    August 31, 2012 at 12:18 am

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    Hey yeah, let’s do this again!

  96. 96.

    Corbin Dallas Multipass

    August 31, 2012 at 12:18 am

    Invisible Metrosexual Black Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

  97. 97.

    SatanicPanic

    August 31, 2012 at 12:19 am

    @Suffern Ace: This time four years ago was scary. Or imagine what happened in Bush’s first term. The last four years haven’t been great, but they’re better than the previous eight. If they want to make the case otherwise, I would love to hear them try.

  98. 98.

    amk

    August 31, 2012 at 12:20 am

    @Villago Delenda Est: I speculated that eastwood was a fucking lefty troll at the convention.

  99. 99.

    GregB

    August 31, 2012 at 12:20 am

    @patrick II:

    Which he stole from a school girl.

  100. 100.

    patrick II

    August 31, 2012 at 12:21 am

    I thought Rubio gave the best speech of the convention. (To be clear I am grading on a steep curve). It is just too bad for him that he let them know he can speak Spanish.

  101. 101.

    CaliCat

    August 31, 2012 at 12:21 am

    Well, it looks like Rombot actually got BJers to debate whether they still like Obama. We played Mittens!

  102. 102.

    Spaghetti Lee

    August 31, 2012 at 12:21 am

    @SatanicPanic:

    Previous eight years? Oh, do you mean the third Clinton term and the first Obama term?

  103. 103.

    Ash Can

    August 31, 2012 at 12:21 am

    @Violet: LOL!

  104. 104.

    amk

    August 31, 2012 at 12:23 am

    Hilarious tweets under #EastWooding

  105. 105.

    jl

    August 31, 2012 at 12:23 am

    On the other hand, Mitt promised us two jobs for the price one plus some change. Sounds like a good bargain to me. Think of the savings.

    I’m voting for Mitt, I need the money.

    Wait… not sure I got it quite right. I’ll get back to you on that.

  106. 106.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    August 31, 2012 at 12:23 am

    John Cole is on MSNBC. Looking good, John.

  107. 107.

    mai naem

    August 31, 2012 at 12:24 am

    Bob Newhart tweeted

    Bob Newhart ‏@BobNewhart
    I heard that Clint Eastwood was channeling me at the RNC. My lawyers and I are drafting our lawsuit

  108. 108.

    Shawn in ShowMe

    August 31, 2012 at 12:25 am

    @CaliCat:

    Mitt Romney’s entire campaign has been a complete farce. I thought that went without saying. I’m just in a magnanimous mood tonight.

  109. 109.

    Foggy F Follansbye

    August 31, 2012 at 12:25 am

    @patrick II: I do like Rubio but he seemed too young and spoke over the applause. He needs a lot more practice.

  110. 110.

    karen marie

    August 31, 2012 at 12:25 am

    @Richard: Shit, the chair had 15,000 followers before Romney took the stage.

  111. 111.

    Spaghetti Lee

    August 31, 2012 at 12:25 am

    Eastwood: “When Romney invited me to the convention, I only asked for one condition: all the gin I could drink.”

  112. 112.

    Comrade Mary

    August 31, 2012 at 12:25 am

    Heh. Vixen at RumpRoast has the best post title. Also.

  113. 113.

    Elizabelle

    August 31, 2012 at 12:26 am

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    Cruel!

  114. 114.

    TG Chicago

    August 31, 2012 at 12:26 am

    Sullivan both last night and tonight said something about how Romney’s decency is undeniable.

    How is he defining “decency”?

    The dictionary says “conformity to the recognized standard of propriety, good taste, modesty, etc.” Romney is a man who is running a campaign based almost entirely on race-baiting and lies — which Sullivan points out multiple times per day.

    How does that behavior conform to recognized standards of propriety?

    This is just one of Sullivan’s blind spots where he feels a need to show some sort of reverence for a guy who kinda looks like an old school conservative, if you squint and have taken a few shots of tequila.

    On a side note, when did Sullivan get moved back to the blogroll from the “monitor and mock as needed” category?

  115. 115.

    Death Panel Truck

    August 31, 2012 at 12:26 am

    @mai naem: More likely it was an attempt to convince the fundies that Mormon Mitt is a real Christian, so as not to risk any of them staying home on election day rather than vote for the latter day saint.

  116. 116.

    Corner Stone

    August 31, 2012 at 12:27 am

    I’m still not sure what the hell I just watched at the RNC.

  117. 117.

    muddy

    August 31, 2012 at 12:27 am

    Tweety just asked a Daily Show writer (?) to tell Jon Stewart to like him. Gods he’s so weird.

  118. 118.

