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<iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/9WrEyVOPR8M" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> No seriously, I think this is just a misguided sense of morality and duty. There is nothing written anywhere which says a General or CIA director is less capable of doing his job if he cheats on his wife. Eisenhower himself had Kay Summersby while Mamie was at home.

I had no power or water for four days. Ten days I just would gone postal on someone. Are you on Staten Island?

Obamacare isn't even socialized medicine. All Obamacare says is "our health insurance system sucks and is incredibly expensive, therefore we are making it a law everyone must have health insurance and we are making no effort to socialize medicine to get around the health insurance problem". It makes no sense. How much do you pay for healthcare? Here a family of four with top of the line all-access, gold standard health insurance will pay thousands per month. Oh, about birtherism. Obama is black, so repu---I mean racists cannot accept a black man as president so they came up with a theory he isn't even american. Far from being a theory of the fringes, this theory has been adopted by Donald Trump, joked about by Mitt Romney and been used to attempt to pass legislation by actual republican elected officials. It is so entrenched in mainstream republican thinking that the main source of republican news--Rupert Murdoch--has used his network to gin up the conspiracy theories and spread the lies. No republican repudiates this theory with any teeth in their statement, opting instead to say vague nonsense like "I have no reason to think he is not American" thereby leaving his republican brethren breathing room to continue to fan the flames. Maybe John McCain said in black and white terms this was all nonsense, but that's somewhere close to being about it.

This is a great piece and really lets the republicans do all the talking. <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3LRisZtcFFs" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

I don't know if anyone on this site still watches the show but it is coming back tomorrow. I guess this is Blaine singing, not sure. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAAQ6g7Fuqg&feature=share&list=ULIAAQ6g7Fuqg and I dont know who is singing this, leading me to assume it is the new girl, but whoever it is did a nice job http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCrca6N6RUo&feature=channel&list=UL The only thing that stood out was her poor diction at the end where instead of saying "good bye to..." she sang "goodbye ta..."

For the Radical Right, Obama Victory Brings Fury and Fear The article was nice not to cite Freerepublic as a mirror on modern republican thought I guess. Far from being the fringe, it is the new republican mainstream.

There is no way to spin the status quo as a success story. Every person, republican and democrat can see what an ineffectual joke congress is. I have to assume the republicans will decide the problem is they weren't conservative enough and will make sure Obama passes as little as possible, so they can start their run for 2016. Mitch McConnell openly admitted this was his senate strategy all along, why would he start now trying to legislate? His angry statement last night I think points the way to how things go in the Senate, and the tea party controls the House.

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Was Dick Morris on FOX tonight? He is such a great prognosticator with his promises of a Romney landslide, I was curious what he had to say to explain away his latest wrong prediction.

The Ryan pick turned out to be a mystery. They picked him because he was the republican idea man, then immediately shut him up and said they didn't agree with his ideas. Then he eventually disappeared. It was unfair to him and he should have borrowed a page from Palin and gone rogue.

If Bachmann loses it will be the end of a perfect night. Did Mrs McMahon lose? She can go back to her steroid empire.

I just turned on FOX news to see what they are deluding themselves with, and they have their bogus heat map, where the counties are colored red and blue and they offer that as proof at the injustice of it all. What they don't mention is that in half those counties there are more tumbleweeds than people. It only takes a family of four to turn it red, and a conservative horse I guess. New York County may be geographically tiny, but there are more people in it than in half the states I would imagine.

current map Nate Silver's projection:

I am ecstatic Obama was able to win, but it sucks he does not have the popular vote. Republicans have to ask themselves about the legitimacy of their theories about skewed polls and democratic oversampling. I believe they honestly believed that, even the people on this board who cited it, but if you get your news from FOX and republican blogs you are in a fantasy world devoid of actual facts. It also doesn't serve the republican party well to run such extreme candidates in the caucuses. The conservative zealotry cost republican the senate also and until they free themselves from the maniacal warriors of the tea party the republicans are doomed to face ongoing disasters. I think Obama owes a huge debt of thanks to Bill Clinton, who all by himself got the Obama steamroll this summer, and to Joe Biden who had to recover for Obama after that disastrous first debate.

The media loved McCain. Maverick this, Maverick that.

