Obama Take Some Notes

Meet the Ohio Voters Who Are Killing Romney's Campaign

"In Appalachian coal country, Romney is now viewed with nearly as much suspicion as Obama -- and that may be the story of the 2012 election." http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/meet-the-ohio-voters-who-are-killing-romneys-campaign/263061/

Comment of the day

FROM THE DAILY BEAST: When the guy leading the way falls down, you pick him up. What you don't do is stop, unzip your fly and piss all over him. How did the right wing react when Bush the Younger looked like he'd been drugged in that first debate with John Kerry? Did they run around screaming and rending their garments in despair? Did they amplify the bad debate performance by publicly excoriating Bush over and over and over again? Did they turn into pissy little bitches, willing to throw everything away in a fit of juvenile disappointment? No. They put their head down and kept fighting. As poorly as the President may have performed in that debate, far worse has been the narcissistic pouting from you and Jon Stewart and everybody else. Barack Obama is not now and never has been a savior. It is not his holy mission to rescue us from Mitt Romney and the GOP. We are the masters of our collective fate. We our the captains of our national soul. If we're willing to hand the wheel over to a guy spouting economic gibberish and a return to Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld foreign policy, it is not Barack Obama's fault because he gave a shitty debate performance. Democracy cannot survive if we must rely on someone to save us from ourselves.

Snoop Lion's Election 2012 Notes

Who Are the Job Creators?

All of us.

Another Reason Not to Trust Romney

From Daniel Larison: The real question is: why did he wait until now? It would have been much easier to repudiate his comments from the video weeks ago and minimize the damage they have caused. Doing so now makes Romney seem as opportunistic as ever. It is only after the damage has been done and he realizes that the comments are dragging him down that he casts them aside. On almost every issue, Romney gives the impression that everything is negotiable, and his commitment at any given moment doesn’t mean much of anything. One week, he’s supposedly the scourge of government dependency, and the next he abandons that line of attack entirely. Romney demonstrates on an almost daily basis that he can’t be trusted. Even when he is correcting obvious mistakes, he gives people reason to doubt him.

Full version of Anti-Romney doc

"When Mitt Romney Came to Town"

OUCH. . .

Is Mitt Romney the weird candidate?

This is really good. . .

Peace and Co-Existence in Palestine (1896)

AJ Jacobs: How healthy living nearly killed me

Interesting.

Romney quoting lyrics

Sorry if this ruins your night. . .

The War Nominee

Santorum. . .

Santorum Watch Time

"There is no Palestinian."

Obama Isn't Kissing Ass or He's Antisocial?

WHITE HOUSE MEMO

Bipartisan Agreement: Obama Isn’t Schmoozing

“This is not a Lincoln bedroom guy,” said James Carville, the Democratic strategist, referring to the guest bedroom at the White House where President Bill Clinton put up supporters and donors. “In fact, he’s the anti-Lincoln bedroom guy. He doesn’t seem to relish, or even like, having politicians around.”

Ron Paul a racist?

Interesting stuff.

The Military for Ron Paul

Tired of war? Tired of violating our constitution? Makes sense.

Ron Paul

He's not afraid to speak the truth.

R.E.M. - We All Go Back to Where We Belong

A fitting last single for R.E.M.

The REAL First Chord of "A Hard Day's Night"

Wow.

SNL - Christmas Treat

On a lighter note. . .

Trivializing a Mass Murderer

We've seen this with many brutal dictators. Full article here.

The Worst Man - The New Republic

When Americans talked or wrote about Kim Jong Il, we often tended to play up his eccentricities: his ridiculous sunglasses, his towering hair, his platform shoes, his interest in movies. . .

Still, even if we cannot completely grasp what life is like for ordinary North Koreans, we can at least be honest with ourselves about one thing: Kim Jong Il may have been an eccentric, but he was not, first and foremost, an eccentric. He was, first and foremost, the cruelest man of our time. And that is how we should remember him.

North Korean Killing Fields

Super Villain or Newt!

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Comparing Dictators

Interesting read:

"The personality profile of Kim Jong-il showed the same “big six” constellation of personality disorders [as 2007 studies of Hitler and Saddam Hussein]: sadistic, antisocial, paranoid, narcissistic, schizoid, and scizotypal. Further comparisons among the dictators revealed that Kim Jong-il had more in common with Saddam Hussein (their profiles had a correlation of .67) than with Hitler (their profiles had a correlation of .20). Indeed, both Jong-il and Hussein had sadistic personality disorder as their highest rated item, and their scores were nearly identical – more than three standard deviations above the population average!"

The Death of Kim Jong-il