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Last week we celebrated Halloween, a day on which little people seeking goodies dress up and pretend to be things they really aren’t, like superheroes and villains.
In the adult world, we call that Election Day.
As you might have noticed from that remark, it’s easy — too easy — to get cynical after these endless months of politicking and campaigning. Even worse, there’s reason to fear that in an election as close as this one, the wrangling may continue or even intensify after final votes are cast today, with judges, lawyers and courtrooms trying to resolve what voters and ballots could not.
So in this moment of relative sanity and calm, in these few hours in the eye of storm in which all we can do is wait, let’s talk about better, more important things. Because as I was reminded again last week, there is no better antidote to cynicism than a gap-toothed little five-year-old standing on your doorstep, bag held open and a hopeful look upon her face.
Delightful in its own right, it brings back a flood of recollection for all or most of us. I still have dimming memories of being a young boy in costume, the paper bag clutched in my fists growing ever heavier from doorstep to doorstep. It seemed miraculous that we lived in a world in which people I did not even know kept giving me candy for no apparent reason. And though I don’t recall it directly, I know that somewhere back in the autumn shadows, my mother and father were hovering, keeping a warm, parental eye on us as we made the rounds.
In more recent Halloween memories, I have become that young father hovering in the background, watching as my own children toddle up the walkway in costume to knock on the door. And one part I remember vividly about those years were the older couples who would come to the door and coo and chuckle, charmed by the few minutes they got to share with children.
This year, with our children up and grown, we have in turn become that older couple, happy to see wide-eyed little ones on our doorstep. I can look at the child and see myself there, and look at the smiling parent and see myself there as well. Every Halloween we play out the same scene, with the same stock characters. But unlike the Bill Murray character in “Groundhog Day,” who is doomed to play the same role day after day, the passage of time gives us the chance to play every role in that tableau, to experience the tradition from every perspective.
Professional actors and actresses lucky enough to have long careers know that phenomenon well. They often find themselves playing different roles in the same classic plays, from the ingenue to the young mother to the matron to the grandmother. But it’s true in real life as well. As Shakespeare reminded us:
“All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts.”
Time allows you to experience life in the round, to see it and know it from every perspective. If time does bring wisdom, that is its source.
In the rest of that famous speech quoted above, Shakespeare writes of the seven ages of man, beginning with childhood and concluding in oldest age, when we turn again to childishness. It is a cycle, like so many other cycles, like the cycle of the seasons from late summer to fall to winter, and yes, even presidential election cycles. The end of one is the beginning of another.
And if that doesn’t frighten you, nothing will.
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JKL2
November 6th, 2012
10:14 am
peter- I also think any person who believes in the safety of American lives, then they too would vote with Obama, hoping that the next war will not start in the next 4 years…..
That’s the old Vietnam Soldier’s lament. They said “vote for Goldwater and you’ll be sent to war. Turn’s out they were right. I voted for Goldwater and ended up fighting in a war…
stands for decibels
November 6th, 2012
10:15 am
Your narrative needs some filler cause it’s not reality based…
oh, I’ve been down this path before with some not-crazy conservatives, and I can grasp the basic point that the SOFA had been negotiated by the previous Administration, that it was just up to Obama to go in there and nurse it along at that point.
What such a point misses is that without the kind of healthy cynicism on the folly of this kind of nation-building in that particular place, that was championed by a few lonely individuals back in 2002–among them, yes, Barack Obama and our own blog-host–it is hard to say how such a SOFA would’ve proceeded in 2008. We could still be up to our third or fourth military surge, our twenty-seventh Friedman Unit, convinced that this one was gonna work for sure.
And yes, perhaps I’m exaggerating the effect of the early visionary war protesters, but there certainly was an effect. Of course people don’t want to acknowledge that those folks were right and that they–the vast majority who supported the invasion and occupation–were flat-out wrong.
