POTUS Debate II: The Empire Strikes Back at the Wrath of Electric Mittensaloo

[Eddie Teach]

Sitting Bull steals all the credit for Little Big Horn.

[Liep]

Did you see him and Rasmus Tantholdt in "Who wants to be a millionaire last night? They failed the question: Which of the following are an indian: Buffalo Bill, Crazy Horse, Calamity Jane or Billy the Kid? They answered Buffalo Bill and were out with 0 kr.

The state of TV2 these days is just pathetic. They should leave the news to better qualified people and go full reality.

[jimmy olsen]

Sitting Bull steals all the credit for Little Big Horn.

Then why is Crazy Horse the one getting a ginormous statue?

[Eddie Teach]

Sitting Bull steals all the credit for Little Big Horn.

Then why is Crazy Horse the one getting a ginormous statue?

Presumably the people making this statue are locals who know better.

[Razgovory]

Sitting Bull steals all the credit for Little Big Horn.

Then why is Crazy Horse the one getting a ginormous statue?

Cause it's the work of one crazy man.

[Octavian]

Did you see him and Rasmus Tantholdt in "Who wants to be a millionaire last night? They failed the question: Which of the following are an indian: Buffalo Bill, Crazy Horse, Calamity Jane or Billy the Kid? They answered Buffalo Bill and were out with 0 kr.

The state of TV2 these days is just pathetic. They should leave the news to better qualified people and go full reality.

Since they have become a full "pay" channel that's probably what is going to happen 

I do like TV2 News and the Mogensen and Christiansen programme. Unfortunately I don't have TV2 News anymore.

By the way Liep. Is your user name related or inspired by Ole Sohn whose full name is Ole Christian Liep Sohn?

[CountDeMoney]

Stop shitting up our election thread with goddamned Scandinavian game show shit already.

[Liep]

Stop shitting up our election thread with goddamned Scandinavian game show shit already.

Any thread is improved by Scandinavian game show shit.

Also, not really Oct, it's an old name I've always used for some reason. It had a J in it on Kapland until some one actually named that contacted me asking if I knew why someone named Jaron had sent him weird emails.

[Octavian]

Stop shitting up our election thread with goddamned Scandinavian game show shit already.

Any thread is improved by Scandinavian game show shit.

Also, not really Oct, it's an old name I've always used for some reason. It had a J in it on Kapland until some one actually named that contacted me asking if I knew why someone named Jaron had sent him weird emails.

LOL

[Valmy]

I wonder how many Obama will blame for the Libya attack.

I blame Muslim terrorists myself.

[Phillip V]

Ross Perot, former independent Presidential candidate who won 20% of the vote in 1992, has decided to endorse Romney today: http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/10/ross-perot-backs-mitt-romney-138550.html


As for debates, dunno how that will be. It is a "town hall" style forum with very specific questions from the audience and moderator intervention (supposedly). My gut instinct recommendation for Obama is that he needs to go on the attack, but not on stuff like the 47% comment that Romney can easily backtrack/worm a way around. The first attack that comes to mind is tax returns. IIRC, Romney has only released two years. There's no way for him to try to deny that. And there is high risk of poorly answering why he refuses to release his tax returns.

But if there is no sharp attack from Obama, Romney will win. With no pressure, Romney is smooth and handsome. The more people see him (especially women), the more they like him. Obama is no longer the sexiest guy in the race (compared to when his more youthful self ran against old McCain).

It is for these reasons that I am endorsing Mitt Romney. He has spent most of his career in the private sector. He understands how jobs are created. He understands how government can get in the way of that process. As a president, he would do what this administration has been unable to do, which is reform our federal government, pare it back, and — most critically — keep it from acting as a brake on economic growth.

Equally important, as a governor, Mitt Romney balanced the budget of his state for four straight years without raising taxes. Writing in all caps is called shouting, and that fact is something that deserves to be shouted from the rooftops. I should add that Gov. Romney accomplished this feat while working with a legislature that was overwhelmingly under the control of the Democratic Party in one of the most liberal states in the country. In short, although he is a rock-solid conservative, he knows how to reach across the aisle and make common cause with those with whom he disagrees.

[Eddie Teach]

I like the segue of Phil calling Romney the sexiest candidate in the race followed by Perot saying "it is for these reasons that I'm endorsing Romney". 

[CountDeMoney]

As for debates, dunno how that will be. It is a "town hall" style forum with very specific questions from the audience and moderator intervention (supposedly). My gut instinct recommendation for Obama is that he needs to go on the attack, but not on stuff like the 47% comment that Romney can easily backtrack/worm a way around. The first attack that comes to mind is tax returns. IIRC, Romney has only released two years. There's no way for him to try to deny that. And there is high risk of poorly answering why he refuses to release his tax returns.

I don't see how you could think he could answer poorly on the issue of his tax returns.  He said he wasn't going to release them, and he didn't.  Even his wife said that's all "you people" are going to get.  Fin.
He's a man of his word.  No poor answer to angle for in that one.

[derspiess]

I guess it's been out for a while but I just now caught that AFSCME ad with the garbageman complaining that Mitt never hugged him. 

[Phillip V]

Electric-car battery maker files for bankruptcy

Electric-car battery maker A123 Systems, the recipient of nearly $250 million in government grants, filed for bankruptcy protection today.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443854204578060433271656440.html

The U.S. government, in a bid to jump start the electric car battery industry, has provided more than $1.2 billion to battery makers in the past three years. But the industry has been slow to take off. Another battery maker, Ener1 Inc., which also received a government grant, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier this year.

But sales of electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids in the U.S. remain a fraction of gasoline-powered vehicles because of their high cost, the lengthy recharging times required and limited availability of public charging stations.

The U.S. Department of Energy awarded A123 $249 million in grants, about half of which the company has used so far to pay for some of the costs of building a factory in Livonia, Mich.

The Waltham, Mass., company has suffered losses since inception in 2001 and saw its market capitalization drop to around $162 million from $1.6 billion at the end of 2009, a few months after its public listing of shares.

The company's balance sheet took a hit last year from charges related to its investment in electric-car maker Fisker Automotive, capacity reduction in South Korea and replacement costs of defective batteries. Adding to its troubles, the company in late March disclosed it expects to spend at least $55 million in coming quarters on a recall of defective batteries.