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Here is a letter #CNN received: From: Beth Myers, Senior Adviser to Romney To: Interested Parties Date: September 27, 2012 Re: 2012 Presidential Debates In a matter of days, Governor Romney and President Obama will meet on the presidential debate stage. President Obama is a universally-acclaimed public speaker and has substantial debate experience under his belt. However, the record he’s compiled over the last four years – higher unemployment, lower incomes, rising energy costs, and a national debt spiraling out of control – means this will be a close election right up to November 6th. Between now and then, President Obama and Governor Romney will debate three times…

Pretty droll... http://www.thedailys...h-way-but-lucid (Sorry, don't know why it is not posting as an embed.)

I read with interest today's HuffPost polling date. The three states that I have been waiting for with the most interest have started to turn. Besides the eight "tipping point" states which everyone has been watching, my big three are starting to turn less red. After R Money's horrible week, I've been waiting for each day's changing patterns. Missouri Tennessee Indiana All normally Republican, but sometimes going blue for certain candidates. Birch and Evan Bayh Albert Gore Sr. and Jr. Current Sr. McCaskill and the deceased Mel Carnahan So, I think if these three states polling goes to tossup or blue, Mittens and 3-Hour Runnin' Ryan can be considered deader than M…

Worst day in the world for the Romney campaign, but maybe the best for the Obama campaign. http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2012/09/secret-video-romney-private-fundraiser During a private fundraiser earlier this year, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney told a small group of wealthy contributors what he truly thinks of all the voters who support President Barack Obama. He dismissed these Americans as freeloaders who pay no taxes, who don't assume responsibility for their lives, and who think government should take care of them. Fielding a question from a donor about how he could triumph in November, Romney replied: There are 47 percent of the people who wi…

This is actually pretty funny. . .

By Russell King: Dear Conservative Americans, The years have not been kind to you. I grew up in a profoundly Republican home so I can remember when you wore a very different face than the one we see now. You’ve lost me and you’ve lost most of America. Because I believe having responsible choices is important to democracy, I’d like to give you some advice and an invitation. First, the invitation: Come back to us. Now the advice. You’re going to have to come up with a platform that isn’t built on a foundation of cowardice: fear of people with colors, religions, cultures and sex lives that differ from yours; fear of reform in banking, health care, energy; fantasy f…

Congratulations to Rachel Maddow, who beat Sean Hannity last week in the ratings, largely on the strength ofher reporting on Mitt Romney's 47% remarks. Maybe the American public is finally learning to be interested in facts.

Very relevant to the discussion we've been having (buried in the Paul Ryan/AARP thread)... Koppel's last line, and kiss... FUCKING GOLD.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-paul-ryan-booed-aarp-20120921,0,6615741.story

How funny. . .this was filmed in 1992 and yet it seems like it is the same ole Republican theories being pushed today. Some things never change. . .

The ever-lovin' Guardian directs our attention to this side-splitter mocking the Romney campaign's quoting BO out of context...

Excellent piece by two tax specialists on why there almost have to be skeletons in Mitt's tax closet: http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/18/opinion/kleinbard-canellos-romney-tax/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Noonan REALLY lets Romney have it with both barrels: http://blogs.wsj.com/peggynoonan/2012/09/18/time-for-an-intervention/?mod=e2tw

He has the lowest likability rating in history of a presidential candidate. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/21/why-does-everybody-hate-mitt-romney.html

Nice summary from Buzzfeed of the gay marriage cases the SCOTUS will have to decide whether to hear when it reconvenes: http://www.buzzfeed....e-supreme-court

Further to EXPAT's recent citation of the Dalai Lama's statement that "If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change," I just noticed this interview with the Dalai Lama by Arianna Huffington on what he views as the (necessity of) the convergence of science and spirituality. Affirming and hope-giving, from my viewpoint... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/arianna-the-dalai-lama_b_1515059.html

I am becoming a polling junky. I continue to keep on looking at the NYTimes 538, HuffPost and WaPost as antidote to whatever fantasy numbers Rassymusn't is pulling out of Karl Rove's fat tush. Err, can I say a_s on here? I can only imagine what is going on with the campaigns' polling operations, besides what all of the other polls are producing. Hey, can anyone on actually pronounce the QuininePenisAct one, or something, whatever is the spelling of that poll? In any event, I can only imagine that the back office operationsin Boston must be the theater of the absurd, in real time. Better than any show on TV. Except for Glee and Good Wife. Oh, and Real Time, of course. F…

I'm so irritated with anyone who could even possibly support Romney/Ryan in this election that I've been avoiding political discussions on Facebook because I know I'd go off on anyone who still supports Romney. I also find myself deleting any anti-Obama messages that might get added to my page. I hate doing that but people can do whatever they want on their own pages, but I won't allow that junk on my own page. This seems to be the better view if it were only possible:

Verbatim, spelling & grammar unchanged: Dear Governor Romney, I’d like to say congratulations on winning the republican nomination. But, I wish you stayed in Massachusetts. You’re plan for America isn’t what we need, and would hurt us more than it would help. First, repealing Obama care and other health plans he’s put in place have helped families across America, including mine. I live in a middle class family, and two years ago my little sister; Kennedy was denied insurance because of her pre-existing condition. This was a huge emotional stress and financial burden on my entire family. Under Obama Care, insurance companies can no longer deny Kennedy and kids like …

Who says something like this in response to an f-up? Is this one of the first of many aftershocks as the R Money campaign implodes? His defense includes the request to view the entire tape of which Mother Jones has so far released just a few segments. Although I much prefer a delicious blowfront, I am waiting and watching for future blowback. And here is the story of the Eastwooding and Romney acceptance speeches: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81280.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mIC8Nw7LqI

Puff piece of a sort, some may say, but nuanced and with fascinating detail throughout. A valuable and moving portrait, if you believe in BO. http://www.vanityfai...le-barack-obama

Sometimes I cannot believe what I am reading. It is hard for me to assemble my outrage at what is being attempted by the some very wealthy Republican contributors. I keep on waiting for the newest polling numbers to be released. This op-ed by Jonathan Chait in New York Magazine kind of summarizes the May R Money tape Something in here, paraphrasing Forrest Gump, about evil is as evil says: Presidential campaigns wallow so tediously in pseudo-events and manufactured outrage that our senses can be numbed to the appearance of something genuinely momentous. Mitt Romney’s secretly recorded comments at a fund-raiser are such an event — they reveal something vital about Romne…

If you think Paul Ryan's recent sabre-rattling over Iran echoes that of Cheney over Iraq, you are to be commended for your acumen. It turns out that none other than Dan Senor, the neo-conservative who advised members of the Bush II administration has been harnessed up again to guide the Republican Vice-Presidential hopeful. Senor was the advisor to Paul Bremer who was effectively the post-invasion governor of Iraq and decided it would be a good idea not only to "de-Baathify" the Iraqi government but, in one of the most boneheaded decisions of the war, to peremptorily release the million-man Iraqi army without notice and to send them into the countryside without jobs a…