Krystal'sBalls
November 6th, 2012
10:15 am
Now that I have taken my moment to contemplate, LET THE COUNTDOWN TO HILARITY BEGIN!!
kayaker 71
November 6th, 2012
10:15 am
Joe, 10:12,
Try again, Joe. It just doesn’t fit.
barking frog
November 6th, 2012
10:16 am
USinUK
I would need hamblogger helper.
Joe Hussein Mama
November 6th, 2012
10:17 am
F. Sinkiewicz — “I can recite it, unlike O’bozo.”
Evidence?
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 6th, 2012
10:17 am
“I’m guessing you can’t either.”
facts not in evidence.
BobFromcobb
November 6th, 2012
10:17 am
We are recovering from a world recession exaggerated by an inflated housing market crash brought about by the financial institutions greed. If you didn’t like the last 4 years then you shouldn’t have voted for W in 04. We are growing at a sustainable rate and should be happy. This election shouldn’t even be close. BUT, we know why it will. Just another conscience free election in the south.
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 6th, 2012
10:18 am
” I would need hamblogger helper.”
DAMN!!! it was there, I just couldn’t bring it home …
Joe Hussein Mama
November 6th, 2012
10:18 am
K71 — “Try again, Joe. It just doesn’t fit.”
Honestly, what doesn’t fit is your rant about “heritage.”
The Thin Guy
November 6th, 2012
10:19 am
Time to go do my patriotic duty and cancel Bookman’s vote.
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 6th, 2012
10:21 am
Honestly, what doesn’t fit is your rant about “heritage.”
yep … gotta love people who rant about heritage (THAT’S never gone wrong in the past)
kayaker 71
November 6th, 2012
10:21 am
Off to vote….. as many times as I can. Just remember the words of Goldwater…..’extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice”. Probably more true today than it ever was in 1964.
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 6th, 2012
10:21 am
“Time to go do my patriotic duty and cancel Bookman’s vote.”
dude. you’re in GA.
that horse done died.
STEVIE RAY
November 6th, 2012
10:22 am
BRO,
BTW, I just saw your post from last evening around 7:30 suggesting my prognosis was that if BO was re-elected all failures will be continuted.
My point is that Obama will win but regardless of who wins, those same horrid outcomes will be bestowed upon us…..neither offer any hope of real change in DC..
Mick
November 6th, 2012
10:22 am
Stands
I’m quite proud that I was against the iraqi misadventure from the git go…funny how people were blinded by the propaganda and the french warned us – they were absolutely correct. Here we are trillions later and iran in the catbird seat, truly the result of unintended consequences, especially when you shoot from the hip…
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 6th, 2012
10:23 am
Goldwater you say???
Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they’re sure trying to do so, it’s going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can’t and won’t compromise. I know, I’ve tried to deal with them.
…..
The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom…. I’m frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in ‘A,’ ‘B,’ ‘C,’ and ‘D.’ Just who do they think they are?… I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of “conservatism.”
lefty_316
November 6th, 2012
10:23 am
Meanwhile evangelical Christians all over America are praying for a Mormon today. And just two days ago Ralph Reed, a local religious right operator and serious stain on this great nation, told evangelicals they are dual citizens – both of the United States and the Kingdom of Heaven – and have an obligation to vote accordingly.
Hey does anybody have Ralph’s address? I’d like to send him a copy of my personal bible, the Victoria’s Secret catalog.
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think.
November 6th, 2012
10:23 am
I see that the gauntlet has been thrown down and the figurative epee has been picked up. With cries of “Death to the Blue” and “Death to the Red”, the duels have begun. Whatever happened to…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axb2sHpGwHQ
JKL2
November 6th, 2012
10:24 am
keep- Oh noooooooessss Fox is already on the intimidating black man
I’m sure his purpose for being there is to wlecome everyone like the greeters at Walmart.
Here’s your sign.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 6th, 2012
10:25 am
Seems that the True the Vote tea party clown wagon has pulled up in Ohio trying to fight “voter fraud” only to have been caught forging signatures on their poll observer sign up forms. http://www.plunderbund.com/2012/11/05/true-the-vote-forged-signatures-to-get-observers-at-ohio-polls
Morality?
