Monday Open Thread

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  by: Colorado Pols Mon October 1, 2012 at 3:23 PM MDT

How dreadful the knowledge of the truth can be

When there is no help in truth.

–Sophocles, from Oedipus Rex


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  1. Libertad says:
    Mon October 1, 2012 at 3:57 PM MDT

    Intensity of support or opposition can have an impact on campaigns. Currently, 28% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way Obama is performing as president. Forty-two percent (42%) Strongly Disapprove, giving him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -14 (see trends).

    http://www.rasmussenreports.com

  2. Diogenesdemar says:
    Mon October 1, 2012 at 4:03 PM MDT

    Let’s get this week started, huh?   Lots of sprucing up needing to be done to our dumpy, rundown State — cuz’ Willard’s coming to town . . .  

    • parsingreality says:
      Mon October 1, 2012 at 4:07 PM MDT

      ….that Willard will be debating in the same facility that I saw Michael Moore talk some years ago.  I expect Michael’s poltergeist to goose Willard now and then,  

    • Libertad says:
      Mon October 1, 2012 at 4:12 PM MDT

      So many want to work and contribute, but government centric policies have diverted massive amounts of private capital to the public sector.

      Now I do hear what you’re saying. As evidence, one of my shorties while watching the TV news reporting on International matters two minutes ago just piped up with the following ….

      God, the whole damn wold hates us.

      Unbiased and unfiltered, this is what our children are thinking as they watch reporting on Obamas foreign policy achievements.

      • parsingreality says:
        Mon October 1, 2012 at 4:57 PM MDT

        Oh, the world so used to love us, until now!

        Maybe right after WWII when we were the good guys in almost everyone’s take, but never since then.  

        Obama and Ms. Clinton have done a decent job.  Not perfect, but decent.  Which is a much better recognition than believing in Easter Bunny mythologies.

        Put your tinfoil hat back on, Annoying Boy.  Your brains are showing.  

    • VanDammerVanDammer says:
      Mon October 1, 2012 at 6:29 PM MDT

      anybody up in the Mts?   somebody quick & whip up some homemade cookies he can put down.  Betcha AGOPs yard just gotta be overflowing w/ Mitt crap — hope the HOA understands.  

      I wonder if AGOPs gettin’ a shiver up his leg in anticipation of Mitt’s ahhh-some performance.  Will Mitt be wearing his Univision spray-on Latino glow?  

      Remember, Ayn Ryan tells us Mitts no pro at this debate game, so don’t be expecting any grand slams.  Guess all those GOP clown car fiascos they staged — remember the ones where they booed gay veterans and yeah’d letting uninsured die, were in no way considered debates.  Who knew?

  3. parsingreality says:
    Mon October 1, 2012 at 4:05 PM MDT

    But, of course, Rasmussen has it right, right?

    Per Nate Silver, the best pollmeister the nation has.  Predicted 320 electoral votes.

    Rasmussen always gets it right……after the winner is announced.  ”SEE? We got it right again?”

    Spitball boy, you are such a wanker.

    • NoCo_Indy says:
      Mon October 1, 2012 at 7:46 PM MDT

      If you click through on the link to the old fivethirtyeight site listed above, it shows that in summer 2010, the Colorado Senate seat was listed as a 75 percent chance to flip from Bennet to Buck.

    • Craig says:
      Tue October 2, 2012 at 12:34 AM MDT

      Has Obama up 3% in a national poll today and up substantially in all of the swing states that it has polled recently.  

      The reality with Rasmussen is that it has to come back to reality at the end or every poll watcher on the net is going to go wild over their Republican lean.  Rasmussen can, and does in my opinion try to drive the narrative in the Republican’s favor, but at the end, has to come back to reality.

      That’s what you’re seeing now and will continue to see, even though there hasn’t been a thing in the last week to move the numbers in Obama’s favor at all.

  4. ClubTwittyClubTwitty says:
    Mon October 1, 2012 at 4:40 PM MDT

    Even with a poor economy, an approval rating usually south of 50% for Obama, the GOP is still getting their butt handed to them in 30 days.

    Man, it must really hurt to be partisan hacks and to see the net result of all those posts and trolling to be a repellant to the American electorate.  

    Good job Libby.  I think a few hundred of the Obama votes might be your doing.  A-Bot owns a few too, I think.  

