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"The Economist" Endorses Obama For President

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And for a second there we thought financial publications were supposed to at least pretend they are impartial. It appears that is not the case. Now we eagerly await to learn whom Playboy, the National Enquirer, and TMZ endorse...

From the Economist:

Our American endorsement

 

Which one?

 

America could do better than Barack Obama; sadly, Mitt Romney does not fit the bill

 

FOUR years ago, The Economist endorsed Barack Obama for the White House with enthusiasm. So did millions of voters. Next week Americans will trudge to the polls far less hopefully. So (in spirit at least) will this London-based newspaper. Having endured a miserably negative campaign, the world’s most powerful country now has a much more difficult decision to make than it faced four years ago.

 

That is in large part because of the woeful nature of Mr Obama’s campaign. A man who once personified hope and centrism set a new low by unleashing attacks on Mitt Romney even before the first Republican primary. Yet elections are about choosing somebody to run a country. And this choice turns on two questions: how good a president has Mr Obama been, especially on the main issues of the economy and foreign policy? And can America really trust the ever-changing Mitt Romney to do a better job? On that basis, the Democrat narrowly deserves to be re-elected.

 

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The devil we know

 

We very much hope that whichever of these men wins office will prove our pessimism wrong. Once in the White House, maybe the Romney of the mind will become reality, cracking bipartisan deals to reshape American government, with his vice-president keeping the headbangers in the Republican Party in line. A re-elected President Obama might learn from his mistakes, clean up the White House, listen to the odd businessman and secure a legacy happier than the one he would leave after a single term. Both men have it in them to be their better selves; but the sad fact is that neither candidate has campaigned as if that is his plan.

 

As a result, this election offers American voters an unedifying choice. Many of The Economist’s readers, especially those who run businesses in America, may well conclude that nothing could be worse than another four years of Mr Obama. We beg to differ. For all his businesslike intentions, Mr Romney has an economic plan that works only if you don’t believe most of what he says. That is not a convincing pitch for a chief executive. And for all his shortcomings, Mr Obama has dragged America’s economy back from the brink of disaster, and has made a decent fist of foreign policy. So this newspaper would stick with the devil it knows, and re-elect him.

Full article here.

And here is whom The Economist has endorsed in the past, just for a few extra giggles:

  • 1980: Ronald Reagan, Republican Party, "That, perhaps, is the most pressing reason why so many of America's friends want, unusually in a presidential election, to see a change at the top, even one laden with risk. We agree with them."
  • 1984: No endorsement
  • 1988: No endorsement, "Oh dear!"
  • 1992: Bill Clinton, Democratic Party, "Despite the risks, the possibilities are worth pursuing. Our choice falls on him."
  • 1996: Bob Dole, Republican Party, "We choose him on the assumption that the real Bob Dole is the one who spent three decades on Capitol Hill, not this year's dubious character; that he would be more prudent than his economic plan implies. That is an awkward basis for an endorsement. But the choice is a lousy one."
  • 2000: George W. Bush, Republican Party, after John McCain was defeated in the Republican primaries. At the time, the newspaper hoped George W. Bush could transcend partisanship, but now the newspaper describes him as the "partisan-in-chief."
  • 2004: John Kerry, Democratic Party, “The incompetent George W. Bush or the incoherent John Kerry”
  • 2008: Barack Obama, Democratic Party, "He has campaigned with more style, intelligence and discipline than his opponent. Whether he can fulfil his immense potential remains to be seen. But Mr Obama deserves the presidency."
  • 2012: Barack Obama, Democratic Party, "Mr Obama has dragged America’s economy back from the brink of disaster, and has made a decent fist of foreign policy. So this newspaper would stick with the devil it knows, and re-elect him.
 

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Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:24 | 2937775 slaughterer
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What do they know?

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:26 | 2937779 PrintingPress
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How to print up hope and change!  Sit n spin BITCHEZ!

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:36 | 2937818 Zer0head
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The Economist, if it had a vote, would choose George W. Bush. It prefers his small government, pro-market philosophy.

 

http://www.economist.com/node/415334?story_id=415334  (endorsement at end of article)

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:40 | 2937841 topspinslicer
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you gotta have a PhD to say "to restrain the social illiberalism and occasional isolationism of other Republicans, the best outcome would be a divided one"

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 13:07 | 2937922 hedgeless_horseman
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"I don't care who does the electing,
so long as I get to do the nominating."

 

-Boss Tweed

Circa 1860

 

 

 

 

 

"VOTE OBAMNEY"

 

-The Fourth Estate

Circa 2012

 

 

 

 

 "Divide et impera."

 

-Caesar
Circa 44 B.C.

 

 

 

  

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 13:07 | 2937955 HoofHearted
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Holy fucking shit! They ASSume the only alternative to that bastard Obama is that other bastard Romney. Look up from your Prozac you assholes. Why did I ever buy a subscription to this rag?

Just voted for Gary Johnson in early voting this morning. Now thinking about voting the Economist off my list, except nobody else in the US actually covers the globe. Fuck it, I've got Lauren Lyster, Max Keiser, and RT. Goodbye, Economist.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 13:16 | 2937991 Skateboarder
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You forgot ZH. I trust the Economist as much as I do the BLS data...

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 13:35 | 2938075 Precious
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If you don't think Obama is the biggest cocksucker on the planet, think again.

http://www.atr.org/new-obamacare-tax-form-mandates-americans-a7285

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 13:38 | 2938097 Dr. Richard Head
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Just in case anyone was wondering, Playboy has pretty explicitly endorsed Obama based on this article - http://www.businessinsider.com/playboy-romney-sex-life-women-2012-10.

