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Because you're good enough, you're smart enough, and, doggonit, people like you!

I just thought it was amusing that his high school civics teacher is lamenting the fact that one of his students didn't listen to him and went the other way on the political spectrum.

Just goes to show that "liberal school indoctrination" doesn't work as well as the righties claim it does.

Silly cat, that mostly occurs at the college level, where elitist professors convert hapless freshmen into their hippie communist mindset.

Damnit people have some consistency! Either you are for people choosing their own path or you are against it! Curious how gbaji will spin this one. Should be almost as hilarious.

Poor Clint. I hadn't realized that he was getting dementia.

That's not really fair. He did, for 30 or so years.

Obama should start running this in his ads

Either way, to me it looks like more evidence towards the whole "taking a dive" theory.

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I thought the weirdest part of the Clint thing was when he "reprimanded" Obama for starting the war in Afghanistan.

Then everyone laughed and applauded.

I was like

Not much for GOP ads, but this one was pretty good:

Hits home on a lot of frustration that college graduates feel in trying to get a job. Then again, it's better for college graduates than those who only go to high school. Something that the GOP doesn't seem to want to mention (remember [link]Santorum calling Obama "a snob" for claiming Obama said he wants everyone to go to college?[/link]). Ah well, ignoring the "war on education," the stats say that though unemployment for graduates isn't good, it's about three times worse for those who skip college.


And things do get better, as it's not mentioning that among those with high school degrees or less and over the age of 25, the unemployment rate is between 8.7 and 12.7%, while those with some college or a degree is between 4.1 and 7.1%.

Edited, Aug 31st 2012 12:27pm by LockeColeMA

Well to be fair to the older generation, if you take out a 2nd mortgage to send your kid to college and then your house loses 35% of it's value, you probably can't afford to retire when you'd like to anymore.

LOL@Breitbart
People making fun of Eastwood's awesome speech are just mad that he's not backing Obama!

That article says 30 million people watched last night. That would be about 10 million more than who watched Ryan's speech. Interesting.

Edited, Aug 31st 2012 11:47am by Jophiel

I liked Clint's speech, just puttin that out there.

Edited, Aug 31st 2012 2:27pm by Timelordwho

Sometimes the CNN comments section is worth reading in political articles, just for things like these:





I'm a bad person for laughing

Edited, Aug 31st 2012 2:36pm by LockeColeMA

Fixed your tense since he's dead.

Ah ah ah. Ghost writing.

I suppose I could have said "Do you write for Breitbart.com?" but I thought common sense and context would prevail. That'll learn me

I missed his speech last night (contrary to popular belief, I don't actually sit at home glued to the screen watching stuff like this). But from the clips I've seen, that's the way the man talks. You have seen him give speeches and interviews sometime in the last decade or so, right? As to the content, again, I haven't seen the whole thing, but the "empty chair" bit was pretty darn funny. And right on target.

You've only seen bits and pieces of it? Did you see it somewhere where they deliberately took it out of context, or did you decide to arbitrarily skip around and watch 2:16-3:45 and 5:33-6:07 on your own?

I understood it, it just looks kinda weird. Like if you said "Huffington wrote" instead of "Huffpo wrote." I blame the lack of creativity in the website's name.

You only needed to see the faces of Mrs Romney and Ryan to know that Clint had stepped off into lalaland.

The campaign was doing damage control before he was off the stage, saying that his appearance wasn't intended to be a speech but rather just something to... uh... fill time in an otherwise cramped and abbreviated schedule, I guess.

Which movie is that? I know he was filming one about some scouting agent in Georgia, that was incidentally filmed in one of my favorite bars (The Globe.)

For the movie, they transformed it from an English style pub with grad students and professors and soccer fans over to a blues bar. I'm still scratching my head over that one.

Not really. It's all about the indie bands here, and most music venues reflect that. The Globe does have a stage, but it's on the second floor and surrounded by couches mostly.

Edit: Found it on their FB timeline, it was filmed back in March. Shut down the bar for several days. I suppose Eastwood or whoever picked the place liked the atmosphere; it's all gritty and pubby with dark wood furniture and a lovely copper bar, and the original windows from the 1940s when it was a department store flooding it with light during the day. (I think it was a house at one point too.)

Edited, Sep 1st 2012 5:15pm by catwho

Muslim Obama! Homebrewing terrorism.... or beer?