‘It’s going to get extraordinarily dirty extraordinarily fast’

Charles Pierce: …..the footage offers an extraordinary look at what the candidate is like when he’s around people he perceives to be worthy of what he believes is the truth….

To this moment, I guarantee you, Romney is probably astonished at what all the fuss is about. This is simply the way the world is …. He is what his golden life has made him to be….

…. We are coming rapidly toward a devastating confluence of two colliding panics. The Romney campaign is panicking about itself, and the Republicans are panicking about the Romney campaign. He cannot come back from this, honestly. This is who he is. This is what he believes the world to be. Half the electorate already thinks he’s a fake, which means he’s not a very good one. There’s really only one campaign left to him now.

Unfortunately for American politics, that means only one thing. It’s going to get extraordinarily dirty extraordinarily fast. There is going to be pale birtherism and barely covert racism ….. There is going to be poor-baiting, and gay-baiting, and ladyparts-baiting, and probably baiting of things I haven’t thought of yet……

Full post here

Fired Up: From Ohio to Florida

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I think the trees are the right height in this video 🙂

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Schiller Park, Columbus, Ohio, Sept 17

See the President’s Ohio speeches at C-Span

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The University of Florida, Gainesville, Sept 17 – see the speech here

“These people”

See more of the Mother Jones videos here

And read about them at Mother Jones

Heads Up: President Obama in Columbus

Eden Park, Cincinnati, September 17 (Video of speech here)

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4:0: President Obama delivers remarks at Schiller Park, Columbus

C-Span * CNN * CBS 1 * CBS 2 * 10TV

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4:0 (delayed): Michelle Obama delivers remarks in Gainesville, Florida

CNN * C-Span

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Eden Park, Cincinnati, September 17

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‘A Tale of two Courts’

ThinkProgress

Thank you Desertflower

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Coming up (All times ET and approximate – tune in early just in case):

3:0 First Lady Michelle Obama delivers remarks at the University of Florida in Gainesville (C-Span * CNN)

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4:15: VP Biden delivers remarks at a campaign event at the Port of Burlington (CNN)

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4:20: President Obama delivers remarks at Schiller Park, Columbus (C-Span * CNN * CBS 1 * CBS 2)

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6:55: First Lady Michelle Obama delivers remarks at the Tallahassee Leon County Civic Center

Will check links nearer the time

Heads Up: President Obama in Cincinnati

12:25: PBO delivers remarks at Eden Park’s Seasongood Pavilion, Cincinnati

C-Span * CNN * CBS 1 * CBS 2

Streaming has started at CBS …. and as usual, the music’s good 😎

President Obama arrives at Cincinnati Northern Kentucky International Airport, September 17

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Coming up:

3:30 First Lady Michelle Obama delivers remarks at the University of Florida in Gainesville (C-Span)

4:15: VP Biden delivers remarks at a campaign event at the Port of Burlington (CNN)

4:20: PBO delivers remarks at Schiller Park, Columbus (all the links above)

6:55: First Lady Michelle Obama delivers remarks at the Tallahassee Leon County Civic Center

Rise and Shine

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Today (all times ET):

9:45: President Obama departs the White House en route Joint Base Andrews

10:0: Departs Joint Base Andrews en route Cincinnati, Ohio

11:30: Arrives in Cincinnati

12:25: PBO delivers remarks at Eden Park’s Seasongood Pavilion, Cincinnati

2:25: Departs Cincinnati en route Columbus, Ohio

3:00: Arrives in Columbus

3:0 First Lady Michelle Obama delivers remarks at the University of Florida in Gainesville

3:15: VP Biden delivers remarks at a campaign event at the Port of Burlington

4:20: PBO delivers remarks at Schiller Park, Columbus

6:40: Departs Columbus en route Joint Base Andrew

6:55: First Lady Michelle Obama delivers remarks at the Tallahassee Leon County Civic Center

8:05: PBO arrives at the White House

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NYT

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MoveOn

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