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Debate Recaps by Hillary

Posted: October 4, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: 2012 presidential campaign, Political Affective Disorder, War on Women, Women's Rights |59 Comments

Hillary 2016.

Oh, and a lovely graphic from Women and Girls Lead‘s Facebook page:

“Dance.”

Open thread. 🙂

59 Comments on “Debate Recaps by Hillary”

  1. Mona (aka Wonk the Vote)'s avatar Mona (aka Wonk the Vote) says:
    October 4, 2012 at 6:07 pm

    Reblogged this on Let Them Listen.

  2. RalphB's avatar RalphB says:
    October 4, 2012 at 7:00 pm

    In a somewhat humorous vein …

    Rebecca Schoenkopf: Oh No Democrats It Is Time For Your Mass Suicide!

    Your Editrix was in the stupid position last night of having gone to a debate party with her people, the Obamatards. This was stupid because when Wonkette broke on good ol’ Jim and Ken, she had to go outside to start emailing everyone in the world to try to fix it, and also it was really really hard to get a drink and so the five million mentions of “the middle class” went undrunk. Bad Decision jeans! But was it as terrible a night for our Barry Bamz as the entire Internet and Chris Matthews have decided, in their handwritten suicide notes? (Andrew Sullivan, please put out your hair.) Well, we didn’t think so — we saw a fairly boring B. Hussein (as in most of his debates) and the same cracked-out, hyper, stuttering Miffed who showed up to all the primary fiascos. (The main difference being Miffed was more personable than we’ve seen him before, and didn’t insult anyone to their faces.)

  3. pdgrey's avatar pdgrey says:
    October 4, 2012 at 7:54 pm

    11h Sesame Street Sesame Street ‏@sesamestreet

    Big Bird: My bed time is usually 7:45, but I was really tired yesterday and fell asleep at 7! Did I miss anything last night?

    • dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:
      October 4, 2012 at 7:57 pm

      Big Bird ‏@FiredBigBird
      @joshtpm I tried to get a shovel ready job but the GOP blocked them…

    • pdgrey's avatar pdgrey says:
      October 4, 2012 at 7:59 pm

      I’m still lifting spirits
      Big Bird ‏@BlGBlRD

      Romney’s dad stopped him from watching Sesame Street after our first show. That’s why the only number he cares about is 1 (percent).

      • pdgrey's avatar pdgrey says:
        October 4, 2012 at 8:04 pm

        Big Bird ‏@BlGBlRD

        Here at Sesame Street, we teach kids the value of honesty and you wonder why Romney hates us. 😦
        Ok,I will stop

      • pdgrey's avatar pdgrey says:
        October 4, 2012 at 8:35 pm

        Big Bird ‏@FiredBigBird

        .@joshtpm @TPM writes a piece criticizing twitter suspension of our account and were back up… coincidence I think not

        1h Big Bird Big Bird ‏@FiredBigBird

        Sorry folks we were down for a while we were out running a 3 hour marathon with Paul Ryan
        Big Bird ‏@FiredBigBird

        It was true we were in fact fired… but we got some Obama stimulus money and we are back up and running

        http://twitpic.com/b0u8bz

    • minkoffminx's avatar JJ Lopez Minkoff says:
      October 4, 2012 at 9:09 pm

  4. bostonboomer's avatar bostonboomer says:
    October 4, 2012 at 8:18 pm

    Mitt Romney’s Cokeface and Other Interesting Moments From Last Night’s Boring Ass Debate

    http://jezebel.com/5948825/mitt-romneys-cokeface-and-other-interesting-moments-from-last-nights-boring-ass-debate

    • pdgrey's avatar pdgrey says:
      October 4, 2012 at 8:40 pm

      Now that was funny, I’ll give Big Bird a rest.

    • pdgrey's avatar pdgrey says:
      October 4, 2012 at 9:02 pm

      I loved this comment
      Chris Matthews wasn’t the only one “freaking the fuck out.” I almost burst a blood vessel tying to will Obama awake. It probably would have worked if I had been drinking coffee instead of beer.

      Sorry, Mr. President. My bad.

    • ecocatwoman's avatar ecocatwoman says:
      October 4, 2012 at 9:36 pm

      Thanks for sharing. That was great.

