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Posted by: hit and run | October 10, 2012 at 12:59 PM
Welcome back TomM!!
Posted by: NK | October 10, 2012 at 01:01 PM
Let's make this a birther thread!
Posted by: Threadkiller | October 10, 2012 at 01:03 PM
PS: ... sit right down young man and listen while I give you a piece of my mind about you going AWOL and not using any electronic means to contact JOM....
Posted by: NK | October 10, 2012 at 01:03 PM
We sure did miss you. Here, have a glass of this Onyx I picked up.
No that's not an RFID chip in my pocket, I'm just really happy to see you.
Posted by: hit and run | October 10, 2012 at 01:05 PM
Thank God you are alright! We were really beginning to worry about YOU, not your technology.
Posted by: centralcal | October 10, 2012 at 01:05 PM
Aahh! I can breathe again.
[Tip of hat to TM] Welcome back.
Posted by: sbwaters | October 10, 2012 at 01:05 PM
Sara might appreciate this from the UK Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2215437/Like-father-like-son-Mitt-Romney-follows-fathers-footsteps-road-White-House.html
Posted by: NK | October 10, 2012 at 01:05 PM
Todd Akin website.
Posted by: Extraneus | October 10, 2012 at 01:06 PM
We should've figured out hardware/software snafus, which seem to be very frequent these days.
Posted by: Captain Hate | October 10, 2012 at 01:06 PM
Hooray! saved from carpal tunnel syndrome! All hail TM!
Posted by: matt | October 10, 2012 at 01:06 PM
TK-
Go do your job on the previous thread, please.
Thank you.
Posted by: Melinda Romanoff | October 10, 2012 at 01:06 PM
That was quite a test TM. WE missed you. WElcome back!
Posted by: Jane - Mock the media | October 10, 2012 at 01:07 PM
apparently Obama feels he will need to be less polite in the next debate. Can't wait to see the smarmy, sarcastic side of him. That's going to go over very well with the electorate.
Posted by: matt | October 10, 2012 at 01:08 PM
Lily Tomlin: I'm sorry. The comment thread you have reached is not a working comment thread. Please check your number and dial again.
Posted by: sbwaters | October 10, 2012 at 01:09 PM
Ooh! Ooh!
Free rse!
Free rse!
Posted by: sbwaters | October 10, 2012 at 01:09 PM
Matt-- smarmy and sarcastic will go over well with about 33% of the electorate, another 10+% will tolerate it, the rest...?
Posted by: NK | October 10, 2012 at 01:10 PM
Apparently a lefty subject of hilarity over the past week is claiming that Romney wants to see Big Bird's birth certificate.
(Or would that be a hatch certificate?)
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | October 10, 2012 at 01:11 PM
A TomM test?... kinda like God and Abraham?
Posted by: NK | October 10, 2012 at 01:11 PM
Followed the link to the Todd Akin site and found this:
http://www.akin.org/campaign/missouri-women-stand-todd-akin
Heh.
Posted by: PD | October 10, 2012 at 01:12 PM
Don't know about Big Bird's birth certificate, but I'll be happy to see the PBS and NPR funding death certificates.
Posted by: NK | October 10, 2012 at 01:13 PM
@matt at 01:08 PM, If things aren't going well, he may be forced to unleash the middle finger fake nose scratch!
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | October 10, 2012 at 01:13 PM
So happy to see you're ok.
Posted by: Holly | October 10, 2012 at 01:13 PM
The middle finger nose scratch comes out sometime before January-- book it.
Posted by: NK | October 10, 2012 at 01:14 PM
Here we go again, at last! Welcome back!
Posted by: JM Hanes | October 10, 2012 at 01:16 PM
Meanwhile, generic bafflegab from Patrick Kennedy, at the Libya hearing, most conspicuously including a defense of Susan Rice.
Posted by: JM Hanes | October 10, 2012 at 01:18 PM
But will we ge to the magic 2000 on the last thread?
Posted by: jimmyk | October 10, 2012 at 01:18 PM
Issa is taking no prisoners. It's good to hear.
Posted by: Jane - Mock the media | October 10, 2012 at 01:23 PM
OT-- (is there a topic)-- CATO Inst. gives Ct. Governor Dan Malloy a 'F' on tax and spend policies. Christie and Deval Patrick get 'B's: http://darien.patch.com/articles/think-tank-flunks-gov-malloys-fiscal-record-c6d2dfdc
Posted by: NK | October 10, 2012 at 01:25 PM
Making up for lost time, TM's got a Benghazi thread, two!
Posted by: JM Hanes | October 10, 2012 at 01:28 PM
Welcome back, TM.
Posted by: Danube of Thought | October 10, 2012 at 01:32 PM
I don't know. One of the big takeaways for a lot of people from the first debate is that Mitt Romney is engaged, polite, and smart. He criticized the president very effectively without snark.
Obama has a history of snark. He likes to demean people who oppose his views. There is that muddle middle who still believe it's better to be polite, and the gloved fist tactics of the Dem Left are usually hidden away from them. This time, we will see. Chicago politics are roughhouse by definition and Obama took a terrible hit last week.
Posted by: matt | October 10, 2012 at 01:37 PM
Tom Maguire,
Thank you for your effort in keeping this place going. I appreciate the work involved and hope you will be able to continue for a very long time.
Posted by: Rick Ballard | October 10, 2012 at 01:45 PM
Obama has a history of snark. He likes to demean people who oppose his views.
Yes, so it should be very interesting if Barry's takeaway from the first debate is that he wasn't tough enough. Since he can't pull off "engaged, polite, and smart," he will likely come off as clueless, nasty, and dumb.
Posted by: jimmyk | October 10, 2012 at 01:46 PM
Anybody watching Cspan and the Libya security hearings. Very compelling stuff. Its always the coverup by total denial that becomes the "sweater's loose thread". Issa is pulling it out one inch at a time.
Posted by: Jim Eagle | October 10, 2012 at 01:49 PM
He's alive! He's alive.
Posted by: Sue | October 10, 2012 at 01:55 PM
During the hearing they gave Denis Kucinich 5 minutes to make an anti-war speech wasting time to ask the questions needed to be asked. Can't he just leave sooner rather than later?
Posted by: Jim Eagle | October 10, 2012 at 01:58 PM
The whole process seems designed to politic rather than get answers - including the ridiculous speeches in the beginning.
Posted by: Jane - Mock the media | October 10, 2012 at 02:13 PM
Is Patrick Kennedy able to complete sentences? Why is he still there?
Posted by: Frau Steingehirn | October 10, 2012 at 02:14 PM
I guess I can now cancel my reservation at the Betty Ford clinic.
WELCOME BACK!!
Posted by: Clarice | October 10, 2012 at 02:27 PM
Different Patrick Kennedy.
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | October 10, 2012 at 02:39 PM
Don't forget, the leftists have been warned.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ceo-workers-youll-likely-fired-131640914.html
If he needs to do it I hope he sends out the notices on the 7th of Nov.
Posted by: pagar | October 10, 2012 at 02:49 PM
Whew! TM's back:-)
Posted by: glasater | October 10, 2012 at 04:09 PM
And you are too Glasater. I miss you around here!
Posted by: Jane - Mock the Media! | October 10, 2012 at 04:56 PM
Whew! is right! That was a marathon.
Posted by: caro | October 10, 2012 at 04:56 PM
Thanks, Jane!
I try to keep up but got so far behind because my little photog biz has been keeping me out of trouble:-) As a good friend would say "busy hands are happy hands".
Posted by: glasater | October 10, 2012 at 08:23 PM