The 2012 election will not be about Iraq or 9/11 because Barack Obama is the President of the United States. What will the 2012 election be about? The 800 pound gorilla in the room or the elephant in the room? Will the 800 pound gorilla and the elephant cancel each other out? What then will the 2012 election be about?
What the fuck are you talking about?
The phrase 800-pound gorilla clearly doesn’t apply to Obama. It’s an allusion to a joke
Where does an 800-pound gorilla sleep?
Wherever the hell it wants to.
and refers to an entity so powerful it can act as it will regardless of the desires or preferences of others. That’t not Barry O, who has largely been frustrated by the opposition in Congress.
In other words, the President of the United States.
George W. Bush was the 800 pound gorilla in the room, now he is the elephant in the room.
Really, an election doesn’t have to be “about” one particular issue at all. Nor should it.
Isn’t it enough for it to be “about” choosing the candidate and/or party who best represents your own opinions and ideals, or whom you trust more to lead our nation?
Nah, I guess that’s not divisive enough. Some people just need hot buttons to keep them interested.
Which is probably why Newt Gingrich is in the news warning about the threat of an EMP blast.
Dark Angel, anyone?
For Democrats, the 2012 election will be about the economy, jobs, and the pursuit of an agenda that promotes equality for all Americans. Do I believe these issues will be addressed in a substantive way after the election? That’d be a firm maybe. I see little evidence of a backbone in Mr. Obama, contrary to his rhetoric.
For Republicans, the 2012 election will be about anything they can use to destroy Obama, even if they have to make it up. Republicans have no ideas other than lowering taxes on the highest income earners, and even that they haven’t figured out how to do without having it backfire on them.
So, no, Bush is not the elephant in the room. The elephant is that Congress is broken and no one within it is willing to admit it, much less figure out a way to fix it.
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[800-pound gorilla] refers to an entity so powerful it can act as it will regardless of the desires or preferences of others.
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Oh, bullshit. No president is that powerful; certainly Obama is. The mere fact that the Republicans hold a majority in just one house of Congress has all but neutered him in many areas.
You tortured the metaphor to the point that is meaninglesss. It’s as if you’re holding a pair of simian testicles in your hands.
Yes, the 2012 election will be about the economy. Why? Newt Gingrich cannot debate Barack Obama on foreign policy; the Obama administration has been a success in regards to foreign policy. See: the elephant in the room.
So the economy is the 800 pound gorilla in the room.
The 2012 election will be about the jobless rate, just like every other.
The Republicans want to turn the 800 pound gorilla in the room - the economy - into the elephant in the room.
See: the elephant in the room.
So 800 gorillas walk into a bar…
No, no, wait… So 800 800 pound gorillas walk into a bar… 
jobs jobs jobs!
See. No one want to talk about the elephant in the room.
What will the 2012 election be about? Whatever the 800 pound gorilla wants. 
And the bartender says, “What is this, some kind of joke?!”
See post #2. What makes you so sure Obama will get to set the agenda? The GOP nominee will have his own message as to what the election is about – why do you think it will get no traction at all?
Did you seriously just call a black man an 800 lb gorilla?
That’s the elephant in the room, isn’t it . . .