    Comrade Mary

    August 31, 2012 at 12:28 am

    @Just Some Fuckhead: WUT? Screen shot of his last post or surveillance video of his last attempt at cleaning the bathtub?

  119. 119.

    SatanicPanic

    August 31, 2012 at 12:29 am

    Pretty funny reading the Republicans trying to spin this as some sort of victory on Twitter. I really hope they’re being paid.

  120. 120.

    Violet

    August 31, 2012 at 12:32 am

    @amk: #Eastwooding is a riot.

  121. 121.

    danielx

    August 31, 2012 at 12:32 am

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    WTF??

  122. 122.

    Corner Stone

    August 31, 2012 at 12:32 am

    @mai naem: I’m a little young for Bob Newhart but I really was trying to place the comedic performance style of Eastwood tonight.
    It was way too obvious to be an actual speech. Had to be art.

  123. 123.

    mai naem

    August 31, 2012 at 12:34 am

    @Villago Delenda Est: He’s 82 and I’m pretty sure he’s done some hard living. He probably flew in today or last night, so he probably had some jet lag. The Romney people were probably too intimidated to ask him to do a practice run. He probably is a cantankerous old guy IRL and that probably didn’t help.

  124. 124.

    Comrade Mary

    August 31, 2012 at 12:35 am

    @Corner Stone: Speaking of Bob Newhart and his phone bits, here’s Shelley Berman and one of his one-sided phone call routines. (I found this on an old LP for a family I babysat for.)

  125. 125.

    amk

    August 31, 2012 at 12:35 am

    Obama responds directly to the klown.

  126. 126.

    Ash Can

    August 31, 2012 at 12:35 am

    And courtesy of wag Lidane at LGF, BOOM goes the dynamite. Badass president iz badass.

    ETA: And it’s amk by a nose!

  127. 127.

    Southern Beale

    August 31, 2012 at 12:35 am

    Yahoo News tells me Romney was aiming for the “disillusioned Obama voters” with his speech. I’m sure there is diversity of opinion among that group but all of the disillusioned Obama voters I know are disillusioned because Obama wasn’t the magic progressive they expected him to be, not the Republican Mitt thinks they wanted him to be.

    Very weird.

  128. 128.

    CaliCat

    August 31, 2012 at 12:36 am

    @Shawn in ShowMe: Sorry if I seem crabby but I’ve had my fill of these clowns.

  129. 129.

    elaine benes

    August 31, 2012 at 12:36 am

    I’d love to have been in the same room with Obama and Axelrod during Clint’s speech or whatever the hell that was.

    Their reactions = priceless.

  130. 130.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    August 31, 2012 at 12:37 am

    Chris Matthews was interviewing a gaggle of clowns and they all loved Romney. He said to one meathead, “You are a piece of work, buddy.” That shit was funny.

  131. 131.

    patrick II

    August 31, 2012 at 12:37 am

    @muddy:

    Stewart kicked Mathews’ ass a couple of years ago in a Daily show interview about Mathews’ book about how to win at life by emulating lying politicians. I have seen Tweety express hurt feeling a few times about this — including asking a guest if Stewart didn’t like him because of his height (Mathews is much taller than Stewart).

    Mathews gives me whiplash. He so often says such stupid things and then turn around and say something so insightful. He should have a little warning light or something so I know when he is worth listening to.

  132. 132.

    amk

    August 31, 2012 at 12:38 am

    @Ash Can: Ha, I had the quicker draw. You’re dead now.

  133. 133.

    Corner Stone

    August 31, 2012 at 12:38 am

    Newtie. And that gastric rictus bag of fail Callista.
    Jeebus.

  134. 134.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    August 31, 2012 at 12:39 am

    @patrick II: Matthews is a real fuckhead.

  135. 135.

    trollhattan

    August 31, 2012 at 12:39 am

    Holy crap, I just watched Sam Bee’s bit from last night’s TDS. She’s a treasure. (for a Canuck, y’all)

  136. 136.

    patrick II

    August 31, 2012 at 12:39 am

    Famous Eastwood punchline from Dirty Harry movie that is suddenly more appropriate: “A man’s got to know his limitations”.

  137. 137.

    Catsy

    August 31, 2012 at 12:40 am

    I considered watching tonight’s speeches. Even proposed a drinking game to the other adults in the household. But instead I spent the entire evening playing a hack-and-slash ARPG online with my 11-year-old, and am just now catching up on all this spectacular fail.

    Verdict so far is that I made the right choice on how to spend my evening.

  138. 138.

    CaliCat

    August 31, 2012 at 12:41 am

    Hey Firebags, Rombot was poking you.

