Election Day Video: Jay Bookman and I discuss who wins and what’s next
With the election results almost upon us, Jay Bookman, Aaron Gould Sheinin and I decided it was time for another chat using Google+ Hangout. Check it out:
Depending on how quickly the results come in tonight, we’ll do another of these either tonight or tomorrow morning.
– By Kyle Wingfield
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Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
November 6th, 2012
3:18 pm
Kyle’s blog is the safe haven where the Cons can live out their fact-free, irresponsible, bubble lives.
It’s like arguing with the walls!
Michael H. Smith
November 6th, 2012
3:19 pm
He’s shown ZERO capacity to play nice with others. ZERO. He’ll be stuck with a GOP House and a neutered Senate – just like the last 4 years.
What does he do differently?
Differently would be more like worst than the last 2 years, because of obumer’s fascist Marxist ideologies that have failed and polarized over half the people in the nation who are now dead-set against him.
obumer will never be able to lead even if he does win – And winning remains a very big “IF”
Linda
November 6th, 2012
3:19 pm
If Obama is re-elected, will the economy he inherits in Jan., 2013 be his fault or will it still be Bush’s fault? If there a statute of limitations on blame? If Obama is re-elected & fails again to get the economy straightened out, can he still blame Bush for the next 4 years, that is, 8 years total?
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
November 6th, 2012
3:20 pm
ohoh, the conservative victimization is strong today.
Bookman, doesn’t like me!
Bookman doesn’t play fair!
Bookman calls me out!
Liberals are sooooo mean.
roswell mom
November 6th, 2012
3:20 pm
Well, if Romney can’t get it done, the GOP is grooming Joe the Plumber to run in 2016.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
November 6th, 2012
3:20 pm
How about this for a distracting subject?
If Obama wins, who stays and who goes in his cabinet? We already know that Hillary has said she’s a one-termer, and rumors abound that Geithner is leaving as well, but anybody else? And who might be on the short list of replacements?
Same for a President Romney. What will his cabinet look like?
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
November 6th, 2012
3:22 pm
I thought Hillary said she was sticking around.
cc
November 6th, 2012
3:24 pm
“I still have hope that someday Finn with think for himself before posting,”
That won’t happen.
Finn blasts this blog with staccato bursts of bovine effluvia daily. I have become convinced that he only seeks reaction. Maybe if he is denied the satisfaction of the anticipated reaction, he will give up and return to Bookie-man.
roswell mom
November 6th, 2012
3:24 pm
Linda – the GOP largely let Obama off the hook on the economy by refusing to vote for his jobs programs, etc. If he’d gotten some of those things approved, then, if they didn’t work, the GOP would be able to use it against Obama. Of course, any GOP encumb. who works for compromise is subject to being ousted in his/her home state primary by another GOP’er running to the right of him/her. Maybe the true conservatives actually win with an Obama win – nothing is more anti-change than gridlock.
Michael H. Smith
November 6th, 2012
3:26 pm
Ah too bad you can’t rename this blog brucie wilcox, Finn. Then you fascist socialists could censor facts you don’t like.
td
November 6th, 2012
3:26 pm
John Bolton- Sec of State
John McCain- Sec of Defense
Ron Paul- Sec of Health and Human services.
Alan West- Sec Department of homeland security
iggy
November 6th, 2012
3:27 pm
You are Anti-change!! NO…You are! Uhn uh…now way, its you and you and you…..
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
November 6th, 2012
3:27 pm
Funny, we libs don’t spend our entire day on Bookman’s blog trying to talk the cons into leaving. I think it’s a matter of the cons over here not being able to deal with a little heat.
Of course, that is why they like Fox News – 24 hours of telling me nothing I don’t want to hear. Don’t like to hear the other side of an argument or consider that maybe they aren’t right on everything.
Nice little bubble world.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
November 6th, 2012
3:28 pm
“the GOP largely let Obama off the hook on the economy by refusing to vote for his jobs programs, etc.”
Two words, roswell mom: Fantasy bull.
Obama got EVERYTHING he asked for in the first 2 years of his Presidency, and the GOP was powerless to obstruct it.
Revisionist history will not go unchallenged here.
southpaw
November 6th, 2012
3:32 pm
Is Kamchak on injured reserve right now? Several posts that look like his have Finn’s name on them, and somehow I can’t see him name-jacking Finn.
td – If anybody can get HHS to its proper size, it’s Ron Paul.