I was able to get on with the Playboy morning show regarding this issue on my travels back from a key account call and express my displeasure with the recent court ruling that lap dances aren't protected as free speech any more.  Sooo sad and sooo important.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 13:45 | 2938115 Precious
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The Feds got a good grip on your balls now, Obamacare bitch.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 13:54 | 2938149 Dr. Richard Head
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Apparently there was a misunderstanding.  I was simply showing what Playboy did.  I am not voting for anyone this election.  I will grib my own balls during that day instead.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 14:03 | 2938184 notbot
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Canceling my subscription in 3...2...1...

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 14:15 | 2938224 knukles
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Mine is expiring.

Wrote a letter on site when Teddy Kennedy died.
Was terribly polite, respectful and mature stating that if he'd not had 2 murdered brothers he'd have been relegated to the pile of drunken senators and may have even been held responsible for Mary Jo Kopkne.

Gets published on the web site as were many others of that ilk, probably by a 10 to 1 margin not loving Teddy Boy

Hours later I get an e-mail from Economist telling me that I'd breached the postings protocols and if I ever did it again my right to post would be withdrawn.
So I read the rules.
Violated none, period, naught, end of conversation and went back to the site.  All of the ones that had not (as in MOST) outright Lauded and Praised the Drunken Buffoon, Lion of the Senate, had been removed.  A bazillion wondrous praises worthy of Sister Theresa had magically appeared.

Fuck The Economist
Organ of the NWO
Friend indeed of Krugman, Obey and the NYT

Censorship deluxe

Bunch a bad people.
Evil people
Propagandists connected to Tavistock, etc.

May they die slowly in an Ebola induced sloughing of innards and bleeding from every orifice or some other Biblical like heinous demise..

 

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 14:27 | 2938290 macholatte
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whoever has the best hackers will win !!!!!
 
 

It only takes $26 to hack a voting machine

 
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44706301/ns/technology_and_science-security/t/it-only-takes-hack-voting-machine/

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 14:10 | 2938212 dracos_ghost
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What the fuck is the point of a "Playboy radio morning show". 

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 15:37 | 2938579 knukles
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I only look at the pictures for the sound.

uhhh um uhhhh 

 

ha ha ha haaaa

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 23:09 | 2939914 Cathartes Aura
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from Dr. Head's link:

In a speech, Romney told voters he would  "make sure that every new computer sold in this country after I’m president has installed on it a filter to block all pornography." He also plans to up anti-obscenity laws.

ahhahahhahh, that'll work.

as will this gem:

"The 2012 Republican Party platform calls for a U.S. constitutional amendment to ban abortion even in cases of incest, rape and threat to the life of the mother," Cohen writes.

the last gasp of a dying grip on people's sovereign rights, eh guys?  right?


Thu, 11/01/2012 - 13:22 | 2937992 Skateboarder
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Duplicate...

Enjoy Fat Freddy's Drop instead.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 13:35 | 2938070 Precious
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<- Obama Sucks

<- Romney Sucks

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 14:02 | 2938120 hedgeless_horseman
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Yes.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 14:17 | 2938244 Induced Coma
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A false dichotomy or false dilemma

 

http://www.philosophy-index.com/logic/fallacies/false-dilemma.php

 

 

IC

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 23:01 | 2939896 Cathartes Aura
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The Economist has a stellar record of attending Bilderberg meetings, act accordingly. . .

What the Economist shrugs off as their editor “sometimes attending” Bilderberg Meetings is, in actuality, a nearly consistent record of attendance for the last thirty years.  At least eight members of the staff of the Economist have attended more than thirty meetings since 1978.  In fact, at least one representative of the Economist has attended nearly every Bilderberg Meeting since 1978, with the exception of those meetings held in 1979 and 1997.  Andrew Knight, the magazine’s former editor, even acted as a member of the steering committee for a number of years.

http://publicintelligence.net/representatives-of-the-economist-magazine-...

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 13:08 | 2937960 -1Delta
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word.

 

Like either will actually do something different  anyways

 

both will kick the can until.... well it cant

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:40 | 2937843 redpill
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The Economist is a bunch of globalist assholes.  No wonder they liked Bush and Obama.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:41 | 2937848 ndotken
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I would trust what the true heroes in this video think before a liberal publication like The Economist.

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=3hMdCAGANiE&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D3h...

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:53 | 2937910 Manthong
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The Economist: Tool of the Collectivist Elite

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 13:27 | 2937993 BigJim
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 The publication belongs to The Economist Group, half of which is owned by Pearson PLC via Financial Times. A group of independent shareholders, including many members of the staff and the Rothschild banking family of England,[6]owns the rest. A board of trustees formally appoints the editor, who cannot be removed without its permission.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              - wikipedia 

It's pretty obvious why they're ardent Keynesians and inflationists

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 13:28 | 2938038 James_Cole
Thu, 11/01/2012 - 14:00 | 2938168 Skateboarder
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None of them look like real people.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 14:01 | 2938175 iDealMeat
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+1,  thx..   Deep rabbit hole indeed..

 

http://www.exor.com/?p=categorie&s=investimenti&lang=en

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 13:55 | 2938153 Sancho Ponzi
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Folks at The Economist are so bright that they reference George Bush Snr and George Bush Jnr in this chart:

http://media.economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/full-width/ima...

There is no George Bush Sr. or George Bush Jr. Their freaking middle names aren't the same.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 14:22 | 2938269 akak
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Actually, their middle names ARE the same: Herbert.  The only difference being that George Bush Sr. has an extra, fourth name, for some inexplicable reason.

