The next debate is on foreign policy, I believe. It's easier for an incumbent to come off as more Presidential, because he's hopefully got some foreign policy chops to work with. The Syria-Turkey situation gives Obama a chance to show whatever foreign policy chops he's got and to walk on the big stage Romney doesn't have access to. It's not quite as ballsy as a humorous speech while Bin Ladin was being taken out, but it looks a lot better to be able to say "Sorry, I wasn't as prepared for the debate as I'd like, I was busy actually doing the job of President."
Buffy: A Guide, but no water or food. So it leads me to the sacred place and then a week later it leads you to my bleached bones? Giles: Buffy, really. It takes more than a week to bleach bones.
'Dirty Girls'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Connie Neil - Oct 03, 2012 7:33:47 pm PDT #24450 of 30001
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billytea - Oct 03, 2012 7:36:42 pm PDT #24451 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I think Romney came across better, as long as you weren't particularly concerned with the truth value of what he said. Obama didn't do badly, he just didn't do as well. He looked distracted and a bit uninterested.
Agreed.
§ ita § - Oct 03, 2012 7:39:02 pm PDT #24452 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I am looking for this: [link] but cheaper. The high-necked one. Anyone know where I could? And no, shelf bras don't cut the mustard.
Trudy Booth - Oct 03, 2012 8:23:05 pm PDT #24453 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Sunday night I was at a concert, and looking around from the balcony I realized I was the oldest person in the whole huge crowded room, with the possible exception of the silver-haired but spry guy down by the rail. He could have been a little older than me.
Beats being the youngest person at home.
Sullivan also tweeted something incredibly ill-advised if not racist at the beginning of the debate: said that Romney looked most like a President. Which is really and truly fucked up.
He should know better than to play the racist card. The next logical step is that since all black people look alike ALL BLACK PEOPLE LOOK LIKE A PRESIDENT.
le nubian - Oct 03, 2012 8:26:00 pm PDT #24454 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Vortex - Oct 03, 2012 8:30:14 pm PDT #24455 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
The Syria-Turkey situation gives Obama a chance to show whatever foreign policy chops he's got and to walk on the big stage Romney doesn't have access to.
Plus, Obama can drop the nugget that he'd been in a NATO meeting the day of the last debate. Something like "I almost wish that the subjects of the debates had been switched. The day of the last debate, I spent the day meeting with NATO about the Syria-Turkey situation. I would have been able to work on the debate like my opponent did that day."
tommyrot - Oct 04, 2012 5:05:29 am PDT #24456 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Library porn!
A tower of books is encased inside a glass pyramid at this public library that Dutch firm MVRDV have completed in Spijkenisse, the Netherlands (+ slideshow).
Jessica - Oct 04, 2012 5:09:31 am PDT #24457 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
there are arguments that the debate was indeed significant in Kennedy v Nixon and Carter v Reagan.
Both of those took place before intensive debate prep was a standard part of the campaign process, though. (And in the case of Kennedy/Nixon, before people really understood how important it was to look good on television.)
I think these days, debates matter much less because there aren't going to be any surprises. Which is why I skipped last night's and watched Survivor instead.
Steph L. - Oct 04, 2012 5:10:26 am PDT #24458 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Which is why I skipped last night's and watched Survivor instead.
We should have stuck to Mythbusters DVDs.
billytea - Oct 04, 2012 5:15:36 am PDT #24459 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
We should have stuck to Mythbusters DVDs.
Hey, what's one more fact-checker?