#obama 2012

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[lauraolin]

So I wrote a book for kids about Barack Obama, what it means to be a good leader and a good person, and why kids can have an active role in making the country better. It’s available for purchase until next Thursday—get one or tell a friend before it’s too late! 🙏

[bagelman]

Went on Grindr and got hit up by a famous person!!!!!!!

[dailybrian]

2012 Obama vs Romney Debate Political Cartoons -

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[whetstonefires]

I’m seeing all these posts about the march for this autumn that was stupidly scheduled over Yom Kippur, and it’s making me remember September 2012, which in Florida is already pretty deep into campaign season. We were working a bit north of Miami, where like a quarter of the total population seems to have retired from NYC, so the odds of a lot of old Jewish people were decently high compared to like, Iowa. Or redder parts of Florida for that matter.

Central Obama campaign had no instructions for a lot of things, High Holy Days included, but as much as the door-to-door political crowd is aware we’re being assholes, we didn’t want to avoidably be total assholes, so we awkwardly went through our knock target list for people whose names ‘sounded Jewish.’ Like, obviously this wasn’t a great system, but it was making an effort at least.

So the day-by-day volunteers come in to be assigned their beats, and get a stack of forms from one of my coworkers, who adds at the end of the usual spiel ‘and don’t visit the houses marked in red, we think they’re Jewish.’ And then hurries away to attend to something else, oblivious to the expressions of baffled horror spreading in her wake.

Luckily I happened to be standing nearby enough to jump in and be like, ‘aaaaaaaand it’s Yom Kippur and we don’t want to interrupt them!’

[carlsensei]

Matt Yglesias - Obama's $400,000 Wall Street speaking fee will undermine everything he believes in

The fundamental concept of Donald Trump's ethnonationalist demagoguery is that white middle-class Americans are locked in a zero-sum conflict with foreigners and ethnic minority groups. That's Marine Le Pen's message in France and Geert Wilders's message in the Netherlands, and it is ugly and false.

A counterproposal on the left is to reframe the populist theme and argue that middle-class Americans more generally are locked in a zero-sum conflict with rich people.

Obama and other center-left leaders around the world do not espouse that view primarily, I think, because they believe it is simplistic and wrong. But a crucial vulnerability of center-left politics around the world is that their sincere conviction — a faith in the positive-sum nature of cosmopolitan values and appropriately regulated forms of global capitalism, tempered by a welfare state — is easily mistaken for corruption. The political right is supposed to be pro-business as a matter of ideological commitment. The progressive center is supposed to be empirically minded, challenging business interests where appropriate but granting them free rein at other times.

This approach has a lot of political and substantive merits. But it is invariably subject to the objection: really?

Did you really avoid breaking up the big banks because you thought it would undermine financial stability, or were you on the take? Did you really think a fracking ban would be bad for the environment, or were you on the take? One man's sophisticated and pragmatic approach to public policy can be the other man's grab bag of corrupt opportunism.

I think the importance of impeccability in a political leader has been severely underrated post-Watergate. We're supposed to be cynical and "know" that "they're all crooks," but this approach is not viable.

Confucius was asked about ruling in Analects 12:7:

子貢問政。子曰：「足食。足兵。民信之矣。」子貢曰：「必不得已而去，於斯三者何先？」曰：「去兵。」子貢曰：「必不得已而去，於斯二者何先？」曰：「去食。自古皆有死，民無信不立。」

Zigong asked about ruling.

The master said, "Enough food, enough arms, and the people's trust are it."

Zigong said, "Supposing it were necessary to leave off one of the three, which would you leave off first?"

He said, "Give up arms."

Zigong said, "Supposing it were necessary to leave off one of the remaining two, which would you leave off?"

He said, "Give up food. Of old, there has always been death, but a people without trust will not stand."

Democracy is a good system of government because it acknowledges the centrality of the people's trust to the existence of the state. Petty corruption as became common with the Clintons slowly undermines the system as a whole.

[wowmagazine2016]

A brain-twisting, but universal, theory about voter fraud

A brain-twisting, but universal, theory about voter fraud

I think I’ve come up with a universal theory of voter fraud, one that explains Obama’s (to me) inexplicable victory in 2012 as well as (to the Progressives and #NeverTrumpers) Trump’s equally inexplicable victory in 2016. This theory is not to be taken seriously, but I still like how comprehensive it is.

We start with the fact that Obama won in 2012. This was rather amazing considering that the…

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