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The Candidates Meet At Last

zinzin
edited October 2012
In an exclusive arrangement, Zach's Shack will be airing the first Presidential Debate for the enjoyment of Urban Honkers.

The debate is Wednesday, October 3, at 6 pm. It will be happy hour at Zach's Shack. I am told Mitt Romney has a whole arsenal of "zingers" at the ready.
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  • Do a jello shot every time Mitt zings.
  • I will be there, and while I endorsed Obama, as a registered Republican I'm hoping some of the great ideas of the GOP can at least be part of the conversation.
  • Can't wait to finally see these guys mass debate together!
  • edited October 2012
    David Rees re: Zingers

    Sorry if you've already seen this somewhere. Trying not to be that reposty guy. Um...
  • oh god, my all-time hero strikes again!!!!!! I LOVE HIM SO MUCH

    "2nd Romney zinger PREVIEW: "That's easy for you to say, Mr. President, I suppose!" (Romney aid: this zinger will "shatter POTUS for life")"

    "3rd Romney zinger PREVIEW: "Is this a podium, or a doll's coffin?" (He will say this if the podium is 2 inches high. Aide: "We're hoping")"

  • poll: do you think there is any possibility there will be any random Romney-fans at Zach's Shack, there to stress me out? Or will it be a "safe space" for someone who is feeling very fragile right now (me)
  • I think it will be safe. At worst there might be a random Ron Paul person watching baseball.

    Just off phone w/1 of Romney's "Imagzingeers," the team that produces his zingers. He told me these zingers "will be the best" zingers
  • is this a town hall style debate, where total fucking morons stand up and ask the candidates if they are in favor of murdering retarded people? or is it a slightly less insufferable type of debate
  • The 2nd debate is town hall.
    1st and 3rd are the more tradish style with questions asked by newsy moderator.
  • BTDubs: The Town Hall is moderated by a woman, the other "Hard" debates will be moderated by men. Way to go : ( I'll be at Zach's trying to figure out the "Zingers" inside joke...
  • I will come to this if I am allowed to eat an entire thing of chili cheese fries by myself and also drink two beers
  • edited October 2012
    Here is how I, a lady, would do the debates

    "DR PRESIDENT..................... Do you like me?"
  • The first debate is about domestic policy. Jim Lehrer of PBS is moderating.

    He got to choose six topics. He chose

    The Economy - I
    The Economy - II
    The Economy - III
    Health Care
    The Role of Government
    Governing

    In other news, Jim Lehrer drives me crazy.
  • Honestly, I would rather hear the candidates talk about "jesus" than "The Economy - III"
  • seriously

    The Role of Government
    Governing
    Government
    Government - II
  • don't forget:

    Governance

  • edited October 2012




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  • @DrJ: Did you find this from the guy who has that huge collection of vintage packaging on Flickr?
    I have used his collection for reference in the past:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonliebigstuff/
  • @abe
    zingers = not an inside joke.

    From yesterday's NYT:
    "Mr. Romney’s team has concluded that debates are about creating moments and has equipped him with a series of zingers that he has memorized and has been practicing on aides since August. His strategy includes luring the president into appearing smug or evasive about his responsibility for the economy."

    the internet going crazy making fun of theoretical Romney zingers.
  • Ohhhh, I thought Rees just made it up. I should have known better. He's always set off by some actual b.s.
  • He never makes up shit like this. Always based in some sort of real thing.
    That is part of why he is the world's greatest genius.

    What on earth will the memorized zingers be???
  • edited October 2012
    @joey. Just image googled 'Zingers' and picked the one with UHX-affiliated iconography. Lazy.

    Maybe Mitt will sing some Al Green?
  • "Great Ideas of the GOP" = everything enacted by Bill Clinton. (NAFTA, welfare reform, balanced budget, 100K more police, economic expansion, lowest fed income taxes, paid off lots of debt) That's why I have always maintained that Clinton was the best Republican president we have had in our lifetime. Srsly, all he needed was a war or three and he would be the perfect conservative.

