Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

“They all knew.”

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

All hail the time of the bunny!

Stand up, dammit!

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

People are complicated. Love is not.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

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

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

That meeting sounds like a shotgun wedding between a shitshow and a clusterfuck.

Their shamelessness is their super power.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

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  2. 2.

    Alison

    That dude is my new favorite person. I love how adorably thrilled he was by meeting Obama!

    And this is, what, #23788 on the list of “Can you imagine Mitt Romney doing this”. Because, no. No I can’t.

  3. 3.

    bostondreams

    But how can he support Obama? He’s a small business owner! I am sadly confused.

    This was a neat story and image. No idea why it makes me happy.

  4. 4.

    YellowJournalism

    Proof from her Twitter feed that ABL has spent too much time with John:

    @AngryBlackLady: You don’t need pants for that, madam. RT @PirateWench: I need my pants dammit! I gotta go to the store for milk!

  6. 6.

    Kane

    Scott Van Duzer is not just an owner of a pizza shop, but apparently he is considered kind of a local hero involved with a number of local charities. Some might even say that he’s a community organizer. Here is a link to the Van Duzer Foundation: thevanduzerfoundation.org/

  7. 7.

    mdblanche

    @Alex: The rumors that Jennifer Rubin is a dear supporter of the Romney campaign are false. The truth is her rates are quite reasonable.

  8. 8.

    West of the Rockies (formerly Frank W.)

    Not to be cynical, but I wonder if this was entirely choreographed. I imagine the Secret Service guys would have been on Defcon 2 when that big fella lifted the Prez up like that!

  10. 10.

    Warren Terra

    In other Obot porn today, there’s also his Birth Certificate Joke:

    POOL REPORT: At 6:51 motorcade arrived at… a strip mall. Grand Oaks shopping village in Orlando, which houses, among other things, Gators Dockside, a sports bar… Big cheer when potus walked in, doing a strange slicing motion with his arms that your pooler is informed is the “gator chop.” Hm. Being a huge beer fan, potus immediately sidled up to the bar, of course, standing under a ginormous stuffed? Plastic? Alligator. He ordered a pint of something, and started chatting up patrons… He goes to a huge table of ten, five kids, and one woman points to a blond boy at the opposite end and says “he was born in Hawaii.” Potus lights up and does some presumably Hawaii sign with his hand, which the boy returned. Then Potus says: “You were born in Hawaii? You have a birth certificate?” The table busted out laughing.

  16. 16.

    jl

    How can this guy lose? Hangs loose with muscle dude guy who owns a pizza joint with a pretty waitress.

    Who came out on top of the dust up between Biden and biker guy over the chick in the diner?

    Are we talking all American ticket, or what? Sure, a Chris Rock/George Clooney ticket might be cooler, but these guys are doing pretty good, you ask me.

  17. 17.

    @VividBlueDotty

    @The Moar You Know: She haz a sad because she can’t get richer by paying people less than $2 a day like they do in Africa. The richest damn woman in the world and she is fucking whining about having to pay decent wages and benefits.

    And she worked so hard for HER money. It was really hard work to be born to an $18 BILLION dollar fortune.

    There was a previous article about this bitch that also featured the quote at the bottom of this article:

    “There is no monopoly on becoming a millionaire. If you’re jealous of those with more money don’t just sit there and complain, do something to make more money yourself. Spend less time drinking, smoking and socializing and more time working.”

    I am sure the people in Australia will be happy to know they can become millionaires too if they just work MORE, even if it’s for $2 a day. If they will just save all of that money instead of spending it on stupid things like food and shelter, they will be millionaires after just 1370 years of working. (No days off, ever in that 1370 years either.)

  19. 19.

    jl

    @Alison:

    What a dingbat. Too bad you can’t hear his pompous shouty yelling delivery over twitter.

    But only bigots devoted to the GOP will pay it any mind.

    The butt of a joke, target of a smear, gets some leeway. Everyone knows that.

    Guess what, Romney has more room to make a Mormon joke than Obama does. Hard to believe for pompius doofuses but true. Not that Mitt is likely to try, or would not turn it into a Mittsaster if he did. But, even Reid or Huntsman could salvage something from a good one, even after they goofed it up.

  21. 21.

    ? Martin

    Oh noes! Unlimited corporate cash may not be unlimited…

    The Obama campaign has announced — in a press release sent to reporters at 12:23 a.m. — that it raised $114 million in August, $3 million more than did Mitt Romney’s campaign.
    __
    The Obama release comes not coincidentally 23 minutes after the Romney campaign announced that it raised $111 million in August,

  24. 24.

    jl

    I read some place that FLOTUS speech was a huge ratings hit, and was a viral internet hit in several countries. Can’t find it now.

    I am such a doofus myself, it was probably a front post on this blog, but just checked and don’t see anything over the weekend.

    Was it a BJ comment?

    Anyone see that story?

  28. 28.

    jl

    Rathre than pecking around various random sites for something I saw someplace, why not do a search? I asked myself. The news is all over the place.

    Here is most informative piece I see.

    Michelle Obama’s Speech Gets More Online Views Than The Entire RNC Convention

    forbes.com/sites/jjcolao/2012/09/07/michelle-obamas-speech-gets-more-online-views-than-the-entire-rn…

    Poor Mr. President, he might be catching up a little, but unlikely to overtake FLOTUS, who was a viral hit in China (thought I saw a story where it went viral several places,though).

    For RNC, looks like Clint is the star. BooWah! Thatta a way to go, GOP.

  29. 29.

    jl

    Thanks for FLOTUS links, folks. I suddenly realized I should do a search, rather than hunt around at random places where I thought I saw it, and the stories are all over the place. But my link to Forbes story on it is in moderation.