  5. minkoffminx's avatar JJ Lopez Minkoff says:
    October 4, 2012 at 10:04 pm

    Wow, over 7,000!

  6. RalphB's avatar RalphB says:
    October 4, 2012 at 10:25 pm

    Howard Kurtz at the Daily Beast wrote two stories about the debate. One after watching in the crowd which said Romney played more defense than Obama but made it through and maybe won on style. Then he watched the TV debate and coverage on MSNBC and wrote another story where Obama lost big.

    The two impressions were completely different. He said in his second story that if the media does it’s job the debate would be more like a tie, but they are obsessed with style and not substance. I’m paraphrasing but it’s close to that.

  7. minkoffminx's avatar JJ Lopez Minkoff says:
    October 4, 2012 at 10:43 pm

    Hey here is Jon Stewart’s take: Stewart: ‘Deeply Divided Nation’ Has Agreed On Something – Obama’s Debate Performance S*cked | Mediaite

  8. minkoffminx's avatar JJ Lopez Minkoff says:
    October 4, 2012 at 10:48 pm

    Hey Y’all, remember that comment I made about the flag pin?

    Mitt Romney Flag Pin: Presidential Debate Pins (PHOTOS) | Styleite

    If you watched last night’s presidential debate, you might’ve picked up that President Barack Obama‘s American flag pin was noticeably smaller than Mitt Romney‘s. Even if you had the television on “mute”, you could see that the pins were distractingly dissimilar in size, and that there might’ve been what seemed like dirt on Romney’s. So, what’s up with that?

    While Obama’s pin was quite standard, and didn’t distract from his words, Romney’s was an eyeful. According to a tweet from the governor’s personal aid, D.G. Jackson, Romney’s pin was an old gift from Secret Service agents that protected him. The flag features the Secret Service’s star — a five-point star with a organization’s logo in the middle.

    So, was this oversized patriotic piece of flair a calculated gesture or just an incidental accessorizing decision? Honestly, we’ll never know — and that’s politics for you.

    • pdgrey's avatar pdgrey says:
      October 4, 2012 at 10:58 pm

      Yea, I remember that woman that picked Romney because his pin was bigger! Democracy………..feel it?

    • NW Luna's avatar NW Luna says:
      October 5, 2012 at 3:08 am

      Why TF does Romney feel he should wear a Secret Service emblem? Entitled bastard.

      Excuse me, but Romney makes me feel like swearing.

  9. pdgrey's avatar pdgrey says:
    October 4, 2012 at 11:02 pm

    There are dozens of different Romneys, all of them truly awful and bad for you. It’s like Hot Pockets
    Big Bird ‏@FiredBigBird

    Are these guys listening to a Paul Ryan speech? pic.twitter.com/aEvirtxJ

  10. janicen's avatar janicen says:
    October 4, 2012 at 11:05 pm

    It’s been very tempting to call my Obama-obsessed brother who flew into a rage at me in ’08 because I was supporting Clinton. We since made up but had another falling out when he flew into another rage a little over a year ago when I dared say that Obama was not a very good debater.How dare I? Was I stupid? He’s a constitutional lawyer, he wiped the floor with Clinton!

    I’m not going to call him, but I know he now knows I was right. I didn’t want to be right this time.

    By the way, I love love love the little girl dancing in the painting. It’s a really powerful image. Our daughters and the younger generations are watching everything we do. It’s important to remain “on point”.

  11. pdgrey's avatar pdgrey says:
    October 4, 2012 at 11:16 pm

    Big Bird ‏@FiredBigBird

    Hey Mr Hooper that store you run on Sesame Street… you didn’t build that!

    Big Bird Big Bird ‏@FiredBigBird

    Dora the Explorer is going to have to self deport under Romney

    Big Bird ‏@FiredBigBird

    Fun Fact @KitchenAidUSA is run by Paul Ryan’s mom

    Big Bird ‏@FiredBigBird

    47% of Chick Fil A Chickens… I can’t worry about them… I will never convince them to take personal responsibility for themselves

  12. dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:
    October 4, 2012 at 11:24 pm

    Stephen Colbert ‏@StephenAtHome
    I wish Jim Lehrer moderated Twitter so we could all ignore the character limit.