For what it's worth, I ALWAYS refer to The Shrub as George Bush Jr.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 14:36 | 2938319 Sancho Ponzi
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From Behind the Name - "Junior is used to distinguish a son with the same name as his father. The following conditions apply:

  1. The Junior must be a son of the father, not a grandson.
  2. The names must be exactly the same, including the middle name(s).
  3. The father must still be living.
Thu, 11/01/2012 - 23:09 | 2939913 Jam Akin
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Obama "The Fronting Front Man" is doing the Globalist's bidding best.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:42 | 2937851 walküre
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George W. Bush and small government is an oxymoron.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:52 | 2937903 edb5s
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What about GWB and "humble foreign policy?"

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 13:23 | 2938021 hedgeless_horseman
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Whereas, "Obama foreign policy," is redundant.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:29 | 2937793 FL_Conservative
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You mean "The (Keynesian) Economist" endorsed BO????   What a stunner.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:36 | 2937821 hedgeless_horseman
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I wonder who NPR will endorse?

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 13:11 | 2937972 Skateboarder
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Terry Gross?

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:46 | 2937873 zebrasquid
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The Keynesian endorsed the Kenyan..

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 13:34 | 2938072 European American
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Actually, I was convinced not long ago that Barry was an afro, however, after watching "Dreams from my Real Father" by Joel Gilbert, I'm thinking he's from this country; born in Seattle though, instead of Hawaii. His father being Frank Davis Marshall. I felt Obama was a Fraud all along, but after watching this, with so many dots being connected in a convincing manner, now I'm sold on it. Watch if you can. For free on "Netflix" right now. Crazy world.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:32 | 2937800 SmallerGovNow2
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Economist endorsement was bought, probably by Warren Buffet...

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:39 | 2937834 Karl von Bahnhof
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Saving B.ShalomB. our boy in NYC and moneywash-ing-town

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:39 | 2937826 walküre
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Here's why Obama will win.

Unless voter turnout in the disaster stricken areas is at record low, the 2nd term is all but guaranteed.

America will vote for the lesser of two evils. Vote for the devil they think they know as opposed to the devil.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:59 | 2937930 john39
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ah, but either way, they are voting for the devil...

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 13:13 | 2937980 walküre
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There's no choice really. If you're not part of the 1%, you only get the crumbs. Political participation is not different in that regard. I'm finally understanding how democracy works. Forget everything you think you know or what you've learned about democracy.

Unless you are influential with money backing it up, you have no say. You are allowed to vote however.

The vote you have is always reduced to a personal decision between two guys and hoping that the one you vote for is going to fuck you less hard. The 1% is leeching off my hard work either way.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 16:47 | 2938816 Clowns on Acid
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Apologies - feckin dup post

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 16:46 | 2938837 Clowns on Acid
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yo walky - the hurricane area is largely in NY, CT, and NJ. All of which were already decided to be Obama electoral votes.

The MSM has been playing how great Obama handled the hurricane when in fact he has done nothing at all.

The jobs number tomorrow (massaged more than fat bastid with a $100 bill in Chinatown parlor) will be "very favorable".

All of this by the Stalinesque MSM while refusing to talk about ObamaCare, high unemployment, and of course....BENGHAZI !

Oh yeh....where is Jon Corzine ??

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:39 | 2937835 TBT or not TBT
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The Economist is no longer a a home for high end classical liberal thinking, since, I think eight or ten years ago.  

Their editorial line turned STATIST round about then, which was pretty much a decision to destroy the brand.   I'm sure the article titles and style book stayed somewhat the same, but sorry, the medium isn't the message, the message is is the message.    I pay attention to the lyrics, and so do most libertarian, freedom-agenda folk.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:43 | 2937854 dugorama
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Meantime they've raised the subscription price dramatically and tripled the number of subscribers.  Doing something right.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:52 | 2937907 CrimsonAvenger
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You can do that when you're willing to tell people what they want to hear.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 13:05 | 2937943 Clowns on Acid
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dug - yeh since Bill Clinton started to tout the Economist, elite leftists have used the Economist to tout Keynesian bullshiite with old time leftist crapola. They use it to spout irrelevant (or false) "facts" at their cocktail party circuit.

It is the socio -economic cheat sheet for the uninformed and the formed badly. They are so stupid as to think that quoting the Economist makes them look intelligent. 

I beat the intellectual crap out of these assholes on a daily basis. They always revert to screaming and yelling "Republican" or "Racist". Thats when I start laughing.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 14:01 | 2938174 docj
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Ah, I see you're also familiar with the debate style of your garden-variety leftist: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-11-01/economist-endorses-obama-presid...

Cheers -

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 18:05 | 2939071 TBT or not TBT
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Well, Time and Newsweek were getting thinner with each printing, about ten pages without the ads and pictures.   The Economist might have grabbed some off of them, with a careful excercise in psychographic mapping to position versus the various dying dead tree brands out there.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:52 | 2937905 flrzero
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I think they started down the path already in the 1990s. The got their feet wet with the endorsement of Clinton in 1992. I didn't realize that they endorsed John Kerry in 2004. That's beyond belief. Also in 2001 and 2005 they endorsed the Labor Party on their home turf. They only went back to the Tories after the party had been neutered and led by the limp, wet and pathetic socialist named David Cameron.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_editorial_stance#For_United_States_presidential_elections

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:48 | 2937886 Ruffcut
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I wonder who Fux news will endorse, too.

Can't for this shit to end, these assholes keep calling every hour. Next wednesday I'll being endorsing the beer party.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 13:03 | 2937939 SmallerGovNow2
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I like endorsing the beer party daily...