    Hope to see you at Zach's! Especially YT since I sent her a heartfelt "we should hang out more" email after I was tricked by automated references to my first name in the last UH update. Got me good there Mikey. :)
  • we should hang out more though!!!
  • http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/03/colbert-romney-debate-zingers-video_n_1936077.html

    "On day one, our new president must be able to face Iran's leader and ask him if the place where he bought that shirt also has a men's department."
  • Jon Wurster:

    "What if Romney has memorized his zingers by associating each of them with one of his seventeen yachts."
  • Wanted more zingers.

  • I think people wanted O to be more combative, and I think this is why he did not. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/09/fear-of-a-black-president/309064/
  • I hated every moment of it
    for so many reasons

    also my count was one (1) zinger?!?? Should have been way more zingers
  • also Jim Lehrer is a jackass
  • Twitters were slammin' with people hating on this thing. I'm going to check it out for a minute when I get home.
  • I don't think it was about combat. Barry is more fidgety and stuttery than Mitt. Mitt seems more comfortable, more grounded, which is bad because Barry IS the President. And he is in the lead.

    Why is he saying "yes" and nodding while Mitt speaks? Mitt just smiles tightly and doesn't move when Barry speaks. And Mitt doesn't give a damn about whatever Jim Lehrer wants to do, while Barry seems to be looking to Lehrer to enforce the rules. Lehrer is like one of those pesky regulators standing the way of freedom!

    I'm afraid Barry has given Mitt's media team a lot of footage they can turn into unflattering imagery. I predict a big cut in Barry's lead over the next week.
  • Barry was good on pre-existing conditions...
  • Expensive things hurt families.
    -Mitt
  • I think it will be more like Bush/Kerry 2004 first debate. Pundits said Kerry won, but impact on the polls was minimal.

    Also, yeah, the lying thing.
  • edited October 2012
    Mitt's promise to eliminate federal support of PBS hit a nerve in me like I can't believe. I was pretty much raised by PBS. I could read before going into kindergarden because of Sesame Street. Miste r Rogers was my role model for living in the world and treating other people with respect. Now I want to lock Mittens up in a cell and force feed him PBS until he turns nice : - ( Great future, Mitt Romney. No family planning and no PBS. Poor women and babies can f*** off. Maybe his plan is that they will just watch Fox news until they kill themselves out of self hatred. I'm ready to go to battle for the class war now
  • I just can't believe canceling PBS is considered a viable way to lower our ELEVENTY TRILLION DOLLAR DEFICIT or whatever. What does PBS cost, comparatively speaking? A nickel? What the fuck

    It was so intense how he was literally just saying the Democrats' platform was his platform. All of a sudden he's "always" been espousing these Democratic talking points?? What am I even watching

    Lets be honest though, doesn't he look INCREDIBLY GOOD for his age? He literally looks a full 18 years younger than he is. It's astonishing. He's 15 years younger than Obama but they look utterly like peers.

    All that clean livin'
  • Somewhat off-topic, but did anyone feel crappy after eating Zach's fare? I woke up in the middle of the night in pretty rough shape, seemed like it could be a food poisoning thing.

    But it might have just been a physical reaction to MITT'S LIES
  • edited October 2012
    blood of virgins obviously
    (in response to YT)
  • Yeah, that could have been it, too.
  • I didn't eat anything from Zach's but I did barf all night.

    I OD'd on Vitamin C. Woops. Who knew?
  • edited October 2012
    Neil de Grasse Tyson put up a great tweet explaining the relative cost, Yours truly..... he said cutting PBS would be like erasing text files to clear space on your 500gb hard drive. Do you get that? I have read it put at one hundredth of federal budget. If I'm not mistaken actual spending exceeds the budget.... so that would put PBS in an even littler percentage...
    ok more from de Grasse Tyson

    McDonalds triple-cheeseburger has only two cheese slices. Should be a double-cheese-triple-burger. (Slow day in the universe)
  • hilarious

    Josh, I felt AWESOME after Zach's. Could be the difference between animal-based hot dog and non? I wouldn't eat an animal-based hot dog for a million dollars.

    Ok I probably would
  • zin, is it time for you to tell us how to vote yet?
  • LT -- if McD's cuts ALL burgers down to only ONE slice of cheese and ONE all-meat patty, will THAT fix our debt problem?
  • Make all Coke Diet Coke......... reduce sugar spending
  • Everyone wear dresses (why spend on separate pants/shirt)
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