Romney: the inevitable President.

[Mandryka]

Not been a good few weeks for Mandy - Bryn Terfel's well-received performances at ROH, now Romney's defeat, ah me who'd be a man with an opinion?

I'm actually mildly pleased at Obama's re-election: I actually started this thread as a 'safe-guarding' measure - pessimism can be a powerful psychological force in avoiding the outcome you want least, or so I've always found.


As to Bryn Terfel's Wotan: it certainly wasn't well received by Yours Truly (see relevant thread)

[Flosshilde]

I'm actually mildly pleased at Obama's re-election: I actually started this thread as a 'safe-guarding' measure - pessimism can be a powerful psychological force in avoiding the outcome you want least, or so I've always found.

[amateur51]

I'm actually mildly pleased at Obama's re-election: I actually started this thread as a 'safe-guarding' measure - pessimism can be a powerful psychological force in avoiding the outcome you want least, or so I've always found.


As to Bryn Terfel's Wotan: it certainly wasn't well received by Yours Truly (see relevant thread)

No surprise there then - can't imagine why you went

[Mandryka]

No surprise there then - can't imagine why you went

When your love of the whole work exceeds your dislike of one particular singer, you have no choice but to go.

Sadly, the one opera I was forced to miss was the one that did not feature Terfel.

Anyway, back ot.....

[Resurrection Man]

I have just taken part in gingerjohn's test:

81% - Stein, 74% - Obama, 43% - Romney

That gives me nearly 40 percentage points more for the Republicans than some members.

You should take pleasure in that, Lat. Shows that you are much more well-balanced than most here.

My score 82% - Obama, 78% - Stein, 62% - Johnson, 58% - Romney

It's a sort of 'inverse snobbery'. I swear that if there was any possibility for a minus score for Romney that they'd all be falling over themselves to see who could get the lowest. Truly bizarre behaviour.

[Resurrection Man]

I thought it was Simon that was Simple, not Mr Pee...

Here we go again. The Gang of Four

[Lateralthinking1]

Shows that you are much more well-balanced than most here.

That is very kind, Resurrection Man.

Politically possibly.........in other respects, erm, probably not.

[french frank]

I know the cliff-hanging excitement is the attraction for (some of) us in the UK, but if you just want to go to bed and get a good night's sleep, remember this is where you have to look to learn the news before it's news. Fool-proof.

I wonder what they'd have made of the 2010 pre-election polls

[Flosshilde]

You should take pleasure in that, Lat. Shows that you are much more well-balanced than most here.

My score 82% - Obama, 78% - Stein, 62% - Johnson, 58% - Romney

It's a sort of 'inverse snobbery'. I swear that if there was any possibility for a minus score for Romney that they'd all be falling over themselves to see who could get the lowest. Truly bizarre behaviour.

Oh dear, back on his http://www.marsdens.co.uk/blog/wp-co...obby-Horse.jpg

[amateur51]

I know the cliff-hanging excitement is the attraction for (some of) us in the UK, but if you just want to go to bed and get a good night's sleep, remember this is where you have to look to learn the news before it's news. Fool-proof.

I wonder what they'd have made of the 2010 pre-election polls

Almost no point in holding the election then - think of the money that'd be saved

[Flosshilde]

You should take pleasure in that, Lat. Shows that you are much more well-balanced than most here.

My score 82% - Obama, 78% - Stein, 62% - Johnson, 58% - Romney

It's a sort of 'inverse snobbery'. I swear that if there was any possibility for a minus score for Romney that they'd all be falling over themselves to see who could get the lowest. Truly bizarre behaviour.

I thought I should do my best to increase the body snatcher's sneer rating - apparently I should have voted for Jill Stein (95%). Who she?

I was 3% Republican; Romney didn't show up on the candidates I sided with - as good as a minus score, I'd say


Actually I probably would have voted for Roseanne Barr if I lived in the right state.

[scottycelt]

The UK at over 70% polled approval rate for Obama was actually the lowest of the major European economies. Germany and France (over 90%) recorded much higher figures.

It's not difficult to see why ... US Republican politicians often seem quite odd (even slightly creepy) to European eyes and ears and Romney was certainly no exception to that.

The Democratic Party tends to produce much more 'European' characters like Kennedy.Clinton and Obama, and therefore we maybe tend to be more comfortable with them (slightly). I am certainly, though inevitably there may well be exceptions along the way.

I do wonder though if Obama were a UK politician he'd now be seen and pilloried as just another Blair .. ?

[Richard Tarleton]

You should take pleasure in that, Lat. Shows that you are much more well-balanced than most here.

My score 82% - Obama, 78% - Stein, 62% - Johnson, 58% - Romney

It's a sort of 'inverse snobbery'. I swear that if there was any possibility for a minus score for Romney that they'd all be falling over themselves to see who could get the lowest. Truly bizarre behaviour.

Erm - I was not falling over myself by any means (#46) I'm quite conservative on some issues, would not consider myself a natural Green Party member. From what I can see Jill Stein represents what over here would be considered the Guardian-reading consensus. It is the current Republican right that I find bizarre. I find the case of Andrew Sullivan, Anglo American blogger of the Daily Beast and Sunday Times columnist, instructive - he describes himself as a political conservative, but was commenting on Newsnight a couple of nights ago how the Republican party has become a fundamentalist religious party, obsessing on people's private lives in all sorts of intrusive ways and how it needs to go back to being a political one - I hope I paraphrase correctly.

[Flosshilde]

US Republican politicians often seem quite odd (even slightly creepy)

[eighthobstruction]

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A serendipitous prequel to what will be my last post on this forum. And somewhat poetic that it should be in a thread that I started.

Tuesday afternoon I was in a car accident. My car was written off. I survived. So did the others. After a space of a couple of days I dip into this thread.

Profoundly depressed with the pedantry...who whom..who the f*ck cares. Of people saying 'I knew X who had a hard time therefore you are all basta*rds'. Of witterings. Even Radio 3 sounds sane at times compared to the inane drivel posted here. So good people....listen up. Go and get a f*cking life. Let others do what they want to do. Don't preach. You're not God. Or Jesus. Buddha. Muhammed.

RM...over and out.