The American election is turning into one of the great comedy moments in history. First there’s this, which is actual intended satire. It is Obama’s debating notes that he kept while at the podium:
But then there’s this, which is from a hilarious article in The Washington Post whose point is, after three pages of boredom, that if Romney is any good at managing, why doesn’t he have more money:
And if he is not a billionaire, doesn’t it suggest that he was not a great private-equity investor after all, thus torpedoing his claim to understand how to create jobs and get the economy back on track?
Something to keep in mind on Nov. 6.
Their idiocy knows no bounds.
Romney also had a set of notes: In the interest of equity and fairness, I should also attach Mitt Romney’s speaker’s notes.
[With thanks to JamesK in the comments]
Some on the Left have interpreted Romney’s handkerchief kept on the podium as a cheat sheet.
Here’s Romney’s likely crib notes:
Romney’s Cheat sheet for Obumma Debate
JamesK
7 Oct 12 at 11:46 am
Is Catalexy an Australian website? Is so little happening here that we need to obsess about which hairstyle is awarded the next ceremonial position of US President?
Paul
7 Oct 12 at 11:58 am
[...] Satire at its finest, some even intended at Catallaxy Files [...]
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7 Oct 12 at 12:01 pm
Wharever about the provenance of “Catalexy”, Paul is obviously one of those airheads who thinks it doesn’t matter who is POTUS.
Even worse he seem unaware that the US with a federal debt in excess of total annual GDP and other US government debt and unfunded liabilities 10 times that, is likely the US of A will implode as a world power.
That will certainly happen in the next 4 years with an Obumma presidency and a continued Dem controlled Senate.
It may even happen with Romney/Ryan but they at least recognise the danger and have plans to reverse the trend.
But ‘what danger?’ – asks dimwit Paul.
You must be the complete moron, Paul.
JamesK
7 Oct 12 at 12:07 pm
Another droning lefty banging on about how the US Presidency is controlled by dark forces…LOL
Yes there is “little” happening.
The NBN is way behind schedule and over costs.
The left believe they own women as serfs and can use them as pawns for character assassination.
The debt is blowing out, our civil liberties are being encroached, property rights are less safe and we have incompetent people in virtually every portfolio and in the last audit, we had one seaworthy naval vessel.
We spend about 30% of GDP on Government services for little gain from when we spent 17% on Government services and we waste over 100 bn in welfare churn.
Apart from that, nothing…
.
7 Oct 12 at 12:11 pm
“Is Catalexy an Australian website? Is so little happening here that we need to obsess about which hairstyle is awarded the next ceremonial position of US President?”
Paul, you can always go visit The Drum, or Crikey, where you can discuss such vitally important Australian issues such as ‘Does Tony Abbott have a problem with women?’ or, ‘Is Wayne Swan the Greatest Treasurer in the history of the known Universe, or only the Second Greatest after Paul Keating?’, or ….
Ahhh …. forget it …. your post is not worth responding to so I don’t know why I even bothered.
James P
7 Oct 12 at 12:24 pm
Paul, this is actually the top secret headquarters of the Tea Party. The Australian angle is a cover story.
Please don’t move away from your computer – the black helicopters have already been launched.
boy on a bike
7 Oct 12 at 12:27 pm
The US presidential election is a pretty big deal, and it’s less than a month away. A lot of us are following it and are interested in it. We’ll talk about subjects that are interesting to us, if you don’t mind, not subjects that you think we should focus on.
Anyway don’t worry, Gillard and Swan get plenty of a workout around here on a regular basis.
daddy dave
7 Oct 12 at 12:29 pm
If Bloomberg or the Wash Post wanted to really find out what Romney’s worth, why didn’t they commission an actual business writer, instead of this ignorant, leftwing idiot reciting anti-business Democrat talking points?:
Three web pages of venal speculation about what Mitt might be worth and jealousy about his wealth. Apparently the wealthy should be banned from politics because they’re too incorruptible, unlike clueless shitkickers in the Obama mould.
Tom
7 Oct 12 at 12:29 pm
if he’s not a billionaire, he mustn’t be a good businessman? Seriously, that’s a pretty fucking high bar they’ve set.
And this new meme they’ve got, “non-billionaires are losers”, really holds water. Doesn’t seem at face value like a line they really should run with.
daddy dave
7 Oct 12 at 12:32 pm
correction:
I don’t think this new meme they’ve got, “non-billionaires are losers”, really holds water.
