It happened in 1983.
In this situation, they don’t call it Game Theory at all. This had nothing to do with Game Theory.
To use your metaphor, they don’t reset the scoreboard at midnight.
But here’s a better metaphor: charm bracelets. Romney’s got another charm for his bracelet. He can add “school bully” to the “etch-a-sketch”, “dog abuser”, “speaking fees”, “$10,000 bet”, and “firing people” charms he’s already go on his bracelet. And he’ll be wearing that charm bracelet from now until Election Day.
And it was reported in 2007 so it’s not even recent as a news story.
What makes it “recent” was the issue was brought up in a campaign ad this year. Not an Obama ad - it was a Gingrich ad.
Or it didn’t happen, the WaPo is an organ of the Obama administration and put out a BS story…
Possible. All you have to explain is why Romney didn’t deny it.
Or we’re all having a shared mass hallucination.
(This is the part of the thread where we all try to out-crazy each other with crazy made-up theories, right? I was going to put in something about swamp gas but I thought it was too cliched.)
Yes. Certainly Mitt Romney not remembering the story is much more believable than four or five contemporaries recalling the same incident.
Did I get confused and stumble into an X-Files thread?
The truth is out there. Way, way out there. Which is why you have to be really far out to find it. Because that’s where it is.
I knew the future. When I saw the headline, A Scramble as Biden Backs Same-Sex Marriage on the front page of The New York Times and read the story, I thought that was interesting and wondered what Obama was going to do. When I saw the headline, For a Blunt Biden, an Uneasy Supporting Role the next day on the front page of *The New York Times *I knew what Obama was going to do. This was confirmed in an editorial ending with the conclusion: “It would be good for a broad range of Americans to see him articulate a clear position of principle and then defend it before the voting public.” Apparently the President took the editorial advice to heart. I finished reading the editorial and thinking about Mr. Obama’s Moment of Truth. Then I read a column by Frank Bruni. This column was cited by Eve in her thread, now closed, Would a pro-gay marriage stance cost Obama the election? Apparently the question has been answered and apparently our Eve has the ear of the President. The day after that, May 9, there were letters published in response to the previous front page stories on the issue of same-sex marriage. The next day, May 10, when I saw the bold headline on the front page of The New York Times, Obama Endorses Same-Sex Marriage, Taking Stand on Charged Social Issue, I thought back to Monday when I was thinking ahead to Friday. Because on Friday, May 11, 2012 came the payoff. On the front page of The New York Times the headline, Obama Campaign Pushes The Issue Of Gay Marriage AND the headline, 50 Years Later, A Bullying Case Snares Romney. The equivalent of a simulapost on the front page of The New York Times.
Third lesson in politics - The future never happened.
Now who’s being naive?
Exactly. And just enough “shelf life” to “simulapost” with the story on Obama’s announcement on same-sex marriages on the front page of The New York Times.
That’s not a metaphor. This is a metaphor:
[QUOTE=The Perfect Storm]
Look, look at this. We got Hurricane Grace moving north off the Atlantic seaboard. Huge… getting massive. Two, this low south of Sable Island, ready to explode. Look at this. Three, a fresh cold front swooping down from Canada. But it’s caught a ride on the jet stream… and is motoring hell-bent towards the Atlantic. What if Hurricane Grace runs smack into it? Add to the scenario this baby off Sable Island, scrounging for energy. She’ll start feeding off both the Canadian cold front… and Hurricane Grace. You could be a meteorologist all your life… and never see something like this. It would be a disaster of epic proportions. It would be… the perfect storm.
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“Hurricane Grace” is the Biden story. The “low south of Sable Island” is the President’s announcement. The “fresh cold front” is the Romney story.
:eek:…the perfect political storm.
As I (along with several others) have posted, if anybody accused me of jumping a fellow student and shaving their head, I would look my accuser in the eye and say, “You’re lying. That never happened. Nothing like that ever happened. I double dog dare you to produce one shred of evidence to support what you just said. Which you can’t do because you made it up.”
That’s what you say when nothing happened.
You don’t say “Back in high school, I did some dumb things and if anybody was hurt by that or offended, obviously I apologize for that. I participated in a lot of high jinks and pranks during high school and some might have gone too far and for that, I apologize.”
That’s what you when it happened but you don’t see what the big deal is.
Or that didn’t happen either, the WaPo manufactured Romney apologizing and every other news source just ran along with it ; have you thought of that Mr. Smartypants ?
This. I remember tons of stuff from 40 years ago, and before. I remember stuff I’m not very proud of, most of which involve stupidity on my part and none of which involve bullying. Romney either never thought of this action as wrong, is lying through his ass, or has had his brain cells killed by all that Sprite he drinks.
How dare you insinuate that Obama admitting to using drugs as a teen has anything to do with the fact that he refused to defend his otherwise competent foreign minister’s resignation due to campaigning from the drug legalisation lobby, his consistent record calling for drug legalisation and opposing any limitations such as only legalising marijuana and his calling for traditional usage of drugs despite the fact that there’s no record that the prophet of his religion ever partook in such a thing?
How many people did Obama hurt by trying drugs? To whom would he owe an apology?
Nancy Reagan?
I pity the fool…!
The WaPo has a few fact-based problems with their story.
A screenshot of the graffiti in a men’s room stall has more credibility than the Post.
Yep, nothing like unbiased analysis:
That being said, it sounds like the description of Powell’s reaction was inaccurate and it was correct to change it.