    Go to the light
    Go to the light

  139. 139.

    danah gaz (fka gaz)

    August 31, 2012 at 12:41 am

    @Elizabelle: “We are nearing peak wingnut.”

    Doubtful. I’m fairly certain that crazy is a renewable resource.

  140. 140.

    Allan

    August 31, 2012 at 12:41 am

    Thank God they kept Sarah Palin off the platform, because she might have done something to embarrass the GOP.

  141. 141.

    ? Martin

    August 31, 2012 at 12:41 am

    So, I missed the backstory on Clint, but my guess is that he was invited to do the big conservative thing to clear up that Chrysler Super Bowl Ad that all the wingnuts read as an Obama endorsement. And being Clint, nobody had the stones to walk him through this, review his comments, question whether he could just wing it, etc. And as a result, they pretty much completely torpedoed their big night, ensuring nobody talks about Mitt and only talks about Clint.

    It’s really impressive how well the Romney campaign and the GOP can unfailingly step on their own dicks.

  142. 142.

    GregB

    August 31, 2012 at 12:41 am

    @Corner Stone:

    Best ventriloquist act evah!

  143. 143.

    patrick II

    August 31, 2012 at 12:41 am

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    Hey Fuckhead (I always wanted to say that without getting punched) — is your boy still playing anywhere around Virginia Beach?

  144. 144.

    KG

    August 31, 2012 at 12:42 am

    @patrick II: I’ve liked Matthews since the mid90s, I think it’s because he seems less polished and less scripted than the other yappers… Really like one of hose guys at the bar on a Saturday afternoon bullshitting about the news

  145. 145.

    danah gaz (fka gaz)

    August 31, 2012 at 12:43 am

    @KG: meaning they make sense once you’re drunk?

  146. 146.

    amk

    August 31, 2012 at 12:43 am

    @trollhattan: She exposed the total CD of those kkklowns about ‘personal freeeedem, choice, blah, blah’, didn’t she? Go sam bee.

  147. 147.

    ? Martin

    August 31, 2012 at 12:44 am

    @trollhattan: She is indeed a treasure. That bit was brilliant.

    This is interesting:

    Billionaire industrialist David Koch, who is helping steer millions of dollars to elect Mitt Romney and congressional Republicans, on Thursday told POLITICO he disagrees with the GOP’s stance on gay marriage and believes the U.S. needs to consider raising taxes to balance the budget.

    The GOP lost Koch on tax policy? That should tell you something.

  148. 148.

    pseudonymous in nc

    August 31, 2012 at 12:44 am

    #Eastwooding is now a thing on Twitter. Nice work, RNC.

    As the GOS noted, the RNC schedulers also missed the network hour with the touchy-feeling bio video (which apparently was quite affecting) and launched it with Clint talking to the chair, then apparently fucked up the timing sufficiently that Rubio was having pages tossed from his speech even as he was giving it, and Mittens had to deliver at a clip.

    These are the people who are supposedly better at running the United States. Oh, and the balloons stayed lodged in the ceiling.

    @patrick II:

    Mathews gives me whiplash. He so often says such stupid things and then turn around and say something so insightful. He should have a little warning light or something so I know when he is worth listening to.

    I think he’s a pure product of his generation — Boomer blue-collar NE Catholic — much more so than Russert, who adopted the schtick but devoted himself to being a company man. Loofa O’Reilly’s a pure product too, just in a different direction.

  149. 149.

    mai naem

    August 31, 2012 at 12:45 am

    @Corner Stone: Well, thanks for making me feel like an old fart but actually most of the Newhart stuff I’ve seen is rerun stuff. I remember seeing him on one of the night talk shows and he was hilarious. Anyhoo, one of the female comedians does something similar too – I think it’s Lily Tomlin but I may be wrong.

  150. 150.

    Hill Dweller

    August 31, 2012 at 12:45 am

    The MSNBC talking heads played nice when talking about Willard’s speech, but I think GOP bigwig Alex Castellanos got it right when he said Romney offered nothing to convince the country that he’s any different from Bush.

    Nevertheless, the Eastwood debacle is going to kill whatever narrative Willard hoped would come out of the convention.

  151. 151.

    jl

    August 31, 2012 at 12:46 am

    Oh dear. Good news for John McCain, I guess.

    From Eastwooding twitter pics to viral snarky free media for the Obama team.

    http://twitter.com/stinque/status/241394231665623040/photo/1

    I hope this is just the beginning of a bright new dawn in this here campaign.

  152. 152.

