Obama's best line of the campaign:
If you come down with a case of Romnesia, and you can't seem to remember the policies that are still on your website, or the policies you've had for the six years you've been running for president, there's good news. ObamaCare covers pre-existing conditions.
It's a damn shame, though, that ObamaCare doesn't fully cover them this year. For it's not Romney's Romnesia that's causing acute bouts of anxiety; it's the nation's. Indeed, it seems we've an epidemic of Romnesia--the public's awareness of Obama's four extraordinary years wiped out in large part, in Denver, in a mere 90 minutes. Although Obama's coming back and I remain confidant he'll win, I must confess the last three weeks have been a profoundly dispiriting and even deeply surreal journey through the monstrously reckless mind of the American electorate.
If Mitt Romney had something to offer of some reasonableness, then, sure, one could intellectually grasp these narrowing margins of late. But Romney's got nothing, absolutely nothing but the very same crap that got us in the economic hole from which Obama has quite manifestly been digging us out--which roughly half the electorate appears either to have completely forgotten or simply dismissed. It's staggering. Simply staggering.
He's got the Foxified worldview of the RW propaganda machine working for him.
He's also got the most essential aspect of Central Casting for a President: He's white.
Posted by: Janicket | October 19, 2012 at 05:34 PM
I ceased to have any lasting faith in the wisdom of the American electorate when Bush got elected in 2004 after serving a term of dubious legitimacy and outright policy disaster. Electing him in the first place, over a boring but extremely qualified and thoughtful Al Gore was disappointing at the time, but I had no idea what was coming.
I was heartened in 2006 and 2008 but never quite believed the electorate had awoken in any permanent way. Then the teabaggers arose out of the astroturf to incoherently direct their patriotic anger at all the wrong people, and then the 2010 elections happened. The Democrats were SEVERELY PUNISHED for attempting, with some legitimate success mind you, to responsibly govern and correct the many, many messes left by the Bush years. That was just...stupefying...on an objective level. But after 2004, I wasn't that surprised.
And I'm not that surprised Romney is close, though I do admit to some surprise that a single debate - one in which Romney lied and bullied like a used car salesman but had energy, while Obama presented the facts, but did so in a soporific manner - could scramble the race to such a profound extent.
Thankfully, Biden won his debate, Obama won #2, and Obama ought to win #3 given his strong foreign policy record and Romney's bumbling ignorance. And Obama has a superior ground organization that is already establishing leads in the swing states via early voting. So I'm still optimistic he's winning. But sadly not surprised that he won't get the blowout he deserves and would get in a sane world.
Posted by: Turgidson | October 19, 2012 at 05:50 PM
Take two clicks to the 538 blog and call me in the morning if you don't feel better.
Posted by: Peter G | October 19, 2012 at 07:57 PM
I remain shocked at the number of people in this country who would empower despicable creeps... see Chris Christie. I really do think it comes down to brain function... or lack thereof.
As for the first debate, so what... Obama had an off night? So the lemmings rush to the bow of the Titanic carrying the lying bullying Romney on their shoulders?
The "Liberal-ati" did more damage to Obama by repeating the FAIL meme than did the right.
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
Posted by: Susan Zoon | October 20, 2012 at 08:37 AM