23 thoughts on “Tired of the election? So’s Abigael.”

  2. I’ve seen her more than I want to and I have been trying to avoid it.

    What I’m tired of is this whiny little brat being treated like some big important news item. She needs to be put in a time out until she’s old enough to vote.

    1. No child should have to be put on ‘time out’…. however, many a parent would need to. Children should be on ‘time in’. Full stop!

    2. Oh come on, get real. She’s completely hip to what an utterly, utterly pointless waste of time the entire circus is.

      The real WTF is the clowns who think it’s serious. Wake up. It’s not.

  3. Interesting to speculate on what set her off. Arguments at home? Television co-opted to watch news coverage instead? Too many people spouting off angrily or tediously in too many places? Parents busy with electioneering and no time for play with Abigael? Existential angst over the futility of attempts to change one’s situation, for one cannot escape the absurdity of one’s existence?

    Who knows? If anyone does, though, someone in comments will likely inform me.

    1. I’m certainly no parent nor expert with children, but she just seemed in need of a nap. I’d bet that there just happened to be an election story on the radio when urgent-nap-needing set in.

      b&

      1. Quite possibly.

        Though I’m starting to think a lot of people are in need of a nap — including politicians.

        1. Definitely! I need a nap too (or should that be knap?).

          As a parent it didn’t take me long after my twin children were born to figure out that when they started behaving crankily the largest contributing factor by far was either tiredness, hunger or both. If hunger, no problem. It is usually pretty easy to get them to eat (at least mine). Tiredness is much tougher though. Convincing them to take a nap was virtually impossible. After all, they might miss something! Can’t say I blame them. I feel the same way.

  4. What a sweetheart, Abigail!!!! She needs a big hug with the words that all will be ok…. and then another big hug!

  5. Tired of the election?
    Voting is nowhere as tiring as not being able to vote.
    Just ask folks who’ve been waiting for forty, fity, sixty, seventy years to get a free election.

    And it’s not the little brat’s fault; it’s whoever keeps posting and reposting and liking and up-thumbing this faux-cutesy masterpiece of mindlessness. They ought to be sent to bed without democracy for twenty years.

    1. +1

      And now she’s been seen by 11.500001 million people, I’m sorry to say.

      Is it just me, or is this entirely irrelevant to the election?

  7. Did no one else notice “Bronco Bamma?” Surely that is the best part of the whole video. Should be a professional wrestler’s name. Also, Ben Goren is right. She needs a nap.

    1. I think the Dems should race up some posters saying “Vote Bronc Obama”

      Bronc is such a butch name, just the little extra he needs!

      I gather the TV ads in the swing states have been wall to wall, and 7:1 negative. If they’re pushing out Big Bird, who can blame her?

      1. I think the Dems should race up some posters saying “Vote Bronc Obama”

        Nice idea…but election day voting begins in, literally, about fifteen hours, so it’s a bit late. And in about 32 hours, nobody will ever cast a ballot for him ever again.

        b&

        1. Actually this is an interesting point, I know it never does happen, but is there actually any law against an ex-president standing for some other public office? Say governer?

          Not an American.

          1. The only limit is the Twenty-Second Amendment, which prohibits anybody from serving more than two terms as President.

            There may well be cases of a President later serving in some other office, and there’s at least one instance (not on the tip of my fingers) of a president serving, losing reelection, and getting elected again later.

            But, in reality, in today’s political environment…this is Obama’s last election, forever.

            b&

          2. The president Ben is referring to was Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th POTUS. BTW, Cleveland won the popular vote in his re-election bid, but lost the electoral college by being narrowly defeated in Indiana by 2348 votes, thanks to blatant Republican electoral fraud. GOP tradition, no doubt…

            But that was long before the 22nd Amendment was passed in 1947, essentially in order to impede any re-iteration of FDR’s multiple terms.

            Nothing in the 22nd Amendment would however prevent President Obama from doing a John Quincy Adams, i.e., running for and serving in Congress after the end of his Presidency.

        2. An ex-president can run for any public office he wants to provided it’s not the presidency or vice-presidency. There’s nothing to prevent Bill Clinton from running for the house, senate, or a governor’s seat somewhere. John Quincy Adams served in the House for sixteen years after losing his bid for re-election. John Tyler won a seat in the CSA House of Representatives (but died before he took office) and Andrew Johnson served in the Senate from 1874 until he died in 1875.

          President Taft followed his presidency by becoming Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

  8. What baffles me is why some parents think it’s clever to give their kids names that are deliberately misspelled. Little “Abigael” can now look forward to a lifetime of correcting people who try to spell her name in the obvious, standard way. No wonder she’s grumpy.

  10. I’m looking forward to when my facebook feed goes back to atheist / feminist propaganda rather than its current anti-Mitt propaganda. I get the message, I’m not going to vote for Mitt! (Might have more to do with me not being allowed to vote at all being a foreigner)

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