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It was one of my favorite movies from undergrad. A couple of others I liked back then haven't aged well at all, but 'Beer' is timeless. Unfortunately the movie's never been released to DVD.

One of the greatest B movies ever! The commercial in the truck is classic as well. http://youtube.com/watch?v=ep7LN2Whv3Q

If it be a old school Edison light bulb, I don't expect the tungsten nor the argon are going to get you into the schlitz. Now if it's flourescent, at least you were saving energy prior to releasing Hg into the environment, so I'm pretty sure AG will give you a pass.

Thanks to all who showed up. Good times.

So is anyone up for a meeting this Friday?

Nah, he's just too humble to take the decision of whether he should be a 1 termer out of the hands of the American people. That wouldn't be right to take such an awesome responsibility from the people of this great nation. He is far too humble of a servant to make such a grand decision on his own. Should the American people decide that he was wrong, once again (for pretty much only the 2nd time ever and for the same reason), failing to communicate well enough to them, his only real failue - the inability to tell a good story properly; then he is willing to humbly do their bidding as the selfless public servant he truly is.

He still might end up a 1 term president. He might not have gone back on that one.

Sorry I'll be missing this one. Have a 2 hour lunch meeting that I can't get out of. If anyone is up for a reprisal next Friday before the home opener, let me know.

As I recall, he'd been seriously undercapitalized since he'd bought the team. I'm not sure that he had the wherewithall to 'wait his turn.'

And that bounce will last what, a week tops, maybe only through the weekend? Starting out with the unshakable CA electoral votes gives the President a huge initial advantage, and that combined with the locked in NE may be enough for the President to win the election picking up a few states here and there. But barring a seriously major event occurring in October, there is no way the people that want 4 more years will be more energized than those that have had enough in November. The President's quest currently is to try to drive the energy level on the right down to the left's energy level. I truly don't see President Clinton's speech energizing the party faithful because at the end of the day, President Obama energizes people relative to President Clinton like President HW Bush energized people relative to President Reagan and as much as they might want to tell themselves they're voting for a 3rd Bubba term, they're still going to read the current guy's name on all the posters before they even get to the polling station.

Are you referring to tomorrow morning or through the next 2 months? Tomorrow morning, D's will be very excited about the possibility of a 3rd WJ Clinton term. Somehow, I'd expect that through the next 3 debates and the seemingly endless TV ads, they might come back to the realization that Bubba isn't coming back. Fiscal conservatives, social conservatives, and Republicans will likely maintain their enthusiasm to remove this generation's Jimmy Carter from office.

Yep. Your point being?

Nope. They were voting to add Him and 'Jerusalem' back in. (Where they had been in '08.)

So do the Republicans have it in them to come up with a campaign ad showing how 'since Democrats want to be like us, you might as well vote for us' or one showing 'they don't believe in anything but are willing to say it any how' without screwing the pooch?

More likely he actually pointed out to them that Hispanics in general tend to be Catholic and that it probably wasn't their best way to reach out to Hispanics by pointing out that they were kicking them in the nuts again. As I'd mentioned in another thread yesterday, I was kind of surprised how for the 1st part and last part of his speech every 4th word was about God, the Lord, or receiving his blessing.

Was it only me, or did the Mayor invoke God an awful lot for a DNC speech?

Thanks SDS!

States unilaterally reducing their own say in who gets elected president. What a bunch of pinheads.

Except he didn't tell Medvedev to get back to him after the election, he told him that he'd have 'more flexibility' after the election. Which kind of came across to mean that he'd like to give Putin what Putin wants but it might cost him the election so Vlady needs to wait a few months before the US will roll over.

Well, they might be changing people's minds about their own objectivity.

I hope you are correct. The after the likeability statement was meant to convey that I am unsure how much value that brings to the table. I am having a hard time coming up with many (any?) other reasons that people have to vote for him other than 'we know what we're getting with him' and 'he's not a Republican.' And yet the polls are still essentially even.

But right now, it seems the main thing the President has going for him is that he's 'more likeable.' If the whole thing ends up just 'Mitt Romney isn't afraid to go to hell - he's the devil' then the D's risk losing one of the 2 edges they have (the 2nd being, people KNOW what they're getting with the current President; getting back to 'the devil you know vs the one you don't' motif) - the likeability.

Interesting. I can't believe that's the reaction Axelrod was shooting for, but it could be expected. The one thing that has struck me throughout this campaign is how shrill the incumbent's campaign has seemed. The R's playing up their desire to 'fire' the current incumbent as being due to disappointment and even stating that they actually think he's a good man just a horrible President would seem to be playing up to this as another contrast between the 2.

I'm curious if Eastwood did his schtick the way he did to help get seniors outraged when the inevitable attacks from the left occur? And, with Romney and crew making a lot of their points to be about a disappointment in President Obama not living up to his hype and also for believing better days are ahead for America, it'll be interesting to see how the President frames his message next week. I thought Romney did well with his speech, but it's clear that he isn't an orator by vocation. Though if he can keep the message focused on 23MM lost jobs and a hopeful vision for the future, the President will be in for a very tough fight.