FTFM
daddy dave
7 Oct 12 at 12:32 pm
I think the US Government should hand over authority to the Koch brothers and their cadre of freedom fighting academics from GMU and the Mises Institute.
That satisfies the WaPo qualification about 25 times over.
Didn’t Bambi live in the projects before he was shoed into the White House?
.
7 Oct 12 at 12:47 pm
Paul, you have to realise Steve Kates has been obessing about the presidential election for months. For an economist it’s strange that lately it’s all he seems to blog about. I understand he’s on the public payroll, which makes his posts even funnier.
SteveC
7 Oct 12 at 12:59 pm
JamesK:
Spot on.
This is Australia’s strategic nightmare scenario. It happened once before, for a few months in 1941-42.
if this happens again we – as a nation that lives or dies by maritime trade – would have no strategic choices left. Step one would be to ramp up military spending over a very brief period to at least 6.5% of GDP and most likely 10%. As a quite minor aside, that would include full conscription for males and females 18-21 (three years service) with no exemptions (Quakers and pacifists get the combat medic gig). Fortunately, there would be plenty of surplus US military equipment for sale cheap.
The second step would be going nuclear as fast as possible. Fortunately, the Japanese can do that within weeks, and again there would be plenty of US physicists and nuclear armament designers/technicians/engineers available for hire.
Those are the sort of strategic implications for this country of an implosion of the USA. pray it does not occur.
Mk50 of Brisbane
7 Oct 12 at 1:13 pm
We would also be well advised to acquire nukes.
C.L.
7 Oct 12 at 1:16 pm
Mk 50 we could go nuclear in a matter of days.
Pay money, get tomahawks, get compatible warheads for harpoons/tomahawks and generic US aircraft hard points.
It is all a matter of how much you pay I’m guessing.
“No, your F/A 18′s can’t drop a B-83 and your subs cannot fire a projectile with a nuke, it takes three years and 20 bn dollars…”
Oh come on. Why the fuck not?
.
7 Oct 12 at 1:30 pm
bureaucratic thinking. Everything at a premium cost.
dd
7 Oct 12 at 1:37 pm
I dare say Paul has a point.
Last 15 posts;
US politics ……………………….. 11
Alan Jones/Media/economy …..3
Movie reviews ………………………1
( I know,I know, If I don’t like it Fuck off!!!, but the
obsessionpattern is undeniable )jumpnmcar
7 Oct 12 at 1:46 pm
Those figures Jump has provided are probably skewed because of the extended absence of the Doom Lord whose posts are more local politics and economy focussed.
The real discussion, with a diverse spread of topics interspersed with amusing troll abuse, tends to be on the Open Threads
Megan
7 Oct 12 at 2:00 pm
I want to see some absolutely SLAM the NBN.
I have done one guest post here on super being a commie plot, and the research took forever and I stumbled upon it.
.
7 Oct 12 at 2:01 pm
Dumbest ad evah.
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/10/05/gary-johnsons-dumbest-campain-ad-ever/
Gab
7 Oct 12 at 2:06 pm
Megan, correct on both points.
jumpnmcar
7 Oct 12 at 2:18 pm
I don’t even know what this is supposed to mean.
I think jumpnmcar means the preceding comments on this thread to his own.
If not please ignore my subsequent comments.
This post is on the reaction to the first US presidential debate.
So it would be astonishing if the subsequent comments were on domestic politics
Moreover Steve Kates also had a thread on this debate which was sorta live commented on by Catellaxians with great glee and excitement.
Hardly any other thread received a comment during those 90 minutes
Quite frankly I think jumpnmcar is as equally deranged as Paul if not quite as ideologically nutty
JamesK
7 Oct 12 at 2:27 pm
[...] Satire at its finest, some even intended [...]
debate notes … released | pindanpost
7 Oct 12 at 2:28 pm
Actually upon reflection maybe jumpnmcar mistook Promises,Promises as a movie review, in which case he was talking about the posts.
But again most are minor updates by Steve Kates on the follow up to the debate post which was near live blogged by commenters here.
Most are not essays.
JamesK
7 Oct 12 at 2:36 pm
Paul must be a paultard. Unless it’s Herr Doktor running as the nominee then the election may just be another episode of Whose Line Is it Anyway where it doesn’t matter who wins.
