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[Urist Imiknorris]

But it does not prevent manual overrides to the brain's anti-headsplodening software.

[Alexhans]

What could he say that would actually get him votes there?

1. Obama takes your vote for granted, because it's expected that "Hey, you're black! We know who you're voting for..."

Such a statement could prove to be too controversial and I fear the response would look likely be a knock out against Romney.

[palsch]

Someone posted this picture from the crowd as the sole response to his speech;

Then there is this.

[FearfulJesuit]

It's this sort of thing above all that makes me think that Romney's not going to win, for a very simple reason: he doesn't make anyone go "Hey, this guy says what I want to be said in politics!"

The youth sees him as having stolen their future. The wingnuts think he's too soft on social issues. He's too obscenely rich to be a middle-class  focal point. He really only appeals to one kind of voter: the baby-boomer rich guy who's conservative but not a fundie. And there are simply not enough of those for him.

[Zangi]

I'm pretty sure he appeals to the '1 term for the black guy' demographic.

[mainiac]

Yeah, there is a huge, huge "the other guy" demographic in america.  Obama only took 52.4% of the vote last time despite having pretty much everything going for him you could want, the anger at the financial crises, the anger at the war, the anger at the deficit, a good message and a huge army of campaign volunteers.

[RedKing]

Yeah. Just like the backup quarterback in football, the challenger candidate is the most popular guy in the room when shit hits the fan.
Just because there's an implicit logic of "There is no possible way this guy could be any worse," even though history and rationality would illustrate otherwise. Most backup quarterbacks play dreadfully because of inexperience/age/injury/attitude/whatever-factor-made-them-a-backup-and-not-a-starter-in-the-first-place. Many challenger candidates would make (and often do make) terrible officials for similar reasons.

[Reelya]

Someone should tell Alex Jones. His head will probably explode.

I had a bit of a close look at Alex Jones after I realized that Glen Beck's list of "bad guys" was identical to Jones', i used the Koch Brothers as a litmus test, sure enough, Alex Jones turns into "Mr Skeptic" when the Koch Brothers names pop up, and he won't hear a bad word about them, unlike that "evil" George Soros he's always claiming is planning a world-takeover. Here's Alex Jones on how the Koch Brothers are the best Americans ever:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv9PiSsSnBE

BTW: Jones' radio show also popped up during the Clinton years and focused on stuff the 'feds' were doing.

Beware, he's not a garden-variety kook, he's a right-wing troll posing as a kook to deflect the kooks at liberals and Democrat party targets, Alex Jones IS one of those "false flag" operations he's always touting.

[Zrk2]

Wait, what did the brothers Koch do this time?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

No, Alex Jones is definitely a wingnut. We're talking about the guy who said that Prometheus was a coded message about how the Illuminati operates.

[Urist Imiknorris]

It's not even a code - the Illuminati, much like Prometheus, should never be considered canon.

[Reelya]

Trust me that Alex Jones is some sort of paid troll, look it up, he's backed by Koch Brothers and a bunch of Jewish millionaires (the companies which advertise on his show and websites are almost all jewish), and was forced to retract a statement "The Arabs control Hollywood"

http://alexjonesexposed.wordpress.com/alex-jones-and-jewish-money/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZtw3P6RtTs

I definitely think he's allow to exist to deflect kooks in Texas from the real string-pullers.

What makes me more certain is like what you say about Prometheus being a 'code' and bullshit like that, but show him real evidence of REAL corruption and he's suddenly a skeptic. His "blind spots" for dealings which are obviously crooked staggers the imagination, he has his fans chasing phantoms, while there's real problems he ignores completely.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Jewish conspiracy? Now you sound crazy.

[Reelya]

That's from his ex-fans following the money trail for his shows, not my idea, that link before identified 23 sponsors for his "conspiracy" show which are owned by wealthy Jewish businessmen

Their theory is that he's in with big oil (his climate skeptic stuff and loving the Koch Brothers and Oil Barons) and the Israel lobby (his anti-Arab consipiracy theories and stance that Israel cannot be criticized)

Here's Alex Jones, making the case that oil companies are the victims of that evil 'EPA'

http://www.infowars.com/epa-officials-philosophy-on-oil-companies-crucify-them/

By saying oil companies are "crucified" by the EPA, he's casting oil companies as Jesus, and EPA as the Romans.

Here's Alex Jones calling anyone who criticises Israel "weak minded idiots"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDTKBKGdbJ4

Here's Jones saying Israel-bashers are "scum"

http://www.rense.com/general92/bash.htm

Here's an article about how they caught a Jewish mathematician editing wikipedia to remove all negative statements from Alex Jone's wiki entry

http://fitzinformer.blogspot.com.au/2010/09/jewish-mathematician-caught-editing.html

Note, i didn't spend any great effort "cherry picking" these links, I just googled "Alex Jones Israel" and they're all from page 1

[scriver]

"The Arabs control Hollywood"

Or Antisemitic Conspiracies are Different?