"Here's how I would characterize the Obama effect.
Policy is meaningless. Experience is meaningless. Geography/geo-politics is meaningless (compare how many time's it comes up that he's from Illinois with how many times it comes up that Huckabee is from Arkansas or Edwards is from North Carolina).
What matters about Obama is this and only this: He changes the way I feel about being an American.
Multiply that effect by a few million people."
- Rickey Powell, CA
Ty: Maybe, just maybe, Barry Hussein makes it cool to be American again -- maybe he is a new Reagan. I mean, think about it -- who's the coolest on the red or blue panel?
Here's what we should do: before it's too late, we should take the flag back. That is, make the U.S. American flag ours again. Make it stand for us, for cool, for leis, for Barry Oh!
Let's re-rebrand our flag.
"So here's how I see it shaping up if BHO remains the presumptive nominee (best case scenarios anyhow).
The Republican, whoever he is, is going to run hard on a "leadership/experience" platform to counter BHO's apparent lack thereof. But it's a trap of their own making because they would essentially be allowing BHO to define the debate: whether or not BHO's level of experience and leadership is sufficient. So the entire campaign from both sides is about Obama.
McCain will seem old and crotchety by comparison (see Clinton/Dole).
Giuliani will seem weird by comparison. He seems weird even not by comparison. And I predict 9/11 fatigue in 2008.
Romney will seem overly chiseled by comparison (and the press just hasn't warmed to him).
Huckabee would stand a chance but I think people are going to think: "Wait, vote for a conservative Christian southern governor who's main qualification is that I wouldn't mind having him at my BBQ? Didn't we just make that mistake?" And frankly, a Huckabee/Obama race will seem like the past running against the future.
Thompson? Whatever, don't waste my time. This guy was done before he began.
Oh, and forget reclaiming the flag. We need to re-claim the name Hussein."
- Rickey Powell, CA
Ty: We've already reclaimed Hussein. They (I believe it was Romney and the RNC) dragged the "Hussein" dog out a long time ago and it didn't even wake up (how's that 9/11 fatigue?). Besides, at this point, people would rather have Saddam Hussein at a BBQ than George W. Bush (er, if Bush didn't fucking kill the man, that is).
And, the leadership/experience talking point is exactly why we elected W. Not because of his experience and leadership (no, no, no), but Uncle Dicky. Uncle Dicky was going to watch over Young George's shoulder. Yes, if BHO were smart he'd say: "Humm, don't forget for a moment that Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfield were what we were given in the name 'leadership and experience.' Look where that got us." U.S. Americans would certainly Get that.
''Nobody had a better track record in experience than Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld."Lastly with regard to names, Andy Rooney already fixed that one for the old guys: [clicky]. I saw that and thought that the new culture war is old vs. young, indeed. Apparently we shouldn't name the new World Trade Center the "President Barry Hussein World Trade Center" or anything.
- Barack Obama, August 10, 2007
So your entire "worthless prediction" means that a black, foreign, child will be President. So, on to VP. The GOP is toast (this round).
Ty: Dude you already answered your question. VP is insurance. One would predict that Hills or Barry would pick old/white/man, right? No, no, no. Barry's assassination insurance is Hillary Clinton. Duh. Oh, but you hate senators.
"'This round' is right. All a Democratic victory would prove is that even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while.
VP. Hmm. How do you pair this one? Where are the models? JFK-LBJ? Like I said, geopolitics are meaningless. I hope it's not a Senator. I hate senators. I bet its some obscure western governor. Here's the balls out selection: Florida Republican governor Charlie Crist. Except he's a closet homo (aren't they all?). He'd have to come out of the closet first. Maybe that'll keep BHO from getting assassinated. He needs some kind of insurance."
- Rickey Powell, CA
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