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 18:28 | 2939139 TBT or not TBT
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Well, one of the parties already is sort of the free beer party from your foggy memories of student body elections.    Basically if you look at what freedoms the R's like to promise vs what the D's like to promise, the D's are all about not working too much, free stuff, and hedonistic excess like fornicating every which way(*), doing drugs pretty freely, freedom FROM religion, and not being all tied up with comitments and responibilities.  

The R's want you to have economic freedoms and faith freedoms out the wazoo(and the responsibility and most of the risk that goes with those), but they're uptight about paying for the consequences of bareback fornication between people who have no particular commitment to eachother as to the consequences, about paying for the consequences of addictive, stupidity-inducing, and disease-causing drugs that aren't already legal, about butt sex between males, bareback or otherwise, and a fraction of them want people to at least know the foundations of western civilisation, including its moral and legal foundations, i.e. judeo christian and greco-roman  values with a good dose of Locke and Montesque and Jefferson and Smith and hey why not Ayn Rand and Orwell, and you CANNOT do this with going over, ah, Jesus, at least with pincers or black gloves on, with a clinical delivery and parents permission, but still.

Examples of hedonistic freedoms promised by the free beer party: 

Free contraceptives and morning after pills for 30 year old elite private law school students to allow them to screw bareback with people they don't like well enough to have a kid with but don't want to offend or be awkward with by asking them to bring a condom or two to wrap that rascal with.

Gay marriage.  

Sodomy generally speaking.  

Out of wedlock child rearing(heavily subsidized and praised).

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 23:25 | 2939960 Cathartes Aura
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so that link above that says Mittney wants to put a gate on every computer to limit PORN searches, and the Repubs want to Constitutionally limit any abortions, including in the case of rape or incest, that's a winner for their team?

would love a detailed explanation of how forced births from acts of violence won't impact folks economic freedoms, unless of course, those bay-bees won't need looking after by taxed-payers. . .

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 13:08 | 2937961 spankthebernank
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We are literally surrounded by bought and paid for media outlets.  That is why ZH works.  Thanks

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 14:36 | 2938320 machineh
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The Economist also famously endorsed the Bush/Blair invasion of Iraq, which cost a trillion dollars and tens of thousands of lives.

Fuck these statist twats. And for God's sake don't give them any money -- cancel your subscription today.

The MSM's loss is our gain! Crucify the presstitutes!

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 15:12 | 2938471 marathonman
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At the bottom of the page it says ZeroHedge/ABC Media, LTD.  Does that mean ZH is owned by ABC?  Never put blind faith in media.  Once it gets popular it will be purchased to attract eyeballs to advertising.  It will become a tool for propaganda dispersion.  ZeroHedge is nice, but don't think it can't or won't be co-opted.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 13:23 | 2938023 DCFusor
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You only have to watch a few seconds of bloomberg tv to know who they are pushing for.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 14:00 | 2938156 LMAOLORI
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Yup

Bloomberg Once Again Blows Bernanke (and by extension obama)

 

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 13:28 | 2938040 Gringo Viejo
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You mean "The Ecommunist"?

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 13:51 | 2938141 JeffB
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Good question.

I used to have some respect for the Economist, but if they're endorsing a President who has been such an absolute disaster on the economic front, that makes me think they're also absolutely cluess on economics. If that is true, their usefulness drops pretty close to nil.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 16:14 | 2938732 Antifaschistische
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Cancelled my subscription about 8 years ago when I reached my limit of pro-government propaganda.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:26 | 2937780 RacerX
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wow, really amazing. I think anyone that seriously analyzes this current administration, and thinks it deserves another term, should be put in the insane asylum.

all the current admin is, is chicago politics on a national scale.

there is definitely irony in "The Economist" supporting O though. Very poetic.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:40 | 2937837 Unprepared
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"wow, really amazing. I think anyone that seriously analyzes this current administration, and thinks it deserves another term, should be put in the insane asylum."

 

Help, I'm surrounded by crazies. Whome should I call?

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 13:28 | 2938037 Lohn Jocke
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Ghost Busters?

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 13:58 | 2938161 Panafrican Funk...
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"Whome should I call?"

A Mormon corporate raider, of course.  

I mean, shit, the bar was pretty fuckin' low on who would be the acceptable alternative to Obama.  It's almost like they intentionally chose this dipshit just to rub it in our collective faces that we are totally fucked.  I guess there's no longer a point to maintaining the illusion of the "shining city on a hill" when they've effectively consolidated all necessary power.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 14:12 | 2938220 exi1ed0ne
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I've actually started to wonder if the rational, thinking people who use logic to plot a course rather then rhetoric ARE the "crazy" ones.  What if the natural human condition is to believe in unicorns, pixie dust, and Goldilocks outcomes?  That the rational, logical people are some kind of random genetic anomaly, where the ones with less scruples claw their way to positions of power and the rest sit in wonderment at the "sheepleness" of those around them?

The world makes a lot more sense looking at it that way.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:47 | 2937878 Marley
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To further the irony, Strausian politics are from Chicago as well.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 13:24 | 2938024 YC2
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I think anyone who reads the above snippet and doesnt get past the first sentence after "Which One?" should not be allowed to comment.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:26 | 2937782 urbanelf
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In other news, economists break their own windows to improve lives.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:33 | 2937812 SmallerGovNow2
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And in yet other news look how often Ben Bernanke has been right...  sarc...

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 13:04 | 2937937 Liquid Courage
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That's rich. But haven't you noticed how it's always the breaking of other people's windows they crow about?

How great would it be if a mob showed up at the Krugman domicile and began to trash the place, while the earstwhile Mr. K was interviewed on camera and asked to explain what a great boon it was for the economy?

