Everything in this ad is 100% true.
Poll: President Obama lead in Ohio 51-46
Best news I’ve had all week.
Watch Ohio. I say it over and over again.
Creator of “Friday Night Lights” to Romney: “Stop plagiarizing”
Over the past week, the Romney campaign has been using a line from the popular TV show Friday Night Lights: “clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose.”
But series creator Peter Berg has sent the campaign a letter accusing Romney of plagiarizing the rallying cry.
Berg’s letter went even farther, declaring, “Your politics and campaign are clearly not aligned with the themes we portrayed in our series.”
In the letter, Berg compares Romney to one of the show’s characters, Buddy Garrity, a somewhat ignorant car salesman who started selling imported Japanese cars instead of American-made ones.
He closes with “We are not affiliated with you or your campaign. Please come up with your own campaign slogan.”
Read the letter in full here.
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Vice-Presidential Debate – Songified
I love this! And uber-impressed that the Gregory Brothers were able to do this OVER NIGHT!
The fabulous Gregory Brothers are best known for their YouTube music-video mash-ups, including the series Auto-Tune the News and Songify This!.
New ad from Obama/Biden campaign: “Thirsting for an answer”
My thoughts on last night’s VP debate:
• Still no details or specifics on how Romney/Ryan plan to lower taxes for everyone, create jobs and lower the deficit. Still.
• While some found VP Biden’s smiling and head shaking annoying, I found him engaging. Clearly there were rules that he couldn’t interrupt during Paul Ryan’s 2 minute answers, so he was staying engaged and not just waiting while Ryan put out his distorted talking points. Good for Joe. While not speaking, he was staying a part of the discussion. Good tactic.
• Glad Biden called Paul Ryan out for requesting stimulus funds saying in a letter “It will create growth and jobs” after criticizing it and voting against it. Very effective moment. Ryan’s weak response: “It’s what we do.” Not effective.
• “Eddie Munster” – all I’m saying…
• Women should be seriously concerned about that pause Ryan took after the abortion question was raised.
• Paul Ryan didn’t do a bad job. But his (and Romney’s) positions are outside of the mainstream in America.
• After Ryan expounded on Mitt Romney’s generosity and kindness – which the campaign has been doing a lot of lately and is proving effective – Joe Biden came back with a great response: “Stop talking about how you care about people. Show me something. Show me a policy. Show me a policy where you take responsibility.”
A CBS poll of entirely uncommitted voters showed 50% felt VP Biden won, 31% felt Paul Ryan won, and 19% said it was a tie.
A CNN/ORC poll – which CNN later admitted was slightly skewed with more Republicans – found 48% thought Ryan won while 44% said Biden won. Because the sampling size was small, the 4 point spread was within the margin of error.
Woman calls President Obama a communist but can’t explain “communist”
THIS is what scares me. Someone who holds these blanket views who can’t explain them. Maybe she heard this at her bridge game, maybe she listened to Faux News too much.
If you can’t explain what you mean in a calm, rational manner – don’t speak.
A primer on Paul Ryan’s twisting and turning of phrases
What happens if there is a tie in the electoral college?
Thanks to Towleroad for posting this – I found it fascinating.
While I knew some of this, I didn’t know all the ins and outs if you play the whole possibilities down to a final conclusion.
Here’s hoping President Obama clears the hurdle just fine… 🙂
President Clinton reacts to “the new Mitt Romney” at last week’s debate
Bill Clinton addressed “the new Mitt Romney who showed up at last week’s debate while campaigning for President Obama in Las Vegas.
Said Clinton:
I had a different reaction to that first debate than a lot of people did. I mean, I thought, “Wow! Here’s old Moderate Mitt. Where you been, boy, I missed you all these last two years!” But I was paying attention these past two years. And it was like one of these Bain Capital deals where, you know, he’s the closer. So he shows up, doesn’t really know much about the deal and says, “tell me what I’m supposed to say to close.”
Now the problem with this deal is, the deal was made by Severe Conservative Mitt. That was how he described himself for two whole years. Until three or four days before the debate they all got together and said, “hey Mitt, this ship is sinkin’ faster than the Titanic…but people are still frustrated about the economy, they want it fixed yesterday, so just show up with a sunny face and say I didn’t say all that stuff I said for the last two years. I don’t have that tax plan I’ve had for the last two years, you gonna believe me or your lyin’ eyes here? Come on. What are you doin’?” And if I’d been the President, I might have said, “well, I hate to get in the way of this, I missed you.”
Mitt Romney debates with himself
For anyone still on the fence – SRSLY? You’re considering this guy?
I don’t mean to be insulting, but THIS is the guy you want to make the leader of the free world?
You can choose between the guy who saved the auto industry, got Bin Laden, doubled the stock market and is steadily bringing unemployment down with 31 straight months of positive job creation.
Or you can choose this guy.
Please think about that.