November 6th, 2012
10:26 am
NO MORE OBAMA – at 1 1/2 TRILLION DOLLARS A YEAR ADDED TO THE FED DEBT UNDER OBAMA WE CAN’T AFFORD 4 MORE YEARS OF DESTRUCTIVE WASTEFUL SPENDING
STEVIE RAY
November 6th, 2012
10:26 am
KAYAKER1
Goldwater (who I believe was quoting Jefferson from a letter to Madison) could not be more on spot..
Worst of it is that we are playing right into it…change from the outside my rectum..
OBIWAN
November 6th, 2012
10:26 am
I am so glad that the black panther party are Obozo supporters…. losers
http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2012/11/06/Report-Obama-Attempts-to-Steal-Philly-Black-Panthers-In-Repub-Poll-Workers-out
Paul
November 6th, 2012
10:26 am
kayaker 71
Interesting you chose the rallying cry of a guy who went down to a crushing defeat.
Doing the same now?
(Okay, so the Johnson campaign was pretty dirty, but it was too good to pass up!)
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 6th, 2012
10:26 am
Keep Up – GET. OUT!!!
that’s the best story of the day!!!
STEVIE RAY
November 6th, 2012
10:28 am
LEFTIE316
Classic! Politics would fare better without zealots such as Reed..scary the amount of influence this guy has over the subject zealots…
Liberal Nightmare
November 6th, 2012
10:28 am
L. Nightmare — “1. No intelligent woman actually buys into this, it is a liberal mindset and this argument moves no one in the middle which is the whole intention of the statement. Polls have shown it actually insults women for the dems to keep touting this as a reason not to vote right.”
“No True Scotsman” logical fallacy.
“2. I would think those concerned most with safety would be our military who overwhelmingly support Romney.”
As a disabled veteran, let me disabuse you of both of those notions. Our military’s tired and overburdened. The last thing they need to be worrying about now is *another* Republican war of choice, and that’s what Romney’s promised.
“3. You left out 9-11 was planned and trained for on a democrats watch who failed to take the threat seriously in the 90s.”
Incorrect. The first WTC bombers (1993) were found, convicted and imprisoned under the Clinton Administration. Clinton also wanted chemical taggants placed in substances that could be used in bombs; Congress refused to pass the legislation. A shame, too, because chemical taggants could have helped catch Tim McVeigh faster — as it was, he was only caught by blind luck.
Whereas Bush’s response to 9/11 primarily involved invading the wrong country and expanding governmment so that everyone getting on an airplane and their luggage receives a free Federal inspection.
1. So the polling of women are wrong….”lies” I am guessing.
2. You missed the point – the military overwhelmingly supports Romney. Your notion they think he is going to war is refuted by this alone.
3. Rambling mess. Taggants? First off, by definition sport they are not “chemical” they are an inert reacted product added to certain chemical compounds to provide trace-ability. Who would this have aided in preventing 9-11. What do the WTC bombers have to do with the FACT 9-11 was planned under a democrats watchful eye.
Nice try – I suggest using something other than Google searches for your knowledge base.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 6th, 2012
10:29 am
Black Panthers Return to Philly Polling Site…
VIDEO…
GOP poll inspectors being forcibly removed — replaced by Democrats…
Judge issues order to reinstate…
CHAOS…
drudgey spam
BobFromcobb
November 6th, 2012
10:30 am
Oh the angry white guys. Love Lyndsey Graham. What happens in 2030 when the Hispanic population reaches 40% and diverse lacking Red party is overwhelmingly outnumbered? The life of the grand old party may be coming to an end. The right needs to learn how to play better with other or dig out those secession papers. Is this why gun sales are really at record highs.
Trick or Treat or Vote.
