Slog - Comments on The New American Politics http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_new_american_politics Obama brought race to the very top of American politics. For obvious reasons, Palin is bringing pregnancy to this top. The consequence is that the top of American politics is very much alive, passionate, and gravid with new possibilities, happenings, and unexpected events. We are possibly watching, simultaneously, the birth of a wholly new political constellation and the implosion of an old one. The galaxy of four Republican presidencies that end in Bush will one day be the pulsar we see from afar.... Copyright 2008 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:30:08 -0800 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:31:50 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by John Bailo Sorry, Ptolemy, but Copernicus is on the speaker phone.

George W. Bush was the Birth of American Presidency in the 21st Century.

All future Presidents are George Bush.

All candidates are trying to be George Bush.

John McCain is the New Bush.

McSame as the Old Bush.

Hooray!

]]> John Bailo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_new_american_politics#c1118358 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_new_american_politics#c1118358 2008 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:49:01 -0800 Comment by bailo is a prick in kent http://www.flickr.com/photos/47446064@N00/sets/72157601213345854/

a face to the ignorant comments. remember normal readers of Slog. this pathetic loser lives on the east hill in kent in a shitty little apartment on the 3rd floor.

]]> bailo is a prick in kent http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_new_american_politics#c1118366 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_new_american_politics#c1118366 2008 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:56:20 -0800 Comment by Ziggity @2: Whoa!

]]> Ziggity http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_new_american_politics#c1118368 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_new_american_politics#c1118368 2008 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:59:48 -0800 Comment by Judah You know what's weird? I've been having exactly the same thought. This is the first time in modern history when the biracial son of divorced parents with a complicated personal history would have a shot at the White House and, on the other side, we've got a crude old man and a woman with five kids and, soon, an illegitimate grandchild. The whole idea is totally unprecedented. As one of the millions of American children with divorced parents and a complicated family history, I have to admit that I find the break from textbook nuclear families in federal electoral politics to be incredibly liberating.

I'm shocked that we are so much on the same page about this. Of course, my analytical model didn't include a thesaurus or any self-conscious wordplay around reproduction, but otherwise we're as one mind on this.

]]> Judah http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_new_american_politics#c1118384 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_new_american_politics#c1118384 2008 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:24:13 -0800 Comment by Cookie W. Monster John Bailo's just another name for nothing left to lose.

]]> Cookie W. Monster http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_new_american_politics#c1118392 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_new_american_politics#c1118392 2008 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:40:30 -0800 Comment by wally I'm not positive -- but I think this is the same Levi who knocked up bristol palin:
http://www.myspace.com/levigourley

kinda cute, in a reckless way

]]> wally http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_new_american_politics#c1118394 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_new_american_politics#c1118394 2008 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:44:09 -0800 Comment by John Bailo @%5: "break from textbook nuclear families "

But that's exactly what the McCain-Palin candidacy is about. They are an "extended" family that puts those ties above the urbian, antiseptic, controlled, materialistic whinings of Obama-Biden.

A young mother is not "put on welfare" she is absorbed into a larger working family structure.

The Obamas are the typical yuppies who see everything materially, not spiritually.

It is Obama who is retrograde.

It is McCain who is avante garde!

]]> John Bailo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_new_american_politics#c1118397 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_new_american_politics#c1118397 2008 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:44:54 -0800 Comment by Eric Arrr "four republican presidencies that end in Bush," did you say?

]]> Eric Arrr http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_new_american_politics#c1118401 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_new_american_politics#c1118401 2008 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:47:25 -0800 Comment by DaiBando I don't get it. Is it just me? Am I exceptional stupid?

]]> DaiBando http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_new_american_politics#c1118405 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_new_american_politics#c1118405 2008 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:50:40 -0800 Comment by DaiBando Make that "exceptionally."

]]> DaiBando http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_new_american_politics#c1118410 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_new_american_politics#c1118410 2008 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:55:22 -0800 Comment by DaiBando Take it all back. I am exceptional stupid.

]]> DaiBando http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_new_american_politics#c1118413 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_new_american_politics#c1118413 2008 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:56:21 -0800 Comment by Fnarf @6: Not a chance. He's already got a kid, and from the sound of his comments a girlfriend too, who is not Butchie Palin or whatever her name is.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_new_american_politics#c1118441 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_new_american_politics#c1118441 2008 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:29:35 -0800 Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball @12, gosh, Fnarf...don't you think you might be a little primly naive here? Don't guys, well, umm, CHEAT every now and then??? And does making one OOW baby preclude him from crafting another?

]]> Jubilation T. Cornball http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_new_american_politics#c1118470 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_new_american_politics#c1118470 2008 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:59:14 -0800 Comment by Fnarf @13, I doubt very much that the mysterious Levi cited here has been crafting his Myspace page for the past year just for the purpose of disguising his true interest in Bilbo Baggins, er, Bimbo Palin. If Daddy Levi has a Myspace page, you can friggin' bet it's deleted or private now. The ONLY thing about the Myspace Levi that suggests he's the one is his name and residence.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_new_american_politics#c1118476 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_new_american_politics#c1118476 2008 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:11:17 -0800 Comment by Madashell @2 - Kent's East Hill just got a little scarier.

]]> Madashell http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_new_american_politics#c1118490 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_new_american_politics#c1118490 2008 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:27:12 -0800 Comment by litlnemo Fnarf, the girlfriend posting in the comments is the mother of his little boy, Cooper... but her profile says she's single, as does his. The cached version in Google implies there was a breakup, as there were more lovey-dovey comments from her previously that have since been deleted.

Not that this means anything -- I don't see any indication that this is the Levi in question -- but I wouldn't say that the current state of his MySpace page automatically eliminates him.

]]> litlnemo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_new_american_politics#c1118686 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_new_american_politics#c1118686 2008 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:29:33 -0800 Comment by Mrs. Jarvie This election has also brought in Alaska and Hawaii from the margins of the map. That may not mean much to people on the mainland, but it should.

]]> Mrs. Jarvie http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_new_american_politics#c1118753 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_new_american_politics#c1118753 2008 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:31:50 -0800