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[Jim Ohara]

Santorums new campaign video. Obama is Jason Voorhees.

[Arjan Dirkse]

That is hilarious.

[Ricardo_C]

If I were given unlimited cash and a note reading "please use this money to make the most cringe-worthy, unintentionally hilarious, self-parodying campaign ad ever", I don't think I could match the brilliance of this.

[Russell H]

I think the appropriate response to that is "Oh, fuck off."

[Adam Wednesdays]

Because some headlines are too stupid not to share:

Gingrich thinks Obama should stop acting so Muslim.

Asked why so many voters continue to mistakenly believe President Obama is a Muslim, Newt Gingrich said it's Obama's fault for acting like one:

"Why does the president behave the way that people would think that?" Gingrich said in response. "You have to ask why would they believe that? It's not cause they're stupid. It's because they watch the kind of things I just described to you."

Those "things," according to Politico's Ginger Gibson report, are "anti-religious bigotry." Gingrich went on, "The fact is I take him at his word but I think it is very bizarre that he is desperately concerned to apologize to Muslim religious fanatics while they are killing young Americans while at the same time going to war against the Catholic Church and against every right to live Protestant organization in the country. I just think it's a very strange value system." A recent poll found that over half of Mississippi's Republican primary voters believe Obama is a Muslim. But not because they're stupid. Probably because of what they are watching.

Just remember, whenever you're out there driving or walking or in a public place: these "not stupid" people are there with you. And probably armed.

Sleep tight.

Edited by Adam Wednesdays, 25 March 2012 - 12:28 AM.

[Christian U]

I find it unbelievable that in 2012 there's discussion of a Santorum candidacy. It's like saying Ronald McDonald is running for president. This guy is a punchline, his political career in ruins, and yet he's the one left on the board after the not-Romney wheel stopped spinning. And with that he's actually winning states! No-one wuld have believed that possible a year ago. It goes to show that many people vote for party and not individual, and that they really don't know what they're doing when selecting a leader. Or that the process is broken so at this point only fools and snake oil sales men bother to run. The vanity of politics, that you vote for the person most like you, is going to be a real issue in the future. If a politician needs to be like as many people as possible, then they're not going to be anything other than a clever actor who'll tell you what you want to hear. maybe that's what they've always been, but in effect we're electing the worst people rather than the best of us.

The thing is that "at this point" means after Obama's first term. I keep telling you, you'd have to be crazy to run against a sitting president who is that popular (given the situation, which is the country being in the crapper) and that good at campaigning. The proper GOP candidates are just waiting their turn.

Santorums new campaign video. Obama is Jason Voorhees.

Hah! Awesome! And hey, I'm doing dystopian fiction in my intensive course right now, so that's my first fifteen minutes on Tuesday settled.

[Will]

The thing is that "at this point" means after Obama's first term. I keep telling you, you'd have to be crazy to run against a sitting president who is that popular (given the situation, which is the country being in the crapper) and that good at campaigning. The proper GOP candidates are just waiting their turn.

Hah! Awesome! And hey, I'm doing dystopian fiction in my intensive course right now, so that's my first fifteen minutes on Tuesday settled.

Yep, this may as well be '96 as far as the GOP candidates go.

[Ogul]

Hey, Dole was a solid candidate. A bit dull, but he was a war hero and a long serving Senator. He wasn't my guy, but he'd clean any of these guy's clocks if everyone was in their prime.

[Jim Ohara]

The thing is that "at this point" means after Obama's first term. I keep telling you, you'd have to be crazy to run against a sitting president who is that popular (given the situation, which is the country being in the crapper) and that good at campaigning. The proper GOP candidates are just waiting their turn.

I don't know who the proper candidates are anymore. In 2008 we had McCain, Romney, Huckabee, Paul, Thompson, Keyes and Mr 9/11. In 2000 we had McCain, Keyes, Forbes, Hatch and W. In 1996 there was Dole, Buchanan & Forbes. The last GOP candidate who seemed to have some brains in him is Bush Sr - that's 1988. That's 24 years ago. And today the young up and coming are dimwits like Jindal, Cantor, Ryan or Rubio. People think Daniels or Christie are some great thing, but when you look at their states you realize they're not the rock stars we're told they are. They're popular because no one is paying attention, but within state they're not that far removed from Rick Perry. hell, they're one step away from Scott Walker.

I don't believe they smart guys are holding back. The economy is hurting and Obama is still black as far as I can tell. It should be a lay up. There simply are no more smart guys. The GOP are so extreme, straddling so many different views that no one person can lead the party anymore.

[Will]

Hey, Dole was a solid candidate. A bit dull, but he was a war hero and a long serving Senator. He wasn't my guy, but he'd clean any of these guy's clocks if everyone was in their prime.

Bob Dole was a solid candidate who did not excite the voters whatsoever and subsequently lost big.

[Christian U]

I don't know who the proper candidates are anymore. In 2008 we had McCain, Romney, Huckabee, Paul, Thompson, Keyes and Mr 9/11. In 2000 we had McCain, Keyes, Forbes, Hatch and W. In 1996 there was Dole, Buchanan & Forbes. The last GOP candidate who seemed to have some brains in him is Bush Sr - that's 1988. That's 24 years ago. And today the young up and coming are dimwits like Jindal, Cantor, Ryan or Rubio. People think Daniels or Christie are some great thing, but when you look at their states you realize they're not the rock stars we're told they are. They're popular because no one is paying attention, but within state they're not that far removed from Rick Perry. hell, they're one step away from Scott Walker.

