dagblog - Comments for "Mitt Romney as a Rescue Dog."

Good.

Verified Atheist — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 19:41:53 +0000

In reply to "....make a bunch of comments

Good.

"that by talking about Seamus

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 17:56:36 +0000

In reply to I'm not ignoring you for the

"that by talking about Seamus we can't also talk about Bain" - of course you can. You just don't.

Sorry if the psychoanalysis says I really am not bothered by obsessing on gossipy inaccuracies and petty complaints instead of the host of huge problems we have during an election year. Yes, you got me pegged - it's all about my mother. Named Seamus.

I call it the Somerbyitis.

tmccarthy0 — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 17:54:28 +0000

In reply to I'm not ignoring you for the

I call it the Somerbyitis.

"....make a bunch of comments

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 17:53:31 +0000

In reply to It's better to light a candle

"....make a bunch of comments about Bain Capital on a thread about Mitt Romney."

Thanks for the advice, just did it.

It's better to light a candle

Verified Atheist — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:38:30 +0000

In reply to Right, people are going to

It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness, no?

If you want to see more written at dagblog about Romney's involvement in Bain Capital…

I'm not ignoring you for the

Verified Atheist — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:35:36 +0000

In reply to Ah, I gotcha. I could use

I'm not ignoring you for the same reason you're not ignoring what Oxy wrote, and it has little to do with how important Seamus is to the election.

Back in the day I used to teach ballroom dance (it helped pay my way through college), and my boss (who also taught dance) told me that if a customer gives you more than one reason why they can't or don't want to do something, more than likely the real reason isn't one they've mentioned. You've told us that the Seamus story isn't worth arguing about and argued extensively that the facts being reported are wrong or at least incomplete. I don't think either of those are the primary reasons you're really writing what you're writing.

What exactly is the big problem you think Oxy's writing represents? I know you don't believe in a zero-sum game as for writing (i.e., that by talking about Seamus we can't also talk about Bain) because you've argued against it (correctly) in the past. As I've written before, I don't think you really find Oxy's writing that problematic, but you just enjoy the argument.

Ah, I gotcha. I could use

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 15:41:51 +0000

In reply to Done. Now here's a remedial

Ah, I gotcha. I could use ignore stuff that's written here, and then the problem goes away. Clever of you. And by me paying attention, well, I'm half to blame.

Except you're responding to me. So now we're down to thirds. Why didn't you just ignore me? It's (1/3) your fault.

Right, people are going to

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 15:36:12 +0000

In reply to A key to defeating

Right, people are going to step into the voting booth in November and choose the guy who's nice to dogs. Instead of the guy I'd like to have a beer with, it's the guy who'll pat my head and give me a Scoobie snack.

And the key to the Bain story is so important that people can repeat the dog tale over and over - and forget to mention the Bain story.

Even if they talk about Bain Capital, it's about Romney firing people after an acquisition - which is a normal business practice. Job churn in the US economy is huge - millions fired, millions hired each month - and until recently, most people laid off got new jobs relatively quickly. (wage stagnation and loss of medical benefits being the problematic parts of this picture)

Rather than talk about his stealing their pensions and putting the obligations of the gutted company on the tax payer. Which could possibly alienate independent voters who think government's not there for corporate handouts.

Even the "likes to fire people" anecdote is problematic - as it's a distortion of what he said (likes to fire gouging insurance agents if they do a bad job). So he gets to come back with an excuse for how you're being petty and misleading, rather than explain how few jobs he created and how much he cost taxpayers.

And it bothers me that a New York Times columnist can decide she doesn't want to cover real events, and instead has to obsess on a dog story - mentioning it in 50 columns, several of them completely about the dog.

How many times did Gail Collins mention Bain Capital? 4 times since Nov 1, twice as a casual mention.

Only twice - back in early November - did she note that Bain had left several companies on life support. Though she never notes that the government had to bail out their gutted pension funds. Some columnist. What a card. What priorities. And she likely gets paid a million dollars a year. That's our press covering an election. Frankly I think she's doing Romney a favor - no one with a brain can take her seriously, so her endless juvenile criticisms help valid criticisms disappear.

Done. Now here's a remedial

Verified Atheist — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 15:07:45 +0000

In reply to Remedial reading exercise:

Done. Now here's a remedial exercise for you: read what I wrote prior to this, scan for a 4-letter word for "50 percent" and figure out what it means in the context of this discussion.

Remedial reading exercise:

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 15:01:49 +0000

In reply to Half of the reason we're

Remedial reading exercise: read the title, scan for a 3-letter word for "canine". Count how many times the word repeats in the diary.

Then note who author of diary is.