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johnnyfog Actual Wrestling Legend from the Zocalo Since: Apr, 2010 Relationship Status: They can't hide forever. We've got satellites.
Actual Wrestling Legend
#34476: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:53:17 PM

Both candidates can agree on this: We must keep up our bellicose, bloodthirsty front despite all evidence that we're broke, busted, and a total joke of a nation.

Everyone else has turned this off — everyone cool anyway, and I am nothing if not conformist! (heat up TNG dvd)

I'm a skeptical squirrel
GearLeader from Dota Hell Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#34478: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:53:32 PM

"We brought the Iranian economy to the brink of collapse with sanctions over a nuclear program that it has every right to, this is a good thing and needs to continue"

Wait which one said this?

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#34479: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:53:37 PM

The US has enough carriers to project their power pretty much anywhere.

[up]I think Wicked was speaking hypothetically.

edited 22nd Oct '12 6:55:28 PM by Rationalinsanity

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#34480: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:53:57 PM

Bush senior.

Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016
darksidevoid Anti-Gnosis Weapon from The Frontiers (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Robosexual
Anti-Gnosis Weapon
#34481: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:54:28 PM

This so-called "Apology tour" didn't happen. Practically every professional organization of journalism has debunked that, except Fox News.

GM: AGOG S4 & F/WC RP; Co-GM: TABA, SOTR, UUA RP; Sub-GM: TTS RP. I have brought peace, freedom, justice, and security to my new Empire.
LostAnarchist Violence Is Necessary! from Neo Arcadia Itself Since: Sep, 2011
Violence Is Necessary!
#34482: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:54:44 PM

@Kostya

That's what I'm asking at this point...

@Rational

Oh... Okay.

edited 22nd Oct '12 6:55:18 PM by LostAnarchist

This is where I, the Vampire Mistress, proudly reside: http://liberal.nationstates.net/nation=nova_nacio
Wicked223 from Death Star in the forest Since: Apr, 2009
#34483: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:54:57 PM

@Kostya: that was me editorializing Romney's support of crippling sanctions to stop their nuclear program.

edited 22nd Oct '12 6:55:14 PM by Wicked223

You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
Serocco Serocco from Miami, Florida Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
Serocco
#34484: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:55:09 PM

"IMMA BE DAH NOM-AH-NEEEE!!" - Newt Gingrich.

Romney did the same thing right now.

In RWBY, every girl is Best Girl.
NoName999 Since: May, 2011
#34485: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:55:17 PM

LOL @ Chavez even being considered on the same level Kim Jung II.

And LOL @ the Obama apologizes for America bs.

DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#34486: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:55:45 PM

@ johnnyfog,

Cool people don't do politics.

Theodore Roosevelt being an exception of course. cool

Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016
GearLeader from Dota Hell Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: Married to the job
#34487: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:55:50 PM

Poor Newt. No one loves Newt.

[up]Thank you, Teddy was an awesome man.

edited 22nd Oct '12 6:56:09 PM by GearLeader

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXkI1sTDoEg
NoName999 Since: May, 2011
Couchpotato20 Will kill you from Hell Since: Apr, 2011
Will kill you
#34489: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:56:06 PM

"Everything governor Romney said is not true"

just ownage 101

"I don't give a rat's ass about going to hell. I guess it's because I feel like I'm already there." -Mugen
LostAnarchist Violence Is Necessary! from Neo Arcadia Itself Since: Sep, 2011
Violence Is Necessary!
#34490: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:56:10 PM

Dd Obama ever apologize... For anything? If he did, he did it a lot more than Romney ever would in power...

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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#34491: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:56:14 PM

If by apologize you mean "not act like a trubo dick to the rest of the world just because you can".

...American exceptionalism can go die in a fire.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#34492: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:56:20 PM

I'm still trying to determine why an apology tour is a bad thing (even though it didn't happen). If we fuck up we should own up to it. That's called being mature.

Watashiwa Since: Dec, 2009
#34493: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:56:36 PM

Oh boy, Obama's tearing into him. The biggest whopper made me smile.

Serocco Serocco from Miami, Florida Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
Serocco
#34494: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:56:52 PM

Obama continues to blast Romney on shit.

Which is great. I just wish Schiefer did the same.

In RWBY, every girl is Best Girl.
GearLeader from Dota Hell Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: Married to the job
darksidevoid Anti-Gnosis Weapon from The Frontiers (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Robosexual
Anti-Gnosis Weapon
#34496: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:57:45 PM

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/oct/17/mitt-romney/mitt-romney-says-barack-obama-began/

GM: AGOG S4 & F/WC RP; Co-GM: TABA, SOTR, UUA RP; Sub-GM: TTS RP. I have brought peace, freedom, justice, and security to my new Empire.
Serocco Serocco from Miami, Florida Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
Serocco
#34497: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:57:49 PM

"We're four years closer to a nuclear Iran."

Romney's new talking point.

In RWBY, every girl is Best Girl.
NoName999 Since: May, 2011
#34498: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:57:59 PM

That's not apologizing, that's just telling the truth.

Wicked223 from Death Star in the forest Since: Apr, 2009
#34499: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:58:03 PM

Romney: "America has not dictated to other nations."

except for how we totally have

edited 22nd Oct '12 6:58:19 PM by Wicked223

You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
GearLeader from Dota Hell Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: Married to the job

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