Does Obama's "bullshitter" comment about Romney remind you of The West Wing?

[Bucky]

You remember that episode when Bartlett "accidentally" on air referred to his Republican opponent as having something like "a .22 brain in a .45 caliber world"? The political world was aghast that the president of the United States had directly insulted his opponent and denigrated the office by doing so from the White House. President Sheen went on to apologize for coarsening the discourse, but that still opened up the public debate to include discussions about how stupid James Brolin was.

Now that Obama's off the record gaffe (yes, it is literally a Kinsley gaffe) is out there, can we please lead a public dialog about Mitt Romney's empty promises? I'm pretty sure that's what we're supposed to do at thsi point in the episode.

[patricia92243]

1. I haven't heard it. Do you have a link, please.

[Bucky]

2. The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/25/obama-romney-bullshitter-rolling-stone

Truth be told, Barack Obama has probably already lost the votes of that portion of America scandalised by bad language. For one thing, his autobiography, Dreams From My Father, makes copious use of the word "motherfucker" – while his rival, linguistically speaking, seems to inhabit a 1950s sitcom set among the clean-cut patrons of a milkshake parlour. (As governor of Massachusetts, one former colleague told the New York Times recently, Romney used to tell people to "go to H-E-double-hockey-sticks", though he does indulge, the paper conceded, in "the occasional 'crap'.&quot

But now the coarseness chasm has widened. As an interview team from Rolling Stone were leaving the Oval Office earlier this month, that magazine reveals, "executive editor Eric Bates told Obama that he had asked his six-year-old if there was anything she wanted him to say to the president … She said: 'Tell him: You can do it.'" Obama replied: "You know, kids have good instincts. They look at the other guy and say, 'Well, that's a bullshitter, I can tell'."

[librechik]

3. So Palin says Obama is shuckin and jivin--and it's not fair for Obama to return fire?

[Bucky]

4. Who said it's not fair?

I wish our default position wasn't always set to what do THEY bitch about each time.