The electoral college is the worst way to elect people, and completely unfair. 1/8 of the country lives in California and yet no one asks them for their vote. 4 people and a cow live in Iowa and every candidate and a trillion reporters descend on that state to chronicle their every whim in the caucus. It's ridiculous. If 99% of the people live in one place, then 99% of the vote should come from that place. in the 1700s the country had more farms, there were not many people living in the cities, dueling states had to manipulate the constitution to make sure they had a voice (why Rhode Island gets 3 votes still to this day I will never know. It's like a vote for every person in that state). It's all so undemocratic, but it is time to go to the most fair voting measure of, that being one man/one vote. All the pundits on TV seem to be predicting Obama. Well, all the pundits not on FOX I guess. Sandy was good to Obama, I don't think there is any way to see it otherwise. It will be interesting to see how the press will react if Nate Silver proves on the money again. His estimation is so wildly different than the entirely of the press and media, that if he is right and everyone else is wrong, why do we need anyone else?

Tod Browning directed the Holy Grail: London After Midnight with Lon Chaney. It is presumed lost with no copies known to exist. I hope one turns up. He also directed Dracula with Bela Lugosi.

How is it moderate to not see Senator Fake Rape and Senator God Rape for what they are: republicans? Is seeing what they are, the mainstream republican in 2012 somehow not moderate? I am not suspicious of them and I take them at their word when they espouse their views, the views that are accepted by the majority of republicans in their state. How does that make me not moderate? For that matter, how does it make me liberal and not conservative? Is there an inherently liberal position on religious rape I am not aware of? I don't even see how discussing them qualifies as a circle jerk. They are who they are, they say what they think, their republican constituents accept them and their positions enough to vote for them. How is seeing this in any way something only a liberal can do? I would have thought the criteria was just having eyes and ears. Is it liberal to remember that Senator Wide Stance was against gay rights? Better yet, is it not moderate to say all these people are republicans?

Well that is the whole tea party charade, that they were not republicans and were inspired by economic worries and not concerned with anything but righting the economic troubles. As soon as they got in power state after state started pushing anti-abortion legislation, revealing their true fundie freak colors. The media went along with them pretending they were a real movement out to change the system, when in actuality all they are are republicans out to game the system, purge the republican party of anyone who is not insane, and turn the country into some sort of fundamentalist theocracy any Ayatollah would be proud of.

You just gotta love republicans. I said it before and will say it again. And it seems they are all alike! I can't wait for someone to chime in and claim the Indiana republican candidate for senate (no doubt in the lead in that state) is somehow a "fringe" figure and not a living embodiment and the epitome of what it means to be a republican today and a member of the republican party mainstream. Speaking of someone else who doesn't actually represent republicans but just coincidentally calls himself one, whatever happened to Senator Fake Rape? Is he winning in the polls?

Chuck Todd strikes me as a dull thinker. He basically goes to pundit HQ, picks up whatever conventional wisdom being pushed that day is, and goes with it. They all do pretty much. Andrea Mitchell however I firmly believe is a stealth republican. You can hear it in her sketchy analysis time after time as she does cartwheels trying to find a way to get to "both parties do it!" even if both parties don't. I guess that is the modern version of being impartial though, to pretend something is true just so you do not have to say what the truth actually is because the truth is damaging to one party. The worst of all is the hack from Meet The Press. That guy has no business asking anyone anything and I have no doubt if you tallied the republican vs democratic guests on his show over the years the republicans would outnumber the democrats greatly. His idea of journalism is to find what his friend Karl Rove said and then say "Senator, some people say...." when the the some people is a partisan spin meister who wouldn't know the truth if it fell on his head.

I think it was Obama who shifted the discussion to the economy. Obama did a good enough job. He pretty much painted Romney as a guy who wants to build ships just to say he built them, wants a trade war with China, and wants to portray things in the GOP comfort zone of us against the Russians. That said, the first debate trumps all the others combined because it was so abysmal for Obama that all the people fleeing for their lives from Romney got stopped dead in their tracks and recoil now from Obama. He had 10 point leads in major states evaporate overnight. Instead of rolling over Romney and now setting sights on the House, democrats will be lucky to keep the presidency. That first debate will be discussed for years to come as the worst debate by a presidential candidate maybe ever.

I thought Obama won this one handily. The bayonets crack, the battleship crack, the 80s are calling crack, this type of dismissal works for me. I don't need false civility to find a candidate likable, the snark makes me like them more to be honest. Then there were times Romney agreed with Obama, which sort of makes his criticism of his foreign policy seem petty. I didn't think Romney came out ahead on a single topic.

"Fringe elements"? Is that what we call Donald Trump, Mitt Romney's joke writers, random FOX personalities, and various state officials who try to pass birther laws? If the establishment is now the fringe, then please define fringe. No, it because he is seeking to exploit and profit from racism.