  13. dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:
    October 4, 2012 at 11:28 pm

    http://www.economist.com/node/21564175?fsrc=scn/tw/te/pe/askingtheexperts

    Economists in a survey pick Obama over Romney by a healthy margin on who will be best for the economy.

  14. RalphB's avatar RalphB says:
    October 4, 2012 at 11:39 pm

    For fuck’s sake, are we safe nowhere? Ann Romney is going to guest host Good Morning America next Wednesday.

  15. RalphB's avatar RalphB says:
    October 5, 2012 at 12:02 am

    Romney’s debating technique in full view laast night. From RationalWiki…

    Gish Gallop

    The Gish Gallop, named after creationist Duane Gish, is the debating technique of drowning the opponent in such a torrent of half-truths, lies, and straw-man arguments that the opponent cannot possibly answer every falsehood in real time. The term was coined by Eugenie Scott of the National Center for Science Education.

    The formal debating jargon term for this is spreading. You can hear some mindboggling examples here. It arose as a way to throw as much rubbish into five minutes as possible. In response, some debate judges now limit number of arguments as well as time. However, in places where debating judges aren’t there to call bullshit on the practice, like the internet, such techniques are remarkably common.

  16. RalphB's avatar RalphB says:
    October 5, 2012 at 12:15 am

    An admittedly different view but it wouldn’t be the first time a Brit has called American politics better than our own pundits.

    The Telegraph: Last night, Mitt Romney lost. Yes, you read that right

    Barack Obama won last night’s debate. Or to be more precise, Mitt Romney lost it.

    That’s obviously not the conventional view of the commentators or pollsters, who gave the GOP candidate a clear win. But that doesn’t matter. He still lost.
    …
    Romney will probably enjoy a small boost in the polls. And then the race will settle back down to where it was, which is a relatively tight national poll margin, but an insurmountable lead for Obama in the battleground states.

    And when that moment comes, Mitt Romney will have finally run out of road. Because if you remember, we were told that the debates were his last chance. When it becomes clear to him, his campaign and his supporters that last chance has gone, the race will be called.

    Denver was a game changer all right. For Barack Obama.

    • NW Luna's avatar NW Luna says:
      October 5, 2012 at 3:14 am

      Hmmm. I had to read the whole article, not being convinced by the snip.

      This is Romney’s greatest weakness as a candidate. He lacks compassion. He comes across as one of those big businessman in old Westerns who turns up at the farm and explains to the widow that he needs to buy her land to make way for his new railroad, and if she knows what’s good for her, she’ll take him up on his kind offer. CNN’s post election poll found that two thirds of those who watched thought Romney put in the most effective performance. But only 46 per cent said they found him more likeable than Obama. Not only did Romney not land the knockout blow, he failed to close the empathy gap.

      Except “only 46%” finding the Vulture likeable is far too many.

  17. Mona (aka Wonk the Vote)'s avatar Mona (aka Wonk the Vote) says:
    October 5, 2012 at 3:09 am

    My quiz results:

    Like Elizabeth Taylor, you are a Passionate Beauty!!

    Your eyes flash, snap, burn, and well up with tears more in one week than most other Star Style types do in a month! You are a vibrant, beautiful dynamo with a tendency to plunge into situations and take control. You feel all emotions very deeply, and almost immediately translate those feelings into passionate action. You believe in love at first sight, you’re loyal to a fault, vivacious, and can be a bit imperious. Men adore you (sometimes wishing to “tame” you) and women love having you as a glamorous friend. You love beautiful things, fast cars, handsome men, gorgeous jewelry, and clothes that cling or flow dramatically around you. You’re irrepressible, incorrigible, and irresistible!

  18. Beata's avatar Beata says:
    October 5, 2012 at 7:39 am

    Here’s the Katharine Hepburn type ( “Smartly Tailored” ) that describes Dak, PD, and me:

    “You are intelligent, savvy, independent, quick-witted and never take no for an answer. You project an aura of refined self-confidence and positivity, and a plenty of sass thrown in for good measure. You say what you think and you mean what you say. If a group needs a spokesperson or a mistress-of-ceremonies, they turn to you. It’s easy for you to get exasperated and you often comment on life’s little ironies with a wry smile and a cocked eyebrow. Your speech is peppered with sarcastic remarks and funny stories, but if someone crosses the line with you, watch out! They will be singed by your regal glare.”

    Watch out world!

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