Maybe this is just a result of having been born in the 80s, but every time we hear the word “virtual,” regardless of the context, we always think of low-tech virtual reality gaming from the mid-90s (Dactyl Nightmare, anybody?). Here, we’re imagining a poorly-rendered 3D version of Obama, moving awkwardly against a cheap Oval Office background and glitching out every couple of seconds. Anyway, this “fully virtual interview” will focus on the content of the President’s State of the Union address, and will likely constitute the majority of Google+’s lifetime web traffic (don’t get us wrong; we love G+, but sometimes we feel like we’re the only ones). source
Texas Governor and GOP Presidential hopeful Rick Perry accused the Obama administration of “over-the-top rhetoric” and “disdain for the military” for what they have said about the video with shows four US Marines urinating on dead Taliban soldiers. Perry, speaking on CNN’s State of the Union said the marines involved should be reprimanded but not prosecuted on criminal charges.Rick Perry Slams Obama Over Afghanistan Video (via robot-heart-politics)
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Wait, there’s something happening in Iowa today? Spend five minutes reading the explainer from It’s A Free Country on how the Iowa Caucus works (for one, it’s different for the Dems and the GOP) - then you’ll be able to explain it to your friends later.
-Jody, BL Show-
Because, let’s face it, you probably don’t know how the Iowa caucus system works.
“Celebrating our next president’s best ideas:” This wonderful little website presents you with a proposal, and then asks you to guess whether it came from Newt Gingrich, or a supervillain from a movie/comic book/etc. It’s harder than it looks; we follow Gingrich pretty well, and we only scored 50%. source
Two colleagues from The American Enterprise Institute. The Christian Science Monitor’s White House reporter Linda Feldmann. InOtherNews. PantslessProgressive. Shortformblog. EvilTeaBagger. Conservapost. JV Brewer. Ilya Gerner.
FourTen of the best reasons beyond Newt Gingrich’s judgment, Mitt Romney’s betting prowess and Rick Perry’s …. uh - what was it about Rick Perry, again? - at Thursday night’s GOP Debate on Fox. Follow along at Tumblr Tag “Fox Debate Iowa,” Twitter tag #FoxDebateIowa and right here where you can livechat the debate with us.Want to join the conversation? Send us a line!
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» It only takes two to tango: The Newsmax-hosted, Donald Trump-moderated Republican debate later this month will feature only Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, as Jon Huntsman, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann have all declined to attend. This is somewhat embarrassing for Trump and Gingrich, although Santorum could stand to benefit from going toe-to-toe with this month’s frontrunner. Question: Was Gary Johnson, who always complains about not being invited to these things, invited?
» That makes it a Santorum-Gingrich affair. No one else has RSVP’d yet; Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman have both declined the invite, and Karl Rove, who has a bit of influence in Republican circles, has discouraged all the other candidates from attending. Gingrich said he’ll be going “just for the entertainment value,” which is, well, strange.
» But what should we be aggressive about? Here’s the tally. Twice, Gingrich was describing how we should approach the war on drugs (“We ought to be much more aggressive about drug policy”); once, he was describing how the US went about supporting non-communist trade unions in Poland in the 1980s (“…we when we aggressively supported Solidarity”); and on three occasions, Newt was talking about US-Cuban relations (“I think we need a very aggressive model”). Oddly, he didn’t once utter the words “fundamental” or “profound,” although he did use another Gingrich fallback, “logical,” on two occasions, and busted out “totally” once.
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This attack ad has a few problems. First of all, and most importantly, it’s nearly six minutes long. Second, the focus of the attacks - Sen. Bob Casey - doesn’t actually get accused of anything until about two and a half minutes in. And lastly, the only actual charge levied against Casey is that he voted with Barack Obama 98% of the time in the Senate - a damning charge in some eyes, but not exactly worth watching a five minute video to hear. This probably wasn’t the best use of campaign funds.
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I’d like to suggest that in addition to the many photos of the two together, Obama’s own words will come back to haunt him. - Seth Mandel
Uh, yeah, they’re not kidding. Beyond the fact that Corzine was a huge fundraiser for Obama, see this comment Obama made in 2009 about the former New Jersey governor, now in the midst of a Lehmann Brothers/Madoff-style scandal:
Like many of us in public life today, Jon is a leader who’s been called to govern in some extraordinary times. He’s been tested by the worst recession in half a century — a recession that was caused by years of recklessness and irresponsibility and a do-nothing attitude. It was caused by the same small thinking that has plagued our politics for decades — the kind of thinking that says we can afford to just tinker around with our problems, we can put off the tough decisions, defer the big challenges. We can just tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.
Well that’s not the kind of leader that Jon Corzine is.
Herman Cain and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
Herman Cain’s doing kinda crappy, but he’s not exactly dead in the water yet. In fact, he’s way up on Mitt Romney in South Carolina, according to a poll that came out after the scandal.
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