perfect candidate

I think it’s a blogger statute that says that after so many days of not posting, one must post a brain dump before more coherent posts can be written.  And, I’m all about the law, so here goes.

Many of you are yet again threatening to not vote for Obama, should he become the Democratic nominee, because he is a sexist pig.

The Nashville’s best known crew of fixers celebrate their recent victory in Mississippi:

Apparently, those Nigerian scammers have learned from experience that we’re wise to them. I’ve gotten an email twice now from “MRS Sandra Moore from UNITED KINGDOM” whose husband passed away, leaving her with aproximately “$5.2 million United States Dollars” which neither she nor her husband want to go to his relatives.

I responded to Joe Powell’s questions and happened to mention that I missed Pat Paulsen in the presidential race. Well, his daughter left a comment and it seems that Pat is running for 2008 too! This is great news for us older types. Pat is dead serious about his campaign and it’s easy for him, especially since he actually is dead.

Jon Wright proposes that Mike Gravel may be best suited not for the Democratic Party but for leading a coalition of Libertarians and Greens:

Damnit. Somehow I let myself spend the morning watching Gravel clips on YouTube. Who was I kidding? I can’t resist the urge to stand up with a revolutionary underdog, it’s just in my nature.

Some of the unofficial grassroots clips are pretty good too. For example, here’s one that illustrates the media manipulation of the process. Seems a bit foil-hat,

Some of you are new so, old timers, allow me to bore you for a second with some back story.

Two elections ago I made a list of things I wanted a president and his party to do.  I wanted to match the items on the list with the perfect candidate.  I found that perfect candidate: The Church.  I stopped voting.

I realized the problems I most wanted a president to solve weren’t his or hers to solve, but mine and yours.  And I realized that, for me personally, vo

Hope, Arkansas: home of two of the state's more recent governors (Bill Clinton and Mike Huckabee), and of some other notables. (I was just looking up Melinda Dillon the other day on IMDB and found that piece of trivia). Clinton obviously went on to become a two-term President of the United States; Huckabee is aiming to do the very same thing.