Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Obama won the two debates that count, Romney Earns an F for Factually Challenged, Factual Failure




Romney is a cartoon, a cardboard cutout who would be funny in his failures if he were not so genuinely dangerous to our country, and to world stability.

Putting the debate into proper context as to foreign policy being discussed, I found this amusing.





Most of all, it made me lonesome for that public television classic for educating kids, which would have benefited Romney as well had he watched it - no, not Sesame Street.........


and my personal favorite of the group Rockapella, Capitals.  Bonus points if you can name correctly the capitals for each of the countries mentioned in the presidential debate (no peeking!, as in looking, not Peking) and double bonus points if you catch what state capital is missing in the recording below.  My parents used to play geography games with us in the car, including one where they would alternate naming a state or a capital, and we'd have to provide either the capital, or the state where the named capital city was located.  Wish the show had had a longer run....:

Give yourself a half trivia bonus point if you catch your own state capital in the song.  Yes, we need PBS, in order for our kids to grow up the kind of good citizens that can fact-check political candidates like Mittens on R-money in the course of evaluating how good or bad they would be in foreign policy decisions and their necessary depth of knowledge.

4 comments:

  1. Dog, if you're not doing anything tonight, check out a real debate.

    http://freeandequal.org/live/

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    1. YES!

      I did not know about this debate, but this ties in very well with a post I had in mind to write about the arrest of one of the candidates attempting to attend the school where the 2nd debate was held.

      Thank you for this - and if I can find a way to repost it here as well, I will!

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  2. DG, you must be referring to the lovely Mrs. Stein. The arrest was deplorable, but it's a good thing for Romney, considering Stein reportedly wiped the floor with his ass during the Gubernatorial debates in MA.

    I did a recent post on the CPD, along with Green Party candidates. Check it out if you can.

    http://job60445.blogspot.com/2012/10/early-voting-starts-today-but-wait.html

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  3. While I support public broadcasting, What passes (calls itself?) public broadcasting is not in anyway real broadcasting in the US. First off, it is underwritten by corporate funding, which keeps it far too tame to really offer an alternative voice.

    But, keeping any alternative sources of news from the masses is what the rulers want. That's why they oppose NPR.

    Of course, NPR seems far more balanced than the competition, but that's not too hard.

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