I think one of the most basic signs of a 21st century leader is the ability to listen to and acknowledge the needs of another person, whether they agree with that person or not. To acknowledge difference, not avoid it....
I have been in a situation as a long term carer giver for someone who needed marijuana during simultaneous chemotherapy and anti-retroviral therapy. It really helps to have an inside perspective of being with someone whose nausea is so bad that when they retch you think they are going to throw up their lungs; to have lots of lovingly prepared meals projectile vomited and to be present when they are enduring spinal pain that most of us cant even imagine - and the only thing that takes the edge off it is marijuana. To criminalise pain relief?
This video illustrates a leader without compassion, one who knowingly deletes information that does not align with his internal model of his self-perceived minute to minute interests, a simulacra, revealed by a dying man in a wheelchair who pulls the curtain back and reveals..
Leader of The Great Teeth
I hope this video gets more plays and mashups than Nyancat. I wish that he learns compassion for the dying.
Please feel free to pass it around relentlessly.
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Right on. That's an old video. More recently a Students For Sensible Drug Policy activist named Irina Alexander followed the GOP candidates around New Hampshire asking them about drug policy. She says Romney was the most elusive of all. Here's the ten seconds she got with him: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79kEY1It ... r_embedded
Meanwhile, it's been a nice sideshow that Gingrich and Perry have been attacking Romney's record at Bain Capitol, which has drawn attention the nature of evil vulture capitalist entities like Bain, that are fundamental to the system... drawing hard-line defense of Bain and attacks on Gingrich and Perry from elements of the ruling class like the Wall Street Journal, which said that Gingrich and Perry were "sounding like Michael Moore." Gingrich apologized for "crossing the line," but any attention to the actual nature of the Bain Capitols of the world has to be seen as a good thing. Pundits, of course, are saying it'll help Obama because the negative advertising has already been done.
In conclusion- fuck Mitt Romney. I don't think I've ever seen a more fake human being, and we're in an ocean of fakeness. Must be the Mormon thing.
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I bet there's a direct link between how much money Romney and other candidates get from pharmaceutical companies and their stance on medical marijuana. That's why he was pushing the synthetic crap.
One of the controversies that has plagued Premiere Radio Networks in recent years has been the uproar over their use of paid actors to call in to their radio shows.
The following comes from Wikipedia.... Clear Channel, through its subsidiary, Premiere Radio Networks, auditions and hires actors to call in to talk radio shows and pose as listeners in order to provide shows, carried by Clear Channel and other broadcasters, with planned content in the form of stories and opinions. The custom caller service provided by Premiere Radio ensures its clients they won't hear the same actor's voice for at least two months in order to appear authentic to listeners who might otherwise catch on. So perhaps that explains where some of the "Romney callers" come from.
Only people that can pay for actors to pump them up are qualified to run for high office.
All these things will continue as long as coercion remains a central element of our mentality.
Whereas the subject line of this thread is a wholly appropriate and widely shared sentiment, no doubt, we do actually have a prohibition against the language of it in the posting guidelines:
Jeff wrote:Please refrain from obscenity in the subject line. (I'm talking Carlin's seven words here.)
Perhaps we could change it to something like "&$!@ Mitt Romney", or "Mitt Romney is a Big Ol' Doodie-Pants", so as to avoid upsetting the more delicately constituted sensibilities in attendance, such as my own.
In any case, here's a wonderful take on the Newt/Mitt rivalry a-brewing down in South Carolina from Richard Metzger:
Political junkies alert: If you haven’t seen Newt Gingrich’s epic 27-minute-long violent disembowelment of Mitt Romney, When Mitt Romney Came to Town, holy shit will it will take your breath away!
I mean… WOW. I can only imagine the look on Romney’s face when he saw this puppy. He probably broke down and cried! This shit is hardcore. Reagan’s Eleventh Commandment has been repealed.
Rating the political damage this film does to Romney on a scale of one to ten with one being merely annoying and ten being castrated and then having your balls shoved down your throat for the whole world to see? When Mitt Romney Came to Town is probably an eleven or twelve. Think I’m exaggerating? See for yourself!
This has to be the single meanest, most vicious political hit piece ever made. It’s a cold, cruel masterpiece of character assassination.
It makes the worst things Lee Atwater did in his career look warm and cuddly in comparison. “Willie Horton”? That’s amateur hour compared to When Mitt Romney Came to Town.
I suppose it’s a bit disingenuous to call it “Newt’s” film because he was just the highest bidder. The film was also offered to the other campaigns—they all had their chances—but it was Gingrich, or rather the “Winning Our Future” Super PAC supporting him, that allowed Gingrich to be the one to get all Ed Gein on Romney’s ass and deliver the axe to his head.