Michael H. Smith
November 6th, 2012
3:32 pm
Yeah you libs cried like babies when I posted things on bookman and tucker’s blogs trying to get me to leave but after a while of enduring boring dolts, I found better places and people to associate with on Kyle’s blog.
iggy
November 6th, 2012
3:33 pm
” 24 hours of telling me nothing I don’t want to hear. ”
Huh, what? Oh!! More of the street venacular?
roswell mom
November 6th, 2012
3:33 pm
Tib – the first two years of O’s economic concerns were along the lines of trying to prevent the Great Depression redux. Yeah, he got most of what he wanted during that window and the slide downward was mostly halted. The S&P went up, what, about 80%, preserving the retirement hopes of millions. We began adding jobs, rather than continuing shedding jobs. The US auto industry was saved. Put that non-revisionist history in your pipe and smoke it. You’re clearly smoking something else today.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
November 6th, 2012
3:34 pm
“Of course, that is why they like Fox News – 24 hours of telling me nothing I don’t want to hear. Don’t like to hear the other side of an argument or consider that maybe they aren’t right on everything.”
Finn, if you actually WATCHED Fox News, you’d know your statement is complete and utter nonsense.
They are the ONLY news channel that provides both sides of every issue, and have the guests to prove it.
iggy
November 6th, 2012
3:34 pm
Where is Tucker? Gonna be a violent night at the Tucker Household when King Obama is dethroned…
iggy
November 6th, 2012
3:36 pm
“US auto industry”. In and of itself that phrase is a joke. You couldnt give me one of those USA junk cars.
Rush
November 6th, 2012
3:37 pm
Why do you hang out arguing with the wall, Huck Finn? Are you a masochist or just someone whose ideas could not lead hungry wolves to fresh meat?
Linda
November 6th, 2012
3:41 pm
Tib @ 3:20, Geitner admitted that within 10 yrs., Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid & interest on the debt will consume 92% of the budget. How many cabinets can we fund with 8 cents of our dollar? Maybe you meant filing cabinets.
http://sfsays.blogspot.com/2012/09/geithner-in-ten-years-entitlements-will.html
roswell mom@3:24, The only jobs the fed. govt. creates is govt. jobs. It stands in the way of job growth by the private sector. Obama is still on the hook for the economic stimulus bill & the $6 T he added to the natl. debt in “name” only of jobs. The only thing better than gridlock is congressional vacation.
iggy
November 6th, 2012
3:43 pm
I guess we could use those left-over shovels from Obamas “shovel ready jobs program” to fill in his political grave.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
November 6th, 2012
3:45 pm
“Yeah, he got most of what he wanted during that window and the slide downward was mostly halted. ”
So now you’re walking back your earlier statement, roswell mom? Good for you.
“The S&P went up” Hunh?
“We began adding jobs, rather than continuing shedding jobs.”
And – so? I never said we didn’t. However, “adding” jobs is a bit subjective, given that there are still fewer people working now than were working when he took office. So technically, we haven’t added a single job since 2009. In addition, many of the jobs added are part-time jobs, not full-time as were the ones that were lost.
“The US auto industry was saved.”
Yes. At OUR expense.
But again, it still doesn’t negate the fact that what you posted earlier was fantasy bull.
Junior Samples
November 6th, 2012
3:51 pm
“Obama got EVERYTHING he asked for in the first 2 years of his Presidency,”
So you’re excluding cabinet positions then…
cc
November 6th, 2012
3:53 pm
“So technically, we haven’t added a single job since 2009. In addition, many of the jobs added are part-time jobs, not full-time as were the ones that were lost.”
. . . and the size of the workforce has increased quite a bit since 2008!
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
November 6th, 2012
3:53 pm
Junior, make your point. If you are able.
carlosgvv
November 6th, 2012
3:55 pm
“Jay Bookman and I discuss who wins”
OBAMA wins!! No Romney wins!! No OBAMA wins!! NO ROMNEY WINS!!
DOES SO DOES NOT DOES SO DOES NOT DOES SO DOES NOT DOES SO DOES NOT
Junior Samples
November 6th, 2012
3:56 pm
Now who has a reading comprehension problem?
cc
November 6th, 2012
3:57 pm
“So you’re excluding cabinet positions then…”
Yeah, except those where the potential nominee had tax problems that couldn’t be settled quietly, had criminal records or were well-known avowed communists. Those people were appointed to other positions or made czars.
Robert
November 6th, 2012
3:58 pm
ABC News’ The Note reports that the Romney campaign is serious about its chances in Pennsylvania, a closely divided state that Democrats have nonetheless won for the last twenty years:
All the body language from the Romney campaign suggests that they see Ohio as a long-shot. Instead, it is now Pennsylvania that paves their path to 270. The Keystone state has eluded plenty of industrious and hopeful Republicans before Romney. While the western and central parts of the state tilt red, the city of Philadelphia and its sprawling and populous suburbs are the key to winning the state.