STEVIE RAY
November 6th, 2012
10:30 am
PAUL et al
Goldwater was quoting Jefferson..not remotely original quote by the other Barry…Ergo, deflection to the idiocy of Goldwater are just that..
Morality?
November 6th, 2012
10:30 am
NEW BLACK PANTHER MEMBER IN “MILITARY” FATIGUES OUTSIDE OF VOTING PLACE seen in NAZI STYLE SALUTE…….. RETIRED NAVY SEALS ALSO IN UNIFORM STANDING ACROSS FROM HIM TO MAKE SURE THE VOTERS AREN’T INTIMIDATED. …. location: PHILADELPHIA
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 6th, 2012
10:30 am
USinUK, we can only hope they get prosecuted. Otherwise Fox will be whining about how the justice dept is not doing its job.
In the meantime, poor JKL is about to have a heart attack because a black man is at a door like a Walmart greeter.
United We Stand...Divided We Fall
November 6th, 2012
10:30 am
JKL2
November 6th, 2012
9:57 am
You are welcome…you just love the logo I know…please post it several more times and I will not have too!!
RW-(the original)
November 6th, 2012
10:30 am
Interesting that the page change fixes the width problem, but leaves the sidebar in a condition informally known as fubar.
Maybe if we all clap our hands and tell Jay he needs a clean up in aisle 8:50 we can make it happen
JKL2
November 6th, 2012
10:31 am
st simons- polling places turnout I saw was low, low, low
No worries. Most of your obama supporters are still sleeping it off from last night. The polls stay open until 7:00 pm so you still have plenty of time to get them on the bus and pay them to vote for obama.
getalife
November 6th, 2012
10:31 am
Very sad to see the people will reelect the gop for voting to end Medicare and they will vote for mitt that stands for nothing and lies.
I understand why so many Americans gave up on politics.
STEVIE RAY
November 6th, 2012
10:31 am
USNUK
Here’s another quote courtesy of The Faces Stay with Me..
“Get up, get down, get out…”
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 6th, 2012
10:31 am
“In the meantime, poor JKL is about to have a heart attack because a black man is at a door like a Walmart greeter.”
yep. black man in a majority black district. whole lotta intimidation going on.
United We Stand...Divided We Fall
November 6th, 2012
10:33 am
JKL2
November 6th, 2012
10:31 am
When Romney loses today, what will be your rhetoric? Are you angry before the results come out…calm down baby.
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 6th, 2012
10:34 am
Stevie Ray … kickin it OLD SCHOOL!!!
Mary Elizabeth
November 6th, 2012
10:35 am
PETER, 9:37 am
“Greetings from up here in a Cleveland, Ohio. . .”
===========================================
Good Morning, Peter, and greetings, also, to any other readers from Ohio and to readers in states throughout the nation. Please call others, and ask all of your friends and family in Ohio (and elsewhere) to continue to encourage those they know to vote for President Obama. His attributes, as President, will not come again soon. Let us continue to work, so that we do not lose what he has to offer our nation. Please work to offset the efforts of Ohio’s Secretary of State, John Husted, to suppress Democratic votes there. If I had a list of citizens’ names to call citizens in Ohio, I would still be working in behalf of the President, even at this hour. Keep trying for me. It’s not over until the polls close.
Have a great day ahead, Peter, and I extend the same wishes to other readers of this blog who are from states throughout the nation – from a committed Democrat in the Red state of Georgia.
Regnad Kcin
November 6th, 2012
10:35 am
Meanwhile, over at InTrade:
Obama’s spiked to $7.30 a share.
For the contrarians, you can make some quick money by picking up some Romney shares @ $2.70 to win $10.00 – who could pass that up?
getalife
November 6th, 2012
10:37 am
The left media has the tea party at polling places and the right have the Panthers.
Just noise people.
Today, the cons vote for a Mass. Mormon moderate that is more liberal than our Dem President.
Just goes to show you, the right would vote for a lib if he or she has and R behind it.
