Debates and the quote of last week

This about sums up yesterday's debate:

 

Best quote of last week:

“When I hear you talking about taking a swing and taking punches, why do I get the feeling that you’ve never actually taken a punch? Or thrown a punch? I didn’t have that luxury in the part of Boston that I grew up in. But in your rich, suburban Bost  on life, with your father filling a $100 million trust fund for you, I don’t know, I just get the feeling that things were kind of different for you.
Now, I know you’ve got a lot — a lot to be pissed off at these days, starting with the name Taggart, which you got every right to be wicked pissed off at for every day for the 42 years of your life. So, let me try to help you deal with all this aggression you’re feeling right now.
You’re mad at President Obama for calling your father a liar? Well, let’s get something straight, he didn’t call your father a liar, I did. The president just said that what your father said isn’t true. I’ve been saying all year that your father is a liar, I’ve repeatedly said that your father lies and is trying to lie his way into the White House.
You want to take a swing at someone for calling your old man a liar? Take a swing at me. Come on, come on. And don’t worry, there won’t be any Secret Service involved. Just us. And I’ll make it easy for you, I’ll come to you. Anytime, anywhere.”
Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC challenging Tagg Romney to take a swing at him after the little Mittster said he wanted to punch the President of the United States during the debate.

You can watch his meltdown here..  The fun begins at about the 8:10 mark.  The rant preceding it is how none of the Romneymen ever served in the service and why.  Also interesting.

 

New in Soapland....

Days of Our Lives decided to be 'daring'. 

Nah, it's not the Will and Sonny gay thing.  They've been handling that story line a if it were pure poison.

No.  It's having an 85 year old actress and center of a huge raucous family seemingly have the first symptoms of Alzheimers disease.

Soaps really DO address issues that aren't brought up and usually can't be handled on the tee-vee machine unless they can develop it over months, so am curious as to how they are going to handle the topic.

I don't recall this topic being addressed before on a Soap.

I 'think' it was a week ago when she mixed up the names of her sons the first time and I thought...  'uh-oh, they're gonna send Gramma Brady to La-la land.'

Contrary to the usual mode, they accelerated the story line, and have the poor woman losing what is left of her mind.

Now, I think people watch these things for some sort of comfort, because the lives they show are more miserable than theirs.  But I am curious as to how they will deal with the issue and make it valuable to people watching who have similar cares and sorrow, and make concrete suggestions as to how to handle it all. 

That would be the good thing.  Soaps can be sociologically beneficial. 

As far as I can tell, The Bold and the Beautiful  is back to Stefanie having a cancer relapse, but that piece of garbage is wash rinse repeat ad nauseum. 

But in they end, they serve a purpose.