This gets to Team Romney’s theory of the race. For Pennsylvania to be genuinely competitive, the composition of the elctorate needs to be whiter than is currently projected. At the moment, pollsters assume a voting pool similar to the one in 2008, when 74 percent of voters identified white, and 26 percent of voters identified as nonwhite. Pennsylvania was on the lower end of that — according to exit polls, African Americans, Latinos and Asian Americans were 18 percent of the electorate in the state. Romney is essentially counting on high turnout among whites — and lower turnout from African Americans and Latinos — to push Pennsylvania into the toss-up column. Then, he would have a chance to capture the state, and make up for his problems in Ohio. And if Team Romney thinks this is a real possibility, than they’re also counting on a whiter electorate nationwide.
right to free speech.
November 6th, 2012
3:59 pm
Kyle Wingfield
November 6th, 2012
1:18 pm
Finn: It’s a different shirt. And pants, not that you can see those
Kyle, I think he just wants to sniff your undies.
right to free speech.
November 6th, 2012
4:04 pm
Finn McCool (The System isn’t Broken; It’s Fixed)
November 6th, 2012
3:27 pm
Funny, we libs don’t spend our entire day on Bookman’s blog trying to talk the cons into leaving. I think it’s a matter of the cons over here not being able to deal with a little heat.
Of course, that is why they like Fox News – 24 hours of telling me nothing I don’t want to hear. Don’t like to hear the other side of an argument or consider that maybe they aren’t right on everything.
Nice little bubble world.
Actually Finn, I think that this blog wants to keep things civil and a little classy. Bookmans blog is so one sided & subjective thay it’s comical.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
November 6th, 2012
4:04 pm
Looks like Junior doesn’t have a point after all.
cc
November 6th, 2012
4:06 pm
“All the body language from the Romney campaign suggests that they see Ohio as a long-shot.”
I take anything ABC says with a double handful of salt.
Linda
November 6th, 2012
4:09 pm
Wonder if Obama will use those same hollow styrofoam columns, reminiscent of all places, Greece, & the fake smoke & mirrored teleprompters to give his concession speech.
Obama promised to stop the rise of the oceans. Was Sandy was just another broken campaign promise?
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
November 6th, 2012
4:10 pm
You’re clearly smoking something else today.
Today? That’s the normal Tib, Linda.
Thulsa Doom
November 6th, 2012
4:13 pm
One day Huck Finn will actually post something of substance. Then again maybe not.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
November 6th, 2012
4:20 pm
“You’re clearly smoking something else today.
Today? That’s the normal Tib, Linda.”
Says the fool who can’t even get the original poster right in his reply . . .
I demand to see Cheesy Grits Birth Certificate- Long Form Please
November 6th, 2012
4:21 pm
you shined for us right thinkers.
” right thinkers ”
Oxymoron of the week.
Linda
November 6th, 2012
4:21 pm
Finn@4:10, The only things we smoke are delicacies such as Boston butts. Want a recipe? You might actually learn something of substance to post about.
I demand to see Cheesy Grits Birth Certificate- Long Form Please
November 6th, 2012
4:23 pm
Nate Silver has Obama at 90 percent to win.
And he correctly predicted 49 of 50 states last time around. ( He missed Indiana )
All the polls might be wrong but it looks like Cheesy Grits is going down.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
November 6th, 2012
4:23 pm
If obozo’s lost the huffington post…..
Election Monitor: Sandy Helps Obama But Not Enough – Romney Will Win Tonight
The huff and puff?
buh bye obozo.
cc
November 6th, 2012
4:26 pm
“Says the fool who can’t even get the original poster right in his reply . . ”
Yep, that’s Finn!
Black Label
November 6th, 2012
4:27 pm
I report
Link?
MarkV
November 6th, 2012
4:29 pm
“The only jobs the fed. govt. creates is govt. jobs. It stands in the way of job growth by the private sector.”
That must be news to the defense industry, as well as contractors doing infrastructure projects, among others.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
November 6th, 2012
4:30 pm
“Nate Silver has Obama at 90 percent to win.
And he correctly predicted 49 of 50 states last time around. ( He missed Indiana )”
One: Nate Silver isn’t the be-all and end-all of prognosticators.
Two: A moron could have predicted the Obama electoral win last time. Nothing special there.
Three: There is no indication he is considering anything other than polling data (and not using early voting totals), which I believe in the end will be invalidated for this election
I demand to see Cheesy Grits Birth Certificate- Long Form Please
November 6th, 2012
4:30 pm
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Check out the home page. I report is just cherry picking and she knows it.
JamVet
November 6th, 2012
4:31 pm
Just checking in to see what the vibe is like here today.
And what do you know?
There is no joy in Mudville.
By later tonight I expect it to be full out fugly.
I’ll check in later to see just how much angrier the cons here have gotten.
And as a last resort, just try to enjoy this great country for once!