in case anyone cared about my positions on world events, here are my plans for my first day in office:

• annex Canada
• convert Mexico into a taco-flavored theme park (yes, everything will be edible)
• declare war on New Zealand
• make Australia the 51st state (sorry Puerto Rico)
• declare war on Madagascar
• eat some yellow cake
• declare martial law
• declare martial law a second time (just because I can)
• nuke Belgium
• declare that Belgium Waffles be forever named "Freedom Waffles"
• declare Arkansas an Al Qaeda training camp
• nuke Arkansas
• create prison camps out of LA and NYC
• nuke LA and NYC
• annex Cuba
• declare my birthday a national Cuban holiday
• declare ninjas the clear winner of the eternal battle between ninjas and pirates.

and yes, this will all be done on the first day.

sounds good.

but youll only get my vote if you choose Laetitia Casta as your running mate. and she gives all the speeches/announcements and is not allowed to wear anything other than lingerie. I dont even need to know what you look like.

....eeexcellent.

AAAH KITTY

i smell a possible new avatar

I love the title of this thread. In my head I hear it being sung by Morrissey.

i can hear it now

S.C. and Florida

By Ariel Alexovich
January 25, 2008, 6:26 pm


South Carolinians find themselves once again enmeshed in debates about race and politics; at least that’s the case if you read some of the blogs rippling across the state. The nasty war of words between Clinton, Obama, and their surrogates over race shocked, insulted, and/or disappointed black voters.

That's it I am voting Hilary.

the back cover of issue #20 of The North Avenue Review, an independent student newspaper/zine i used to work on in college.

and here's a gem from issue #12

D-AMN!

that is very fucking good.

oh i have some architectural question for you

maybe i'll post a thread

Obama Wins South Carolina Primary





COLUMBIA, S.C. — Senator Barack Obama won a commanding victory over Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in the South Carolina Democratic primary on Saturday, drawing a wide majority of black support and one-quarter of white voters in a contest that sets the stage for a multistate fight for the party’s presidential nomination.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/us...hp&oref=slogin

lolz^

I am voting for Hillary for Lezident.

mother fuck! im looking for a stream to watch the debate online but no dice.

the debate was very cordial, and more attacks on mccain and the republicans, hillary had the best line on that

obama really did well, impressed me very much, like both of them and fortunate that i can't vote between them on the 12th cause it's hard

they are posting clips here

http://www.cnn.com/video/

im for obama. he stands up for what he believes while hillary, while being very competent, follows the current.

we still need a BLP

is that a sandwich?

bacon lettuce pig perhaps?

they were both very smart in turning into a united front now while last night the republicans were still bickering against who is more progressive and not reagan enough

more like black lesbian president
but yeah i'll take a sandwich if you were gonna make one

ha ha ha.

hillary is speaking better (for what i've seen). obama says "aaah..." too much. he should take a deep breath instead & talk continuously.

for example, in the "healthcare on cspan" issue he should have mentioned that he actually did that in illinois-- he held public hearings on the issue-- it's in a new republic article i just read.

he's not trying to put it on cnn to "get at hillary". sorry. but he missed to make that point.

2 slices of porkroast

bacon in the middle

hover a lettuce over this ensemble, and toss away.

eat with a jar of mayo.

i can't tell if you're serious
i want a bacon egg and cheese biscuit

I think he did mention this, he said "...as I did in Illinois.." a trillion times.

I think too much emphasis is put on how a candidate speaks.

no no, he expanded healthcare there but he didn't say that the cspan thing wasn't "a new thing"--

one cool & creepy thing about the ccn clips is that in some of them you can see the ticker measuring approval up or down. hillary got 10pts over him on health care, and i believe it's cos she spoke better.

dont' get me wrong- i dont believe what she says. but she speaks better in this context. where obama excels is in speeches, not debates.

I've not noticed the ticker.

The creepy part for me was the constant zoom ins of celebrities. It was more of a Hollywood premiere, than a debate. Red carpet event.

i know... i saw josh lyman!!! :D

for the ticker go to the ccn link i posted & click on the health care clips

not all the clips have this, apparently they are adding it-- they have some kind of focus groups

Say what you will about Hillary, and disregarding a look at her record or stances, I really do think she's the more articulate candidate. I'm sorry, I realize this is a bit shallow perhaps, but that matters to me.

that's what i said!

it's her record and stances i fear.



remember how bill used to run by polls?

Do not fear the reaper. She'll get us out of Vietnam, I mean Iraq.

Bill was a good runner.

I saw Stevie Wonder, I wonder who he is planning on voting for.

Ah, now I know what you're talking about. The focus group tickers, after the dabate where they are asked vanilla questions about the debate, with uncomplicated answers.

no i think people click when they hear something they like the candidate is saying at the moment.

at least that's what i learned watching the west wing.

ha!

(nobody got my josh lyman joke? it's goofy i know but...)

waffles=good
waffling=bad

:D

1600 pennsylvania avenue? :D

I probably would have if picked up on the Josh line if any of the dialogue on West Wing had stuck with me, but all the banter in that show always went by at such hyperwarp speed that I usually had to resort to putting on the subtitle function.

is that they showed the actor who played josh lyman (deputy chief of staff), he was clapping, and it was a reality warp kind of moment.

he was more real to me than karl rove during the early bush years. pure escapism, i know.