Labor Day Weekend Open Thread

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  by: Colorado Pols Sat September 1, 2012 at 3:03 PM MDT

“What is history but a fable agreed upon?”

–Napoleon Bonaparte


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  1. Duke Coxdukeco1 says:
    Sat September 1, 2012 at 3:13 PM MDT

    Greetings from Tex. My workday has a late start, today so I have been watching TV for a while. I am convinced that President Obama is going to win a second term. In my view, the enthusiasm gap is going to continue to grow. Mitt does not excite his base. Ann Coulter was right.

  2. BlueCat says:
    Sat September 1, 2012 at 10:21 PM MDT

    Image of Clint with saddle on fence labeled Clint talks to his horse.  One with Obama next to an empty chair labeled Obama talks to Clint Eastwood. They’re everywhere. As for Clint, his manager says he’s traveling and can’t be reached for comment.

    What’s really odd is that so many of Clint’s comments show that he has no idea what the GOP is for anymore.  His comments about Obama breaking his promises to end the war in Afghanistan and close Gitmo?  Rs started the war, remain hawks and closing Gitmo is anathema to them. Eastwood also pro-choice, pro-birth control and has nothing against gay marriage. Bet he’s not anti-immigrant either.

    Some GOP icon. He’s much closer to the liberal Hollywood elite they love to yammer about on pretty much everything besides being rich, not liking taxes and being ignorant about how much we all need competent government just to get to where we’re going every day.  Guess that’s enough?

  4. dywer says:
    Sun September 2, 2012 at 2:25 AM MDT

    Desperate to win Colorado and its nine electoral votes, the Obama campaign is trying to assemble the same coalition that Senator Michael Bennet built in 2010, when he managed to win a full term against a conservative Republican in a year in which Democrats struggled both in Colorado and nationally.

    Mr. Bennet, a surprise pick to fill a Senate vacancy in 2009 who was considered to be at great peril of losing the seat, capitalized on a yawning gender gap and strong support among Hispanics to win. In the process, he showed the way for the Obama campaign to try to pull off a victory in the state despite his lagging popularity among white men.

    “We did stitch together a winning coalition in 2010, and I think that coalition is part of the basis of what they are doing here in Colorado,” said Mr. Bennet, who works closely with the White House and is assisting in the president’s re-election effort…

    The campaign has opened more than 50 field offices in Colorado, compared with about a dozen for his Republican rival, Mitt Romney. It has also brought on members of Mr. Bennet’s team, including his chief political strategist, Craig Hughes, to provide their local expertise…

    The Obama campaign believes that it has the advantage, given its edge in registering voters in the state and Mr. Romney’s positions on immigration and women’s issues.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09…

    Field offices?  Voter registration?  Is that what they think is going to win this election?

  5. Gray in Mountains says:
    Sun September 2, 2012 at 3:33 AM MDT

    I was here the day David left, but I’ve also noticed that I am not seeing Ralphie or MoTR. Have they also left?

  7. BlueCat says:
    Sun September 2, 2012 at 10:08 PM MDT

    Then I guess this is what Obama sounds like when he’s really bothered and pissed off:

    President Barack Obama said he’s a “huge Clint Eastwood fan,” even in the aftermath of the actor’s “invisible Obama” monologue at the GOP convention on Thursday night.

    Obama said in an interview with USA Today released Sunday that the Academy Award-winning Eastwood is “a great actor, and an even better director.”

    http://www.politico.com/news/s…

    Try to imagine any R who had just been trashed by a Hollywood icon doing anything but railing against and/or dripping disdain for Hollywood celebrities and Obama’s connections with them.

    Went on to say that if you’re in politics and stuff like this is going to get to you, you probably chose the wrong profession.

    One could almost hear the underlying chuckling.

    Seems like the weather at the opening, Ryan’s lies being dissected through the middle and the invisible Obama monologue, incidentally featuring digs not exactly in sync with today’s GOP (why would today’s GOP be upset about Obama not closing Gitmo and not being out of Afghanistan yet?) besides the whole crazy old uncle aspect, at the end have all conspired to blunt the effect of the convention as positive PR.

    If the Dems have better luck with theirs, don’t bet on the rightie media preachers claiming that the Lord  must favor the Dems. This blah neither disaster nor triumph convention seems to have their tongues tied. A really good disaster, such as a  dramatic catastrophic hurricane instead of just steady misery for unimportant people, would have at least allowed them to claim God’s  wrath for throwing Akin under the bus and not being wacko fringey enough.

  9. Barron X says:
    Mon September 3, 2012 at 4:09 PM MDT

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/…

    Unless maybe this guy was a fraud.

    The timing could be unfortunate for Romney, if people end up exploring what made the Church of Unification different from “mainstream” Christianity.  

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