  5. SSG_Dan says:
    Mon October 1, 2012 at 6:37 PM MDT

    Notorious Con-man and Spy used fake Veteran’s charity to launder money for Repub campaign contributions:

    Authorities revealed today that they believe “Bobby Thompson,” the man accused of using a fake veterans charity to swindle more than $100 million and to rub shoulders with top-level Republicans, is actually a former military intelligence officer named John Donald Cody.

    The man known as Thompson was nabbed in Ohio in May. At the time, he was accused of being the mastermind behind the fake charity U.S. Navy Veterans Association that swindled more than $100 million from unsuspecting donors, as detailed in an ABC News investigation. Prosecutors charged Thompson with identity theft, fraud, and money laundering.

    To help enhance the charity’s credibility, Thompson allegedly used some of the money to make large campaign contributions to prominent politicians, most of them Republicans, including President George W. Bush, Sen. John McCain, and Ohio Rep. John Boehner, now Speaker of the House. He attended events with the political figures, and posed proudly for now infamous photos with them.

    http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/…

    To use Repub thinking, can Mitt Romney prove that he didn’t get money from a con–man and spy? What events did this crook attend for the GOP? Why is the RNC hiding the truth.

    (snark)

  6. BlueCat says:
    Mon October 1, 2012 at 6:49 PM MDT

    razzie disapproval/approval index in a while.  But even razzie has Obama ahead nationally among likely voters and in pretty much all the swing states for which there are recent razzie polls, so it looks like ‘tad is the audience of one this particular “index” is targeting. Guess razzie is worried about the emotional well being of its biggest fan.

     

  7. BlueCat says:
    Mon October 1, 2012 at 7:02 PM MDT

    doesn’t get you to the specific info he cites, just to the site in general and I’m not interested enough to spend any more time trying to find it. It also seems only fair that if ‘tad is going to put this info out there for Obama he should do the same for Romney.  What’s Romney’s razzie disapproval/approval index and give us clickable links that take us directly to both. Wonder which will happen first: ‘tad answering this request or an ice rink opening in hell?  

    • Diogenesdemar says:
      Mon October 1, 2012 at 7:59 PM MDT

      how about let’s give the kid a break, huh?  I mean, given all his obvious limitations and issues, I think it’s pretty amazing he can even bang out a complete sentence on a keyboard . . .

      Then again, it’s all bad copy and paste . . . but still he’s moving some keys there . . .

  8. raymond1 says:
    Mon October 1, 2012 at 8:03 PM MDT

    In case you missed it, some genius Romney staffer braggged publicly that Mittbert is rehearsing “zingers” to use during the debate. My Twitter feed is full of awesome suggested Mitt zingers:

    You don’t have to own four houses to know the housing market isn’t where it should be, Mr. President.

    Mr President, you’ve left this economy on the roof far too long!

    I helped a person once. How many people do community organizers help? heheh heheh heheh

    But, sadly, here are REAL “zingers” Mitt has used:

    No one has ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know that this is the place that we were born and raised.

    I like those fancy raincoats you bought. Really sprung for the big bucks. [to NASCAR fans wearing rain ponchos]

    One of most humorous I think relates to my father … he decided to close the factory in Michigan and move all the production to Wisconsin. Now later he decided to run for governor of Michigan and so you can imagine that having closed the factory and moved all the production to Wisconsin was a very sensitive issue to him, for his campaign.

  9. Gray in Mountains says:
    Mon October 1, 2012 at 8:11 PM MDT

    the ad at the top of the page for Sarah Palin speaking at an investment meeting.. learn to spell

  10. AristotleAristotle says:
    Tue October 2, 2012 at 12:01 AM MDT

    Apparently a mailer being sent to Virginia voters is trying to take advantage of lyme disease paranoia. Apparently that’s a thing in Virginia.

  11. BlueCat says:
    Tue October 2, 2012 at 12:57 AM MDT

    say they plan to close loopholes.  Won’t say which.  When pressed on the math says the people would be too bored to listen.

    Can you imagine what Rs would say if Dems claimed they should be trusted with secret tax cuts that they refuse to explain because the commoners wouldn’t understand or even be interested?  Rs would all do serious damage to their vocal chords yelling about those liberal elitists who look down on the people.  If Dems used their alternate argument, that the opposition would just use the details to attack them, they’d lose their voices yelling about what cowards and how sneaky those liberals are and how they are obviously hiding their real nefarious intentions.  

    And they’d be right. Just like we’re right about Ryan/Romney being elitist, sneaky cowards hiding nefarious intentions in today’s non-alternative reality.

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