Hello folks, we're looking at the last installment (thank goodness or your preselected deity) of the 2012 Presidential Debates, coming in fast at 9 PM (EST I guess). Catnip for partisan hacks Final Super Turbo " HD Remix, or boring? There's still time left for your pre-debate bets. Will two men enter, and only one leave? Will it be big bird? Will Supreme Court Justices Scalia and Roberts perform a rap rebuttal to the President? Will Plumber Joe pinch hit for moderator Bob Schieffer? Who knows! I bet you can make bank on it though, and that's all that matters.
To keep the blah at bay we've constructed a special cocktail appropriate for a drinking game in the last debate.
1 cup orange juice (in honor of Florida)
one fluid ounce carbonated water from public lands
47% Entitlement Whine
3 cups straight vodka, hit 'em with the hardest shit you got
Roll Crust of Scared Florida Retiree In The Audience over the glass rim (alternately you can use some of Romney's secret diamond stash)
Garnish with checked facts
Every time the President says "folks," take a sip.
Every time Romney says "we do have a plan," spit your drink.
Every time Bob Schieffer mentions one of the pre-unapproved topics, light your hair on fire.
Enjoy!
Dabate: Folks Drinking Game Edition Final
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Yes, we totally needed a third thread about this waste of life. If you tried a little harder, you could even have created two out of this.
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Who's going to be the new ruler of the free(?) world?
Abstemious, I'm out.
Abstemious, I'm out.
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Mike Bison please (either one)
YES! YES!
YES! YES!
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Dictator, duh.
Romney's American flag pin is bigger.
Romney's American flag pin is bigger.
lol
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KONY 2012
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<S.Yagawa> I like the challenge of "doing the impossible" with older hardware, and pushing it as far as it can go.
<S.Yagawa> I like the challenge of "doing the impossible" with older hardware, and pushing it as far as it can go.
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FONY 2012
Forget Bison, it's all about Mayor Mike Haggar. (Mike is his formal name, he goes by the nickname "shark piledriving man not to be fucked with.")
Well, I was ready for a farce, but didn't get one. It was a lot less "folks"y tonight than predicted so my liver is happy. Pretty reasonable debate, and a nice end to the series!
Yeah, that "leader of the free world" line is obviously "for domestic consumption only;" I didn't think I'd get this much reaction to it, but I'm not gonna apologize for stepping on any toes. You gotta get rid of those common law traditions first
I mentioned it for a reason, though - Today there was some discussion on just this point at NPR, where a panelist agreed: "America does not get to rest on its laurels and just claim superiority; it takes work." Obama and Romney both, as predicted, mentioned the "greatest nation" line as a conventional throwaway, like "God Bless the United States" has become a mere convention in State of the Union addresses. Even so, I think that, along many ways of measuring how nations measure up, it's still quite true (not least because of the unique and successful form of governments seen here, especially with regard to ensuring freedom of speech). From the narrow arena of economics, the future is of many other countries - especially Latin America, which I wanted to hear more about but which got nothing more than a nod from Romney - taking up a "larger portion" of the global market. Such a "100%-based" way of looking at things is, of course, misguided, because everybody's opportunities can grow together. China may or may not end up overtaking us, and the same could be said of Russia, or India, or some other countries. That's not where the focus should be.
Romney did a good turn tonight by "attacking Obama from the left," as Fareed Zakaria put it on CNN's afterparty reporting. There wasn't much in substance from him, or much of anything to distinguish his policies from the President's (even the moderator got in with a question on this point which was transparently avoided), but I think that with him pushing more for centrist policies (even if they are pretty much Obama's), he will certainly reassure people who were looking less for the "severe conservative" of just a few weeks ago. Of course, people will also find a Romney who has "shaken the Etch-A-Sketch" on troop levels in Iraq and Afghanistan, where a few weeks ago he wanted to tie it to "judgments of commanders on the ground" or some other metric, but now respects the 2014 withdrawl deadline.
Overall, the debate saw Romney starting out quite strong, but then getting off-track somewhere around the middle. Obama had a few great crowd-pleasing lines from then on. Both candidates had lots of great lines really, starting with Romney's prediction that they might be entertaining "without intending to be." My favorite line was one of these accidental ones, coming from him: "We owe China $1 trillion dollars, and we owe the rest of the world $16 trillion, including China." Obama had a few minor stumbles this time, but ones that didn't really matter (Iran vs. Iraq possibly, 1916 vs. 1917, one other I can't remember).
It wasn't a complete "rout" as James Carville tried to put it: "Somebody gave Romney some of the same drugs they gave Obama before the first debate," but the Gov fell off pace the further into the debate they got. The real rout tonight is the Giants versus the Cards. Obama started off not quite able to interrupt (which has emerged from the second debate as a mutally agreed-upon tactic) at the beginning, but he started getting his backbone later on, and it paid off.
