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a protein wisdom preview of tonight’s foreign policy presidential debate

Obama:  “Republicans started two wars and put them on credit cards. Under a Romney administration, we’d be going back to failed policies of the past.  Like the 50s.  When Eisenhower was busy fucking up everything, and there were almost no blacks anywhere to be seen in episodes of ‘Happy Days.’  Except for that one dude named ‘Sticks,’ who played the drums.  Much like the native extras in Tarzan movies, or King Kong — ”

Romney:  “– Whereas rather than using our own credit cards — because we’ve maxed them out and the issuing banks have cut off our line of credit — China is paying for your embroiling us in the Libyan debacle that saw 4 Americans killed.  Besides — and I know I wasn’t there at the time — but I seem to remember that those joint resolutions for the two ‘Republican’ wars were signed by an awful lot of Democrats.  And you yourself have supported (and continued) at least one of them.  So tell me, how many Republicans signed the joint resolution to bring military force to bear in Libya, where an ambassador and other American diplomats were killed?”

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Obama:   “You know, some people don’t like me because I have a funny sounding name, and I look a little different.  You don’t see people like me on the dollar bill, is what I’m trying to say.  Oh, also? Bush.”

Obama:  “Can I get a ruling on that, Mr Schieffer?  And make it a good one!  Michelle is primed to break out the applause!”

32 Replies to “a protein wisdom preview of tonight’s foreign policy presidential debate”

  1. Libby says:

    “Did I mention that I killed bin Laden! I WILL close Gitmo and move ’em to a secured detention center in Illinois. And we’ll try them in the Federal courts instead of military court.
    Also, the UN says that if you elect Romney he’ll start torturing people. No one was tortured under my watch. Sure, we’re constantly obliterating, uh, bad people in Paaah-kee-staahn and Yemen – and anyone nearby – via drone strike, but no one was ever waterboarded!”

  2. McGehee says:

    Mitt Romney is filthy rich in part because he’s an international businessman. You don’t get filthy rich in international business by brandishing an undeserved Nobel and apologizing to your country’s enemies.

  3. LBascom says:

    When Eisenhower was busy fucking up everything, and there were almost no blacks anywhere to be seen in episodes of ‘Happy Days.’

    And don’t even get me started on Nixon, when, during the Republican war of colonialism against the innocent people of VietNam, white doctors named “Trapper”, and “Hawkeye”, called black doctors “Spear chucker”…

  4. geoffb says:

    He will start by announcing bi-lateral talks with Iran and then that he ordered a drone strike on Ahmed Abu Khattala which is happening as he speaks.

  5. geoffb says:

    “Did you know I have a Nobel Peace Prize and I killed Bin Laden too?” No really.

  6. sdferr says:

    “. . . a drone strike on Ahmed Abu Khattala which is happening as he speaks.”

    Obama best be careful he doesn’t cause collateral deaths getting his social-justice on: he’s got enough trouble on his plate already.

  7. sdferr says:

    Is there a firm demagoguery differential betwixt and between domestic policy and foreign policy? Or is the electorate simply easy to mislead whatever the subject matter may happen to be?

  8. cranky-d says:

    I hate Obama. There, I said it. And I’m glad. Glad!

  9. leigh says:

    You’re not alone, cranky. I hate him too.

    It’s a thing of beauty watching all the military brass (retired) beating up on the Wonce on Cavuto’s show.

    “Hells, yeah, he knew Benghazi was an Act of War!” “Spontaneous protests, my ass.” And the like.

    Heh.

  10. Libby says:

    Romney: So when you say ‘Al-Qaeda is on the run’ are you referring to their run on US embassies across northern Africa and the middle east? That was the AQ flag they hoisted at the US embassy in London and other locations, right?

  11. Mike LaRoche says:

    “Gonna put y’all back in binders!”

  12. leigh says:

    Today is the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s nationally televised address informing the nation of the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba, and his intention to make sure they were removed. The Kennedy glorification industry has pointed to this episode as Exhibit #1 of JFK’s coolness under pressure, etc, etc, and the outcome has always been regarded as a great triumph of American statecraft.