"Noooooooo! Not the Beemer! OK ... trash the RangeRover, but NOT THE BEEEEEEEMER!"

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:27 | 2937787 j0nx
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Denninger put up a new ticker today showing how difficult it is at this point for Romney to win and how it's starting to slip away. If old R has any dirt on O then he better spill it soon.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:32 | 2937805 Orly
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Well, a savvy political insider, Dick Morris, would certainly beg to differ.  He's sees a landslide looming and I can't say I disagree with him.  Courtesy Drudge:

http://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/dick-morris/264935-here-comes-the-...

:D

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:50 | 2937896 SmallerGovNow2
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And add Rove's call...

Prediction: Sometime after the cock crows on the morning of Nov. 7, Mitt Romney will be declared America's 45th president. Let's call it 51%-48%, with Mr. Romney carrying at least 279 Electoral College votes, probably more.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 14:12 | 2938223 tsx500
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i can see Mitt winning...here's why...and, up front, i admit this may be a bit 'simplistic' of me, but.... does anyone remember 'Chik-Fil-A Appreciation Day' back in early August ?  I do.  I drove by my local suburban-Chicago ChikFilA location at lunchtime  , and there were easily 200 people lined up outside the store , prepared to wait at least an hour(standing in uncomfortable 90' heat) to eat their lunch.  There are easily a dozen similar-quality restaurants within a mile radius of that ChikFilA that any of these people could've gone to instead.    This scene was apparently replicated at many if not most of all ChikFilA locations nationwide.   This was an opportunity for people to go out and say 'enough is enough' to those PTB who think they can urinate all over our First Amendment .    Oh by the way, when i went to the same ChikFilA location a couple weeks later for 'Kissey-Kissey Day' or whatever the eff it was called , guess what...it was business as usual.            So, are those people who came out on that hot 90' day to wait over an hour in line for a stupid chicken sandwich, gonna make another statement again this Tuesday ?    I believe so !   

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 23:35 | 2939991 Cathartes Aura
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pssh, those "traditional marriage" church folks are well-practised in standing wherever they're told, for however long they're told.

"The goal is simple," Huckabee wrote on the Facebook page for the event. "Let's affirm a business that operates on Christian principles and whose executives are willing to take a stand for the Godly values we espouse by simply showing up and eating at Chick Fil-A on Wednesday, August 1."

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/chick-fil-supporters-gather-apprecia...

even at a ChikkenFastFud place - it's a statement of True Believers from sea to shining sea. . . as the ship goes down. . .

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:53 | 2937908 yabyum
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Orly, Dick Morris is a toe sucking pervert and Drudge, dont get me started on that douche. They are only setting up for claims of fraud if Obame wins a tight one.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:59 | 2937927 Orly
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I am as much interested in Dick Morris' sexual conduct and orientation as I am in yours.  Drudge is only a news aggregator who leans to the right but the article was printed from The Hill.

Dick Morris and Karl Rove sure know much more about the political landscape than does Denninger who probably doesn't get out of his chair in Florida.

If you read the articles, the one linked by me and the one linked from WSJ from karl Rove, you would see that there are mathematical and anectodal reasons they believe what they believe.  It is not a matter of, "Oh, Dick Morris said Romey's gonna win, huh-huh!"  They lay out their reasons pretty well, if you would simply take the time.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 13:12 | 2937975 kaiserhoff
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Well said, Orly, but analysis requires reading all the way to the end of articles, and so many have the attention span of a knat.

Gawdhelpus.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 14:14 | 2938230 Panafrican Funk...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/08/is-dick-morris-worlds-worst-political-pundit

Worth taking the time to see both sides of the Dick Morris argument.  He's like Carville without the folksy "charm".  

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 14:17 | 2938247 Liquid Courage
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Yuk! Karl "Chairbound in Tampa" Denninger. You slay!

And Kaiserhoff: what's up with knat?

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 14:29 | 2938300 akak
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Ironically, Karl Denninger actually lives in Niceville, Florida --- although you would never know it by reading his bitter, hate-filled, illogical, anal sex-laced rantings.

As an aside, I used to participate in a relatively small online forum in which I strongly suspect Karl D. was a member as well, under an alias of course.  His arrogance, intolerance, and loathing for gold unmasked him, however.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 14:50 | 2938362 Liquid Courage
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Thanks ... I guess I should've looked that up 'cause now I can't even plead poetic license. It's all about the meter, so "Chairbound in Niceville" would've worked just as well (except no-one knows where the hell Niceville is).

I do recall KD's "feud" with Jim Willie a while back. Even in paying Willie a compliment, he had to play the nasty card by using the "even a crazy squirrel finds a nut now and then" line, which set JW off something fierce. That was a hoot while it lasted.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:55 | 2937919 SmoothCoolSmoke
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"a savvy political insider".  Too funny.  Morris is a Fox wing-nut who has had a hard-on for Clinton/all Dems for 10 years.  Morris was also "sure" McCain was in.....right up until the polls closed.

Sandy + econ news (real or not) = Romney's toast.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:34 | 2937814 bank guy in Brussels
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Denninger has poor political instincts, he thought he himself could start a political movement via his blog

Personally I think it's up to the US oligarchs with their black-box vote counting, and Soros' company counting votes

But for those who think the elections are real ...

Interesting piece on the Wall Street Journal site, tho written by US Repub political goon Karl Rove, but analysing poll data, and arguing credibly that Romney will win, including taking Ohio ...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020484630457809082022909604...

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:51 | 2937901 SmallerGovNow2
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Thanks for the post...  Rove's conclusion...

