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[Nadaka]

OK, I was playing the DJ tonight and deliberately stayed afterwards to get drunk instead of watching the tail end of the debate^*. But I've glanced at a couple of liveblogs and these suggest Romney actually tried to claim credit for his time as a Mormon missionary and minister. I've been keeping track and he hasn't really played these up on the national stage before this. The missionary part... well, he played missionary during Vietnam by going to France. The minister... I actually have sympathy for this, and can't imagine having such real human contact making anyone less suited to the presidency, but such a position within the Mormon church is bound to hurt with evangelical and even mainline American Christians.

*Years of drunk typing experience, many of them for credit, have taught me to do it without the usual giveaway typos.

THats ok. Ive been drunk the whole time.

[mainiac]

I didn't get drunk, don't know what's wrong with me.

[kaijyuu]

Sobriety. That's what's wrong with you.

It's curable, you know.

[Wrex]

Maniac is Super-Sober though. It is treatable, but not curabale, and the treatment tends to shorten one's lifespan considerably.

[Zrk2]

I didn't get drunk, don't know what's wrong with me.

You were too funny last time and don't want to ruin it?

[sluissa]

The problem with his Mormonism hurting amongst evangelicals and the like is that he's put up next to a guy whom most of those same evangelicals will still claim out loud is a muslim kenyan.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Yeah, but there's definitely still some who will throw up their hands and proclaim that this is the End of Days and America has lost god's favor instead of settling for Romney.

[Nadaka]

Meanwhile, behind the scenes:

Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala, green party presidential candidate and vice presidential candidate are arrested for attending the debate.

http://news.yahoo.com/green-party-candidates-arrested-debate-011030548--election.html

[Mego]

Yeah, but there's definitely still some who will throw up their hands and proclaim that this is the End of Days and America has lost god's favor instead of settling for Romney.

And everyone at Bay12 tries to figure out when exactly did America have god's favor.

[SalmonGod]

Meanwhile, behind the scenes:

Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala, green party presidential candidate and vice presidential candidate are arrested for attending the debate.

http://news.yahoo.com/green-party-candidates-arrested-debate-011030548--election.html

"Maam this is a democratic process here.  Your participation is not allowed."

[Shadowlord]

The candidates agreed to the format of the debate. Only they are allowed to violate that format. :V

Edit: There it is again, I said "the candidates" while referring only to Obama and Romney. Damn Darn you, Ross Perot!

[SalmonGod]

The news article comments on the green party arrests are amusing.  There are people saying "Why should I care about this?  I've never heard of these people before, so why should I take them seriously?"  It demonstrates and misses the point at the same time.

And one of my co-workers -- "I didn't even know the green party still existed!"

[Seamas]

Meanwhile, behind the scenes:

Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala, green party presidential candidate and vice presidential candidate are arrested for attending the debate.

http://news.yahoo.com/green-party-candidates-arrested-debate-011030548--election.html

I think it is so sad that we have come to accept this Red/Blue dichotomy as a stand-in for a democracy, which by all rights should allow - even encourage - the participation of third parties.  Both parties really are just the same cat with different fleas.  If it wasn't for the color scheme I would confuse the two all the time.

I'm going to vote for an independent this time, even if it is a toothless gesture.  I just can't bear to submit so doggedly to this feckless two-party regime displacing all other legitimate political parties.  It's a farce.

[Montague]

Yeah, third parties are in a sad state of affairs. Even the Evangelists have decided to limit themselves between voting for a 'Mormon Heretic Cultist' and a 'Kenyan Muslim Socialist'.

I'm sure the reality TV debate really changed a lot of minds though. Who will get voted off the island???

[Trollheiming]

I'm glad someone finally called Romney on at least SOME of his BS as well... even if it was, of all things, the moderator.

Best thing I've ever seen in an election ever.

Even better than the wacko going "HHHHHHRRRRRRRRRUUUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Thing is, she openly withdrew some accusations after the debate, because those weren't correct. "Romney was correct in the main" But few will hear her retraction.

You had a moderator interfering with her own emotional opinion. She isn't a fact-checker with the transcripts in front of her.

Tell me again how the media is unbiased.