2012 US Presidential Election Megathread!

[Razgovory]

I had a Sikh IT consultant once.  He was a very, very angry man.  In fact the client fired him because he was so angry all the time.

Sounds very much like the Christian I used to work with.

Or Raz.

I'm not angry.  I just like to sucker punch people.

[Valmy]

There's a Sikh prosecutor whose office is 20 feet from mine.  He's a very nice guy. 

Does he take cold showers every morning?  That is one of Sikh rituals I always found horrifying.  I have to wake up early and take a cold shower?  Is this spirituality or torture?

[Barrister]

There's a Sikh prosecutor whose office is 20 feet from mine.  He's a very nice guy. 

Does he take cold showers every morning?  That is one of Sikh rituals I always found horrifying.  I have to wake up early and take a cold shower?  Is this spirituality or torture?

I don't know about you, but I don't discuss showering with my co-workers. 

[stjaba]

Re: Republican Veep candidate

Condi Rice topped the list of preferred candidates in a recent poll of Republicans voters. She would bring solid foreign policy gravitas, and would bring diversity(appealing to moderates), but she is pretty boring(aka not a good attack dog) and has 0 experience in elective politics. Regardless, she's said that she's not interested in the job.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0412/75341.html

[Malthus]

I don't know about you, but I don't discuss showering with my co-workers. 

Is that you don't discuss with your coworkers the topic of showering in general, or that you don't discuss participating in showering with your coworkers as a communal activity? 

[derspiess]

Obama ate dogs when he was a kid.

I find this unlikely.  Being a Muslim, dog meat is taboo.

Have you not read and memorized "Dreams of My Father"??

Get out your copy & read from Chapter 2:

With Lolo, I learned how to eat small green chill peppers raw with dinner (plenty of rice), and, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy). Like many Indonesians, Lolo followed a brand of Islam that could make room for the remnants of more ancient animist and Hindu faiths. He explained that a man took on the powers of whatever he ate: One day soon, he promised, he would bring home a piece of tiger meat for us to share.

[Razgovory]

I'll leave studying every minute detail of the man to you.

[DGuller]

One thing that just occured to me is that for a guy who wrote two books about himself before being elected, with some level of frankness, he really doesn't have much dirt dug up on him.  He must be quite a dreadfully boring guy.

[Razgovory]

One thing that just occured to me is that for a guy who wrote two books about himself before being elected, with some level of frankness, he really doesn't have much dirt dug up on him.  He must be quite a dreadfully boring guy.

I think this is true.

[Sheilbh]

One thing that just occured to me is that for a guy who wrote two books about himself before being elected, with some level of frankness, he really doesn't have much dirt dug up on him.  He must be quite a dreadfully boring guy.

I think this is fair.  It's carried over into his administration.  I mean the worst scandals so far seem pretty tame.  It's probably why he's so suspicious of Bill

[stjaba]

One thing that just occured to me is that for a guy who wrote two books about himself before being elected, with some level of frankness, he really doesn't have much dirt dug up on him.  He must be quite a dreadfully boring guy.

In his book, he admitted that he did coke and weed in his high school and college years.

[DGuller]

One thing that just occured to me is that for a guy who wrote two books about himself before being elected, with some level of frankness, he really doesn't have much dirt dug up on him.  He must be quite a dreadfully boring guy.

In his book, he admitted that he did coke and weed in his high school and college years.

Yeah, I remember that one.  I don't recall anything coming of it, though.  Maybe the existance of the book actually cleared through the potential scandals pre-emptively, before they had a chance to become a bombshell.

[garbon]

One thing that just occured to me is that for a guy who wrote two books about himself before being elected, with some level of frankness, he really doesn't have much dirt dug up on him.  He must be quite a dreadfully boring guy.

In his book, he admitted that he did coke and weed in his high school and college years.

Yeah, I remember that one.  I don't recall anything coming of it, though.  Maybe the existance of the book actually cleared through the potential scandals pre-emptively, before they had a chance to become a bombshell.

I think that makes sense and I think I remember feeling that he'd made a smart move with that. After all, a large part of big scandals often involves attempts to cover-up or hide said information.

[mongers]

One thing that just occured to me is that for a guy who wrote two books about himself before being elected, with some level of frankness, he really doesn't have much dirt dug up on him.  He must be quite a dreadfully boring guy.

In his book, he admitted that he did coke and weed in his high school and college years.

Yeah, I remember that one.  I don't recall anything coming of it, though.  Maybe the existance of the book actually cleared through the potential scandals pre-emptively, before they had a chance to become a bombshell.

It just cleared the field for slightly more imaginative accusation like the far left/conspiracy nuts claiming he's a long term deep cover CIA agent and the Teaparty/librarytarians believing he leads a top level Al-Qaeda cell. 

[garbon]

One thing that just occured to me is that for a guy who wrote two books about himself before being elected, with some level of frankness, he really doesn't have much dirt dug up on him.  He must be quite a dreadfully boring guy.

In his book, he admitted that he did coke and weed in his high school and college years.

Yeah, I remember that one.  I don't recall anything coming of it, though.  Maybe the existance of the book actually cleared through the potential scandals pre-emptively, before they had a chance to become a bombshell.

It just cleared the field for slightly more imaginative accusation like the far left/conspiracy nuts claiming he's a long term deep cover CIA agent and the Teaparty/librarytarians believing he leads a top level Al-Qaeda cell. 

aka things that get no air time.