There's a few lines of this he should strike (namely any and all comparisons to Greece, because what makes Greece's situation uniquely fucked up is it doesn't control its own currency), but otherwise this is a pretty damn accurate picture of what's really going on, *moneywise.

*news
*lies
*quality (though it seems awfully hot already...)

I love it.

To me the most delicious part of that is that it's the actual Democratic Party who got their hands on that URL.
>> ^KnivesOut:

Well, the campaign finally put out their site to describe how it's all going to work: http://www.romneytaxplan.com/

Yeah, when you start thinking through the actual story conservatives tell about how tax cuts are supposed to help the economy, it stops making sense pretty quickly.

>> ^bareboards2:

That tax question that gobsmacked Colbert? I have been asking that for days.
If lower taxes are supposed to create jobs, then how does a net neutral tax cut do a dang thing?

*isdupe

The thinking behind the comment probably comes from political consultants telling him that he needs X amount of support from latios to carry places like Nevada and Colorado, and he's been at X minus 20 all year long. In true Republican style, the solution in his mind is not to tailor his policies or messaging to appear to latinos, it's to wish he just had darker skin and could ride on a wave of support based on identity alone.

The thinking behind the outrage is that this is a constant refrain from the conservative side in general -- that minorities are given huge advantages that whites aren't, and that ultimately the demographic group that receives the most adverse discrimination is actually rich white men.

In no case do I see this as some sort of unfair "overreaction" to what Romney said. Romney was pretty dismissive of the idea that being latino carries any sort of inborn disadvantages in a society dominated by whites, and I'll bet that sends latinos through the roof, because they know just how much discrimination faces latinos in their everyday lives, and they know Romney, who's lived a life of priviledge, hasn't a fucking clue what being on the receiving end of discrimination feels like.

>> ^renatojj:

Not a Romney supporter, but I think he meant people like underdogs, so being latino would give him the underdog advantage? It'd probably outweigh the political downsides of being latino, as she pointed out.

But yeah, deciding our votes by blowing words said jokingly way out of proportion and overreacting emotionally to completely non-political statements is the way to go.

Generic iframe.

For those who don't already know project "Veritas", it's the same fine people behind the ACORN tapes, the Shirley Sherrod tape, etc.

It's the whole Andrew Breitbart / James O'Keefe smear project.

*news
*politics
*lies

I disagree with the entire conception of a liberal "bias". There definitely seem to be more liberal-minded people here, and liberal political videos fare much better than conservative ones, but that doesn't make Videosift "biased", it just means it's a community that's largely populated with liberals.

As far as your response on #2, that's a pretty flimsy justification for trying to assert that the entirety of liberals don't work and are dependent on government, and refuse to take responsibility for their lives.

As far as having a sense of humor, I can most certainly take a joke, but conservatives say this kind of deeply insulting, ridiculously bigoted and prejudicial shit all the time, and then try pass it off as some sort of joke. They seem happy enough to say it without an ounce of mirth when they think they're safely ensconced in a conservatives-only setting.

>> ^deedub81:

#1 is true "on videosift" as I asserted. I stand behind that statement. Nothing wrong with it, just the way it is. Do you disagree?
#2 The reason why this stereotype exists is because lower-income voters (those with a household income of fewer than $30,000 per year) lean HEAVILY to the left and favor the democrat party by a margin of 17 points.
My original comment was completely tongue-in-cheek, playing on the stereotypes about a liberal bias and lazy welfare loafers but you looked right past it and accused me of being shortsighted myself. You obviously don't have a sense of humor when it comes to politics. I'll be more careful in the future.

I don't think it was that. The best speculation on what went wrong that I've heard is that Obama went into it looking for a draw -- the campaign just wanted him to hold on his lead, so they told him to play it safe. Don't go for the jugular, don't make a big show of calling out Romney for being a liar, just be Presidential and rise above the slings and arrows of his opponent.

Instead he seemed to just leave every lie unchallenged, and largely took a pass on even trying to attack Romney.

I don't really think Obama needs the crowd on his side to be charismatic, I think he was just given bad advice by his debate coach.

>> ^Retroboy:

Obama seems incredibly comfortable in this video's atmosphere of obvious support, but the bland and structured venue of the debate completely lacked it. Perhaps he does much better when he has that sort of crowd...?

*politics

Oh, I agree, they're not completely uniform, but most of the time it's just a difference in intensity, rather than some substantively unique outlook on the world.

In the narrow scope of my earlier comment, I was defining conservative as believing in one or more of the fairytales the social group known as "conservatives" like to tell themselves. You espoused two:

1. That "liberal bias" exists.
   
2. That liberals are lazy lieabouts who don't work for a living.
   

I feel like a golem -- an IT golem who's been forced to build the machines that banks will soon use to enslave us all.

But I'm almost finished, and I can't really let this whole year go by without doing some political advocacy.


In reply to this comment by gwiz665:
Good to have you back in arms. Where have you been hiding? Are you like a political golem that only comes out in election season?
In reply to this comment by NetRunner:
>> ^gwiz665:

What a muslim thing to say.
>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
'Marxist' and 'Communist' have become the battle cry of the truly clueless.



I've missed you guys. :

>> ^gwiz665:

What a muslim thing to say.
>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
'Marxist' and 'Communist' have become the battle cry of the truly clueless.



I've missed you guys.