My prediction: Sometime after the cock crows on the morning of Nov. 7, Mitt Romney will be declared America's 45th president. Let's call it 51%-48%, with Mr. Romney carrying at least 279 Electoral College votes, probably more.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 13:32 | 2938063 NotApplicable
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To me the only question is how much of the previously Hopium-fueled youth will stay at home this time, as all other demographics are well polarized.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 13:36 | 2938083 Orly
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Clearly addressed in Rove's commentary:

"Democrats explain away those numbers by saying that they are turning out new young Ohio voters. But I asked Kelly Nallen, the American Crossroads data maven, about this. She points out that there are 12,612 GOP "millennials" (voters aged 18-29) who've voted early compared with 9,501 Democratic millennials."

Sometimes, math is just math.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:36 | 2937823 Hedgetard55
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Denninger is a douche who has fallen for the rigged polls. Lost a lot of respect for him today.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:49 | 2937894 Miss Expectations
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I read Karl's stuff for a long time, but have found he's wrong on some fundamental things:

1) That he looks better since he's lost weight.

2) Front loading washing machines

3) Fukushima

4) Gold

His ego, haircut and profane language are just too distracting. 

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:55 | 2937918 CrimsonAvenger
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Agree, especially on language. He's written some stuff I considered sending around, but since everything contains references to either anal sex and/or rape, I decided against it. Shame really.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 13:04 | 2937941 Orly
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Front-loading washing machines are horrible.  I'll never have another one.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 13:25 | 2938029 falak pema
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his haircut cannot match that of Trump-tower, his ego cannot equal that of Nettan-yahoo and his profane language is hardly as colourful as that of any army sergeant in Afgh. But maybe his cuckoo clock chimes every time his front loading washing machine blows its door wide open; now that is a distraction. Denninger is running wild as he falls out of dirty linen<.

Karl put your shorts on please before your expectations rise to dizzy heights.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:27 | 2937789 ShrNfr
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The Economist is only slightly left of the NYT. Once upon a time it was worth a subscription. I just let mine lapse after giving it another try. AGW, anti-gun, pro-statism, the whole nine yards.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:29 | 2937792 JohnFrodo
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The Economist relies on reason, reason favors the left.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:32 | 2937801 Gene Parmesan
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Keep on playing their game.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:43 | 2937858 francis_sawyer
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Economist = Rothschilds rag: nuff said...

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:32 | 2937804 RSBriggs
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One word:   Benghazi

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:44 | 2937861 TBT or not TBT
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Another word:  Alinsky.   And another:  statism.   

Forward! comarades.   I understand Obama has added the "!" to the 2008 slogan.    The Economist's readership must be flattered.    Maybe they are planning to go the same way as the NYT in terms of circulation, and so are going for the government bailout thing as their endgame.   Sol they are stroking the state in the direction of its fur.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:47 | 2937879 dugorama
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which means what?  that you think it matters that Romney didn't hear him announce it as an act of terroism in the rose garden 12 hours after the attack.  or that you think the Mossad did it and then mumble mumble mumble inside job?

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 18:40 | 2939179 TBT or not TBT
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The White House had excellent intel on what was happening on the ground, real time feed from a drone overhead, and despite requests from multiple military units ready to intervene to save those people, DENIED THEM HELP, which allowed the 7 hour battle to end the way it did.    C-130 gunships made for this type of close air support were available ready to intervene.  Multiple military folks requested permission to intervene but were ordered not to act.   The former SEALs defending the US TERRITORY there had an enemy mortar position designated with a laser and were calling in air support to take it out.    Instead the mortar shells kept raining down, thanks to orders from the White House.

The reasons the White House thought it better to let them die will come to light, and this will kill the second Obama administration, Nixon-style, because it is such a horrifying judgement call they made, and given the audacity of the coverup, with the theater about some Youtube movie VALIDATING the attackers's action.   The attackers were Al Qaida, the White House knew.   Now "we" are preparing to send the military, boots on the ground, into Mali to have at them, apparently.

 

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:44 | 2937864 Unprepared
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That's bullshit. A rational person cannot be on the left of every topic before even analysing it. Or on the right,

 

That's called a bias.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:45 | 2937867 MoneyShaman
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Liberals do reason, problem is their reasoning is never valid. Obama is easily the worst president in my lifetime, yet to a reasoning person, "at least he is trying". Hahaha very funny. Another reasoning person can conclude the guy is just a dummy. Which is valid?

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:47 | 2937881 dugorama
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worse than W?

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:54 | 2937913 MoneyShaman
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Well overall I have to say worse than W. WHy? Well because you would expect a president to do the opposite of what "didn't work" for the previous administration. Here we have Mr. Obama trying to reflate the housing bubble using the same trick as to why it went into a bubble. Bush's Keynesianism was not even critiqued by Mr. Obama, instead he reused it again. W could be seen as a guy who was simply foolish, because he was experimenting with tried ideas, as Obama who followed the same type of policy, yes you can assume Obama is worse than Bush. Not only did very similar things to Bush, but actually push the gas pedal higher than Bush. Obama is basically just another Bush. If man doesn't learn from his experience, what kind of animal is man really? One can only scratch head on that. Even God (if one exists) would be perplexed. Of course Obama, like Bush is just a politician. Politicians commit a common offense. They always dictate "what should be". THey propose policies that will do this, do that, & the result "should be this." Of course when man dictates "what should be", he is just preaching falsehood.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 13:33 | 2938067 ONO47
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"Well because you would expect a president to do the opposite of what "didn't Work" for the previous adminstration."

FDR became beloved for taking Hoover's horrible policies and put them on steriods. Those policies made a Depression into "The Great Depression" and the left still loves him.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 14:28 | 2938293 Panafrican Funk...
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"If man doesn't learn from his experience, what kind of animal is man really?"