    To be sure, as Churchill once put it, “talk-talk is better than war-war,” but the conventional “lesson” of the Cuban Missile Crisis could not be more incorrect. The view that that U.S. “won” the Cuban Missile Crisis has more lives than a cat. In fact, the Cuban episode was an American defeat, and it contributed powerfully to the thinking that led to the Vietnam quagmire.

    Ironic, no?

    Link

  13. palaeomerus says:

    Today is my birthday. 41 years old. That’s almost old enough to stop putting strawberry and banana slices in my Rice Krispies. Instead of ice cream and pizza I get to watch a debate that quite frankly should be absolutely superfluous given the last four years. Hey, it’s better than jock itch.

  14. palaeomerus says:

    Is IS going to be better than jock itch. Right?

  15. John Bradley says:

    You should tweet about it; I hear it’s all the rage.

  16. geoffb says:

    Re: “Foward”, maybe they work at CBS. Writing headlines.

  17. beemoe says:

    ”President Obama is a towering figure on foreign policy, you’ve got somebody with a Nobel Peace Prize and he killed Bin Laden.”

    Its been a rough week for towering figures.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20012494

  18. cranky-d says:

    It may be better than jock itch. We’ll have to wait and see.

    Then again, I won’t be watching. I’ll be in a bar watching football.

  19. TmjUtah says:

    I think there is about a 30% chance that Romney puts him in a bag tonight.

    Romney is going to win on points and substance. But I believe that the president has been coached and counseled to go for broke on talking points, class war, and Teh Narrative with the assumption that Schiefer will be in his corner.

    Romney is a good leader. All the race card/class war/birth control schtick in the world will NEVER make O any more than the two bit hustler he is. Romney knows this to be true, and O probably is in so much denial there are Egyptians rowing past him…

    I doubt Schiefer is going to play ball. Obama is a loser and at some point MSM is going to start their attempt to disengage. If The Won goes all Truth To Power, the ink and pixel people will take their cue to walk away.

    Cue the popcorn. Let’s GO!

  20. leigh says:

    Happy birthday, palaeomerus. Here, have some cake and ice cream.

  21. McGehee says:

    If I’m going to watch a debate tonight, I’d have to drive out of the county to the nearest liquor store.

    […]

    Nope.

  22. BigBangHunter says:

    Today is the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s nationally televised address informing the nation of the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba, and his intention to make sure they were removed.

    – Theres several small details the aholes on the Left always seem to convieniently leave out in the Kennedy rivision of history.

    – The Russians moved only AFTER Kennedy deployed missles in Turkey aimed directly at Moscow, thereby almost single handidly starting WWIII.

  23. BigBangHunter says:

    – None of these adult teenagers of the last 2 generations ever want to fuck with me. Been there have a trouphy.

  24. leigh says:

    JFK really was a spectacularly bad president.

  25. sdferr says:

    Any day now a commercial airliner filled with people on vacation and business trips — most of them Americans in all probability — will be rocketed simultaneously by three shoulder fired missiles as it takes off. The plane will go down, killing everyone on board.

    Barack Obama will say how sad he is at hearing of the tragedy; how no one cares more than he to prevent the proliferation of such deadly weapons; how he and he alone will bring the perpetrators to justice.

    And not one surviving relative of the murdered passengers and crew will punch his fucking lights out.

  26. Pablo says:

    ”President Obama is a towering figure on foreign policy…”

    I can see how that makes sense.

  27. geoffb says:

    An interesting account of the Benghazi consulate attack by the February 17th guards who were at the gate. One thing, what they call the cantina is what is called building B in the State Dept. backgrounder.

  28. SporkLift Driver says:

    Heh, leigh.

    Second to last paragraph in your link confirms something I’ve observed numerous times. The same people that criticize the military for preparing to fight the last war* are perpetually trying to prevent World War I.

    Last paragraph included the best summary of McNamara’s career I’ve ever seen.

    *Of course the preparations revolved around avoiding rather than repeating the things that didn’t work. For instance the Germans invented Blitzkrieg and most everyone else pursued a similar line with various levels of enthusiasm and success.

  29. leigh says:

    Spork, I have long held the belief that the Kennedy administration is a textbook example of Groupthink.

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