Paul
November 6th, 2012
10:37 am
Stevie Ray
Interesting – did a quick check and even saw a reference to Cicero.
My underlying point is that what some see as a good, general point others see as an extreme position and it doesn’t play too well with the populace at large.
stands for decibels
November 6th, 2012
10:38 am
I’m quite proud that I was against the iraqi misadventure from the git go…
You should be. FWIW, I’m quite ashamed that I used to read and find credible the New Republic, and considered Little Tommy Friedman to be a reasonable man, and so naturally I thought the Bush Administration surely wouldn’t botch something as straightforward as a silly little regime change.
Surely our State Department knew about the existing sectarian strife and suchlike and would have this element covered in the reconstruction phase, right?
BobFromcobb
November 6th, 2012
10:38 am
Military ALWAYS votes on the right. They represent 50% of the national budget. They vote the party that cuts social spending before defense spending. Just stating the obvious. I thought.
STEVIE RAY
November 6th, 2012
10:41 am
GETALIFE
Yup…they will terminate Medicaid and screw all of those currently drawing from it, they are also going to eliminate social security, eliminate Dodd Frank and replace it with nothing, double defense spending, increase our current annual deficits by double with his sure to be approved cut in rich folks taxes, pass legislation to abolish once and for all gay marriage and womens right to choose..we may as well all simply move to France (like alec baldwin…no, he didn’t)cause if GOP wins, life here is not worth living..
When we all come back to earth disarding the exaggeration and hysterical prospective crys…we will concur nothing will change..
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
November 6th, 2012
10:42 am
Ever wonder how hard it is to find a parking place for a beer truck near a polling place? Well, let me tell you, it’s hard—real hard. Anyhow, I done my Patriotic duty and voted. I like to do it on election day so I can eye all the people in line and pick out which ones are the libruls. There was a ringer in line behind me. She dressed and looked like a decent Republican, but when she talked it was in this high-falutin’ style that told me she’d been polluted by a bunch of colledges and lots of reading. I figure anybody that knows that much and is educated must be a librul Democrat.
Anyhow, I voted for Romney and the Ryan guy and I sure hope they win so we don’t have another pair of welfare bums on our hands. I expect Romney would be able to find a job as a reverse mortgage spokesman—anybody would be better than that Fred Thompson. But Ryan? A guy that looks like that might be in high demand around Halloween when all those quick-buck people open up the haunted houses in shopping centers, but the rest of the year he might starve and be good only for scaring kids.
Anyhow, I got my PBR, got my fried pork skins, and got my fan—for old Ace and his smells, you know—and I’m ready for watching the returns come in tonight.
Have a good Tuesday, everybody.
JKL2
November 6th, 2012
10:43 am
mick- Right, like you were at the end of the table during any pullout meetings? Your narrative needs some filler cause it’s not reality based…
http://www.nationaljournal.com/u-s-troop-withdrawal-motivated-by-iraqi-insistence-not-u-s-choice-20111021
I’m sure your going to come up with some whiny BS about the credibility of the link, so I’m just say google away until you find one you like. It’s not hard to find one since it was well reported.
Joe Hussein Mama
November 6th, 2012
10:44 am
K71 — “Joe, 10:12, Try again, Joe. It just doesn’t fit.”
As I told you, what doesn’t fit is your rant about “heritage” as applied to Obama.
If you want me to ‘try again,’ you’re going to have to go first.
Paul
November 6th, 2012
10:44 am
BobFromcobb
I wonder if the demographics are changing. Just read a Facebook post from a friend of my son’s – is a Master Sergeant USAF, posted “don’t forget to vote… and if you plan on voting Republican, don’t forget to stay home!!!”
He had three tours in Iraq – cost him his marriage, he got custody. Maybe he and others are not too keen on Republican foreign policy?
stands for decibels
November 6th, 2012
10:45 am
What happens in 2030 when the Hispanic population reaches 40% and diverse lacking Red party is overwhelmingly outnumbered?
they’ll have tweaked their message to appeal to a sufficient number of Hispanics and, presumably, African Americans to continue to have some success. That’s the way it works, like it or not.