Given that history keeps repeating itself, we can safely assume that we are essentially hairless monkeys.  

Consider:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSm7BcQHWXk

vs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU_PoZ5JQ_o

Carlin's thoughts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ6mCI3wpEk

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 14:31 | 2938307 ONO47
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I don't know. I'm one hairy MFer.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:49 | 2937892 dugorama
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worse than W?

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:45 | 2937869 Clowns on Acid
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Frodo - If you read the Economist endorsement you will see that they use false syllogisms. So your simplistic statement of "reason" is false.

"Print money, money buys things, therefore GDP will grow".

" Obama has done nothing except damage to US economy (see Unemployment rate, see Trillions of QE, see 900 odd, new Presidential decrees), therefore another 4 years (if maybe he listens to the odd businessman) will be good for the US.

Reason has always been the antithesis to the "Left".  The "Left" since FDR has never been liberal, if liberal is defined as having new ideas, that benefit society. The "Left" has been espousing old time, "feel good" policies since FDR that have failed as they have always donwe since the beginning of time.

 

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:48 | 2937887 docj
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You've obviously never had a disagreement, or engaged in a dispute, with a denizen of the left.

"Reason", however broadly defined, is not a common trait of their argumentative style.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 13:08 | 2937962 Orly
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"Whaddaya mean anthropogenic global warming is a fallacy and you can 'prove' it, too?  Oh, really? Yeah?  Shut up, you right-winged hack Nazi!  Why don't you go back to your 'coor-poorayshunn' and kill some more blacks and babies!"

You mean, that kind of reason?

:/

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 13:18 | 2937998 docj
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Throw-in some more name-calling, references to "beating my wife" and "authentic New Jersey dialogue", and you'd have it pretty much spot on.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 13:09 | 2937963 TeamDepends
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4 out of 5 Hitlers agree.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:28 | 2937790 flrzero
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Pathetic. I am not a big fan of Romney and already voted for Gary Johnson. But to endorse Obama.... This is from a publication that claims to be "classical liberal" in the non-American sense, e.g. soft libertarian. I think socialists have infiltrated the publication over the years. 

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:40 | 2937840 socalbeach
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I voted for Johnson also, and it looks like Obama is going to win the popular and electoral vote. Now we just need Obama's popular vote to be less than 50% to guarantee the 3rd party total is greater than Romney's margin of defeat. That might send a message to the Republican party establishment and make it easier for libertarians to gain more influence in the GOP.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:45 | 2937868 mercenaryomics
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I can't upvote this enough.  I live in VA but you're not entitled to my vote by being the lesser of two evils, if you wanted my vote you should have earned it. Its mine to give, and GJ earned it. 

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:57 | 2937921 flrzero
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My vote was also in Virginia. I want Romney to win to some degree. But my message to him and the Republican establishment is that you won't get it with quasi-Socialist Keynesian policies and out of control "homeland security" and defense spending.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 13:37 | 2938094 NotApplicable
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Ya know, somehow I doubt if he gives a single fuck what message you, or any other individual voter wants to send to him.

Statists, like their Keynesian brothers-in-arms, are only concerned with the aggregates.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 14:45 | 2938348 Shell Game
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If memeory serves we delivered that message in the early Tea Party movement, currently known as the Liberty Movement, not the current tea party.  They rebuked us and our message.  Voting for evil is still voting for evil....and, could be argued, is an evil act in itself.  Mesage to you:  they are not receiving our messages.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:42 | 2937852 bank guy in Brussels
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The Economist is now establishment shite, it is somewhat well-written in Brit English style, but there is little meaty  'news' in it, it is just establishment pablum, with a pretence at being 'sophisticated'

Shite to Support the Powers That Be

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:29 | 2937791 docj
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A re-elected President Obama might learn from his mistakes, clean up the White House, listen to the odd businessman and secure a legacy happier than the one he would leave after a single term.

Whatever one thinks of Romney (or RMoney), this is simply delusional. Is there anything, anything at all, we've seen in the last 4-years to provide evidence in support of this fantasy?

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:46 | 2937876 TeamDepends
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"Clean up the White House".  Thanks for the good belly laugh brother, we needed it.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:49 | 2937889 Unprepared
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The devil you know... has you under stockholm syndrome.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 13:09 | 2937951 Liquid Courage
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Yeah, and an oyster might win the Tour de France.

Could happen. Now that Lance is out of the running ... er ... pedalling.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 13:17 | 2937994 MoneyShaman
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Very atrocious logic. If the logic of endorsing Obama is that he will change his mind about free markets, I mean real free markets, not the politician version of free markets, by the same logic, you can endorse Romney because he might actually create a booming ever lasting economy. Obama did not even learn from Bush who had a 8 year term, who did stimulus spending on his first term, who had a inflated housing bubble with easy lending standards, and cheap money. The logic is woefully erroreneous, not even coherent at the same time.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:50 | 2937798 mercenaryomics
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For their endorsement I'm sure the National American Education Reform Act, "Obamalearn" will mandate all Americans subscribe to the economist, which the Supreme Court will uphold as a tax under the little-known "We make the rules, not you" clause of the constitution. 

edit: I think "We make the rules, not you, we're statists and here for life, nana nana boo-boo" is the official name of the clause. 