When Mitt Romney Came to Town was directed by Jason Killian Meath, an associate of Romney’s during the 2008 Republican primary who made ads that year that were pro-Mittens. He must have seen something in Romney that he didn’t like, or maybe not. Maybe When Mitt Romney Came to Town was simply a way for Meath to cynically sell his services to the highest bidder and enrich himself personally at Romney’s expense. Loyalties can be very flexible in Washington. The film looks like it cost no more than $50k to make, but surely Jason Killian Meath was well-compensated for this expert hit. The film’s all-out annihilation of its target positions Meath nicely as the “Scaramanga” of political operatives. In the future pols from both parties will be clamoring for his services. Why hire anyone but the very best? No one else comes even close to this guy’s mad satanic skillz! He’ll burn your opponent to the fucking ground.
Truly I don’t see how Romney will be able to counter this. It’s like the box that rips your face off in Hellraiser.
The thing is, When Mitt Romney Came to Town inadvertently goes to great lengths to expose the moral and intellectual bankruptcy at the heart of today’s Tea party-led GOP: Free market Capitalism, seen in the human form of Mitt Romney and the rest of his mega-rich cronies at Bain Capital, are such hideous and loathsome creatures that the unavoidable “takeaway”—even for conservative viewers, I should point out—is that Capitalism is an evil system rigged to benefit the people at the top of the food chain and fuck over anyone who gets in their way.
The rest of us are just their food. When Mitt Romney Came to Town makes that very, very clear… even for the most dumbshit Republicans. Freedom? You think you’re free? You’re free to lose your house, health insurance and starve is what you’re free to do, according to the message of this film. It’s called “creative destruction” and Mitt Romney will tell you all about it. It’s how he made his vast fortune: from the misery of hardworking Americans. The next time you hear some asshole going on about impersonal market forces and all that blather, show them When Mitt Romney Came to Town—this is an impersonal market force that has a first name, a last name, a social security number and a street address, albeit one that’s probably behind a big gate with security guards.
But it’s not just Mitt Romney’s mouth that this film pisses in. When Mitt Romney Came to Town dramatically and clearly indicts the entire way BUSINESS is done in America. The film is of a set with anything that Michael Moore has ever done and seems far more in tune with the Occupy Wall Street movement than anything we’d normally associate with Republicans. Who wrote the voice over script, Trotsky? Yes, I mean to tell you that When Mitt Romney Came to Town is that much of a wildcard to throw into the GOP primary. Even Ron Paul might have his doubts about the free market after viewing this one.
Ultimately, though, I don’t think this film benefits Newt Gingrich in any way. It utterly destroys Mitt Romney, true, it absolutely skullfucks him and leaves him bleeding from his anus and shivering on the ground in a fetal position, but you’d have to be an absolute idiot if the only question you had when When Mitt Romney Came to Town is over was which one of the other Republicans you were going to vote for!
barracuda wrote:Whereas the subject line of this thread is a wholly appropriate and widely shared sentiment, no doubt, we do actually have a prohibition against the language of it in the posting guidelines:
Jeff wrote:Please refrain from obscenity in the subject line. (I'm talking Carlin's seven words here.)
Perhaps we could change it to something like "&$!@ Mitt Romney", or "Mitt Romney is a Big Ol' Doodie-Pants", so as to avoid upsetting the more delicately constituted sensibilities in attendance, such as my own.
It's only fair to change the titles of the EFF Obama and EFF Ron Paul threads while we're at it. Preserves continuity.
How about ,"Mitt Romney is a dispassionate pig"? Or, "Mitt Romney spits on sick and dying people."
I'm cool with this rule, btw. Those words don't have the power they used to at this point, and they generally achieve the opposite of their intended effect. They should be reserved for instances like when I cut my finger a couple weeks ago and screamed out F**********!!!
Ultimately, though, I don’t think this film benefits Newt Gingrich in any way.
I don't know, it frightens me. These people are hell bent on power and the anger that has given rise to OWS is sitting out there like a vast, untapped oil deposit. They're slavering over it. They'll try to get at it even if they have to twist themselves into some barely recognizable form of republican. Plenty of people are stupid enough to miss the message about capitalism, or the inevitable hypocrisy in whatever free market strategy Newt is forced to introduce as an antidote to the free market.
Well young man, you've made a compelling case, but we both know that big pharma would immediately pull the plug on my campaign funding if I admitted that on camera, so how about if we just agree on FUCK YOU? How's that?
"Arrogance is experiential and environmental in cause. Human experience can make and unmake arrogance. Ours is about to get unmade."
Well, I'm not surprised that Big Pharma contributes lots to Mitt the Meanie's campaign. But they contribute even more to Obombya. Here's why Obombya keeps raiding medical marijuana clinics and why the GOP Primaries is just another season of Bread and Circuses.
Top Recipients, 2011-2012
Candidate Office Amount Obama, Barack (D) $268,715 Hatch, Orrin G (R-UT) Senate $181,377 Romney, Mitt (R) $171,750 Brown, Scott P (R-MA) Senate $118,900 Upton, Fred (R-MI) House $110,575
Following a watch of the video "When Mitt Romney came to town" , I thought an up-the-ante on Fuck Mitt was required. Those four letters were not sufficient.
He is, frankly, like Dan Akroyd's Louis Winthorpe III from the movie Trading Places
Somewhere, in the background, a couple of elderly gentlemen have wagered a $1 that they can turn him from President to homeless bum in 18 months...