    Looks like the big star from the two conventions, besides Michelle, is Clint Eastwood yelling at an empty chair. Way to go, GOP.

  30. 30.

    Another Halocene Human

    @Suffern Ace: Rahm sux, and he and his machine are a bunch of liars to boot.

    Dunno what’s happening with teachers (though I can guess) but I do know he got a big story placed in the Chicago rags claiming that bus drivers for CTA got paid coffee breaks every morning. He left out the little detail that the ten minutes is allotted for performing mandatory pre-trip vehicle inspections (which any commercial driver must do) and mandatory lift equipment inspection (ADA mandate). Btw, when they added the ADA requirements they didn’t add any time for the driver to perform them. Ehhh, hope that driver doesn’t miss a cracked or loose lug nut in the morning.

  31. 31.

    JasonF

    @Alex: I was actually talking yesterday to one of the guys who runs the grassroots efforts for the Obama campaign and he said North Carolina is very much a swing state. Not surprisingly, Jennifer Rubin does not know what she is talking about.

  32. 32.

    Linda Featheringill

    The pizza guy:

    I read that he cleared the bear-hug-lift with SS before the prez actually got there. They knew what he was going to do.

    The whole thing was actually very sweet.

  36. 36.

    Hill Dweller

    @jl: I wonder what Ann Romney thought after Michelle Obama’s speech. She had been getting loads of undeserved praise for humanizing her robotic spouse, but then the blah woman had to come along and give a much better speech.

  39. 39.

    David Koch

    can’t wait until tomorrow to see/hear how the wingers freak out over Romney temporarily embracing Obamacare.

  40. 40.

    Linda Featheringill

    Obama is ahead of Romney with Ohio seniors:

    Obama’s leading in Ohio because he’s not as weak there with some large voter blocs as he is in other states. He trails only 48-46 with men and 50-46 with whites, and actually leads 49-47 with seniors. His performance with those groups is far better than it is nationally- Romney would need much wider leads with them if he was going to take Ohio.

    publicpolicypolling.com/main/2012/09/obama-leads-by-5-in-ohio.html

  42. 42.

    David Koch

    Anyone see 60 Minutes tonight? It was a full hour on the bin Laden raid, making Obama look great. Oh, how I love this.

  43. 43.

    jl

    @David Koch:

    ” can’t wait until tomorrow to see/hear how the wingers freak out over Romney temporarily embracing Obamacare. ”

    Mitt names Rush Limbaugh as honorary alternate veep nom?

  44. 44.

    David Koch

    @Narcissus Remember the ACA summit Obama had with congressional jackals at Blair House in early 2010. Obama wiped the floor with them, but good ole Mark went on the net and said the opposite. It was like watching a team win 49 to 0 and having the announcer declare the loser the victor.

  48. 48.

    xian

    the wingnut freakout seems to be starting early. i am making enough popcorn for two months of fun. october, with all those debates and Romney taxes II: electric boogaloo should be a whale of a time.

  49. 49.

    Another Halocene Human

    @Suffern Ace: Since Rhee has already been exposed as a fraud since some time now, this should provide an interesting experiment in lying, kabuki, and the limits of VSP endurance.

  50. 50.

    PurpleGirl

    Being anti-teacher unions is a feature of the current reform movement funded by the billionaires and hedge fund guys.

  51. 51.

    Pavonis

    @Alex: Apparently, the only qualification to becoming a conservative pundit is being able to deny reality and saying whatever totally biased thing comes to mind first. You can be wrong 100% of the time (example: Dick Morris) and still keep your job. As someone who is expected to do some real work on my job and will suffer adverse consequences for getting things wrong too often, I’m pretty jealous. The only consolation is at least I haven’t sold my soul to the devil.

  52. 52.

    Turgidson

    @xian:

    I don’t think they can comprehend that Obama isn’t losing 80/20 right now. They’re just so SURE he’s been a total disaster, was born in Kenya, has sent successful capitalists to his own gulags, pulled the plug on granny, has increased government spending eleventy billion percent, takes his orders from Bill Ayers and Soros, and on and on and on.

    Even those braindead knuckledragging morans were dimly aware of how unpopular their Dear Leader was in 2008 – even if they had no idea why (and later settled on “NOT A REAL CONSERVATIVE” as always), so losing that election didn’t come as nearly the shock that losing this one will (knock on wood). Of course, Romney being the nominee will allow them, yet again, to console themselves that a REAL CONSERVATIVE would have won. Larf.

  56. 56.

    IowaOldLady

    @Alison: That Knoller thing is the stupidest thing I’ve read in a while. Well, among the stupidest. It’s so stupid I’m sputtering trying to comment. Maybe the stupid is catching right through my screen.

  57. 57.

    gnomedad

    @jl:

    I think he belongs to the barnacle school of media celeb.
    As soon as securely attached to a feeding site, brain is reabsorbed.

    Probably an old joke, but I hadn’t heard it. Thanks for the laugh!

  58. 58.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Turgidson:

    The Eastwood chair bit was perfect.

    It captured the wingtard imaginary Obama meme in all it’s totally detached from reality glory.

  60. 60.

    NCSteve

    I swear, Obama looks like he’s saying “don’t shoot him! Easy! ‘S’okay!”

    And NC is going to be close. The angry white guys are angrier than ever, so even more than last time, its all going to be about turnout, turnout, turnout. On the up side, the vote suppressors have a basic problem here: the precinct captains in African American voting precincts are from that community and they are going to protect their peeps.

    Not but what I won’t be working voter protection anyway.

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