And when it comes to the latter group, the Party of Lincoln now has literally nowhere to go but up.
STEVIE RAY
November 6th, 2012
10:46 am
PAUL
Agree to some extent…both parties take perceived postions by both parties as actual outcomes…its ridiculous…the sky won’t fall (that’s 100 years away so I’m told)and none of the exaggerated, ignorant outcomes hysterically posed by either party will remotely come to fruition…look no further than promised BO made in 2008…vast minority of which we even put into play..
Joe Hussein Mama
November 6th, 2012
10:47 am
I’m going to break this response up into two pieces, since the three links in the original triggered the bluenose.
L. Nightmare — “1. So the polling of women are wrong….”lies” I am guessing.”
I didn’t say anything about polling. I simply pointed out that your reasoning is emblematic of the “No True Scotsman” logical fallacy. You should probably go familiarize yourself with it since you’re clearly unaware of what it is.
“2. You missed the point – the military overwhelmingly supports Romney.”
I don’t believe that for a moment.
“Your notion they think he is going to war is refuted by this alone.”
No need; Romney’s already made it clear that he *intends* to do so, which refutes *you.*
“3. Rambling mess.”
Only if you can’t contain more than one thought in your head at a time. Thanks for making that plain!
“Taggants? First off, by definition sport they are not “chemical” they are an inert reacted product added to certain chemical compounds to provide trace-ability.”
Rejected.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taggant#Detection_taggants
“Who would this have aided in preventing 9-11.”
It quite simply demonstrates that Republicans dragged their feet on protecting Americans, contrary to your incorrect and misinformed narrative.
http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Alt/alt.politics/2006-09/msg00976.html
–continued–
Joe Hussein Mama
November 6th, 2012
10:48 am
–from previous–
“What do the WTC bombers have to do”
When it came to dealing with terrorists in the 1990s, Republicans were full of slack. Fact.
“with the FACT 9-11 was planned under a democrats watchful eye.”
What a pathetically desperate and dishonest piece of illogic you’ve presented. The FACT is that Oplan Bojinka — parts of which were incorporated into the 9/11 plot — was planned overseas, *far* out of the reach or view of *any* American authorities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bojinka_plot
The *further* FACT is that 9/11 was *executed* under the inattentive watch of a Republican President.
“Nice try – I suggest using something other than Google searches for your knowledge base.”
Your surrender and concession are noted and appreciated.
BobFromcobb
November 6th, 2012
10:48 am
You left out banning assault weapons…. Just saying. Like the devil or a black man premise though.
STEVIE RAY
November 6th, 2012
10:48 am
REDNECK,
You’d fare better selling pot in the parking lot..better margins and easier to conceal…just saying..
USMC
November 6th, 2012
10:49 am
I voted for the Mormon, not the Moron.
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 6th, 2012
10:50 am
“I voted for the Mormon, not the Moron.
”
you need to call your secretary of state … W shouldn’t have been on your ballot.
getalife
November 6th, 2012
10:52 am
SR,
It already changed.
Our President’s second term will finish cleaning up the gop mess .
This puts us behind so the key is never allow the gop to destroy our country again.
Just common sense Stevie.
Doggone/GA
November 6th, 2012
10:52 am
“I voted for the Mormon, not the Moron”
don’t be too sure of that. They aren’t mutually exclusive.
Mick
November 6th, 2012
10:52 am
jkl2
Doesn’t matter how you frame it to me, just damn glad we are out of there. Now, out of afghanistan and focus on the good ole USA. At the end of clintons term we were in good shape, the next decade needs to focus on getting the ship back on a correct course, it can be done…
DannyX
November 6th, 2012
10:54 am
“I voted for the Mormon, not the Moron.”
That’s impossible, if you vote for Romney you are automatically voting for Paul Ryan also.