    Violet

    August 31, 2012 at 12:46 am

    @amk: Ohhh…they are so good. Too funny.
    @patrick II: That interview was painful to watch. Matthews wanted to sell his book. Stewart was incredulous that anyone would go around telling people to win by lying like politicians and he was having none of what Matthew was selling. Tweety was visibly shaken by the experience. He thought he was going to a softball, lefty-friendly interview and got mown over by Jon’s indignation.

    Hard to believe they haven’t patched things up at this point, but there you go.

  153. 153.

    jomo

    August 31, 2012 at 12:46 am

    Gonna remember Mitt’s speech for the asshole “Obama promised to keep the oceans from rising” joke. Pretty freaking hilarious.

  154. 154.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    August 31, 2012 at 12:47 am

    @patrick II: Yeah, his regular band class has a few concerts but I’m a little fuzzy on the dates. Don’t know if he’s going to do jazz band again.

    School doesn’t start for a few more days.

  155. 155.

    jwb

    August 31, 2012 at 12:47 am

    @? Martin: Except the rest of the convention was so God awful, can you really say that everyone talking about crazy Uncle Clint is close to the worst case scenario? But this campaign—they have $2 billion to spend on ads and really nothing else. Unfortunately, $2 billion on ads may still be enough. I don’t think so, but it remains well within the range of possibility.

  156. 156.

    Walker

    August 31, 2012 at 12:47 am

    @? Martin:

    The GOP lost Koch on tax policy? That should tell you something.

    Not his taxes. Shared sacrifice is for the plebes.

  157. 157.

    Corner Stone

    August 31, 2012 at 12:48 am

    @mai naem: Who is Lily Tomlin?

  158. 158.

    patrick II

    August 31, 2012 at 12:48 am

    @KG:

    I often like him too though his stream of consciousness ramblings have more extreme highs and lows than anyone else in his business. It has also kind of amused me that he was so hurt by Stewart’s criticism that is still feeling bad two years later.

  159. 159.

    CaliCat

    August 31, 2012 at 12:49 am

    At least Tweety had the stones to call out Priebus and Rombot on their blatant race-baiting. You can believe none of those other Morning Schmoes would have the sack to do that.

  160. 160.

    amk

    August 31, 2012 at 12:51 am

    @mai naem: methinks you thinking of goldie hawn?

  161. 161.

    patrick II

    August 31, 2012 at 12:55 am

    @CaliCat:

    Absolutely.

  162. 162.

    Matt in HB

    August 31, 2012 at 12:55 am

    LOLZ @ #eastwooding

    @BarackObama This seat’s taken. http://pic.twitter.com/jgGZTb02

    Oh lord that’s awesome.

  163. 163.

    Walker

    August 31, 2012 at 12:55 am

    @amk:

    Goldie’s schtick has never really been anything more than “dumb blonde”. Lily Tomlin is a much better comedian.

  164. 164.

    amk

    August 31, 2012 at 12:57 am

    @Walker: Agree. Tomlin is way smarter. But then hawn is a hawtie.

  165. 165.

    danimal

    August 31, 2012 at 12:58 am

    I won’t be happy until I see the polls confirming my prediction of a negative convention bounce. The Obama tweet is an instant classic.

  166. 166.

    cthulhu

    August 31, 2012 at 12:59 am

    Hey, isn’t the rule that the GOP knows how to win elections while the Dems know how to govern? One group isn’t keeping up their part of the bargain.

  167. 167.

    patrick II

    August 31, 2012 at 1:03 am

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    If you see me on a thread sometime when you know his schedule give a shout out.

  168. 168.

    JustAnotherBob

    August 31, 2012 at 1:04 am

    @patrick II:

    Sorry. There was no best speech for this convention….

  169. 169.

    pseudonymous in nc

    August 31, 2012 at 1:08 am

    @Violet:

    Stewart was incredulous that anyone would go around telling people to win by lying like politicians and he was having none of what Matthew was selling. Tweety was visibly shaken by the experience. He thought he was going to a softball, lefty-friendly interview and got mown over by Jon’s indignation.

    Stewart is way harder on journalists than he is on politicians. Always. Goldberg (Bernie and Jonah), Cramer, etc. Mainly because he doesn’t think he should be doing the political journalists’ jobs, and doesn’t think the political journalists are doing theirs.

  170. 170.

    patrick II

    August 31, 2012 at 1:14 am

    @JustAnotherBob:

    Well, it is hard to disagree, but in fairness to me I said I was grading on a steep curve.

    Another thing that amused me is that both Susana Martinez and Marco Rubio spoke Spanish for one sentence — followed by a deathly silence in the hall followed by an immediate rush to the next sentence in their speech to cover the silence. Those two were the best speakers of the convention but the Tea Party does not approve of straying from the National Language.

