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Monday, November 3, 2008

Tweedledee or Tweedledum? Tweedledumber!

posted by on November 3 at 14:00 PM

The first comment on Sean’s fabulous post this morning (My response: of course I’d still love Obama. I never had any use for Kerry, except that he wasn’t Bush, which clearly made him the best choice of the two. But I’ve been pulling for Obama since early aught-seven) is from the kind of doofus I didn’t think existed in 2008:

I read your article, and also read this one afterward. This one is much more interesting… find it at http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article7095.html

The title is “Why Voting in the U.S. Election is a COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME…”

Posted by Syd | November 3, 2008 2:32 AM

I’m not usually one to give any truck to trolls, but I went to the article Syd posted:

The reality is that the two remaining political parties, the Democratic and Republican parties are in fact one, and the only reason that the ultimate step is never taken and the parties merged is that with one party to vote for and an election being completely superfluous, even Joe Sixpack would realize that he is living in a dictatership. So the 2 remaining parties continue to dumbbell around each other for ever, maintaining the thinnest facade of democracy, and controlling the country for their elitist masters via their duopoly of power.

It’s exactly the kind of poorly spelled, completely unsubstantiated rambling that makes the internet such a great and entertaining place. Is it a sign of progress that people can look at these two candidates and say “There’s no difference between them?” Or are these people really callous enough to consider tens of thousands of dead Iraqis and American soldiers—which is almost undeniably the cost of choosing Bush over Gore in 2000—is not a discernable difference?

Whatever. They’re complaining about the two-party system. I understand that complaint. I wish we had a good four or five parties. But just for you, Syd, I found a candidate you can get behind: Lee L. Mercer. Here’s a bit of his platform:

1. The United States Federal Congress has encouraged me to want to become President of the United States so that I can do what the President of the United States of America is supposed to do and complete the federal and military government biography and autobiography in development in Eye Spy Community-Military Intelligence (All Three) Business and Commerce Intelligence Education across the board National and International. … 23. To Prove I have solved every crime in the world as it happens from zero to start to finish for every crime done in Business and Commerce Intelligence National and International.

Look: There’s your candidate! He makes as much sense as your “interesting article,” Syd, and he is a marked difference between those two exact physical and ideological twins, John McCain and Barack Obama. Or is it John Obama and Barack McCain? I can never tell those two apart.


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1

I think the Lancet's latest estimate on the Iraq death toll is upwards of 600,000. Roughly the equivalent of the population of Seattle.

Posted by flamingbanjo | November 3, 2008 2:05 PM
2

the alternate word for zero is spelled 'aught'.


http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aught[3]

Posted by Picker of Nits and Noses | November 3, 2008 2:14 PM
3

Paul was reading Cracked this morning.

Posted by Rotten666 | November 3, 2008 2:21 PM
4

Mercer is a hoot. One of his best policy positions:


Current Issues

MISSING PERSONS IN THE UNITED STATES ENFORCEMENT:

There is some concern about the Missing Persons in the United States enforcement. I will enforce Missing Persons missing enforcement regulating itself with its regulations pertaining to itself according to its enforcements to locate missing persons 100% and to stop kidnappings 100%.

Posted by A | November 3, 2008 2:37 PM
5

We can have a multiparty system but we'd need to change the constitution to have multiple reps. from each district...not just one. Most of the democracies in the world have this a/k/a "parliamentary democracy" ...ours is the totally freakish, oddball system, clearly....but no one wants to discuss nor admit that.

Posted by PC | November 3, 2008 2:41 PM
6

Sounds like one of those Nader losers.

Posted by Vince | November 3, 2008 2:41 PM
7

No, there was a distinctive lack of the word "sheeple" and overall distrust of governmental authority for them to be drinking the Naderade. It was probably just a Troll.

Posted by j.lee | November 3, 2008 2:47 PM
8

@1: I was being generous with the dead Iraqi figures. I never thought I'd type that sentence.

@2: Sorry, fixed.

Posted by Paul Constant | November 3, 2008 3:00 PM
9

One usually 'has' truck, not 'give'

Posted by msk | November 3, 2008 3:15 PM
10

In Canada we have a multiparty system, and I'm not sure it's so much better. While it is definitely advantageous to have multiple points of view on the various election issues, the practical result is more often a Naderization, where the vote on one side of the spectrum (usually the left) is split among multiple parties and the other side wins despite having a minority of the popular vote. Several fixes have been suggested but I do not know how well they would work nor even if they will ever actually be tried...

Posted by breklor | November 3, 2008 3:36 PM
11

He should definitely write in Ron Paul. I am not even kidding.

Posted by Greg | November 3, 2008 4:53 PM
12

I voted for Obama, but think the Democratic party sucks. I will celebrate if Obama wins, but will keep my expectations low. The Dems did vote for the war, and it would of been nice if Pelosi at least tried to impeach Bush, instead of letting him drive this country into a depression. A thing to watch is if Obama picks Rahn Emanual as his Chief of Staff. If he does, do not expect much to change in the middle east, because Rahm is a Israel first neocon.

Posted by Obamatron | November 3, 2008 5:53 PM
13

Probably a South Park fan.

Posted by Sirkowski | November 3, 2008 6:08 PM
14

It is almost undeniably the case that Monica Lewinsky's hunger for daddy-cock and Bill Clinton's concupiscence were the proximate cause of the death of thousands of American soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, not to mention many other happenings of the last eight years. Neither one should have mattered in the great scheme of things, but they did.

Posted by rob | November 3, 2008 6:34 PM
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#14

For the last time, Gore won in 2000. The election was stolen from him/us.

Posted by Matt in Southampton | November 5, 2008 7:03 AM

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