Forget Bison, it's all about Mayor Mike Haggar. (Mike is his formal name, he goes by the nickname "shark piledriving man not to be fucked with.")
Well, I was ready for a farce, but didn't get one. It was a lot less "folks"y tonight than predicted so my liver is happy. Pretty reasonable debate, and a nice end to the series!
Yeah, that "leader of the free world" line is obviously "for domestic consumption only;" I didn't think I'd get this much reaction to it, but I'm not gonna apologize for stepping on any toes. You gotta get rid of those common law traditions first
I mentioned it for a reason, though - Today there was some discussion on just this point at NPR, where a panelist agreed: "America does not get to rest on its laurels and just claim superiority; it takes work." Obama and Romney both, as predicted, mentioned the "greatest nation" line as a conventional throwaway, like "God Bless the United States" has become a mere convention in State of the Union addresses. Even so, I think that, along many ways of measuring how nations measure up, it's still quite true (not least because of the unique and successful form of governments seen here, especially with regard to ensuring freedom of speech). From the narrow arena of economics, the future is of many other countries - especially Latin America, which I wanted to hear more about but which got nothing more than a nod from Romney - taking up a "larger portion" of the global market. Such a "100%-based" way of looking at things is, of course, misguided, because everybody's opportunities can grow together. China may or may not end up overtaking us, and the same could be said of Russia, or India, or some other countries. That's not where the focus should be.Romney did a good turn tonight by "attacking Obama from the left," as Fareed Zakaria put it on CNN's afterparty reporting. There wasn't much in substance from him, or much of anything to distinguish his policies from the President's (even the moderator got in with a question on this point which was transparently avoided), but I think that with him pushing more for centrist policies (even if they are pretty much Obama's), he will certainly reassure people who were looking less for the "severe conservative" of just a few weeks ago. Of course, people will also find a Romney who has "shaken the Etch-A-Sketch" on troop levels in Iraq and Afghanistan, where a few weeks ago he wanted to tie it to "judgments of commanders on the ground" or some other metric, but now respects the 2014 withdrawl deadline.
Overall, the debate saw Romney starting out quite strong, but then getting off-track somewhere around the middle. Obama had a few great crowd-pleasing lines from then on. Both candidates had lots of great lines really, starting with Romney's prediction that they might be entertaining "without intending to be." My favorite line was one of these accidental ones, coming from him: "We owe China $1 trillion dollars, and we owe the rest of the world $16 trillion, including China." Obama had a few minor stumbles this time, but ones that didn't really matter (Iran vs. Iraq possibly, 1916 vs. 1917, one other I can't remember).
It wasn't a complete "rout" as James Carville tried to put it: "Somebody gave Romney some of the same drugs they gave Obama before the first debate," but the Gov fell off pace the further into the debate they got. The real rout tonight is the Giants versus the Cards. Obama started off not quite able to interrupt (which has emerged from the second debate as a mutally agreed-upon tactic) at the beginning, but he started getting his backbone later on, and it paid off.
I'm sorry that I held a gun to your head and made your read this, it won't happen again unless you force me to.Friendly wrote:Yes, we totally needed a third thread about this waste of life. If you tried a little harder, you could even have created two out of this.
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The spam is getting boring, but we should all be used to Ed's continual need to deflate by now....phhrrrrrrrrrtttttt!
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If ed's posts were the worst spam (and I don't consider them spam) this forum sees, this would be the greatest forum of all.RGC wrote:The spam is getting boring, but we should all be used to Ed's continual need to deflate by now....phhrrrrrrrrrtttttt!
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+1undamned wrote:If ed's posts were the worst spam (and I don't consider them spam) this forum sees, this would be the greatest forum of all.RGC wrote:The spam is getting boring, but we should all be used to Ed's continual need to deflate by now....phhrrrrrrrrrtttttt!
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On topic, this debate was probably the best of them, although it didn't leave me entirely optimistic. Romney doesn't seem to understand (or at least won't express his understanding properly) the intricacies of diplomacy with Muslim states. Would it be too nuanced to point out the fact the general publics of the US and Egypt, et al, expect vastly different things from government, and that judging those gov't's America-friendliness top priority isn't necessarily the best barometer for long-term successful relationships? Probably so.
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The freaks are rising through the floor.
Recommended XBLIG shmups.
Top 20 Doujin Shmups of ALL TIME.
Recommended XBLIG shmups.
Top 20 Doujin Shmups of ALL TIME.
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BUT 'MURICA IS THE BEST COUNTRY IN THE WURRRLD! THEY GOTSA BE FRIENDLY OR THEY'S TURRISTS!
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<S.Yagawa> I like the challenge of "doing the impossible" with older hardware, and pushing it as far as it can go.
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+1Ed Oscuro wrote: Forget Bison, it's all about Mayor Mike Haggar. (Mike is his formal name, he goes by the nickname "shark piledriving man not to be fucked with.")
".... that would be rubbish."