Doggone/GA
November 6th, 2012
10:54 am
“Our President’s second term will finish cleaning up the gop mess”
If he gets it, he might go a long way towards that goal…but he’s not going to finish it in 4 years…unless congress has a “come to Jesus” moment and goes against precedent and actually HELPS to achieve that goal
BobFromcobb
November 6th, 2012
10:54 am
Remember, we aren’t voting for God. All Presidents have limitations. No one can know everything or protect everyone. You’re just voting for who wants to. NOT be God. But protect and serve EVERYONE. Caps vs %%%%. Terrorist suk
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 6th, 2012
10:55 am
“That’s impossible, if you vote for Romney you are automatically voting for Paul Ryan also.”
don’t be too hard on Ryan … no one washes clean pots as well as HE does.
Joe Hussein Mama
November 6th, 2012
10:55 am
USMC — “I voted for the Mormon, not the Moron.”
How’s your write-in campaign coming?
Lee
November 6th, 2012
10:56 am
Black Panthers at polling sites in Philly again….hahaha Wow I wish they were at my polling site.
stands for decibels
November 6th, 2012
10:56 am
Those of us who have been compulsively checking 538 the past too-many months?
Let’s take a moment and savor these two final grafs of his first post of Election Day, shall we?
All of this leaves Mr. Romney drawing to an inside straight. I hope you’ll excuse the cliché, but it’s appropriate here: in poker, making an inside straight requires you to catch one of 4 cards out of 48 remaining in the deck, the chances of which are about 8 percent. Those are now about Mr. Romney’s chances of winning the Electoral College, according to the FiveThirtyEight forecast.
As any poker player knows, those 8 percent chances do come up once in a while. If it happens this year, then a lot of polling firms will have to re-examine their assumptions — and we will have to re-examine ours about how trustworthy the polls are. But the odds are that Mr. Obama will win another term.
East Lake Ira
November 6th, 2012
10:57 am
Via the WP
Fun factoid floating around Monday: When was the last time a Republican won the presidency without either a Bush or a Nixon on the ticket?
The answer: 1928 (Herbert Hoover)
indigo
November 6th, 2012
10:57 am
“in the adult world, we call that Election Day”
Having come to the conclusion our world is the insane asylum of the Universe, Election Day is just another especially crazy day in the looney bin.
Doggone/GA
November 6th, 2012
10:58 am
“Black Panthers at polling sites in Philly again”
Nope. Not true this time, not true the last time.
Jack
November 6th, 2012
11:00 am
Your opinions on Wednesday won’t mean much if you don’t vote today.
JamVet
November 6th, 2012
11:00 am
I’d be willing to bet…
HUGE LOL at the blog’s most notorious welcher!!!!!!!!!!
Well played, Andy…
Peter
November 6th, 2012
11:01 am
Really Jeff…….. I was so proud of George Bush in his 1st term, I was disappointed of him in his second term.
The Bilking of California must have made you really proud as an American wanting other American’s to suffer ?
But Yep…….. it was a fore bearing of the eventual out come….the Bilking of ALL American’s……..cause we know Deficits don’t matter to Republican’s and Cost Plus contracts are how republican’s win the wars they start.BUT wait……….they didn’t WIN a single war they started, an NEVER got Bin Laden did they ?
Back to the FOX ruling the Hen House……….. and the uneducated Republican’s are voting to have their personal freedoms taken away from them !
It is the South however…………. the least educated part of the country…what would one expect ?
Peter
November 6th, 2012
11:03 am
USMC. well we all know you are for the party of WAR..despite the facts they never did protect America or American’s here at home !
911 happened under the Republican watch !
RW-(the original)
November 6th, 2012
11:04 am
…making an inside straight requires you to catch one of 4 cards out of 48 remaining in the deck,…
He must be playing one handed poker
JKL2
November 6th, 2012
11:04 am
USinUK- Politics and governing demand compromise.
It also involves people skills making your hero 0-2.