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:32 | 2937802 Slightly Insane
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I too used to subscribe to the Economist, until I realized that they were a bit more then left leaning.  I also came to understand that they are Keynesians.  If they only had a balanced view, (at least some Austrians), I would probably still have the subscription.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:47 | 2937880 TBT or not TBT
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It was not always so, if you go back a decade and more.   They used to hold low governement places like Hong Kong(pre handover) and it wasn't that long ago that they had a cover article claiming "The Future Is Texas".     The future still is Texas.   One way or the other the statists will lose, after a horrible collapse and war, or ideally, at the ballot box, starting next week.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 13:12 | 2937974 Orly
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"The future still is Texas."

I don't know.  I think it has run its course.  Too crowded, cops spying on you 24/7, government give-aways to foreign companies. So, if it's going to be the same as everywhere else, I may as well live somewhere pretty.  I'm moving back to Jersey.  Seriously.

:D

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 15:06 | 2938427 helping_friendl...
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Didn't New Orleans export all of their criminals to Houston after Katrina?

Then they tore the project housing down!

Brilliant strategy!

Isn't Texas, especially Galvaston over run with Eastern European Jewry?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galveston_Movement

Add to that the Bush clan and you have a place of darkest evil.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 15:31 | 2938542 Orly
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I don't know about any of that stuff and, frankly, the Jews can have Galveston.  Nice beach; if you like a four-foot strand of brown pebbles digging into the soles of your feet and seaweed/algae so thick you'd think you were swimming in coffee from a Bronx greasy spoon.

When the Katrina people came, many of them assimilated fairly quickly and soaked up a lot of empty jobs, which was okay because there were tons of them back in the day.  (Not so much any more, btw...)  The rogues and gang-bangers were put in their place fairly quickly by HPD because those boys don't mess around with those clowns, and if you've ever spent time in county jail in Texas, it ain't no picnic.  Since, most have gone back to their old drug-dealing gigs in the Crescent City, so the lingering effects are negligible.

What we have now are out-of-state license plates zooming down roads of strip-malls like they can't wait to get out of here.  Many from Jersey, PA, a few from Colorado.  My new neighbours across the street are from Oklahoma City and Wyoming- both oil and gas guys.  What used to be an outstanding school district will be mediocre at best in a few years because of the remedial teaching of so many people from out of state.

That's why I say that Texas has out-lived its usefulness to me.  My second child graduates high school this year and my first is out-of-state in college.

Not only that but the police, who so wisely cracked down on the thugs from N'awlins, are bored out of their minds and looking for someone to hassle. I feel like I'm being monitored every step I take and it kind of creeps me out.  It's getting to be just like the rest of the country, which is a damned shame.  I'll put up with bad allergies, no trees, scorching heat and cheap living as long as I were left alone to do my business and people drove friendly, the Texas way.  Those days are gone, I'm afraid, so I might as well go back to living where there are four seasons and trees and some semblance of an undulating landscape.

:D

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 19:58 | 2939380 helping_friendl...
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Damn shame.

I always heard Texas was the place to go if you wanted to be left alone.

The cops here, even the University Police, are vicious creeps jacked up on steroids. 

The first stimulus package after Lehman was taken out by GS was 100,000 new police to "protect and serve".

I can't even leave the house anymore.

Next week will get even more bizarre.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 23:46 | 2940019 Cathartes Aura
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realise that the police rule in a police state. . . there will be no getting away from the surveillance of a revenue starved force as they up the shakedowns, nationwide.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 18:46 | 2939199 TBT or not TBT
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Well, success does attract failures.   Lots of people moved to Texas because their careers could be better there, or they could have a better lifestyle, but they came in from FAIL states like NY, IL, CA,  and of course, NJ.     Too many of them continued voting Democrat, though.  Between them and the inner city dwellers who are dependent on government, every large city in TX except for Ft Worth votes D.    The suburbs and countryside vote R, of course.   So the rot is set in.   The syphilitic camel is well inside the tent.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 23:48 | 2940021 Cathartes Aura
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*cough*

just how long has Rick Perry been in office?

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 14:38 | 2938327 Panafrican Funk...
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"One way or the other the statists will lose... at the ballot box, starting next week."

Are you suggesting Romney isn't a statist?  Are you drunk?

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 18:56 | 2939237 TBT or not TBT
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I might well be drunk late on the 6th.   Of course Romney is a statist.   Of course he is, but he is a less worse one than Obama, by a long shot.   A very very long shot.   

I don't believe Romney is a "freedom agenda" guy for a second, and won't until I've seen him apply libertarian principles, core constitional values, over and over again against long odds, preaching them from the bully pulpit.,   He won't do that though.      He' an executive, has been an executive because he seeks power, wants to control things.   He's obviously untrustworthy, given how long and hard he has fought to be President, and given his creepy health care plan for MA.   He's bullshit on gun control too, I suspect.   And let's see what his Supreme Court appointments look like, if he gets in.  I doubt he will be less of a statist than Bush was, and Bush launched several stupid new federal perma-programs like the DHS and that new entitlement, and the Kennedy education bill.   We educated ourselves better when there was no federal education bureaucracy.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:32 | 2937806 PUD
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IT'S YOUR CIVIC DUTY TO VOTE FOR THE SMALLER LESS SMELLY POS

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:32 | 2937809 Cursive
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Four years ago they were enthusiastic about Obama?  And I'm supposed to take these people serious?  Holy....

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:33 | 2937813 Forbes
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Stopped reading the Economist years ago. Utterly irrelevent Eurosocialism--how's that worked out?

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:49 | 2937890 TBT or not TBT
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It wasn't always so.  They shifted their editorial line to statism some time in the last decade, and now this type of thing is par for the course.

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:41 | 2937815 Yen Cross
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Teh? Eflopomist...

  Somethings wrong here. The (€) isn't slammed up against the ceiling, by some invisible (ECB ghost) poltergeist...

These markets are horseshit. Let this f..king madness end!

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