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Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

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When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

You cannot shame the shameless.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

Everybody saw this coming.

Bark louder, little dog.

We still have time to mess this up!

Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

This blog will pay for itself.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

All your base are belong to Tunch.

In my day, never was longer.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

This fight is for everything.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

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  9. 9.

    Anne Laurie

    Perhaps it should be added (to ease the consciences of the dudgeon-prone) that Carl is openly gay. So he’s not, y’know, inappropriately appropriating another subcultures experience, in case any knickers were knotting…

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    gogol's wife

    @Baud:

    I like the ad, but I don’t believe that person is really a Tea Party person. He seems too intelligent and ironic. He’s shamming . . . .

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    JPL

    Earlier today after watching Carl’s ad on the Washington Post Politics page, I googled it and several news sites picked it up. He’ll certainly raise enough money to compete.

    @Tommy: Paying it forward is so socialistic. Now I have to find a hanky.

  17. 17.

    Tommy

    @JPL: LOL. My parents are hardcore Republicans. I am not. They always even if it wasn’t a term, to play things forward. My mom and dad do it almost everyday. I try when I can. Funny, it is such a good thing. Most times good things come back to me ….

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    MomSense

    I want to vote for Carl for Congress. Best political ad I’ve seen.

    ETA: Damn, I used to live in his district! I would have loved to vote for him.

    Don’t let me down 5th district!!

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    PurpleGirl

    @gogol’s wife: I think the cell phone ad is the longer ad involving charity. Although I don’t see the connection to cell phones there. But it is a good ad about being charitable. (RWNJ in the US would hate the ad and the story.)

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    Tommy

    @Ash Can: Nope. Been about a decade since I did any ads you might see. I don’t do that anymore, but I do still like good “creative.”

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    Fluke bucket

    @Roger Moore: exactly. All day I have had to put up with people showing that ad and letting everybody know that health care should be taken care of with voluntary charitable giving. Damn. Ruined the ad for me.

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    Bobby Thomson

    George Takei was promoting the cell phone ad on his face book page. Someone else linked to this ad. It’s for a bank, but will still raise the dust in the room.

  36. 36.

    Comrade Mary

    I feel predictable today. (I’ll feel mysterious tomorrow.) Smiled at the political commercial, cried on cue for the Thai commercial.

    Man, Thai advertising specializes in squeezing out tears in the most obvious but effective way. A compilation.

  39. 39.

    hamletta

    @gogol’s wife: Naw, it’s real. My dad and brother are wingnuts, and I disagree with them on everything political (except they’re cool with gay people), but I love them unconditionally.

    Tea Partiers are misguided, no doubt, but they aren’t all morons.

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