Most Of My Debate Tweets
That is, save for the comments about how the moderator seemed to be in an intermittent coma. They're in reverse order. LA Convention Center comment near the bottom was a big fave on Twitter. Comment on any or all or on the debate in general below:
•"We have an opportunity to have real leadership." Gary Johnson will be on the ballot?
•(Obama, I think, said this -- my response follows.) "...Folks at the top don't have to play by the same rules as you do." You mean, the system we have?
•TSA: Get it in YOUR private marketplace. @hhavrilesky "Get it in the private marketplace" #moresexytalk
•In response to comment by Obama about Romney and overseas business:
Obama rewards companies that will go out of business here.
•"Clean energy technology" = closet crony capitalism.
•Obama talking about the free market? Hilarious. Accordingly, I'll be giving a primer on NASCAR following the debate.
•It's up to the individual to decide whether to make a price/quality tradeoff. Not the individual's govt.
•Government creates government jobs. Dig a hole, fill a hole. Get a ginormous pension.
•Not sure if this was a response to a Romneyism or an Obamaism:
We're going to "insist"? By stamping our feet and telling China to not be such big meanies?
•It isn't our job to bribe countries into democracy or nicey-nicey treatment of women. Also, it doesn't work.
•People with nothing amusing or incisive to tweet seem to think calling Romney "Mittens" makes up for that.
•Obama now talks jobs? He's had four years. Too busy with Obamacare.
•We should not be in Afghanistan! They are mean to schoolgirls and that sucks, but this is not our job to manage.
•They're "perfectly responsible for defending their own country"? Hilarious. Still, not our job.
•We can tickle Pakistan and maybe that will help.
•Obama's track record: Ignoring the U.S. economy.
•In the administration's defense, "Bibi" is Biden's favoritest word.
•Quick! Somebody wake Bob Schieffer!
•Sanctions worked so well against Cuba. They capitulated in, like, 20 minutes!
•The best idea was by @KenLayne a few years back - move Israel to Baja. (Everyone remaining in the Middle East can then kill each other uninterrupted.)
•Obama is being a condescending asshole. (I think this was about the subs.)
•We project having power overseas economically -- by not being China's bitch.
•Our likelihood of bringing democracy to a backward, Islamic state is slightly slimmer than my replacing Kobe on the Lakers.
•We spend more on military because we're in a world of places we don't belong, like in Afghanistan.
•Mitt translation: We are going to cut a tiny amount of our spending, which is a tiny bit more than my opponent will cut.
•Our education policy: Bend over for the teachers' union and pray for lube.
•Romney didn't do himself any favors with that one. (I almost thought he'd add a "nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah!")
•O-translate: "Making sure we have an exploding education bubble."
•Yeah, Obama is Netanyahu's BFF.
•"President to be silent..." Petty bullshit. (Romney went all meangirl about something.)
•Nobody's talked about civil liberties in these debates.
•America's role in the world? How about retiring from being the world's policeman and fixing the broken UN? PS We're broke.
•Our debt IS the biggest national security threat we face. Of course, Gary Johnson would be the answer there.
•We are "organizing entrepreneurship conferences with the Egyptians"? Hello? Are we the LA Convention Center?
•You don't overturn the Muslim Brotherhood by holding a series of TED talks. Also, not our job.
•It's been nation-dismantling here at home. (About some somebody's crack about nation-building.)
I'm surprised you haven't commented on the Jill Stein arrest. I know you don't support the Greens, but it is still rather shocking. I think it merits its own blog post.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/18/jill-stein-arrest-green-party-presidential-debate
NicoleK at October 22, 2012 11:13 PM
I played Oblivion last night (because I'm a lame, lame geek). Then middle daughter and I discussed school for a while.
I paid no attention to the debate.
Old RPM Daddy at October 23, 2012 4:37 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2012/10/23/some_of_my_deba.html#comment-3400837">comment from NicoleKI'm surprised you haven't commented on the Jill Stein arrest.
Yes, because it's been all over the front pages of newspapers.
Nicole, did I poo in your oatmeal? Because you keep leaving all these resentment-brimming comments for me.
Non-resentful person's way of posting that: "Hey, shocking arrest..."
Amy Alkon at October 23, 2012 5:26 AM
Sorry, I didn't mean to sound resentment-filled. I didn't mean that YOU were shocking, I meant that the arrest was shocking.
I was surprised not in a resentful way but in a surprised way because it seemed like the sort of story you like to comment on.
I will work on my wording.
NicoleK at October 23, 2012 5:57 AM
Yes, Johnson *IS* on the ballot!!!
Insufficient Poison at October 23, 2012 8:08 AM
He is on the MA ballot.
NicoleK at October 23, 2012 8:28 AM
If you're totally okay with Obama having another 4 years in power, but you'd rather not vote for him, then a vote for Johnson is a good alternative.
dee nile at October 23, 2012 9:01 AM
"Our debt IS the biggest national security threat we face. "
Mo Brooks, Representative from the Alabama district that I live in, said these exact words in a symposium that I went to last week.
Cousin Dave at October 23, 2012 11:48 AM
Johnson's also on the ballot in Virginia, in addition to some other folks. Here are the presidential candidates on the Virginia Board of Elections web site (just use the pull-down to select "STATEWIDE" if you're curious):
Old RPM Daddy at October 23, 2012 12:35 PM
I am just sick of hearing about it ... mainly on facebook and primarily from one person (and people responding to her).
Voting depends on where you live. Where I live the vote is so lobsided -- at least for president -- that who I vote for doesn't matter. I usually vote for some 3rd party candidate.
The Former Banker at October 23, 2012 12:37 PM
"I am just sick of hearing about it ... mainly on facebook and primarily from one person (and people responding to her)."
Amen. In my case, it's a him, an old high school buddy. It's gotten so I skim Facebook pretty rapidly so I don't have to see all his posts.
Old RPM Daddy at October 23, 2012 1:01 PM
Hmmm, last night I had 3 main choices, watch the debate, go to a condo board elections meeting, or finally watch Green lantern.
GL was a bad movie, and slightly insulted my intelligence. I still think choosing it was by far the best of the 3 options.
The last I heard was Johnson is on the ballot of 47 states. I'm in Virginia, and have to admit I've never heard of Virgil Goode. Sad to say.
Joe J at October 23, 2012 1:48 PM
You all are aware you can "hide all" so you don't see their posts, without defriending them. I've done that to quite a few people lately.
momof4 at October 23, 2012 3:26 PM
Back in the good 'ol early post "fairness doctrine" days leading up to the '92 Election for pres, even Pacifica Radio KPFK broadcast speeches from every candidate including Bo Gritz running on the Populist Party ticket.
Send Bo to Syria.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Gritz
Jay J. Hector at October 23, 2012 6:03 PM
You all are aware you can "hide all" so you don't see their posts
I am. And it might get to that. In the past I had to do that to another friend when he went on one of his whacked out posting sprees (after being laid-off) - most the time he has reasonable and some great posts. Unfortunately I never got that setting totally undone -- I now get about 1 in 30 of his posts.
The Former Banker at October 23, 2012 6:53 PM
"Voting depends on where you live. Where I live the vote is so lobsided -- at least for president -- that who I vote for doesn't matter. I usually vote for some 3rd party candidate."
This actually is one argument for retaining the Electoral College -- it enables the protest vote. Because yeah, if you know your state is not in play, and you are not happy with either major candidate, then vote third party. With direct popular voting, a third-party vote is by default a vote for the incumbent, whoever it is.
Cousin Dave at October 24, 2012 12:22 PM
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