Election thread

[cryopyre]

In this thread we chill out and shoot [poop] about the US election.

Seems poignant.

[Buster's Uncle]

I will not miss hearing about the invisible Obama that only Republicans can see.  I'd be tempted to trade him for the real Obama, mind you; it makes me SO angry when they accuse him of being all the things I'm mad at him for not being.

We haven't had a Democrat in the White House since Jimmy Carter.

[cryopyre]

I will not miss hearing about the invisible Obama that only Republicans can see.  I'd be tempted to trade him for the real Obama, mind you; it makes me SO angry when they accuse him of being all the things I'm mad at him for not being.

We haven't had a Democrat in the White House since Jimmy Carter.

They say: "Obama's a socialist!"

I think: "If only..."

[Buster's Uncle]

I also hate when they (fictitiously) accuse him of pulling the kind of lame crap Republicans do all the time.  Anyone on the right with a stronger criticism of his economic work than "he hasn't done a good enough job" (true), but instead accusing him of sending the economy into the toilet?  Republicans who say that ought to be struck by lightning for the hypocrisy.

And he's liberal like the Clintons, which is to say not liberal at all.  I'm sick of the fantasies and the "liberal" news media letting them pass.

[Buster's Uncle]

Crap.

I just went for orange juice and turned on the TV to see if anyone was calling the presidential yet - and the NC Governor's race has gone to this right wing clown Pat McCrory who, mark my words, is going to be the second coming of Jim Martin.  That would make snese to another North Carolinian.  Ideology aside, he's another Charlotte Republican who will spend his entire (one) term fighting with the (clown college of a) state legislature (we're stuck with) and getting nothing done.

Pat McCrory really impressed me by running, not against his opponent, Lt. Governor Walter Dalton, but lame duck Governor Bev Purdue.  Dalton is a rather bland man, and I expected this, but you wanna really turn me off with your campaigning?  Run against someone -Ted Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, the President- who is not your opponent.  Spend a lot more time with attack ads telling me what you're against instead of what you're about.  Be a Republican, the party, lo these last 32 years, of the lowest common denominator and nasty attacks.  Never take responsibility for anything you did, because it's really that Democrat over there's fault - the one raping all children forever.  Right.

I can't wait to be able to watch the news without seeing the attack ads again.  I can't wait to get my phone answering machine back.  Please, PLEASE be over and done with tomorrow, election.

[Buster's Uncle]

Elizabeth Warren won her senate race, so good news there. 

It's actually looking like Bakrama may take Florida, which they say will be all she wrote.

[Unorthodox]

ugh, it seeped over here too.  Where must I go to avoid this election? 

[Buster's Uncle]

You must stay out of clearly-labeled political threads, man.  You're smarter than this. Say something interesting about Indy and/or Star Wars in the right thread, please, and I'll try to keep you occupied.  I'm bored tonight.

I've been avoiding it, too, but - eh, it's important and I'm stuck with the results, and as annoyed as I am at Bakrama, he's still better than the alternative.

[Unorthodox]

So, projection is now Obama with a Republican dominated house. 

at least 2 years of nothing happening thanks to party politics.  Awesome. 

[Buster's Uncle]

Yep.  Noxious as the status quo is, this comes as great relief.  Romney would have made an even worse president - all ideology aside, his party doesn't love him, and would have cut him off at the knees constantly.  His presidency would have been born dead.

Bakrama needs to pull his head out of his butt and close Gitmo and be a little bold now, mind...

[cryopyre]

Oh my god!? Montana is still up for grabs! Who's going to win those 3 votes!?

[Rymdolov]

Woke up to hear that Obama's still the president. To me, it's better than the alternative and I must say that by doing almost nothing for four years Obama is the best president the U.S. has had during my lifetime. 

[Unorthodox]

Disgusting the amount of lip service given to fixing the economy when BILLIONS were flushed down the toilet in campaign BS. 

[Buster's Uncle]

No doubt, not doubt. 

I miss Ross Perot.  The mouthy little chimp was wrong about everything after his big topic, but he scared the big kids and made them class up their acts.  He would have made a terrible, terrible president, but I doubt Clinton woulde have been sumitting balanced budgets to congress without him.

[Unorthodox]

I was thinking we needed another Perot last night as well.