2012 U.S. Presidential Election

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Just finished listening to Bill Clinton's speech. The man's a genius. The rest of the convention was one big blah, but he might just have handed Obama four more years in the office. Brilliant speech.

[drone]

Just finished listening to Bill Clinton's speech. The man's a genius. The rest of the convention was one big blah, but he might just have handed Obama four more years in the office. Brilliant speech.

Clinton is a master, without term limits he might still be the Prez. There's a reason the GOP brass despises him, they know they can't beat him.

Of course, the DNC is stupid enough to put it's sole rockstar on TV at the same time as the first NFL game of the season. I caught the speech on youtube, who is going to pick DNC speeches over Cowboys v Giants?

[Xiahou]

WaPo has a synopsis of Woodward's new book, chronicling the infamous debt ceiling negotiations.

Among the more interesting tidbits to me was the amount of contempt Pelosi/Reid showed towards Obama...

As the final details of the 2009 stimulus package were being worked out on Capitol Hill, Obama phoned the speaker’s office to exhort the troops. Pelosi put the president on speakerphone so everyone could hear.

“Warming to his subject, he continued with an uplifting speech,” Woodward writes. “Pelosi reached over and pressed the mute button. They could hear Obama, but now he couldn’t hear them. The president continued speaking, his disembodied voice filling the room, and the two leaders got back to the hard numbers.”

[Lemur]

Of course, the DNC is stupid enough to put it's sole rockstar on TV at the same time as the first NFL game of the season. I caught the speech on youtube, who is going to pick DNC speeches over Cowboys v Giants?

Apparently a lot of people. I do not claim to understand this, but then, I gave up on broadcast TV entirely, so your world is a mystery to me.

Democratic Convention Beats Football In Ratings

The second night of the Democratic National Convention beat the Republicans in television ratings and, perhaps more impressively, beat pro football.

An estimated 25.1 million people watched the convention between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. on Wednesday, when former President Bill Clinton delivered an impassioned nomination speech for President Barack Obama, the Nielsen ratings company said.

During that hour, just over 20 million people were watching the second half of the Dallas Cowboys' season-opening victory over the New York Giants. Faced with competition from Clinton, ratings for football's first game were down from the past two years. [...]

The entire football game was seen by an average of 23.9 million people on NBC, Nielsen said. Last year's opening game was seen by 27.1 million, and 2010's game had a record 27.5 million. The opening game generally features the Super Bowl champion from the year before.

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An estimated 25.1 million people watched the convention between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. on Wednesday, when former President Bill Clinton delivered an impassioned nomination speech for President Barack Obama, the Nielsen ratings company said.

I had no idea we had that many communists in this country!

[Lemur]

Obama: 'Help Us Destroy Jesus And Start A New Age Of Liberal Darkness'



CHARLOTTE, NC—With the savage roar of the heathen Democratic horde rising all around him, President Barack Obama delivered an incendiary speech to close his party’s national convention Thursday night, commanding the ultraprogressive minions in attendance to help him “destroy Jesus and usher in a new age of liberal darkness that shall reign o’er the earth for a thousand years.”

The thunderous 45-minute address—during which the president argued for a second term so that he could “finally kill Jesus once and for all, as well as all those who worship him”—was well received by the frenzied, wild-eyed audience, whose piercing chants of “Four more years!” and “Slaughter the believers!” echoed throughout the Time Warner Cable Arena.

“My fellow Americans and godless infidels, I command you to join me as we cast an endless pall of far-left evil across the hills and valleys of our nation!” Obama bellowed from the stage, as thousands in attendance moaned in compliance and gyrated their hips and groins in a lascivious dance. “Together, as a barbarian people forged by the wicked flames of irreligiosity and united by visions of a liberal dystopia, we will rise up as one to scorch the earth with boundless amorality.”

“The streets shall run red with the blood of forced sodomy, performed daily upon every American man, woman, and child!” the commander-in-chief shouted, froth forming around his mouth as the crowd threw hundreds of aborted fetuses onto the stage. “Die, Christians, die!”

Slamming his fists on the lectern until his hands began to bleed, Obama proceeded to lay out a “three-point plan of sin and lechery” for his second term. If reelected, the president said, he would begin by banning organized religion entirely—starting with Christianity—and burning all churches to the ground, preferably “with their wretched, Jesus-loving congregants still huddled inside like rats.”

As members of the audience violently tugged at their genitals and howled like sex-starved, atheist wolves, Obama stated that his administration would then seek to make free, taxpayer-funded abortions legal at any stage of pregnancy, even up to one full year after birth, in order to supply his newly created “federal stem-cell harvesting plants” with raw materials.

In addition, the cackling president vowed to “end traditional marriage as we know it” by passing legislation that would allow only homosexuals to raise children, a longtime Democratic policy goal.

“A glorious new age of sinister, unconstrained liberalism is dawning! Oh, dear Satan, I can feel it coursing through my veins at this very moment!” shrieked Obama, ripping off his shirt to reveal an ornate tattoo of a pentagram, with a different homosexual act positioned at each of the star’s five points. “Agnosticism, contempt for human life, and radical sexual experimentation shall rule the day! Any good, virtuous, family-values-oriented Christian Americans who seek to topple our magnificent liberal kingdom of eternal darkness will be powerless to stop us! We will crush them!”

Added Obama, “Thank you, may Satan reward you all, and may God tremble in fear at the United States of America!”

The president was then handed an unbaptized, orphaned newborn baby drenched in the blood of 666 slaughtered Christians, which he handed over to its new, gleefully squealing homosexual parents.

[Fisherking]

Obama: 'Help Us Destroy Jesus And Start A New Age Of Liberal Darkness'

So, no new policy changes then?

[Gregoshi]

Obama: 'Help Us Destroy Jesus And Start A New Age Of Liberal Darkness'

Below is a Facebook post from an old friend of mine who is a priest after he watched the DNC on Wednesday night:

LOL - I don't listen to Hannity or Glenn Beck. I am my own person and I truly believe that it's time for God to rain down fire upon this Earth and I look forward to the end times more than ever. When it comes, I'll be standing calmly awaiting His Judgement while the rest grind and gnash their teeth. The DNC is the party of fornication and baby murderers.

He used to be a rather mild mannered guy but politics the last few years seems to have gotten the better of him. Now I envision him with a face beet red in anger and frothing at the mouth. Kind of makes me sad.

[Major Robert Dump]

I think the point about the NFL and timing of the speech was that even more would have watched had the time perhaps been different.

But then again, the people who stayed away probably already have their mind made up

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Below is a Facebook post from an old friend of mine who is a priest after he watched the DNC on Wednesday night...

A priest of what, I wonder. My bet is on Kukulkan.