I don't believe they smart guys are holding back. The economy is hurting and Obama is still black as far as I can tell. It should be a lay up. There simply are no more smart guys. The GOP are so extreme, straddling so many different views that no one person can lead the party anymore.

It's a good point. But, well. You don't need to be Obama-level smart or charismatic to win the presidency, but you do have to be neither a complete moron, nor a religious fundamentalist, nor Mr. Burns. They usually do manage to put up somebody who is better than the current crop, at least. McCain would've been a very solid candidate without Palin to cripple him.

[Jim Ohara]

CEO's are generally impressive people. I know they're panto villains in the media these days, but very few of them are idiots (usually the ones who are took over from Daddy). They work really hard, they're really smart, they've made few mistakes and learned how to recover when they did, they know how to get the best out of others - in short they got there by merit, not politics. hell, politics is one of the most derisive words in the corporate world. Office politics. Climbing the political ladder. Getting the job because of politics. Being a yes man.

The President really needs to be an impressive individual. Despite the politics required to get the job. It's just a shame there's so few of them in Washington.

[Christian U]

CEO's are generally impressive people. I know they're panto villains in the media these days, but very few of them are idiots (usually the ones who are took over from Daddy).

Funny how those are also often the ones working in politics...

The President really needs to be an impressive individual. Despite the politics required to get the job. It's just a shame there's so few of them in Washington.

A shame, and really rather strange.

[Chewy Sun]

CEO's are generally impressive people. I know they're panto villains in the media these days, but very few of them are idiots (usually the ones who are took over from Daddy). They work really hard, they're really smart, they've made few mistakes and learned how to recover when they did, they know how to get the best out of others - in short they got there by merit, not politics. hell, politics is one of the most derisive words in the corporate world. Office politics. Climbing the political ladder. Getting the job because of politics. Being a yes man.

The President really needs to be an impressive individual. Despite the politics required to get the job. It's just a shame there's so few of them in Washington.

I will counterpoint: depends on the industry.


Given some of the things I have read, almost all CEOs of companies they didn't build from the ground up, are a bunch of useless douchebags that are only concern with how to make sure they leave their job with the maximum amount of money. Sure this means that they'll effectively earn money for the company with their decisions, but only short term gains so as to time the gains to max out exactly when they have stock options that can be exercised at the peak. That's about 30 percent of the time they spend. They spend about another 30 percent of the time bitching to the board about how their golden parachute, and the lack of golden parachutes for their level of executives, are keeping the company from hiring competant managers (competant in the fact that they need other people from specific MBA schools that they went to or their friends went to) .

And the last 40 percent of their time? Public Relations about how much they're helping the company.



Chewy.......................................................... plowed through entire days work of documents from CEOs and executive VPs arguing that the golden parachute issue is keeping a VP position open, and this is hurting the company.

[Will]

Rick Perry Pokes Fun at Republican Field, Himself at Gridiron Dinner.

Gotta admit, he was pretty funny.

[Adam Wednesdays]

Herman Cain sees Santorum's

Santorums new campaign video. Obama is Jason Voorhees.

Not to be outdone, Herman Cain raises by a dead bunny.

[Ricardo_C]

Herman Cain sees Santorum's


Not to be outdone, Herman Cain raises by a dead bunny.

Maybe Cain's new job is to swoop in and make Santorum look just a little less deranged after every new gaffe.

Rick Perry Pokes Fun at Republican Field, Himself at Gridiron Dinner.

Gotta admit, he was pretty funny.

That was hilarious.

[Ogul]

With all this talk about the Supreme Court and Obamacare, I think I've finally figured out the Republican plan for health care that would actually work. I call it the "let me die" amendment. They don't want the individual mandate because they say the govment can't tell them what to buy, fair enough. But we can't let them participate in our health system if they aren't paying their fair share into it when they can afford to do so, right? So what this would say is, if you want insurance, you can have it. There will be subsidies to help people afford it if they can't, but it's their choice whether to take it or not. If they choose not to, then they have to carry on their person a card that identifies them as ineligible for medical treatment of any kind without paying in advance.

If they ever do end up in the hospital they would have this card checked, and would receive no treatment, carried out of the building in whatever state they were found. If they are missing their card and cannot express their desire not to be treated by medical science, and are thus treated, then they have to pay back their medical bills, in full, within the month (or take out a loan to pay it off). Medical bills would not be eligible for bankruptcy protection, if you can't pay them off then you serve jail time. If they are conscious when admitted and fail to disclose that they have chosen to die then it would be insurance fraud, and they would be charged as such.

This I think would strike the right balance, in allowing conservatives to stand by their principles of not doing as they're told, but at the same time protecting the rest of us from having to pick up their tab when they get into medical jeopardy.

[David Meadows]

CEO's are generally impressive people. ... The President really needs to be an impressive individual.

Thus speaks Millarworld's resident CEO. Remember this, people, when you're voting O'Hara in 20 years' time. And don't forget to ask to see his birth certificate

[Todd Gross]

Thus speaks Millarworld's resident CEO. Remember this, people, when you're voting O'Hara in 20 years' time. And don't forget to ask to see his birth certificate

The more important question: How long do we wait before releasing "the mowing picture" to the press?


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