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The New American Politics

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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.

Comments (17)

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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!

Posted by John Bailo | September 1, 2008 10:49 AM
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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.

Posted by bailo is a prick in kent | September 1, 2008 10:56 AM
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@2: Whoa!

Posted by Ziggity | September 1, 2008 10:59 AM
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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.

Posted by Judah | September 1, 2008 11:24 AM
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John Bailo's just another name for nothing left to lose.

Posted by Cookie W. Monster | September 1, 2008 11:40 AM
6

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

Posted by wally | September 1, 2008 11:44 AM
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@%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!

Posted by John Bailo | September 1, 2008 11:44 AM
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"four republican presidencies that end in Bush," did you say?

Posted by Eric Arrr | September 1, 2008 11:47 AM
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I don't get it. Is it just me? Am I exceptional stupid?

Posted by DaiBando | September 1, 2008 11:50 AM
10

Make that "exceptionally."

Posted by DaiBando | September 1, 2008 11:55 AM
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Take it all back. I am exceptional stupid.

Posted by DaiBando | September 1, 2008 11:56 AM
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@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.

Posted by Fnarf | September 1, 2008 12:29 PM
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@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?

Posted by Jubilation T. Cornball | September 1, 2008 12:59 PM
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@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.

Posted by Fnarf | September 1, 2008 1:11 PM
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@2 - Kent's East Hill just got a little scarier.

Posted by Madashell | September 1, 2008 1:27 PM
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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.

Posted by litlnemo | September 1, 2008 5:29 PM
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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.

Posted by Mrs. Jarvie | September 1, 2008 7:31 PM

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