Alex Pundit
7 Oct 12 at 2:45 pm
Independent commentator Charles Krauthammer on the struggling Obama:
“He isn’t half as intelligent as he thinks he is.”
Video.
C.L.
7 Oct 12 at 2:49 pm
JamesK
If you look on the right hand side of this very page you will see ” Recent Posts ” and ” Recent Comments”
That’s how I go about telling the difference.
Look, I’m not trying to make a big deal of this, but the “Open Forum ” goes 1000+ comments, why not this “topic”?
Quite honestly I can only remember 1 of Pauls comments and quite frankly your following comment was ridiculous .
WTF is that crap?
jumpnmcar
7 Oct 12 at 3:01 pm
I’ll answer the last first.
If you don’t appreciate that the US as a world power is likely to implode you must (like Paul) have a vacuous space between your ears.
As I made perfectly clear I tried to work out what you meant by looking at the blog posts and comments and I couldn’t.
Your acknowledgment of the usual 1000 comments on the OT is apropos of nothing.
Which rather begs the question.
Paul is a woefully superficial airhead and if you agree with him that says much about you and nothing about Steve Kates’ thoughts whilst overseas on his intermittent posts following up his 270 comment post on the which Catallaxians live blogged their thoughts on a 90 minute debate.
I’ll double down on my point: your comment was an inanity – just like Paul’s
JamesK
7 Oct 12 at 3:14 pm
From bottom to top
Never said that.
Never said they don’t.
No he didn’t.
He never said that either.
Your a friken loon with voices in ya head.
I’ll satisfy ya here though;
Will do fruitloop.
jumpnmcar
7 Oct 12 at 3:55 pm
Political satire the ambrosia of all cultures and all ages!!
blind freddy
7 Oct 12 at 4:04 pm
Kates has a pattern, no doubt about it. Read Drudge, Powerline or Steyn; cut, paste; repeat ad nauseum.
Come back Doom Lord, all is forgiven!
Alternately, I’m still available to write an OP. You know it makes sense.
m0nty
7 Oct 12 at 4:10 pm
Perhaps on who exactly elects our Prime Minister?
jumpnmcar
7 Oct 12 at 4:29 pm
Your responses above were to strawmen jumpnmcar.
You are manifestly a moral and intellectual lightweight quite incapable of rebuttal or counter-argument.
Your original comment was meaningless drivel and the subsequent efforts have been even worse.
JamesK
7 Oct 12 at 4:38 pm
A forties-vintage Skyraider can drop a nuke. All it takes is to ensure that the proper security/arming wiring is installed, and that the pilot has been trained to fly the appropriate delivery manoeuvre (whether toss, laydown, ‘over the shoulder’ or what have you). But getting the arming and detonation bits right is absolutely crucial – you don’t want it going off prematurely.
perturbed
7 Oct 12 at 7:07 pm
Kates has a pattern
Yes, the right enemies.
dover_beach
7 Oct 12 at 7:33 pm
In breaking news, another corner of Catallaxy’s right-wing echo chamber – namely the ABC Insiders programme – also gave airtime to this non-issue of the US presidential debate this morning.
We all knew that the debate was done without teleprompters, but those arch-conservative Insiders nut-jobs stressed the point that the Obama campaign had asked for teleprompters, but the debate commission had refused.
BreitbartTV has a great voxpop of Dems’ reaction to this infringement of Obama’s inalienable right to an electronic stage-whisperer.
Two interesting aspects of the comments: none of the interviewees seem to think there would be any value in a debate without prompters; and one says prompting is justified because one can’t be expected to “memorise” a 90-minute debate.
David Brewer
7 Oct 12 at 8:37 pm
The US owes 16 Trillion dollars? Can’t get my head around that number. Whoever they owe it to have a really big problem.
face ache
7 Oct 12 at 9:00 pm
it wasn’t really a vox pop David.
They were the country’s elite youth from University of Madison (from memory).
It was saturatingly depressing for that reason.
What hope the future with university educated leftist drones like these nearly all apparently quite incapable of expecting or producing an independent thought.
JamesK
7 Oct 12 at 9:33 pm
Correct face ache.
You have the ken on gold now that you understand.
Use that insight wisely.
Alfonso
8 Oct 12 at 5:58 am