  171. 171.

    Violet

    August 31, 2012 at 1:22 am

    @patrick II: Interesting. My take on Rubio’s Spanish bit is that the crowd started clapping almost before he finished, and then he hurried to translate it and the crowd cheered. I came away with the impression they cheered BECAUSE he spoke Spanish, as in, “See! We have Spanish-speaking people too! We’re not anti-immigrant!”

  172. 172.

    trollhattan

    August 31, 2012 at 1:26 am

    @JustAnotherBob:

    Sorry. There was no best speech for this convention….

    What, have we already forgotten Condi blaming 9/11 on Obama? Speechifying gold.

  173. 173.

    patrick II

    August 31, 2012 at 1:26 am

    @Violet:

    I heard it as some clapping followed by silence followed by Rubio going quickly to the next line. Martinez definitely got the silent treatment.

    Also, I think they had more speakers of color than attendeees.

  174. 174.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    August 31, 2012 at 1:36 am

    @Elizabelle:

    He fell off of Clint’s chair, laughing his ass off at the inanity of it all. This has to have been the worst/craziest Republican convention ever. They can hype this disaster all they want but nothing will change the fact that the Republican party has collectively lost their minds. That they think it was a roaring success only confirms their complete detachment from reality.

    I hope enough Americans are still rooted in reality so as to not support their insanity this fall.

  175. 175.

    Villago Delenda Est

    August 31, 2012 at 1:42 am

    Lily Tomlin gave me (as a person who’s worked in electronic communications most of my life) the greatest line, ever.

    “We don’t have to care. We’re the phone company.”

  176. 176.

    Tokyokie

    August 31, 2012 at 1:45 am

    Maybe the Republicans didn’t let Clint use a Teleprompter because they remember his emergency hosting job at the 1973 Oscars.

  177. 177.

    Cain

    August 31, 2012 at 2:46 am

    @JustAnotherBob:

    Hey man, the pachyderm god like dude is known as the “remover of obstacles” You can bet that he can remove any milkshake drinker.

    That’s why Obama carries Ganapati around in his pocket… LIKE A BOSS.

    BTW Reddit is still bursting starbursts today. I expect the love fest to keep going for another two days.

  178. 178.

    Cain

    August 31, 2012 at 2:48 am

    @Doggie D:

    What the fuck are you talking about? Jeezus. Now look what you made me do, I’ve dragged in another deity to the mix. Thanks a lot, dude.

  179. 179.

    karen marie

    August 31, 2012 at 2:58 am

    @? Martin: I’m not buying it. He’s trying to improve Koch favorability numbers.

  180. 180.

    TenguPhule

    August 31, 2012 at 3:08 am

    What’s the opposite of “bounce”?

    SPLAT

  181. 181.

    karen

    August 31, 2012 at 3:18 am

    @Cain: What is Ganapati and drinking milkshakes?

  182. 182.

    ruemara

    August 31, 2012 at 3:23 am

    @danah gaz (fka gaz): I’m so sick of this. You do realize you want an executive order to not carry out immigration law? Which would be in direct opposition to your desire to see executive power abuse curtailed. Yeah, yeah, you’re voting for Obama, but I just get worn out with all the disappointment that’s based on fantasy about what is and is not legal or possible. Jesus.

  183. 183.

    danah gaz (fka gaz)

    August 31, 2012 at 10:56 am

    @ruemara: I’m sorry I didn’t kiss his ring.

    As far as executive powers being curtailed, I’ll be more specific. I’m far more concerned about war powers than general executive orders. In fact, given that Congress is in the shitter, EOs are probably a good idea for the most part.

    As far as my lack of total fealty. Note it. Jot it down. Take a fucking picture.

    And when you’re done with that, you can proceed to go fuck yourself. I do not care what you are tired of.

    The fact is that you haven’t watched first hand as your friends families are torn apart by ICE raids. You haven’t watched the feds shred an agreement for a custodial sponsership of a 17 year old kid so they could deport his ass.

    I have. I deal with this kind of shit on a weekly basis. You don’t. It’s comfortably abstract for you, isn’t it? That must be nice.

  184. 184.

    Maude

    August 31, 2012 at 12:09 pm

    @danah gaz (fka gaz):
    An EO would be challenged in court for violating laws set by Congress. Write to you congress critters.

  185. 185.

    danah gaz (fka gaz)

    August 31, 2012 at 12:23 pm

    @Maude: I do. Thankfully, my congress-critters are pretty decent, so I normally don’t have to. I’d write to other people’s congress-critters if it made any kind of difference.

    Also, not all of Obama’s EOs have been successfully challenged.

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