Paul
November 6th, 2012
11:06 am
Stevie Ray
I’ve written in the past month that hopefully, even if a sliver, of what Romney’s said gives hope for moderation.
But… you’ve got to admit, the hysteria by the Right over things Obama never said or did has been pretty remarkable.
stands for decibels
November 6th, 2012
11:09 am
He must be playing one handed poker
Maybe at 1.43 am, there wasn’t anyone else around?
Where Do I Vote?
November 6th, 2012
11:09 am
find your polling place….
http://www.barackobama.com/lookup
Doggone/GA
November 6th, 2012
11:10 am
” the hysteria by the Right ”
Hysteria…good choice of word!
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 6th, 2012
11:10 am
“USinUK- Politics and governing demand compromise.”
yes, it does.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-A09a_gHJc
lack of people skills??? The GOP is soaking in it.
getalife
November 6th, 2012
11:11 am
“unless congress has a “come to Jesus” moment and goes against precedent and actually HELPS to achieve that goal”
The people reelected the gop house so you are right.
This is why I am for term limits.
Elections are not getting the job done but term limits do.
OBIWAN
November 6th, 2012
11:11 am
USinUK – not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
Do you vote in US elections from the UK?
Peadawg
November 6th, 2012
11:12 am
“This is why I am for term limits.
Elections are not getting the job done but term limits do.”
Amen
RW-(the original)
November 6th, 2012
11:13 am
Maybe at 1.43 am, there wasn’t anyone else around?
Maybe at a video poker machine in a casino somewhere. I do love his final paragraph which could read but the polls could all be wrong so screw it though.
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 6th, 2012
11:13 am
“Do you vote in US elections from the UK?”
yep – just because you leave the country, if you’re a citizen, you are still eligible to vote
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 6th, 2012
11:14 am
“Elections are not getting the job done but term limits do.”
democracy for the butt-lazy
RB from Gwinnett
November 6th, 2012
11:14 am
“What happens in 2030 when the Hispanic population reaches 40% and diverse lacking Red party is overwhelmingly outnumbered? ”
Ummm….Socialism?!!!
See Europe Bob. History does have a way of repeating itself when people refuse to learn from it.
Brosephus™
November 6th, 2012
11:15 am
Stevie Ray: My point is that Obama will win but regardless of who wins, those same horrid outcomes will be bestowed upon us…..neither offer any hope of real change in DC..
Neither can change DC. The outcome is based upon the actions or inactions of the 535 other elected jackasses in DC. The POTUS can not rule as a dicatator. Laws have to come from Congress. We experience the same horrible outcomes because our voting public keeps sending the same jackasses to DC and expect different results.
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 6th, 2012
11:16 am
“See Europe Bob. History does have a way of repeating itself when people refuse to learn from it.”
Hispanics caused France to go socialist?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 6th, 2012
11:17 am
There is one feature of this format that I do like — I don’t have to scroll or control + home to the top of the page to see if there’s a new thread
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
November 6th, 2012
11:17 am
Maybe during the next 3 years Mittens can nail down some of his beliefs on the important issues. Living by the seat of an Etch-A-Sketch is no way for a grown man to go through life.
Mick
November 6th, 2012
11:18 am
**Hispanics caused France to go socialist?**
Now thats funny!
bman
November 6th, 2012
11:19 am
What’s going to be the topic tomorrow? Maybe we will all swap Thanksgiving recipes? I’m I N !
Jefferson
November 6th, 2012
11:20 am
Those who hate deserve to be unhappy. Go ahead frown, now.
UNCLE SAMANTHA
November 6th, 2012
11:22 am
“What happens in 2030 when the Hispanic population reaches 40% and diverse lacking Red party is overwhelmingly outnumbered? ”
FUNNY
red party is becoming DIVERSE and when it does blue party will be needing their diapers changed
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 6th, 2012
11:22 am
“Maybe we will all swap Thanksgiving recipes? I’m I N !”
dude, I am so there!!!